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Michelle Williams gave birth to her second child

EIGHT years after playing a gritty fairy tale princess in “Snow White and the Hunts-man,” Kristen Stewart is ascend-ing to for-real royalty in the new drama, “Spencer.”

The movie centers on a weekend in the early 1990s when Princess Diana decided to separate from Prince Charles. “Jackie” director Pablo Larrain is on board to helm from a script by Steven Knight. Production is expected to begin in early 2021.

“Spencer” will focus on Diana over the course of one of her final Christmas holidays with the House of Windsor at the Sandringham estate. Diana Frances Spencer and Prince Charles married in 1981. The relationship was strained due to their incompatibility and extramarital affairs. The couple separated in 1992 and the mar-riage ended in divorce in 1996. She died in a traffic accident in Paris in 1997.

“We all grew up, at least I did in my generation, reading and understanding what a fairy tale is,” Larrain recently told Dead-line. “Usually, the prince comes and finds the princess, invites her to become his wife and even-tually she becomes queen. That is the fairy tale. When someone decides not to be the queen, and says, ‘I’d rather go and be myself,’ it’s a big, big decision, a fairy tale upside down. I’ve

always been very surprised by that and thought it must have been very hard to do. That is the heart of the movie.”

This isn’t the first time that Larrain has made a bold biopic casting choice. In 2016, he directed Natalie Portman to an Oscar nomination as Jackie Kennedy in “Jackie.” “I couldn’t imagine the movie without her,” he told Yahoo Entertainment at the time. “Natalie resembles the real person. But I’m not that into the way they look. I look for someone who can create the illusion of that person. I’m not a journalist or a historian.”

Speaking with Deadline, the director said that Stewart — who he describes as “one of the great actors around today” — was a natural choice to play Diana Spencer. “Kristen can be many things, and she can be very mysterious and very frag-ile and ultimately very strong as well, which is what we need,” he explained, adding that the film won’t depict Diana’s death in 1997. Maybe audience mem-bers will get a flashback to the time she danced with John Travolta. “The combination of those elements made me think of her. I think she’s going to do something stunning and intrigu-ing at the same time. She is this force of nature.”

Stewart won a Cesar Award for “Clouds of Sils Maria.” (SD-Agencies)

Kristen Stewart to play Princess Diana

CONGRATULATIONS are in order for Michelle Williams and her husband, Thomas Kail. Us Weekly reports that the couple welcomed their first child together. It is Williams’s second child and her first with Kail.

The magazine confirmed Wil-liams’ pregnancy back in Decem-ber 2019, reporting that she was both pregnant and engaged to Kail. The two worked together on the FX series “Fosse/Verdon.” Williams starred in the show and Kail directed and produced it.

There’s no news yet on exactly when the baby was born or its gender or name.

“They’re very happy and thrilled to be bringing a baby into the world,” a source said in January. “They would like to be married by the time that happens.”

Williams and Kail married back in March after making their red carpet debut at the Golden Globe awards. Williams has a 14-year-old daughter, Matilda, from her relationship with Heath Ledger. (SD-Agencies)

THE Hainan police has never been cooler.

Pop king Jay Chou’s new single “Mojito,” filmed in Cuba, has taken China by storm. It

has sold more than 4 million copies on Tencent Music in a few hours after it was dropped June 12. Two days later, an anti-drug police team from

Hainan Province, hopped on the trend by releasing a cover of the song on Weibo, with a similar music video.

With lyrics like “Could I have a mojito for my drug dealer? I like the look on his eyes when he admit his guilt” and scenes of policemen singing and dancing by the sea, the video has gone viral.

The post now has more than 170,000 likes on Weibo. Neti-zens not only praise the police’s musical skills but also show support for the video’s anti-drug message. “Reject drugs. Every-one has to work together,” one comment writes. Another Weibo user says: “Treasure your life. Stay away from drugs!”

In Chou’s music video, he drives along the streets of Havana in a hot pink car, accompanied by a troupe of friends. Lyrically, the track uses the titular Cuban cocktail as its central image, as the singer serves up lines such as, “Could I have a mojito for my lover? I like the look on her eyes when she is a little bit drunk.”

Netizens seem to love the Hainan anti-drug police’s cover of “Mojito” as much as they love the original, with many prais-ing the police’s efforts. One Weibo user writes, “The small island’s anti-drug messaging is getting better and better! I want to loudly praise you guys!”

(SD-Agencies)

Hainan’s anti-drug police team covers Jay Chou’s ‘Mojito’

“THE Bad Kids,” an online drama adaptation of a suspense novel from a popular Chinese mystery fiction writer known by the pseudonym Zijinchen, is currently the most popular Chinese-language TV series on review platform Douban.

Released on the online streaming platform iQiyi on Tuesday, the show has made it to the top of the Douban

weekly popularity ranking for Chinese-language TV series, according to the latest ranking result. The drama now scores 9.2 out of 10 points.

Previously promoted with the title “Cat’s Cradle,” the 12-episode mystery drama is streamed with two episodes every night from Tuesday to Thursday.

It follows a man who hatches

an elaborate murder plot to kill his cheating wife and her family after she demands a divorce. However, his actions are recorded by three children playing nearby. It stars actors Qin Hao and Wang Jingchun. Wang won the Silver Bear for Best Actor in 2019 at the Berlin International Film Festival for his role in the arthouse film “So Long, My Son.” (Xinhua)

Mystery drama tops China’s TV series popularity ranking

Michelle Williams (R) and Thomas Kail.

A scene from “Gone With the Wind” (1939).

CONSTANCE WU and Sam Heu-ghan have joined the romantic comedy of errors “Mr. Malcolm’s List” from director Emma Holly Jones, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The rom-com is based on a short film set in early 19th century England that formed a prequel to the feature now in the works and already set to star Freida Pinto, Sope Dirisu and Oliver Jackson-Cohen.

Wu will play a society lady rebuffed by an eligible bachelor, Mr. Malcolm (Dirisu), only to plot a revenge that is undermined by Henry, played by Heughan. WestEnd Films is handling the international rights and will begin shopping “Mr. Malcolm’s List,” which is to shoot in Ireland next year, at the Cannes virtual market.

“Mr. Malcolm’s List,” from Refinery29, Untitled Entertain-ment and Rebelle Media, was written by Suzanne Allain and made it onto the Black List.

The producer credits are shared by Laura Rister, Laura Lewis, Katie Holly and Emma Holly Jones. (SD-Agencies)

Constance Wu, Sam Heughan join rom-com

Kristen Stewart

Qin Hao in “The Bad Kids.”

Constance Wu Sam Heughan

A scene from Hainan police’s music video “Mojito.”