Nicholas Hoult terrified his wig would catch alight during filming of The Favourite 

The X-Men star wears a towering white curly wig as politician Robert Harley in the black Regency comedy, set in the court of Queen Anne. He said: “They weren’t too hot but they were more of a fire hazard because in the film they use natural light of candlelight and there were a lot of open […]

Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult Eye Hulu's Catherine the Great Limited Series

Elle Fanning (Maleficent) and Nicholas Hoult (X-Men) are in talks to star in The Great, a potential limited series for Hulu about Catherine the Great, TVLine has learned. A Hulu rep declined to comment. Penned by Tony McNamara, the project — which is nearing a pilot order at the streamer — focuses on the rise […]

Watch Nicholas Hoult as Young J.D. Salinger in First Trailer for ‘Rebel in the Rye’

Coming in September from IFC Films is Danny Strong’s Rebel in the Rye, about the life of a young J.D. Salinger and his personal/creative struggles during World War II. Nicholas Hoult (X-Men, Fury Road) plays the famously reclusive author, co-starring with Kevin Spacey, Sarah Paulson (as literary agent Dorothy Olding), Hope Davis, and others. The […]

Nicholas Hoult is Pretty Sure He’s Coming Back For ‘X-Men: Supernova’

There are days when the nonsensical continuity of the X-Men movies makes me want to throw my hands up in the air and move into the desert and stop writing about comic book movies and there are days where I just shrug it all off because I’ll always take interesting experiments like Logan, Legion, and […]