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Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis Reveal Manny Jacinto Will Play Lohan’s Onscreen Husband in ‘Freakier Friday’

Sorry, Anna and Jake shippers. It appears the beloved character played by Chad Michael Murray in Freaky Friday is not married to Lindsay Lohan’s Anna in the upcoming sequel, Freakier Friday. In a conversation with Entertainment Weekly, Lohan and her onscreen mother, Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis), revealed that Anna is married to Manny Jacinto‘s character, […]

‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ Star Manny Jacinto Says His Off-Screen Performance Tested Him As Much As His “Three-Tiered” Role

[This story contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Acolyte.] Manny Jacinto’s scene-stealing role as the Stranger on Star Wars: The Acolyte is a revelation for plenty of viewers, but for several weeks now, fans of Michael Schur’s The Good Place have been proudly reiterating, “That’s the guy we’ve been telling you about.”  If you’re someone […]

“Tom Cruise Is Writing Stories for Tom Cruise”: Manny Jacinto on His Axed ‘Top Gun’ Lines

Manny Jacinto is opening up on having the entirety of his dialogue cut from 2022’s summer blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick. The star — who has tongues wagging for his current role as a saber-wielding Sith Lord in Star Wars spinoff The Acolyte — played LT Billy “Fritz” Avalone in Tom Cruise’s $1.5 billion box office […]

‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ Stars Talk OCD Jedi, X-23 with a Lightsaber and Charting Their Own Course

Star Wars tends to enjoy the comfort of the known. As the galaxy has expanded on the big and small screens, new stories have been told in and around the original, prequel and sequel trilogies, featuring familiar faces and settings that the audience has had a connection to since childhood in most cases. There’s certainly […]