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Sylvester Stallone Says He Became Bulimic and Used Steroids While Preparing for Rocky III

His first-person account says role-driven conditioning and cyclical drug use produced lasting physical harm.

Florence Pugh Recast Yelena’s Voice and Turned a Side Character Into an MCU Anchor

Tom Cruise Details Brutal Prosthetics, One‑Take Monologue for Digger

Julianne Moore Commands Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut at TIFF

Courteney Cox Honors Hayden Panettiere as Investigation into Her August Death Continues

The Housewife Opens TIFF With Naomi Watts in Story of Hidden War Crimes

Craig Conover Confirms Scruffy Look Was for Caroline Fletcher Role

Greengrass’s The Uprising Recasts 1381 Revolt to Expose a Hijacked Christianity

Tom Cruise Transforms Into Oil Tycoon for Iñárritu’s Ecological Drama Digger

Julie Andrews Will Not Return to The Princess Diaries 3

Tony Captures a Young Anthony Bourdain in a 1975 Provincetown Origin Story

Actor Says Director Assured Profanities Would Survive Censor but Final Cut Includes Familial Slur

Gal Gadot Frames Motherhood and Fear in Thriller The Runner

Schoenbrun’s 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' Gains Festival Attention After Cannes Premiere

Antonio Banderas Calls 2017 Heart Attack 'The Best Thing' That Happened to Him

Anya Taylor-Joy Says Women 'Don't Method Act' Because They 'Have Things to Take Care Of'

Netflix’s Operation Safed Sagar Brings IAF’s Kargil Air Campaign to Screen

Toxic Sets Trailer Launch in Bengaluru and Confirms 26 August Global Release

Claire Foy Leads Meditative Hawk Drama That Translates Macdonald’s Memoir to Film

Carolina Dieckmann Reveals Mother's Alcoholism and Says Recent Roles Reopened Longstanding Grief