Bryan Cranston reveals what it is like being famous and it’s not all that it’s cracked up to be.

Bryan Cranston is best known for portraying Walter White in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad, Hal in the Fox comedy series Malcolm in the Middle and Dr. Tim Whatley in the NBC comedy series Seinfeld. For Breaking Bad, he won thePrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008–2010, 2014), including three consecutive wins.

But since working on Breaking Bad, Cranston’s acting career has exploded. He has had the lucky ability to pick and choose which projects he wants to work on and how he wants to do it. This is going a long way for a man who was a struggling actor for years and even faced being evicted from his own home.

In a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Cranston reveals that being famous is not all that it is cracked up to be.

Do you like your “hour of fame”?

Being [famous] is almost like being a pregnant woman. People think they can just put their hand on your belly and tell you, “Oh, you’re going to have a boy!” It’s like having a complete stranger fondling you. And they have this sensibility where they feel comfortable coming up to you and saying, “You know that thing you did? I didn’t like that movie.”

Really?

Oh yeah, it happens all the time. They’re not in the storytelling world, but they hear buzzwords. So they’ll go, “I didn’t like your character’s arc.” But I’m open to all of it. The only failure in art is when you move someone to no emotion whatsoever. I’d rather have people fiercely angry with me so long as they’re moved to some emotion. Even if the emotion was off-target — even if I was trying to move the audience one place and they go another. You missed, but at least they felt something.

It goes to show you that you can be on top of the world but, you can still feel insecure about your talents. You can check out the full video interview below:

Idris Elba nearly died on set of Netflix’s Beasts of No Nation

Beasts of No Nation is an upcoming American war drama film directed and written by Cary Fukunaga, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Uzodinma Iweala. Beasts of No Nation stars Idris Elba, Ama K. Abebrese, Grace Nortey, David Dontoh and Opeyemi Fagbohungbe.

Variety has finally revealed their full profile of the upcoming Idris Elba film, Beasts of No Nation available, and the stories from the difficult shoot are pretty interesting.

Apparently, Elba, who plays an African man who recruits a boy into his army, fell off a cliff while shooting a crucial scene. A ridge broke his fall, otherwise he would’ve fallen 90 feet.

“I remember slipping and catching onto this big branch that was sticking up, and I literally was like, ‘Whoa!’?” recalls Elba. “It was a moment where I was like, ‘This is the real deal.’?”

As for Fukunaga, he tells Variety that he felt tired just when the shoot was about to start, in Ghana, and turned out to be sick with stage-two malaria that pushed production back a week. he says: “It’s like someone gave you a sleeping pill, along with a pounding headache and a hot-and-cold fever. My entire body ached. My kidneys were aching.”

That’s not all, though. Fukunaga had to fill as camera operator when the one he hired became injured. The production also had to pay for the pay for the food and clothing of extras who were detained in the Ivory Coast on suspicion of being mercenaries, while Fukunaga had to constantly rewrite the script after actors would lose interest and stop showing up for work. To top it all off, the director had another brush with death when he stepped on a poisonous black mamba snake during the shoot.

And there’s more:

The film ballooned $1 million over budget, and Fukunaga found himself struggling to keep it together. “Every day, it felt like we were on a sinking ship,” he says. “I thought, this is going to be ‘Lost in La Mancha.’ We were shooting in rainy season. Sets were washing away.” Fukunaga shed 20 pounds from his 180-pound frame. Because he didn’t trust the local meat — “In Africa, you see chickens and pigs eating garbage,” he says — his diet frequently consisted of a salad of onions, cucumbers and avocado. “I just found out last week I’d been carrying a parasite for the last year, so that was probably part of the weight loss,” Fukunaga says. “I’m on a whole cocktail of antibiotics now.”

When Fukunaga got home and tried to edit, he found that he didn’t have enough scenes and would have to use voiceover to fill in the gaps. The film was saved when Netflix paid $12 million to distribute it. The bulk of the article, which is extremely interesting, explains how Netflix’s revolutionary offer and distribution plan for this and other hard-to-distribute independent movies works.

Beasts of No Nation is scheduled to be released on Netflix globally on October 16, 2015 and the same day, the film will be released in a limited release by Bleecker Street.

Former Bachelor contestant Chris Bukowski reveals that the show ruined his life, family and career.

Earlier this week on Bachelor in Paradise, a popular contestant, Chris Bukowski returned. Chris  who was back for the fifth time looking for love after appearing on The Bachelorette, Bachelor Pad,Bachelorette again very briefly, and Bachelor in Paradise season 1 got blackout drunk, gave his date card away, and left the show in a matter of 24 hours.

He then showed up on After Paradise Monday night, apologizing for his “obsession” with TV fame and officially retiring from the show.

“Every day has been a group date with my own demons,” he said with a smile, as Chris Harrison chuckled behind him. “I returned to Bachelor in Paradise in hopes of finding a date to my sister’s wedding. I left without a single memory of my time there.”

However, that is not the whole story. RantNow published Chris’s much longer and darker apology today.
“I’ll probably get in trouble for this article, but I don’t care,” he wrote, painting an ugly picture of addiction, public humiliation, and familial disputes as a result of his time on the show—a picture of the steep emotional pitfalls of reality fame. His stint on Bachelor Pad “almost completely ruined me, my family and my career”:

I couldn’t believe the hate towards me. The tweets, the Facebook messages, the media, etc. — I couldn’t handle it. I’ll never forget going to my parents’ house and witnessing my dad obsess over all of the stuff being said about me. That show ruined my relationship with my father at the time and created distance between me and my mother.”

Chris, who is a bar owner, revealed about how he felt the pressure to get back in the spotlight to attract more customers to his bar. “Constantly being told that I was irrelevant played a major role in my unexpected arrival during Andi’s season of ‘The Bachelorette.’”

Chris showed up on night 1 of Andi’s season and was told it was too late to join the show, he had to be escorted out by security.

“If for one second you thought I pulled that whole night off on my own, you’re absolutely insane,” he wrote.

He eventually became addicted to his anxiety medication.

As you can see, I’m fighting demons. I’m far from perfect. All I’ve ever wanted is what many would call a “fairytale ending.” I honestly thought that was realistic for me. And I honestly thought those involved in my television career were “looking out for my best interests.”

This letter really calls out the entire Bachelor franchise, which was recently come under fire after Lifetime’s Unreal, which is written by a former Bachelor producer.

Even though Chris Bukowski never found love on the series, this is a fairly saddening. It is clear to most viewers that there is behind the scenes drama because after all a reality show’s producer’s job is to insight the cast members to make bad decisions for the sake of good television, it is rare for members of the Bachelor franchise to actually come out against the show.

Hollywood independent producers are tracking down and suing users of Popcorn Time.

Popcorn Time, the free version of Netflix, allows for people the ability to play movies through torrents with one click. The interface of the app looks similar to Netflix and allows for easy navigation and use of the program.

The program has gained popularity around the world, where movie restrictions have put serious limits in the amount of available content. This popularity ended up causing the app to be shut down by the original creators. However, the program is back online and Hollywood is stepping up.

Popcorn Time lawyers have filtered through copyright infringement cases and laws, they argue that it is essentially a legal program since, users of the program are not actually downloading movies but instead are, streaming them to their computer. Although it provided access to pirated content, Popcorn Time claimed that it did not violate any laws.

“As a designer I love the challenge of simplification. Take something hard for the common user and make it usable. I have a lot of friends who don’t understand torrents and I wanted to make it easy and effortless to use torrent technology,” one of the app’s designers said in .

But, in a recent lawsuit against users of Popcorn Time, the latest technology in piracy may be shutting down.

The producers of Survivor has sued 16 people who used the torrent software Popcorn Time for pirating the title. Independent Hollywood companies are aggressively trying to stop online copyright infringement

From Variety:

Nu Image and Millennium Films, the company behind “Survivor,” identified the users by their IP addresses and are seeking their true identities via subpoenas to Internet service providers. Nu Image and Millennium say that the movie has been downloaded illegally “hundreds of thousands of times and counting,” including more than 10,000 times in Oregon, where the lawsuit was filed.

They said that they are seeking to resolve cases for $750 each in damages, even though infringement carries a maximum of $150,000 in each instance.

In their lawsuit the producers identify Popcorn Time as “software that is specifically designed for committing theft,” and say that users accept a terms of service agreement that includes a provision warning that “by watching a movie with this application you might be committing copyright violations.”

“Popcorn Time makes it clear through its terms of service that its users are willfully committing copyright infringement and gives them a clear option to opt out before engaging in criminal activity,” said Avi Lerner, chairman and founder of Nu Image. “It’s time that we hold people responsible for their action.”

This is not the first time Hollywood has put pressure on piracy. After a leaked version of Expendables 3 hit the Internet, Hollywood created the Internet Security Task Force, which features independent producers. The members of the Task Force have sued people who have downloaded Dallas Buyers Club and The Hurt Locker in a mission to stop illegal piracy.