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lunatheseus · 9 months

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actors who were born to act and what I think about them

Cillian Murphy : GOD he's such a phenomenal actor. From Watching the Detectives (with Lucy Liu) to the Dark Knight Trilogy to Peaky Blinders (and Oppenheimer ofc), Cillian is able to embody every character that he plays. His Oppenheimer performance blew me away, and his ability to play morally grey and complex characters is unparalleled. On top of that, he's also just a very humble and down-to-earth human being and its incredibly admirable. I also love his almost naïve point of view when it comes to modern day slang...(what's a meme?) its adorable.

Eddie Redmayne: As a Fantastic Beasts fanatic, I absolutely adore Eddie Redmayne. He IS Newt Scamander in a different font and no one can convince me otherwise. He doesn't seem to be as well-known as other actors but his performances still leave me wanting more. Eddie also plays Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything and James in The Aeronauts (and his co-stat being Felicity Jones in both movies! But that's for another day). These two movies stole my heart honestly and they make me feel whole but also empty every time I watch them again. Now that I think about it, Eddie is probably most well known buy his part in Les Mis, but I personally don't know much about that. The fact that he was an art history major makes it so much better! Anyway, Eddie is also a very down-to-earth and humble person, and I love his attitude when he interacts with fans.

Sam Claflin: Once I dipped my toe into The Hunger Games fanbase/arena, there was no turning back. Sam Claflin, playing Finnick Odair, the complex pretty boy, really peaked my interest when it came to his acting range. And oh boy was the rabbit hole endless. Sam's performances in the movie adaptations Love, Rosie and You Before Me were devastatingly beautiful in the most gut-wrenching way. His role in playing Mycroft in Enola Holmes was amusing but also incredible when alongside Henry Cavill and Millie Bobby Brown (That trio will forever be legendary in my opinion but that's for another day as well). Anyway, I also watched a trailer (can't seem to remember the name of the movie), but in it, Sam was playing a psycho murderer, and to me it really showcases his range of acting abilities.. I won't say Sam Claflin is one of those actors who can play all types of characters, but there is an element in his performances that are really compelling, and draw the audience in. Just, in the way he breathes and talks (and the way that he is almost always cast to play an American and has to hide his accent) makes him a very eye-catching actor. He's also very funny irl.

Florence Pugh: I'm adding Florence Pugh because how can I not. She's in so many phenomenally directed movies, and she's incredible at micro-expressions that I can't help myself. Her performance in Don't Worry Darling, Black Widow, Little Women, Hawkeye, and Oppenheimer completely blew me away. Her little pout also changes so much about the scene once she pulls it out. Outside of her acting career, I also admire her attitude towards the industry. From refusing to go on diets to being willing to be intimate onscreen, Florence Pugh has balanced her personal opinions and her work so well. Her accent work is also phenomenal.

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ellorypurebloodculture · 9 months

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Just realized that had Voldy won, Magical Britain would have likely suffered an economic collapse. Muggleborn and Halfblood families literally pour money into the magical community, but there are really no known instances of magical wealth being used in the muggle world. Because most if not all use of miggle goods is through imitation via transfiguration or the like.

And I doubt the people who curse muggle objects (like what Arthur Weasley works with) care to purchase them first.

Magical families who have books and cauldrons, witches gardens and potions, brooms and wands of their own passed through the family don't necessarily need to go out and buy extras, though at least for a some things they do. A family library only needs one copy of a book and everyone in the family can use it, but Muggleborns would each need their own copy as there don't seem to be public libraries in the magical world. A few semesters without Muggleborn students and some of the businesses in Diagon and Hogsmeade would have to shut down. I'd give it Three years max before the country starts to grind to a halt as the lower classes lose access to basic goods because of inflation and product scarcity.

In canon? 🤔

I mean, Voldemort's pure-blood supremacy agenda would have mainly left the pure-bloods and notable half-bloods, many of whom are canonically exceptionally wealthy.

There aren't many known Muggle-borns compared to half-bloods and pure-bloods in canon. The Wikia has a list of, if I counted correctly, twenty-three canon Muggle-borns across all the eras.

And we do have several instances of wizards and witches shopping in the Muggle World, I believe. Harry having seen several people (not just Order Members) at shops and such in the Muggle World. Am I remembering that rightly?

And I think the department was Misuse of Muggle Artefacts? Which would imply they're acceptable imports if not bespelled and misused?

But even the Weasleys buy things secondhand (like Ron's dress robes). And I do believe they had to buy each child (Percy, George, Fred, and Ginny) the complete set of Lockhart's books in CoS. 🤔

If I'm remembering correctly, Transfiguration is canonically the most difficult magical subject and many people struggle with it. If a mistake is made, things can get permanently stuck partially Transfigured and can't be undone or changed even by spells. So, Transfiguring things they need wouldn't be viable for many.

I also remember certain potions requiring specific cauldrons, and if one's melted, a new one being required, which implies they aren't magically repairable, perhaps due to the inherent magic in the potion? And something about cauldron bottom thickness being necessary for some potions, which might require a potioneer to own a great many cauldrons for brewing.

Plus, broom charms break down, rendering them unsafe for use, I think? I'm fairly sure it was canon that the school brooms were rubbish and needed to be replaced. Or, old models might not meet updated safety regulations and thereby become illegal to use.

And we know it's canon that wands only work well for those they choose/who won them, so hand-me-down wands wouldn't be the norm, I don't think. Charlie's didn't work well for Ron and Frank's was an awful match for Neville.

I absolutely believe there's a public library. Especially since canon makes such a big to-do about the size of the Hogwarts' library and personal family libraries. It definitely implies a library system, to me. It not having been relevant to Harry's adventures or interests, though, would excuse its absence from the novels.

Some jobs requiring specific O.W.L.s or N.E.W.T.s implies, to me, there are many opportunities of employment for those with a less advanced education. I sort of equate O.W.L.s to a certificate/degree/diploma of adequate education as Ron canonically said:

O.W.L.s are really important, affect the jobs you can apply for and everything.

And Newt Scamander was allowed to keep his wand even after being expelled because he'd passed his O.W.L.s, while Hagrid, who hadn't taken or passed his, had his wand snapped upon expulsion.

And then I equate N.E.W.T.s as something like a bachelor's degree.

Because, let's be real here, Percy went straight from school, having gotten every possible O.W.L.--all 12; Hermione got 10--and a N.E.W.T. in every exam he took, and he went right to work for a Department Head in the government. The Department of International Magical Co-operation. So, he's basically the P.A. to a magical ambassador. At eighteen.

And the fact that "Charms Master" and "Potions Master" and such are canonical titles, implies to me a Mastery was obtained through even more advanced study, one which would qualify said person to teach the subject.

And I'm rambling now. 😅

But, I swear I have a point!

I think the economy would have survived, they'd have enough workers, especially with the low number of canonical Muggle-borns, (and I think only the Muggle-borns had to register and were sent to Azkaban, not the half-bloods, in Deathly Hallows), but the massive change in government policies would have been utterly stunning and harsh to many.

(This was a very interesting thought exercise! Thank you, blooms! I had fun. 💛)

#ellory answers

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themysteriousphoenix · 1 year

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Ten First Lines

Rules: Share the first lines of ten of your fanfics and tag ten people. If you’ve written fewer than 10 fics, don’t be shy and share anyway. If you’re an artist or meta-writer, feel free to find a way to participate if you’d like. :)

Thank you to @uefb and @scamanderishredmayniac for the tags!

1. Touch, pt. 2 (Newtina)

“You’re so excited about this, aren’t you?”

2. Touch, pt. 1 (Newtina)

“What– Tina?”

3. What Love Is... (Newtina)

Newt Scamander wasn’t a man who had a lot of experience with love.

4. Love is Blind (Polin WIP)

Melody Palmer was a good friend, a wonderful co-worker, and entertaining to follow on social media.

5. A Little Drop of Blood (Polin)

Anger.

6. The Letter (Polin)

Penelope opened the door to Colin’s bedroom, their bedroom, closing it with a soft click behind her.

7. More Than Enough (Newtina WIP)

“What is that?”

8. Satisfaction (Strellacott) - Rated E

Robin hunched down further under her nondescript black umbrella and twisted the handle of the painted black door, shoving it open with her shoulder.

9. Dawn Breaks (Polin)

The first rays of morning light began to light the room and, unused to the dawn breaking through the curtains that she must have forgotten to close last night, Penelope blinked awake.

10. Letters From the Past (Newtina)

Newt climbed the ladder of his old, beaten case, a stack of yellowed correspondence in hand.

I tag... @hidetheteaspoons @silvertonedwords @bluelikeajay @albinokittens300 @blahdiblahdiblah1987 @elisha-am @kemara24 @eveneechan @katisfania @mythrielofsolitude @ravenish-huffnpuff

#tags #my writing #newtina #polin #strellacott #I should start writing again #I tell myself that so often #I really should though

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potterwatch-transcripts · 2 years

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First Broadcast: 15th December 1998

Lee Jordan: Good Evening wizarding world, and welcome to Potterwatch, Britains premier Harry Potter appreciation show. My name is River, and with me as always is beloved man, my frequently maimed co-host, Rapier.

George Weasley: You say Britain’s premier show, like there’s some git in Laos who loves Harry Potter even more than us.

Lee: I refuse to rule out that possibility. What news do you have for us today Rapier.

George: Actually River, breaking news. We go live to our correspondent in the field, Roonil. Hello Roonil.

Harry Potter: Hello Rapier. I stand outsider Borgin and Burke’s in Knockturn ally, where a serious raid, led by legendary cool dude Arthur Weasley of the misuse of Muggle Artifacts office, has just taken place.

George: I hear that Weasley has many handsome sons.

Harry: Very true Rapier. 10/10 would snog Bill. Ah here comes Mr Weasley now. Mr Weasley, do you have a few minutes to talk to Potterwatch?

Arthur Weasley: We’ll of course.

Harry: What’s been happening here sir?

Arthur: Well…(under his breath) Harry what’s your radio code name?

Harry: Roonil.

Arthur: Well Roonil, in my studies of Muggle artefacts, I recently discovered several Muggle toys that had been cursed, causing Muggle children to attempt to resurrect He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named through blood sacrifice.

Harry: How awful. Was it success Mr Weasley?

Arthur: Luckily no. The cursed toys were actually toys for babies, which only resulted is several particularly vicious infants. As babies are, generally speaking, rubbish at murder, there was very little issue. Some toddlers did manage to break into the ministry of magic, but that was only an isolated incident that happened seven or eight times.

Harry: And you tracked these cursed toys to Borgin and Burke’s?

Arthur: I did indeed Roonil. Turns out they had been created prior to the most recent rise of you know who, and stored at the shop.

Harry: Amazing, thank you Mr Weasley. Back to you Rapier.

George: Thank you Roonil. How many babies do you think you could beat in a fight River? No magic, hand to hand only.

River: Babies are very puntable. I’d say at least 60 before fatigue wears in.

George: We ask the important questions here on potter watch.

Lee: And speaking of babies, do we have any news concerning world renowned former infant Harry Potter?

George: We do River. Potter has returned his Order of Merlin 1st Class to the ministry, saying he doesn’t think he’s earned it.

Lee: Didn’t he kill Voldemort.

George: Yeah but I could’ve done that. Potter accepted a 3rd Class OM instead from Minister Shacklebolt, and said he would like to ‘earn his way back to 1st’. I personally will be keeping mine, as it’s a good way to pick up chicks.

Lee: How come you got 1st? I only got 2nd!

George: I dunno, my dashing good looks?

Lee: I will be having words with the minister over this gross oversight. And now we have a special guest in the studio. Please put your hands together for a very very special guest, Runespoor.

Newt Scamander: a pleasure to be on the show Mr River.

Lee: Now Runespoor, you are very familiar with many of the magical creatures that inhabit our world. Firstly, could you please tell me, which one is your favourite?

Newt: Well River, I am fond of them all. Each magical creature has something to commend it. I suppose I’m partial to a Niffler. Those cheeky chaps are simply delightful.

Lee: I myself own several, so you’re in good company. Now Runespoor, could you tell us a bit about what you did during the fight against Voldemort.

Newt: Well I don’t like to show off, but I’d already helped bring down a dark wizard, so I was planning on staying out of it, and using what I know to protect muggles and creatures. However a ghastly man named McNair tried to recruit me. After I transfigured him into a penguin, I fled with my wife, and we set up, I suppose you could call it an Underground Railroad.

Lee: What did that involve?

Newt: I helped ferry muggleborns to safety abroad. Mostly to Africa, where Voldemort’s evil hadn’t spread. I also acted on some orders Dumbledore had left me, convincing powerful and intelligent magical creatures to band against Voldemort, or stay neutral. I didn’t fight in the battle of Hogwarts, my knees aren’t up to it you see, but I supplied that nice Charlie Weasley with some of my ideas. And my grandson Rolf was there. He stopped an acromantula from eating a Miss Luna Lovegood.

Lee: Amazing Runespoor. We just have time for a few questions from our listeners.

George: Runespoor, this is from Doris Purkiss. ‘How do I convince my pet Chizpurfle, Stanley, to stop eating my muggle neighbours electric cables’

Newt: Well Doris, I suggest you feed Stanley the left overs of any potions you have, or else go to a muggle shop and by what they call ‘Bat-arries’

George: Thank you Runespoor. A quick one from a Mr H. Potter. ‘Help my Hippogriff is an arse who keeps mauling my friends’

Newt: Mr Potter, that’s just Hippogriff’s being Hippogriff’s. Your friends probably failed to respect them properly. I can send you a copy of ‘Hippogriffs: Why they rock and how to help them’ by Barnaby Lee.

George: Thanks Runespoor. And finally, Charlie Weasley (age 26) asks ‘what is your favourite Dragon. Mine is a Hebridean Black’

Newt: Oh Charlie, a very good question. I love all dragons, though I am fond of the Peruvian vipertooth. However I think my favourite for nostalgia reasons is the Ukrainian Ironbelly.

Lee: Thank you so much Runespoor. It has been a pleasure. That’s our show ladies and gents. I’ve been River.

George: and I’ve been Rapier.

Lee: The next password will be ‘Horntail’. Goodnight

#potterwatchtranscripts #potterwatch #lee jordan #george weasley #harry potter #arthur weasley #voldemort #kinglsey shacklebolt #newt scamander #fantastic beasts #death eaters #albus dumbledore #luna lovegood #rolf scamander #charlie weasley

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teddyfalls · 4 months

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ׂׂૢ who i will write for! ⋆.ೃ࿔* .ೃ࿐

- i’m multifandom, so a lot of people. if they’re not on this list, just request in my asks and i’ll likely know who you mean!

THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY:

steven conklin

jeremiah fisher

conrad fisher

cam cameron

belly conklin

THE MAZE RUNNER:

newt

thomas

minho

gally

aris

MASTERS OF THE AIR:

major john “bucky” egan

major gale “buck” cleven

major robert “rosie” rosenthal

major harry crosby

SIX OF CROWS / SHADOW AND BONE:

jesper fahey

wylan van eck

kaz brekker

inej ghafa

matthias helvar

nina zenik

nikolai lantsov

CELEBRITIES:

harry styles

taylor swift

matthew gray gubler

reneé rapp (fem!reader only)

thomas brodie sangster

jude bellingham

elijah hewson

callum turner

MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE:

daredevil

loki laufeyson

thor odinson

valkyrie

dr strange

spider-man (andrew garfield & tom holland)

mj watson (zendaya)

gwen stacey (+ spider version)

natasha romanoff

yelena belova

kate bishop

tony stark

captain america

bucky barnes

sam wilson

hobie brown / spider-punk

miguel o’hara

miles morales

CRIMINAL MINDS:

spencer reid

derek morgan

penelope garcia

aaron hotchner

jennifer jareau

emily prentiss

elle greenaway

OTHERS / UNCATEGORISED:

chip taylor (68 kill)

carlos de vil (descendants)

the joker (dc)

harley quinn (dc)

jack dawkins (the artful dodger)

anthony lockwood (lockwood & co)

patrick verona (10 things i hate about you)

cameron james (10 things i hate about you)

michael holden (solitaire — osemanverse)

rodrick heffley (devon bostick — diary of a wimpy kid)

theseus scamander (fantastic beasts)

thomas webb (the only living boy in new york)

⌗ teddyfalls

#x readers #six of crows #marvel mcu #mcu x readers #six of crows x reader #teddyfalls #criminal minds x reader

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ildi-dragonheart · 6 months

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20 Questions for Fic Writers

Tagged by @frankenjoly omg thanks i just got home from school i need this

1. How many works do you have on ao3?

I have 57 rn and i still can't believe i have that many fics,, it used to be more than that but i had deleted some of my older fics for an old fandom i was once in

2. What's your total ao3 word count?

127,635 words (and counting hopefully once i get out of this slump)

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Right now i mainly write for BSD. I used to write for the fantastic beasts and where to find them fandom from 2018 to the first half of 2020 but i stopped cuz i left (you can still find my fics for that fandom in my ao3 and wattpad profiles)

4. Top five fics by kudos

Bored (BSD) - a little domestic fluff fic feat. Ranpo being perpetually bored while Akiko is busy working

A Night at the Scamander Household (Fantastic Beasts) - wherein the Newt and Tina are awoken in the middle of the night by their youngest son who's unable to sleep

Tattoos and Soulmates (Fantastic Beasts) - newtina soulmate au where you have matching tattoos with your soulmate

Lay All Your Love on Me (or not) (Fantastic Beasts) - watch as Achilles Tolliver tries to get Tina Goldstein's attention and fails (spoiler: she's already taken)

Books, Rain, and You (Fantastic Beasts) - in an effort to get out of the heavy rain, Tina finds herself in a cozy library with an adorable librarian. they bond over books and then some

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes, but not always. I like interacting with those who read my fics and seeings their comments just motivates me to write more

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

i mostly write fluff but i have tried my hand at writing angst although i'm not sure if those fics count as that cuz i feel like i don't have the skill to properly convey the angsty feelings for it to be considered angst

but if i had to choose out of all the attempts i made at angst, i'd say If "Happy Ever After" Did Exist, I Would Still Be Holding You Like This and Con Flores (Te Llevaste Mi Tristeza Con Colores)

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

again, i write fluff so basically all of them have happy endings or are just generally happy overall. i can't really pick one of them dasjkgkas

8. Do you get hate on fic?

i hope not... that's literally one of my writing anxieties, especially when i write a fic involving an oc i have for a fandom (like Edogawa Hotaru, for example)

9. Do you write smut?

i think i tried writing once although it wasn't a fanfic. i cringed hard and never tried writing smut for a fic again. but if you guys saw my character ai chats involving my ships-

10. Do you write crossovers?

11. Have you ever stolen a fic?

i hope not. i always try to make sure all my works are original, but if i do take inspo from another fic i always make sure to ask

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

yes! i think i had two or three fics translated some time ago by other people online (with my permission ofc) and that honestly makes me feel so proud??

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

no and i feel too shy to do so😭

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

ranposano, obviously (and a genshin rarepair i have that i am a little too afraid to say cuz genshin fandom)

15. What's a WIP you want to finush but probably won't?

so. many. WIPS. please. send me motivation.

16. What are your writing strengths?

never-ending inspiration i guess. i once got a "this is the fic i/we never knew i/we needed" comment on a ranposano fic that i wrote because i had my period and that just made me realize that wow i pull my ideas from literally everywhere

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

procrastination, my inconsistent english grammar, and constantly setting standards that are a little too high whenever i write something

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language?

i'm fine with it ig? englsih is my second language and i don't usually write full dialogues in another language. i usually only include words in another language but never full dialogues

19. First fandom you wrote for?

believe it or not, i used to write fanfics for the rise of the brave tangled frozen dragons fandom, mainly jelsa (but i never published any of them my 10 year old self was too scared)

20. Favorite fic you've written?

omg Lost and Found my beloved ranposano fic daksgdkas that fic is what i like to consider as the peak of my skills as fic writer, like i will never be able to write something like that ever again

(A Package and Glass Marble come close tho)

#ildi tags #tag game #i needed this #*proceeds to use this to shamelessly promote some fics*#ildi posts

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eddieredmayneargentinablog · 2 years

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"Yes, That’s Eddie Redmayne Playing America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer"

The "Fantastic Beasts" star tells IndieWire why he couldn't escape the pull of his darkest character yet for "The Good Nurse."

By Kate Erbland

It’s the week before Eddie Redmayne’s latest film, Tobias Lindholm’s “The Good Nurse,” hits select theaters after a robust festival run. The Oscar winner is in an SUV, zipping from one engagement to the next (no, he is not driving; yes, he’s delighted to discover that the car itself has wifi, which makes Zooming possible). He’s been everywhere lately, Toronto to New York, Mill Valley to Newport Beach, Los Angeles to London. He’s all smiles.

And, hilariously, the genial Brit somehow lights up even more when asked why he took on the role of Charles Cullen, potentially America’s most prolific serial killer (29 confirmed victims, with a possibility of 400 total), for the Netflix drama.

Me: “This is so not an Eddie Redmayne role. You’re a serial killer!” Redmayne: “Oh, that’s like the loveliest thing you could possibly say!”

He continued: “I think the joy of what I do, the job that I do, is getting to push yourself in directions that one’s self doesn’t expect, and hopefully also the people who watch your work don’t expect. I read this script, I knew nothing about the story, and what unfolded for me was this sort of box-less, undefinable piece. It felt unlike anything I’d read before. On one hand, it was a true-crime piece, but it didn’t have any of the salacious qualities or the fetishization that I sometimes attribute to that genre. It felt like a superhero story, a real life superhero story about what this woman was able to accomplish.”

Based on Charles Graeber’s book “The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder” and exactingly adapted by ��1917” screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Lindholm’s take on the very en vogue sub-genre of serial-killer procedural drama gives Redmayne a quite unexpected role. Serial killer! The man who played Stephen Hawking! The wizard who loves magic animals in the “Fantastic Beasts” series! Heartbroken student Marius Pontmercy in “Les Misérables”!

How does that work? One possibility: Redmayne maintains a very healthy outlook on all his work. Asked about the Wachowskis’ infamous misfire “Jupiter Ascending” — which co-star Mila Kunis recently admitted she knew would be “a flop” after its budget was snipped — and the actor can’t help but laugh. “It lives on in meme history,” Redmayne said, likely referring to his own Razzie Award-winning role as “Balem Abrasax” in the inscrutable 2015 fantasy picture.

Still, his memories are only good, if a bit weird. “That world was so beyond my level of imagination,” he said. “I just wanted to go and swim in [the Wachowskis’] imaginations. I had sort of no idea what I was doing, I didn’t know anything about the budget, but I had a really enjoyable time making it. But I also wasn’t in it that much, and I just remember that the character I was playing was incredibly vain and was squishing up humans in order to make them into serum to live longer, so the thing what was most important was that I had a six-pack and a spray tan. So there was a lot of sit-ups involved and me clenching my attempt at abs whilst speaking in a strange voice.”

As for what’s next for the embattled “Fantastic Beasts” franchise — initially announced as a five-film outing, although three films in, controversy is up and box office is down for the “Harry Potter” spinoff series — Redmayne was less sure. Asked if he knew any information about a fourth film, he said, “I don’t. It’s more a question for J. K. Rowling and David Yates and Warners, but I don’t know, I’m afraid. I can’t add to that,” he said, though he’d likely enjoying getting back into character as “magizoologist” Newt Scamander after the Charles Cullen gig. “I love playing Newt, he’s a sweet man,” he added.

So, about Charles Cullen. Over the course of his two-decade career as a nurse, Cullen is believed to have killed as many as 400 patients — mostly by tampering with IV bags and filling them with lethal doses of digoxin, insulin, and epinephrine. After fellow nurse Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain) helped bring him to justice in 2003, he was charged with 29 murders and sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences. Lindholm’s film never gives a reason for Cullen’s crimes. Neither did Cullen. That was intriguing.

“I had that feeling when I read the script of, ‘Can I play this person without the why?’ But then I kind of thought on that and ultimately realized that the why and knowing the why is our need as human beings to feel safe,” Redmayne said. “As in, if we answered why Charlie Cullen did this, then we would be able to other him and go, ‘Oh, he did it for this reason, and that’s monstrous and we would never do that, so we’re safe.’ Whereas actually, that’s not how the world works and that’s not what he did.”

While the film doesn’t delve into Cullen’s backstory, Graeber’s book includes the killer’s “intricate” biography. Redmayne reeled off some of the more horrifying revelations of Graeber’s book with ease, like “he first tried to kill himself and someone else at age seven” or that, while Cullen passed all the psychiatric tests to get into the Navy, at one point during his service “he was found with his finger over the Poseidon missiles on a submarine.”

“How this guy was ever allowed near vulnerable people is one of the shocking questions,” Redmayne said. “But it also meant that as an actor, I had all of that research there.” Redmayne worked closely with Graeber, who provided the actor and the rest of the team copious audio transcripts from his many interviews with Cullen. Redmayne studied them.

“Eddie is a delightful, very handsome, delightful, playful human,” screenwriter Wilson-Cairns told IndieWire during a recent interview, so when he slipped into the role of Charlie Cullen, the writer was blown away by the ways he seemed to change right in front of her. “The first time in rehearsals that I saw him turn it on, I was totally bewildered, because Eddie Redmayne stopped existing and Charles Cullen was there in the room,” she said. “I’d spent 10 years listening to this guy, reading about this guy, writing this guy, being in this man’s head, and it was really startling.”

Loughren, who was on set for a few days of filming, was also struck by Redmayne’s ability to tap into Cullen. “[Loughren] actually took me aside after watching Eddie do a take and she said Charlie was here. She was like, ‘That was Charlie, I can’t get over it,'” Wilson-Cairns said. “She was staggered by it. What he did was profound. Eddie Redmayne acts with every molecule of his being, and probably most of the molecules around him as well. It’s insane. And what he gives in this film is more than I could ever have dreamed of when I was writing it.”

Redmayne is no stranger to playing real people or telling true-life tales — he still remembers the day Stephen Hawking showed up on the set of “The Theory of Everything,” a moment in which “all my bodily functions sort of failed, because you instantly feel a fraud” — but he’s learned how to navigate that. “It’s not documentary, it’s not the truth,” he said. “It’s as close to the truth as you can get it with the acknowledgement that this is an interpretation and so you have to, when you’re playing real people, kind of be kind-ish to yourself.”

For the actor, that includes a lot of preparation, by way of a process he knows doesn’t appeal to everyone or work for every other performer.

“I’m not an actor that stays in character,” he said. “One of the things I love about my job is working with people with completely different processes. My particular process is I have to do all the homework. I need a long runway, I need a long time for prep. … You want those things to be embedded in who the character is by the time I arrive on set.”

Redmayne was eager to pair with Chastain, a long-time friend whom he first met while he was on the festival and awards circuits for “Les Misérables” in 2012 (Chastain was stumping for her “Zero Dark Thirty,” which ultimately earned the actress her second Oscar nomination). “We had these years of what I describe as the most sort of Hollywood way that a friendship can work, which is that there this person who you meet on the couch of ‘The James Corden Show’ or on the red carpet of the Oscars or something, and it’s totally real and you really like this human being, but you meet dressed in glad rags and clad in jewelry,” he said with a laugh.

He admitted that, despite years of wanting to work together, he knows it can be “complicated to work with your pals.” But Chastain didn’t disappoint, on screen or off. “We were moving to New York with my family, and Jessica and her husband and actually [her close friend] Jeremy Strong helped find us places to live, someone to help do babysitting, all of that,” the actor said. “This was an intense story, but we wanted to make sure that it also our lives that we’re living [when not shooting the film]. Our families hung out, and it was a very special time actually, despite the intensity of what’s on screen.”

Redmayne’s wife and children were with him for most of the film’s shoot, only heading back to London when Redmayne had about three weeks left of shooting. Those were, incidentally, some of the most challenging weeks, including shooting a final act scene in which Charlie is caught, arrested, and interrogated. He also snaps, finally breaks, goes absolutely wild in a key scene alongside Chastain.

They shot the sequence multiple times, which sees Redmayne ratcheting up both his emotional and physical intensity.

“He’s in such a broken place at that point and it’s something, a technique that I first actually was shown to by” — Redmayne pauses to offer a chuckle as he rolls out the big guns —“clanging name-drop, Robert De Niro, when I did a film called ‘The Good Shepherd’ years ago. When I worked with De Niro, he would keep the camera rolling on emotional scenes and you would do the scene, and the second the scene finished, rather than call cut, he would encourage you to bottle the emotion and start back in again with the scene.”

Redmayne said he’s used that technique in the years since, like during the “Empty Chairs and Empty Tables” scene in “Les Misérables.” It proved useful again for “The Good Nurse.” “That can only work in scenes where the character is in a high-stakes emotional place at the beginning of the scene,” he said. “And that’s what I did here. Sometimes, I think also that’s what you do on stage. You do it night after night and what your entire body creates as a consequence of reaching for extremes, that ends up being helpful when you go back into takes.”

Redmayne is happy not to be a Method actor, but he’s still enthralled by finding the lines between performer and character.

“I can remember once working with Julianne Moore, it was early on in my career and we’d be having a chat with the cameras about to roll and she’d be talking about ‘The Jonathan Ross Show’ and this time when she went on or something and then without me realizing, she had gone straight into character and I was still being Eddie,” Redmayne said. “I don’t want to speak for Julie, but I felt like part of her process was distracting herself. Everyone has different ways of doing it. I sort of have to be slightly in the zone, but I definitely have to break out of it.”

He paused to chuckle again. “Also, I have young children and my wife would not want to live with me coming home as a serial killer. That would be disastrous!”

*Netflix releases “The Good Nurse” in select theaters on Wednesday, October 19 and to its streaming platform on Wednesday, October 26.

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Introduction post!

George Karim’s Eggcup

✨ Pronouns: She/Her - I accept They/them too! ✨

☕️ Call me Tal or Talulah ☕️

🫗Lula or Lou if I know you in real life🫗

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Hi! I’m a British lass from North Yorkshire. I’m messy, stressy and a lil’ depressy but that’s ok :)

LITERALLY A WISH.COM MACHINE

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Lineage Challenge Day 6 - Ask Game!

Thank you @kathrynalicemc for creating this challenge, it’s been so interesting and great for development! Long answers and pretty pictures ahead, so I’ve put in a cut.

1) Canon or Fiction? What drew you to that specific family? Did you make any changes to Canon, and if so, why?

This isn’t a canon family, I created the name Hexley for Artemis after writing a list of surnames and giving them a magical twist. The lore has gone back from Artemis through to my HPHL OCs. I have strict rules about not altering established canon in my writing (which is why Sara Kowalski was born after the events of the Fantastic Beasts films finish) but working around it to create stories that can exist in the magical world adjacent to canon.

I have, however, changed my own canon. Mavis Morland was originally supposed to be a Muggle, not a Squib with a secret history, and the Hexley family were not going to be distantly related to some of the other families I mention below. I also intended the line to end with Artemis, however I have grown to cherish this family lineage to the point that I couldn’t do that. So, Cleo came into being, and now the Hexleys have a future as well as a history.

2) Family Ties - What other families are related/connected to this one? Are they Canon families or creator-made families? (Tag them!)

The Hexleys are connected through marriage to several other wizarding families.

To the Anders and Cleary families, due to the marriage of Theodore Hexley to Florence Mudge. Florence’s nieces gave the Hexley family a distant connection to the McNully and Hopper families. @kc-and-co @thatravenpuffwitch

To the french Fortinbras dynasty, thanks to the marriage of Jim Hexley and Héloïse Perrault.

To the Mercury family, after Ethel’s marriage to Lysander Mercury and the birth of their three daughters: Beatrice, Flora, and Ottilie. Eventually, this branch of the family leads to Flora’s granddaughter Iris and her son Zephyr, and to Ottilie’s grandson Orlando Taylor, and his daughters, Phoebe and Zadie Taylor-Allen. @slytherindisaster

To the Nott and Burke families through Marius Hexley’s marriage to Mavis Morland, who was born Marguerite Nott. This connects them through the marriage of Marguerite’s sister Dahlia to the Pendleton lineage, however this is not a fact that is known by anyone but Mavis Marius themselves and Mavis’ mother Eliza, who was born Ophelia Burke. @kc-and-co @lifeofkaze

To the Goldstein/Kowalski family, through Leander’s marriage to Sara Kowalski. Sally’s maternal aunt Tina Goldstein married Magizoologist Newt Scamander, thus linking another family to the tree.

To the Cole family, thanks to the birth of Jacob Hexley and Angelica Cole’s daughter Cleo. However, as the couple never married and were separated whilst Cleo was still young, the connection between the two lineages is not strong.

3) Foundations: What year and which OC was the founder of the family line?

I have traced the Hexley lineage back as far as Humphrey, Jim and Ethel’s paternal grandfather, however the name Hexley has existed in Wizarding records since the late medieval era. The name sprung up as if from nowhere, and it is unknown whether this is because the family originally was an offshoot of the Yaxley family who cut ties with their less liberal-minded clansmen, or was descended from Muggle stock. Either way, the Hexley family is old enough to have garnered some respect for itself over the years, but not fanatic enough about maintaining the purity of its bloodline to have kept its prestige high.

4) Fun Facts: Do you have any misc lore that you haven’t had a chance to post about? Talk about anything you like!

I’m going to talk about property and homes. There are several old properties that have been owned by the Hexley family over the generations, some of which are still in the possession of their descendents.

Cathedral Close, Exeter, Devon

Muggles are not able to see the door with the hedgehog-shaped knocker among the buildings of the ancient part of Exeter which marks the entrance to the ancestral home of the Hexley family. Humphrey Hexley and his wife Jemima took over this home from Humphrey’s parents in the 19th century, and this is where they raised their son Theodore. Next door, there is a house whose door bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Hogwarts castle’s Room of Requirement. It is unknown if this is a coincidence or not. The property was inherited by Ethel Hexley-Mercury and her family.

Dunsworthy-in-the-Moor, Devon

Florence Mudge’s Muggle parents were not extremely wealthy, but they had enough money to purchase a set of three terraced cottages in Dartmoor, one to be given to each of their three daughters upon marriage. Theodore and Florence raised their children Jim and Ethel in the cottage, with the property later passing to Jim. Both Jim’s children were also raised here, as was his grandson Leander, but the property was sold after the death of Marius Hexley during the first Wizarding War.

Château de Miel, Sarlac, Dordogne

Jim Hexley’s marriage to Héloïse Perrault greatly raised the family’s status financially. Héloïse grew up in the Château de Sarlac, the property bestowed upon her parents after their marriage by her maternal grandparents, but only returned to live there as an adult after her own children had grown. The château was then renamed and went on to have an interesting life of its own, housing both cryptanalysts during the Global Wizarding War and refugees during the Second British Wizarding War, and running a working honey farm throughout the latter two thirds of the 20th Century. Currently it is in the possession of Lucienne Hexley.

Lovelace Terrace, Camden, London

After graduating from Hogwarts and getting a job at the British Ministry of Magic, Héloïse’s grandmother ‘gifted’ her a London townhouse. Unfortunately, Héloïse despised London wholeheartedly, so the building was instead used by other members of the family until passing onto her grandson Leander, who used the money from the sale of the Dunsworthy cottage to purchase the Camden house from his grandparents and use it as a home in which to raise his own family. After Leander’s death, the property was inherited by his two surviving offspring, Jacob and Artemis. After years of attempts, Artemis managed to successfully sell her share of the property in the early 2000s to a surprising buyer, but that is definitely a story for another day.

5) Free Space: Feel free to ask any creator a question not listed here, and maybe you will get one in return!

Y’all know that I’m always open to asks!

#lineage challenge #the hexley family #the hexley legacy #the hexley saga

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P A I S L E Y D U N N // jericho worker

⌈ KAYLEE BRYANT, SHE/THEY, CIS WOMAN ⌋ have you seen PAISLEY DUNN walking around recently ?? you know, the TWENTY FOUR year old WORKER ?? i have a question i wanted to ask but i haven’t seen PAIS around. have you noticed they tend to be INDECISIVE and SHY ?? but i guess they make up for it by being THOUGHTFUL and LOYAL. i’ve heard they’re often found MAKING ARTS & CRAFTS AND BLANKETS FOR EVERYONE . anyways, if you see them let them know to come find me. ————

BASICS

name: paisley grace suzuki dunn nickname: pais age: twenty four birthday: march 1 zodiac sign: pisces sexuality: biromantic bisexual height: 5' 8" eye color: brown hair color: brown distinguishing marks: a tiny scar at the bottom of her thumb from cutting herself on a piece of glass,

RELATIONSHIPS

father: ken joseph suzuki mother: mabel rachel dunn (presumed dead or missing) siblings: two older brothers (one presumed dead or missing) and an older sister (presumed dead or missing) pets: n/a exes: open to players (for one year when she was 19-20), open to players (for two years when she 22-24) flings: n/a friends: open to players ex-friends: open to players enemies: open to players, although she doesn’t feel the same

PERSONALITY

postive traits: thoughtful, loyal, kind, enthusiastic, co-operative negative traits: shy, indecisive, worrisome, moody, fearful moral alignment: neutral good hogwarts house: hufflepuff mbti: infp element: water enneagram: type seven - the enthusiast character inspos: newt scamander (fantastic beasts), rapunzel (tangled), belle french (once upon a time), anna of arendelle (frozen), ron weasley (harry potter), robin buckley (stranger things)

BEFORE JERICHO

the eternal winter being all she ever knew, paisley tries their best to remain positive for the future. living with their family, which consists of their parents and three older siblings, she was always protected. she never really felt like she was in danger. it didn’t help that she was always with other settlements either. she never had to witness an attack. that was until she was fifteen. icebergs came into the settlement at night and nearly half of the people she grew up with perished. their father took them and one of their older brothers to safety before going back for everybody else. it felt like forever before he returned. but alone. they had to move even through their turmoil.

finding jericho not long after a few weeks, they settled down. their father never stopped looking for his wife and other children. he’d often volunteer on scouting missions, being quick on his feet and knowing the location, but he always came back empty handed without the rest of his family. each time paisley’s hopes dropped but she never let it keep them down. one day they would be a happy and whole family again.

PRESENT JERICHO

as soon as she got here and after recovering from their harrowing escape and weeks out in the eternal winter, paisley befriended many. she told stories of old friends, of how there was a tamed arctic fox, or of how their older brother was one of the bravest guys she ever knew, or of how she got to know how to knit. she could tell some knew she was not experienced with what was out there but after nearly becoming an iceberg theirself the last day before they had found jericho, paisley wasn’t too keen on going back. she had to find their place here and given there was mandatory basic training maybe she could prove upon herself.

being a worker - working at the market place and being a cleaner - she is content. but anytime hunters or scouts come back she’s always there to ask if they seen anybody matching her mother or siblings descriptions. maybe one of these days she could be brave enough to go out herself but she doesn’t think that’s anytime soon. so she stays within jericho. her older brother is security and that fits him perfectly. he’s become a bit closed off throughout the years but she still loves him. their father is also thinking of retiring sometime soon and she’s worried there will be no-one out there to help find her mother and other siblings and each year that passes is more motivation for them.

she likes reading, knitting, cleaning, and being with friends.

WANTED CONNECTIONS

friends best friend neighbors exes an older mentor a crush family friend of her father bully

#frostborn.intro #paisley dunn musings.#paisley dunn intro.#parental death tw #death tw #grief tw

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Movie Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

The question of the legacy of Harry Potter became very important after 2018’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald turned out to be a world-building exercise gone very wrong. Now, with The Secrets of Dumbledore, the series is flailing madly for a point to it’s own existence. Even among fans there were many doubts as to whether the whole thing had legs outside of the initial seven-book, eight-movie Pottermania, and the third Beasts movie does little to make the case for the franchise’s continued place in the world.

We jump in with Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) and Gellert Grindelwald (a recast Mads Mikkelsen) discussing their childhood and Grindelwald’s planned war against non-magical people. We then jump to the team being formed to stop Grindelwald from rigging the upcoming elections for Prime Minister of Magicland. Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), the series’ protagonist who is obsessed with creatures unique to the magical world, recruits his more straight-laced Magic Police brother Theseus (Callum Turner), and has Lally Hicks (Jessica Williams), a teacher at the American Hogwarts, bring in his un-magical friend Jacob (Dan Fogler), who is given a non-working wand in a plot thread that doesn’t really make sense. Victoria Yeates and William Nadylam return as two characters you forgot about completely. Their role is to fill out the numbers. Assisting through the use of his bar is Albus’s less refined brother Aberforth (Richard Coyle), while Jacob’s sweetheart Goldie (Alison Sudol) has currently defected to Grindelwald.

The team’s goal is to reach the site of the elections with a creature called a Qilin, based on a real mythological beast, who can see into a person’s soul and will bow before a righteous leader. Grindelwald and his follower Credence (Ezra Miller), who is secretly a forgotten scion of the Dumbledore clan, have also acquired a Qilin, which Grindelwald kills and resurrects as a ghoul who will bow to him on command.

Is the movie bad? Well, that’s a loaded word, but it is something far worse: it is boring. It is nearly unimaginable how that could be. We have, for bedrock material, a world where entire streets and buildings are hidden magically behind other streets and buildings, and where children go to school amid shifting staircases and constant mortal peril. Colorful characters abound who, yes, adhere to some archetypes, but draw their interest from breaking those expectations at unexpected times. Any halfway skilled writer with a bit of time could work wonders with what J.K. Rowling built.

Any writer except, apparently, Rowling. She has assigned herself script-writing duties and clung to them even as the franchise has seen plummeting financial returns and increasingly divisive audience and critical responses. That, added to her appetite for political controversy and her insistence on meddling with her established continuity in a secondhand way, has tested the clout of an author once revered as the queen of all-ages literature and made her a financial liability Warner Bros is desperate to shake from the series.

In The Secrets of Dumbledore you can sense she is trying hard not to be shook. Whether by her choice or a mandate of the studio, Steve Kloves, who adapted all but the unimpressive fifth entry of the eight Potter films, has been brought back as co-writer, and his primary job was obviously to reign Rowling’s poor world-building skills in. This film has been constructed to provide a premature ending to the franchise if needed, which looks very likely. Almost everything in The Crimes of Grindelwald was designed with five movies in mind, but now most of those plot threads have been abruptly wrapped up.

Which ones? Wicked spoilers, this way lie. Queenie’s turn to the dark side and split with Jacob, Credence’s nature, ancestry and grudge against the Dumbledores, Albus’s binding blood truce with Grindelwald and their childhood affection, and Newt’s on-again off-again relations with his brother and Tina were obviously meant to fuel the personal side of a long narrative. By the end of Secrets, Queenie’s back with the good guys and married to Jacob, Credence is revealed as Aberforth’s son and has reconciled with his family, Albus has put aside his love of Grindelwald, and Newt has figured out how to be an obsessive nerd and also love at the same time (actually, I could use some tips on that).

Essentially, all of the major personal arcs have been given endings that will be acceptable to fans if (probably when) the last two films in the series are canceled. The only thread that remains active and able to be effectively used in the future is the actual war with Grindelwald, who escapes.

The film is not absolutely free of pathos or pleasure. The Qilin, who look like slightly altered baby deer, are effortlessly charming, and their fate in the story is heartbreaking. Mikkelsen replacing the hideously miscast Johnny Depp is a long overdue fit of good sense, and within minutes of the film’s beginning, he proves the role should have been his to begin with. Glimpses of wizarding communities from China and Brazil are welcome but feel perfunctory, and the unfinished duel between Dumbledore and Grindelwald is different enough from that between Dumbledore and Voldemort in the fifth Potter film to feel fresh. Other promising segments don’t get enough time in the oven, most notably Newt and Theseus’s adventure in a deadly, creature infested prison. The worst part is that the focus on actual, you know, beasts, for which the series is ostensibly named, falls flat, with the Qilin being the only new one worthy of note.

Though I do feel reasonably certain this will be the final film in this sordid chapter of the Potter legacy, I don’t particularly bear it ill will. As it happens, I am intrigued by the prospect of exploring the wizarding side of World War II and the contrast of Grindelwald’s rebellion and fall against that of Voldemort later. Yet realism must win out. Rowling has now had three chances to show she can make this story one worth telling, and has proven to be in over her head. If more films happen at all, and if something great or even good is to come from them, she’s got to admit it to herself, move on, and allow David Yates and the other filmmakers who helped make her world a global phenomenon do what they do best.

Verdict: Not Recommended

Note: I don’t use stars, but here are my possible verdicts.

Must-See

Highly Recommended

Recommended

Average

Not Recommended

Avoid like the Plague

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GOLDEN ERA (1991-present)

BOYS

- draco malfoy

- theodore nott

- harry potter

- mattheo riddle (oc)

- dean thomas

- fred weasley

- george weasley

- ron weasley

- oliver wood

- blaise zabini

GIRLS

- hermione granger

- ginny weasley

OTHER

- sirius black (31+)

- remus lupin (31+)

- severus snape (31+)

- nymphadora tonks (19+)

- bill weasley (21+)

- charlie weasley (19+)

MYSTERY ERA (1984-1991)

BOYS

- ben copper

- chester davies

- andré egwu

- rowan khanna (male)

- jae kim

- barnaby lee

- murphy mcnully

- felix rosier

- bill weasley

- charlie weasley

- talbott winger

GIRLS

- badeea ali

- alanza alves

- penny haywood

- tulip karasu

- rowan khanna (female)

- chiara lobosca

- nymphadora tonks

- liz tuttle

MARAUDERS ERA (1971-1978)

- regulus black

- sirius black

- remus lupin

- james potter

- severus snape

LEGACY ERA

BOYS

- ominis gaunt

- leander prewett

- sebastian sallow

- garreth weasley

GIRLS

- natsai onai

- imelda reyes

OTHER

- poppy sweeting

- tom riddle (CoS)

- newt scamander

- theseus scamander

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"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"- Newt Scamander (J.K. Rowling)

Polish below ⬇️

When I was starting to read this book, I expected regular prose, since the movie on the same tittle was filmed, so I was a little confused. Despite this, I enjoyed reading a lot.

It's been a while since I had contact with Harry Potter universe, but wizard's world will always entertain me. Reading about all these cute and dangerous fantastic beasties brought me joy and amusement.

Let's also focus on that incredible illustrations! They were made in middle-age picture style. It built special atmosphere.

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Pierwszym, co mnie spotkało po rozpoczęciu czytania było zaskoczenie. Oczekiwałam zwykłej prozy, wiedząc, że "na podstawie" tej książki nakręcono film. Mimo to, bardzo miło się ją czytało.

Minęło sporo czasu odkąd miałam jakikolwiek kontakt z uniwersum Harrego Pottera, acz uważam, że świat czarodziejów zawsze będzie przynosił mi radość. A czytanie o wszystkich uroczych bądź niebezpiecznych bestyjkach sprawiło mi ogromną przyjemność.

Szczególne uznanie należy się wspaniałym ilustracjom. Stylizowano je na średniowieczne ryciny, co uważam za uderzenie dokładnie w punkt. Dzięki nim można było wczuć się w klimat encyklopedii.

#book photography #book review #book tumblr #booklr #bookworm #book readers #review #book lover #books and reading #fantasy books #jk rowling #joanne kathleen rowling #harry potter #harry potter universe #fantastic beasts #fantastic beasts and where to find them #newt scamander

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Exclusive Interview!

"Eddie Redmayne: ‘The aspiration is always to make a great film and I don’t think I’ve made many of those’

For his latest role the Fantastic Beasts actor relished the chance to ditch the tweed suits and play against type as an American serial killer, he tells Kevin Maher.

The Times UK, October 15, 2022

"Six years ago, Eddie Redmayne put the word out. The Oscar-winning star of The Theory of Everything, who was already shooting the first instalment of the Fantastic Beasts franchise, let it be known that he wanted a change. Yes, he had become famous for a certain kind of moral rectitude in lavish period dramas that included Birdsong, The Other Boleyn Girl and Les Misérables (his tearful rendition of Empty Chairs at Empty Tables from that film has been viewed 7.4 million times on YouTube), but enough was enough. “It was me actively saying that I’m looking for something different. Something not British. Something, ideally, where it’s not me wearing a tweed suit.”

It has taken a while, during which time he has bashed out two more Fantastic Beasts and enjoyed a last dip in the period trough (The Aeronauts), but Redmayne’s desires have finally been met. In The Good Nurse all bets are off. The 40-year-old is in full reinvention mode as the prolific American serial killer Charles Cullen, a former nurse who during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s is said to have murdered as many as 400 patients. Redmayne stars opposite Jessica Chastain, playing Amy Loughren, the co-worker who helped to bring Cullen to justice. And although Redmayne insists today that the film tilts towards Loughren’s “hero’s journey”, the sexy marketing sell is clearly “Newt Scamander does Hannibal Lecter”.

And he does it well. His Cullen is top-tier Redmayne, a mass of creepy physical touches (a blinkless smile, an off-kilter stare) and conflicted gestures perfected over three months of deep-diving research. “I found as much footage of Charlie as I could and I learnt the accent, I learnt the movement, and then I even went to nurse school, where I found out that I’m a f***ing useless nurse!” he says, chuckling at his inadequacies. Redmayne does this a lot. Good-natured self-deprecation. He is sipping decaf coffee in a swanky London hotel suite and wearing a crisp red and white “western-style” shirt that suggests a friendly yet slightly fragile cowboy. He peppers his conversation with asides about being not very good.

Of his movie career, he says: “The aspiration is always to make a great film and I don’t think I’ve made many of those.” Of his first big American outing, opposite Robert De Niro in The Good Shepherd, he says: “I was paranoid, I was disappointed and I did beige work.” And of his university days, doing theatre in Cambridge with his fellow students Dan Stevens, Rebecca Hall and Tom Hiddleston, he says: “I remember seeing Tom in Arcadia and he was amazing. Rebecca was always extraordinary, and I remember Dan doing the Scottish play with extraordinary power too. But to be clear, the theatre that I did in Cambridge was utterly appalling.”

He does, however, allow himself a vague acknowledgement of accomplishment regarding his stellar turn in The Good Nurse, honed over the intense preparation period that has become his trademark since playing the physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

“Back then, James [Marsh, director of The Theory of Everything] basically said: ‘Eddie, to a certain extent this lives or dies based on your performance.’ So I said: ‘OK, if that’s the case, I need four months’ prep, I need a vocal coach, I need a movement coach and I need to do my research.’ And that process worked for me and taught me that, as an actor, I need a long, long runway.”

He talks some more about The Good Nurse and how it’s “not a documentary, but as close to the truth as you can get”. Of his unnerving performance, and his so-called radical shift away from period dramas and blockbusters, he says that it’s not so much a reinvention as a return.

Most audiences, he says, imagine that he emerged fully formed into the middle of Redmaynia (see the knockout trilogy of Les Misérables, The Theory of Everything and The Danish Girl). Whereas, in fact, he began as an intensely provocative character actor who burst on to the scene in 2007 playing, brilliantly, a neurotic pansexual murderer who sleeps with his mother in Savage Grace. He then moved on to become a drug-addicted paedophile in Hick.

He started out, in short, as Edgy Redmayne. Then something happened: fame came calling, and the edges, perhaps, were rounded off. “My film career started in America, doing these tiny movies that nobody saw,” he says. “So it’s been kind of wonderful to get back to some sort of root, some instincts that thrilled me when I started,” he says. “And I do feel regalvanised by it.”

The real start, however, was as “one of around eight thousand workhouse boys in the Sam Mendes production of Oliver!” Redmayne was 12 at the time and living in Chelsea, southwest London; his father was in corporate finance and his mother ran a relocation business. His childhood was “wonderful and loving”, and the Oliver! role launched him on a well-documented path from the Jackie Palmer Stage School (James Corden was a fellow student and ridiculed Redmayne about it on his American talk show) to school plays at Eton, then the belle époque era of the Cambridge drama darlings Stevens, Hall and Hiddleston.

The path ended in 2005 with Redmayne, at the time working behind the bar at the Builder’s Arms in Chelsea, flying to New York and banging down the doors of a production company there because he wanted to star in its small and incendiary movie about incest and murder (Savage Grace).

Yet the impact of Oliver!, he says, can’t be underestimated. “I was at school in London and I was allowed to leave during the middle of maths and take the Tube to Oxford Circus from Hammersmith, to the London Palladium, into the theatre and then around to the backstage of that theatre. The intoxicating romance of that was overwhelming. That was the drug.”

When fame hit, it landed with a wallop. He experienced Redmaynia as a sensory overload and something to integrate with his marriage to the antiques dealer Hannah Bagshawe (they married in 2014, the year of The Theory of Everything).

“The whole year of making The Theory of Everything was a blur because the stakes were so high and because I knew Stephen [Hawking] was going to see it. Then, when I was promoting the film, I was making The Danish Girl. And then, when I was making Fantastic Beasts, there was a day where I left the shoot, flew to LA, did press for The Danish Girl, walked the red carpet, got back on the plane and flew straight back into the Fantastic Beasts shoot. It is a period that is a hazy blur, and also because I was newly married, and then with young kids. It was an extraordinary time, but one that I still haven’t made much sense of.”

There are, nevertheless, memories of that period. On Les Misérables, for instance, he remembers asking the director Tom Hooper if he could do multiple takes of that Empty Chairs number. “I did twentysomething takes, back to back.” And why? He laughs, guiltily, and admits: “Because every day on that set you’d hear someone saying [drops voice to reverential whisper]: ‘Oh, have you heard Hugh’s [Jackman] extraordinary rendition of Who Am I? And, oh, Annie’s [Hathaway] I Dreamed a Dream?’ But my one they kept pushing further down the schedule. So, by the time you get there, the pressure is immense. So I said: ‘Let’s give it as many times as we can!’ ”

He remembers, on The Theory of Everything, meeting Hawking outside a London screening room, where the physicist was about to be shown the movie of his life. “I was terrified, like, ‘Hi Steve, hope you enjoy the film, let me know what you think.’ And he took about six minutes to type out his reply, and it said [does calm, unemotional voice]: ‘I will let you know what I think. Good or otherwise’. And I remember thinking: ‘If it’s otherwise, I probably don’t need the details.’ ”

Redmayne and his wife, Hannah Bagshawe

Then something curious happened. Just as Redmayne was at his most pre-eminent and professionally infallible (no wrong role, no bad performance), culture intervened. The vivid debates around identity politics looked unfavourably on Redmayne’s decision, as a cisgender man, to play a pioneering transgender woman, Lili Elbe, in The Danish Girl. His failure-proof Fantastic Beasts franchise similarly took a kicking owing to the forthright views of its creator, JK Rowling, whose “women are women” stance was deemed unacceptable and appeared to have a real-world impact on the box office performance of the series (each entry has underperformed, the most recent instalment, The Secrets of Dumbledore, being a near flop).

Redmayne reacted by announcing that the Danish Girl debacle had been “a massive learning curve” and that, although he disagreed with Rowling’s stance on trans women (“Trans women are women, trans men are men and non-binary identities are valid,” he says), he felt that the “vitriol” aimed at her on social media was “absolutely disgusting”.

On stage with Jessie Buckley in Cabaret

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Today, he says that identity politics and issues of representation are foremost on his mind when a role is offered. “Can I be totally honest?” he asks when I raise the subject. “It’s something that, with every job I do now and every job I take, I wrestle with. On the one hand, I believe that actors should be able to play anything and that freedom of artistic expression is important. On the other, I’m conscious that there are many marginalised communities that haven’t had a seat at the table, and until there is more even representation it feels wrong to be playing some of those parts.”

And Fantastic Beasts No 4? “That’s a very good question, and I don’t know the answer. It’s probably a question for [the series producer] David Heyman, JK Rowling and Warner Bros.”

He ends on the future, and on the work-life balance and spending as much time as possible with his children, Iris and Luke. “Actors are essentially circus performers,” he says. “And yet I had an upbringing that was very settled. And so trying to work out what’s best for our family is something that I question every day. It’s about not wanting my job, and my interests and my love for what I do to, like, damage my poor little ones.”

And his next role? “I don’t want to be the actor who says, ‘I can’t tell you about it’, but I can’t tell you about it.” But does that mean he is, right now, in the middle of his famous four months’ prep? Is he on the runway? His eyes light up. “Oh yes,” he says, beaming, a full diabolical smile from the reformed, regalvanised, Edgy Redmayne. “Always.”

The Good Nurse is in cinemas on October 19 and on Netflix from October 26".

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