It’s hard to imagine the 2011 filmBridesmaids without the iconic food poisoning scene.
During a recent video interview with Vanity Fair, Kristen Wiig reunited with her former co-star Rose Byrne and looked back on the Oscar-nominated film, directed by Paul Feig.
At one point, the Saturday Night Live alum admitted that the infamous scene wasn’t part of the movie’s original script. “That was a sequence that came later in the writing process that we sort of embraced and like, OK, we’ll write our version of this type of thing,” Wiig explained. “We just kind of made it our own. We don’t want to see any vomit [but] you can find a way to do your version of it.”
“It was so fun to do that scene and to see … everyone’s version of not feeling well and trying to hide it. It was fun to watch the ladies do their thing,” she added.
The particular scene in question saw the friend group suffer from sudden food poisoning while trying on expensive wedding dresses after they had eaten at a cheap restaurant. Chaos ensues, leading to extreme involuntary vomiting and diarrhea and absolutely ruining the bridal boutique.
In 2017, Feig revealed to Esquire that there’s another version of the food poisoning sequence that fans didn’t see, as they decided it was too gross to make the final cut.
“There’s a deleted sequence where, after Becca throws up on Rita’s head, she has to throw up again, so she runs out of the bathroom and down the hall, thinking that there’s another bathroom at the end of the hallway,” the filmmaker recalled. “It turns out that the door opens onto Whitney’s office; she throws the door open and projectile vomits across this beautiful white office, and all over the wedding picture of Whitney and her husband.”
“We shot a lot of outrageous stuff knowing that we could adjust the balance later,” he added. “The minute we shot that sequence, we all said, ‘I think this is a bridge too far.’ So we scrapped that.”
In addition to Wiig and Byrne, Bridesmaids also starred Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper and Wendi McLendon-Covey.
The Financial Conduct Authority has selected four firms for a stablecoin regulatory sandbox.
The program will help shape final UK stablecoin rules due later this year.
The sandbox will let the companies test stablecoin issuance in real-world conditions without regulatory penalties.
The UK’s top financial regulator announced Wednesday that it has selected four crypto firms to participate in a risk-free regulatory sandbox that will inform how the agency shapes stablecoin rules later this year.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chose neobank startup Revolut to participate in the sandbox, along with three other companies: Monee Financial Technologies, ReStabilise, and VVTX. All of the companies have existing stablecoin-related projects.
Decryptreported last year that Revolut is mulling launching its own stablecoin, though the company has not yet made any announcements on the subject. Users on Myriad Markets—a prediction market operated by Decrypt’s parent company, Dastan—currently estimate that odds stand at 34% that Revolut will announce such a token before July.
The FCA’s stablecoin sandbox will allow the company, along with the three others, to trial stablecoin-related products in real-world conditions without fear of regulatory repercussions. The testing will focus primarily on stablecoin issuance, the FCA said.
The UK is currently developing its own rules regarding stablecoins, which are set to be finalized later this year. The results of the stablecoin sandbox program will directly impact the shape of those rules.
“The four selected firms’ proposals represent a range of stablecoin use cases, including payments, wholesale settlement and crypto trading,” the FCA said Wednesday. “Each firm will receive feedback from FCA specialists while helping to shape the UK’s regulatory approach.”
The companies were chosen from a pool of 20 applications, the FCA noted.
The United States passed its own stablecoin regulatory regime, the GENIUS Act, last summer. UK banking leaders have emphasized the importance, in recent months, of not falling behind America’s pace of establishing crypto regulations.
In September, both countries announced a joint crypto regulatory task force, chaired by officials from both the U.S. Treasury Department and His Majesty’s Treasury. The aim of the task force is to increase links between the American and British capital markets and reduce barriers between both nation’s crypto sectors.
The group, dubbed the Transatlantic Taskforce for Markets of the Future, is expected to release a report on its findings this summer.
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Shares of Strategy (MSTR) and Coinbase (COIN) are two of the most shorted stocks on the market, according to data compiled by Goldman Sachs.
Strategy has been a popular short target for use in arbitrage trades, Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan told Decrypt.
The firm’s stocks have both fallen heavily amid crypto’s decline, dropping 60% and 40% respectively in the last six months.
Big money is betting against crypto equities like Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (MSTR) and American crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN), new data compiled by Goldman Sachs Research shows.
The firms find themselves ranked first and fourth in short interest as a percentage of market cap at 14% and 10%, respectively, among companies valued at $25 billion or greater.
“Crypto is like cilantro: Some people love it and some people hate it,” Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan told Decrypt. “It’s not surprising to see it at the top of the short interest list,” he said of MSTR and COIN’s ranking.
While the data, gathered from reported hedge fund holdings at the end of 2025, shows no notable change in hedge fund ownership for the two firms from Q3 to Q4, the pair have been some of the weakest performers among top shorted stocks.
While up about 9% on Wednesday to a recent price of $135, shares of MSTR have plunged around 60% in the last six months as Bitcoin has fallen precipitously from its October all-time high of $126,080. The top crypto asset, and the bedrock of Strategy’s business, is now changing hands at $68,614—over 45% below that all-time high mark.
That extended decline has led to mounting losses for Michael Saylor’s firm, formerly known as MicroStrategy, which now finds itself facing unrealized or paper losses of around $5.3 billion.
Skeptics have previously noted that if MSTR shares fall far enough, it could force the firm to sell some of its Bitcoin holdings to repay debts, creating a cascading event within the market as its biggest player liquidates its BTC. The company established a cash reserve in December to cover stockholder dividends, but didn’t rule out potential Bitcoin sales in the future.
Users on Myriad, a prediction market platform operated by Decrypt‘s parent company Dastan, currently pencil in a less than 15% chance that Strategy sells Bitcoin by the end of 2026. That mark has fallen from a peak above 35% earlier this month.
“Shorting MSTR has been a popular trade for the past couple of years,” said Hougan, noting that some have been running arbitrage trades like “long Bitcoin and then shorting MSTR,” or “long the convertible bonds and short the stock.”
While those trades are “reasonable” in Hougan’s eyes, he said some traders shorting the firm are misinterpreting its business model.
“Some people don’t understand MSTR’s balance sheet, and think the company is at some kind of threat of going bankrupt if the value of Bitcoin falls below their purchase price,” he added.
“This is, of course, wrong, and anyone shorting for this reason will learn they are wrong the hard way.”
Despite its business not being centered on only Bitcoin, shares in Coinbase too have taken a dive amid falling crypto prices over the last six months, dropping around 40% during that time. The firm recently missed expectations for its fourth quarter earnings, but with shares trading around $167 at the time, analysts from Bernstein indicated the stock was “too ‘cheap’ to sell.”
COIN shares are trading higher today, above $184 amid a 14% boost on Wednesday, but sit well off its 52-week high of $444.
Other firms with crypto ties on the most shorted list include CoreWeave (CRWV), Robinhood (HOOD), and PayPal (PYPL).
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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the Season 1 (or Season 10? Season 9?) premiere of “Scrubs” (2026), which premiered Wednesday night on ABC.
When the cast and producers of hit early 2000s comedy “Scrubs” reunited for a panel at the ATX TV festival in 2022, the question naturally turned to a series revival. Most of the cast loved the idea — but figured it was a non-starter. “It can’t be a full season of a show,” said star Donald Faison (Turk), who suggested a TV movie instead. “Everyone is doing things.”
But creator Bill Lawrence — who’s pretty busy at the moment (“Shrinking,” “Rooster,” “Bad Monkey”) — nonetheless was eager to get the gang back together again. “I just thought it would happen,” he says. “People often go, ‘why would you reboot this?’ If you enjoyed spending time with and working with people you know, I would think you would be crazy to not take a shot. Even if the worst thing that happens is that you get to spend some time again with people you love. We had reached points in our lives that we weren’t getting to spend as much time with each other — because everybody’s successful and doing their own thing — that everybody would ultimately be receptive to giving another spin and seeing if we had fun again.”
Star Zach Braff (J.D.) noted that the “Scrubs” rewatch podcast that he and Faison hosted over the pandemic, “Fake Doctors, Real Friends,” helped garner interest in a revival. And then there are those T-Mobile ads, where Braff and Faison play themselves — but remind viewers of their “Scrubs” characters’ chemistry. “I think that kicked it into even a higher gear,” he says. “I think that that’s when Bill started actually trying to figure out how to make it work.”
Because Lawrence is obligated to produce his other shows — and he’s under contract at Warner Bros. TV, whereas “Scrubs” is produced by Disney — he tapped “Scrubs” alum Assem Batra to showrun the revival. “I feel this show in my soul,” she says. “The balance of heart and funny. Bill gave me a lot of leeway of what will this be. It feels like we’ve been talking about it for years, so it’s exciting that it’s finally happening.”
Now that the “Scrubs” revival has officially premiered on ABC (next day on Hulu), here are some things to know about the show’s return:
The new “Scrubs” opens with a bit of an homage to “The Pitt” before revealing it’s all a J.D. fantasy, and he’s really working as a successful, but bored, concierge doctor.
“I’ll tell you right now, my favorite medical show on TV is ‘The Pitt,’” Lawrence says. “I’ll put Scrubs as a close second, but I’m obsessed, and it kind of represents that world of what it means to be dropped into a place that you know, on some level, just by the very simple act of being there. It’s because you want to be of service and do things that matter for the world. Man, that’s the kind of a storytelling arena that always hooks me.”
But as J.D. visits Sacred Heart, he realizes he misses the calling of being in the middle of the action. And so when Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) offers him the job to replace him as chief of medicine, he accepts.
Says Braff: “That’s in him, that passion, and that’s when Cox says, ‘what are you doing?’ He has the attitude of, ‘I trained you to be far more than what you’re doing, and you’re better than just being a concierge doctor. You should come back and make a difference.’ I think that really lands with JD, especially when he sees what a difference he can make. In that two days he spends at the hospital, he gets a little glimpse of what it’s like to be a teacher, to share your knowledge. It just kind of comes back into his system. Like, ‘I miss this. This is a lot harder, and the money might not be as good, but I want to make a difference again.”
The decision by Dr. Cox to retire was also out of necessity — McGinley was busy shooting Lawrence’s new HBO Max series “Rooster.” But that Dr. Cox/J.D. relationship is still front and center in the first episode. “We always kept that dynamic where Cox did not let him in, and he’s letting him in a little bit more now,” Aseem says.
As “Scrubs” returns after 15 years, its characters are now the veteran doctors teaching a whole new generation of “newbies.”
New cast members include Joel Kim Booster as Dr. Eric Park, J.D.’s new rival (and someone who was expecting to replace Dr. Cox in charge) and Vanessa Bayer as hospital HR director Sibby. Ava Bunn, Jacob Dudman, David Gridley, Layla Mohammadi and Amanda Morrow play the new generation of interns.
“It’s 21 minutes and 30 seconds, and you almost feel like you’re doing two shows,” Batra says. “You’re doing a show with our legacy cast, and you’re doing a show with the new cast. So it is tricky, but we hope there’s enough for old fans and new fans to hook into this.”
Among the themes for the returning “Scrubs” characters: What it’s like to be getting older.
“In healthcare, you’re dealing with humanity so much every day, and part of humanity is aging and getting older, and what that means emotionally and spiritually and physically,” Batra says. “It’s almost organic to see our cast go through these issues in a hospital setting. We’re actually talking head on about, ‘what does it feel to get older?’ And we have an episode of that coming up.
Fans quickly learn that J.D. and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) have divorced.
“The Elliot/J.D. relationship was always tricky, because people root for them so much,” Batra says. “But if you go back and look at their dynamic in the first season, it was a hot mess. There was something we felt we could get out of them not being together that would be more complex and layered than if everything had worked out. It felt like Turk and Carla were always the core, the solid couple. We were actually excited to do this, because even being split for Elliot and J.D. didn’t mean they don’t love each other. And being able to have that arc for them of how do they come back together, even if it’s not romantically, we don’t know. But seeing them rebuild something together is also gives us so much to do.”
Says Chalke: “Elliot and J.D. figuring out who they’re going to be to each other in this new iteration, that was really, I thought, such a smart way in. I thought it just leaves so much room for story lines and for conflict and interest. It’s such a unique experience to get to come back and play a character that you spent eight years doing. It’s unique to get to do it once, but then to get to do it again, feels really lucky.”
Batra and Braff, who directed the pilot, say they wanted to keep the return of “Scrubs” more grounded vs. the flights of fancy the show was famous for later in its run.
“I think what we both understood and agreed on was we had to keep it tonally grounded,” Batra says. “We couldn’t start at the ‘Scrubs’ 10 at goofiness. We had to give people a way in, to hook in emotionally. We know it’s going to get pushed more toward the comedy, but we really wanted to connect with our audience, and so we have grounded it more in that for now.”
Says Braff: “Outside of the fantasies, we really wanted to ground the show back to where it was in Season 1 of the original show. We got broader and broader over the years, and it almost became cartoonish at points. And we want to be real. When I was directing, I would catch myself and the other cast and go, ‘that’s kind of a heightened version of that. How would you really say it in the real world?’ And I just kept trying to ground it.”
That’s not to say there isn’t some fan service. Eccentric surgeon Hooch (Phill Lewis) — seemingly fired in Season 8 — is back, as is bro doctor The Todd (Robert Maschio).
“The Todd was a tricky one, because we’re like, ‘well, the Todd in this day and age, it’s so problematic,’” Batra says. “So for the spin on the Todd, he thinks he understands what’s going on, and he’s kind of like, ‘you get consent.’ So he’s not a bad guy. He’s just a dated guy, and he’s trying very hard to understand the rules, but probably getting them wrong. So that’s how we decided to address Todd in this day and age.”
Also making return appearances: Judy Reyes as Carla, Christa Miller as Jordan and Neil Flynn as The Janitor. “It is difficult to thread that needle of giving the fans everything they want, even just with availability and being able to introduce a new cast, versus putting emphasis on older cast,” Batra says. “After the pilot, we got eight episodes, which I think also determined what we can do. Hopefully in success and a Season 2, we’ll be able to bring back a lot more fan favorites and address some of the things. Sam Lloyd [who played Sacred Heart lawyer Ted] passed away, and we wanted to do a memorial to him. Something like that may come up next season, because we really feel his absence in the show.”
And yes, Turk and J.D. revive their “eagle” lift in the season opener — but soon realize that their bodies aren’t cut out for it anymore.
“We just didn’t want it to be a greatest hits nostalgia session,” Braff says. “Although we do have characters that people like, and of course, we do our probably first and last ‘eagle’ at 50 years old in the pilot, I think mostly it’s like, we want to introduce a new audience that doesn’t know ‘Scrubs’ to this world and have it be the case that you could just start the show anew without having known anything about ‘Scrubs.’ In that case, it’s about a doctor who returns to work at a hospital after being gone for many years.”
ABC is branding this as “Scrubs” Season 1, even if it’s technically Season 10. But Lawrence prefers to call it Season 9.
“I would say that this is the ninth season of Scrubs, and it just takes place 20 years later,” Lawrence says. That’s because the previous final season of “Scrubs” was actually a bit of a different show, as attention turned to new characters played by Eliza Coupe, Kerry Bishé, Michael Mosley and Dave Franco.
“The ninth season of ‘Scrubs’ wasn’t supposed to be ‘Scrubs,’” Lawrence notes. “It was called ‘Scrubs Med,’ and it was supposed to be a fun spin off. And as a spin off, I don’t regret it at all. I think a lot of those actors and actresses, Mike Mosley and Eliza Coupe and Kerry Bouche, Dave Franco, they were doing really funny, cool stuff. And if it would have been interesting to see where it went. But for me, the show ‘Scrubs’ ended the eighth year, and this is kind of picking it up 20 years later.”
Adds Braff: “In terms of going back to the Bill Lawrence vision of ‘Scrubs,’ it’s Seasons 1 through 8. And if you look at eight the way it ends, when all those images are projected on that sheet, that’s just what J.D. hopes will happen. That’s what he daydreams will happen. It’s not saying necessarily that any of those things actually occurred.”
That means some of what happened in Season 9 is no longer canon, and the new “Scrubs” instead picks up after the events of Season 8.
“It doesn’t mean that we don’t respect Season 9, but we feel like that was more of the spin off thing,” says Batra. “So we really decided, let’s follow after Season 8. We knew we would annoy some people with that, people who are hardcore about all that, but we decided that just felt right to us tonally and everything else.
Adds Faison: “For all my nerds out there, just look at Season 9 as a ‘what if.’”
The cast and producers are on board to keep the “Scrubs” revival going.
“We definitely want to keep going and tell more ‘Scrubs’ stories,” Braff says. “This is sort of like an audition, if you will, to see if people like it. And I think if people like it, I know that we and ABC would like to do more.”
SPOILER ALERT: Details follow for Season 14, Episode 7 of “The Masked Singer,” “Spice Girls Night,” which aired Feb. 25 on Fox.
“The Masked Singer” headed to the hills for this week’s episode, as Heidi Montag was the latest celebrity to be unmasked on Season 14 of the Fox singing reality competition.
Among the panelists, Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg got it right with Montag. Guest panelist Taraji P. Henson went with Anna Faris. Ken Jeong thought it was Mandy Moore. Rita Ora guessed Moore as well, and Robin Thicke went with Leighton Meester.
In her final appearance, Montag — as Snow Cone — alluded to the loss of her home with husband Spencer Pratt during last year’s fires in Pacific Palisades. “The Spice Girls took over the world with girl power and left a legacy for generations to come. That’s all we can every ask for, something to pass on. This is especially true for me and my husband. Together we built a home where our kids could grow up surrounded by love and laughter. And then without warning, everything changed. We lost everything. Photos, favorite toys, I mean, this is the home my kids came home to from the hospital. I get so emotional. Putting our lives back together has tested me in ways I could never imagine. But you know what I’m learning? Nothing good or bad lasts forever. But love is our legacy.”
In another clue package on the show, Montag alluded to her music career: “I poured everything I had into it. Even turned down a record deal with David Foster. But when I released it, nobody bought it. For years, I was devastated. But when I was at my lowest point, everyone rallied behind me. Fans started buying my music again. And this once again album became No. 1.”
Here’s what she said on night 1 of this season: “I’m here to clear the air. I’ve been misunderstood. Look, from day one I knew I was destined for stardom. Sure, I was just modeling snow boots for a kids catalog. But I was the whole package. And then wham, I finally got my big break. I landed a role on one of TV’s hottest shows. Until one moment spoiled everything. I was kicked to the curb. You should have seen what the headlines said about me. All lies. Hollywood completely iced me out. And ever since then, I’ve been trying to shake that image… I’m not what you think. And I’m going to prove those people wrong.”
Ora opened the show by singing “Spice Up Your Life,” one of the Spice Girls’ classic tracks — along with the show’s remaining contestants. Guest panelist Taraji P. Henson — unmasked earlier this season as Scarab — also joined in, dressed as “Scarab Spice,” aka Scary Spice. McCarthy Wahlberg dressed as Baby Spice, Ora was Posh Spice, Thicke was Ginger Spice and Jeong was “Old Spice.”
On this week’s episode, the bottom two were Crane and Snow Cone. They battled by both performing their own versions of “Stop,” by Spice Girls. Crane was saved, leaving Snow Cone to be unmasked as Montag.
With Snow Cone gone, that leaves High Voltage, Pangolin, Eggplant, Galaxy Girl, Stingray, Cat Witch, Pugcasso and Crane left in the competition.
Heidi Montag (Snow Cone) joins Billy Ray Cyrus (Owl), Teddi Mellencamp (Calla Lily), Claudia Oshry (Queen Corgi), Taraji P. Henson (Scarab), Tone Loc (Handyman), Tiffany Haddish (Le Who Who), Todd and Julie Chrisley (Croissants) and David “Big Papi” Ortiz (Googly Eyes) as the celebrities unmasked so far on “The Masked Singer” Season 14.
Back for Season 14 are host Nick Cannon, alongside panelists McCarthy Wahlberg, Jeong, Ora and Thicke.
New this season is “America’s Insider,” in which singer, dancer and social media personality Kylie Cantrall will share behind-the-scenes hints and clues for viewers. The twist: Cantrall is in costume as Cat Witch, but will only unmask for viewers — so the audience knows who she is, but the panelists don’t.
“The Masked Singer” Season 14 themed episodes include a tribute to “Star Trek,” the ‘90s comedy “Clueless,” the comic franchise “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and the blockbuster “Twilight Saga” films. Also Fox’s new “Fear Factor” reboot will feature host Johnny Knoxville in a “Fear Factor: House of Fear Night,” and an “Ozzfest Night” honors late rocker Ozzy Osbourne, including a special tribute by “Masked Singer” alum Kelly Osbourne (Season 2’s Ladybug) saluting her father’s musical influence.
The 18 Masked contestants in Season 14 include Eggplant, Pugcasso, Queen Corgi, the Croissants, Owl, 14 Karat Carrot, Snow Cone, Galaxy Girl, High Voltage, Googly Eyes, Scarab, Handyman, Crane, Le Who Who, Pangolin, Stingray, Cat Witch and Calla Lily.
Per the show, the Season 14 contestants have sold a combined 94 million records, received 47 Teen Choice Award nominations, 12 Emmy nominations, two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one Tony Award win and one Academy Award nomination.
Here were the performances on Wednesday’s episode.
Crane, “The Masked Singer”
Trae Patton
Crane
Song: “Say You’ll Be There,” by Spice Girls
Clue: Train. “Not every journey sparkles, but this one was pure gold for my soul.”
Panel guesses: Keke Palmer, Ciara, Mya
Previous song: “It’s Not Right But It’s Okay,” by Whitney Houston
Crane voiceover: “I feel lucky to have an actual Spice Girl take me under her wing. Mel B. But, I’ve had an OG Spice in my corner since before I could even walk: My grandma. I remember being 5 and seeing her dressed as Tina Turner for Halloween. Legs out, strutting like a diva. I guess that’s where I got it from. She’s literally like my second mom. Sewing my costumes, making my evening gowns for pageants. Front row at every performance. I could hear her voice screaming the loudest: ‘That’s my baby! Do your thing, girl!’ And now to spice up her life a little bit, grandma! Your baby’s on your favorite show! I can’t wait for you to figure out it’s your baby under this mask all along.”
Snow Cone, “The Masked Singer”
Trae Patton
Snow Cone
Song: “Wannabe,” by Spice Girls
Clue: Wedding cake. “I’ve always embraced new beginning, especially after life’s toughest chapters. Resilience can be its own kind of healing..”
Panel guesses: Anna Faris, Heidi Montag, Leighton Meester
Previous songs: “When I Grow Up,” by the Pussycat Dolls; “Stronger,” by Britney Spears
Previous panel guesses: Mischa Barton, Nicole Richie, Taylor Momsen, Avril Lavigne, Paris Hilton, Mandy Moore
Snow Cone voiceover: “The Spice Girls took over the world with girl power and left a legacy for generations to come. That’s all we can every ask for, something to pass on. This is especially true for me and my husband. Together we built a home where our kids could grow up surrounded by love and laughter. And then without warning, everything changed. We lost everything. Photos, favorite toys, I mean, this is the home my kids came home to from the hospital. I get so emotional. Putting our lives back together has tested me in ways I could never imagine. But you know what I’m learning? Nothing good or bad lasts forever. But love is our legacy.”
Pugcasso, “The Masked Singer”
Trae Patton
Pugcasso
Song: “Too Much,” by Spice Girls
Clue: “Rejected.” “Some people told me I wasn’t good at music. Luckily they weren’t good at their job either, so it all worked out in the end.”
Panel guesses: Pat Monahan of Train; Vance Joy; Charlie Puth
Previous songs: “Ordinary,” by Alex Warren; “Fake Plastic Trees,” by Radiohead
Previous panel guesses: Dan Reynolds, Darren Criss, Ryan Tedder, Jack Johnson, Rob Thomas
Pugcasso voiceover: “Spice Girls? Man they were lucky to have each other. Call me jealous spice, because there were many times where I was on my own, feeling mighty lonely. Like when I was in another country doing the biggest show of my life, surrounded by legends. Bruce Springsteen to my left, John Mayer to my right. And it was my turn to go on stage in front of hundreds of thousands of people. All by myself. And all I could think was… But the moment I stepped on stage, the entire stadium went wild. And sand along to every single word. Turns out I wasn’t alone. I had a hundred thousand voices joining mine.”
Past “The Masked Singer” winners include T-Pain as Monster (Season 1), Wayne Brady as Fox (Season 2), Kandi Burruss as Night Angel (Season 3), LeAnn Rimes as Sun (Season 4), Nick Lachey as Piglet (Season 5), Jewel as Queen of Hearts (Season 6), Teyana Taylor as Firefly (Season 7), Amber Riley as Harp (Season 8), Bishop Briggs as Medusa (Season 9), Ne-Yo as Cow (Season 10), Vanessa Hudgens as Goldfish (Season 11), Boyz II Men as Buffalos (Season 12) and Gretchen Wilson as Pearl (Season 13).
“The Masked Singer” comes from Fox Alternative Entertainment. Rosie Seitchik, Craig Plestis and Cannon are executive producers, while Seitchik serves as showrunner. The series is based on the South Korean format created by Mun Hwa Broadcasting Corp.
Bitcoin surged sharply this week, briefly nearing $70,000 before pulling back. The move sparked debate across the market: has Bitcoin finally bottomed, or is this just another relief rally inside a broader bear phase?
Multiple on-chain, derivatives, and institutional indicators show early signs of stabilization. However, key signals still point to a fragile recovery rather than a confirmed bullish reversal.
Bitcoin Surges Nearly 7%. Source: CoinGecko
Options Market Shows Fragile Conditions, Not Strong Support
Bitcoin’s options positioning recently shifted into what traders call a negative gamma regime, according to Glassnode’s GEX heatmap.
In simple terms, gamma measures how options market makers hedge risk. When Bitcoin sits in a negative gamma zone, dealer hedging tends to amplify price moves.
That means rallies can accelerate quickly—but so can selloffs.
Bitcoin GEX Strike Heatmap. Source: Glassnode
The heatmap also shows fewer strong resistance “gamma walls” above current prices. This creates less friction for upward moves, which helps explain Bitcoin’s sudden surge.
However, it also means the market lacks structural stability.
Without strong hedging support, price moves remain fragile and prone to reversal.
Bitcoin Spot Demand Is Improving for the First Time in Months
CryptoQuant data shows Bitcoin’s apparent demand, which measures net accumulation versus new supply, has turned positive for the first time since November.
This is an important early signal. When demand exceeds supply, it suggests buyers are stepping in and absorbing coins from sellers.
Bitcoin spot demand is growing for the first time since late November. pic.twitter.com/ZnbiWDnB0C
— Julio Moreno (@jjcmoreno) February 25, 2026
However, one positive shift does not confirm a full reversal. During past bear markets, temporary demand increases often occurred before further consolidation.
A sustained trend of rising demand over several weeks would provide stronger confirmation.
Short-Term Holders Are Still Selling at Losses
Another key indicator comes from CryptoQuant’s short-term holder profit and loss data, which tracks whether newer investors are selling at gains or losses.
The data shows short-term holders have been selling at losses consistently since late January. Several major loss spikes occurred in early February and again recently.
This pattern is known as capitulation, where weaker investors exit the market. Capitulation is common near market bottoms, because stronger buyers absorb those losses.
However, the signal has not fully reversed.
Until short-term holders begin selling at profits again, analysts warn that rallies can become “exit liquidity,” where trapped investors sell into strength rather than holding.
Technical and Historical Data Suggest Selling Pressure Is Easing
Bitcoin’s relative strength index (RSI), a momentum indicator, recently recovered after reaching extremely oversold levels in early February. This suggests selling pressure has weakened.
Historically, such RSI recoveries often lead to short-term rebounds.
Bitcoin RSI Recovers After Hitting Extreme Oversold Levels on February 5. Source: TradingView
Quarterly performance data also shows Bitcoin rarely experiences multiple consecutive quarters of heavy losses.
While this pattern does not guarantee a bottom, it supports the view that the market may be entering a stabilization phase.
Institutional Flows Still Show Weakness
Institutional positioning remains a key concern. Earlier data showed Bitcoin ETFs experienced sustained outflows, and SEC filings revealed large investment advisors and hedge funds reduced exposure significantly in late 2025.
This suggests institutional demand has not fully returned. Strong bull markets typically require consistent inflows from large investors.
What did 13F filers do with the Bitcoin ETFs in Q4??
In what should not be much of a surprise — they were sellers. Advisors and Hedge Funds (the two largest holder categories) were the biggest sellers. Overall 13F Filers sold ETF shares equivalent to ~25,000 Bitcoin in 4Q 2025. pic.twitter.com/0MEbzXVDb1
— James Seyffart (@JSeyff) February 24, 2026
Early Bottoming Signs, But Bull Market Not Confirmed
Bitcoin is showing several early bottoming signals. Spot demand is improving, capitulation appears to be getting absorbed, and technical indicators suggest selling pressure is fading.
However, key confirmation signals are still missing.
Short-term holders remain in loss territory, institutional flows remain weak, and options market structure shows fragile conditions.
For now, Bitcoin’s rally appears more consistent with a relief bounce than a confirmed bull reversal.
A sustained recovery will likely require stronger demand, renewed institutional inflows, and price stability above key resistance levels.
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The dispute between Aave Labs and the Aave DAO appears to be escalating, with DAO delegates ramping up their hostility after Labs’ “Aave Will Win” proposal requested another $51 million in development funding from the DAO.
On Feb 20, delegate BGD Labs announced its intent to halt its work with the DAO due to Labs’ focus on Aave V4 rather than “a very mature and successful V3.” The decision came after Aave Labs co-founder Stani Kulechov stated in the proposal that “Once V4 is mature, V3 parameters should be gradually adjusted to encourage migration, following the same approach used in past version transitions.”
Marc Zeller, the founder of Aave-Chan Initiative (ACI), another service provider to the Aave DAO, called BGD’s impending departure from the DAO a major change and sold a portion of his $AAVE holdings.
Today, the feud between the DAO and Labs was cranked up a notch after Zeller published a full audit of Labs’ performance in the Aave governance forum, bashing Aave Labs’ product delivery, profitability, and business development (BD).
Zeller referred to Labs’ standalone products, including Lens Protocol, $GHO v1, and Horizon, as “The Product Graveyard,” citing “zero successes.” He went on to point out that even its more successful launches, such as Horizon, which has commanded over $500 million in total value locked (TVL), still resulted in a negative 96% return on investment (ROI), and that Aave’s stablecoin, $GHO v1, depegged and had to be rebuilt by BGD and TokenLogic.
Source: Aave Governance
The report went on to criticize Aave Labs’ BD department, noting that Labs was set to work with prominent entities in DeFi and traditional finance like Coinbase’s Layer 2 Base, World Liberty Financial, Apollo, and Mantle.
Morpho emerged as the most notable competitor in these relationships and now serves as the backend of Coinbase’s decentralized lending product, and recently announced a partnership with $800 billion asset manager Apollo Global Management.
While the relationship between the DAO and Labs continues to crack, Aave remains DeFi’s leading protocol by TVL, accounting for more than 28% of the DeFi market with $27.5 billion across all chains.
Meanwhile, Morpho is the second largest lending protocol and sixth largest in DeFi with $5.8 billion.
Despite Aave’s leading position in terms of TVL and brand recognition, its native $AAVE token is trading near multi-year lows at just $122, or a $1.9 billion fully diluted valuation, after reaching as high as $380 in December 2024 and $660 in 2021.
$AAVE Chart – CoinGecko
Aave Labs did not respond to The Defiant’s request for comment.
[This story contains spoilers for the first two episodes of the Scrubs revival on ABC.]
It’s been almost 25 years since Scrubs aired its first episode, and the revival of the hospital comedy that premiered on ABC Wednesday is upfront about acknowledging the passage of that much time. JD (Zach Braff), Turk (Donald Faison) and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) are all older and more experienced, and their relationships have changed — fractured, in some cases.
Where they were interns when the show began, the returning characters are now teachers. Turk is chief of surgery at Sacred Heart Hospital, and JD returns as chief of medicine in Wednesday’s premiere. Elliot also has a senior position at the hospital.
But it’s still Scrubs, which means the show still features JD’s voice-over narration and cuts to his daydreams, and Turk still dances down the hallway, and Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) delivers a series of rapid-fire putdowns aimed at an intern. Oh, and JD and Turk, upon seeing one another again, still do their “Eagle” bit — only to have it collapse because Turk’s sciatica is acting up. Again, time has passed.
“When we were discussing what the initial thing would be, you could still have that silliness, because that’s real and true to life for Donald and I,” Braff told The Hollywood Reporter. “But then, if we’re keeping it grounded in reality, how do we show that these men are the chief of surgery and the chief of medicine at a teaching hospital where they need to be incredible teachers? I was interested in that — the mix of being funny with your friend but also being able to pivot to being a wonderful teacher.”
One other possibly sobering fact: JD and Elliot, who ended the show’s eighth season as a couple after years of an on-and-off relationship (the new show more or less skips the med school-focused, semi-spinoff ninth season of the original series), are now divorces. Showrunner Aseem Batra said that idea became fodder for several “fun debates” in the writers room — including convincing series creator Bill Lawrence that it was the right move.
“He did not like that initially. He was like, ‘But it’s JD and Elliot,’” Batra said of Lawrence’s initial reaction. “But after thinking about it for a beat, he’s like, ‘Yeah, you’re right. We were going to get a lot more story out of them not being together.’ It also tracks with how we saw them in the first iteration of Scrubs, where they were kind of all over the place with each other. It also tracks just with the authenticity of life and how things turn out.”
Braff and Chalke were on board with the idea as well, noting that the conflict in their relationship throughout the show’s original run brought out some of their best work. “We didn’t want to lose that, because Sarah and I love playing off of each other,” Braff said. “[JD and Elliot] just being fine, I think would be boring.”
“Totally,” Chalke added. “And then it gives the opportunity for them to [explore] what is that like for them to co-parent, and what is it like for them to end up working together in the same hospital again, and what about when they start dating? How does the other person feel about that? It was way more fun.”
Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke and Judy Reyes in ‘Scrubs’
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Love is not totally dead at Sacred Heart, however: Turk and nurse Carla Espinosa (Judy Reyes) are still married and have four daughters together. Reyes, who’s a regular on another ABC series, High Potential, has a recurring role on Scrubs and will in a handful of the season’s episodes. The show’s other returning core cast member, McGinley, may not, as Dr. Cox tells JD he’s retiring and passes the chief of medicine job onto him (to the great dismay of Joel Kim Booster’s Dr. Eric Park, who seemed to be in line for the position).
Scrubs filmed its first eight seasons at a decommissioned hospital in the San Fernando Valley. That building was torn down in 2011, and the new season was filmed on soundstages in Vancouver — but with precise re-creations of the old sets.
“[Production designer] Cabot McMullen took all his blueprints and shipped them up to Vancouver, and on a 20,000-square-foot stage, which is very large, they reconstructed it down to the texture of the paint and the tile, the feel and look of the hospital,” said McGinley. “It was remarkable.”
Reyes said it was almost “eerie” how well new the new sets matched the former ones, to the point where she would get lost on the sets thinking they were laid out similarly to the original setup. “It was eerie once you’re in the space, but it puts everything in context for you.”
Lawrence is an executive producer of the revival, but he wasn’t the showrunner due to contractual matters: He has an overall deal with Warner Bros. TV — and several other ongoing series, including Apple TV’s Shrinking and Ted Lasso and HBO’s upcoming Rooster — and Scrubs is produced by Disney’s 20th Television.
“I’m not a huge therapy guy, but I talked to a therapist [about] how it’s making me crazy that I can’t micromanage and control every aspect of it,” Lawrence told THR. “But that’s not what this is. There are original writers [working on this version] who knew me when I was a kid and doing that, so I feel safe. But they’re also nice enough to let me participate. I really worked hard on the pilot, and I’ve been working with Zach on a lot of the cuts, and it makes me very joyful to see what this stuff has become.”
Still, Lawrence jokes that “If I didn’t have other shows going on, I’m quite sure I would have been wearing a Mission: Impossible mask and trying to work on the show without getting caught.”
Batra’s first job as a TV writer was on Scrubs (she also played an intern in a few episodes), and she said it’s “surreal” to return as showrunner on the revival. “If I thought about it too hard, I would probably have a panic attack and not be able to do it. So we just launched into it,” she told THR. “And you realize that all those hours of TV make a difference, and then when you step into it, you’re ready to go. That doesn’t mean there aren’t challenges, but I think there’s a readiness. I’m glad that we’re doing this now and not like five years ago. Every year I had working helped me be ready for this.”
The blockbuster movie — which led the Image Award nominations with a dominant 18 nods, including outstanding motion picture — won three categories: stunt ensemble, cinematography (Autumn Durald Arkapaw) and ensemble cast (Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, Buddy Guy, Delroy Lindo, Peter Dreimanis, Lola Kirke, Li Jun Li, Saul Williams and Yao). Coogler and Jordan’s previous collaborations, “Black Panther” and its sequel “Wakanda Forever,” also won the ensemble prize on the way to massive trophy hauls at their respective Image Awards telecasts.
Wednesday night’s virtual ceremony, hosted by Angel “ThatChickAngel” Laketa Moore and Khleo Thomas, focused on the non-televised film, television, and writing award categories. Teyana Taylor — who is nominated for six Image Awards, including one for her role in “One Battle After Another” — picked up the prize for outstanding supporting actress in a TV movie, limited series or dramatic special for her work in “Tyler Perry’s Straw.” Her co-star in the Netflix thriller, Glynn Turman, won the supporting actor award.
The late Malcolm-Jamal Warner won the prize for outstanding guest performance for his part in the Fox series “Murder in a Small Town.” It was the second Image Award win for the actor, who died last year at 54.
With the virtual ceremonies complete, the Image Awards week rolls along to its final destination, the 57th Image Awards telecast, hosted by Deon Cole, on Saturday, Feb. 28. The show will be broadcast live from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium at 8 p.m. ET/PT on BET, CBS and across Paramount networks.
Deon Cole returns to host the show, broadcast from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. While “Sinners” topped the film categories, the recently-wrapped Peacock series “Bel-Air” led the TV categories with seven nominations. The nominees for Entertainer of the Year, the show’s signature category, include Cynthia Erivo, Doechii, Kendrick Lamar, Michael B. Jordan and Teyana Taylor.
Special honorees for this year’s NAACP Image Awards week include Viola Davis, who will be presented with the Chairman’s Award; Colman Domingo, the President’s Award honoree; Salt-N-Pepa and DJ Spinderella who will be inducted into the Image Awards Hall of Fame; A$AP Rocky, to be presented with the Vanguard Award for fashion; and Rev. Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant, who will receive the prestigious Mildred Bond Roxborough Social Justice Impact Award.
The full list of winners from night three can be found below:
Outstanding Children’s Program
“Gracie’s Corner” (YouTube TV)
Outstanding Animated Series
“Gracie’s Corner” (YouTube TV)
Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance (Television)
Kyla Pratt – “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder” (Disney+)
Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance (Motion Picture)
Quinta Brunson – “Zootopia 2” (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Outstanding Stunt Ensemble (Television or Motion Picture)
Cassandra Mann – “Unexpected Christmas” (3 Diamonds Entertainment LLC)
Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture
Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, Buddy Guy, Delroy Lindo, Peter Dreimanis, Lola Kirke, Li Jun Li, Saul Williams, Yao – “Sinners” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Outstanding Variety (Series or Special)
“Ali Siddiq: My Two Sons” (YouTube/Moment PPV)
Outstanding Guest Performance
Malcolm-Jamal Warner – “Murder in a Small Town” (FOX)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Television Movie, Limited–Series or Dramatic Special
Teyana Taylor – “Straw” (Netflix)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Television Movie, Limited–Series or Dramatic Special
Glynn Turman – “Straw” (Netflix)
Outstanding Host in a Reality/Reality Competition, Game Show or Variety (Series or Special) – Individual or Ensemble
Steve Harvey – “Celebrity Family Feud” (ABC)
Outstanding Reality Program, Reality Competition or Game Show (Series)
“Celebrity Family Feud” (ABC)
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Tuesday, February 24
Cardi B, Don Lemon and SZA joined Michelle Obama and Kendrick Lamar as NAACP Image Award winners on night two of the virtual pre-show.
Cardi B won three Image Awards on Tuesday night, including outstanding female artist and outstanding album for her latest record “Am I the Drama?” Her track “ErrTime” won the prize for outstanding hip-hop/rap song. Before this year’s ceremony, Cardi B had won just one Image Award, for serving as judge and executive producer of “Rhythm & Flow.”
Veteran journalist Don Lemon won two trophies for his eponymous talk show, “The Don Lemon Show”; Lemon’s news and talk series and Obama’s podcast “IMO,” which the former first lady co-hosts with her brother Craig Robinson, won four of the five awards presented for that medium.
Lamar, who was also a big winner on the first night of the three-part virtual ceremony, added two more prizes on night two. The rapper was named outstanding male artist and shared the music video/visual album award with SZA for their Grammy-winning hit “Luther.”
Coogler’s “Sinners” won its first awards out of its 18 nominations, collecting the prizes for outstanding soundtrack and original score.
Watch the virtual pre-show in the video here. The full list of winners from night two can be found below:
Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album
“luther” – Kendrick Lamar & SZA (pgLang under exclusive license to Interscope Records)
Outstanding New Artist
Monaleo – “Who Did the Body?” (Columbia Records)
Outstanding Female Artist
Cardi B (Atlantic Records)
Outstanding Male Artist
Kendrick Lamar (pgLang under exclusive license to Interscope Records)
Outstanding Hip-Hop/Rap Song
“ErrTime” – Cardi B (Atlantic Records)
Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album
“Sinners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (Proximity Media LLC, under exclusive license to Masterworks, a label of Sony Music Entertainment)
“Do it Again” – Kirk Franklin (Fo Yo Soul Recordings/Tribl Records)
Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album
“Tasha” – Tasha Cobbs Leonard (Motown Gospel)
Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Traditional)
803Fresh feat. Fantasia – “Boots on the Ground Remix” (Snake Eyez Music Group/Artist Partner Group)
Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Contemporary)
Chris Brown feat. Bryson Tiller & Usher – “It Depends (Remix)” (RCA Records/Chris Brown Entertainment)
Outstanding Original Score for TV/Film
“Sinners (Original Motion Picture Score)” (Proximity Media LLC, under exclusive license to Sony Classical, a label of Sony Music Entertainment)
Outstanding Album
“Am I The Drama?” – Cardi B (Atlantic Records)
Outstanding Podcast – Scripted/Limited Series/Short Form
“Interesting Things with JC” (Jim Connors LLC)
Outstanding Podcast – News and Information
“The Don Lemon Show” (Lemon Media Network)
Outstanding Podcast – Lifestyle/Self-Help
“IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson” (Higher Ground)
Outstanding Podcast – Arts, Sports and Entertainment
“IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson” (Higher Ground)
Outstanding Podcast – Society and Culture
“The Don Lemon Show” (Lemon Media Network)
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Monday, February 23
The 57th NAACP Image Awards week kicked off Monday with former first lady Michelle Obama and rapper Kendrick Lamar winning two of the early prizes.
Obama’s latest book, “The Look” — which explored her style evolution from her time in the White House to life afterwards — won the award for outstanding literary work biography/autobiography. Meanwhile, Lamar’s electrifying Super Bowl halftime performance was named outstanding short-form series or special – reality/nonfiction/documentary. Both Obama and Lamar are repeat winners at the Image Awards: she won in the same category in 2019 for her memoir “Becoming,” while he has nine trophies from the NAACP, including two for his 2025 anthem “Not Like Us.”
The awards were announced during the first edition of a three-night virtual event, where winners will be revealed in the majority of the Image Awards’ more than 90 categories (across film, television and streaming, music, literature and podcasts). The pre-show ceremony, hosted by Angel “ThatChickAngel” Laketa Moore and Khleo Thomas, aired exclusively on YouTube and NAACP+ and focused primarily on the literary categories, as well as two digital content creator prizes. For the first time, the NAACP Image Awards got into gaming, with Berlin Edmond Jr., aka Berleezy, winning the top prize.
Watch the virtual pre-show ceremony in the video above. The full list of winners from night one can be found here:
Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography
“The Look” – Michelle Obama (Crown)
Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction
“A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm & Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics” – Juanita Tolliver (Legacy Lit/Hachette Book Group)
Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional
“Who Better Than You?” – Will Packer (Penguin Random House)
Outstanding Literary Work – Journalism
“On Borrowed Time” – Anissa Durham (Online)
Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author
Charles B. Fancher – “Red Clay” (Blackstone Publishing)
Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction
“Death of the Author” – Nnedi Okorafor (William Morrow)
Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
“The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems” – Patricia Smith (Scribner)
Outstanding Literary Work – Children
“Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark” – Allen R. Wells; Illustrated by DeAndra Hodge (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers/Macmillan)
Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens
“Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi” – Angie Thomas (HarperCollins/Clarion Books)
Outstanding Literary Work – Graphic Novel
“Parable of the Talents: A Graphic Novel Adaptation” – Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damien Duffy, illustrated by John Jennings and David Brame (Abrams ComicArts)
Outstanding Short-Form Series or Special – Reality/Nonfiction/Documentary
“The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar” (FOX)
Outstanding Digital Content Creator – Gaming/Tech
Berlin Edmond Jr. (@Berleezy)
Outstanding Digital Content Creator – Fitness/Wellness/Food
“A CNN & Variety Town Hall Event: Timothée Chalamet and Matthew McConaughey” reached 8.35 million worldwide on all platforms. Some 5.13 million people in the United States interacted with content from the exclusive interview, while the remaining 3.22 million were international.
On CNN, the interview — which aired on Feb. 21 at. 7 p.m. ET/PT — drew 453,000 viewers, with 57,000 in the key 25-to-54 demographic, according to Nielsen. The full conversation was also available on CNN’s streaming platform and Variety‘s YouTube page.
Clips from the “Town Hall” were a major driver of social media traffic, reaching 46.29 million views across all of Variety‘s platforms. Instagram and Facebook lead with 20.35 million, followed by TikTok at 14.54 million and X at 11.4 million.
The Saturday night broadcast, filmed in front of an audience of University of Texas at Austin students, saw the reunion of Chalamet and McConaughey, who played son and father in 2014’s “Interstellar.” During the roughly 90-minute sitdown, the pair discussed memories from Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic, Chalamet’s Oscar-contending performance in “Marty Supreme” and took questions from the audience.
During their chat, Chalamet told McConaughey that “Interstellar” was his “favorite project” he’s ever been a part of, adding that he thought McConaughey’s Cooper was “his most fantastic role.”
“I know you were coming off ‘Dallas Buyers Club,’ but that movie, to me, was the origin point in seeing how you carried yourself on set, how seriously you and Christopher Nolan took the work,” Chalamet said. “It gave me a license. Coming out of high school, it’s hard to take yourself super seriously. You can feel like you’re wasting time or stuck-up or something. And I remember you had a yoga mat, and you’d be working out and sleeping on set. It was all very strange to me. But it was super inspiring. I just can’t thank you enough for being warm to me at that time, when you had no reason to be warm to me. Christopher as well. It just changed my life, man.”
McConaughey graciously responded, “Thanks for that, man. You were pretty easy to be warm to. I remember you had what I felt like was a feverish curiosity at that time. You were figuring some stuff out, but it seemed obvious to me that no matter what you were dealing with, you were going to make your way. And I believe you were in some sort of limbo. You were choosing — something about music, and somebody was putting pressure about, ‘Maybe go this way,’ and you wanted to go this way.”
Watch “A CNN & Variety Town Hall Event: Timothée Chalamet and Matthew McConaughey” below.
