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Anxiety has become a beloved Pixar character.

Maya Hawke opens up about some of the theories about Riley having a queer storyline in Inside Out 2.

Maya Hawke opens up about the nepo baby debate, and how Uma Thurman's roles in Quentin Tarantino movies helped her land Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.

As she promoted The Color Purple, Oprah casually dropped an incredible conversation she had with the late Maya Angelou about her career.

In the lawsuit told in the Netflix documentary Take Care of Maya, a verdict has been reached with the jury siding against John Hopkins.

Netflix's Do Revenge is getting good reviews because of its ensemble cast that includes Maya Hawke and Camila Mendes.

Fans are hoping Quentin Tarantino commits to Kill Bill 3, and there's some rumors about casting.

Sounds like Disenchanted landed Maya Rudolph at exactly the right time.

We're excited to see much more of her in the future.

Four-time Oscar-nominee Ethan Hawke and his daughter Maya Hawke (Stranger Things) are set to play father and daughter in Andrew Stanton's Beatlemania-themed rom-com Revolver, Collider has confirmed. Stranger Things scribe Kate Trefry wrote the script, which is set in 1966 and follows a teenage girl in Alaska who finds out The Beatles are staying at a local hotel en route to Japan, and tries to sneak in so she can lose her virginity to George Harrison. Variety reports that Maya Hawke will play the infatuated and determined lead, while Ethan Hawke will play her father. …

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In keeping with their bizarre practice of not having their actual cast members play major recurring roles, Saturday Night Live dropped a first-look teaser of Jim Carrey as Joe Biden and Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris ahead of the sketch show’s season premiere this Saturday. And they look… fine? Mostly fine, yeah. Don’t get me wrong - it’s delightful to see Carrey returning to sketch comedy (it’s been nearly 30 years since In Living Color), and Rudolph absolutely crushes it in everything she does. But the stunt casting aspect of it can’t be ignored, particularly …

Finally, an announcement even more awaited than the Snyder Cut — it was revealed this Tuesday that Senator Kamala Harris would become former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate in this year's Presidential election, making a whole lot of history as the first Black (and South Asian) woman to run for the country's second-highest office on a major party's ticket. One of the least important yet still fun aspects of this announcement is the fact that in the world of comedy, it means more work for Maya Rudolph in the very-not-too-distant future. The …

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Stranger Things season 3 breakout Maya Hawke almost had her breakthrough role years ago as the star of Little Mermaid, but not Disney's version.

Spoilers for Strangers Things 3 follow below. Stranger Things season 3 is chock-full of surprises, but one of the most heartfelt involves series newcomer Maya Hawke. Hawke plays Robin, one of Steve Harrington's (Joe Keery) Hawkins High classmates and his co-worker at the Starcourt Mall's ice cream parlor, Scoops Ahoy. Robin never misses an opportunity to take Steve down a peg, but as the season progresses, their friendship develops into a comfortable enough place that Robin reveals an essential truth about herself. In episode 7, "The Bite," Robin and Steve are in one of the Starcourt …

Even more than perhaps its potent 80s nostalgia, Stranger Things became a phenomenon thanks to the endlessly charming chemistry of its young cast. The latest chapter of the kids-fightin-evil sci-fi series adds a triple scoop to that formula with what I'd like to affectionately call the Scoops Ahoy Crew. Season 3 finds antagonist-turned-fan-favorite Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) whiling away his summer working alongside Robin—played by Maya Hawke, who is going to be a huge deal after this season, trust—at the Starcourt Mall's ice cream shop, Scoops Ahoy. When strange things …