He put on a whopping 24 pounds of muscle for the role. He plays Apollo Creed's son, an aspiring boxer being trained by—you guessed it—Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone). "Diet and exercise!" Jordan said of training for Creed. "Honestly, diet has a lot to do with it and lots of water." Mara cracked, "He was so annoying during our movie—every 30 minutes he was eating something. "Literally in the middle of takes, I would just be eating food,"

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“Who in this room has bought the new Taylor Swift album?” That’s what Ryan Murphy asks the Variety studio, filled with our photographer and art director, his publicity team and Evan Peters, whom he’s posing next to for the shoot. The mood is light — “I feel like Dracula,” Murphy laughs at one point as they seamlessly step into the shot together, proof of just how comfortable they are together.

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James McAvoy is coming back as Morpheus in Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman: Act II” audio drama — set to premiere exclusively on Audible this fall. The audio series will continue Audible’s adaptation the best-selling graphic novel series written by Gaiman and published by DC.