Barry Keoghan, 31, actor, has high expectations for his 15-month-old son Brando. “I love Marlon Brando, of course, but I also thought Brando was pretty cool as a first name,” he told the men’s magazine GQ. “The boy still has a lot to do.” He would like the boy to resemble the actor, who died in 2004. “He’s got to have that leather jacket and that rock star attitude, you know what I mean? I think he’ll have a motorcycle when he’s twelve.” Keoghan sees enormous pressure in his new responsibility as a father, but he sees it as positive. “I can’t get the little boy out of my head. It’s beautiful.” When his son looks at him, he feels “like the most important person in the world.”
Hannah Herzsprung42, actress, has taken on a role using unusual means. In the magazine Colorful she talked about the casting for the film “Four Minutes,” with which she made her breakthrough in 2007. “There was a piece of paper and the unforgettable Monica Bleibtreu said to me in her role: Eat! I was the only one of the girls cast who actually ate the paper.” In her private life, however, her strong will can also “sometimes be quite annoying.” For example, if she is out with friends and there are four different suggestions about where to go for dinner, “then I usually manage to convince everyone that what I want is definitely the right thing.”
Peter Kloeppel, 65, TV presenter, would hire a robot. “If (…) a robot – in perhaps 30 years – helped me up from the reading chair and then drove me to the tennis court, I would have no problem with that,” the RTL anchorman told the German Press Agency – “as long as he doesn’t do it too still wants to swing the bat for me.” This week’s current episode of his report series “Peter Kloeppel shines through” is primarily about the shortage of skilled workers and the use of robots, for example in geriatric care, as a possible way out of the crisis.
Selena Gomez, 31, singer and actress, is saying goodbye in installments. In an Instagram story, she announced that in the future she would “focus on what’s really important” and disappear from social media for a while. “A while” is a fairly short span in Gomez’s time scale. The singer had already declared her resignation via social media in October, “because my heart breaks in view of the mass of horror, hatred, violence and terror that is going on in the world.” Eight months earlier, in February 2023, she described herself on Tiktok as “too old for something like that” and said goodbye “for a second”. She also took social media breaks in 2018 and 2020.
István Szabo, 85, director, is not a fan of himself. He doesn’t like watching his own films, said the Hungarian Oscar winner, according to a report by the German Press Agency on Tuesday evening at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. “Firstly, because I always find something that I think is too long and that I should take out. Then I’m angry that I didn’t do it back then.” He also sees people on the screen, some of whom are no longer alive. “It’s so painful, I don’t want to watch the films again.”