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Catch Lance Reddick’s final standout role in John Wick: Chapter 4
Mumbai: Every great friendship has an even greater beginning. Such was the case for the amazing late Lance Reddick and veteran actor Ian McShane. From their very first interaction, as funny as it may be, their friendship seemed inevitable and it served to be a memorable one. Lance always had an interesting dynamic with Ian, much like Charon has with Winston, resulting in spectacular on-screen and off-screen chemistry between the two. With John Wick: Chapter 4 gearing up for its digital premiere on 23 June exclusively on Lionsgate Play, what better way to pay tribute to an icon than honoring him and his amazing friendships through his own words!
Talking about his friendship and working with Ian McShane, Lance Reddick said, “It’s so funny because the first time I ever met Ian was in the scene at the end of John Wick: Chapter 2. So I’ve been a fan but I’d never met him before. As a matter of fact, when I first met Ian, I was being very weird because I was kind of tongue-tied and he was just – ‘Hey man how are you doing’, and I was like – ‘Oh, uh, huh?’, and he was looking at me like – ‘what’s the matter with you, are you okay?’ (laughs) That’s really when we became friends.”
Speaking about his onscreen chemistry with Ian, Lance said, “One of the things that’s so interesting about that relationship is it feels so close from the first film, particularly Charon, it seems like he’s calling the manager every other scene, but you don’t really see them together until the very end of the second film. We didn’t really have any scenes together until the third film, but the way the relationship plays out in the third film, it almost informs what happened before in the first two films, so you get a sense that they’ve been together for many, many, many years, probably even before the continental.”
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WhatsApp may soon let users to pick who sees their status updates
The messaging giant is borrowing a page from Instagram’s playbook as it pushes to give users finer control over their social circles.
CALIFORNIA: WhatsApp is quietly working on a feature that could make its Status function considerably smarter and considerably more private.
According to reports from beta tracking platforms, the app is testing a tool called Status lists, which would allow users to create named groups such as close friends, family and colleagues, and control precisely which group sees each update. It is a meaningful step up from the platform’s current blunt instruments, which offer only three options: share with all contacts, exclude specific people, or manually select individuals each time.
The new feature draws an obvious comparison with Instagram’s Close Friends function, and the resemblance is unlikely to be accidental. Both platforms sit within Meta’s family, and the company has been nudging them toward a common logic of audience segmentation for some time.
The move also fits neatly into WhatsApp’s broader privacy push. The platform has been rolling out enhanced chat protections and is exploring the introduction of usernames, which would allow users to connect without exchanging phone numbers. Status lists extend that philosophy from messaging into broadcasting.
Meanwhile, Status itself has been evolving well beyond its origins as a simple photo-and-text slideshow. The feature now supports music stickers, collages, longer videos and interactive elements, pushing it closer to the social-media-style story format pioneered by Snapchat and refined by Instagram. In that context, finer audience controls are not merely a privacy feature. They are a precondition for people sharing more.
The feature remains in development and has not been confirmed for release. WhatsApp routinely tests tools that are later modified or quietly shelved. But the direction of travel is clear: the app wants Status to be a destination, not an afterthought. Letting users decide exactly who is in the audience is how it gets there.
