{"id":2280746,"date":"2026-02-13T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2280746"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:15:07","slug":"donna-langley-on-bafta-fellowship-why-the-odyssey-was-not-a-difficult-yes-shooting-the-next-fast-furious-in-l-a-and-future-wicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/donna-langley-on-bafta-fellowship-why-the-odyssey-was-not-a-difficult-yes-shooting-the-next-fast-furious-in-l-a-and-future-wicked\/","title":{"rendered":"Donna Langley on BAFTA Fellowship, Why \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Was \u2018Not a Difficult Yes,\u2019 Shooting The Next \u2018Fast & Furious\u2019 in L.A. and Future \u2018Wicked\u2019 Plans (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As a young executive at New Line Cinema<\/a> and recent Los Angeles arrival from the U.K., Donna Langley<\/a> recalls becoming a BAFTA member for the first time and attending numerous special screenings put on by the British Academy. One of these was for Ang Lee<\/a>\u2019s 2000 hit \u201cCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the projector broke,\u201d she says. \u201cBut it was really fun, because I got to stick around. I was very young in my career and I just got to talk to a lot of people, and it was, to me, very representative of the community. And of course there were lots of Brits in the room. It was a nice moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 25 years on and Langley \u2014 now chair of NBCUniversal Entertainment<\/a> and one of the most powerful and respected execs in the industry \u2014 is probably attending fewer BAFTA screenings. But she is about to be celebrated on…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a young executive at New Line Cinema and recent Los Angeles arrival from the U.K., Donna Langley recalls becoming a BAFTA member for the first time and attending numerous special screenings put on by the British Academy. One of these was for Ang Lee\u2019s 2000 hit \u201cCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.\u201d \u201cAnd the projector broke,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2280747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2280746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Donna-Langley-on-BAFTA-Fellowship-Why-\u2018The-Odyssey-Was-\u2018Not.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280748,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280746\/revisions\/2280748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}