LEE DANIELS COULDN'T WATCH 'BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN' FOR 15 YEARS AFTER TURNING DOWN THE CHANCE TO DIRECT IT: Lee Daniels has admitted that he couldn't watch Brokeback Mountain for 15 years after turning down the chance to direct it. During an interview with Insider, he revealed that he couldn't make the film due to financial reasons. He explained, “It was a very expensive piece to keep and I simply couldn’t get the movie made. Nobody wanted to see the movie, nobody wanted to make the movie. And I had to let it go.” Ang Lee eventually directed the film and won his first Oscar for best director. Daniels said, “I couldn’t watch the film when it came out. I saw the movie in my head, the script was powerful. I saw the entire film in my head because it was so powerful. I saw it, like, 15 years later and Ang Lee did a really great job. As a matter of fact, he did it in a way that was palatable for many heterosexuals around the world. I would have probably been more in your face with it, and he did it in a different perspective, so kudos to him. And I told him that.”
INSECURE'S 'LOOKING FOR LATOYA' IS NOW A PODCAST: Looking For Latoya — the show within a show on Insecure, has now been launched as a podcast. The new fictional podcast is in collaboration with Issa Rae's Raedio and Tenderfoot TV. According to Madamenoire, the podcast will feature the same celebrity voices. Benoni Tagoe, President of Raedio, said in a statement, “It’s been an honor to partner with Tenderfoot TV to produce the Looking For LaToya podcast. Their team has incredible skills and brings an uncompromised passion to the podcast space. With Raedio being an audio everywhere company with roots in music and storytelling the ‘Looking For LaToya’ project was a seamless next step as we develop our slate of content.” The podcast debuted on June 14th.
GILBERT ARENAS APOLOGIZES TO LUPITA N'YONGO: Gilbert Arenas took to social media to apologize to Lupita Nyong'o for colorist remarks he made about her back in 2017. When he was tagged in an IG post of Lupita on a beach in Mexico, with the person saying,“@no.chill.gil hey looks it’s the black girl you said that looks better in the dar[k].” He responded, “@wg_bombshell_ everybody saying her(skin) looks beautiful how about her face tho?? Lights off.” He recently responded, saying, “We can’t come together as a race until the idiots of the race (rights there wrongs). My name is Gilbert and I was an IDIOT for attacking one of our queens for no reason @lupitanyongo (I’m truly sorry for my coon behavior) #blacklivesmatter”