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Sigourney Weaver hits the red carpet with her child Shar Simpson as legendary actress turns the Venice Film Festival into a family affair
Sigourney Weaver turned the Venice International Film Festival into a family affair as she hit the red carpet with her child, Shar Simpson.
The Alien actress, 74, attended the Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice premiere with Shar, 34, at the glittering film festival on Wednesday.
The duo held hands as they posed up a storm, dressed to the nines from head-to-toe.
Sigourney wowed in a sequined black top and flared skirt while Shar, who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, opted for something a little more classic.
Shar donned a chic single-shoulder black dress combined with beaded earrings and a bold red lip.
The duo posed alongside filmmaker Nemo Allen on the red carpet and Shar held hands with both their mother and Allen in the group poses.
Sigourney has been married to Shar’s father, Jim Simpson, since 1984. They welcomed Shar in 1990.
Unlike their famous mother, Shar has pursued a career in education – they work as an adjunct assistant professor at the Digital Storytelling Lab at Columbia University School of the Arts.
It comes after the actress broke down in tears earlier the same day when she was asked about the electoral prospects of Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris during a press conference in Venice.
‘To think for one moment that my work would have anything to do with her rise makes me very happy,’ she said.
The Alien star added: ‘Actually I have so many women who come and thank me..’ before trailing off, unable to complete her sentence.
Offered a drink of water to help her gather her thought she joked: ‘Sorry I need my vodka!’
Weaver is being awarded the Golden Lion by the Venice Film Festival, its highest honour, tonight after a career which has seen her play Ripley in the Alien movies, plus appear in Ghostbusters, Avatar, Working Girl and many more.
She reflected on her good fortune in playing: ‘strong women’ which had started in 1979 with Ridley Scott’s Alien.
‘Why do I play strong women? I just play women and women are strong – and do you know why because we don’t give up, because we don’t get to. We do it,’ she said.
She added: ‘You know what I appreciated about what Water Hill and David Giler wrote and how Ridley Scott put it together was that my character in Alien was a person not a woman. There are very few writers who can write a script and its just a person.
‘You don’t see her having to be girly or womanly – look, it’s great and women can be everything – but I got to play an ‘everyperson’ part. She is all of us. She is what you become when you have to find the ingenuity and don’t even have the time to be brave or anything else.’
Weaver revealed that her original costume for the role was sky blue with pink piping, but that director Ridley Scott had told her: ‘You look like f***ing Jackie O in space!’ and insisted on an authentic space flight suit.
Weaver added: ‘Women are on the front lines of climate change and crises. It’s the women who are taking care of their families of their children often doing work they are on the front lines.
‘I take my inspiration from actual women. To me women were always so capable and we are everything.’
She said that prospects for older women working in film and television have never been better. She is planning to work in a further two Avatar films having already filmed her roles for the first three.
She added: ‘I just think I’m very lucky. I have always had a great appetite, always respected the work loved the work.
‘What happened was suddenly they decided somehow in the world that older women could actually play interesting characters, and started writing them. We stopped being a joke and the mother in law and whatever, and being real people.’
The actress has also not ruled out returning as Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise.
She played the iconic heroine in the sci-fi series from the 1979 original to its fourth installment ‘Alien: Resurrection’ in 1997 and has now revealed she hasn’t completely closed the door on reprising her role in a future flick, even if she feels it is unlikely.
Speaking to Deadline, Weaver said: ‘I feel like she’s never far away from me, but on the other hand I have yet to read a script that said ‘you have got to do this.’
‘So for me, she is in this other dimension, safe from the Alien for the time being. I don’t really think about it, but you know, it’s not completely impossible, and certainly a lot of good filmmakers are inspired by the material.
The actress admitted she doesn’t often think about returning as the character and added she is currently too ‘busy doing other things’ that have stopped her from seriously considering playing Ripley again, such as her undisclosed role in the upcoming ‘Star Wars’ film ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’.
She said: ‘How much does the public really need or want another Ripley movie? I don’t really sit around and think about it, but if it came up, I would consider it.
‘It has come up a bunch of times, but I’m also busy doing other things. Ripley has earned her rest.’
Reflecting on the legacy of the heroine, the ‘Ghostbusters’ star explained she loved that Ripley was written as an ‘everyman character’ that everyone could identify with.
She said: ‘What I love about it, which I think endures, is that the character of Ripley is almost an everyman character.
‘That freed me up from ever having to act like a girl, or dress like a girl. That was very astute of the writers. At a certain point you even forget that it’s a woman. You just know it’s Ripley and you’re hoping she survives.’
When quizzed on the latest entry into the franchise ‘Alien: Romulus’ – which stars Cailee Spaeny, Isabela Merced, Archie Renaux and Aileen Wu – Weaver revealed ‘there wasn’t a discussion’ about Ripley being a part of the movie, but stressed she wishes the cast ‘all the best for it’.
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Travis Kelce is back to playing NFL games in 2024, and now that Taylor Swift is off from the Eras Tour for a couple of months, she has some time when she can once again come to cheer him on at Kansas City Chiefs games. She was there for the Week 1 win and attended the Week 2 victory. She wasn’t there for the Week 3 game in Atlanta.
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So the question is: will she be there for the Week 4 matchup on Sunday afternoon between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Chiefs? According to our handy Taylor Swift calendar, she appears to not have anything planned that day. Which means we might see her there!
Stay tuned and we’ll see if she’s there.
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Travis Kelce splashed out an eye-watering $70,000 on birthday gifts for ‘brother’ Patrick Mahomes… and here’s what he bought him
Patrick Mahomes recently celebrated his 29th birthday, and Travis Kelce reportedly broke the bank to make sure his ‘brother’ felt appreciated on his special day.
The pair have been teammates since Mahomes was drafted by the Chiefs in 2017, and they’ve gone on to strike up an incredible rapport that has helped the team win three Super Bowls.
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And according to the US Sun, Kelce splashed out $70,000 in birthday gifts for Mahomes this year.
The items are said to include an engraved Rolex watch for $54,200, with the letters ‘P’ and ‘M’ marked on the back to recognize their close friendship.
Kelce also reportedly got Mahomes a $2,300 wool cardigan from Louis Vuitton, and six bottles of Masseto red wine for $1,100 each.
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The Sun added that Mahomes’ wife, Brittany, helped Kelce with the watch, and that he added the engravement on the back to make it more ‘personal.’
The report comes after Brittany threw a birthday party for Patrick at their home after the Chiefs beat the Bengals.
The setup included a massive black, red and silver balloon arch sprawling across a corner of the room with a giant 29 metallic cutout at the center.
Another flashy decoration took over the area underneath the staircase with a big sign reading, ‘Patrick’s 29,’ in the middle.
Brittany even had custom cups and beer holders made, featuring childhood photos of the three-time Super Bowl winner.
After winning their second straight Super Bowl (and third total) together, Mahomes and Kelce spent some quality time together over the summer.
The friends met up in Europe as Patrick and Brittany traveled to Amsterdam to see Kelce’s girlfriend, Taylor Swift, perform on her Eras Tour.
Mahomes and Kelce have struck up an incredible partnership on the field together
Brittany, who has developed a close friendship with the pop star, shared a sweet photo of the foursome from the outing.
Later in the summer, the group descended upon New York to take in the US Open Final between Taylor Fritz and Jannik Sinner.
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While the American Fritz was unable to get the win, they appeared in good spirits as they watched the game from a suite at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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Donna Kelce Says Son Travis ‘Can’t Clean’ and ‘Can’t Cook’ But Hints He Might Be ‘Getting Some Help’ from Taylor Swift
Donna Kelce is playfully sharing some of her son Travis Kelce’s flaws.
In an interview with Extra TV, the Kelce matriarch, 71, got candid about the things the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 34, can’t do despite his success at football and his recent hosting and acting gigs.
“He can’t clean. He can’t cook,” she listed off jokingly, before adding that he was “getting a little better.”
“I think he’s getting some help,” Donna noted, hinting that he might be picking up some tips from girlfriend Taylor Swift, 34.
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The 14-time Grammy winner previously shared a video on YouTube Shorts of him kissing her in the kitchen while she stirred a pot, alongside other snapshots of her life. In the brief clip, several food ingredients could be seen on the counter behind them.
When asked about his appearance in the video and the kinds of foods he liked to cook with Swift during a Chiefs press conference in June, the NFL player admitted he liked spending time in the kitchen with his girlfriend, though he declined to comment on the kinds of dishes they made together.
“I respect that question but I’m going to keep that one to myself because I thoroughly enjoy cooking with her so it’s something I’d rather just keep personal,” he responded.
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He later added in the press conference that the “Fortnight” singer “makes a great pop-tart and cinnamon roll.” She even baked for Travis’ teammates after the pair went public with their romance in September 2023.
“Kind of behind-the-scenes, she, to fit in — she didn’t even know she was doing this, I don’t think — she likes to cook, so she made the offensive linemen these homemade pop-tarts,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid revealed during an interview at the NFL Scouting Combine in February.
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Swift has been there to cheer Travis on as he recently returned to the football field for the NFL’s latest season. She has made appearances at the Chiefs season-opener at the beginning of this month and at the Sept. 15 Chiefs game at Arrowhead Stadium, where she wore an oversized Chiefs T-shirt paired with a pair of thigh high boots.
Swift is on a break from her tour following the conclusion of the European leg of her Eras Tour in mid-August, after playing a second set of shows at Wembley Stadium in London. Her tour is scheduled to pick back up mid-October in Miami.
Kelce previously supported the singer on tour, making an appearance at several of her European Eras Tour concerts. He even made a surprise cameo onstage during her June 23 show at London’s Wembley Stadium.
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