Matthias Schoenaerts,the Belgian actor has earned critical acclaim and plenty of swoons for his portrayal of tough guy Ali in French drama Rust and Bone which was screened at Cannes on Thursday. Within minutes of the movie ending,34-year-old Schoenaerts was asked about his prospects in Hollywood. Its funny you say so,because last week they called me for Rambo 34,and I said Ill do it if I get 35 and 36 as well, he joked. Theres definitely stuff moving in the States,but I've got time,I'm not in a hurry. I'm quite young I guess, he said. Hysteria,Tanya Wexlers new romantic comedy is about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England. Based loosely on real events,the film stars Hugh Dancy as Mortimer,a forward-thinking doctor,and Maggie Gyllenhaal as Charlotte,a champion of womens rights. Though its period detail and depiction of naive men trying to cure hysterical women through pelvic massage seems hilariously out of date,there are moments when issues of womens rights raised in the film feel surprisingly relevant. But more than anything,Hysteria serves as a reminder that female sexuality is still an unusual subject on screen. Can you believe were still arguing about these same topics 100 years laterwomens rights over their own body? Wexler said. Hugh Laurie,the actor who played the irreverent,idiosyncratic,inimitable television doctor Gregory House on the series House,acknowledged that he had yet to process fully that he would soon be shedding a character who had inspired him,obsessed him and unnerved him for 177 hours of drama. I will miss Gregory a lot, Laurie said,as the eight-year-run of the show comes to an end. He wont be the only one. Beyond the viewers who came to embrace the weekly dissections of arcane cases,diagnoses led by the most brilliant riddle-solver since Sherlock Holmes (who inspired the character in the first place),House proved to have astonishingly wide appeal.
