I actually had a moment of “Miley Cyrus is an actress?” this morning. Like, her Ratchet Eliza Doolittle act has been such a success that I completely forgot about Hannah Montana and the fact that Miley started out as an actress, and she wasn’t always this twerking mess that we see before us. Miley hit pause on her acting career years ago when she decided to go full-throttle with her music career. After trying to be the new Britney (or whatever), Miley released Bangerz and the rest was history. Or not. Miley is returning to her acting roots this year because Woody Allen has called. You see, Woody got a deal for an Amazon series. Seriously. And he’s cast Miley in some kind of role.
Back at the last Cannes, Woody Allen revealed to Deadline that the deal he made to create a TV series for Amazon was haunting his every step. He’s in a much better place now. In fact, Allen has set the principal cast for the six half-hour-episode series that will take place in the 1960s, and it certainly is unexpected.
Allen, who wrote the scripts and will direct, has set Elaine May and Miley Cyrus to star alongside him. I don’t know a lot more than this, as Allen is shrewd offering information on his projects. It begins shooting in March. He previously worked with May in Small Time Crooks, and this is the first time he has worked with Cyrus. Allen and May are repped by ICM, Cyrus by CAA.
This is going to sound so rude, but I honestly didn’t know Elaine May was still alive. May is a comedy legend, she was the Tina Fey/Amy Poehler of her day and May was closely associated with the late, great Mike Nichols. So… a legend of comedy like Elaine May, Woody Allen and… Miley Cyrus. Set in the 1960s. So bizarre. Even more bizarre? I actually think Miley might be good at this. I also think it’s creepy and gross, of course, but I’m betting that Miley “surprises” critics and ends up relaunching her acting career. Weird, I know.
Miley confirmed her involvement with an Instagram post (below). She wrote, in part: “F–k yeah ! Stoked to be in Woody Allens first series!!!!! I had claimed 2016 to be my year of “chillin the f–k out” but next to my bed for a few years now has been this portrait of W.A. & I was looking into his eyes when I got the call to be apart of the cast and work alongside the bad a$$ Elaine May & da dude himself!”
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Ugh with a capital UGH.
@Lurker
Ugh is right. To infinity and beyond.
I’m sure Allen has seen her video of pelvic thrusting while wearing a diaper and in a crib gyrating, and he was on the phone to his agent, creepily asking for a meeting.
Maybe his teen victi- I mean daughters, were giggling over it, watching vevo…he took one look at ‘baby Miley,’ googled her Unka Terry spread, and was on that like white on rice.
Watch out Liam.
Cyrus is an opportunist dujour. I always said her black cultural appropriation and shock value-ism she’d explain away like a bad dream one day – sooner rather than later, and claim it was just her wild lost years…and that now, she’s matured and wants to act or sing country and leave those blacks behind. What better place to start than for Uncle Woody,notorious for making movies in the heart of Manhattan sans blacks and people of color.
….and so, BAM – here we are. I think she said just this very thing last week…she was lost cuz her heart was broken and she was acting out…blah blah blah.
Anyway… #sayhername #dylanfarrow
It’s so predictable how these desperate starlets like stewart and cyrus throw young girls/children who have said Allen molested them right under the bus, just to get a gig. Trifling. Anti-feminists. Old school ambition.
Preach! I side-eye everything she does. It’s all just pages from the Madonna playbook, taken even further.
THIS
Hollywood REALLY needs to slow down on grossing me out in 2016, because at this rate I’m gonna be taking a yearlong break from this fuckery.
Right?!
And we are still only in January…
+1
what the serious fresh hell is on her coat. Plus posting an homage to the pedophile WA? I used to defend her “i’m just growing up” antics…now I understand she’s just not that smart or compassionate. Yuck. I need a few showers and a therapist.
RIGHT, Side-Eye? Are they literally TRYING to be obtuse assholes and turn off as many people as possible? And as someone else said, it is only January. FFS!
I would like to hit the reset button on this year because I’m in a constant state of “what is this fuckery”
Quite concerned about Miley’s tendency to gravitate towards sexual predators.
First Uncle Terry, now this. Ick.
My first thoughts. And sexual predators who are validated by their peers and models and actresses.
My second thought was “does she grab the first thing she sees to wear or does she actually thinks she looks cool?”.
But she’s no victim. I’ve thought for a long time she has a histrionic disorder. She will jump at any opportunity to simulate sex for the masses. And I can’t help but laugh that Allen is still starring himself in his own flicks….what a friggin’ ego joke! So, I guess now we get to hear Miley express her adoration for Woody until the this friggin series is over and any chances for any awards are past. It’s going to be a looooong 2016. Grrrrr……..
True. I wonder if Roman Polanski’s eyebrows perked up when he read the news (great, I just made myself shudder).
Her speaking voice is harder to handle than her singing voice. Not sure how their going to make that work.
Her Twitter “voice” is awful too. I don’t understand why anyone wants to represent themselves this way, i.e. profane, classless, just “stoopid”.
He’ll tell her to baby it up. Just like I bet he asked Stewart to be less butchey more girley.
She’s his new dream girl. Scarlett got too old.
When she posed naked for one of those magazines, there was a picture where you could see her vagina and it was all shaved and she is so skinny, she looked like a 12 years-old girl.
@MIA V.
….and bingo. Woody comes calling.
All I can say is that these same observations are being made at mainstream news sites, so at least the gross out factor here seems to be universal. If that’s any kind of silver lining.
She is a horrible actress. But lately Woody’s ingenues have not been known for their stellar acting skills so this is not really a prize.
@Tiffany: Agreed.
Let’s see…Kristen Stewart, Blake Lively, aaaannnnnd Miley freaking Cyrus.
Yeah…three of the worst actresses in Hollywood. God help us all.
I don’t think Miley will be great, before she became twerking Miley she tried to make a few movies & they were awful. She was a really bad actress unless she’s now taking acting classes before taking up this role. Also will not be watching because Woody Allen.
Well, this should be awwesome. Not. Yet another series will come along and glamorize the 60’s in all the worst ways, what do you want to bet? Even if woody wasn’t a predator, I don’t see how he gets work. His stuff is getting awful.
Agreed. After those pics of Kristen Stewart in that tiny, childlike, retro outfit with the little socks… Urgh. 1960’s in all the wrong ways, yes. Miley will wear anything to get attention, and I bet Woody loves the idea of getting his hands on a misguided former child star…
But i wonder how It’ll go down once Pedobear cousin over here (Pedo Scarecrow) Realizes that Miley can’t act per se, she is just from the school of Hammy faces, black sassy girl affectations and Neck vein popping that Is “disney/nick acting”
I wonder if the Pedoking (Polanski) will also cast her in his new movie, written by Woody Allen & movie posters by Uncle Terry.
Pedoscarecrow, Pedobear, and HammyFace in a room–there’s huis clos. That’s the movie they should make.
@QQ, “Black sassy girl affectations”? I think that sentence really didn’t need the word black in there. You’re not being outright racist, but as a woman of color, imo the stereotypical characterization of black being synonymous with sassy is not funny. It’s a tired, unfunny attempt at comedy using an old stereotype. And it’s such lazy, lame comedy.
I wouldn’t make some joke about Miley potentially playing the character who is the “aging, yet spunky try- hard wannabe chick with green hair who thinks she’s the funniest gal in the room.”
Just don’t give up your day job for comedy.
Imagine sleeping with a photo of Woody Allen beside your bed. Even if you don’t think he was a child abuser (which I do), it is commonly accepted that he is sexually extremely creepy.
@ladyjane
It was this comment from Cyrus, that I found the most disturbing. She’s well aware of the accusations: that Dylan Farrow has said the creep molested her, and described in detail the final attack when she was 7 yrs old.
That comment, ‘I sleep with his picture beside my bed,’ was definitely a DELIBERATE slap in the face to Dylan and all people who have said they were molested by pedophiles.
She was giving Allen a ‘famous young girl/woman’ clearance – telling her millions of fans to disregard what he is alleged to have done, to dylan, soon yi, and mia farrow and family…because see SHE, Miley Cyrus, thinks he’s cuddly and so safe that she gazes upon his fuzzy wuzzyness from bed…plus he picked her y’all for his next ‘project!’
She’s saying with that comment: ‘Forget about Dylan y’all. She’s a nobody. All that counts is that i think ‘da dude’ is cool. Watch me act b*tches!’
That’s what I was thinking. What kind of person keeps a Woody Allen portrait by their bed?!
I wish I never read this.
It’s probably part of the reason she’s so whack – that face looming over you last thing before bed and first thing in the morning. Drove her mad I say!
Woody’s portrait by her bed?? Yeah, that sounds really… OOk. I actually don’t have words for it.
I know a lot of people like Miley here, given the recent comments on the re-engagement post but I absolutely can’t stand her. So in a way this pairing makes perfect sense, an old pervert with a penchant for young starlets and a young woman who confuses growing up with exhibitionism and playing dress-up with items found in the trash can. BTW, not attacking her sexuality or her sex life. I don’t care if you bang the whole football team, and all the cheerleaders too, just don’t post it all on Instagram and take it on the road show, particularly when you know that the majority of your fans are tweets and teens.
Well, this is it. The end times are on us. Great knowing you all!
Oh, and before people start in on the “she’s a feminist icon and you’re a jelly h8r!!!!11!!11” thing: I don’t give a darn about her clothes or sex life or drug use (the majority of people don’t). However, anyone supporting racism/ cultural appropriation, bigotry through demeaning treatment of entire groups, and the continued support of abusers doesn’t qualify. Not my feminism, full stop.
Some crazy person was comparing her to feminists from decades or centuries ago who also exhibited racist behaviors, to which I say: 1. selling music through bigotry in the 21st century is not the same as literally inventing birth control, etc in a different time period, and 2. look in the mirror and re evaluate your life choices!
That crazy person here. 🙂 Some of those activists mentioned were from another century, but most of them were more modern women. They were guilty of racism, transphobia, outing private sexual information, blaming women for sexual assault, and misogyny. I didn’t bring them up to say she was a feminist icon or to dismiss people as jelly haters. I brought them up because one person was saying that nobody who was guilty of cultural appropriation or other types of racist, bigoted, or problematic behavior could also be an activist. The other commenter had been going on about how boss and what an activist she is, and has dismissed cultural appropriation before as “not a real problem”. My point was that we should, can, and have called people who were activists on terrible behavior that promotes inequality. Yes they’re an activist, but knowing that doesn’t mean every bad thing they do or say is ok, should be ignored, or that they should only get praise for the good but never any criticism for the bad.
She’s an over sexualised girl whose going to work with a sexual predator. It will be awful but what I can’t understand is who funds his movies and who watches them?
There are so many incredible movies to watch and stories to tell, why him?
I think she may gravitate to the pedo-esque.
Why? That’s for a therapist to figure out.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Woody funds his own projects to remain relevant. I could totally see that. They seem like a good match in regards to his preferences and her need to be sexy thang.
She … has a portrait of Woody Allen by her bed?
… and she wonders why she has nightmares.
That jacket. Yikes! Who da fuq is Miley’s agent? I won’t be watching.
*slow clap*, engaged to her former star power iceberg, this will indeed relaunch her career. I wonder if she’ll glamorize, or settle somewhere in the middle like Sharon Stone.
It needed only this. What hath God wrought.
Vom.
Now she just needs to make a film with Roman Polanski and her affinity with sexual predators will be complete.
I actually read ‘miscast’ for a second.
Woody Allen is one of the most talented film makers of all time. In that industry, only an idiot would turn him down.
You must be joking… Or you’re Woody Allen?
Aside from him being a creepy child molester (which shouldn’t be ignored), his stuff isn’t good any more. And modern audiences would rather watch a decent film by a no-name director than a bad film by a has-been. Reputation just doesn’t have the same weight it used to, at least not among audiences.
Um Woody is an academy award winning genius. Say what you want about his personal life, but to work for Woody with his CV is a huge honor. His stuff is still good, and audiences lap it up. Midnight in Paris is rated by most as a top 50 film of the decade.
Also a big break for Miley.
Alan, if you mean he’s been doing the same stale sh*t since the 70s, then you need to raise your bar on prestige.
I predict an epic mental breakdown in her future. I don’t hope for it. I just see it coming. She’s not well. She keeps it somwhat under control now but it hasn’t piqued and she’s putting her best foreward with Liam back in the picture. The late 20’s seem to be the age of implosion.
Her speaking voice puts me on the rails. I would never watch a show where she actually speaks.
I was warming up to miley, I really was. Despite the terry thing & a few other moments…
It’s all gone now. Seriously. Woody Allen? Noping my way out.
+1 I gave her a pass with Terry Richardson (and I’m still willing to give others that pass) because there are people who don’t know about the abuse cases. But gushing about Woody Allen? She’s too young to know about Soon Yi, ( the only reason I know about her is because someone older told me) but I’m sure she knows about Dylan Farrow. To me her praising comment about him is worse than the fact that she’s working with him. I don’t see working with someone as condoning everything they do, but it is a HUGE problem when these starlets defend an abuser they’re working with using the “What he did doesn’t matter because he’s so talented and successful” rape apologist argument.
…for Mileys sake I jus hope neither she nor her friends turn their backs on that pooch as it grows up…particularly if its crated …which dogs hate..
Well, I actually think she’ll do a good job. For sure, if directed, she’d do a much better job than with her own music.
La La La Land = Hollywood