Henry Golding looked dapper in a linen ensemble on Tuesday at the launch celebration for Gorgio Armani’s Mare pop-up collection at Little Seaside Home Malibu, but there was something totally different about him.
The actor was sporting a new summer-style haircut.
“I just spent six months in Munich with Nicole Kidman shooting Season 2 of ‘9 Good Strangers,’” he advised me. “I had this bouffant, this big hair, but I was so bored with it.”
Then he smiled: “I’m informed that being drunk might be in fashion now.”
Nicole Kidman returns as eccentric wellness guru Masha for the second season of the Hulu series and joins new cast members Golding, Murray Bartlett, Christine Baranski, Mark Robust, Lena Olin, Annie Murphy, Lucas Englander, King Princess, Dolly de Leon, Maisie Richardson-Sellers and Aras Aydin.
In fact, Kidman’s character’s much-talked-about accent is back. Golding said the Oscar winner often kept the accent even when she wasn’t filming: “I wouldn’t say she’s Technical in that sense, but I feel like it’s going to be more durable being in and out of the accent.”
Also in development for Golding is “A Easy Favor 2.” He reprises his role as Blake’s husband turned lover turned lover to Anna Kendrick, with Paul Feig returning as director. The sequel was filmed in Italy.
“It’s crazy,” Golding declared. “The script is much more bananas. It’s not just Blake’s character. The madness just exploded.”
The film is currently in post-production. “Paul is in the editing room as we speak,” Golding said. “Sometimes he’ll text me and say, ‘That scene is so wild.’”
Golding insists he never thought there could be a second film while filming the first. “Everyone thought it would be a one-off,” he said. “But then people loved it and there was so much fanfare. It’s a kind of responsible pleasure.”
Feig gave me a full heads up back in May that they had decided to scrap the main script for the sequel. “We threw out the original draft that was going to be done,” he recalled. “We were like, ‘As much as we like what we have here, we don’t think this is what the people who really loved the main movie are going to want a hundred percent.’ We’ve been working on this for two and a half, almost three years, crafting it and getting it right.”
“A Easy Favor 2” wrapped in late May. New cast members include Tony winner Alex Newell and Oscar winner and frequent Feig collaborator Allison Janney.
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