PBS will be hosting a preview screening of Mary’s upcoming civil war drama Mercy Street in Washington, DC on November 4th. The event will take place at The Newseum, Anneberg Theatre located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave.
Mary, along with her co-stars Josh Radnor, Hannah James and Tara Summers will be on hand to talk about the show. You can get your tickets by emailing rsvp@pbs.org.
Mary glammed it up once again and looked gorgeous as always while attending the ‘T Magazine Celebrates The Inaugural Issue of the Greats’ event in Los Angeles last night. One of the covers features her former Death Proof director Quentin Tarantino. Head to the gallery to check out all the HQ pics! 🙂
Mary looked absolutely stunning while attending the 22nd annual ELLE Women In Hollywood Awards in Beverly Hills last night. At the event, Mary chatted with fellow actresses Jenna Dewan Tatum and Emmanuelle Chriqui. Be sure to view over 80+ photos I’ve added to the gallery, the first half being HQ photos. Enjoy!
As the title says, actor Aaron Tveit has landed the lead role opposite Mary in CBS’ upcoming comic-thriller, BrainDead. According to Deadline, Tveit will play Gareth, a Republican operative whose wit is only trumped by his pragmatism. The Legislative Director to a top Republican senator, Gareth is smart, hardworking, and ultimately responsible for helping to save the world.
“We’re thrilled that Aaron will be joining BrainDead,” said executive producers Robert and Michelle King. “We’re huge fans of his work — he’s spectacular on stage and screen — and think he’ll be a fantastic opponent-slash-love-interest for Mary Elizabeth Winstead.”
If you don’t know who Aaron Tveit is, he was last seen in this summer’s Graceland for the USA Network and played Trip van der Bilt on Gossip Girl. He’ll next be seen playing Danny Zuko in the NBC Live special of Grease airing next year.
I, myself loved Aaron on Graceland so I’m all up for this bit of casting! 🙂
Mary looked lovely as ever while attending Variety’s annual Power of Women luncheon in Beverly Hills yesterday afternoon. Head to the gallery to check out all the photos. The first sixteen are high quality. Enjoy!
Following a review and new photos, Owl Mag has published their interview with Got A Girl following their Los Angeles concert that took place late last month. Below are some highlights from the interview, but she sure to click the link above to read it in full:
The Owl Mag: You guys have been working on these songs on-and-off since 2010. The five dates on this tour are your first live appearances. What’s it like getting to play these songs live after having worked on them for so long?
Dan The Automator Nakamura: Everything’s been really incredible. Anything’s gonna have a little bump here and there, but it’s all worked really well. Mary’s an amazing frontperson with charisma. The show just speaks for itself, in terms of the reaction of the fans, which is actually the true judgement. I think it’s been going very well.
Winstead: Yeah, we’ve gotten good reactions so far, which has been great, because this is something totally new for me. I’ve never performed like this in any capacity until a week ago when we first started these shows. It’s a big relief for me to feel like it’s going as well as it has. It’s kind of a good thing, in a way, that it’s taken this long. We would have loved to have done shows three years ago, but since we were both doing other stuff, it didn’t happen. I know my confidence has grown a lot since I was 25, when we were first working on these songs.
TOM: Mary, you’re well known for your acting. Since acting is also a creative endeavor, is there a different energy that goes into writing and performing these songs? Or does it all come from the same creative place?
Winstead: It’s interesting. Part of what made it easier for me jumping into this rather than another musical endeavor, is that I feel like Dan’s music is really cinematic and visual. Any time he would send me a track to start writing to, I would see images of movies, I would feel that kind of vibe. The characters that came out of this felt like a role that I really wanted to play that was part me, part an embellishment of me. Those are the kinds of roles I tend to veer towards, anyway, so that was kind of perfect.
TOM: On your record, you guys are influenced by ‘60s pop, music that’s older than you are. Have you guys been listening to this music since you were younger?
Winstead: I’ve listened to ‘60s music since I was a kid. I’ve been a ‘60s fan in general. About a year before I met Dan, I started going down the ‘60s French Pop rabbit hole, specifically. It was fortuitous that we met and he had this idea to do something French Pop-inspired, and I was at the time really into that genre of music. I hadn’t really discovered it until I was in my early 20s or so. I definitely became really into it at that point. It was one of those weird coincidental moments.
TOM: What’s next for Got A Girl? Will there be more shows? More new music?
Nakamura: We’re both in businesses where we’re both very busy. I really enjoy working with Mary. If it makes sense, we’ll do more.
Winstead: it’s all about timing. We both have a lot of fun doing this project. It tooks us five years to get here, so you never know what’s gonna happen.
Nakamura: I feel like, in spirit, we’ll continue to do shows, and make more music. it just has to fall into place.
Winstead: Yeah.
Mary (and her band) ended their tour this past week, and The Owl Mag was there and gave them a great review. Here’s what they had to say:
After years of on-and-off collaboration, Got A Girl, the duo of producer Dan The Automator Nakamura and actress/vocalist Mary Elizabeth Winstead, hit the road in support of their debut LP, I Love You But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now. They ended their week-long tour with a sold out show at LA’s intimate Largo at the Coronet.
Winstead is a powerful vocalist, able to fill the venue with the sultry lows of “I’ll Never Hold You Back” and the angelic highs of “Everywhere I Go.” Winstead was captivating, laying down vintage dance moves during instrumental breaks.
Decked out in vintage clothes, and with a hint of danger about them, Got A Girl oozed cool. Winstead and Nakamura have such a natural chemistry onstage, we hope they decide to continue this project and play more live dates.
You can read the full review by clicking on the link I provided above, and be sure to head to the gallery to check out some new photos of Mary singing on stage!
CBS has announced that the company has inked a new multi-year, multi-series agreement to make Prime Video the exclusive subscription streaming home for three new CBS summer series through 2018. The first new CBS series included in this deal will be next summer’s highly anticipated comic-thriller BrainDead, which Prime members in the U.S. will be able to stream just four days after broadcast at no additional charge to their membership.
“We’re thrilled to build on our relationship with Amazon with new original summer series and more programming from CBS and SHOWTIME,” said Scott Koondel, Chief Corporate Licensing Officer, CBS Corporation. “With a truly original, genre-bending concept from outstanding creative auspices, BrainDead will be one of the most talked-about shows next summer by CBS viewers and Prime members.”
BrainDead is a comic thriller from Robert and Michelle King, acclaimed producers of The Good Wife. Set in the world of D.C. politics, the series follows a young fresh-faced Hill staffer (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) getting her first job in Washington, D.C. and discovering two things: the government has stopped working, and alien spawn have come to Earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of congressmen and Hill staffers.
The series will be distributed domestically by CBS Television Distribution and worldwide by CBS Studios International.
BrainDead will air in summer 2016.
PBS has uploaded a new behind the scenes video featuring new interviews with Mary and her co-star Josh Radnor talking about their characters in the upcoming mini series, Mercy Street. Check out the video below and then head to the gallery to check out the screen caps! 🙂
In case you don’t have the chance to see Mary singing live on stage or just want to see your favorite song all over again, OneFooFighter has uploaded all of Mary’s performance from Saturday night onto his page. I’ve embedded my three favorite songs she sang but you can visit the page I linked above and check out the full set of songs.
Mary was amazing! This must’ve been so fun and incredible watching it in person. 🙂 She was fantastic and charming as always. Great job to her and the rest of her band.