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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard were taken aback by their daughters' reaction to the film they made while falling in love.

"Our kids rarely show interest in us as — anyone with kids knows — but they did want to see this movie we made, because we're very much in love," Shepard shared on a recent joint appearance alongside Bell on *Jimmy Kimmel Live*. "I mean, we're childless, and we had nothing to do but love each other."

Bell explained that she and Shepard, who would marry the year after the release of 2012's *Hit & Run*, "spent all this time making this independent film, and daddy wrote it and directed it, and they were like, 'We want to see it." And we hadn't watched it in forever. We were like, 'Okay, let's watch it with you.'"

What happened next surprised them both.**

"They loved it," Shepard reported. While acknowledging that the action comedy about a professor and former getaway driver who hit the road is "so inappropriate," Shepard shared that his daughters with Bell, 10-year-old Delta and 12-year-old Lincoln, "have a good sense of humor" and "like seeing us in love and kind of young."

What they did not like, however, was seeing their parents break up on screen.

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"They were very upset, and what made me so happy is they were mad at mom, not me," Shepard joked. "They thought mom was a bitch, and they thought daddy was a good boy with a bad past."

Bell and Shepard are currently promoting a 13-year-old film because of its arrival for the first time on Netflix.

"Taylor told us it's cool to take back ownership of your old material," Bell joked on *Kimmel*, referencing pop superstar Taylor Swift's recent effort to rerecord and rerelease in an effort to gain control of the master recordings, which had been sold by the new owner of her old record label, Scooter Braun.

***Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our EW Dispatch newsletter.*******Bell and Shepard met in 2007, starred in two films together *When in Rome *came first in 2010, then *Hit & Run*, and were engaged in 2010. They waited until California passed same-sex marriage into law in 2013 to marry, out of solidarity with LGBTQ couples who had previously been denied the right.****

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In October, the couple faced backlash for an anniversary post that proved to be controversial. Reacting to the pushback just days later, Bell affirmed her deep commitment to her partner of nearly 20 years: "Sometimes it's gonna ebb and sometimes it's gonna flow, but we're not gonna have checks and balances because we're gonna realize it's not me against you, it's us against the world."

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Tessa Thompson, currently in theaters with Nia DaCosta's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's *Hedda Gabler *(simply called *Hedda*), hasn't lost sight of being part of one of the most profitable media franchises of all time — the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

While speaking with * *at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, she was asked, "What is Valkyrie's future in the MCU?" Valkyrie, if you recall, is an Asgardian warrior who made appearances in *Thor: Ragnarok* and *Thor: Love and Thunder*, as well as *Avengers: Endgame *and *The Marvels*, which DaCosta directed.

Her response to the query was to chuckle and say, "call Kevin Feige," referring to the primary producer and grand visionary behind the complex web of Marvel films and television shows.

"I really like playing the character, and I like her," she said about Valkyrie, and certainly seemed to be open to it if she were asked to "assemble" once more.

She added that "what's so fun about those films and why there is still an audience appetite is the combination of characters, and how they change in relation to each other. So there's tons of things I love about Valkyrie, but it's about Valkyrie in relation to *who*."

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She also expressed interest in "the idea of getting to play with my friend Pedro Pascal," who made his MCU debut this summer as Reed Richards in *Fantastic Four: First Steps. *"It's real playtime, and exploring that with people you admire," she said of what remains the big draw. "You stretch different muscles, it's really fun."

She specifically mentioned seeing Natalie Portman return to the *Thor* movies and getting to see Christian Bale, who played Gorr the God Butcher in *Thor: Love and Thunder*.

"I love watching actors, I love seeing people work... under different circumstances. It's a fun playground."

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The real Marvel heads know that Thompson's Valkyrie has not only appeared in the aforementioned feature films but also in two alternate-universe animated television series. The first was *What If...?*, which often turned a silly question like "What if... Happy Hogan saved Christmas?" into an episode,* *and the second was *Marvel Zombies*, in which the heroes of the Marvel Universe fought the undead.

*Hedda*, meanwhile, also stars Imogen Poots, Nina Hoss, and Tom Bateman, and moves the story from late 19th-century Norway to an English country estate in the 1950s. It boasts a substantial 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. As the film is produced by Plan B (Brad Pitt's company), don't be too surprised if DaCosta, Thompson, and the film all get bona fide awards pushes as we close out the year.

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- *Zootopia 2 *topped the Thanksgiving weekend box office with an astounding $156 million domestic gross and an additional $400 million abroad.

- *Wicked: For Good*, last weekend's big winner, fell to the No. 2 spot on both charts, but still scared up $62.8 million domestically in its second weekend.

- It isn't likely any title on next weekend's release calendar has the power to topple both *Wicked *and *Zootopia*, but one contender is horror sequel *Five Nights at Freddy's 2*.

If *Wicked: For Good *was going to fall from box office grace after only one week at the top spot, at least Elphaba will be glad that it was because of a bunch of talking animals.

*Zootopia 2 *ran wild at the box office this Thanksgiving weekend, topping the domestic chart with $156 million (including Wednesday and Thursday previews) and the international chart with $400 million, making for a staggering cumulative premiere gross of $556 million globally, per Comscore.

That represented a decisive victory against its big sequel competitor, which would have run roughshod over any other new release this season. *Wicked: For Good *still fared quite well, conjuring up a bounteous $62.8 million in its second weekend domestically ($93 million when expanded to five days). That makes for a 57 percent drop from its $150 million premiere last weekend, but there's no doubt this film has legs that will confidently walk it all the way through the holidays.

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Featuring the voices of stars like Shakira, Quinta Brunson, and Macaulay Culkin, *Zootopia 2 *likely performed so exceedingly well due to the relative recent dearth of family films on the release calendar. Before this weekend, the only studio to release animated family fare into theaters this month was Universal, and it was a limited, 25th anniversary re-release of 2000's *Chicken Run*.

*Zootopia 2 *not only bested *Wicked*'s thrillifying conclusion at the box office this weekend, but it far surpassed the proceeds from its predecessor's premiere. *Zootopia *opened to $75 million in 2016. Even taking out the preview revenue, *Zootopia 2 *still earned $96.8 million at the Thanksgiving box office. With a global start in excess of half a million, the sequel is on track to blow past the first film's global end-run of $1 billion.

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Elsewhere on the domestic and global charts, two holdovers proved their staying power. ****

*Now You See Me: Now You Don't* held fast to the No. 3 spot domestically with a week three take of $7 million, dropping only 22 percent from last week. That's after a reduction of 311 screens, too. In No. 4, *Predator Badlands *turned in a remarkably similar performance, dropping only 27 percent in week four with a $4.8 million take, but adding up to $85 million cumulatively, where the illusionist thriller threequel currently boasts $49.6 million overall at the domestic box office.

In the weekend's other new premieres, A24's afterlife rom-com *Eternity *scored a strong $5.2 million on its estimated $2 million budget, and Chloe Zhao's Oscar hopeful *Hamnet *earned $1.3 million in its one-weekend limited release.

Next week, *Zootopia 2 *and *Wicked: For Good *will likely block any would-be usurpers at the box office.

*Hamnet* opens wide, but given its scaling, subject matter, and targeting of awards voters, rather than general audiences, the chances of it leaping to No. 1 are virtually impossible. What may stand a chance, albeit a slim one, is Universal and Blumhouse's *Five Nights at Freddy's 2*.

The animatronic horror with a slight bend towards kids arrives in the long shadow cast by the first film's gangbusters debut. In 2023, *Five Nights at Freddy's *became a Halloween weekend hit with an $80 million premiere, resulting in a lifetime global gross of $291.5 million. Box office watchers will have to wait to find out if horror is the correct wedge to disrupt what looks from here to be *Wicked *and *Zootopia*'s assured dominance in the first weekend of December.

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Brendan Fraser Admits He 'Struggles with Confidence' Even After His Oscar Win Jack SmartDecember 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM 0 Jesse Grant/Getty Brendan Fraser Brendan Fraser leads the new movie Rental Family, from filmmaker Hikari He accepted the role of a struggling actor after himself winning an Academy Award "I struggle with confidence," Fraser admitted in a candid new interview Is it a coincidence that Brendan Fraser plays a struggling actor in his new movie? Rental Family (in theaters now), from writerdirector Hikari, stars Fraser, 56, as an American actor working odd jobs in Tokyo, Japan.

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Rental Family (in theaters now), from writer-director Hikari, stars Fraser, 56, as an American actor working odd jobs in Tokyo, Japan. As the 2023 Best Actor Oscar winner joked to the in a recent interview, the role may have served as a reminder: "Don't get too comfortable. It can happen to me."

"I struggle with confidence," Fraser admitted. "I always have the feeling of not being good enough. Believe me, no one can be harder on me than me. No critic, no pithy internet comment can be more biting to me than myself in my private thoughts."

That's despite making a lauded comeback for his Oscar-winning performance in The Whale. "I grapple with overcoming that," said the actor, recalling one of the two times he hosted Saturday Night Live. Producer Lorne Michaels, he recalled, told him, "'You know, it's all about confidence.' I don't know if that psyched me up or not."

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He added: "Forget everything you know and just own it. Can you do that is the question, the eternal one."

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Did becoming an Oscar winner change Fraser? "Honestly, I was kind of floating during that whole time without an agent," he said. "I was looking for that unicorn project that hadn't been made into oblivion. I ended up: What is a rental family? Which dog do you like at the pound? I like the one with four teeth and one tweaky eye."

Hikari, the filmmaker behind Rental Family, "gave me the opportunity to kind of dovetail from whatever happens in the vacuum after you experience a recognition like that," he recalled. "It was a moment of: I guess things are going to be a little different going forward."

Retreating from Hollywood for a gig that required immersing himself in Japanese culture, Fraser added, "was personally what I needed. I wanted to remove myself from whatever this place is, just for a while."

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Among Fraser's upcoming roles are Dwight D. Eisenhower in war drama Pressure and a return to The Mummy movies. Of reuniting with Rachel Weisz in Universal Pictures' monster franchise, Fraser teased to AP, "the one I wanted to make is forthcoming. And I've been waiting 20 years for this call… It's time to give the fans what they want."

Rental Family, costarring Mari Yamamoto, Takehiro Hira, Shannon Mahina Gorman and Akira Emoto, is in theaters now.

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Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran’s Complete Friendship Timeline

Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran's Complete Friendship Timeline Juliana UkiomogbeDecember 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM 1 Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran have been friends and collaborators for over a decade. Sheeran has appeared on Swift's albums Red, reputation, and Red (Taylor's Version). They've often performed onstage together, and their last performance was at Swift's Eras Tour in 2024. Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran have been friends and collaborators for years. Since meeting in 2012, the pair have gone on to make songs and perform onstage together.

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Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran have been friends and collaborators for over a decade.

Sheeran has appeared on Swift's albums Red, reputation, and Red (Taylor's Version).

They've often performed onstage together, and their last performance was at Swift's Eras Tour in 2024.

Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran have been friends and collaborators for years. Since meeting in 2012, the pair have gone on to make songs and perform onstage together. They also make it a point to speak highly of each other publicly. Even today, their bond is still going strong. Ahead, an inside look at their friendship timeline.

2012

Swift and Sheeran's friendship reportedly began in 2012 after he discovered that she had written his "Lego House" lyrics on her arm during a performance in Australia. "I heard his song 'Lego House' in Australia when I was on the Speak Now tour," Swift told Rolling Stone in 2017. "It just cut through everything else." According to the outlet, their managers introduced them.

That same year, the pair collaborated on "Everything Has Changed," which they wrote on Swift's trampoline. The track appeared on Swift's album Red. She co-wrote the song with Sheeran, and he's also featured on it.

In December, they performed together for the first time at Z100's Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden.

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Sheeran joined Swift on The Red Tour as her opening act. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Sheeran described the experience as"the most amazing fucking tour in the world."

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They released the official music video for "Everything Has Changed," which starred younger versions of themselves.

2015February 2015

When Swift won her first Brit award for best international female artist, she thanked Sheeran in her speech.

"Honestly, I know I wouldn't be up here if it wasn't for one of my best friends, who took me to pubs and taught me how to make a good cup of tea and taught me everything I know about the U.K.," she said. "I just want to say I love you, Ed Sheeran."

2016February 2016

They both attended the Grammys that year, where Sheeran won Song of the Year for "Thinking Out Loud" and Swift won Album of the Year for 1989.

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About her friendship with Sheeran, Swift told Rolling Stone, "We've gotten matching Scottish folds, made each other arts and crafts Christmas presents, vacationed with our families, and had each other's backs."

She continued, "He is the James Taylor to my Carole King, and I can't imagine a time when he wouldn't be."

Sheeran added, "She would be there if everything ended for me. Taylor is kind of an anomaly in that sense." He also defended her against the haters. "She's omnipresent because she's the most famous woman in the world, so she can't make the decision to not be in the press. I always stick up for Taylor."

November 2017

On November 10, Swift released her album reputation, which featured another collaboration with Sheeran, "End Game." Future also appeared on the track.

2021November 2021

Swift released her re-recording of Red, titled Red (Taylor's Version) on November 12. Sheeran re-recorded his vocals for their 2012 song, "Everything Has Changed."

2023May 2023

In an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, Sheeran spoke about his friendship with Swift. "I have long, long, long conversations with Taylor about stuff," he said. "I feel like she's one of the only people that actually truly understands where I'm at. She's a solo artist, she [performs in] stadiums."

He also revealed that they spoke right before he sat down for the interview. "Everything that was on our minds, we talked about," he shared. "I mean that in itself is kind of therapy as well because you're actually talking to someone that genuinely gets it. That has all the things that you feel and have insecurities about and how other people treat you or how your family treats you, how your friends treat you, she's just basically in the same sphere."

2024February 2024

They were photographed together at the Grammys. That night, Swift took home two awards: Album of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for Midnights. Sheeran was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album for - (Subtract).

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On August 15 and 16, Sheeran joined Swift during her Eras Tour stops at Wembley Stadium in London.

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On October 6, Swift appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and explained why Sheeran revealed that he found out about her engagement to Travis Kelce on Instagram.

"He doesn't have a phone," she said. "This is one thing I love about him. It's very eccentric. Love it. But when I'm going through saying, 'Hey, who should we call? Who should we FaceTime?' I'm going through my texts and being like, 'Who have I texted within the last like, month of my life?'"

She added, "You have to email him or FaceTime him, and he has to find an iPad and they have to give it to him like he's a child. This is one of my absolute favorite people on the planet. When the news came out, I was like, 'We forgot to call Ed!'"

Sheeran confirmed this on Fallon's TikTok, writing, "Hello from my allotted iPad time, this is factual."

Ed Sheeran's comment confirming Taylor Swift's story. TikTok/@fallontonightNovember 2025

Sheeran spoke with Access Hollywood about catching up with Swift after her engagement to Kelce.

"I'm not self-conscious about my relationship with her," Sheeran said. "We've been friends for very, very many years. We're super close and we see each other when we see each other, and when we see each other, we lock back into where we left off."

He continued, "My way of viewing it is like, me and Taylor are mates and I will see her. And I saw her a week after that [the engagement] happened, so I did that interview and then I saw her and you talk in person."

He added that they "had like a four-hour catch-up and it's life stuff rather than, like, I don't know, you know what I mean? I kind of feel like being in touch with everyone, sort of you lose actual human connection."

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'Zootopia 2' roars to recordsetting global box office with $556M opening ANDREW DALTON December 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM 0 1 / 5Film Review Zootopia 2This image released by Disney shows Nick Wilde, voiced by Jason Bateman, left, and Judy Hopps, voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin, in a scene from "Zootopia 2." (Disney via AP) "Zootopia 2" had a roaring and recordsetting opening at the box office.

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"Zootopia 2" had a roaring and record-setting opening at the box office.

The animated animal city sequel from the Walt Disney Company brought in $96 million in North America over the weekend, earned $156 million over the five-day Thanksgiving frame, and scored a staggering $556 million globally since its Wednesday opening, according to studio estimates Sunday.

That made it the highest international opening ever for an animated movie, the fourth highest global debut of any kind, and the top international opener of 2025.

"Wicked: For Good" stayed aloft in its second weekend for Universal Pictures, earning another $62.8 million domestically over the weekend for a North American total of $270.4 million. The second half of the "Wicked" saga has brought in $393 million internationally.

The pair of PG-rated sequels combined to make the Thanksgiving weekend a glimmering exception to an otherwise dark year at movie theaters. The five-day holiday run brought in $290 million in total, $188 million of it coming Friday through Sunday.

That could be a blip or an indication that a strong finish might salvage Hollywood's box office year, with "Avatar: Fire and Ash" and "Five Nights at Freddy's 2" among the films still to be released in 2025.

"This is a great result and a big momentum builder for the box office as we head into the final four weeks of the year," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore.

"Zootopia 2" arrives almost a decade after the original, a hit that outpaced expectations and had a March domestic opening of $75 million.

Like the first, it features the duo of bunny cop Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and small-time hustler fox Nick Wilde ( Jason Bateman ) in a city of comically domesticated wildlife.

Dergarabedian said the sequel represented "a beloved franchise delivering what audiences were looking for around the world."

It was the fourth biggest North American opening of 2025. But its biggest market was China, which made for nearly half of the film's global total with a whopping $272 million in ticket sales. No American-made animated film has ever opened bigger. It was the second best nonlocal film opening of all time in China, after "Avengers: Endgame."

Such a result in China was once almost commonplace for Hollywood. But in recent years, as geopolitical relations have grown uneasy, box-office results have turned unpredictable at best. Aside from a handful of exceptions, like the "Jurassic World" films, Hollywood has come to virtually write off Chinese theaters and recalibrate blockbuster budgets accordingly.

The big bounty in China for "Zootopia 2" could be an aberration or a signal of a thaw in the freeze. In recent years, China, which censors which films that are released in theaters, has leaned more toward homegrown fare. Earlier this year, the locally made blockbuster "Ne Zha 2" grossed $1.8 billion in China.

"Zootopia 2" had a clear path to a big Chinese opening. The first "Zootopia," known there as "Crazy Animal City," grew into a surprise hit, grossing $236 million. Shanghai Disneyland has a theme land devoted to the films.

"Wicked: For Good" didn't seem to be hurt by the beastly competition as Universal's gamble of splitting the Broadway tale of Oz into two films continued to pay off. It brought in a worldwide weekend total of $92.2 million.

"Hamnet," certain to be a major player in awards season after a celebrated festival run, had a strong limited opening and landed in the overall top 10. In just 119 theaters it earned $1.35 million from Wednesday through Sunday and $880,000 on the weekend, with a per-theater average of more than $11,000. Director Chloe Zhao's Shakespeare story starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal expands next weekend.

Top 10 movies by domestic box office

With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore:

1. "Zootopia 2," $96.8 million.

2. "Wicked: For Good," $62.8 million.

3. "Now You See Me: Now You Don't," $7 million.

4. "Predator: Badlands," $4.8 million.

5. "The Running Man," $3.7 million.

6. "Eternity," $3.2 million.

7. "Rental Family," $2.1 million.

8. "Hamnet," $880,000.

9. "Sisu: Road to Revenge," $810,000.

10. "Nuremberg," $749,325.

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Why '90s fitness star Susan Powter was 'bored stiff' filming "Fresh Prince of BelAir "with Will Smith (exclusive) Joey NolfiNovember 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM 3 Joseph Del Valle/NBCU Photo Bank Will Smith and Susan Powter on 'The Fresh Prince of BelAir'Key Points Susan Powter tells EW she was "bored stiff" while filming The Fresh Prince of BelAir in 1994. The Stop the Insanity! fitness icon "never wanted to do TV or movies," but felt pressured to do so at the height of her fame. She was even "embarrassed on the Emmys carpet," Powter recalls to EW.

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Susan Powter tells EW she was "bored stiff" while filming The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1994.

The Stop the Insanity! fitness icon "never wanted to do TV or movies," but felt pressured to do so at the height of her fame.

She was even "embarrassed on the Emmys carpet," Powter recalls to EW.

Filming Will Smith's TV sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was admittedly a bit of a rotten experience for '90s fitness legend and Stop the Insanity! infomercial star Susan Powter.

Seated inside one of her favorite restaurants in Las Vegas, the 67-year-old exclusively explains to Entertainment Weekly how the team around her at the height of her fame jerked the wheel of her wellness-oriented career in a different direction than she'd hoped — all in an attempt to turn her into a Hollywood star.

"That's what started to happen," Powter reflects between bites of a savory vegan bowl. It's the small pleasures she enjoys amid her low-key, solitary life, which sees her taking up residence inside a compact apartment while making ends meat from her gig as an Uber Eats delivery driver.

It's a far cry from the reported $300 million fortune she reflects on losing in her new Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter documentary. In the Jamie Lee Curtis-produced film, Powter recalls losing her earnings over mishandled business partnerships and a lack of awareness about where her own money went following her meteoric rise to superstardom thanks to a string of successful VHS tapes and fitness media in the early '90s.

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Will Smith and Susan Powter on a 1994 episode of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'

"One of the managers wanted to do TV, because they wanted the syndication money. I never wanted to do TV or movies. It was just part of the career thing. Let's get her on this and that," Powter says of the run-up to her 1994 guest role on Fresh Prince, which came on the season 5, episode 11 installment titled "Will Steps Out."

"I totally did it and it was fine, I did the best job I could," she says. "[Smith] was dressed in a fat suit. It was in a grocery store, but I've never been that person. I'm not hokey, even though that's how it was always portrayed."

She says that, while "Will was super nice" and that she "had a great time" with the future Oscar-winning star (who even "signed something for my kids," she remembers), she didn't love what moves like the appearance meant for her overall career.

"I'm not going to be an ass and say doing a TV show is something everybody gets to do. I did my job," Powter stresses. "Did I ever want to go back on a TV set again? No. Bored stiff. Most boring thing I've ever done. Sit in a room all day and wait to come out and read a line, and then you do it 10 times? I literally could bang my head against a wall."

Powter maintained a high pop culture profile throughout the '90s, which also resulted in a Kirstie Alley-starring parody of Stop the Insanity! on Saturday Night Live, interviews on The Tonight Show, her own short-lived Susan Powter Show daytime talk series, and even, as she exclusively tells EW, an offer to star in Kevin Costner's 1995 film Waterworld (which she says she turned down).

Despite personally resisting the notion of becoming a TV star, Powter joined the cast of the 1995 Designing Women spinoff Women of the House, though the show only lasted for one season.

"They were talented women and it was a talented set," Powter says of the show's 13-episode run.

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"I was good on that. That I have seen. It was really nasty and snotty, that was the character. It was fun," she remembers, lamenting that "the show died" shortly after she boarded.

Still, while she might've enjoyed her guest spots here and there, she "didn't desperately want to be on a red carpet" and "was embarrassed on the Emmys carpet" later that year. "I didn't want to be there," she says.

Powter maintains that she "didn't get affected by the success of Stop the Insanity!" — but that "a lot of people around it did."

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The new documentary (now playing in select theaters) follows Powter some 30 years after she decided to step away from the circus surrounding her media career, which also included the star filing for bankruptcy and, as she remembers, firing the entire staff she'd built around her and her Susan Powter Corporation.

In a 2024 interview with EW, Curtis called the film "an indictment of how we discard human beings as they get older in this country," and said it charted "an exploration of the incredible cruelty that we inflict on older people and the lack of resources, and the lack of dignity offered to these human beings who've lived before us and have been in service to us and have given us the lives we all are now living."

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