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Luna Wright breaks silence on Ben Barnes split
E! Entertainment | 09.28.15
It's been nearly two months since Luna Wright and Ben Barnes decided to part ways and the Ragged Way actress is finally breaking silence on what happened.
Wright, 27, has recently attended the TriBeCa Film Festival and was interviewed on a red carpet event about the breakup. She stated that the decision had been mutual and out of pure care for each other. "We had such busy schedules, we barely spent two months together this year and it was getting daunting for both of us. It was a matter of "how is he/she gonna react when I'll tell him/her about this new project I want to take a deeper look into" or "he/she's gonna be devastated when I'll have to cancel that thing we had planned to go to that other thing that just popped up on my schedule". We obviously loved each other dearly but it wasn't the right time for any of us to be in a relationship that broke our hearts out of pure and genuine care for the other. I still support Ben and I always will, he's a phenomenal actor and will always be one of my dearest friends but we felt like it was better for us that way." She wasn't lying as she attended the screening of Barnes' newest movie, Seventh Son.
Wright and Barnes had met a year before, on the set of their movie The Big Wedding. They had started dating a couple of months after wrapping the movie and seemed like a solid couple since then. Rumors had it that Barnes was thinking about asking the big question but they got quickly denied when the pair announced they had split up following almost a year of relationship, stating that they'd remain friends, always.
Luna Wright seen with previous beau, Joe Jonas
Closer | 10.15.15
Seems like Joe Jonas' on-and-off most famous relationship is hitting the on button once again. Three months after Ben Barnes split up, Luna Wright has been spotted enjoying ex's Joe Jonas' band's DNCE's show in New York, at the Webster Hall. She seemed to particularly enjoy the setlist as she was dancing on a balcony with friends.
Jonas and Wright have been involved ever since the two met in New York after a Jonas Brothers' show in Greenwood Village where she was invited by friend Jordin Sparks. They met backstage after the show and the rest is history. Jonas had just dumped Taylor Swift (over a fast voicemail message that led him to become the biggest heartbreaker in country music) and Wright had just split up with fellow actor Chris Pine. They were said to have bonded over the humiliation media had inflicted on them about their breakups (Jonas being the guy who doesn't care about girls' feelings and Wright being the girl who couldn't keep a boyfriend) and quickly started to date after that. She had a cameo in the first music video of the band's third album and even filmed footage of their music video for Fly With Me. It was heavenly rumored that the band's song Much Better had been about Wright when, a few years later, Jonas used to change the lyrics on tour to "Now I'm done with movie stars", following the first split of the couple.
If we have to draw a chart to put back the couple's history together, it'd look like this:
2008: Back in August, Wright and Jonas meet at a show at the Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre in Greenwood Village. They start dating a couple of weeks later.
2009: First breakup happens a year later, in July 2009 after a year of a wobbly relationship made of rumors of cheating and pictures of each others in company of other people. Jonas changes lyrics of his song Much Better to "Now I'm done with movie stars" in August 2009, confirming the two have broken up. However, in November, the two are seen cuddling in Europe as she joined the band on tour. Everybody remembers the pictures of them putting a love lock on a bridge in Paris.
2010: The pair split up again in February, just after Valentine's Day when both of them are seen with other Valentines than themselves. Jonas chose to hang out with another actress, Ashley Greene, and Wright spent the day with her next boyfriend, Ryan Gosling.
2011: The famous exes found themselves back together at a birthday party where they're seen chatting and having drinks. They leave the party together, Wright having a bit of a walk of shame on the next morning when she exits Jonas' place in Los Angeles. They won't be seen together again during the year.
2012: Jonas dates swiss artist Blanda Eggenschwiler and Wright dates Jake Gyllenhaal.
2013: Wright and Gyllenhaal end their relationship in November after almost two years of dating.
2014: Jonas and Eggenschwiler end it in March. The famous exes found themselves back together in June in NYC and come back at it for a couple of months before they part ways without never even confirming anything. Wright meets Ben Barnes on set in May and starts dating him in September.
2015: Jonas dates model Gigi Hadid, Wright dates fellow actor Barnes. They both break up by the end of the summer and Wright is spotted at a DNCE gig is New York.
We could say that Jonas and Wright both go back, afterall, they've known each other for seven years now and apparently can't seem to get enough of each other..
Watch video of Wright dancing to the DNCE songs below!
Joe Jonas on New Funk-Pop Party Band DNCE, Second Chances
The ex–Jonas Brother grows up, cuts loose on 'SWAAY' EP
By AMY CHANDLER
Jack Lawless, Joe Jonas, Cole Whittle and JinJoo (from left) of DNCE. "Getting a chance to come at it like a new artist is incredible," says Jonas.
Joe Jonas has probably lived and experienced more of the music industry than most musicians, even twice his age. His career debuted in 2006, when he and his two brothers released their first album Jonas Brothers. Joe was barely 17 and he had sold his soul to the Disney industry, grooming him and his brothers into a clean-cut band who was rock enough to make them exciting but still had the Christian image to allow moms to buy their daughters tickets to a show. Joe and his brothers have worked for the Disney company for seven years, selling out millions of albums worldwide and filling out arenas. They were the phenomenon that nobody had seen coming but welcomed with open arms. The band, composed only of the three brothers, was free of petty dramas between the band-members, of course, but they still got caught in rumours and dramas with girlfriends and revenges. Before the group's breakup in 2013, Joe tried to follow his little brother Nick's footsteps by releasing his own solo album, Fastlife, which did not know the success it was hoped to meet. After a couple of years to just "live his life", Joe gathered around him a band to explore new horizons. He started by calling back an old friend, Jack Lawless, previous drummer for the Jonas Brothers. They had always talked about getting themselves into a common project, especially when the two used to live together for a while. Then he called Jinjoo Lee, an old friend who he had toured with since she used to be Jordin Sparks' lead guitarist. Cole Whittle was the last addition, a new friend that Joe met while working with an ex-band-turned-producers. That's how DNCE was born. DNCE made their debut with the groovy "Cake by the Ocean." The infectiously upbeat tune has become a viral success. "Cake" is a perfect preview of the band's debut EP, SWAAY, out today, which features equally catchy, quirky songs like "Pay My Rent" and "Toothbrush."
ROLLING STONE: What made you decide to reinvent yourself and go back to a band?
JOE JONAS: I had missed the band type of stuff. Being a solo artist was nice as it allowed me a freedom of expression that I lacked before but it's nice to be on stage and see three other people when you look around you. It's automatically less lonely when you share the lights with someone else. It's tough for artists to get second chances in the music industry these days, and the fact that I get to do it with these guys who love music and are passionate and have a great time onstage is a dream come true. Getting a chance to come at it like a new artist and a new band is incredible.
RS: In this new EP, you explore new sounds and a complete different style of music then what you're used to. How come you decided to go in this direction and how was it for you to create this new type of sound?
JJ: At first, it was a bit daunting to me. I was used to heavy guitars on the Jonas Brothers and then to a more electric/dance type of sound on my solo stuff. We took our time with the band to explore everything we could be doing, we tried a couple of different things but the melody of Cake By The Ocean always came back to us and we would add little bits here and there between different tries of styles. After a week of us playing around and getting back to that melody every three hours or so, we knew that it was the sound that we were meant to produce. It feels comfortable, it allows us to explore our personalities. It's no secret that we're all a bit nuts, the funk-pop sound allows us to play with it and not feel ashamed of being complete nutcases on stage!
RS: Cake By The Ocean was obviously a very sexy song as you explained it found its origin in the saying "sex on the beach" but in the EP, you get a lot deeper into love and what it implies. Where did you get the inspiration for these songs?
JJ: I always write about what's around me. I usually start with something I lived, felt, experienced and then I try to dig around it and bring back everything that had any link to it. I'm not good at writing songs about things that I can't talk about from personal experience so I just don't.
RS: So you're saying that the most romantic songs like Toothbrush for example are from personal experiences?
JJ: Exactly yeah.
RS: Can you say more about it?
JJ: I'd rather let everyone think what they wanna think. I think I've done my fair share of surexposing myself in the past so I'll keep that one for myself.
RS: Fair enough. You spoke earlier in our conversation about second chances. You've seemed to have a lot of those recently.
JJ: I know what you're trying to do (laughs). Okay, let's go there since you won't drop the subject anyway..
RS: You have had quite a rocky relationship in the past with actress Luna Wright. It all started in 2008, when you were 19 and she was 20. You dated for a year and then called it quit but ever since then, it's like you can't spend more than a year without squeezing each other in your personal lives. She was at your show in New York recently.. Has this relationship affected your music?
JJ: When you live a relationship like this one, obviously it affects your music and your writing. We've been through a lot together and we've had our highs and lows but ultimately, she'll always be one of my best friends. Luna is an incredible girl, one I've loved since I was 19 and still do today, but not in the same way. I know I can call her whenever I'm in New York to grab lunch and we'll discuss about everything that's been going on in our lives. Despite everything that could've been said in the past, there has never been bad blood between us. I've had my fair share of mistakes, there are things that I wish I could've handled differently back in the days but ultimately, it's lead us here, in a friendship that I wouldn't exchange for anything else. She's the type of girl everyone loves because she cares deeply about the people she loves and she'll be there for you in ways you never thought could be possible. She just doesn't seem to have a mean bone in her tiny body. I mean.. She boarded flights last minute when I texted her I felt lost sometimes and I would do the same for her, anytime. She just seems to have a very sorted out life (laughs).
RS: Do you confirm that you wrote songs about her?
JJ: Of course, I have! Like I said, I can't write about stuff that I don't relate to and Luna's been part of my life for so long, she's definitely had an impact on me and on how I invest myself in relationships. Even when I write about another girl, there'll always be hints of Luna everywhere, because I wouldn't be the man that I am today without her and the relationship we've had.
RS: So.. Are you really done with movie stars, now?
JJ: (laughs) Only time can tell! All I can say is that she lives in New York, I live in LA most of the time or I'm on the road, it's not the most practical situation but everytime I end up in NYC or she ends up in LA, we know we're just a phone call away and we can grab a bite, go on a walk, catch a movie or something. At this point, Luna is someone I would never see myself without. She's too important of a friend.
RS: Just friends?
JJ: Again, I can't predict the future but right now, just friends. I think we've explored everything we could have explored together. We're still fairly young, the both of us. We have a lot left to live and I'm excited to see where we'll both end up. I've no doubt she'll win an academy award one of these days and who knows, maybe there's a Grammy out there for DNCE!
DNCE's EP Swaay, released on October, 23rd.
Wilson casts Sebastian Stan, Luna Wright, Harrison Ford and Logan Lerman cast in new project
By AMY LAURYN | 16.01.24
Amy Lauryn International Editor
CREDIT: CHRIS LAUSTEN
Variety is reporting that director Damian Wilson has been going through casting process all over the States and has finally noted down some of the distribution for his new drama to be filmed in the beginning of April. As known for now, Harrison Ford (Star Wars, Indiana Jones), Logan Lerman (The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Percy Jackson) and Sebastian Stan (Gossip Girl, Captain America: The First Avenger) have signed on to star in the as-yet-untilted film. We can confirm that Luna Wright (The Dying Edge, Ragged Way) is the latest addition to this already shining cast .
The film has been written by Wilson and novelist Jackie Moore and it takes place in New York, following "Olive, a thirstysomething woman navigating love and heartbreak over the course of a year. During that time, she will explore Life in a way that she never had, experiencing feelings and things that she isn't used to and needs help to get through. She will rely on the help of her family and some unexpected hand."
Producer Jaimie Chung of CE Entertainment had very little to say about the new project, only stating that "the more time we spend with Damian, the more we realise that he is a brilliant storyteller with already a set of ideas and a precise vision of what he wants to shoot, how he wants to do it and when. Luna, Sebastian, Harrison and Logan are all amazing actors that we are thrilled to have on this project with us. We have no doubt that Damian will bring something very special for us to screen to audiences."
Wilson's latest project, Grey Skies, starring Blake Lively, Colin O'Donoghue and Vanessa Hudgens, premiered at Sundance earlier this year and was critically acclaimed for the photography and script. It seems like we're in for a new treat.
Luna Wright gets candid about her role in Everglow
Just Jared | 16.02.27
It's been barely a month since Damian Wilson has confirmed he had casted Luna Wright in his upcoming movie and already the actress can't wait to tell more about this new project. Wright has a very long filmography behind her, having started to film when she was just seventeen in teen comedy When The Sun Goes Down, along with Chris Pine, her very first boyfriend, who played her character's best friend's big brother. She counts more than thirty movies to her name, ranging from rom-coms to drama to indie author movies. She just seems to never stop shooting movies.
When asked about her new project, Luna was excited to say that Damian Wilson had been one of her dream director for so long. "When I read the script, I called my agent and I told him 'I need this movie, I can't let it pass, call everyone you need to call but get me an audition!'. I flew to LA, I passed an audition, I got Damian's phone number because I was geeking out so much and we ended up texting over the script, over the story and what I had in mind. He called me like, three hours into our texting frenzy to say that he couldn't imagine Olive to be portrayed by anyone else because I was too into it."
"Olive is this very fragile girl who just got cheated on by her fiancé with her best friend and whose life is crumbling down in front of her. She's depressed, she doesn't trust anyone anymore, she just wants to disappear. Her dad and her brother try to bring her back to life, to put some joy again in her and they just can't seem to succeed. Her depression gets in the way of her job, she gets fired, she struggles to do anything but sleep and cry and it's heartbreaking to see this character who used to be such a bubble of energy becoming this dull. The story follows Olive during the four seasons, there's a part in summer, one in fall, one in winter and one in spring and I can't wait to see how Damian is going to film everything. We've talked a lot about the colors and everything, I'm honestly geeking out so much right now it's embarassing!"
One thing is sure, we can't wait to know who the heck Harrison Ford is going to play in this movie!