I hate to sound overly sentimental, but I had a good year, he says.
He and wife Blake Lively welcomed their second daughter in September.
I have great kids under 2, so thats the kind of stuff you focus on.
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The rest of the year theyre dead to me.
Its a passion project that Reynolds labored to get off the ground for 11 years.
The humor, the tone, the pathos came from Ryan in a very organic and almost unconscious way.
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(Deadpool 2is currently in preproduction.)
“I think it just really landed at a fortunate time.
“This caps the end of an insane year.
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“Im out ofHamiltonthings to give you!
There was the mixtape!
There was a book!
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Lo to raise money for Orlando victims.
Once that was done, I went away and just floated.
And now thats my favorite part of my day, every day.
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And what a year it was to talk politics.
“It was good to do the extra show on election week,” Bee tells EW.
“But I wouldnt choose to do that all the time.
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I really appreciated that.
Republicans can take a joke thats a good thing.
“I wanted to make a classic-looking and -feeling throwback movie,” Affleck tells EW ofLive by Night.
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“Its a love letter to those 30s and 40s gangster movies.
[But] its the hardest movie Ive done… And its a performance that Stone, 28, admits she couldnt have delivered even a few years ago.
“[Mia] has scars and shes been through things, she says.
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The maturity of the character was very important to me.”
Maybe a little too much.
Recently, shes found herself humming the movies song “City of Stars”… in public bathrooms.
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Not too humiliating, huh?
Its been incredible, the 37-year-old acknowledges, calling in from the Atlanta set ofJumanji, due next year.
Harry is done now, Rowling told Reuters this year, but its tough to believe her.
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She broke our hearts as Hillary Clinton.
And shes giving us a much-needed laugh inOffice Christmas Party.
I felt so comfortable in those pantsuits, both physically and spiritually.
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The success ofSherlockwas overnight, he clarifies, but that didnt immediately lead to everyone knocking down my door.
Fair to say that door has since been vaporized.
Cumberbatch went Shakespearean again this year, playing Richard III in the BBCsThe Hollow Crown.
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There are huge parallels, he says of his disparate projects.
And Cumberbatch sounds the precise opposite of joking when he says he plans to do the occasional radio work.
So has he learned anything from his big 2016?
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Were not momentary specks in an indifferent universe.
Were momentary specks within a very caring, loving universe.
If its an established artist, people already have a perception of what that song will be.
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(Yes, Semi-Charmed Life had just come on the jukebox.)
We just got burnt out, says Pall.
“I was at the gym playing basketball, and talking trash is part of the game.
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This kid kept saying, Hey, young Darden!
Why dont you come venture to guard me?
So I switched up on this cat and shut him down.
What he didnt realize was that I actually played Darden,” Brown tells EW.
“He thought I just looked like the dude!
Somebody else was like, You know, thats the dude that plays Darden!
And he was like, Can I get a picture?!…
I received the script forThis Is Uswhile working onO.J.It was the best internet pilot Ive ever read.
I was just so eager and excited at the possibility of moving from job to job.
[Usually] one job ends and you start over from ground zero.
I was freaking out because I love her so much.
This girl literally picked up Gaten [Matarazzo] and was hugging him.
She did the same thing to me.
They said they wanted us to sing, remembers Matarazzo, 14, who played Gavroche inLes Miserableson Broadway.
It was a landslide Uptown Funk!
Adds Brown, I died when I saw David Schwimmer.
I was on stage and I was like, Oh, my goodness, its Ross Geller!
The trio even passed out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to the hungry crowd midway through the ceremony.
But whenStranger Things second season premieres in 2017, its possible there may be one celeb who doesnt watch.
“I think Ive done six different parts just for Ryan Murphy.
Thats not to mention I just started [Murphys next mini-series]FeudandOceans 8.
Rihanna [PaulsonsOceans 8costar] did say to me how much she loved theO.J.thing and my performance in it.
It was one of those moments where I thought, This is f—ing bats—!
That role may have also led to Davis casting as the ultimate baddie in 2016sSuicide Squad.
Though shed played Rose on Broadway in 2010, she still found new aspects of the character.
I wanted to show her age.
Its a different sort of life, she says.
Whatever the part, one things certain no one can cry like Davis.
People are always talking about my nose running, she says with a laugh.
But there are moments where vanity gets tossed out the window.
I freeze those moments and understand their value in everything I do.Nicole Sperling
