People: Russell finishes scenes with Walker’s brothers
Kurt Russell confirms he has completed his final two scenes in the latest “Fast & Furious” scenes without the late Paul Walker.
Russell had a day left of shooting when Walker died in a car crash in November outside of Los Angeles.
In an interview this week, the 63-year-old actor said he returned to work on the two scenes left to do with Walker about two months ago. He said he filmed the scenes with Walker’s two brothers Caleb and Cody.
The “Fast” team was “trying to work the best magic they can to make ‘Fast & Furious 7’ complete,” Russell said, but did not say whether his scenes had been rewritten.
Russell signed on to the seventh film in the franchise to play the father of Vin Diesel’s character Dominic Toretto. Acknowledging that Walker’s death left the filmmakers in a “tough spot,” Russell said the brothers had a great relationship with the “Fast & Furious people” and Diesel had been “really working it hard.” The film is to premiere in April 2015.
Russell spoke while promoting the new Netflix documentary, produced by his nephews, about his father Bing’s minor-league baseball team, “The Battered Bastards of Baseball.”
Kids send Tea Leoni back to work
Tea Leoni got the go-ahead from her kids to get back to work.
The 48-year-old actress has worked sparingly in recent years while being at home with 15-year-old daughter Madelaine and son Kyd, whose father is actor David Duchovny.
“I turned to my 12-year-old son and I said, ‘It’s going to be a little tricky. I’m not going to be around as much. Are you cool with that?’ ” Leoni said Thursday at the summer TV critics’ meeting.
“He said, ‘Yeah, I was getting kind of sick of you,’ ” she said. “So I’m back.”
Leoni plays the U.S. secretary of state with Tim Daly as her husband in the upcoming CBS show “Madam Secretary.”
McEnroe’s son arrested on drug charge
The son of former tennis great John McEnroe and actress Tatum O’Neal has been charged with drug possession.
Authorities say Kevin McEnroe and another man were arrested Tuesday night during “a narcotics transaction” in New York’s East Village.
McEnroe didn’t enter a plea at his arraignment Wednesday and was released on his own recognizance.
Police say the 27-year-old McEnroe was in possession of cocaine and prescription medication. He was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance.
The birthday bunch
Director Paul Verhoeven (“Basic Instinct,” “Showgirls”) is 76. Actor James Brolin is 74. Singer Martha Reeves is 73. Country singer Ricky Skaggs is 60. Actress Elizabeth McGovern is 53. Keyboardist John Hermann (Widespread Panic) is 52. Actor Vin Diesel is 47. Actor Grant Bowler (“True Blood,” “Ugly Betty”) is 46. Rapper M.I.A. is 39. Actress Kristen Bell is 34. Actor Chace Crawford (“Gossip Girl”) is 29.