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• FASHION POP CULTURE LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT fesionDAREDEVIL BORN AGAIN
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• TOP MOVIESELECTIONS MICKEY 17
• MUSIC TOPPICKS JENNIE-RUBY
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• Page 8BABYMONSTER. IS ON THE RISE FOR THEIR SOLD OUT TOUR
• BABYMONSTER WORLD TOURPHOTOS ARE COURTESY OF YG ENTERTAINMENT
• Page 10The seven-member girl group-consist- ing of Ruka, Pharita, Asa, Ahyeon, Rami, Rora, and Chiquita. Held at the world-famous Kia forum in Los Angeles, the show took off as fans cheered as they eagerly anticipated the Hello Monsters World Tour. The concert kicked off with fans waving their red and white glow sticks, cheering for BABY- MONSTER arriving onstage in regal out- fits. YG Entertainment spared no expense for their fast-rising performers, investing heavily in the concert production. YG Entertainment treated MONSTIEZ to a Hollywood-worthy performance, com- plete with pyrotechnics, high-budget visuals, and four individually designed outfits.
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• Page 14MARIE WESTBROOK
• GIVING THE VOICE OVERA SPOTLIGHT FOR ALL THE VIEWERS READ-
• Page 16MARIE WESTBROOK VOICE OVER ACTRESS
• Page 17I didn't initially choose voice over, it chose me. I'm so glad it did.
• Page 18So, that role was Sergeant Jaxo in Star Wars: The Old Republic. I was so nervous and unsure of myself during the process but also loved it so much. The director I worked with was absolutely amazing. That was the point I decided to really turn my focus in the direction of voice over. I enrolled in classes soon after. TALK ABOUT THE CHALLENGES YOU FACE IN THIS INDUSTRY AND HOW YOU OVERCOME THOSE CHALLENGES.
• Page 19TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU LIKE ABOUT HOLLYWOOD ENTERTAINMENT. Marie: There is such an allure and mystery to Hollywood. There is a magic about not knowing what could be around the corner. I think that is what brings a lot of people into this world. A sense of excitement. I now have friends who have reached a lot of success. It is fun to watch them. I am also just a fan of good television and movies.
• Page 20Marie: I hope to reprise some pro- mo campaigns for shows that will be in their second seasons. Clearly more trailer work is also on my radar. I'll be heading to NYC to hear a cold open I do for a WWE/ Netflix Monday Night RAW event. It will be so amazing to experience in person with a packed stadium. I'll be presenting at VO Atlanta and back on the convention circuit here and there. As I said, you never know what's around the corner, so I look forward to seeing what other opportunities come my way. CAN YOU SHARE ANY EXCITING PROJECTS THAT YOU ARE CUR- RENTLY WORKING ON NOW?
• GET TO KNOW MORE ABOUTMARIE WESTBROOK Marie Westbrook was raised in the small town of Soda Springs, Idaho where she began dance and gymnastics at the age of seven. She initially enrolled at Utah State University as a dance major but eventually pivoted, earning a degree in Phys- ics/Chemistry Education. Along the way, she waited tables, worked as a physics teaching assistant, operated laser beams, and even taught 8th-grade science for a year.
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• Page 23W&W THE BEST OF EDM MUSIC IS HERE!
• Page 24For all our readers, please introduce yourselves and share a bit about your back- ground. Hey! We're W&W, com- prised of Ward van der Harst and Willem van Hanegem. We're elec- tronic music DJs and producers, born in the Netherlands.
• Page 25WHAT KIND OF MUSIC BACKGROUND DO YOU HAVE, AND WHAT KIND OF MU- SIC DID YOU GROW UP LISTENING TO? We both have diverse backgrounds; we grew up listening to a range of genres. Willem's dad listened to blues rock, and his mom listened to Nirvana.
• Page 26W&W was born from our first name initials, Willem and Ward. When we made our first track and sent it to Armin van Buuren, we didn't have a project name or anything. It was so last minute that we just used our ini- tials and named the track, 'W&W - Mustang! What comes to mind when you think of performing for a massive crowd at an EDM festival? Do you have any memorable experiences?
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• Page 31OST Your big commercial breakthrough came with the release of Bigfoot. Can you talk about that day and the expectations that followed?
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• Page 33How do you choose the tracks you play during a set? We try to read the crowd's energy and mood and take it from there. We also learned over the years which tracks usually work well in certain countries or cities. We actually have a database of every tracklist we've ever played. When we return to a specific place or event, we try to do our homework and play favorites from our last show there but also bring 50-70% of new material to keep things interesting and fresh for the crowd. For every set, we fully prepare what we think would be the best track selection, but we often find ourselves having to change it on the fly because we cannot fully predict the crowd's vibe beforehand.
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• IN LaylaWHO ARE SOME PRODUCERS OR DJS YOU WOULD LOVE TO COLLABORATE WITH? To be honest, any DJ or producer that we have a creative click with is inspirational to us. We really don't look at the name or profile too much, if the music is fun and the vibes are great that's what's most important to us.
• DEMI MOOREDemi Moore's statuesque silver and gold beaded dress had a plunging neckline, spa- ghetti straps, a dramatic train, and ruching along the hips to highlight her waist. The actress continued the multi-watt look with a silver cuff bracelet and crystal chandelier earrings. Moore maintained her usual glam for her Oscars presentation, styling her raven black hair in long loose waves and highlighting her features with a delicate smokey eye and a mauve lip. 2025 OSCARS FASHION
• MILEY CYRUSMiley Cyrus wore McQueen's beaded high- neck gown with a drop waist that led to a sheer skirt and matching beaded sheer gloves. She completed the look with diamond fringe earrings and a bracelet from Boucheron Fine Jewelry. She finished her look with bleached brows and smokey eyeliner. DOJA CAT
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• ADRIAN BRODYA little fashion question. I'm just wondering about the brooch. if there's any significance you want to share.
• Page 43Adrien Brody: No, you are not mis- taken; it has been a long and beau- tiful journey, and an artistic path, and I've. As you try to navigate creative choices, There are many variables, and there are wonderful ones; there's an enormous number of talented indi- viduals all vying for very few great opportunities, and that's the bottom line. I have been working very hard for the past 22 years, but nothing quite connects. I'm aware of this, and I'm grateful for the good fortune I've had of being selected by Brady and Mona to be a part of a very meaning- ful story, one that speaks to injustice and not just along the lines of what we had discussed, it's also important to consider the lives of others, people who hope and dream of being free from oppres- sion and very difficult circumstances abroad, like my grandparents' struggles, loss, and resilience. paved the way for my own positive fortune, and I had an opportunity to honor them in this film, and the truths and the insight that I've gained from these hardships of so many people of many different backgrounds and ethnicities have made me aware of We need to be empathetic. SCARS
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• Page 46Congratulations. Kieran Culkin: Thank you.
• Page 47And it felt like I knew who this guy was, but I couldn't identify it and I didn't want to analyze it because right away upon reading it, I went, I know who this guy is. I'm just gonna leave it and just do it. It wasn't until almost a year later when I watched it that I was like, oh my God, I know someone exactly like this, and I didn't realize I was doing that. And the moment I realized it my wife leaned over-it was at like a the- ater-
• Page 48SCARS COURTESY OF A.M.P.A.S.
• Page 49Now you're standing here with your first Oscar if you could go back to any moment of your life and let that version of Zoe know this is only going to make you stronger and pre- pare you for this moment, when would it be? Zoe Saldaya: I think it's every time that I went after a part and I didn't get it, and I cared so much, and I was so heartbroken for sometimes a day, sometimes a week, but I got up again so at the end of the day, if I don't act, if I don't do my art, then what am I who am I and realizing that it's not about the win when you learn to let that go, and it is about the work day in and day out, the day that you do when you just have a deeper appreciation for it, and you feel that you have appreciated every experience and every moment that has led you here.
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• Page 52DOREJEW she is trying to understand her husband the best she can be- cause she loves him very much, and Ayelet, you know, has feel- ings for me because we're like re- ally close buddies and have been for a while, and I feel the same about her, and it's just, you know, I wanted to include that when it comes to me talking about her performance because we are really taking each other in and receiving each other and reacting to receiving each other. it's it makes for a really fun scene to do even though we're going through pain or emotion some- times during the scenes it's a lot of fun, so I think that, you know, she comes up with the idea that Dario had, and we loved it, and we all know that Ayelet is the stronger one of the two at this moment, and she's really kept things together, but he has a plan, and he needs it, and he asks her to forgive him and come along with the plan.
• Page 53N Daredevil: Born Again was created by Dario Scardapa- ne and Matt Corman & Chris Ord for the streaming service Disney+, based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Daredevil. It is the 13th television series in the Marvel Cin- ematic Universe (MCU) produced by Marvel Studios, via its Marvel Television label, sharing continuity with the films and television series of the franchise. Born Again is a revival and continuation of Daredevil (2015-2018), an earlier se- ries produced by the previous Marvel Television production company and originally released on Netflix. Scardapane serves as showrunner with Justin Benson and Aaron Moor- head as lead directors.
• Page 54What is it about the franchise and these characters that make them so popular? Dario Scardapane: I think it's vulnerability. I think that Matt Murdock is a hero he deals with the disability; he deals with the world that is hard, and he has a really deep kind of spiritual and internal code, and that makes him vulner- able so you write to the parts of him that are in conflict with himself, the parts of him that are insecure, the parts of him that are, for lack of a better word, a challenge to be a better person than his nature may allow him to be, and that makes it super interesting and not easy, but there are places to go writing-wise with a char- acter like that.
• Page 55Matt Murdock is the person we saw at the end of the Netflix show 7-8 years later he he's whole and happy and in a place of, kind of, for lack of a better word, as close as he gets to peace, and then rapidly that's torn apart, and he has to once again kind of rise from the wreckage, and that's the joy of daredevil for me he is that character who takes the punch and gets back up to use all the boxing metaphors, but yeah, you hate to see him get hit, but you love to watch him come back. what is Wilson Fisk taking on in the new series?
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• Talk about your character "Gunny"David Harbour: Ghani is a friend of Jason's Levin character. I think gunning might call him levon but Ghani is a guy who's been on several, you know, sort of teams with him and has served with him on various tours, so they're military buddies they're sort of brothers in arms. gunny functions in several different ways, but the biggest way that he func- tions that I think is a mirror to Gunny functions in several different ways, but the biggest way that he functions that I think is a mirror to Levon's limitations is that I think, in the scene, we talk about him wanting permission to do things, but I think also Denny's been a product of levon's failure to a certain degree. blindness he's blind because Levin wasn't able to save him from being hit with this thing, and I think he reminds him constantly of his sort of vulnerabil- ity and his limitations as a man. I think that's part of the reason for the character there-to check him, to tell him that he's not immortal and that he's not perfect and that there is col- lateral damage to his actions.
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• Page 60WHAT IS THE STORY OF THE UNBREAK- ABLE BOY, AND WHO DO YOU PLAY IN THE FILM? ZACK: I play Scott Laurette, and the story of the unbreakable boy is a true story about Scott and Teresa Laurette and their two sons, Austin and Logan. Scott and Theresa meet and know they start falling in love on their third date. they get pregnant with Austin, which is definitely a curveball, but they're like hey let's do this let's figure this out as we go. Austin is, as they come to find out, born with osteogenesis imper- fecta, which is brittle bone disease, which is yet another curveball, but they keep, you know, journeying and walking with that, and then they have their second son, Logan, who is born seemingly healthy, and then a few years go by, and Austin is behaving in some atypical ways, and then they have him tested, and they find out that he is on the autistic spectrum, so the movie is re- ally about a family kind of navigating those waters while, you know, Scott and Teresa are still navigating figuring out their own internal conflict in themselves, figuring out their relationship, and figuring out how best to love their children.
• Page 61together quite fast and in the height of the pandemic, so we weren't really sure how it was all going to come together, if it was going to come together, and yet all of the right and perfect souls, you know, collected in our cast and our crew, we spent really quality time off cam- era together having meals, breaking bread, having fun, just leaning into the charac- ters when we were actually on camera. I think really doing right by the script that we were given, yeah, it was really a magical experience. Can you describe the film in 3 words?
• YUKIKO FUJIMURA bilingualvoicejapan.netThe voice over taking over Japan to Hollywood! After working for a Japanese TV station as an announcer, anchor, and re- porter for about 8 years, Yukiko is now doing voiceover and, in addition, has started her company, Yukiko is the founder of Voiceover Japan, the first online school for Japanese voiceover artists who want to work in the international markets. She has taught over 250 voice talents at Voiceover Japan, connecting the world one step closer to Hollywood.
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• Page 64my desire to turn this passion into a career. I applied to numerous television stations across Japan and, after a lot of hard work, I landed my first job at Miyagi Television, a TV station in the Tohoku region Starting my career there was an exciting and fulfilling experience. As a news an- chor and host, I loved every busy, vibrant moment. However, after getting married and having a child, I made the difficult decision to leave the station. At the time, I was anchoring a morning news pro- gram, which required me to be at the TV station by 4:30 AM-a schedule that felt incompatible with raising my daughter.
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• Page 66the sense of collaboration with direc- tors and staff as we worked together to create a program was truly thrilling. When I started recording from my home studio, I began working with a diverse range of clients, including companies, organizations, and museums both in Japan and internationally. These experi- ences not only expanded my knowledge of different countries and cultures but also broadened my perspective as a voiceover artist.
• Page 67project both exciting and fulfilling. Moving forward, my goal is to continue providing trusted, impactful voiceovers that leave a lasting impression and help brands connect meaningfully with their audiences. FUSION: What is your process for creat- ing a voice-over?
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