Rosario Dawson To Play DEA Agent on Hulu's Upcoming Show 'Dopesick'

Rosario Dawson has joined the cast of Hulu‘s upcoming series, Dopesick.

According to The Wrap, the 40-year-old actress will be a series regular for the show and star as Bridget Meyer, a “tough DEA agent who fights to curtail the use of OxyContin.”

The drama is described as “an ambitious, harrowing, and compelling look into the epicenter of America’s struggle with opioid addiction.”

The series will be set in a distressed Virginia mining community, the hallways of the DEA and the opulence of “one-percenter” Big Pharma Manhattan.

Dopesick is also set to star Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Kaitlyn Dever, Will Poulter, John Hoogenakker, Philippa Soo and Jake McDorman.

The move comes just after Rosario‘s USA series, Briarpatch, was cancelled.

Jill Duggar has announced that she has left her family’s reality television empire of Counting On.

The 29-year-old mom, and the second born daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, revealed in an interview that she had begun to distance herself from her family.

“I never expected this to happen or for it to get to this point,” she shared with People this week. “But I’m realizing I can’t put a timeline on healing. I love my family and they love me. I really just have to follow God’s lead and take it one day at a time.”

Jill added that her and husband Derick Dillard‘s “control to choose what jobs we were allowed to accept and even where we were allowed to live was taken away from us.”

He continued, “The first few years of our marriage, we spent time and money working towards opportunities only to hit a dead end when we’d be told, ‘Well, you’re not allowed to do that.’”

Since leaving, Jill has pulled away even more as she tasted her first drink of alcohol and also began to wear jeans, which her other sisters are not doing.

Now though, Jill and Derick have sought out legal advice in order to obtain the finances they say that they were not paid for Counting On.

According to Jill, her dad is the primary payee for the flagship show, 19 Kids & Counting, and then again for Counting On. The payout for him was around $25,000 to $45,000 per episode paycheck.

She says that she didn’t receive any compensation until she quit the show in 2017.

“That’s when we got an attorney involved and finally recovered some of the money,” Jill shared. “It was a process.”

Derick adds that the money they did receive was only a “little more than minimum wage” in a recent video.

Watch their full video where they explain their decision to leave further:

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Blake Lively is celebrating her husband Ryan Reynolds‘ 44th birthday with him at home and she’s roasting him for his choice of birthday “cake.”

The 33-year-old actress shared photos of Ryan and his birthday pie, which was adorned with candles that he didn’t even blow out before he took a bite.

“1) Who is the lost soul that selects birthday PIE. 2) What ANIMAL eats their cake (pie) without first blowing out the candles. @vancityreynolds that’s who. Happy Birthday. I honestly can’t believe we’re still married,” Blake captioned the photos on Instagram.

Blake also shared a photo of Ryan eating a bite of pie on her Instagram Stories. She wrote, “I go all out to make it special for my husband on his birthday.”

Earlier in the day, Ryan found out that another famous star shares a birthday with him and he decided to pick a different day for that celeb to celebrate!

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Irina Shayk poses for a photo outside of the Falconeri store while attending a private shopping event on Thursday (October 22) in the Soho neighborhood of New York City.

The 34-year-old model wore one of the brand’s bright orange sweaters, which she paired with some black leather short shorts and matching boots.

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Irina showed off some photos from the shopping event on her Instagram Stories on Friday.

Earlier in the week, Irina stepped out in another bright outfit while running some errands in the Big Apple.

FYI: Irina is wearing the Falconeri oversized cashmere and silk v-neck pullover sweater in orange. It retails for $527.

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John Boyega still has hope for one of Finn’s axed storylines from the Star Wars franchise.

Speaking with Yahoo, the 28-year-old actor opened up about the scene he really hoped would make it to the big screen.

In the leaked script for Colin Trevorrow‘s scrapped film, it was revealed that Finn’s was originally going to end the trilogy by becoming a revolutionary and leading a class rebellion along with Rose on the galactic capital planet of Coruscant.

“I think Colin Trevorrow was going to tell that story,” John shared. “The concept art in the ‘Star Wars’ book has that image of Finn with the blue flag, and you have the AT-ATs lined up with tribal marks, and the stormtroopers take off their helmets. That would have been sick. That would have been dope, hands down.”

While John has been vocal about not returning to the franchise, it looks like he’d be open to still voicing the character in an animation project.

“Animated? Yeah that would be cool,” he said. “You could do it all from home.”

Just recently, John criticized the franchise for excluding characters of color in main storylines. Here’s what he said…

Sean Penn is opening up about his feelings on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and how they changed recently.

The 60-year-old two-time Oscar-winning actor says he was initially “ambivalent” when it came to Biden, but something just changed his opinion on the former VP.

“Just heard Biden on Covid strategy. He’s dead-on. I’ve been working test sites since day one. Talking to Fauci & all the top scientists. It’s EVERYTHING that will get America back to work and FLOURISHING. I’d been ambivalent about Biden. My ambivalence is gone. Biden for America,” Penn tweeted on Friday night (October 23).

Sean has been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic with his organization CORE. The global response organization has been operation testing sites across the U.S. with new locations popping up weekly.

Right at the beginning of the pandemic, Sean was seen at one of the testing sites to volunteer.

Busta Rhymes is putting his ripped abs on display after undergoing an amazing body transformation!

The 48-year-old rapper took to social media to show off his fit physique.

“DON’T EVER GIVE UP ON YOURSELF!! LIFE BEGINS RIGHT NOW!!! MY DEDICATION IS DIFFERENT!! I WOULD NEVER PUT OUT AN ALBUM AND NOT BE IN THE BEST SHAPE OF MY LIFE!! I RESPECT MYSELF TOO MUCH AND I RESPECT Y’ALL TOO MUCH!!! I’M ONLY HERE TO INSPIRE!!” Busta wrote on Instagram.

Busta shared before and after photos to reveal his weight loss. He also promoted his new album, which will be released next week.

Busta‘s trainer Victor Munoz wrote on Instagram, “T’S BEEN A LONG JOURNEY TO GET @bustarhymes to this point, but it’s well worth it as you can see with these results. IT’S a Team effort but with years of experience, wisdom and guidance the Transformation Happens. I provide a service that could change your life around for the better but this happens when you trust the #process.”

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