uhh im just gonna ramble about my a3 "winter swap" au for a bit because i really love it but i doubt i'll ever make anything for it
(to preface: it's been a while since i've played a3 and reviewed its story, so I may have some things wrong here and there. it's part of the au now lmao)
okay so basically just an au where tsumugi, tasuku, hisoka, homare, and azuma are actors for the God Troupe instead of Mankai. (inspo for this was just that I, a tsumugi lover, just really wanted him to be mean and a "bad person" i have no idea why) These guys are the most popular actors for the god troup with Reni as their director; Taichi and Haruto also act for the god troupe, but they almost never get to see the spotlight, only as background characters. The two were lowkey treated like shit by Reni, and all they wanted was to become a good actor and to get fame.
It's still the same song and dance: Reni sends in Taichi as a spy, but Taichi ends up joining Mankai instead. Things explode over at the god troupe, especially between Tsumugi and Tasuku when the latter actor said he would also be leaving the god troupe. except before tasuku leaves, he essentially tells haruto, "you don't have to deal with this shit, you can come with me and join mankai." he doesn't at first, Tsumugi answering for him, "no, he won't and you won't," but Tasuku promptly left after that to see Tachibana. (Tasuku did offer Tsumugi to join Mankai with him, but Tsumugi was more disgusted with the idea of acting for the rival troupes, and was also angry that Tasuku was "abandoning" him). After stewing for a while, Haruto realized he hated being treated like dirt by the god troupe more than he hated mankai; he left and joined mankai shortly after tasuku left.
Needing a winter troupe, Izumi happily let Haruto and Tasuku join after the audition. Seeing potential in him, Haruto become the leader for the winter troupe.
Meanwhile, Tsumugi is fucking PISSED and is in an even worse mood than usual, and azuma, homare, and hisoka are starting to get sick of his shit. Reni, who's also getting sick of his shit and needing him to calm down, offers to Tsumugi that they should challenge mankai. Reni wanted to do this just to one up the rival troupes, and tsumugi saw this as a way to show Tasuku that he was better than those other actors, and to have him come back to Tsumugi.
Haruto took a while to adjust to the mankai company. He still acted like he was better than them all, and only tried to stop acting superior after getting a good talking to from tasuku, izumi, and others who were done with his shit. he is still confident, but his arrogance got knocked down a few pegs after meeting yuzo for the first time.
He starts to settle in after a while, though. He was able to apologize to Taichi for treating him so badly before, and was able to befriend the boy. There, he started to feel like he belonged, and even started to let people call him by his real name, Genta Yamada, and slowly stopped hiding his dialect.
Izumi, taking on the challenge, still needed more members for the winter troupe, only having two at the moment. Holding auditions, Shift Arakawa finally decides to at least try and follow his dream, and ends up getting a part in the winter troupe.
Madoka and his father have been working for the god troupe for a long while; after seeing the ad to audtion, in an act of defiance being fed up, Madoka audtions to be apart of the winter troupe.
To be honest, I'm still not sure about the last troupe member; I'm leaning toward the idea of Guy appearing much earlier in the story for the same reasons, and he joins the winter troupe.
It takes a long while and some supernatural things to happen, but they all begin to understand one another and get closer as actors and as family.
but tasuku still misses tsumugi, his childhood friend. he was a nice guy, a good friend, but something changed when he started acting for the god troupe and under Reni. It's the same thing that made Taichi and Haruto so desperate to attention, the same thing that makes Hisoka either stay in his room or leave all day, the same thing that makes Homare say nothing other than his lines, the same thing that makes Azuma drink so so much. He just hopes that they're all right (even though he knows deep down they're not)
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The whole Ewen not being able to do a French accent in Beauty in the Beast, from what I remember, was actually the studios fault. I saw an interview with him were he said that after his first take they told him to try to do it a little less French. Apparently the reason they wanted a non-French person for the role was because they didn’t want such a thick accent because they thought people wouldn’t understand what was being said. Which ??? So they basically told him to do a French accent without being French. Which he admired started turning almost Mexican. So not to say that his other accents haven’t been bad but at least the Beauty and the Beast one wasn’t entirely just him not knowing a French accent after living with them for years
i rewatched the interview and it's kinda unclear tbh. he says 'i couldn't do it at all' and then he says that the people in the booth told him to roll his Rs. so then he did the mexican accent thingy and then he says he might need to record everything again? so does it mean he had to reshoot his part after he rolled his Rs. it's confusing. he keeps saying he couldn't do it so it's like he's aware he was struggling
I've seen countless interviews with him and in 22 years, he never learnt french so I'm actually not surprised he couldn't do it. And even his supposedly French 'RREE' that he pronounces in this video do not sound french at all so i'm not even sure that could have save him
edit: so i googled it and this is what multiple articles say:
Ewan McGregor’s accent was once deemed ‘too Mexican’ to play the French candlestick during the filming of the Beauty And The Beast live action remake.
The Scottish actor – who voices Lumiere – reportedly had to re-record his vocals because his first attempt sounded Mexican.
According to Total Film, director Bill Condon revealed that McGregor worked with a vocal coach and then returned for a second shot where he managed to muster “a flawless, beautiful French accent.” You can watch a trailer below that briefly features McGregor speaking.
i also rewatched a clip and he didn’t sound bad but he def didn’t sound like a french man with a french accent🤷♀️
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