{"id":"1792782793911-culture-segment","slug":"zendaya-aims-for-best-actress","title":"Zendaya aims for Best Actress","summary":"Variety reported that Zendaya will campaign for Best Actress for \"Dune: Part Three,\" a shift from supporting campaigns for the first two films.\n\nEA pulled Mass Effect-themed cosmetics from Battlefield 6 shortly after announcing BioWare's closure and cancelling the next Mass Effect game.\n\nVariety's exclusive confirms Zendaya will campaign for lead actress for her role as Chani in \"Dune: Part Three,\" after being positioned in supporting for the first two films. This is a personal reaction to a TV show episode, not a factual claim. This is an opinion about the UN Secretary-General selection process, expressed as a metaphor about a Netflix series.\n\n\"Phantasms,\" an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, aired on October 23, 1993. This is a humorous wish/opinion about a hypothetical TV show, not a factual claim. This is a personal opinion about the TV show \"Ugly Betty.\" This is a rhetorical question/observation about English usage, not a factual claim.","publishedAt":"2026-10-23T19:13:13.911Z","channel":{"id":"culture","name":"Oncast Music","language":"en"},"show":"Pop Lunch","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: Variety reported that Zendaya will campaign for Best Actress for \"Dune: Part Three,\" a shift from supporting campaigns for the first two films.\nSource: Variety (https://x.com/Variety/status/2113707555587280942)\n\nTRUE: EA pulled Mass Effect-themed cosmetics from Battlefield 6 shortly after announcing BioWare's closure and cancelling the next Mass Effect game.\nSource: GameSpot (https://x.com/IGN/status/2113707285302153275)\n\nTRUE: Variety's exclusive confirms Zendaya will campaign for lead actress for her role as Chani in \"Dune: Part Three,\" after being positioned in supporting for the first two films. 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Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Claudette","text":"Variety just confirmed Zendaya is going for Best Actress for Dune Part Three. No more supporting."},{"host":"Laura","text":"Okay, that's a power move. Lead actress is a whole different fight."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"And honestly, it makes sense. Chani is the heart of those movies in a lot of ways. The first two she was in supporting."},{"host":"Laura","text":"Right, and people complained she wasn't in them enough. Now she's campaigning for lead?"},{"host":"Claudette","text":"If the campaign is real, she's betting on a bigger role in Part Three. And the Academy loves a narrative."},{"host":"Laura","text":"My only question... is Timothée campaigning for lead too? Because if they're both in lead, one of them is eating the other's votes."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"That's what I was thinking. If they split the Dune vote, neither gets nominated."},{"host":"Laura","text":"Unless the studio has some data that says Zendaya's Chani is the breakout. She does have a massive fanbase."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"But Oscars aren't fan-voted. Sorry, B."},{"host":"Laura","text":"Don't start. You know what I mean. Visibility matters for a campaign."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"Different world entirely: IGN is reporting that EA quietly pulled a bunch of Mass Effect content from Battlefield 6, right after shutting down BioWare."},{"host":"Laura","text":"Wait, wait. Mass Effect content in Battlefield? What does that even look like?"},{"host":"Claudette","text":"Cosmetics mostly, from what's been reported. N7 skins, that sort of thing. Now they're gone."},{"host":"Laura","text":"So EA kills the studio, cancels the next Mass Effect game, and then scrubs the crossover content? That's cold."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"It's a little wild. The timing could be a coincidence, but it looks like they're pulling anything that reminds people of what was lost."},{"host":"Laura","text":"I mean, Mass Effect fans already know. You can't quietly erase N7 from a live service shooter and think nobody notices."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"And the optics! 'We closed the studio, now enjoy your generic soldier skins.'"},{"host":"Laura","text":"Exactly! The only people who liked those skins are the people you just made really angry."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"EA hasn't said anything official. Maybe it's a bug. Maybe it's intentional. But the timing is lousy."},{"host":"Laura","text":"Here's something lighter to cleanse the palate. LaMelo Ball reportedly listed half of his Charlotte condo compound for two point six million."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"Half of it? How do you sell half of a condo compound?"},{"host":"Laura","text":"That's the thing, Complex posted about it, but I couldn't actually confirm the listing anywhere."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"So it's a rumor for now. But the idea of 'half a compound' is funny enough on its own."},{"host":"Laura","text":"I just imagine LaMelo keeping the other half and a new neighbor moving in, sharing the kitchen."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"That's a very intimate living situation for a two point six million dollar condo."},{"host":"Laura","text":"And a real thought from a Bluesky account named Elle, who asks: why is a person IN a movie but ON a TV show?"},{"host":"Claudette","text":"Oh, I love this. Because a TV show is like a program you're on. You're on a show, like you're on the radio."},{"host":"Laura","text":"But you say 'in a film' because a film is a thing you're inside? It's physically there?"},{"host":"Claudette","text":"Maybe it's because TV is a medium. You're on television, so you're on the show. Movies are singular objects."},{"host":"Laura","text":"We do it too! We've said 'he's on that Netflix show' and 'she's in that movie' in the same breath."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"We have, actually. It's completely illogical and I love that English just does this."},{"host":"Laura","text":"The replies are full of people twisting themselves into knots trying to explain it, and nobody agrees."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"Because the truth is, we all just accepted it when we were kids and never questioned it until today."}]}