Acting

MTV Movie and TV awards go gender neutral

The network has announced separate awards for best actor and actress will be replaced by "non-gendered" prizes.

It means Emma Watson competes with Hugh Jackman and James McAvoy for best actor in a movie.

Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown and Emilia Clarke from Game Of Thrones go against The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan for best actor in a show.

Most of the big award ceremonies, like the Oscars and Baftas, still have separate categories for men and women.

Kal Penn's old audition scripts highlight Hollywood typecasting

"Found a bunch of old scripts from some of my first years trying to be an actor," Penn wrote before sharing pieces of scripts in a series of tweets. "They were awful. 'Can you make his accent a little more AUTHENTIC?' That usually meant they wanted Apu."

The character Penn referenced was named "Careem," who was described as having a "slight Hindi accent."

Apu is an Indian animated character on "The Simpsons."