If you’re looking to take your kids to the movies this weekend then go check out Secret Life of Pets 2 starring Kevin Hart, Patton Oswald, Bobby Moynihan, Lake Bell, and our girl Tiffany Haddish. Once again we follow Max the terrier who has to learn to cope with some major life changes when his owner gets married and has a baby. When the family takes a trip to the countryside, he ends up getting schooled by Rooster played by Harrison Ford, a gruff farm dog who tries to cure the lovable pooch of his neuroses. Back at the Apartment building, Snowball, voiced by Kevin Hart goes on a mission with Daisy, voiced by Tiffany Haddish, who saw a baby tiger getting abused and she needs Captain Snowball to save the day. I sat down with Kevin Hart to discuss this role, his long terms plans and retirement as well as discovering his Secret Life. He knows absolutely nothing about how to work his house. “People know how I am but you don’t know how I am. If you could actually see me in my house it’s probably the funniest thing ever. I’m just the dad that don’t know nothing! I don’t know sh*t! Bay bay! Baby!! The theater thing went off. How I get it back on? Bay Bay!!” After my interview with Kevin, I sat down with Bobby Moynihan and Lake Bell to have some fun about pets and asked them If Goofy is a dog and if so why is Pluto a dog? Bobby summed it up very quickly saying “They both dogs!” Bobby and Lake also join on board to make a passionate call to get DMX to be in the third installment of Secret Life of Pets. Its a must watch.
Source: Jason LaVeris / Getty Though most people who watch Love and Basketball see it as the role that made Sanaa Lathan a star, looking back at it now, 19 years after the film’s release, the 47-year-old actress said shooting the project was a “miserable” experience. “ Gina [Prince-Bythewood] really wanted, and the producers, they really wanted a basketball player who could act as opposed to an actress who they could teach to play basketball,” she told LA’s KCAL, the CBS affiliate . However, that was very difficult to do, so while they worked hard to find basketball players who could possibly play Monica, they kept Sanaa around because they liked her reading of the part. She was sort of like a safety net, and because of that, she had to fight pretty hard to get the role. Text “RICKEY” to 71007 to join the Rickey Smiley Morning Show mobile club for exclusive news. ( Terms and conditions ). “I would always get to the last step and they would throw in another basketball player,” she said. “They were giving the basketball players acting coaches.” While the basketball players were being taught to act in the hopes of filling the role, Sanaa, for some time, was left on her own to learn basketball. When she would go in for basketball auditions, she said it would go horribly. “Finally I demanded, ‘If you want me to continue, you’re going to have to get me a basketball coach because I hear you’re giving these basketball players acting coaches,’ and they did.” She ended up training five hours a day for a while before actually getting the job. When she did, she said she felt like she was somewhat unwanted, which is why filming, for her, wasn’t as enjoyable as people might have thought it was. “I was miserable [laughs]. I can laugh about it now,” she said. “I got the job and I think Gina finally got to the point where she had to hire somebody. It’s almost like she hired me because she couldn’t find somebody else, so there wasn’t a lot of joy and there wasn’t a lot of trust in me. It was her baby and it was her first time directing. It was a big deal for her. Here I am, nobody knows me really, and she has to hire me. She gets to the point where she knows it, she makes this decision with me, but yet, I was like the default. That’s hard.” Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Close Thank you for subscribing! Please be sure to open and click your first newsletter so we can confirm your subscription. Email Submit “They also surrounded me in all of the basketball scenes with real ball players,” she added. “I wasn’t ‘Sanaa Lathan,’ I was just some actress and I could feel them being like, ‘Why did this b—h get the part? She can’t play!’ So there was a lot of crying, a lot of crying behind the scenes for me.” However, she got through it all by totally mastering Monica when it came to the actual acting. She already had more than 30 plays under her belt, and that gave her some of the confidence she needed to get through it all. “If I had been an actress who hadn’t really done a lot, just a couple of acting classes, I would have probably been terrified. But I knew I could do the role,” she said. “The role for me was easy. I got this. So I wasn’t worried about that. It was the basketball.” For the record, while she initially wasn’t crazy about Gina while shooting Love and Basketball , she considers her like family now and is grateful to have been a part of her classic film. “We bonded quickly thereafter. By the end of shooting, we were cool and very close,” she said. “We went on to do Disappearing Acts and Shots Fired and I love her. She’s like a sister to me. She’s an amazing artist.” [ione_media_gallery src=”https://rickeysmileymorningshow.com” id=”1717483″ overlay=”true”] Source: MadameNoire.com ALSO TRENDING ON RICKEYSMILEYMORNINGSHOW.COM : Here Are Photos Of Diddy’s Rumored New Girlfriend Gina Huynh 9 Times Gabrielle Union’s Bikini Body Sent Us Straight To The Gym Racist Airbnb Host To Black Guests: ‘Which Monkey Is Going To Stay On The Couch?’ [VIDEO] Follow @TheRSMS
Source: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images / Getty Beyoncé Posts Pics Following Nicole Curran Controversy After her hive went CRAZY on an NBA owner’s wife for a courtside conundrum, Beyoncé’s looking unbothered. As previously reported Nicole Curran, the wife of Warriors owner Joe Lacob, got gold boot punted by people who think she was being rude by speaking OVER Beyonce to talk to Jay Z. Jay-Z and Beyoncé are courtside for Game 3 pic.twitter.com/6mmJuN8Odn — ESPN (@espn) June 6, 2019 Bey did look a bit perturbed by having someone’s hot breath in her face, but on Instagram, she’s currently all smiles. Bey shared pics of her NBA finals outfit for the evening that included a $9,900 Burberry trench coat and Salone Monet sandals styled by Zerina Akers according to FashionBombDaily. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Beyoncé (@beyonce) on Jun 5, 2019 at 10:45pm PDT But wait, there’s more. Bey also posted the controversial video of Nicole Curran leaning over her—with one crucial detail missing. Hit the flip.
Source: ADALBERTO ROQUE / Getty In a move some expected once President Donald Trump took office, the administration is rolling back nearly 20 years of eased travel restrictions to Cuba and banning all cruise ship stops from the United States. The move was enacted to put pressure on Cuban officials and to keep American dollars away from its economy. NPR reports : “This administration has made a strategic decision to reverse the loosening of sanctions and other restrictions on the Cuban regime. These actions will help to keep U.S. dollars out of the hands of Cuban military, intelligence, and security services,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. Mnuchin, who joined Trump on his first state visit to the United Kingdom this week, added that Cuba, with a population of fewer than 12 million people, “continues to play a destabilizing role in the Western Hemisphere, providing a communist foothold in the region and propping up U.S. adversaries in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua.” U.S. law bars travel to Cuba for tourist activities, but Americans have been allowed to go there under 12 authorized categories, including individual and group “people-to-people” travel — a subcategory of the education provision that permitted visits to the socialist country for cultural and educational purposes. The travel restrictions go into effect on June 5. — Photo: Getty
Source: Ezra Shaw / Getty The internet is sure protective over Beyonce and her matrimony to one Jay-Z. Well, maybe everyone is just protective over Beyonce. That’s why when this clip of Bey and Jay-Z on the sidelines hit the net, showing a woman talking OVER Beyonce to talk to Jay-Z. So much of the internet found this as absolutely disrespectful. Here’s the clip: Jay-Z and Beyoncé are courtside for Game 3 pic.twitter.com/6mmJuN8Odn — ESPN (@espn) June 6, 2019 The woman is Nicole Curran, wife of Warriors owner. So she’s not just some fan, however, she’ still getting gathered together on the internet for not bowing to the Queen while talking to Jay. View this post on Instagram We should all help and support each other. A post shared by Nicole Curran (@warriornicole) on Jun 6, 2019 at 2:11am PDT She tried to diffuse things on Twitter but the dragging is still here. What do you think? Overreaction? Jokes? Disrespect? Take a look.
Source: John Lamparski / Getty Korey Wise Answers Questions At “When They See Us” Premiere The depiction of Korey Wise’s prison experience was a tough pill to swallow in Netflix’s “ When They See Us “! After all that the falsely accused man went through, he was the only one of his peers arrested during that fateful time who remained in NYC after they were released and cleared of charges. The other five guys migrated south. But why did Korey stay? He tells BlackTree TV, its simple math: “This is my roots. I can’t speak for no other. This is my roots. This my home. I have no problem visiting, but this is my home.” After his release, Korey partakes in the Innocence Project to help free more innocent incarcerated folks like him.
Ashley Martson may still love Jay Smith on some level, but their marriage is over. It's for the best. He cheated on her — using Tinder right after their wedding, and again later during their marriage. And based upon what Ashley has said on social media, that may just be the tip of the iceberg. But she has, on screen and on social media, expressed a lot of anger towards the women who were on the receiving end of Jay's extramarital affections. Now, Ashley has wisened up. She's no longer crusading against “homewreckers.” In a new post, Ashley declares one of Jay's alleged “other women” as being innocent. 1. Ashley is laying the blame where it belongs We’ve seen Ashley, on social media and on screen, express her fury at Jay’s mistresses. In a new Instagram Story, Ashley tells her fans that she no longer feels that way. 2. Ashley and Jay are over On April 15, Ashley took to Instagram to accuse Jay of having screwed up yet again … and to gloat about his likely deportation. 3. They broke up Larissa didn’t announce, technically, that she and Jay had split. Larissa did it for her. 4. Who was Ashley to deny it? Real talk: we’re not sure if that’s usually a safe way to get around an NDA, but fans still have enough questions about Jay’s cheating to keep watching the show to find out what happened. 5. Jay cheated again Ashley didn’t just insinuate it on social media — she put it there, in writing, on page 5 of her divorce filing. 6. Ashley’s fury didn’t just extend to Jay After the word was out, she took aim at his alleged mistress, accusing her of being a homewrecker. That is, of course, not a thing — Jay could be accused of it, but a third party cannot be blamed for the end of their marriage. View Slideshow
Kim Kardashian has been working a lot of late to help free inmates who have been imprisoned for all the wrong reasons. But here's the ironic thing, based on the Keeping Up with the Kardashians clip featured on this page: Kim herself might soon get arrested… FOR MURDER! Okay, fine. We might be exaggerating a little bit here. However, a quasi family member does end up dead on Sunday night's brand new episode of this E! reality series. “Kim, the hamster hasn't been moving. So you might want to go look at it,” the star's assistant, Michael, tells his boss in this footage, referring to the animal that Khloe got for her niece, sort of against Kim's wishes. “It's dead? I don't have time for a dead hamster,” Kim responds before going to investigate. (We mean, no one really has time for a dead hamster, Kim. But this isn't about you.) As pure luck would have it, Kim is on the phone with Khloe when this tragedy occurred. After taking a look at the critter's cage, Kim delcares simply: “The hamster is dead.” When Khloe asks if young North is aware that her pet has passed, Kim grapples with how to tell her daughter the sad news. “She's at school. I don't know how I'm going to say, 'Oh, and by the way your hamster died,'” Kim says. This actually is a legitimate issue parents face all the time; what do you say when a cat or dog or fish or hamster passes away? It's a legitimately difficult topic and debate. In this case, we don't really get an answer. Later, via a confessional, the beauty mogul struggles with how to soften the blow for her five-year old daughter. “North is going to be really, really upset. It's just not fair … how do I go and explain this,” she wonders. Honestly, Kim has probably never seemed more relatable that she does in this clip. “This kind of sh-t I can't deal with. This is why you don't give someone a pet. Don't ever do this to me again, I literally hate you,” she tells Khloe before getting off the phone. Yikes, huh? Be sure to watch all the way until the end to see the quip Khloe gets in before the clip cuts off. She never fails to crack us up.
