Brianna Hildebrand is a 'Deadpool' breakout star
Also in Tattle: Kanye West and Tiffany Trump (not together)
STAR
Ryan Reynolds
wasn't the only person to benefit with "Deadpool" breaking box office records this past weekend. Another is breakout star
Brianna Hildebrand
, who plays Negasonic Teenage Warhead.
Hidebrand talked with Tattle comics correspondent Jerome Maida about her first film role, which she described as a "brother-sister" relationship onscreen with Reynolds' title character.
"When I was young I thought my three older brothers were really cool and then as I got older . . . I thought they were a little like . . . douchebags," she said. "That's how I feel Negasonic feels about Deadpool."
Hildebrand said she "didn't know anything about Deadpool" before landing the role, but once she did, "I loved Deadpool. I loved the comics and I loved the script."
Speaking of love, Hildebrand says she had a crush on Reynolds growing up - an admission that was a little . . . awkward.
"I was a freshman and I literally photoshopped myself into a picture with him," she said. "When I went to the set the first day, I brought the photo . . . He did a pretty good job of not looking too freaked out . . . and everyone else was like, 'Oh, that's verrrrry interesting!"
Acting and fighting with MMA legend Gina Carano was another thrill.
"It was amazing! Gina's one of the nicest people I ever met . . . which is funny because she plays a bad guy and is capable of beating the sh-- out of people," Hildebrand laughed. "There was a fight scene we had that was actually cut from the film where she had to straddle me and make me really scared. I thought I wasn't going to be able to take her seriously because she's so sweet and funny, but when we started rolling I was immediately afraid of her.
"She's pretty powerul! She's amazing!"
Kanye top this?
Kanye West
, who's so full of himself
he's
coming out of his own ears, returned to Twitter to try to raise money and fund his ideas. He could have tried Kickstarter or gone the
Bernie Sanders
route and raised a few dollars from each of his fans, and imagine the ratings if West showed up on "Shark Tank." But he had an even bigger target: Facebook billionaire
Mark Zuckerberg
.
"Mark Zuckerberg I know it's your bday but can you please call me by 2mrw," West tweeted.
West, trying to build interest in his new album "The Life of Pablo" with a series of events, appearances and Trump-like bragging, also claimed to be a Walt Disney for a new generation, perhaps because some of his ideas are Mickey Mouse.
"I'm this generation's Disney," he tweeted. "I want to bring dope sh-- to the world."
He also tweeted that he was Zuckerberg's favorite artist which should be something Zuckerberg would know without Kanye's help.
"You love hip hop, you love my art . . . I am your favorite artist but you watch me barely breathe and still play my album in your house," West tweeted.
By late Monday, Kanye had tweeted that he had been contacted by a number of billionaires, implying rich people are out there eager to fund his vision.
Can you imagine a futuristic WestWorld. There will be the Hall of Kanyes, Kanyes of the Caribbean, Kim Kardashian's Kastle and more.
Meanwhile, Rhymefest, a Kanye co-writer who quit working with West last month, tweeted that "My brother needs help, in the form of counseling. Spiritual & mental. He should step away from the public & yesmen & heal."
He said Yeezy's "mind and spirit isn't right."
In other Disney words, he's Goofy.
TATTBIT
* While daddy
Donald Trump
was on the campaign trail and most of her fellow Penn students were hunkered down for a cold Valentine's Day, senior
Tiffany Trump
was at New York Fashion Week making her debut as a runway model in the Just Drew show. Mom
Marla Maples
, Trump's second wife, sat in the front row.
The Daily Mail reported that Tiffany made only one strut, wearing a shiny blue tuxedo dress, over black tights and chunky black booties. Like all the Trump women, modeling is in Tiffany's DNA. Her mother modeled for No Excuses jeans, and her mother's mother was also a model. Stepsister Ivanka walked runways before getting into the family real estate business. Trump's first wife Ivanka, and third (and current) wife Melania, also were seen on catwalks.
And Donald is catty.
- Daily News wire services
contributed to this report.
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