Glenn Close Says ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Remake Is ‘Moving Forward’

Glenn Shut is decided to get the Sundown Boulevard remake made.

“It’s shifting ahead,” Shut, 77, solely instructed Us Weekly of the movie at Selection’s 2024 Energy of Girls luncheon in New York Metropolis on Thursday, Could 2. “The film is within the works and I’m not giving up on that one.”

The Oscar nominee added that she loves the character Norma Desmond, whom she beforehand performed in two separate runs of the Sundown Boulevard Broadway musical.

“It’s so lovely to me that she’s all the time nonetheless so related. The time passes, however that character is all the time vital,” she stated. “We’re looking for a director, now we have an amazing script. … That character of Norma is so heartbreakingly lovely and can by no means not have relevance, it’s been an amazing blessing to play her and I’m not prepared to let her go but with out yet one more tribute.”

Shut appeared elegant and complicated in a zip-up black blazer and matching pants on the Selection occasion. She accomplished the look with a pair of nude, open-toed heels.

Shut was all smiles posing with Mariska Hargitay on the purple carpet, who additionally wore an all-black ensemble for the event. Shut gave a speech introducing Hargitay, 60, who was honored on the occasion for her work as an advocate for sexual assault survivors.

Throughout her remarks, Shut admitted she felt “overwhelmed” by the duty of introducing her “extraordinary buddy” in simply two minutes.

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“She’s a comic book, she’s a healer, she’s Mom Earth, she’s a supply of sunshine,” she gushed. “As an actor, I’m astounded by the truth that after 25 years as [her Law & Order: SVU character] Olivia Benson, Mariska continues to be related. She continues to be recent and charming. … She nonetheless finds the center, the artwork and the facility in her craft.”

Hargitay then took the stage herself and spoke about Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction being overturned final month.

“I need to discuss as we speak about reversing convictions,” she stated. “It’s unimaginable to reverse my conviction that survivors matter, that what occurred to us issues, and that our society should reply to survivors extra compassionately, extra holistically, with a deeper, extra nuanced understanding of what therapeutic means.”

Hargitay additionally addressed the truth that the decision was overturned as a result of admittance of testimony from alleged victims who weren’t concerned with the case being tried.

“I do need to say one thing concerning the overturned Harvey Weinstein conviction, particularly concerning the motive it was overturned: Too many ladies’s voices. Too many ladies had been allowed to talk,” Hargitay stated. “Dangerous to let girls communicate? You’re rattling proper it’s. Too many ladies talking brings change.”

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Weinstein appeared in court docket on Wednesday, Could 1, for the primary time since his conviction was overturned. His case will likely be retried.

“We imagine on this case,” prosecutor Nicole Blumberg stated of taking Weinstein’s case to court docket once more. “It was a robust case in 2020 … and stays a robust case in 2024.”

Along with Hargitay, Amy Schumer, Shonda Rimes and Anitta had been honored by Selection on Thursday. Schumer, 42, spoke about her work with Everytown for Gun Security, Rimes, 54, highlighted the work of nonprofit dance college the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, and Anitta, 31, mirrored on dreaming massive whereas rising up poor in Brazil.

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“We’re born believing this stuff aren’t attainable for us, as a result of we don’t have it. There’s no construction. There’s no alternatives,” Anitta stated of rising up within the favelas, the place she stated residents are “handled because the trash” of Brazil.

“There have been so many guidelines. So many guidelines on learn how to be a lady, learn how to behave, learn how to discover the most effective husband, learn how to look good for the viewers, to be the lovable woman all people desires to marry,” the Latin pop star continued. “And I used to be simply not this particular person. I wished to shake my ass, I wished to be free, I wished to make my very own cash.”

Along with the honorees, different attendees at this yr’s Energy of Girls luncheon included Melissa Joan Hart, Francesca Scorsese, Nicky Hilton Rothschild, Avantika Vandanapu, Tamron Corridor and Charity Lawson.