WEDNESDAY. IT IS A GREAT MOVIE WATCHING DAY AND TIME TO FIND OUT WHAT’S NEW IN THEATERS AND STREAMING THIS WEEKEND IS OUR FILM CRITIC, LAUREN VENEZIANI, JOINING US THIS MORNING. BRIDGERTON IS ALL EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW ON NETFLIX. YES, BRIDGERTON MAJOR NEWS THIS WEEKEND. BRIDGERTON IS BACK, AND I ACTUALLY FEEL LIKE IT KIND OF PAIRS WELL WITH PREAKNESS WEEKEND SEASON THREE. PART ONE IS NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX, AND BRIDGERTON IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE TV SERIES. IT’S ROMANTIC AND SEXY AND FUN, AND THIS SEASON FOCUSES ON OUR FAVORITE WALLFLOWER, PENELOPE FEATHERINGTON. AND IF SHE AND HER LONGTIME FRIEND COLIN BRIDGERTON ARE GOING TO BECOME MORE THAN FRIENDS, ARE THEY GOING TO BECOME FRIENDS TO LOVERS? I SPOKE WITH THE STARS OF SEASON THREE, NICOLA COUGHLAN AND LUKE NEWTON. THESE TWO ACTORS HAVE ALREADY BEEN FRIENDS FOR YEARS. THEY’VE BEEN ON THE SHOW FOR YEARS NOW, SO I WANTED TO ASK THEM HOW THEIR REAL LIFE FRIENDSHIP HELPED WITH THEIR ON SCREEN CHEMISTRY. HERE IS A CLIP OF THAT INTERVIEW WITH NICOLA AND LUKE FOR BRIDGERTON SEASON THREE. NICOLA AND LUKE. HI! SO NICE TO SEE THE TWO OF YOU AGAIN. SEE YOU. CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS SEASON. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR PENN AND COLIN’S SEASON FOR WHAT SEEMS LIKE FOREVER, AND IT HAS NOT DISAPPOINTED SO FAR, SO I’M SO EXCITED. THANK YOU. YES, I LOVE A FRIENDS TO LOVERS STORY AND OBVIOUSLY THE TWO OF YOU HAVE BEEN FRIENDS FOR YEARS NOW, SO THERE’S ALREADY THAT NATURAL CHEMISTRY THERE. AND WHAT I LOVE ABOUT PENN AND COLIN IS THAT THEY DO BRING OUT THE BEST IN EACH OTHER. SO I’M CURIOUS, AS FRIENDS AND ON SCREEN PARTNERS, HOW DID YOU TWO BRING OUT THE BEST IN EACH OTHER THIS SEASON? LUKE, HOW DID NICOLA BRING OUT THE BEST IN YOU? I THINK HERE WE GO. STRAP IN. GO ON. UM, I THINK WHAT WAS AMAZING, WE, YOU KNOW, WE LIVED IN THESE CHARACTERS FOR TWO YEARS AND BECOME FRIENDS AND YOU KNOW, WE WE HAD A WORKING RELATIONSHIP AND A DYNAMIC ON SET, BUT ALSO WE GOT TO LIVE LIKE THE EXPERIENCE OF THIS SHOW BLOWING UP TOGETHER LIKE A SHARED EXPERIENCE THAT NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE. AND KNOWING THAT OUR SEASON WAS COMING TOGETHER, UM, LIKE, WE’RE SO OUR COMMUNICATION IS SO GOOD. WE STAY. WE’RE REALLY GOOD AT LIKE STAYING IN TOUCH AND AND VOCALIZING LIKE ANYTHING THAT’S COMING UP THROUGHOUT THE THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS. UM, YEAH. I’M I’M SO GRATEFUL. AND IT FEELS SO APPROPRIATE TO THIS LOVE STORY THAT WE WERE ALREADY FRIENDS. LIKE, I CAN’T IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE WE SHOT IT WITH ANYONE. COULD YOU IMAGINE IF SOMEONE ELSE STEPPED INTO THE ROLE? I DON’T LIKE THE THOUGHT OF IT AT ALL. GENUINELY. I KNOW THAT SOUNDS SILLY, BUT IT WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN THE SAME THING AND WE COULDN’T HAVE MANUFACTURED THAT HISTORY IN THAT WAY. LIKE, IT REALLY WAS JUST THERE ALREADY. AND IT WAS WONDERFUL TO FINALLY, LIKE, LET IT GO AND LET THE FLOODGATES OPEN AND LIKE, LET THEM JUST BE ROMANTIC WITH ANOTHER. IT WAS SO GREAT, ENCAPSULATES EVERYTHING THAT PEOPLE LOVE ABOUT BRIDGERTON. IT’S GOT THE SUSPENSE, IT’S GOT THE THE LONGING, THE MISCOMMUNICATION, THE DRAMA, THEN THE ROMANCE, THE INTIMACY, THE SEXINESS, AND THEN THE HUMOR. IT’S LITERALLY IT’S SO RARE ON A PAGE THAT YOU CAN TRAVEL THAT TRAJECTORY AND SUCH A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. MY FULL CAST INTERVIEWS ARE ON MY YOUTUBE DC FILM GURL.COM NICHOLAS CHARACTER PENELOPE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A FAN FAVORITE AND I LOVE A FRIENDS TO LOVERS STORY. EVERYTHING YOU LOVE ABOUT BRIDGERTON IS IN THIS SEASON AND I LOVE THAT WE SEE THIS SLOW BURN ROMANCE FINALLY COMING TOGETHER. THE FIRST FOUR EPISODES OF THE SEASON ARE NOW STREAMING, AND PART TWO WILL BE STREAMING NEXT MONTH ON JUNE 13TH. I’VE SEEN THE FIRST TWO EPISODES OF PART TWO, AND IT DEFINITELY GETS EVEN STEAMIER, BUT I’M GIVING PART ONE OF FOUR AND A HALF OUT OF FIVE STARS. I JUST CANNOT RESIST THE BRIDGERTON WORLD. JEN. IT’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE SERIES AND I LOVE BINGING IT AND WATCHING IT AND JUST BEING IN THE WORLD ALL WEEKEND. YEAH, I HAVE TO SAY, YOU HAD US ALL AT STEAMY LAUREN. WE’RE GOOD, WE’RE GOOD. SO BACK TO BLACK. WHAT IS THAT BACK TO BLACK IS ONE OF THE NEW FILMS IN THEATERS THIS WEEKEND, AND IT’S ABOUT THE LIFE OF MUSICIAN AND GRAMMY WINNER AMY WINEHOUSE. WHILE SHE WAS WRITING HER ALBUM BACK TO BLACK, ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ALBUMS OF ALL TIME, I SPOKE WITH DIRECTOR SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON AND THE ACTRESS, WHO PLAYS AMY, MARISA ABELA, ABOUT THE FILM AND PLAYING AMY. HERE’S A CLIP OF THAT INTERVIEW WITH SAM AND MARISA FOR BACK TO BLACK. SAM AND MARISA, CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TWO OF YOU ON THIS FILM. I THOUGHT YOU EMBODIED AMY SO BEAUTIFULLY AND YOU HAVE AN AMAZING VOICE. I’M SO EXCITED FOR EVERYONE TO SEE THIS. I KNOW THAT FILMING DID END A WHILE AGO NOW, BUT NOW THAT YOU’VE KIND OF HAD TIME TO REFLECT AND LOOK BACK, WHAT IS SOMETHING ABOUT AMY THAT HAS REMAINED WITH YOU AS AN ACTOR? I THINK HER HER BRAVERY IS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS STUCK WITH ME, YOU KNOW, AND NOT A BRAVERY THAT IS LIKE FORCEFUL AND, YOU KNOW, A SORT OF FAUX CONFIDENCE. IT’S A REAL GENUINE VULNERABILITY AND AUTHENTICITY. AND THAT’S LIKE THE BRAVEST THING YOU CAN DO AS AN ARTIST. IT WAS SUPER IMPORTANT TO FEEL THAT BACK TO BLACK IS A IS A LOVE STORY. THE ALBUM AND AND SO THEREFORE OUR MOVIE IS A LOVE STORY BECAUSE THAT’S, YOU KNOW, THE FRAMEWORK FOR THIS AND THAT IN THAT ONE SLOW PUSH IN, YOU BELIEVE THEY’RE FALLING IN LOVE BECAUSE THERE’S ENOUGH TIME WITH THEM. YOU’RE REALLY INDULGING IN THEIR IN THEIR CONNECTION AND THEIR THEIR SORT OF, YOU KNOW, THE SWEETEST CONVERSATION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT BOOKS DO YOU LIKE, WHAT MUSIC. YOU KNOW THAT THING WHEN YOU FIRST MEET SOMEONE. AND IF WE CAN JUST SORT OF STAY WITH THEM, THEN AGAIN, WE BELIEVE IN THE LOVE. AND THAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. I WISH WE HAD 30 MORE MINUTES. NO, I WISH WE COULD. I WOULD CHAT WITH YOU ALL DAY. I LOVE THE FACT THAT YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE FILMMAKING IS SO GREAT. YEAH. THANK YOU LADIES SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. I LOVE SPEAKING WITH THEM. MY FULL INTERVIEW AGAIN IS ON MY YOUTUBE DC FILM GURL.COM AND I WILL SAY DOING A MUSICIAN BIOPIC IS EXTREMELY HARD. WE JUST SAW IT WITH BOB MARLEY, ONE LOVE, WHICH I PERSONALLY LIKED. AND YOU KNOW WHAT I THOUGHT MARISA DID A FANTASTIC JOB AS AMY WINEHOUSE. IT’S A VERY HARD ROLE TO PLAY. SHE ACTUALLY LVIV SAYING ON SET, I FELT FOR HER CHARACTER. I LOVED SEEING THE RELATIONSHIP WITH HER AND HER DAD AND HER, YOU KNOW, HUSBAND AT THE TIME AND EX-HUSBAND. I THOUGHT IT WAS A REALLY MOVING FILM. I’M GIVING IT A THREE AND A HALF OUT OF FIVE STARS. I LOVE SAM AS A DIRECTOR, AND MARISA WAS A FANTASTIC LEAD. BACK TO BLACK. CURRENTLY IN THEATERS. ABOUT THE LIFE OF AMY WINEHOUSE ALL RIGHT. AND IN 20S GIVE US YOUR RATING ON THE STRANGERS AND THEN TELL PEOPLE WHERE THEY CAN FIND YOUR FULL REVIEW. YES, MY STRANGERS CHAPTER ONE. YOU CAN FIND MY INTERVIEW WITH THE CAST AND MY THOUGHTS ON DC FILM GURL.COM. AGAIN, IT’S A SHOT FOR SHOT REMAKE FROM THE 2008 ORIGINAL FILM WITH LIV TYLER AND SCOTT SPEEDMAN. I LOVED THE LEAD ACTRESS FROM RIVERDALE, MADELINE PEACH, AND I THOUGHT THAT SHE WAS FANTASTIC IN THE FILM, BUT IT JUST DOESN’T OFFER AS MANY NEW THINGS. I’M KIND OF IN THE MIDDLE OF ON IT. I’M A THREE OUT OF FIVE FOR STRANGER THINGS CHAPTER ONE. IF YOU’RE A FAN OF THE ORIGINAL OR LOVE HORROR FILMS, I ACTUALLY JUST RECOMMEND SEEING IT TO SEE WHAT YOU’RE THINKING. BUT AGAIN, YOU COULD ALSO JUST WAIT FOR STREAMING AS WELL. ALL RIGHT, SOUNDS GOOD. AND YOU CAN FIND ALL OF LAUREN’S FULL REVIEWS ON HER WEBSITE. DC FILM GIRL.COM. YOU CAN FIND HER ON FACEBOOK,