Indeed, speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com ahead of the film’s release, Smith revealed that there was one day in particular that he had especially enjoyed: filming a high-octane car chase sequence.
“That was one of my great days on a film set,” he said. “I loved that day, because what we had is this thing called a biscuit, which I’ve never seen anything like. And basically, you’re attached to a rally car engine with a rally car driver, and they’ve got this sort of… how do you describe… like, a winch on the back.
“So then you’re in, like, this fairground ride, you’ve got a rally car engine and a rally car driver on the front!”
Aronofsky added, “Yeah, you don’t have to really worry about it… you can just sit there and scream at the top of your lungs!”
Smith added that Aronofsky also let him do a bit of driving for himself – after a couple of lessons – with the director explaining that he wanted to have some grounding to the chase scene.
“It was great because, like, so many action films have kind of taken the physics of it totally bananas and insane – as if that’s the way to engage audiences well,” he said.
“I’m not critiquing that, but there’s something about returning to real physics and real broken bones and real dented cars that is exciting, and you can still find energy in it.”
Caught Stealing follows events after Austin Butler’s ex-baseball player gets caught up in the criminal underworld of ’90s New York when he is asked to look after Smith’s character’s cat, with Zoë Kravitz, Regina King and Liev Schreiber among the other stars with key roles.
And while the film includes plenty of the trademark intensity found in Aronofsky’s other acclaimed films – which include Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan and mother! – there’s also a more freewheeling sense of fun that feels quite new for the filmmaker.
But Aronofsky says that he more or less approached this film the same way he approaches all his projects.
“I think I approach them all the same, but I always think making films is a lot of fun, and I wanted to have a lot of fun making this film,” he said.
“There was definitely an intention to leave audiences with a feeling of joy and [that they] have a good time at the end of it. But still, I guess it is an intense ride as well. So maybe you get the best of both worlds!”
Caught Stealing releases in UK cinemas on Friday 29 August 2025.
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The preview of Aryan Khan’s debut series ‘Ba***ds of Bollywood’ was released recently, which made fans go crazy. There are many action packed scenes in the series, which are being praised by the fans alot, but one scene is in a lot of discussion, seeing which users are claiming that Aryan Khan has taken a dig at his jail days when he was arrested in drugs case.
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Let us tell you that Aryan Khan has directed ‘Ba***ds of Bollywood’ and has also written its story himself. Fans were impressed after seeing the preview and are not tired of praising it. The teaser of ‘Ba***ds of Bollywood’ has a glimpse of many such moments, which will not let you blink even a moment. One such scene is the jail scene, which is making headlines on the internet. There is a scene in which Lakshya Lalwani’s character Aasman Singh is in jail.
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Then a police officer goes to him and says, ‘Don’t take tension, people become more famous after going inside.’ Immediately after this scene, the title comes, ‘Written and Directed by Aryan Khan’. Seeing the way this dialogue and then Aryan Khan’s name comes on the screen, users are saying that Shahrukh’s son has taken a dig at his jail term. Users are praising this style of Aryan.
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Sharing the screenshot from the ‘Ba***ds of Bollywood’ jail scene, a user wrote on X, ‘Powerful. I especially liked that scene, where Salman Khan is in one frame, the hero is inside the jail, the policeman says, ‘Don’t worry, everyone becomes famous after going inside. And then Aryan Khan’s name comes.’ One said that this scene from Aryan’s series will make the haters feel the chilli. A user has written, ‘People become even more famous after going inside and then Aryan Khan’s title card. Wow, whose idea was this?’ Another comment is, ‘Aryan Bhai you are killing the haters.’
Drake and Adin Ross are reportedly going to be covering the funeral costs of a Kick streamer who died during a livestream.
The streamer in question was 46-year-old Raphaël Graven, was was found dead at a home near Nice, France on August 18. He was best known by the moniker Jean Pormanove, and was said to have been in the middle of a 10-day streaming marathon when he passed.
Authorities in France have confirmed that there will be an investigation into his death due to claims that he had faced “humiliation” and “mistreatment” during the livestream. Various French outlets have also claimed that Graven had been subjected to sleep deprivation, violence and the “ingestion of toxic products” during the 10 day livestream, while people watched live.
News outlet Nexta claims that the livestream saw him “beaten, choked, and sprayed with paint for donations”. It is understood that he died in his sleep while the livestream continued.
News of his passing was shared by Owen Cenazandotti – a fellow streamer who goes by the name Narturo. In a statement with Safine Hamadi, the two shared: “We’ve laughed together for six years, we’ve given each other blow after blow… Six years of memories. I’ll miss you. I love you. Rest in peace, my brother.” They also asked people to not reshare any clips of Graven dead or unconscious.
Following news of his death, tributes have poured in online, and popular streamer Adin Ross has claimed that he had Drake – the rapper who is an ambassador for the Kick streaming platform – have decided to cover the costs for his funeral.
Adin Ross announces that he and Drake will be covering the funeral costs of French streamer Jean Pormanove, who passed away in his sleep during a marathon stream
“Whoever was apart of this deserves to face severe consequences… Prayers go out to Jean’s family” pic.twitter.com/VK6DB8aavF
— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) August 19, 2025
“This is horrible and disgusting. Whoever was a part of this deserves to face severe consequences,” Ross wrote on X, referring to the allegations of violence towards Graven. “I just spoke with Drake. Drake and I will be covering the funeral costs, this won’t bring his life back, it’s the least we can do. Prayers go out to Jean’s family.”
The Canadian rapper has yet to share a public statement about Graven’s death.
Talking to X, French digital technologies minister Clara Chappaz shared her condolences and confirmed that the incident had been referred to Arcom, France’s media regulator. “The death of Jean Pormanove and the violence he endured are an absolute horror. I extend my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones,” the tweet read, adding that the streamer was “humiliated and mistreated for months live on the Kick platform”.
“The responsibility of online platforms regarding the dissemination of illicit content is not optional: It is the law,” she added, sharing that she had contacted Kick for an explanation. “This type of failure can lead to the worst and has no place in France, Europe, or anywhere else.”
In a statement, Kick said (via ITV): “We are deeply saddened by the loss of Jean Pormanove and extend our condolences to his family, friends and community. We are urgently reviewing the circumstances and engaging with relevant stakeholders to investigate the situation.
“Kick’s community guidelines are designed to protect creators, and we remain committed to upholding these standards across our platform.”
This is a developing story.
There’s yet another royal book coming out from a royal sycophant. This one is by Grant Harrold, who served as King Charles’s butler at Highgrove from 2004-2011. Harrold is currently in a domestic partnership with a man who still works as a gardener for Charles as well. The book is called The Royal Butler: My remarkable life of royal service. Obviously, the only thing people care about is Harrold’s gossip about Prince Harry, Prince William and Kate. This guy has been milking his “remembrances” and gossip opinions for years by the way – he’s quoted with some regularity by the tabloids, and he usually has an anti-Sussex slant. Sounds like his book has the same bias, at least judging from the exclusive excerpt published in the Telegraph. Some highlights:
Charles’s second wedding day: The day itself, in April 2005, was the “happiest” Harrold says he ever saw the King. “At the end of the festivities, Charles and Camilla were catching a flight to head straight to Birkhall [on the Balmoral estate],” he writes in the book. “We all went outside to wave them off and laughed as we saw William and Harry had decorated their car with ‘Just Married’. As they drove off through the arches to cheers, the boys raced after the car.”
Harry’s account of Charles & Camilla’s engagement: It’s a scene that seems to contradict the account of that period in Prince Harry’s book, Spare. When it was published in 2023, tearing a hole in the Royal family which has never been repaired, it was the then Duchess of Cornwall who came out worse in the Prince’s evisceration of his family. In Spare, he told how he and William begged their father not to marry her, writing: “We support you, we said. We endorse Camilla, we said. ‘Just please don’t marry her. Just be together, Pa.’ He didn’t answer. But she answered. Straight away. Shortly after our private summits with her, she began to play the long game, a campaign aimed at marriage and eventually the Crown (with Pa’s blessing, we presumed).”
Harrold claims Charles, Camilla, William and Harry got along: “The four of them, I promise you, got on so well,” he says. “And that’s why I don’t understand what Harry’s said, I really don’t understand. Because I saw them. I saw them having dinners together, I saw them having drinks together, I saw them going to parties together.” As Harrold remembers it there was “no animosity” on display. The relationship he observed between Charles and his sons doesn’t reflect the one Harry has portrayed either. “The King used to do things to make them laugh and giggle,” he says.
Harry got along with Kate: Among the saddest aspects of this era for the Royal family is surely the apparent breakdown in the bond that used to exist between the two princes. Back then, Harrold recalls how William, Catherine and Harry used to be a little gang. “They involved him. He used to go out with Kate. William would be away and Kate and Harry would be off doing stuff together. They’d go shopping together, they’d go to pubs together. […] I think when people say ‘oh he was left out’, he really wasn’t. But also he was with Chelsy [Davy, the Prince’s former girlfriend]. Chelsy was always around. And Chelsy and Kate got on really well.” The brothers were “so close”. “The banter was great. They used to go around being silly with each other and winding each other up, jumping out at their dad from corners and making him laugh. It was just like a family.”
Harrold watched the Sussex wedding from afar, and managed to lip-read: Since leaving Highgrove, Harrold has often watched on as a pundit. He reported live from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding in 2018, dipping between interviews and the picnic blanket where Stooks was installed. As he was still working for the family he was among those invited to watch from the lawn in front of St George’s Chapel and brought Harrold along as his guest. Watching the family file out of the ceremony, which included the famous 14-minute sermon by Bishop Michael Curry, Harrold claims in the book to have overheard a few choice words on the lips of the late Duke of Edinburgh. “Once all the formalities were over, we watched as the happy couple, and then the other members of the Royal family, filed out of the chapel,” he writes. “When Prince Philip came out he turned to the Queen and said, ‘Thank f— that’s over.’”
The royalists are already crowing that Harrold has definitively contradicted Prince Harry’s account of his own feelings and his devastation at his father’s second marriage. I don’t know, guys. Should we believe Harry’s descriptions of his own conversations and feelings, or should we believe some guy who used to work for King Charles who wants to sell a particular revisionist history? Should we believe the guy who believes he overheard Prince Philip say those words after Harry’s wedding?
As for the talk about Harry being close to Kate, and Harry constantly hanging out with Will and Kate… that was one of the most surprising aspects of Spare, for me at least. That in their 20s and early 30s, William, Harry and Kate really weren’t hanging out that much, at least according to Harry’s narrative. I also got the impression from Spare that Harry left a lot of stuff out about his “lost years,” his pre-Meghan years, especially when it came to Kate and the Middletons. He didn’t even mention the years-long attempt to put him with Pippa. I also think Harry was trying to be a gentleman, especially about Kate and what she was really like back then.
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