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dmysterioblog · 2 years

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Masterlist

WARNING! Most of the following contain SMUT and/or have a DARK theme!

Disclaimer! These Fanfics aren't mine! They're just some of my favorites. Check at the bottom to see when it was last updated. I've made a second masterlist which I'll be updating once in a while.

Masterlist II

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Shoulder to Cry On

Paring; Agatha Harkness x reader

Summary: you have a rough break up and Agatha invites you over to make you feel better.

Rated- ♧♡

Witch hunter

Paring; Agatha Harkness x witchhunter!reader

Summary: as a friend of Blade, whilst he hunts monsters, you focus on ending the witches of old that have come to ruin the future. Agatha Harkness happens to be one of them, but she isn’t running into your trap, it’s the other way around.

Rated-♤♢♧

Say You Want Me

Parings; Agatha harkness x reader

Summery: your neighbor agatha's seen you looking at her, and she gets the wrong idea-- or, well... sort of.

Rated-♢

Closer

Parings; Salem!Agatha Harkness x Reader

Summary: you and Agatha are forced to share a bed while out for the coven.

Rated- ♡

Working Together For Her

Paring; Agatha x reader x Wanda

Summary: Y/N escapes to Westview, on the run, and Wanda and Agatha pause their fight to work together and help her.

Rated- ♧♡

Make Me Feel Special

Pairing: Milf!Agatha Harkness x fem!reader

Summary: You are angry at your best friend for turning down the opportunity for something that you would give your life for: a mother.

Rated- ♤♢

Jealousy

Paring; Jealous!Agatha x reader

Summary: you have been getting too close with Wanda and Agatha doesn't like that.

Rated- ♤♢

Taste Of A Poison Paradise

Pairing; Agatha Harkness x Fem!Reader

Summary: It’s your wedding day, and you’re freaking out with the stress and anxiety of it all. Fortunately, your future mother-in-law is there to help.

Rated- ♤♢

Love Thy Neighbour

Paring; Agatha Harkness x reader

Summary: Wanda’s spell did quite a number on Agatha. She forgot who she was. Her powers gone. But ever since she met you, she's been her memories and powers come back.

Rated- ♤♢

Oh Red String of Fate

Pairing: Agatha Harkness x Fem!Reader

Summary: you're Agatha's soul mate.

Rated- ♡

Broken Doll

Paring; Bucky x reader x Steve

Summary: Steve and Bucky have to now live with the consequences after they have broken you.

Rated- ♧

July

Paring; Cate Blanchett x reader

summary; you’ve been in australia on vacation and made a new friend, maybe more than just a friend. When your time comes to an end you reminisce the last weeks and doubt your feelings.

Rated- ♡♧

Right here right now

Paring; Carol Aird x reader

Summary: What if Carol went away by herself over Christmas and met you instead? One morning your eyes lock across the room at a motel and you spend the day together, getting to a women's bar where things heat up and you end up getting a hotel room together.

Rated- ♡♢

The Animal I Become

Pairing: Damian Priest x Fem Reader

Summary: Being the eldest daughter of Rey Mysterio, it surprises most that she’s nothing like her family. After her father and family ban her from wrestling due to her violence, she is officially the black sheep, but breaks that rule, coming back to help during an attack from the Judgement Day, only to be scolded by her father for the madness she started, then running into someone who knows her like no one else…

Rated-♧♢

Animal Unleashed

Pairing: Damian Priest x Fem Reader

Summary: After having a meeting with Judgement Day, making official plans to join and also ending the issues the reader created with Rhea Ripley after attacking her, they find the perfect way to show that the Reader is now apart of Judgement Day, joining in on the attack on her family, letting the world know she’s walking her own path away from her Mysterio family, unleashing the animal she knows she is…

Rated-♢♢♢

Tag Team

Pairing: Damian Priest x Fem Reader x Rhea Ripley

Summary: Rhea and Damian take turns having their way with Y/n.

Rated-♢♢♢

I Can Keep A Secret, Can You?

Paring; Eve Fletcher x Camgirl!Reader

Summary: The camgirl that helps Eve edge into oblivion every night changes her life in more ways than one.

Rated-♢

Miss Deavor

Paring; Evelyn Deavor x reader

Summary: Not everyone needs a screen to be under Evelyn Deavor's wiles. As her brother's assistant, you can attest to that.

Rated- ♢

To Attend the Cruise

Paring; Evelyn Deavor x reader

Summary: You're desperate for a reporting gig at the Everjust cruise. Perhaps Evelyn Deavor can arrange something?

Rated- ♢

Energy Source

Paring; Hela x reader

Summary: Hela has you locked up in a dark dungeon cell to use you as an energy source. But she's nice to you.

Rated- ♤♡

Pleasing your Queen

Paring; Hela x reader

Summary: You're a palace maid who's been summoned by your newly crowned Queen. You have no idea what to expect, but the events that play out will surprise you more than you could have imagined.

Rated- ♢

El Amor Duele

Paring; Jake Lockley x Fem!Reader

Summary: Marc and Steven suspect there is another alter looming about as you begin to notice small mannerisms/movements that don't belong to either of them. You try and lure the new guy out.

Rated-♢♧

Through the Looking Glass

Pairings; Jake Lockley x fem!reader, Steve Grant x fem!reader, Marc Spector x fem!reader

Summary: “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then.” —Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Rated-♤♢♧

Love Is A Hard Thing

Paring; Lady Tremaine x reader

Summary: You are one of the staff workers of the household belonging to Lady Tremaine. Let’s just say you caught her eye.

Rated- ♧♡

So Pure, So Dirty and Raw

Pairings; Lilith Ritter x fem!reader

Summary: Lilith is your boss, and she's been waiting to make you hers.

Rated-♤

Nightmarish

Parings; Lilith Ritter x fem!reader

Summary: You have an appointment with your psychiatrist.

Rated-♢

You're My Property

Parings; Lilith Ritter x fem!reader

summary: You just want her attention. She is your boss, you're her secretary.

Rated- ♢

Special Friend

Parings; CG!Loki x little!reader

Summary: loki wants to scare everyone he comes across today, however you rather enjoy him in his reptile form.

Rated-♡

Don't listen to them

Paring; Loki x little!reader

Summary: Loki is in the glass cell and reader is with Thor in a room with the avengers talking bad about Loki. Reader is upset and goes looking for Loki.

Rated- ♡

Good Girl, Bad Grades

Paring; Professor!Loki x reader

Summary: Your grades in Professor Laufeyson's class have been slipping recently. You are distracted - because of him. Professor Laufeyson invites you to his office to discuss your grades and it seems that despite his disappointment in you, he may have a way to help you improve them.

Rated- ♢♡

Workout

Paring; Rhea Ripley x Fem!Reader

Summary: You needy for Rhea, so she gives you what you want in the gym bathroom.

Rated-♢

A Hard Fuck

Paring; Rhea Ripley x Fem!Reader

Summary: You call Rhea a bitch during an argument and she doesn't take it lightly.

Rated-♢

Jealousy Jealousy

Paring; Rhea Ripley x fem!reader

Summary: You get jealous of Rhea and Liv but Rhea shows you she belongs to you.

Rated-♢♢♢

Tease Me, Please Me

Paring; Rhea Ripley x fem!reader

Summary: "I want you to ride my thigh until you're a whimpering fucking mess, and if you come, then I'll punish you for it."

Rated-♢♢♢

The Aftermath: Our Pretty Princess

Parings; DarkQueen!Wanda x Fem!Reader x SoftDarkKing!Valkyrie, Kate Bishop x Fem!Reader (Brief/Established)

Summary: Wanda and Valkyrie think you'll be the perfect fit as their princess, so their take you as theirs.

Rated-♤♢

She’s in Your Mind

Pairing; Wanda Maximoff x Fem!Reader

Summary: Instead of whispering “run” Wanda reads your mind and sees that you are attracted to her. She uses a different method instead of fear, to make you submit to her, and it definitely does not involve running.

Rated- ♤♢

20th Birthday

Paring; LegalGuardian!WandaMaximoff x Fem!Reader

Summary: After your father's 'sudden' death you are being placed under the custody of his neighbor and close family friend, Wanda. She has been waiting for this moment since she laid eyes on you many years ago swearing in that you will be completely hers. Mind and body. And you being her innocent dumb little baby, that will be just a matter of time.

Rated-♢♡

Stephen Doesn’t Have to Know

Pairing: Wanda Maximoff x Fem!Reader

Summary: Wanda had captured you in her palace when she took you from Stephen, she planned to make you hers to get back at him but she found herself taking a liking to you.

Rated- ♢♡

Training

Pairing: Wanda Maximoff x Fem!Reader

Summary: When misbehaving in public after your owner told you to obey, you are punished for your trouble.

Rated- ♤♢

After School Special

Paring; Professor!Wanda Maximoff x Reader

Summary: In the midst of your exhaustion you fail to see the flirtatious manner in which a classmate speaks to you, but alas Wanda has to prove who your real owner is.

Rated- ♡♢

First Times Aren't Shameful

Paring; Wanda Maximoff x Reader

Summary: Your first time with mommy Wanda is filled with lots of soft praises and big feelings.

Rated- ♢

Her World

Paring; Dark!Mommy!Wanda x little!reader

Summary: After Wanda lost Pietro and then Vision she can't risk to lose you as well. So, she took you with her to Westview and live her perfect life with you as her little angel, like she always wanted.

Rated- ♤♡

Only Mommy Can See You Like This

Paring; Mommy!Wanda x reader

Summary: Professor Wanda gets jealous of you while teaching class and decides to make you stay after to remind you who you belong to.

Rated- ♢♡

Last updated 02/18/23

#fic rec #tony stark x reader #lady tremaine x reader #evelyn deavor x reader #agatha harkness x reader #lilith ritter x reader #loki x reader #valkyrie x reader #kathryn hahn x reader #bucky x you #lou miller #jake lockley x fem!reader #hela x reader #hela odinsdottir x reader #dark!marvel #rhea ripley x reader #damian priest x reader

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agentnico · 1 year

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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) Review

Casting Cate Blanchett as the voice of the monkey that simply goes “ook-ook” and “eek-eek” is either the greatest vocal performance ever or the grandest mockery of a famed Hollywood starlet. Either or - it works!

Plot: Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reinvents Carlo Collodi's classic tale of the wooden marionette who is magically brought to life in order to mend the heart of a grieving woodcarver named Geppetto. This whimsical, stop-motion musical directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson follows the mischievous and disobedient adventures of Pinocchio in his pursuit of a place in the world.

One begs the question is there really a need for yet another Pinocchio adaptation after the gazillion that have come out previously. We even had the Disney remake come out a couple of months ago with Tom Hanks doing his best flustering about in front of a green screen and though that one is a fun drunk watch, honestly the tale of the living puppet has been overdone one too many times. However when a director like del Toro comes into play, things are a bit more interesting as he is a director with such a distinct gothic surreal style that I decided to give this Pinocchio a go after all.

I am glad I did. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is a shoehorn for a Best Animated Picture nomination at the Academy Awards as this is some of the best stop-motion animation ever put to screen. The amount of detail on all the character designs and the smooth transitions from scene to scene - this movie looks incredible. Even the imagery that at times can be classed as creepy is also eerily beautiful in the typical del Toro way. Pinocchio himself is a very rough and rigid build, one that resembles a wooden Frankenstein monster, as he has been built within the plot during a drunken blunder, and it shows. Again though, due to the innocent playful vocal work by newcomer Gregory Mann, he imbues the dire doll to be a very likeable and adorable little chap, one that you care for and want to see succeed. It’s typical del Toro do mix the frightening with the beautiful to create a concoction of the fantastical. And this movie is a visual feast. Also straight up impressive. The amount of work that goes into stop-motion....I could hardly have the patience to make a short 30 second LEGO stop-motion YouTube vid, let alone a full fledged feature with originally designed figures and puppets.

Reinforcing more that this is Guillermo del Toro going fully Guillermo del Toro, the film uses the fantasy tale to address some serious mature adult themes such as death and an abundant amount of fascism. No really, even the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini makes an appearance in the movie! This is very reminiscent of del Toro using fiction to provide a social commentary on historical events, like in his magnum opus work Pan’s Labyrinth. However these unsettling themes are balanced out with a good chunk of child-friendly comic relief (Ewan McGregor’s cricket gets squashed numerous times yet he always gets up again like Charlie fricking Chaplin) and musical numbers, which results in a bit of odd tonality, however again, it’s Guillermo del Toro through and through.

In conclusion, was there a need for yet another Pinocchio adaptation? Nope, however Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio embraces its title to the fullest in that it is del Toro through and through. For better or worse, as does one really need to see Pinocchio praise in song the mighty Il Duce? Depends on the audience member, as its not for everyone, but I myself really enjoyed seeing the director’s vision and the impressive animation. Shame though that Ewan McGregor doesn’t sing ‘Be Our Guest’ in this one but I guess that’s forgivable.

Overall score: 7/10

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zamoimagines · 2 years

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Emergency Commission Announcement

Hey ya'll, I have to catch up with some bills so let the emergency commissions commence! I only have one big commission in my queue at the moment, but I will be taking as many smaller commissions as I can! Any bit of money helps, and you are welcome to request anything you like so long as ya'll give me details and I'm writing for a fandom I have some background with. I will do aus, canon, ocs, and self inserts, so feel free to request whatever your little hearts desire! (Please note; my specialty is wlw/nonbinary romance. Any heterosexual romance will cost an extra two dollars simply because it is hard for a lesbian such as myself to get into that headspace.)

Below are prices for whatever word counts interest you and a list of fandoms I will write for. If there's something you don't see, feel free to ask about it!

Emergency Commission Prices:

500-750 Words: $8

1,000 Words: $10

2,000 Words: $15

Thank you so much and I look forward to writing for ya'll!

(Under the cut is a list of fandoms I will write for)

Note: I will not be taking commissions over 2,000 words at this time

Fandoms:

Disney "Z-O-M-B-I-E-S"

Disney "Descendants"

The Pixie Hollow franchise

Pixar/Disney films in general

American Horror Story

The Owl House

Star vs The Forces of Evil

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Riverdale

Dead by Daylight

Ocean's 8

Resident Evil Village

Run (2018)

Big Little Lies

What We Do In the Shadows

Will and Grace

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

The Devil Wears Prada

Anything involving middle aged actresses (Cate Blanchett, Sarah Paulson, Sandra Bullock, Jessica Lange, etc.)

Cobra Kai

Dead to Me

Mean Girls

Good Girls

Mad Men

RHPS/Shock Treatment

Trollhunters

Stranger Things

The Addams Family

Gilmore Girls

Monster High

Ever After High

FATE: Winx Saga

Harry Potter

Amphibia

Gravity Falls

Jim Henson's Labyrinth

Russian Doll

Sofia the First

High School Musical

Overwatch

Once Upon a Time

Any movies from the Barbie franchise

The Quarry

If you don't see the fandom you're looking for, please feel free to shoot me a message and I'll see if I can write it up for you!

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ariminiria · 2 years

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Me: *sees Cate Blanchett's Galadriel* She's so beautiful and ethereal! I'm gay for her!!! ❤️

Me: *sees RoP's Galadriel* Why is she such an awful bitch???

She looks like if they made a Galadriel Barbie based off Cate, but it got that Emma Watson Belle Doll treatment, and then they based rop Galadriel off of said doll.

#anti rings of power

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biglisbonnews · 1 year

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Harassment, hierarchies and discreetly rubbed trousers: the exhausting politics of orchestras Cate Blanchett film Tár shows how damaging a maniacal conductor can be – but, as musicians explain, orchestras are riven with other serious structural issues‘They can’t all conduct, honey”, Lydia Tár informs her daughter as she hands each of her dolls a pencil to use as a makeshift baton. “It’s not a democracy.”In her sharp put-downs, sidelining of procedure, and singular, maniacal artistry, Tár – played by Cate Blanchett in the film of the same name – embodies all the tropes of the autocratic conductor. The first of a glut of forthcoming “maestro movies” (Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biographical drama Maestro is currently in production, as is The Yellow Tie, on the life of firebrand Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache), Tár isn’t just a character study, though – it depicts the intertwined social and artistic hierarchies, subtle codes and often grotesque power dynamics of the orchestra as a workplace. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/01/tar-conductor-orchestra-harassment

#Music #Culture #Classical music #Cate Blanchett #Film #Conducting #Hugh Morris #Culture | The Guardian

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noisynutcrusade · 9 months

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Homemade Barbies

The story of two creators of collectible dolls for Mattel and enthusiasts. Cate Blanchett and Jovanotti have passed through their home laboratory Source link

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modorama · 11 months

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Cinema | Todd Haynes - American chimeras Born in 1961 in California, Todd Haynes today belongs, alongside Kelly Reichardt and Gus Van Sant, to a family of independent American filmmakers who grew up in the heart of the counterculture.

If he likes to say that he discovered the cinema thanks to the eminently popular figure of Mary Poppins, all of his work (started when he was only 17 years old with a short film with the title voluntarily provocative, The Suicide) meticulously turns America's founding myths on their head. From Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story – a medium-length film which returns unvarnishedly to the fate of the iconic singer by means of Barbie dolls (completed in 1987, but banned as soon as it was released) and Safe, the second feature film in which Haynes directs Julianne Moore for the first time (1995) – the filmmaker, who asserts his homosexuality, questions social, sexual and artistic norms, the better to overcome them. Conceiving cinema as the art of artifice, Todd Haynes signs flamboyant stagings. Combining fascination with the subject and the power of cinema, it questions the most eminent artistic figures of the 19th and 20th centuries – Arthur Rimbaud, Jean Genet, Bob Dylan, the Velvet Underground – but also glam rock, with Velvet Goldmine (1998), or still the genre of melodrama, inspired by Douglas Sirk in Far from Heaven (2002), and in his last film, May December (2023), with Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman and Charles Melton. In 2015, he directed Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in Carol, which won the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.

A great guest of the Center Pompidou, he presents all of his work, including the mini-series Mildred Pierce, with Kate Winslet, for HBO, and directs a new short film for the collection “Where are you? At the same time, a book dedicated to Todd Haynes, including a foreword by Julianne Moore, an introduction to the work, more than one hundred and fifty unpublished working documents from the filmmaker's archives and an extensive interview tracing his entire career, is available. published in French by De l'incidence, publisher. May 10 - 29, 2023 A. Semenski, fashion-book.org

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courtneysmovieblog · 1 year

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Mini Reviews: Menus, Missteps, and M3GAN

So I finally caved and watched the new killer robot doll movie, in addition to JLo’s latest romcom and a few more of this last year’s most accoladed movies:

The Last Kiss: Like almost everyone else that’s seen this, I don’t get why Zach Braff’s girlfriend takes him back in the end. “My pregnant girlfriend kicked me out of my house because she thought I cheated on her, but now she’s mad because I cheated on her for real while we were apart.” Reads like an AITA post.

Like A Boss: Not really sure what to say about it other than it’s your typical girl-buddy film.

Godzilla vs Kong: Are they still going to keep making these movies?

Tar: Cate Blanchett gives a riveting performance as a composer whose karma finally catches up with her. But I still want Michelle Yeoh to win the Oscar.

The Menu: You’ll never look at gourmet eating the same way again after watching Ralph Fiennes as the creepy chef that is ready to go out in a blaze of glory with his customers and staff. It’s a shame he wasn’t nominated for an Oscar. But how dare he trash s’more like that?!

The Banshees of Inisherin: What the hell was so great about this movie? It was just a long boring slog about two idiots in a a stupid feud? Even my mom can’t figure out why it was nominated for Best Picture.

Shotgun Wedding: While I did like Marry Me better, this was fun, if only because Jennifer Coolidge did what Jennifer Coolidge does best: use a machine gun.

You People: There was so many cringeworthy moments in the movie, I honestly can’t decide whether I liked it or not. Props to Julia Louis-Dreyfus for taking one for the team to play the ultimate Karen mother-in-law.

M3GAN: Yeah, I bit the bullet and watched it. It was entertaining, I’ll give it that, but I’m still Team Chucky. Maybe they can do a little crossover on the next season of the show?

#Mini Reviews #scary movies #romantic comedies #sequels #Oscars

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diminuel · 1 year

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So I think after Sam got turned back into Michael they’d have really long hair like down to their ankles before cutting it off to maybe around their elbows and maybe if Heaven did kidnap Sam again to make them remember their memories of Michael maybe dress them up in an attire like the white dress Princess serenity wore from sailor moon and maybe they’d have a lot of suitors cause I imagine as sort of Queen Michael had tons of admirers so I imagine a lot angel suitors trying to win their hand or something like that before Dean tries to intervene

But we‘re talking about angels here in a canon setting, right? I mean, yes „dude (Michael) looks like Cate Blanchett“ but this kind of dolled up queen with suitors doesn‘t seem to fit my idea of SPN so I have trouble wrapping my head around it * >w<

(I can imagine „representational“ appearance on earth for PR‘s sake since this was something Heaven was interested in but this was for the benefits of humans. I can‘t quite see them do that in Heaven as a way to jump start Michael‘s memories…)

* that said I have drawn Sam with long long hair. In my Pagan Gods Verse :3 it‘s pretty and valuable.

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satellite-sims · 3 years

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My doll collection appreciation post 💕⚡

#dolls #barbie dolls #fashion dolls #barbie bmr 1959 #barbie made to move #billie eilish doll #doll collection #dollphotography #cate blanchett doll #natalia vodianova doll #ooak barbie #becky lynch doll #lady tremaine doll #doll collector #personal #non sims

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1sixthworld · 3 years

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Photos by Steve McKinnis of stevemckinnis.com

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misscostumebliss · 2 years

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Lady Tremaine Doll Part 3 – The Hat

Hello! For this blog, I want to share with you all the making of this lovely miniature hat! This is the first time I work at this scale so the entire process was a lot of experimentation in materials and shapes. But I am ecstatic with the final result. One of the main elements of Lady Tremaine’s look is the hat, this dramatic hat! The size, the details and the elegance that gives to the look…

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#Cate Blanchett #Cinderella #Cinderella Live Action #Disney Princess #Disney Villain #doll #Lady Tremaine #Movies #Sady Powell #Stepmother

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fuckyeah-jessicabiel · 2 years

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The time is finally right for Jessica Biel's singing debut

July 28, 2009

Actress Jessica Biel may have surprised film and television fans when she signed on to sing the part of laced-up missionary Sarah Brown in “Guys and Dolls in Concert” at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend, but the actress has always been a sucker for a good musical.

When she was 16, she made certain she’d be able to buy tickets for a touring production of “Rent” in San Diego. “I loved that show so much that I slept on the street outside the theater,” she says. “We brought our sleeping bags so we’d be first in line.”

Years later, Biel was offered the part of Maureen in the Broadway production as well as a role in “Beauty and the Beast,” but she turned both down. “They’d been on for a while, and I would have been stepping into someone else’s position,” Biel says. “And I just felt like I wasn’t 100% confident in myself. I just wasn’t ready for it. I thought something else will happen for me at the right time, and if it doesn’t, then it doesn’t.”

As things turned out, it did. And now Biel is preparing for her professional singing debut onstage in the Frank Loesser classic opposite Broadway űberstar Brian Stokes Mitchell, who plays her gambling love interest, Sky Masterson.

“I’m going to do something that really scares me, that I wasn’t ready to do before and probably would have messed up,” she says. “You know when you feel in your gut, 'Do I really want to do this now?', instead of forcing yourself and saying you should.

“And I also want to sing. It’s that hobby that I do by myself privately in the shower or in the car. It’s that gut reaction of pure bliss. I really feel my 9-year-old self inside doing cartwheels when I sing.”

Pipes dream

For the young Jessica Biel, taking voice lessons was like trying on her mother’s high heels. One day Jessica’s mother needed to go to a voice lesson, but couldn’t get a baby-sitter. So she took 8-year-old Jessica along. Jessica wanted a crack at it too, so her mother gave her the appointment. And so Biel’s love of singing was born.

Now, 19 years, 18 films and a decade as a regular on the hit TV show “7th Heaven” later, the member in good standing of young Hollywood is finally making her professional singing debut on stage Friday in the Frank Loesser musical classic, “Guys and Dolls in Concert at the Hollywood Bowl.” Biel, 27, said it took her all that time to summon the courage to take her singing beyond the shower stall. “I’ve struggled a lot in the last five years or so with my own insecurities, having done some film,” she said recently. “Will I be accepted? Is my voice good enough? I think I finally feel confident enough to do it.”

If Biel’s newfound confidence tipped the scales for her, she’s certainly going to need it. She’s making her debut as the pious Save-a-Soul Mission Sgt. Sarah Brown opposite one of Broadway’s biggest stars, Brian Stokes Mitchell, who stars as her love interest, Sky Masterson. And she’s doing it in front of the Bowl’s substantial audience of about 17,000 people.

“Hopefully faceless people,” she said with a laugh. “17,000 faceless people.”

And then, of course, there’s the pressure of singing opposite Mitchell “because he’s such a talent and his voice is strong,” Biel said. “I definitely know I have to match him and not get swallowed up by his incredible sound. It is kind of a daunting idea. But working with that caliber of people, you have no choice but to take your game up to the next level and just bring it. I know that sounds dorky, but you really do.”

Broadway veterans

Biel, who played a magician’s love interest in the 2006 period film “The Illusionist,” discussed her latest venture during a break in rehearsals at the Hollywood United Methodist Church gym. The fresh-faced actress, her hair pulled back into a messy ponytail, was relaxed and eager to talk about her surprising incarnation. The rehearsal set-up was a far cry from a cushy big-budget film set, which may offer stars such amenities as 45-foot trailers, Diptyque candles and the like.

Today, the closest things to amenities were five fans scattered around the gym to battle the steamy afternoon heat. Biel, wearing a simple black tank dress, lace-up church-lady shoes and no makeup, rehearsed some lines she improvised with Beau Bridges, another film actor not known for his singing voice. (Scott Bakula plays Nathan Detroit, Tony nominee Ellen Greene is Miss Adelaide and Ken Page is Nicely-Nicely in a production featuring an interesting mix of Hollywood stars and Broadway bluebloods.)

As she voiced her concern about her love for a gambler, Bridges, who plays the mission’s founder, Arvide Abernathy, reassured her and softly sang “More I Cannot Wish You.” As he did, he twirled Biel around and ended the song with a kiss on her head.

When Biel auditioned for director Richard Jay-Alexander and music director Kevin Stites at Stites’ New York apartment, Jay-Alexander was so mired in the theater world that he didn’t know who she was. But by the time she had finished, he said, he “got chills three times.”

“Her voice is silvery,” said Jay-Alexander, who directed last summer’s “Les Miserables in Concert” at the Bowl and spent 10 years as the executive director of producer Cameron Mackintosh’s U.S. company. “It glimmers, and the higher it goes, the more it shimmers. It’s a very interesting instrument.” And she’s been training for the role “like a triathlete in a decathlon,” working with a coach two hours a day for the last two months.

Biel hopes that the role of Sarah will confound an industry that often makes assumptions about the limits of beautiful women. Her concern about that has at times ricocheted awkwardly across the Internet, as it did in May when she told Allure magazine that she wants a career like Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman’s, but her beauty “really is a problem” in Hollywood and has cost her roles.

Outside the box

After dropping out of Tufts University (which she said she regrets), Biel has tried to forge an eclectic career that has embraced drama (“Ulee’s Gold” in 1997), comedy (2007’s “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry”), action/sci-fi (“Next” the same year), horror (“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” remake in 2003) and Noel Coward (2008’s “Easy Virtue,” singing a couple of songs on the soundtrack).

“I just don’t want to be in a box ever where anybody feels I can only do one thing, because it’s boring,” said Biel, born in Minnesota to an international business consultant and a homemaker. “I feel I have a lot to explore and a lot to give and try and probably fail doing something, but I want the shot to do it.”

That probably won’t include performing with her longtime boyfriend, Justin Timberlake, at least for now. “I never thought about doing an album,” she said. “I’m more interested in incorporating music into film or onstage. I am his No. 1 fan when it comes to music, but we’re doing our own things.”

Now she’s finishing filming David O. Russell’s healthcare industry satire, “Nailed,” playing a waitress who gets a nail lodged in her head, and then moving on to Garry Marshall’s star ensemble romantic comedy “Valentine’s Day.” She’s also pursuing several projects for her production company, Iron Ocean Films, including seeking financing for “The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” a drama about the friendship between a widower and a homeless girl, for which Timberlake would act as music supervisor.

She started Iron Ocean with her partner, Michelle Purple, she said, “to come up with my own material, to have more control of it, to understand what a producer does and the business aspect that I don’t normally see. Suppose there’s a time in my life when I don’t want to be on screen. You want to have a family and still work and still have independence and something of your own.”

But mostly, Biel doesn’t want to be told she can’t do something.

“The only destination I’m hoping for is longevity,” she said. “I want to be able to keep working until I’m 105 years old. I want the choice. It’s difficult for women in general in entertainment. They peak earlier and the men peak at 30, 40. It’s kind of scary. But you can’t tell Meryl Streep she can’t do a part. You can’t say to Cate Blanchett ‘I don’t believe her in that.’ They do anything they want because they have explored the range, which is endless for them. That’s what I want.”

Source: LA Times

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