Hollywood star Drew Barrymore claims she has no trouble lasting “years” without sex. The 47-year-old actress poked fun at Andrew Garfield’s method acting approach to his role as a Jesuit priest in 2016’s ‘Silence’, which saw him abstain from intimacy and food for six months.

“Well, I get abstaining from sex, I did that my entire twenties. I was like what’s wrong with me that six months doesn’t seem like a very long time. I was like, ‘Yeah so?’ ” the host quipped when speaking on ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’ this week, reports aceshowbiz.com.

Her co-star Ross Matthews joked, “I mean, we buried the lea there. That’s the headline, ‘Drew can go six months, no big deal.’ “

She replied, “Oh, years.”

Drew has also used method acting in the past, particularly when she was playing Edie Beale in ‘Gray Gardens’, which earned her a Golden Globe award.

She explained, “There are lots of actors who have, Christian Bale, Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, you do want to transform and fully commit, so I understand that.”

“I definitely on certain projects, like when I was doing ‘Gray Gardens’ this film I did where I played this beloved real-life woman Edie BealeaI was so nervous I didn’t really chit chat with everybody on set, I just really stayed in character, or her.”

Last month, Andrew opened up about the way he approached playing a 17th-century priest in “Silence” and described it as an “incredibly spiritual experience.”

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He said, “I did a bunch of spiritual practices every day. I created new rituals for myself. I was celibate for six months, and fasting a lot, because me and Adam (Driver) had to lose a bunch of weight anyway.”

“There were all the spiritual practices we got to do while we were praying, meditating, having all the intentions we had as those characters. It was very cool, man. I had some pretty wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sex and food for that period of time.”

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After premiering in front of a sold-out crowd at the Toronto International Film Festival, the new film Rosie will hit the big screen in Edmonton on opening night of the Edmonton International Film Festival Thursday.

For Métis director Gail Maurice her movie was inspired by the desire to tell a story that explored the strength of chosen family bonds and the impacts of intergenerational trauma through events like the Sixties Scoop. 

“I just wanted to tell a beautiful story about a little girl who has an open heart and sees the world with non-judgment,”  Maurice said in an interview with CBC’s Edmonton AM Wednesday.

The movie, which started as a short feature in 2017, follows the story of Rosie, a young Indigenous, English-speaking girl who is adopted by her francophone aunt in Montreal during the 1980s. 

LISTEN | Director and actor talk to CBC’s Edmonton AM about EIFF opening movie Rosie

The new film “Rosie” recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to a sold-out crowd and is now hoping to make the same splash in Edmonton. On Sept. 22, the movie will open the Edmonton International Film Festival and writer, director and producer Gail Maurice as well as co-producer and actor Melanie Bray joined Edmonton AM to talk about the film and their blossoming success on the festival circuit.

Rosie is adopted after her mother dies and she is unable to reconnect with other family members due to lost records. 

The story shows how she learns to navigate feelings of alienation through the help of her chosen family, who are her aunt’s friends. 

The film explores the Cree perspective of being genderless and the power of characters who live on the fringes of society.

Maurice, who also acts in the movie, said it was important for her to make the movie trilingual to explore her native language of Michif. The language is a combination of Cree and French, while also borrowing from other languages including English and Ojibway. It is spoken by about 1,000 people in British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

“I’ve lived in Toronto for over 20 years and in those 20 years, maybe five [people], have ever heard of Michif so I wanted to be able to talk about on my language,” Maurice said. 

By also throwing the main character Rosie into a world where the language is foreign, Maurice said she wanted to drive home the point that love is what uplifts the family at the end of the movie. 

Montreal actor and producer Melanie Bray plays Rosie’s bilingual aunt Frédèrique and said in an interview with CBC’s Edmonton AM that it was a joy to revisit the character. 

“I’m honoured that Gail wrote the part for me and it’s not often that you get to play the same part twice,” Bray said. 

Keris Hope Hill of Six Nations of the Grand River, Ont., played the character of Rosie and Bray said she was a perfect fit. 

“One of the biggest challenges is some little kids submitted great auditions, but then we’d meet them and they were so shy … she [Keris] was at the beginning,” Bray said. 

“But by the end, she was dragging me around by the hand and was my best friend.”

Maurice said she hopes people will walk away from the movie feeling a spectrum of emotions. 

“It’s very poignant, but in the next scene, you’re going to be laughing and there’s a lot of humour and in Indigenous cultures, for example, at our wakes, we tell stories, we play cards, we laugh, even though our hearts are breaking,” Maurice said. 

“So I tried to bring that into Rosie, by the end, you’ll feel good … triumphant.”

Rosie will open EIFF on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Landmark Cinemas 9 Edmonton City Centre.

It’s swag all the way for fans of Tollywood Megastar and Bollywood’s Bhai as the ‘Thaar Maar’ song featuring Chiranjeevi and Salman Khan was launched in Telugu and Hindi on Wednesday.

The two megastars literally set the dance floor on fire with their unmatched style in the number from the Chiranjeevi-starrer ‘Godfather’.

Chiranjeevi and Salman Khan are in their element as they execute a massy hook step with background dancers grooving in sync with them. The track has a funky beat composed by ace music composer S.S. Thaman.

Choreographed by Prabhu Deva, the video shows Chiranjeevi making stylish entry with his hand on his face, whereas Salman enters while biting his nails. The two stars are seen wearing the same black outfit and donning black shades.

Shreya Ghoshal adds extra zing to this catchy foot-tapping number with her vocals, to the number penned by Anantha Sriram.

The video also includes BTS visuals of Chiranjeevi, Salman Khan, Prabhu Deva and the team having fun time shooting for the song.

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R.B. Choudary and N.V. Prasad are mounting the movie grandly under Konidela Productions and Super Good Films banners, while Konidela Surekha presents it. Nirav Shah has cranked the camera, while Suresh Selvarajan is the art director.

GodFather is scheduled for a grand release in Telugu and Hindi on October 5.

Amid the sold-out movie premieres and star-studded red carpets, there was another side of the Toronto International Film Festival unfolding in places like the Soho Metropolitan Hotel on Wellington Street.

“Every hotel room has a different sales agent,” said Laurie May, co-president of Elevation Pictures and a member of TIFF’s board of directors.

Behind the scenes, distributors and studios met with sales agents and filmmakers. These meetings, as well as buzz from the festival can determine when, how, and sometimes if a film can one day be seen by a wider audience.

While high profile studio films like The Fablemans, The Woman King, and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery should all have fairly conventional releases in the coming weeks and months, what happens to some of the other more than 200 films in TIFF’s lineup now that the festival is over?

Some films may never find a wider audience, but others found deals to land on the big screen — although in many cases where, when, and for how long are still up in the air.

Huddles and hotel meetings

It isn’t just cinephiles in the audience at TIFF. Even at showings open to the public, deals could be percolating. 

“Distributors will go to a public screening of the film,” said Geoff MacNaughton, senior director of industry and theatrical programming at TIFF. “[They] will leave that screening, all get in their little huddles and talk about if it’s something that they really want to bid on and chase.”

Some films screen exclusively for buyers and industry professionals, like Door Mouse, a Canadian thriller about a comic book writer working in a nightclub who investigates the disappearances of a number of young women.

“These kinds of screenings, [they’re] fun because it just makes sure that everybody’s paying attention,” said Todd Olsson, president of international sales at Highland Film Group, who are selling Door Mouse.

Changing landscape

MacNaughton says in the past there were more completed films looking for buyers at the festival. 

“Now, I think what the industry is doing more and more is buying content that is at an earlier stage of completion, kind of like a project package or script stage,” he said. 

In addition to the films on screen, TIFF provides an opportunity for the industry to meet and broker deals for projects that haven’t been made yet. One example of that phenomenon at this year’s festival is Dumb Money, May said, a yet-to-be-shot film about the GameStop stock saga that will star Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, and Pete Davidson.

According to May, Elevation’s investor and partner Black Bear Pictures had plans to be at the Soho selling the international rights to the film to various distributors.

She compares independent film financing to building a condominium. 

“You presell 60 per cent of the condo and then you go to the bank and borrow the other 40 per cent knowing that it’s a small gap that you have to cover,” she said. 

WATCH | The Woman King premiered at TIFF and is now playing across Canada: The Woman King stars Viola Davis as Nanisca, a military general of the Agojie — the famous all-woman warrior band charged with protecting the kingdom of Dahomey in 19th-century West Africa.

Cancon challenges

It may be tough for Canadian films at TIFF to convince distributors they’re commercially worthy of being shown to a wider Canadian audience.

According to an April report from Motion Picture Association – Canada, Canadian films represented just 2.6 per cent of theatrical revenues in the Canadian English language market last year.

“Despite the large number of Canadian productions that are out there, theatrical audiences still flock to Hollywood films,” said Tom Alexander, director of theatrical distribution for Mongrel Media.

Director Ashley McKenzie makes films in their native Cape Breton Island, often using first-time actors and crew members who live in the community. She feels this local approach can make it harder to appeal to distributors.

McKenzie was at TIFF with Queens of the Qing Dynasty, a drama about a neurodiverse teen in a remote small town who’s been deemed unfit to live by herself after a suicide attempt. 

She feels part of the challenge is due to investors being hesitant to take a risk on films with unknown actors from emerging filmmakers, but she also feels there’s a geographic hurdle to finding distribution in an industry she describes as centralized around big urban centres, especially Toronto.

“I am aware of a lot of filmmakers making films in their communities like myself,” she said. “I’m hoping that maybe some more options become available … in getting some of those films seen and distributed.”

Heading into the festival, McKenzie was searching for a distributor for Queens of the Qing Dynasty and came to an agreement with Toronto-based distribution company MDFF, which may lead to a theatrical release in late 2022 or early 2023.  She also has a pre-sale licence agreement with CBC films that will eventually provide a landing spot for the film.

Buzz (or not)

Attention at TIFF can affect the release schedules for films, even if distributors already have the rights, said John Bain, head of distribution at levelFILM.

“If you get especially positive buzz, does that mean we should rush it out while it might have a lot of attention?” he said.

The opposite can be true for films that don’t generate attention.

“It takes a long time for a distribution deal to come together if a film doesn’t get that critical buzz out of the festival,” said MacNaughton.

Some films at the festival may never receive distribution, says Alexander.

“Certainly a lot of films and very good films will play. But for whatever reason, distribution companies may simply not be able to see the potential for audiences.”

Finding a wider audience

MacNaughton says TIFF’s Film Circuit program will bring festival films to more than 140 communities, starting back up this September after a multi-year hiatus. 

“We’re working closely with community partners across Canada to ensure that not only Toronto audiences are seeing these films, but audiences across Canada are seeing them,” he said.

Some of the Canadian films have domestic distribution lined up ahead of time, since it can be a common condition to unlock funding, although that doesn’t guarantee a wide release.

Mongrel Media is distributing I Like Movies, about a curmudgeonly teenager working in a video store in early 2000s Ontario. Alexander says the company looks to release their films theatrically whenever possible. 

“We are seeing that audiences are coming back to the theaters and we’re continuing to play films in theaters when we can,” he said. 

However he said that those releases tend to be limited, and focused on big urban centres, so it may be easier to see some of these films in theatres in Vancouver than Viking, Alta. 

Past examples

Last year’s program may provide a rough guide as to when Canadians might be able to watch some of this year’s Canadian TIFF selections.

Scarborough, which won the 2022 Canadian Screen Award for best picture, was distributed by levelFILM and had a theatrical release in February, before making its way to Crave this past summer.

Nightraiders, a dystopian film about a mother trying to rescue her daughter from a state run institution was named one of the TIFF’s top ten Canadian features last year. It released in more than It also made its way to Crave earlier this year, and opened in 80 theatres in October 2021, a record total for an Indigenous film.

Learn to Swim, which was named on TIFF’s list of top ten Canadian features at last year’s festival and had a theatrical release this past March. It was recently made available in the U.S. on Netflix, and is available to rent or buy on various video on demand platforms in Canada.

While important, the film festival is one step, and not the final one on the long journey a film takes from inception to reaching a wider audience.

“Half of the films that are out there get made right. And then half of those half get into festivals and then a quarter of those half get distribution, right?” May said. 

“It’s a long road … but when you do get on that path and that road works out well, it’s a beautiful thing.” 

Movie theaters in Indian-controlled Kashmir have reopened their doors, more than two decades after they were forced shut during an armed rebellion that saw multiple threats and attacks on crowded public places.

The lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha, inaugurated the disputed region’s newest cinema on Tuesday, in a ceremony marked with much hype and fanfare.

“(The opening) is a reflection of a new dawn of hope, dreams, confidence and aspirations of people,” Sinha told reporters outside the theater in Indian Kashmir’s largest city, Srinagar, calling it a “historic” day, according to the Press Trust of India.

The theater held a special screening of the film “Lal Singh Chaddha,” a Bollywood remake of “Forrest Gump,” that stars two of India’s biggest superstars, Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor.

The movie theater will open to the public on September 30, according to businessman, Vijay Dhar, who has partnered with Indian cinema chain Inox Leisure Ltd., to open the theater in Srinagar.

“I’m doing this from the heart. This is for Kashmir, it’s for the national interest,” Dhar told CNN.

“Bollywood and Kashmir have a long connection,” he said. “A lot of older Bollywood films were shot in Kashmir. We’d like Bollywood to come back, to create that same atmosphere.”

Inox Leisure Ltd. said it felt “beyond elated” by the opening in a post on Twitter, adding it was the “beginning of a new era.”

Kashmir is one of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints. Claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan, the mountainous region has been the epicenter for more than 70 years of an often violent territorial struggle between the nuclear-armed neighbors. A de facto border called the Line of Control divides it between New Delhi and Islamabad.

Militancy shuts cinema doors

In the late 1980s, a violent insurgency in Indian-controlled Kashmir claimed the lives of more than 9,000 civilians according to the Indian government, though estimates vary. Movie theaters were forced to close in the aftermath.

Authorities attempted to reopen them, but a deadly militant attack at the Regal Cinema in 1999 thwarted those efforts, the Press Trust of India reported.

In 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s semi-autonomous status and officially split the former state into two union territories, giving the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.

Following the move, Modi imposed an almost-complete communications black-out for more than two-and-a-half months – in a move that was heavily criticized by local leaders and triggered protests.

India said the move to revoke the status was to ensure the nation’s laws were equal for all citizens and to increase economic development in the region, as well as to end separatism and terrorism it alleged was aided and abetted by Pakistan.

Since then, the Indian government has introduced a series of policies that it claims will bring development to the region.

Last year, the government implemented a policy aimed to promote Indian-controlled Kashmir as a popular filming destination.

“A well-nurtured film industry can be a major source of wealth creation, employment generation and effective tool and platform for preservation of culture and expression of the people of Jammu and Kashmir,” it said. “The industry can promote Jammu and Kashmir’s potential as an investment and tourist destination.”

Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar might not have had a successful run at the box-office and OTT this year, so far, but a recent outing with his daughter Nitara made him feel like a true hero. The actor took to his Instagram to share a video and a picture of himself roaming around an amusement park with Nitara.

He captioned his Instagram post: “Took my daughter to an amusement park yesterday. Looking at her happy smile on winning not one but two stuffed toys for her was hands down the closest I’ve felt to being a hero. #BestDayEver.”

In the picture and the video, Akshay and Nitara can be seen with their backs facing the camera and holding soft toys while roaming around the park. The actor is at his casual best in loose clothing with a huge soft toy over his head.

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On the work front, Akshay’s four films have tanked this year, including the theatrical releases of ‘Bachchhan Paandey’, ‘Samrat Prithviraj’, ‘Raksha Bandhan’ and the streaming movie ‘Cuttputlli’. A Hindi remake of the 2018 Tamil film ‘Ratsasan’, ‘Cuttputlli’ has reportedly become one of the least watched films on OTT.

For the year 2022, Akshay’s last release would be ‘Ram Setu’. His ‘Selfiee’, ‘OMG 2’ and the Hindi remake of ‘Soorarai Pottru’ are lined up for release in 2023.

The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival has come and gone faster than you can say The Banshees of Inisherin. 

Fully in-person for the first time in two years, TIFF welcomed celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig, Jessica Chastain, Kate Hudson, Eddie Redmayne and Seth Rogen back to King Street West — a place where chaos reigned and Harry Styles fans camped outside for hours just to catch a glimpse of the pop star.

Buzzy films like Glass Onion, The Fabelmans and Women Talking triumphed, while Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, The People’s Joker and My Policeman made headlines.

But audiences and reporters alike were flummoxed by ticketing difficulties ahead of the festival’s 10-day run, with organizers introducing a new system to get people into downtown Toronto’s theatres, and some screenings allowing moviegoers in without tickets.

Yup, the famous fest’s 47th edition was a star-studded whirlwind of red carpet moments, boisterous screenings and the odd scandal — and CBC News was on the scene for all of it. Most of it, anyway.

Red carpet moments

• Movie star behaviour: After waving to the crowd outside, Daniel Craig bolted down the red carpet for whodunit sequel Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery wearing sunglasses, chewing gum and dispensing with questions like a secret agent dodging bullets. But the actor was all smiles just a few moments later, presenting the film on stage before its world premiere.

• While singer Harry Styles skipped interviews to pose with his many fans and take red carpet photos (in an excellent green jacket, toting a Gucci handbag) his My Policeman colleagues sung his praises. “I’m very flattered to be the older Harry Styles,” said Linus Roache, who plays the elder version of Styles’ character. “I’m waiting for him to invite me to go on tour with him.”

• Sheila McCarthy, a force in Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, excitedly told reporters on the red carpet that she was wearing her wedding dress: a long gown with a black bodice and dreamy white skirt.

• The Good Nurse‘s Eddie Redmayne said he and co-star Jessica Chastain became very close while filming the medical thriller. The Oscar winners had “known each other socially in which you do in acting … you sort of meet on the sofas of talk shows and you get publicly humiliated together,” he joked.

• Hugh Jackman, star of The Son, earned some serious “man of the people” points after spending a full 30 minutes talking to fans and then another 30 with reporters at the drama’s premiere. (That’s an eternity in red-carpet time.) Making his way through the crowd, Jackman grinned ear to ear. How do you say “mensch” in Australian?

• The kids of Seaside Hockey — local hockey program for Black youths — gathered on the Black Ice red carpet and excitedly posed for a photo, yelling: “Seaside!” The young team make an appearance in the documentary about the history of anti-Black racism in Canada’s favourite pastime.

• Working his way down the carpet for war drama Devotion, Jonathan Majors put his hand on CBC reporter Jackson Weaver’s shoulder and pulled him close, asking him what he thought of the movie: “Tell me what you think. Right now: 1 out of 10. Go!” 

Celebrity odds and ends

• Nightmare scenario: Alice, Darling star Anna Kendrick got stuck in an elevator hours before a TIFF appearance, documenting it with relish on Instagram. (It’s unclear if the people trapped with her enjoyed the viral moment as much as she did.) The group was later rescued by a team of firefighters who airlifted them out of the elevator’s top hatch.

• During a conversation with TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey, Taylor Swift seemed to confirm rumours that her new video for All Too Well makes allusions — which include that famous red scarf — to her former relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal. “I think when I say it’s a metaphor I’m just going to stop,” the pop star said, smiling.

• Empire of Light director Sam Mendes, musician Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Swimmers filmmaker-screenwriter Sally El Hosaini, Women Talking composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and the ensemble cast of My Policeman all took home TIFF awards this year. 

• Kathryn Hahn and Kate Hudson, now co-starring in Glass Onion, gushed on the red carpet about working together in Toronto almost 20 years ago while shooting How To Lose A Guy in Ten Days. The film was one of Hahn’s earliest roles and became Hudson’s signature role, establishing her as the queen of the 2000s romantic comedy.

• Brendan Fraser and Michelle Yeoh are reunited, and it feels so good. The pair who also took home TIFF awards, are both enjoying early Oscar buzz (Fraser for The Whale, Yeoh for Everything Everywhere All At Once). Both were in Toronto 14 years after starring in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor together.  

Screenings and scandals

• The audience at Roy Thomson Hall broke into cheers when David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet) made a well-timed cameo appearance in Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical love letter to filmmaking, The Fabelmans. 

• French director Alice Diop dedicated the screening of her film Saint Omer to legendary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, whose death had made headlines just hours before, on Sept. 13. 

• It’s a time-honoured tradition: Films try to win over festival audiences by mentioning the cities in which they occur — but some references fall flat. The Son, in its final scene, features a character who has seemingly moved to Toronto out of the blue. “I love the city!” he insists, but he’s not fooling anyone — least of all the TIFF audience, which had a good laugh at the cringe-inducing scene.

• It’s rare for films to be pulled from the TIFF lineup, but this year, there were two: The People’s Joker, a queer film set in the Batman universe, was pulled after its premiere over what organizers called a “rights issue” — presumably raised by lawyers at Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns DC Comics. A mini-social media campaign sprouted in support for the indie satire: #FREETHEPEOPLESJOKER. 

• The film Sparta was pulled from the TIFF lineup after a news article in German outlet Der Spiegel reported “impropriety involving children” on the movie’s set, with Austrian director Ulrich Seidl accused of child exploitation. The director allegedly did not disclose the film’s subject matter — about a Romanian pedophile — to the production’s non-professional child actors.

• During the Midnight Madness screening of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, a Photoshopped montage of Queen Elizabeth fighting the titular character elicited groans from the audience, with the film premiering just 12 hours after her death was announced. 

• Anthony Shim, the director of Canadian drama Riceboy Sleeps, tells a TIFF audience that he and his casting team discovered eight-year-old, first-time actor Dohyun Noel Hwang through an ad in one of Vancouver’s Korean newspapers.

Acclaimed actor Pankaj Tripathi loves telling a story, and he wants to try his hands at directing movies.

Pankaj said: “I came in because I love the process and how the actor becomes a part of the story telling. Coming from a small village in Bihar, I grew up listening to stories. Now I have developed a liking for telling stories too.”

“So, apart from acting, I would like to direct a movie. A producer also plays an important part, but it is the director who has the vision of the story.”

The actor has been part of many movies, but it was Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ in 2012 that turned out to be his breakthrough performance.

The actor was last seen in the film ‘Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga’. He is now gearing up for ‘Fukrey 3’ and ‘OMG 2 – Oh My God!’.
 

Comedian Pete Davidson is enjoying his life after breaking up with reality TV personality Kim Kardashian earlier this year.

Giving an update of the comedian’s current life was Martha Stewart, who previously found herself in a bizarre rumour that she’s dating him, reports aceshowbiz.com.

In a new interview, the lifestyle guru said Pete is busy with several film productions.

“He’s doing two movies at the present time,” she said while promoting her Green Mountain Coffee Roasters partnership to E! News.

Stewart also shared that the ‘Saturday Night Live’ alum’s “agreed to do my podcast,” though they haven’t locked in a date for the podcast.

Stewart went on to share that Pete is currently living the best of his life despite splitting from ‘The Kardashians’ star.

“He’s having the time of his life,” Stewart claimed.

“This guy is a talented actor (and) comedian, and who is a bon vivant at the same time. He’s fun.”

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Stewart’s comment arrived after she addressed viral memes that suggested that she and the comedian were hooking up after they were spotted together shortly post it became public that Pete had broken up with Kim.

“Pete Davidson is like the son I never had,” the 81-year-old told DailyMail.com.

She went on to explain, “He is a charming boy who is finding his way. I’ve invited him to come on my podcast and I look forward to hearing what he has to say.”

Martha was responding to a viral tweet featuring her holding hands with Pete as she posed for a photo with the former couple at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April.

A fan captioned the photoshoot, which has received over 44,000 likes, “We should’ve seen this coming.”

Prior to this, Stewart claimed that Kim and Pete’s relationship was “unlikely” but felt that the pair were “cute together.”

She said, “They seem to have a nice affection for one another, which is so nice.”

Kim and Pete called it quits after dating for nine months.

The pair, who were first linked in October last year, reportedly broke up due to “immaturity and young age.” However, a friend of Davidson claimed that ‘The King of Staten Island’ star dumped the ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ alum.

“She’s 20 years older, she has four kids and she was married to Kanye West who was always making trouble for them,” Johnny Potenza said.

“Kanye was picking fights and calling him names. For a man of his age it was childish – a pathetic love drama. Most of the people I know in Staten Island were saying it wouldn’t last.”