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Taylor is iconic.
And also have a photo shoot in a room somewhere.
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“I didn’t even think about it… it just happened.”
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KYLIE AND KENDALL AND GIGI AND BELLA AND JOAN AND ERIKA OH MY!
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There is no way that they aren’t the same human.
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Too thirsty.
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Or a ton of other things he's done.
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What's the wallpaper on your phone and/or computer?
A daily reminder that says, “Stay Humble. Hustle Hard.” So true. So cheesy.
When you walk into a bar, what do you typically order?
Food. But if it comes in the copper mug, Moscow Mules.
What's the one word you are guilty of using too often?
Dude. Especially when looking for my car.
What is the last thing you searched for on Google?
How much does a TeePee cost? Don't ask.
Who is the last person that called or texted you?
Grant Gustin. We’re in the middle of an epic Dubsmash duel.
What was the last awkward situation you were in and how did you handle it?
Had one of those Dosey Doe run-ins with a woman passing by me on the sidewalk in New York the other day and after two attempts of the, 'Which way are you going?' game, I took her by the hand, gave her a twirl and we went our separate ways, never to see each other again.
When is the last time you went to a theater?
The opening of Deaf Wests production of Spring Awakening in LA and it changed the game for me. One of the most inventive pieces of theatre I’ve ever seen.
What TV show should everyone should be watching?
Stitchers, but I’m biased so, The Comedians on FX.
And what is your TV guilty pleasure?
Anything HGTV. No shame.
What's the first CD you bought?
Dr. Dre Chronic 2001 and The Marshall Mathers LP and hid them both from my mother.
What is the one food you cannot resist?
A #1 with soft tacos and a Diet Coke from, Del Taco.
What music are you currently listening to?
My neighbors upstairs are aspiring Bongo Drummers so...
What movie makes you laugh the most?
Mrs. Doubtfire. Every time.
What drives you absolutely crazy?
Selfie Sticks. If you can’t get the shot with an arms length, it wasn’t meant to be.
What was your first online screen name?
POPEYEKYLE. All caps. Stop shouting, Kyle. But I loved Popeye and of course, Robin Williams.
What's your favorite emoji?
I have a crush on that dancing lady in red.
Kittens or puppies?
Puppies. Only evil villains can pull off a cat.
New York or Los Angeles?
Come on! Thats like asking to choose your favorite child.
Comedy or drama?
Whatever pays the bills.
Bacon or Nutella?
I ship Baconella.
Coffee or tea?
Coffee with a raised pinky.
'80s or '90s?
The 90’s. 4 letters. T.G.I.F.
NSYNC or BSB?
Every girlfriend I had in middle school was the result of a slow dance to an N’Sync song. Thanks guys.
Beyonce or Rihanna?
Which one doesn't have a ring on it? I'm no home wrecker.
Hannah Montana or Lizzie McGuire?
Who?
And finally: tell us a secret.
I once signed an autograph as Adam Brody.
“My real name doesn’t matter. They just call me The Guy.”
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So many sisters in Balmain, so little time.
Who needs Zac Efron when Dylan Efron exists?
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How did we allow this to happen?!
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BE STILL, MY HEART.
BUT WE WERE WRONG. We were very wrong.
"It's going absolutely fantastic," Calvin told KISS FM, as we cried a river of tears.
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Wtf?!
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In the last Batman movie [The Dark Knight Rises], they told me that I couldn't get an audition for a small role they were casting because they weren't 'going urban,'" she says. "It was like, 'What does that have to do with anything?' I have to play the role like, 'Yo, what's up, Batman? What's going on wit chu?'"
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It’s for a movie.
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“My vagina looks like that tree behind you.”
Amy Schumer is a train wreck and she knows it. Honestly, who doesn't love a girl who owns up to her not-so-proud moments?! In celebration of her new film out Friday, appropriately titled Trainwreck, we sat down with the comedian and her castmate Vanessa Bayer to play a little game we like to call "Never Have I Ever." As expected, there were many wonderful revelations.
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Amy: GIFs. That's like what you get on Hanukkah.
Vanessa: Totally.
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Nicole Richie navigates us through every shopper’s worst nightmares.
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Shopping can be an absolute nightmare but THANKFULLY, Nicole Richie is here to help! The fashion designer sat down with BuzzFeed at her House of Harlow 1960 pop-up shop in L.A. to explain proper shopping etiquette, and what to do in the WORST of any shopping situation.
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You've learned about the Stanford prison experiment in your Psych 101 classes, but you've never seen it like this.
The simulation, headed by Stanford professor Philip Zimbardo in 1971, split college-age men into two groups: guards and prisoners. When the guards started acting borderline sadistically, and the prisoners began having what seemed like psychological breakdowns, Zimbardo called off the experiment early. The events of those few days in a university basement have been reimagined by director Kyle Alvarez in The Stanford Prison Experiment, a chilling psychological thriller that hits theaters July 16.
Alvarez and actor Ezra Miller, who plays one of the prisoners, stopped by the BuzzFeed office to discuss the physical and emotional energies they invested in the film, and their thoughts on its relevance today.
Sydney Scott (junior staff writer, BuzzFeed): Can you guys give us a little information about the movie?
Kyle Alvarez (director, The Stanford Prison Experiment): The Stanford Prison Experiment is a movie based on the famous experiment from 1971 where a professor named Philip Zimbardo took a group of college-aged kids and turned the basement of Jordan Hall [at Stanford University] into a mock prison — and what was supposed to be an observational experiment went very wrong very quickly.
Sydney: How much did you guys know about the experiment before you signed on to do the project, and why did you decide to sign on?
Kyle: [to Ezra] You knew more than I did, I think, initially.
Ezra Miller (actor, The Stanford Prison Experiment): Yeah. I'd been exposed to Dr. Zimbardo's work initially in school by a teacher of mine who was very important to me ... He was really interested in the Stanford prison experiment as an exploration of some of the less fortunate aspects of human nature that are brought forward by certain structures. So yeah, I knew about it. I'm an avid fan of Democracy Now! and I'd seen them interview Dr. Zimbardo.
Kyle: I think I was aware in the way that most people are. I knew they were students, I knew it went bad, I knew there had been these sci-fi action movie versions, but when I read the script I thought, Oh, they really didn't have to change much to make this exciting at all. So the goal was: Try to make the film so that when it ended people would try to call bullshit on it and then go to the Wikipedia page and be like, Oh, actually.
Sydney: I actually did that afterward. I was like, I know a little bit, but maybe I'm being duped. And then I went, I spent an entire day in this whole thing...
Kyle: When the trailer came out people were like, Well, of course they made the bad guy a Southerner...
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Kyle: And apparently at Sundance someone overheard someone saying, Aw, that movie's bullshit, that would never happen at Stanford. One critic said, Ah, the allusions to Abu Ghraib were so on the nose they were painful — because when they were all wearing the paper bags over their heads walking down the hallway, there's a photo of it, of them all sitting in the hallway with paper bags over their heads. It's interesting how at some point you can't be responsible for... You just have to throw people into it, and then trust that their experience of figuring out that it was all real is actually even further illuminating.
Sydney: And the environment — where was this shot? Because the atmosphere is so sterile, like a clinic. There's no sun, there's no natural light.
Kyle: That's how it was. That hallway, where most of the experiment takes place, is an exact re-creation of the hallway where the experiment happened. We went up to Stanford and met with Dr. Zimbardo and there's a plaque up there – I have a photo with me and him hugging in front of it — This was the site of the Stanford experiment — and we just measured it and re-created it. We rebuilt it all on a soundstage so that we could move walls. If not, it would have been impossible to shoot.
Ezra: I love that there's a plaque. We are sooo proud that this incredibly ethically questionable experiment happened at our university.
Kyle: I sort of admire Stanford because the experiment did set a lot of standards and practices in place. ... I think everyone has kind of turned it into something actually quite positive. And his message, Phil [Zimbardo]'s message now, is sort of all about the good people can do — he doesn't really focus on the evil.
Shannon Keating (LGBT editor, BuzzFeed): It's kind of the creepy thing about a lot of the other psychological experiments that happened before ethical standards were really in place — they shouldn't have happened, but we've gleaned such important information from them, which is such a weird ethical hole.
"We're very grateful for the teachings of very questionable studies."
Ezra: We're very grateful for the teachings of very questionable studies.
Sydney: How involved was Dr. Zimbardo? Because isn't this [movie] based on his experiment and his book?
Kyle: He was really involved. I mean, I met him the minute I got involved. He spent a little bit of time on set. He read the scripts every stage along the way. This project had existed for about 10 years before, and since then he had been involved. He was writing The Lucifer Effect when Tim [Talbott] was writing the script, now 14 years ago, so they were kind of working in tandem. Phil would send him a chapter and [Talbott] would send him some scenes, so it was a pretty close relationship.
Sydney: And the cast is amazing. They're all young, up-and-coming actors — how did you pick these people out? How difficult was it to shoot? There are like 10–12 people in a scene at any given time.
Kyle: Well, I'll say — and I'm not just saying it because he's sitting next to me — literally the first thing I said in the first meeting when we started talking about casting, I was like, If we don't have Ezra Miller in this movie, we're making a mistake. It's humbling to have had Ezra and Michael [Angarano] and Johnny [Simmons] and some of these guys who when I first read the script I was thinking of. But Ezra's the first guy we got involved and I was so grateful for that, because it really helped set a precedent for people, for what we were trying to do.
It ended up being an embarrassment of riches, you know. There were just so many talented people in this age range and it was an interesting mix of kids who had been doing this since they were really young and sort of coming into their own, which I find really exciting — when they're reaching an age range when they're deciding if [acting] is something they really want to do or not. They're looking for that: Do I actually love this or is this just something I'm good at? I find that to be a really interesting place to try to learn about people, and bring them together. Anyway, shooting the scenes was really tough. We were shooting a lot, really quickly, every day, and so it was really fast — but everyone was so prepared. There was never a holdup or anything, and those were some of the most professional days I ever had on a film shoot.
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Sydney: And Ezra, your character goes through this incredible range of emotions where you start out as this kid dropped into this experiment and you just devolve — you're breaking down. How was that? How did you go from being this happy-go-lucky guy to this guy who's just completely broken? Was that exhausting?
Ezra: I think the hope was to track the real trajectory of this person who broke down in 36 hours. I think that something that's interesting about the character and about the real story is that the person who is most resistant to the structure that was being imposed on him was the person who tired himself out the quickest, and disintegrated the quickest. I was not personally exhausted — I was actually in a really comfortable and lovely working environment where I was surrounded by really delightful people who were filling me with good energy.
Kyle: [to Ezra] And people you've worked with before, too. Obviously you've worked with Nick [Braun] and Johnny [Simmons] and so many others. You already had relationships built in, which means a lot.
Ezra: There was a lot of kindness and love on set.
Shannon: A nice balance, given the subject material.
Ezra: Yeah, it seemed like it was out of necessity.
Kyle: I think if not it would have been, especially on some of the days you [Ezra] weren't there — some of the stuff toward the end of the film, you kind of had to keep laughing a little bit. There were some times when it was just you in the closet, shooting that stuff. It got really intense. And then your very last shot in the movie is that super-intense close-up of your face when talking to Billy [Crudup]. That was your last scene we did. Usually, actor's last scenes, you kind of build up after you've been working together for three or four weeks and the last scene is usually just an insert that you don't realize is the last shot and everyone goes, Oh my god, oh yeah, that's a wrap — this time, it was actually your biggest scene.
Ezra: I will say that I felt massively assisted by how chronologically we shot because I could track that arc pretty literally. We didn't do much back-and-forth, which isn't guaranteed in a film at all — sometimes you do your breakdown first.
Kyle: The very first time Billy [Crudup] walked on camera is when he walked into the hallway to call [the experiment] off. It was his first take. You know how in movies that are about behind-the-scenes in Hollywood — and Billy's not a difficult actor at all — but where it's a diva actor and everyone's like, Why did we even hire her? and then she comes onstage and her first take's beautiful and everyone's crying? It was that kind of thing where we were all just like [gasps], This is gonna totally work. It was a great feeling.
Ezra: Billy Crudup, Hollywood diva!
Kyle: Yeah, chop that up!
Ezra: Billy Crudup causes chaos on set!
Kyle: No, he was actually, I've never been ... I was so nervous because I've watched him for so long.
Sydney: Yeah, he seems like an incredibly relaxed, cool guy.
Kyle: He is, he really, really is. Usually, the people I've watched the longest I'm most nervous about.
Ezra: Let's face it — his cheekbones are pretty intimidating.
Kyle: Him and — granted, they have a wide age gap — but Dean Stockwell, I was like, Oh my god, I've been watching your movies forever. It's one of those things where you want to respect their history, but you want to make sure you're there and actually giving them direction and not being scared about it. But he was great, he was lovely.
Sydney: So what was it like directing him and Michael [Angarano]? And Ezra — your scenes interacting with them were so intense because Michael takes the Cool Hand Luke–based guard to an intense place. What was that like?
Kyle: Michael just had so much fun, it was fun. I think it was the right kind of guys working together — I felt like you [Ezra] and [Angarano] were sort of going up against each other. You [Ezra] and Nick [Braun] had some similar things, where you pushed each other.
Ezra: Nick and I were literally physically pushing each other.
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Kyle: I have the takes of you guys doing that. There's one take when he has you up against the wall, and I think Nick, like, spit in your mouth or something. You have to watch in slo-mo. Oh, and you got bruised hardcore!
Ezra: Yeah, I had a nice scratch, a bloody scratch on the neck.
Kyle: Which we were then painting out.
Ezra: Animals were harmed in the making of this film.
Kyle: I think it was a little more stressful because we were getting so much in a day, but generally the vibe was a fun one. I've just never been one to... I don't want to manipulate an actor if they don't want to be. I mean, I've worked with some people who are like, Talk to me, get me there! and then you have to be like, You're terrible, and then they're like, Thank you so much. I can do that, but I don't think I could ever do the famous Hitchcock thing with Rebecca. But then, [Joan Fontaine] is brilliant in that movie because she's so meek and quiet, because she thought everyone hated her.
Ezra: Kyle, you made a really good point — I think even before we went into production we talked on the phone and you said, I need nobody to go too method on this film. Because we're simulating a simulation and that simulation became far too real, and that's the whole point.
Kyle: It's a role where actors are professional role players portraying people who were unprofessional role players, so you got lost in it. There's actually a weird, sub-meta thing the movie's not commenting on — but it's there.
Shannon: Yeah, I was just going say, Ezra, with your role in particular I feel like it goes to such a meta level because your character is wrenched away in such a startling fashion and...
Ezra: You missed me.
Shannon: I really did! But to me, it feels like the audience is forced to grapple with the question that Zimbardo has to grapple with — which is, was your character faking your breakdown to get yourself removed from the experiment, or was your character actually having a real emotional experience? It's all so fascinating when it's wrapped in the world of film and the presentation of emotions.
Ezra: Right, like, is Ezra Miller a shitty actor or was his character faking it?
Kyle: You know what, we never talk about the character [being removed so suddenly]. But if you listen to the tape, and you can look it up on YouTube, of the guy in the closet having a panic attack — you [Ezra] didn't mimic it, I think you took inspiration from it. But you can't really tell, and I think it's an interesting question — if you're faking an emotion enough it becomes real eventually, right?
Shannon: If you want to be faking it enough, then it's real.
Sydney: I feel like you can trick yourself into believing or doing anything once you start to...
Ezra: [whispers] I can fly.
Sydney: No, not that! I don't want to see that.
Ezra: Let's go, windows up.
Shannon: Ezra, in terms of your presentation, again, I just kept thinking how interesting it was that you went from playing the sociopathic killer in We Need to Talk About Kevin to being on the receiving end in a psychological thriller with this film. Is there any way in which going from the perpetrator to the victim was something on your mind at all?
Ezra: It wasn't on my mind, but I think that it's a useful exploration of both sides.
Kyle: [to Ezra] Was your behavior on set different in a way?
Ezra: Yeah, I mean, when I was working on We Need to Talk About Kevin I was deeply exploring my sociopathy, so it's sort of a unique experience that I have trouble comparing to others. But, you know, I think something that's really interesting about the content is this question: If the roles were switched, would these two characters, the captain and [my character], prisoner 8612 — would they have really acted so differently in one another's shoes? I don't necessarily place the diagnosis of sociopathy on Michael [Angarano's] character; I think that people take on roles.
"He still says, Well hey, I was told to act like a guard and so I did. I was just doing what I was told."
Hannah Hader is 5 years old and, hopefully, our future president.
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