The daily gossip: DJ alleges Mike Myers had him fired for making eye contact, Victoria Pedretti says actor who made gross comment doesn't need to have 'his career ruined,' and more

1. DJ alleges Mike Myers had him fired for making eye contact

Oh, behave! A radio DJ has claimed he was fired from a Mike Myers movie for simply looking at the actor. "Mike Myers had me fired off the set of The Love Guru because I made eye contact with him, and I was there as his bodyguard," Canadian DJ Jay Brody tweeted. He expanded on this story on the air, alleging he was warned "you can't look" at Myers or he'd lose his job guarding his trailer. Within the "first hour I'm there," he said, he saw Myers approaching. "I realize I can't let just anyone into the trailer, so I look up, I catch his eye for a second," Brody claimed. "Within an hour, I get a phone call letting me know that I'm fired and I have to get off the set." But Myers' rep dismissed the allegation, telling Page Six he didn't even have a bodyguard on the 2008 film. Maybe Brody was thinking of the other Michael Myers?

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2. Victoria Pedretti says famous actor who made gross comment doesn't need to have 'his career ruined'

Victoria Pedretti recently shared a shocking anecdote about a famous actor who sexually harassed her, but she has assured fans she's got the situation handled. The You star revealed on Instagram that on her birthday last year, a "well known" actor "walked up to me at a party and said 'I've jacked off to you so many times.'" This led to some requests for Pedretti to name names, but in a follow-up video, she said she already confronted this actor privately. "Trust me, I told this person if I ever hear anything else in regards to him, then we have an issue," she said. "But I can handle it. I don't need his career ruined because he said something really f--king dumb." The story came in the caption of a naked selfie — so Pedretti also stressed to followers the "main point" of her original post "was the nude."

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3. Guy Pearce apologizes for musings on cis actors playing trans characters

In a realization that's applicable to countless different situations, Guy Pearce has concluded that tweeting "was not a good idea." The actor recently suggested on Twitter that cisgender actors should be able to play trans characters, asking, "If the only people allowed to play trans characters r trans folk, then r we also suggesting the only people trans folk can play r trans characters?" He added, "Isn't the point of an actor to be able [to] play anyone outside ur own world?" But after drawing backlash, Pearce has deleted the tweet and posted an extensive apology, saying he's "enormously" sorry that he started a "fire" and "only stirred up and inflamed attitudes and made us all dig our heels in." He continued by admitting that his original question was "insensitive" and that he shouldn't have been "crassly focusing on just one already harassed minority." He is presumably now planning to get "never tweet" tattooed on his body as a Memento-style reminder.

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4. Emily Ratajkowski's estranged husband accused of sexual misconduct

Sebastian Bear-McClard, an Uncut Gems producer and Emily Ratajkowski's estranged husband, has been accused of being a "predator who often preyed on young women on set" in a new Variety report. According to the outlet, Bear-McClard allegedly reached out to a 17-year-old girl on Instagram and offered her a role in the Safdie brothers' movie Good Time, only for her to feel "terrified" after she was told to stand naked in a room of men and was paired with an actor who asked if "he could stick it in." Bear-McClard allegedly had a sexual relationship with this 17-year-old, and another woman alleges he groomed her and "inserted himself inside me without using a condom" without consent. The Safdies reportedly fired Bear-McClard from their production company over his contact with a 15-year-old and his involvement with another young woman on the set of Uncut Gems. Ratajkowski divorced Bear-McClard last year, and Variety reports her friends "say she is not surprised" by these allegations.

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5. Wes Anderson's new movie is apparently about aliens

Get ready for close encounters of the twee kind. Focus Features has dropped the trailer for Wes Anderson's new movie, Asteroid City and, yup, it definitely looks like a Wes Anderson movie. The footage features all of the director's trademarks, including his famous symmetrical shots, as well as a number of actors he's worked with before, such as Jason Schwartzman and Edward Norton. But the trailer also reveals the surprisingly sci-fi oriented plot. According to the logline, Asteroid City is set in 1955 and follows the "itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention" which is "spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events" — namely, according to the trailer, the apparent arrival of an alien. The ridiculously stacked cast also includes Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Margot Robbie, and the list goes on and on, confirming every working actor in Hollywood is in this, Barbie, Oppenheimer, or a combination of the three.

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