#mine is cate blanchett from I’m not there | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

yeetlegay · 2 years

Note

Hey! Any wlw recs? Fics movies shows anything

ANON WHERE TO BEGIN

Some personal favorites off the top of my head:

Movies:

Carol (2015) - Cate Blanchett, period (1950s), absolutely stunning and iconic lesbian cinema

The Handmaiden (2016) - reimagining of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, set in Japanese-occupied Korea during the 1930s, brilliant and imaginative and lush

Imagine Me and You (2005) - Lena Headey (Cersei from GoT) being a hot florist, love at first sight, cheesy romcom deliciousness, big warning for cheating tho it’s handled very well imo

Rafiki (2018) - coming of age love story, beautiful and ends on a good note but there’s a LOT of homophobia and some violence so be careful, was the first Kenyan film screened at Cannes which is amazing

Vita and Virginia (2018) - based on the real life romance between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, the 1920s fashion + delicious sexual tension 🤌🏻🤌🏻 cw for depiction of depression and suicidal ideation

Tv shows:

First Kill (2022) - SUPPORT THIS SHOW, vampire and vampire hunter fall in love, set in one of my fave cities (Savannah), very camp Romeo & Juliet high school romance just with more blood and fangs

Fingersmith (2005) - British miniseries based on the same novel as The Handmaiden but much closer to the source material, Victorian lesbians ft the most magnificently crafted plot and sexual tension galore, holy shit watch it

Killing Eve - okay this one is a little controversial bc of the ending (which I pretend doesn’t exist) but holy fuck if you like VegasPete, Villanelle and Eve are their even more murderous and batshit crazy cousins. Cat and mouse games between a psychopath assassin and a British intelligence officer (altho she’s actually American but whatever) that I was sure would be queerbaiting, but nope they’re in love. Consider looking up how it ends tho if you need HEAs in your stories

Gap the Series - not out yet but when it is, WATCH IT. Currently in production I think, probably out later this year. It’s Thai and will be available on YouTube with subtitles. Office romance, so many lesbians I’ve lost count and like one (1) man total in the cast.

Gentleman Jack - just dropped season 2 unffff. Period British show based on the life of lesbian Anne Lister, who is one half of the first known gay marriage in England. She’s so fucking hot and butch if you’re not in love with her the second she jumps off that carriage in episode 1…and her love story with shy, repressed wallflower Ann Walker is tender and sexy and complex. Cw for depiction of anxiety and suicide attempt in season 1 (lmk if you’d like the exact ep and time stamp)

Portrait of a Marriage (1990) - a little hard to find but worth the hunt. Based on the romance between novelist Vita Sackville-West (yes, who also had an affair with Virginia Woolf) and her socialite lover Violet. I cannot believe more people don’t talk about this miniseries bc holy shit. Vita and Violet are so fucking in love and their chemistry and love scenes had me gripping the edge of my seat despite the abysmal quality of the version I watched on Dailymotion. Cw for a shitload of cheating, some toxic vibes, and an ending that while mostly historically accurate was still a bummer.

Fics:

Obv I will shamelessly plug my Kinnporsche f/f smut bc I love her and also am desperate for more f/f fic in the ao3 tag so I’m not over here by myself anymore lol

I don’t know what fandoms you’re in but if you’ve watched Word of Honor or read 2ha, holy shit is there some good f/f fic in those tags. Sort by kudos and godspeed friend

Books:

You didn’t ask about books lol but here are some faves of mine anyway

Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake - hot tatted bi protagonist, very gender, falls in love with cute single mom in her hometown when she comes back for her stepsister’s wedding

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston - Kate and Leopold but gay and good, butch lesbian from the 1970s gets stuck in time on the subway, grumpy bisexual falls in love with her, makes me reconsider my stance on subway sex bc holy shit.

Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson - okay this one is sapphic but in a polyamorous context so if you want, like, zero men then skip this rec. Inspired by the lore around Dracula’s brides, very gothic and queer, Constanta (narrator) is the first bride who’s in love with Dracula but also her fellow brides Magdalena and Alexei. Cw for depictions of emotional abuse and gaslighting, Dracula is a manipulative piece of shit (who would’ve guessed lol)

Hope this helps anon!

#I’m not tagging all that lol but #wlw recs #lesbian recs #book recs #movie recs #tv recs #why don’t queue stay

136 notes · View notes

amerrierworld · 1 year

Text

brain.

I chewed the end of my pencil’s eraser, the flavour off-putting but not unwelcome. Looking at my pile of drafts and blurb prompts, the brief inkling of my motivation that I had earlier seemed to be slipping away.

“You know, this would be a lot easier if I became obsessed with something new again, quickly,” I grumbled, abusing the delete button on my keyboard as I rewrote a sentence again.

“What’s wrong with the things you’re currently obsessed with?” A low chuckle came from the other side of the room. Lou stepped through the doorway and to the side of my desk, planting reassuring hands on my shoulders. “Just write another steamy fic about me... You’ve got plenty already.”

“Yeah but I don’t want to just write about you, no matter how much I love writing about you,” I look up at her and she tuts, stealing the pencil from my mouth. “I have to keep up with different things!”

“Well, you keep promising them you’ll write more about us,” Hela grumbled from the couch in the back of the room, pointing between her and Alcina, who was hunched over uncomfortably in the small office space. “How many parts does Babysitter still need to finish the story, hm?”

“Don’t start,” I groaned, hiding my face with my hands.

“And Songbird was supposed to be just three parts, right? Now what, you’ve given yourself about ten total? You think you’ll have the stamina for that?” The Countess added.

“You’re not helping! Any of you!” I snapped, closing my laptop and getting up. “I need a drink.”

“I hope it’s one of my brands,” Alcina commented. “You know they’re the best.”

“I don’t drink blood-wine, Alci.”

Lou, trusty Lou, followed me around the elaborate palace of writing I had constructed for myself, flicking through a notebook of drafts and characters from my recent writings.

“You really stuck around with this, didn’t you?” She gestured to the pages of scribbles.

“What?” I asked, grabbing a glass from the cabinet in the kitchen.

“Me, Debs, Hela, Carol, Alci, basically everything Cate Blanchett played and then some.”

“Oh, shut up,” I growled. “I wrote about some other characters too you know!”

“Yeah, years ago,” Thorin muttered, sitting at the kitchen island next to Obi-Wan. “We both barely got any mention. Fili’s story took years to finish, didn't it?”

“Boys, I promise I still love all of you. It’s just that the women characters have been more on my mind recently.”

“Well, you haven’t written about all of Cate’s characters,” Valka muttered, and Bernadette nodded. “When are you gonna invite Lydia in?”

“When I have the stamina to even begin thinking about such a complex character! I could barely write one fic about Lilith as it is!”

“Oh, sorry, we’re not complex enough for ya!” Karl snarled, chugging back my entire last bottle of wine. “This is shit, by the way.”

“Hey! That was my last bottle.”

“This is your dream, just think up another,” he scoffed, chucking the bottle into the sink.

“Just pick something! Anything will work, and to be honest, I’m surprised you haven’t written about me yet,” Legolas sat perched on one of the tables, fiddling with the ends of one of his arrows. “There’s loads in Fellowship you could write on.”

“Jesus Christ, where’d you come from? And no, I can’t just pick something! I need a good explanation for my insane hiatus... again!”

“Ah, you’ll be fine,” Bernadette replied. “The loyal fans will understand.”

“Don’t call them fans,” I muttered. “I feel weird thinking that people out there actually enjoy my writing.”

“Besides,” she kept going, “You’ve been coming and going as you please anyways since the start! Isn’t that indicative enough that you can take all the time you need if you need it?”

“Doesn’t stop me from feeling guilty though!” I sighed. “I feel like I owe my writing another piece. Something good. But that’s scary, because what the hell is supposed to be good? And what if no one reads it? It’s not even a ground-breaking novel, it’s just silly little paragraphs about characters that aren’t even mine.”

“So what?” Lou crossed her arms, leaning against the doorway -- her best place to pose. “You like writing it, so write it. Doesn’t matter if people read it. You don’t even have to post it, if you don’t want.”

Galadriel walked in beside her, hands deftly clasped in front of her. “There’s plenty to write about, meleth-nin. You’ll find something. If it’s not a fic like this, maybe something else. And if something is unfinished, let it be. That’s what the process is for.”

I opened the kitchen cabinet, and sure enough, there was another bottle of wine. But, instead, I reached for the apple juice next to it. It was nice and cold, despite not being in the fridge. God, I loved imagining things.

“I could write more smut -- people like reading it, and it’s fun to write,” I shrugged after chugging half a glass. “But what if I should try something more? Maybe a couple parts to a story, like in dreams, but just stop it after a few, and not force myself to think of it as a massive novel with endless chapters? That’s what happened with Babysitter... I had a fantastic idea and now I’m scared to take it somewhere.”

“Maybe one day you’ll finish the big ones,” Obi-Wan mused, stroking his beard from the table. “You could always try a different series that you’ve already seen, watched, and loved. Maybe that’ll get the ball rolling. There’s lots more to Star Wars than just me.”

“I know, but I love you,” I pouted. “And Star Wars is massive!”

“So is Tolkien,” Thorin shrugged. “You’ve written about us plenty.”

“Could’ve written about me,” Loki grinned. “You basically did, of course, but you made me more the side-character. I think I would do really well as the protagonist--”

“Maybe take the time to watch new stuff, you know, the things you keep saying you’ll get into, but then don't?” Debbie suggested, pulling out a massive list of my to-be-watched and to-be-read. I pouted again, I wanted to, but had no idea where to start.

They had all entered the dining room now, Alci sitting on the floor to make room for her head. And they all looked at me expectantly. There was a typewriter on the table.

“Oh, no, absolutely not. I’m not writing something while you’re all sitting here watching me.”

“Well, what’ll it be then?” Hela countered. “You’re gonna finish this fic and be done for the day -- or should I say, year?”

“I don’t know what to write about!”

“Write about this,” Bernadette said, gesturing wildly around the room. “And then maybe something new will happen after.”

“You know, this is definitely a fever dream,” I grumbled. “I could never look a so many of Cate Blanchett’s characters at once and be able to form complete sentences.”

Three peculiar flies landed around the typewriter, buzzing haphazardly. Alcina shooed them away and the three daughters materialized, hanging from the chandelier.

“If you break that, you’ll pay for it!” I warned.

“If we break it, that means you made us break it!” Cassandra cackled. “Can’t win, sweetie. Not even in your own daydreams.”

“No, I suppose not,” I slumped in the chair and looked at the blank page. “Writing fic isn’t meant to feel like a chore, right?”

“Don’t ask us, we’re not writers,” Karl grumbled, sitting at a plate of hot food piled high.

“Where did that come from?” I gaped. He wagged a finger in the air in thought while chewing a massive piece of steak.

“Hmn, I think... you might be hungry. Best get some fuel when you wake up.”

“But first,” Carol said softly, resting her hand on my shoulder. “Write something. Anything. Any word.”

I thought for a moment, the clock in the hall ticking loudly. Fuck it.

brain.

#word vomit #thought dump #merry writes #can you spot all the characters

4 notes · View notes

justanisabelakinnie · 2 years

Note

I'd love to give an answer for the wlw ask no 20! Who was my celebrity/character awakening? First time I remember finding a girl hot was Dianna Agron and Lea Michele in like a sexy schoolgirl photoshoot they did for Glee and I was probably about 14? The first one where it was definitely "Yeah, I like girls" was Kate McKinnon in the new ghostbusters. Went in a girl and came out a woman. I see myself as pan but from time to time I do doubt myself and then I'll watch something and it's like "yep, I'm pan". When I saw the new West Side Story, I basically could get with anyone in the room during the dance scene and I wouldn't complain. Particularly either Anita or Anybodys I think they're called? It's either Anybodys or Nobodys, I can't remember.

Now my women loves are Jessica Darrow and Cate Blanchett! I met Jessica at Wales comic con and she is so sweet and genuine! Hard to think she's only a year older than me! On her insta, I get very Emcee from Cabaret vibes from her, she is so beautiful, so sexy and so hot. And I can confirm her ass is amazing, like I could bounce a penny off that thing

Omg I love this! I can’t remember who my queer awakening was, it was probably Jasmine from Aladdin, I’m sorry but that girl is hot, okay? Or maybe Ariel from The Little Mermaid. Or Tiana from The Princess and the Frog…I really think I had a crush on all the Disney Princesses lol. I also love DDLC and claimed for a long while that Monika was my “waifu” but I never claimed any male characters were my “husbando” lol. And of course Isabela Madrigal was a big one!

For real people, I was really obsessed with Melanie Martinez in middle school! I thought she was just so pretty and cool and had an adorable and soft voice. I also loved Marina and the Diamonds, Lizzo, and Beyoncé! I still do love those singers lol but I think Melanie Martinez contributed mainly to my queer awakening because I never cared about 1D or Shawn Mendes but I was simping for Melanie Martinez? Umm, hello? Lesbian! Ahaha anyway thanks for sharing your experience and I hope you liked mine!

#isabela madrigal #isabela my beloved #isabela is best girl #encanto #soft wlw asks #inthishousewestanencanto

2 notes · View notes

therealvinelle · 3 years

Note

You or The Muffin made a post on your dream cast(s), but I’m not really familiar with those references/actors (with the exception of Bowie and Jean Claude Van Damme and Clint Eastwood I think you mentioned). Is there anyone you would choose that’s a little more recent (80s-present)?

Our dream cast.

Our dream voice cast, for those interested.

Fun fact, both those posts were composed together, so yeah we share these opinions. We composed this one together as well.

Keep in mind that this list is... well it's for Twilight as I would make it. Which means that of course we’re casting a Didyme, nevermind that she’s been dead for thousands of years, but Denali who?

And once again we’re disrupting the time-space continuum and casting big name actors you’ve definitely heard about as they were ten, twenty, or thirty years ago.

Alright, so newer and shinier Twilight fancast, this time with a few alternatives because decisions are hard:

Alice: ... Audrey Hepburn.

I'm sorry. I tried. I tried to be modern, but I got to Alice and originally we thought Saoirse Ronan, appearances be damned because Ronan is a great actress, only to realize Ronan should be Renesmée.

So we're back to the dream cast. Audrey Hepburn was a tiny, pixie-like, yet ridiculously beautiful woman. Like Alice, her growth was stunted due to prolonged starvation during the War, so she's the perfect casting in a way no modern Western actress is going to be. She was also an amazing actress, just absolutely magnetic each time she graced the screen. She would be a fantastic Alice.

Aro: A young Tom Cruise.

Cruise is an absurdly beautiful man, and at 173 cm he is the right stature as I could never cast a tall actor for Aro. He's a very good actor, so I'm sure he'd be up for it. Also, he'd look great with chalky petrified vampire makeup on. He'd pull it off. I want to see this.

Optionally: Cate Blanchett

Yes, she's a woman. But that's what acting is all about, you play someone you're not. It's more a thing in theatre than in film that men can play women and women can play men, but I say fuck the rules, we're doing it theatre style. And Blanchett absolutely have that enigmatic, ethereal, otherworldly quality I'd want for Aro.

Bella: A young Sarah Michelle Gellar

Gellar is a petite beauty, she is spunky yet adorable, and very charming, the people of Forks and the Cullens would very believably gravitate towards her. Most importantly she has the acting chops to pull it off. She would portray an amazing Bella.

Caius: Daniel Craig

The man is the right age, he's someone you don't mess with. Craig has perhaps a touch too charismatic, but he's good enough that I'm hopeful he could tune it down.

Carlisle: A young Leonardo DiCaprio

DiCaprio is ridiculously attractive and has a bad case of The Babyface™. Watching him try to convince people that he’s 30 years old and has adult kids would be absolutely hilarious, and very faithful to the books. He’s a talented actor, too, very versatile.

Optionally: David Tennant

Tennant doesn't look the part, he is handsome but handsome in that particular way when flawed features come together handsomely. He does however have the perfect charm, gravitas, and energy for the character, so I think he could make a great Carlisle.

This is where the magic of movie adaptions come in - you’re not going to be able to translate directly from text to screen, that’s impossible. If you embrace that and make some bold choices, you stand to make a truly spectacular adaption. One of the reasons why the Twilight films failed is that they were too faithful to the books while failing to understand the spirit of them, whereas the TV miniseries adaption of His Dark Materials switched a lot of things up and is absolutely amazing for it.

Demetri: Robert Downey Jr.

Ridiculously charismatic and talented actors cast in bit parts and making them shine is a passion of mine.

Didyme: Cate Blanchett

Look, Blanchett had to be in this somehow, and we could think of no one more appropriate. She has too much enigma for Esme, is too womanly for Alice, and once the idea for Didyme was had it was hard to weasel out of.

Cate Blanchett would be convincing as Aro's sister, as a woman who haunts her lover and brother even thousands of years after her passing, an enigmatic and divine woman who can never be forgotten.

Also she's my fancast for her brother, so this works out quite nicely. Why cast someone who merely looks like Aro’s actor when you can just cast the same actor.

Edward: A young Johnny Depp

Very few men are otherworldly beautiful. There are countless handsome men, yes, and many beautiful ones, but Depp has extreme and symmetrical features that come together beautifully. Robert Pattinson does too, for the record, so what makes me prefer Depp is the fact that he is an incredible actor. Pattinson is good, but Depp is the kind of talent who can power through even the worst scripts, give him nothing and he will give you the world. He’s on Al Pacino’s level, this man can salvage anything.

Emmett: Terry Crews

Terry Crews is a mountain of a man, he's massive. He'd nail Emmett's infectious cheer, too. He has a very symmetrical and attractive face that follows the golden ratio beautifully, so I could buy him being a vampire.

Esme: Anne Hathaway ten years ago. Ref one, ref two.

She’s out of this world beautiful and has the perfect Esme aesthetic. Hands down best Esme. The fact that she’s a very good actress helps.

Felix: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

He’s got the physique for the part and would be absolutely menacing.

James: Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt is a character actor who tragically got lost in the blockbuster scene. He’s good, he deserves cool parts. So yeah, Pitt as James. I think he’d be absolutely amazing for the part, it’d be the kind of performance where you can tell the actor was enjoying every second on set.

Jane and Alec: Child Dakota Fanning

Fanning was a good choice for Jane, it's just that she was slightly too old when she was cast (and they made her look even older!) and the screenwriters had written a different character than the one in the books (and not for the better - I’m all for changing things in an adaption! But, well, she was Marvel levels of bad villain). And as Alec is a bit part and supposed to be nearly identical to her, I’d just have Fanning play him as well.

Jasper: Clint Eastwood, every time.

Optionally: feels like blasphemy to even have an “optionally”, but here we are. If you somehow haven’t heard of the guy, then… er. No, sorry, I’ve got nothing. Know that I tried, though.

Marcus: Tom Holland

The man has such babyface, which fits since Marcus is 19.

Just Tom Holland, sitting around, looking young and depressed.

Renata: A young Natalie Portman

Yes, yes, Renata is a bit part, I know that, but this is my Twilight we're casting for so I do what I want.

Portman fits the physical description for Renata, and I find that description to be relevant to her character. She's a teeny tiny woman charged with protecting the most important man in the world, and gifted with intouchability. Portman looks is beautiful enough to fit the bill for a Twilight vampire, and tiny enough to stress the absurdity of this 5′0″ woman being anybody’s bodyguard, nevermind Aro’s.

Renesmée: Child Saoirse Ronan (Though Adult Ronan works too, she’s my cast for the hybrid gremlin period.)

She was an extraordinarily talented child actress, and she’s beautiful while odd-looking. I could absolutely believe I was looking at an otherworldly hybrid when looking at her.

Mostly I think Renesmée is going to be a very hard part for anybody, as the given actor will be portraying one of the most ridiculed characters in recent pop culture. It’ll take major talent to get the audience to care about Renesmée, but I think Ronan, if anybody, could do it.

Rosalie: Margot Robbie ten years ago

She’s out of this world beautiful, and more importantly she’s an incredible actress. She would be incredible for the part.

159 notes · View notes

ratingtheframe · 3 years

Text

10 Films to watch this Valentine’s Day if you’re single as hell.

If anyone or anything is making you feel worthless on the Capitalist Holiday that is Valentine’s Day because you’re single AF, then don’t fret because it means one of two things;

You’re happy enough with yourself to not need anyone else.

You’re allergic to people.

Though mine is both the former and the latter, I can still get down to a good romance movie now and again. Now I’m not talking about those horrendous rom coms that Netflix seems to be churning out every damn minute, but those emotionally invested, earthy and well written dramas that has you ugly crying into your bathrobe for 17 minutes straight (me at the end of Her.). Here is a compiled list of some of the best romance films I’ve seen over the years and how each one doesn’t showcase an abundance of clichés and brands them as “acts of love”.

A Star is Born (2018 or 1953, take your pick)

I’ve found that both the 1953 version of A Star is Born with Judy Garland and the 2018 newer version to be a perfect and well rounded love story. What makes this love story so fierce is the vulnerabilities and downfall of its characters, which even though there are many sad moments, it perpetuates and strengthens the acts of love shown in the film. Both versions are similar in that they follow a woman who’s rise to fame as a performer becomes overshadowed by her jealous partner, who is also a notable celebrity. In the 2018 version starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, Gaga’s character Ally is helped by a country singer, Jackson Maine to become a successful singer and icon amongst the music industry. As she rises, Jackson falls and the character dynamics and intensity between them is a fitting love story. I was thoroughly bawling at the end and I guarantee you will too as Lady Gaga’s rendition of Love Again was the true scene stealer of the film.

Call me by your name (2017)

I have an incredible bias towards this film and it has nothing to do with the film’s context or characters or even Timothée Chalamet The reason why I feel so connected to this film and proclaim it as my favourite film of all time is because of when I watched the film. It’s almost like seeing a film about a political event right after it's happened; you have this rush and connection towards something that’s actually affected you in the real world. I had the same feeling with Call me by your name after going through a rough and confusing patch whilst trying to get over someone I thought I truly loved. Turns out I didn’t (thank god) and yet Call me your name was almost like a shoulder to cry on. It’s a film that’s taught me to love and love hard but most importantly, not beat yourself up or try to distinguish the pain felt by true love. If you haven’t been fortunate to catch this beauty of a film, it follows two men, Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer) and their brief relationship in the summer of 1983 in Northern Italy. 17 year old Elio lives with his parents and his father (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a scholar who invites students from outside the country for the summer in hope of passing on his wisdom to them. This is when Oliver arrives, a handsome twenty something American who becomes the infatuation of Elio.

I’ll never forget the first time I heard the monologue that Elio’s father gave his son at the end, explaining to Elio why he shouldn’t feel embarrassed by the pain he felt after loving Oliver:

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster, that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste”

That, ladies and gentlemen and all in between, is what love is.

Her. (2013)

Once again, another film about love that had a profound effect on me because of when I watched it. Her. follows the story of Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) and his search for a story using an A.I to help him write. However, after getting to know this A.I named Samantha (Scarlett Johansson) and hearing the way she adapts and shows emotions, he soon falls in love with it. Some may deem this as rather sad (which it is) but I think it speaks to bigger constructs like internet dating and letting go of people you loved thus diminishing the fantasy and world you created for the two of you. This part of the film got to me a stark way as I felt the pain of letting go of not only a person, but a fantasy, just like Theodore had to do in letting his past partners go. Her. is truly beautiful, with some great production design, cinematography and acting.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

The absolute queen of love stories would be Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a film about the romance between two women in the late 18th Century. Definitely not a narrative you see every day or one that’s been painted in such a way (pun intended). Marianne (Noémie Merlant) is commissioned to paint the beautiful and stubborn Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) and the portrait is to be gifted to a suitor of Héloïse’s from Milan. But instead of getting the painting done and sending it off, Marianne and Héloïse unexpectedly fall for one another at a subtle and well timed pace that had me gawping at the screen the entire way through. Slow, sensual and moving is Portrait of a Lady on Fire and I would definitely say is one of the best LGBTQ plus films ever made to date.

Broke Back Mountain (2005)

Ang Lee scooped up a BAFTA, Golden Globe and Oscar for his direction on his adapted screenplay of Brokeback Mountain. Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) form a romantic bond after shepherding alone together on the side of a mountain. Once their time herding sheep comes to a close and they return back to their respective lives, it's clear that their bond is stronger than they had anticipated. They live in constant fear of their relationship becoming apparent to those around them, which leaves one of them taking matters into their own hands. A controversial yet extremely successful film of its time, Brokeback Mountain does a fabulous job of showcasing the consequences and despair of love using two of Hollywood’s finest actors.

Carol (2013)

It’s difficult to fully appreciate LGBTQ plus films set in the past as they mostly focus on the persecution of homosexuals as opposed to the love they wish to express. However, this was pretty accurate of the time and it's only very recently that we have begun to accept one another’s sexualities and genders fully so much that we play these stories out on screen without the persecution part. Carol is a film directed by Todd Haynes and stars Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett. I found them to be an extremely intense pairing whilst they unravelled as their characters on screen. Therese (Rooney Mara) works in the toy department of a department store when one day she lays eyes upon Carol Aird, a beautiful and elegant married woman who becomes the infatuation of Therese. Therese throws all caution to the wind in order to be closer to Carol and because of this and the 1950s society they live in, their relationship is doomed from the beginning. I was in complete awe of the way Carol had been shot and created into this sensual and rich drama set in the 1950s. From the costumes, to the lighting to the acting, everything about Carol held weight to it showcasing the devotion of a truly talented director.

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004)

Usually I’d pass on a Charlie Kaufman film, seeing as they make no sense, however I felt that it was time I delved into this cult classic starring Kate Winslet, Jim Carrey, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood. It’s a really well made film with a clear and distinct message to it that’s represented in some phenomenal filmmaking techniques. The plot line of this film follows a man trying to erase a past lover and his memories of her get wiped away physically before your eyes on screen. It made me wish that I could do the same with people I’ve liked in the past, but the contradictory of this would be the trauma of eventually ending up with someone you had already met in another life. I haven’t experienced a break up nor felt the pain of one, though I could judge that this film tells that experience really well.

Moonlight (2016)

Moonlight is one of few films that I would genuinely worship if it were a religion. It's also one of the films that I outwardly shame people for not having seen, as it is truly a masterpiece and film lover’s film. Deep, emotionally connected, colourful, harsh, moving and eye opening, this film takes you on an emotional rollercoaster through the eyes of Chiron and the three stages of his life that have carved out his essence as a human being. Not only that, but he falls in love with another boy at his school, and when he does, he’s hurt rather badly. Literally. Moonlight is the definition of profundity and was awarded the top prize of Best Picture at the 2017 Academy Awards.

Loving (2016)

When I think of a truthful and honest testament of love, the film Loving comes to mind which is a fitting title for such a delicate yet strong story. The film is based on a true story of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) being banned from Virginia in the 1950s for choosing to be together. If that ain’t a true sacrifice of love, then I don’t know what is. Choosing someone you love over your own home is an unfathomable thing and certainly shows the strength that this couple had in facing the judgements of others whilst remaining emotionally truthful to themselves.

The Shape of Water (2017)

The Shape of Water is a strange yet enlightening love story between Eliza, a deaf woman (Sally Hawkins) and a creature being tested on in a laboratory. Awards season went mental for this back in 2018, winning four of the THIRTEEN Oscars it was nominated for. I would categorize it as quite the niche film and wouldn’t usually think that such a film could be garnered with Oscar success. However everyone who worked on this film really pulled out the stops in creating an entire new world and perspective that has many layers to it, as well as an abundance of conflict and dynamics for audiences to lull over. The relationship between Eliza and the feared swamp monster that’s being cruelly tested in the laboratories where she works, is heartfelt and honest, which is strange seeing as Eliza’s virtually in love with a monster. The casting in this was outlandish yet it really worked as all actors in this melded well into the story as their prospective characters. It also has one of the most touching endings to a film I’ve ever seen.

And there you have it, ten Romance films for you to enjoy this Valentine’s Day. Watch them all at once, or maybe just watch one. Whether you watch it alone or with someone, it doesn’t really matter!

Lots of love

Ang x

381 notes · View notes

babbushka · 4 years

Note

Saying this from a place of compassion and love... if a post criticising you has over 70 notes, the author and people who reblog it are being approached by others agreeing with them, if even anons not within the fandom but who are aware from the situation agree with them (like me)... have you considered they may be right? Please listen. Please do self-introspection. If there’s such a loud message out there it’s because of a reason. Lots of love

I hear you, and I understand where you’re coming from completely, and I’m going to say this as clearly and neatly as I possibly can, because it’s been made very clear that people on the internet like to whip things up and let it spiral out of control.

I reblogged the post that @wayward-rose made with the tags of “i still stand by everything that I said” without much more explanation than that, which people didn’t seem to really appreciate, and I recognize that that was wrong.

This response is going to serve as that explanation. This is most likely going to be long, so I’ll be putting it under a cut, but I hope that people will read my side of things before casting judgement against me. I understand people are going to still cast judgement, and that’s fine, but I would like the chance to just say my side.

The screenshots that were chosen to be put in that callout post about me, of posts and conversations that I’ve had back and forth with people, or posts that I’ve made/ask responses I’ve given, were confusing, because there is much more context surrounding pretty much all of these situations, as well as things that went on behind the scenes. I’d like, if I may, to explain what those screenshots are referring to, from my perspective. For ease of clarity, I’ll just go in the order of which the original post has been done.

The Oscars where JP won for best actor were filled with many beautifully heartfelt speeches about giving support to Australia during the wildfire crisis. Cate Blanchett, Patricia Arquette, Jennifer Aniston on behalf of Russel Crow, Pierce Brosnan -- they all made speeches. And yet, the only thing I was seeing on my dashboard were gifs of JP, a known sexual predator and overall very bad guy, being celebrated for at the very last minute, likely after having seen everyone else include a heartfelt statement in their speech, tacking on a ‘oh save Australia’ at the end of his own speech.

I made a post expressing how I was disappointed with the amount of coverage JP was getting in comparison to how little everyone else who had spoken up. @callmehopeless reblogged the post and began to say that regardless of what JP has done, his message is somehow more important than everyone else’s message that was said, because he won best actor. You all saw the conversation that took place afterwards, with me reiterating my point of ‘yes he spoke out about it but he’s not the only one and he shouldn’t the only one lauded for it.’ and her insinuating that I wanted everyone in Australia to die by fire. Not that it matters for anything, but I would like to mention that while all this was going on, I was frequently sharing support links, donation sites, and news coverage on how to help the wildfires in Australia, as we all were. I didn’t include it on the post, because that’s not what the post was really about, but I disagree with the insinuation that I wasn’t spreading information too.

I still stand by my point that he should not have received the most praise for doing the bare minimum in a time of crisis. I saw that the conversation wasn’t going anywhere, so I ended it. I never accused anyone of being a rape apologist, I only expressed my frustration that the known allegations about him were being ignored. There is a difference.

The second point regarding the blush, I will admit wasn’t handled well on my part. I fully recognize that now, and looking back, I can understand how my frustration with @wayward-rose looks hostile. It was never intended to be hostile, I was just genuinely confused with her reblogging one of my fics as having a “white reader” because of the inclusion of blush. I was extremely hesitant to approach TWR about this tagging of the fic, because the only interactions I had had previously with her, were when she reblogged one of my posts with writing of her own, surrounding a topic that I was uncomfortable with, and then proceeded to lecture me on what triggers are and are not as if I were an incompetent fool, which, for all intents and purposes, she might’ve thought that I was. Conversations with TWR very quickly turn to technicalities, which is why I tried to be as cut and dry about it as I was.

With this frame of reference from her point of view regarding the whole “I have friends of color so I can do whatever I want,” I would like to say that I never had that intention, and seeing it presented that way does make me feel awful, and I’m sorry for it. I don’t want people to think that I’m in any way tokenizing anyone, because if you know me, you know that that’s something I am constantly expressing feelings against. I was trying to explain that I didn’t make up this idea that only white people blush, but I admit fully that it was a poor explanation and a poor argument to have been made. I try very hard to make my readers as vague in terms of skin color as possible, and I thought that because I didn’t mention the color of the blush (like denoting it as a pink or rosy blush for example) that I would be inclusive. I was wrong, and I admit that.

In regards to the writing of Flip Zimmerman with catholic iconography even though he’s a canonically Jewish character, particularly by a non-Jewish author, I still stand by my point. Characters who have no stated religion can and should be interpreted as everyone sees fit, because representation matters for marginalized communities. But when a Jewish character’s identity is replaced or erased with another, well, that’s just a small piece of a long line of casual antisemitism that I wanted to bring up to her. I never wanted or told her to delete her story, I never sent anyone to go fill her inbox, I never told her to edit it. After the blush discussion, I tried to simply end the argument by voicing my concerns and saying I thought it was in poor taste to have done what she did, because of the history around such topics -- and I still stand by that.

The posts regarding the Very Popular Fic I take full responsibility for, I don’t deny that I make them, nor do I deny any of the sentiments in them. I expressed my annoyance at constantly being asked if I’ve read that fic, if I liked that fic, what I thought of that fic weekly for months and months after it blew up on tik tok, despite having expressed my dislike for it in the past. You can only get asked something so many times before it grates on your nerves.

I still stand by my point that seeing content which you find upsetting being the type of content that gets “””famous”” is frustrating. I didn’t imply that I’m only writing for the notes. I referred to the fic as a ‘joke’ because in the tags of that fic on AO3, the author compares it to a shitpost. Similarly to the Other Fic with the handmaid’s tale AU, the author themselves put in the tags of the fic on AO3 that they knew this was in poor taste.

I’d like to make it clear that I don’t dislike fics because they’re popular. I dislike fics because sometimes there’s content that I find disturbing or damaging, or in poor taste with regards to source material. I don’t go out of my way to read that content, because I don’t like it. So when hundreds of people are asking my opinions about it, and I express those opinions, then people like to jump down my throat and say I’m a bully...you can imagine why I get so snappish when the topic comes up. The comment about the brain cells thing was understandably harsh. I apologize for that comparison, it’s just a phrase I say frequently, I honestly didn’t think anything of it at the time, and I’ll do better in the future to not make such harsh comparisons.

I also stand by my point that I don’t like the fic, I don’t advocate for the fic, and it really shouldn’t matter what I think because the author will do what the author does, and that’s fine. I don’t have to like it, and you guys don’t have to like the fact that I dislike it.

When someone sends in a message anonymously, I have no idea who they are, and most of the time, unless they leave an emoji or something, I’ve got no idea what context they’re asking me about, particularly when it comes to blocking. I had absolutely no way of knowing that the anon who messaged me asking why I blocked them, was someone I had blocked for reblogging gifs of mine. However, the idea that it’s a bad thing that I blocked someone for reblogging my gifs with comments I didn’t really appreciate (I wouldn’t have blocked them for the comments shown in the fic, usually it’s stuff about how they want to get pregnant by flip, or once there was someone who commented that they wanted flip to destroy their pussy -- that’s the comments that tend to get blocked.

But either way, blocking people from accessing your content is not a bad thing, and I stand by my point that blocking does not always mean I have anything personally against them, but rather I’d rather just not interact with their posts/have them interact with mine. It’s really not that deep.

I don’t really know how many times I have to say that of course I don’t own a character or anything, but I do say it, constantly. Particularly regarding personal AUs, which, I really don’t find as deep as people seem to think I do. However, the content that I make, I do believe I have some right to voice my opinion on what the internet does with it. I think that if someone comments something on one of my fics, or my posts, or my gifs, and I don’t like it, I should be allowed to block them -- just as anyone else should be allowed to with their own content.

The comment about Ben Solo still stands, I won’t be expanding on that.

The last point that I would like to explain myself about, was made in Hope’s reblog of the post, is the whole “I bullied someone for leaving fandom” incident. I can only assume that she means an author who I had been informed was plagiarizing my work from the fic Blue Moon. I had never had this happen to me before, but I’d been told my many other people that this author has a history of taking other people’s content and uploading it as their own, including someone that I was at one point good friends with. I believed them, and I reached out to this author expressing my concerns, only expressing to please not do this in the future, or at the very least, mention that this was related to my story. This author deleted her account, and that was the last I heard about it.

I’m honestly shocked and confused by how many people have come forward and said that they find my responses to anonymous questions mean-spirited or toxic. I try very hard to maintain a general rule of, if you’re kind to me, I’ll be kind back. In many instances, anonymous questions come across as rude, disrespectful, flat out mean, or frustrating, and so I reply back with a less-than-nice manner.

The last thing I’d like to say on this whole matter is this: I want to make it clear that I mean no personal malice towards any of the people that these screenshots surround. I vehemently disagree with the narrative that I send people after one another, I just don’t do that. What people do is of their own accord. I don’t ever want people to be sent hate, because firstly I don’t think that’s a good thing to do, but secondly, I get sent hate all the time, and I know how it feels. I don’t want that for anyone. I know that the collection of these screenshots may make it seem otherwise, but I really do try to stay in my lane, and I only speak up on things that I’m passionate about -- whether it’s passionately positive or negative.

I would like to apologize for the way that I’ve responded to criticism in the past, it’s just frustrating when people are criticizing you from a perspective that doesn’t take into consideration that there might be more to the story. All I can do is move forward and try to check myself, and I hope that with these explanations, people out there will realize that when I act out of frustration or aggressively, it’s because I feel as though I’m not being heard.

I know that whatever opinion you form of me is yours and will be yours, but if you’ve read this entire thing then thank you, I appreciate you hearing me out. Hope you’re all doing well, and as always, I truly am sending you guys all my love.

#Anonymous #cowboy answers

62 notes · View notes

mentalmars · 3 years

Photo

Jamie Lee Curtis will play Tannis in upcoming Borderlands Movie

Starring as Tannis It’s been announced that Jamie Lee Curtis has signed on to the Borderlands Movie produced by Lions Gate. She has been cast to play Tannis and will play alongside Kevin Hart (as Roland) and Cate Blanchett (as Lilith). From the sounds of her tweet, she is SUPER EXCITED to be part of this movie. Eli Roth, the director of the Borderlands, is also glad to have her on board. Working with the iconic Jamie Lee Curtis has been a life long dream of mine, and I am so excited for her to bring her humor, warmth, and brilliance to the role of Tannis. – Director Eli Roth Dr. Patricia Tannis is an archeologist on the planet of Pandora. Her expertise could help lead to a mysterious vault filled with ancient alien technology. She has a tricky background with Blanchett’s character, Lilith. Opinions It looks like they are taking the Borderlands movie very seriously as they are casting some big talents. Kevin Hart may be a weird choice if we look at type-casting. Although, some actors have shown their true skills when given a completely different type of role than they usually played. While I like Jamie Lee Curtis, she has done a lot of great movies, I’m also thinking about sequels. What if this try and figure out video game movies is a success and 1 movie turns into a “Marvel Cinematics Universe” with multiple sequels and spin-offs. Jamie Lee Curtis is getting older, which may be a risk to the long jeberty of the franchise. But folks also addressed their concern about Cate Blanchett’s age. I think we all expected younger actors, that have a similar age as the character they portray. I’m still looking forward to the movie and hopefully, they can blow my socks off. BORDERLANDS THE MOVIE Eli Roth has been signed on to be the director of the upcoming Borderlands movie. Craig Mazin wrote the script for the Borderlands Movie. He recently won 2 Emmys for his work on HBO’s Chernobyl. Avi Arad and Ari Arad are signed on the be the producers for this Lionsgate movie. They are basically responsible for setting the superhero genre on the map. From Iron man to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse. Erik Feig is also a producer and known for adapting books into great movies. Some examples are The Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games series, and the Divergent series. Cate Blanchett will play Lilith in the upcoming Borderlands Movie. Kevin Hart will play Roland

Continue reading on https://mentalmars.com/game-news/jamie-lee-curtis-will-play-tannis-in-upcoming-borderlands-movie/

#Borderlands the Movie

3 notes · View notes

thecrownnet · 4 years

Link

Josh O’Connor may best be known for this breakthrough role in 2017’s God’s Own Country but the Southampton-born actor has been cultivating a catalog of great film and television performances for years. From The Riot Club and The Program in film and Doctor Who, Peaky Blinders, Ripper Street and The Durrells on TV, O’Connor has built a resume that made him the perfect choice to play the most challenging role of his career, Prince Charles in season three of Netflix’s The Crown. O’Connor play the Prince of Wales at a turning point in the would be king’s life, from the early years of his relationship with Camilla Bowles (the Diana years will show up in season four) to the daunting task of figuring out how to lead the commonwealth when the time comes.

I caught up with two-time BIFA winning actor to talk about God’s Own Country, his role in The Crown, what he likes and doesn’t like about biopics and playing real people and Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There.

I wanted to start by talking with you about God’s Own Country, which quickly became a cornerstone of queer cinema, and I think took off in a way most people weren’t expecting. Can you tell me a little bit the impact working on that film had for you?

It was a kind of monumental moment for me and I think a big moment for queer cinema and insofar as it was kind of a gay love story that we hadn’t seen before, you know, in terms of one that ended with hope and one that told a kind of positive story. It was something maybe we’d seen before, but, it’s rare and people were obviously hungry for that. And so it touched many people and I feel like it’s rare that your project gets to have that effect on people. So it was a kind of, it was a huge moment for me. In terms of kind of career wise also just as a creative, as an actor, I think it was a moment of realization about technique and how I want to work. It built a process, which I still use the basis of now. And so yeah, it was really impactful for me.

I love that. Earlier this year you had Emma., how was it stepping into Mr. Elton’s shoes?

(laughs) It was very different than anything I’ve done before. I’ve never done comedy before. Autumn de Wilde, who is an exceptionally talented director, came in and it was very clear she wanted a kind of Peter Cook-esque Mr Elton and we’ve talked about him having a sort of darker side, which we touch on in the film. I think it was real, I loved it, it was kind of getting to stretch my muscles, my comedic muscles I suppose. And yeah, it was a real treat and it’s a lovely, beautiful ensemble film.

Diving into The Crown, had you watched the first two seasons of the show to help inform you of the style or approach to the series?

Yes, I had. I’d seen the first two and I’m very good friends with Vanessa Kirby who played Margaret so, I initially watched it as a kind of support for my friends, but then absolutely, obviously got hooked and I think the first two series’ are exceptional. Claire Foy is kind of spellbinding, Matt Smith I think is extraordinary as Philip, and often sort of, it’s underplayed how brilliant he was. I absolutely loved it and then be a part of this group of actors who I totally adore and look up to, you know, the likes of Tobias Menzies, to go from Matthew is extraordinary, and Olivia Colman and Helena Bonham Carter, you know, these are all people that I aspire to so it’s been a real treat.

What were the main sources and figuring out who Prince Charles is on a personal level?

Well, I think there were a few things to kind of brought out the personal, but initially when I started with Charles, I spent so much time watching footage of him, or hearing recordings of him from the period. After a while I got to the point where I was like, actually, I don’t know that this has helped. It certainly isn’t helping me get any closer to the character and certainly isn’t getting close to who Charles really is behind closed doors. And so I sort of threw all that out the window. The thing that got me there more than anything was something that Peter Morgan had written, which is I think episode eight of series three. Charles described his life as being like he as being like a character in Dangling Man. He says, the character is a working class blue collar guy from Chicago and he’s waiting to be drafted to go to war and he actually wants to be drafted because it’ll give his life meaning, even though it means that they’ll go to a certain death.

And the idea that Charles, Prince Charles is this young boy who’s actually waiting for his own mother to die in order for his life to take meaning, I just thought that was a kind of, it locked into a sort of tragic narrative of this young boy that is so rare and an extraordinary. So that was the kind of, that was the crux of it.

When you’re playing somebody that is so well known, how do you strike the balance between impression and interpretation and what do you think you brought to Prince Charles?

Yeah, that’s such a good question. It’s a question I don’t know the answer to, yet. The best way to, for me, in my personal view of it as an audience member, is that I never enjoy seeing in any kind of biopic or whenever I see an actor playing a real person, I find it very difficult to watch and actor to do something really exactly like the person.

I don’t know why. I think it becomes too much like an impression. And what I always loved is that there was a great film called I’m Not There, which is about Bob Dylan. And so it was like eight or nine actors playing Dylan at different stages in his life and not just different stages but playing different aspects of his personality. So Cate Blanchett, plays the kind of more recognizable Dylan, which is the sort of public eye Dylan, you had Heath Ledger playing the kind of rock and roll Dylan, you had a young actor [Marcus Carl Franklin] playing the Woody Guthrie influenced Bob Dylan. So you had all these different actors, all totally different and most of them looked nothing like and resembled him in no way. And I remember that was the most powerful representation of Dylan I’ve seen or of anyone I’ve seen and I thought when I’m playing Prince Charles there’s no point in me spending all this time trying to get his voice and trying to look like him and walk like him.

Those things will happen naturally. And I think, you know, it’s good to have little aspects and little notes that people feel safe and comfortable in the knowledge secure that you are playing Prince Charles. But as soon as you can get rid of those, the earlier you can get rid of those, the the more interesting and the more adaptive that character is, the more influential that character can be. And as I say, it’s more interesting seeing Josh play Prince Charles than it is seeing just seeing Prince Charles.

I love that example of I’m Not There. It’s a brilliant movie and it is such a great way to bring an audience into a character without feeling like you’re just watching video footage.

Exactly. Because there’s documentary. We also undersell the brilliant art form that is documentary, which I absolutely adore it. There’s nothing better than watching old footage of Charles. I love it. But it’s not the same. I want to see an actor play and Claire Foy is a great example. I should stop rambling but Claire Foy is a great example of an actress who plays the queen so stupendously everyone in the world sat up right when they watched Claire and Matt Smith in series one and two. And it wasn’t because there was, ‘Oh my God,’ she looked and speaks exactly like the queen at that age. Most of us don’t know what the queen looked like at that age and it sounded like at that age because there wasn’t very much TV. So actually all we’re looking at is an incredible performance of the character. And I think I remember watching Claire and Matt and thinking ‘let’s focus on that.’ Let’s not try and play Prince Charles, let’s try and play the character.

Again, that’s a perfect example that makes perfect sense. There’s a turning point in the series when Charles, as the Prince of Wales, has to learn to speak Welsh. Did you know any Welsh or was this something new for you as well?

I mean, I certainly knew no Welsh. I’d never spoken a word of Welsh in my life a lot. I’d heard the language. One of the most kind of influential or most magical moments from when I was in grammar school was I heard an old recording of Dylan Thomas reading Under Milk Wood and was a beautiful radio play that he wrote and it was and poetical and beautiful and Dylan speaks it in this kind of like raucous Welsh voice. It’s like, mind blowing, and it was a kind of really special moment. So that combined with the fact that I love Wales the country, I felt very great affinity for the Welsh language. But as I said, I had no idea. So it’s very much, it was very much kind of like Charles’ feelings about having to learn it. There were muffs the same as mine and we went through a long process of learning everything. And yeah, I mean it’s great. I still know the speech now, but I don’t know what it means.

Which brings us right to that monumental episode where you have to give the speech for his investiture. Tell me about that sequence, which I think is just extraordinary in this series.

It’s a beautifully written episode. It has so much significance because it’s about Charles stepping up and becoming an adult. To me it was the thing that convinced me to take the role in the first place. I suddenly realized this as a young man who is, in my in recent history, is kind of known as a bit of a wally [British slang for ineffectual or foolish]. He goes around and talks about the environment, which of course we all know he was right. In the 80s and 90s he was considered a bit of a buffoon. And then there’s the Diana years and the thing that got me and took and basically convinced me to take the role was I suddenly realized he’s a lost boy and the investiture episode is him taking that lost boy and going, ‘No, I’m going to own this and I’m going to become a man.’

Jumping off that a bit, what do you think was the most misunderstood thing about Charles from this period of his life?

I think sort of the misunderstood thing of most of the Royal families, is that they had some perfect childhood. I mean, in terms of financially, they probably had a pretty great childhood, but I think terms of relationships to parents, relationships to siblings, they’re just like anyone else. I mean, they’re difficult. They have their ups and their downs. He was a lost boy but a lost boy with the knowledge that he was going to have to at some point lead, be the king, the reign of England, of the Commonwealth of this huge empire and we now know, it’s taken an entire lifetime and he still isn’t the King.

I think that’s the biggest thing that hopefully people have taken. There’s been a great response within people calling out and saying they feel great sorrow for Charles now. So hopefully that’s what they’ll take.

In looking forward to the future of your career, do you have a dream role in mind that you’d like to play?

I don’t know actually. It’s one of these questions that so hard because I’m always surprised when I say something quick and then a script will come through with a totally original role and there’s nothing better than a new script and a role that you’ve never thought of. It grabs me. But I suppose there are plenty of performances I’ve always kind of aspired to like Daniel Day-Lewis has played and those kind of fully formed characters or Tom Hanks. Those are the kinds of roles that you dream of. In terms of theater it’s easy because everyone wants to play Richard II or Hamlet. I’ve always wanted to play Richard II, so one day hopefully I’ll be able to do that. But beyond that, certainly the dream is to keep getting to play new characters and work with great directors.

All seasons of The Crown, including S3 where Josh O’Connor appears, are streaming exclusively on Netflix.

#josh o’connor #prince charles #the crown #god's own country #emma #the crown netflix

21 notes · View notes

codyfernsource · 5 years

Photo

TURNING POINT: CODY FERN

August 26, 2019 DARREN CRISS: To open with a cliché … I can only assume a lot of your interviews have recently begun with, “Well, Cody, it’s been a pretty exciting year for you, huh?” There are so many things that I could ask you about, having gotten to know you over these past couple of years… But I just want to hear your first reaction to the question, “Hey, how have these past two years been for you?”

CODY FERN: I’m just still in a state of complete wonder. It’s like I stumbled into some Alice in Wonderland world. There was so much movement going on in my life that I didn’t really have a chance to stop and absorb it. And I think this past six months for me has been about finding a place of stillness and being able to process everything that has been going on. And I’m just so…grateful, I guess is the word. And it’s magical, it’s like a fairy tale. But I’m sure it’s the same for you, right? You just had an insane two years!

DC: Oh, come on now, Cody Fern, this is your interview in VMan, not mine! When I meet new actors on set, one thing I’m always interested in is their backstory. But I was fascinated by your story particularly, because you’re not just any Australian! When I asked you [about your backstory], you taught me what is now one of my favorite Australian slang terms, which is “bogan.” And you, lovingly I think, referred to yourself as a bogan—which meant an out-of town, or non-city kind of person. So I wanted you to talk about [growing up with] that “out-of-town” feeling, and how watching TV or films might’ve [played into that].

CF: Now the life I was living seems so alien to me, but at the time it was my daily existence. In Southern Cross, we had just under 300 people; Perth [which was about 5 hours away] was the big city to me. There was one store, which was the supermarket. I spent the majority of my childhood catching snakes and genuinely pursuing kangaroos and rabbits. And messing around on farms and going bush bashing at night, which is doing up old cars—we [built the cars ourselves] and then went out into the bush [as a group] of people far too young to be driving. And thrashing the cars around, and hoping that we didn’t crash. Which of course I did, and many others did. I’m lucky to have made it out with my life! I look back, like, [who] let these children do this? [laughs]

DC: That’s a huge shift…I can’t imagine a lot of people in Southern Cross are in huge Ryan Murphy [productions]...

CF: I mean nobody at that point in Southern Cross had been to university. I was the first person to go to [college]. It wasn’t like a dawning realization that something was very off. I always knew just by looking at the world around me. I always had dreams that were bigger than where I was located [but] every time I expressed them, [I heard] “That’s not possible, that’s not real, that’s not achievable.” I was expelled from school, and went to boarding school, where I heard the same thing. And I’m the kind of person that hears that and digs [their heels] in and goes, “Well fuck you. I’m going to prove you wrong.” In terms of [the choice] to act, it was [initially] that I wanted to express something inside of me, and the only other place that I had seen such things expressed was in cinema. [Although at the time] I didn’t know [to call it] “cinema.” The funny thing is that I remember the exact [turning point], which was when I was 12. I saw Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth, and it was the first time I consciously understood [acting]. That this is not real, she is not the real queen [of England], but I believe that she is, and she’s absolutely the real queen for me right now.

DC: Speaking of Australian actors, one of my favorite things [is meeting] people who watch you, and assume you’re American. I go, “You know he’s Australian?” And it suddenly multiplies your street cred by fifty. So kudos!

CF: Aw, thanks Darren.

DC: Of course, man... I’m going to shift over to the fashion side of things. Considering you once told me you didn’t get dial-up until you were 17, was [your interest] in fashion something you were always able to cultivate? Or how did you first start paying attention to fashion and certain designers and looks?

CF: I think it’s what you said: cultivating. I definitely have always been interested in fashion, but I never had a sense of style. I very recently realized how many colors are in the crayon box. And that I’d been using about three of them. And I think a large part of that came from never really having a sense of self. I only very recently, certainly within the last two or three years, have become more comfortable with who I am as a human being. Before, those three colors I had been using were to hide or to fit in or to ameliorate. To make sure that I didn’t stand out at all. Or that I wasn’t perceived as weird. But at a certain point in time, I discovered who I was. And fashion came naturally after that point, because all of a sudden I needed to find different forms of expression. And as an artist, I was really able to say to myself, that’s what I am. “I am an artist.” And it’s a hard thing to come to, right? Because it’s this sense of shame in it. You’re like oh, well I can’t say I’m an artist because I’m not Meryl Streep...yet!

#cody fern #Darren Criss #interview #*

191 notes · View notes

trisanachandlers · 4 years

Text

I read Wild Magic really fast and here are all my thoughts on THAT:

the only thing this book is missing for which there is NO excuse is Raoul. 5/5 stars. needs more Raoul. that is my entire review

I had forgotten how deeply I love these books and these characters, including and perhaps especially Numair? and by “these books”, to be clear, I mean Wild Magic, Wolf Speaker, and Emperor Mage, you know, the Immortals trilogy

Ok that’s my whole review I’m actually done now

just kidding

Honestly make Daine like 5 years older so she’s 17-18 at the beginning and 20-21 at the end and like... it’s fine. I wouldn’t mind. It’s still not great but it’s okay. That’s my take, that in fact if/when Immortals gets adapted I will be fine with Daine/Numair as long as she is a young adult at the beginning when they meet instead of a literal 13-year-old. Just do what g*me of thr*nes did with Daenerys in the beginning! it’s fine!

haha daine and daenerys. dainerys. haha

mother of dragons haha wait a minute -

HOLD ON JUST ONE SECOND HERE

these books predate a s*ng of *ce and f*re I’m just saying

I forgot Onua was like at least in her 40s (based on she’s been working with horses for 28 years) and like she’s a cool early-middle-aged lady with a no-nonsense attitude who wanders the wilderness with her dog? oh boy is 23-year-old lesbian me into THAT, conceptually, in a way kid me was not so much yet

of course everyone is gay but YOU KNOW WHO’S GAY? MIRI. THIS IS MIRI’S INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH:

“She had dark hair cut boyishly short and a pair of dancing green eyes. With a tip-tilted nose, a cleft chin, and a dusting of freckles, she looked like pure mischief.”

GAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know things were not exactly the same in the 1990s as they are now but this is just every single late millennial/gen z queer I have ever met in my entire life

anyway

Just generally it is very cool how many more women are in this book, because as much as I love Jon (usually) and Raoul and George and Myles and Thom and Coram and and and, up until Thayet and Buri showed up in Lioness Rampant there were like... not a lot of women who were around very much in SotL and it’s just very nice that in this book the cast is much closer to even

“Let’s only name our plot-relevant children after our dead relatives whom readers will remember from the last book,” the friends all agreed collectively

Can you imagine Maude’s face when Alanna was presumably like “Maude, I have a favor to ask of you. I’ve just had a son, and I hope you’ll come help me take care of him as you raised my brother and me. I’ve named him after Thom and he has the Gift” Maude: oh gods FUCKING help us all

anyway I love Roald, Kally, and Thom so much and I wish there was more of all of them in the books but especially Kally? like we do get plenty of Roald development in Protector and there’s a little of grownup Thom in Trickster but Kally agrees to not go for her shield and be a princess and a healer instead and then goes to Carthak to marry Kaddar when she grows up and where is that quartet, dammit

Speaking of Thoms, I assume Alanna meeting Arram went something like this:

Arram: hello

Alanna: oh fuck. ok everyone out of the way, let me handle this, I’m the expert on dealing with vain and overconfident magical prodigies around here as I have trained literally since the moment of my birth and you guys sure royally fucked it up when I was gone last time so I’m adopting this overgrown puppy of a mage. he is mine now. I will not be hearing objections good day

Arram: ... okay cool!

I have so many questions about the timeline of Numair’s backstory that make me think I need to reread Tempests & Slaughter before I go any further because if he’s 25 in this book (for some reason I always thought he was 14 years older than Daine, not 12, turns out I was wrong about that) and he’s been in Tortall doing his thing for 5 years that means everything with Ozorne and the multiple years of being homeless and on the run (as well as becoming a Black Robe!) all happened before he was 20, and I do not remember how old he was at the end of Tempests & Slaughter and the wiki is deeply unhelpful on that cause apparently no one has updated it since that book was published???? I guess I could fix that but my first day of my second semester of law school is tomorrow so I’m not going to

I want Cate Blanchett to voice the mom dragon and that is my one (1) strong opinion on tv show casting that I have developed from rereading these books so far

I also think whoever plays Roger should voice the kraken, just to make viewers go “wait... no. wait. what? no. what?”, because it would be fun

Actually the 10-year time skip makes me really question how they’d even include Song of the Lioness in a tv show (since Immortals + Protector pretty much run straight through), except that a) it’s kind of necessary to get that backstory in order for people watching to have the degree of attachment to all the adult characters in this book that readers do, and b) I guess the Numair books should fill in the gap basically right? but also because the Lioness and Protector books are so inconsistently paced (4:4:1:1 years for SotL, 1:3:4:1 years roughly for PotS) I don’t know how they’d pace out seasons and obviously if they tried to adapt it all and keep about 1 season for every 2 years or so they’d end up with like. 20 seasons total which, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

anyway I really really love Numair and I’m very angry about how thoroughly that love is going to get destroyed a few books from now

#tortall #wild magic

24 notes · View notes

d-criss-news · 5 years

Link

DARREN CRISS To open with a cliché … I can only assume a lot of your interviews have recently begun with, “Well, Cody, it’s been a pretty exciting year for you, huh?” There are so many things that I could ask you about, having gotten to know you over these past couple of years… But I just want to hear your first reaction to the question, “Hey, how have these past two years been for you?”

CODY FERN I’m just still in a state of complete wonder. It’s like I stumbled into some Alice in Wonderland world. There was so much movement going on in my life that I didn’t really have a chance to stop and absorb it. And I think this past six months for me has been about finding a place of stillness and being able to process everything that has been going on. And I’m just so…grateful, I guess is the word. And it’s magical, it’s like a fairy tale. But I’m sure it’s the same for you, right? You just had an insane two years!

DC Oh, come on now, Cody Fern, this is your interview in VMan, not mine! When I meet new actors on set, one thing I’m always interested in is their backstory. But I was fascinated by your story particularly, because you’re not just any Australian! When I asked you [about your backstory], you taught me what is now one of my favorite Australian slang terms, which is “bogan.” And you, lovingly I think, referred to yourself as a bogan—which meant an out-of town, or non-city kind of person. So I wanted you to talk about [growing up with] that “out-of-town” feeling, and how watching TV or films might’ve [played into that].

CF Now the life I was living seems so alien to me, but at the time it was my daily existence. In Southern Cross, we had just under 300 people; Perth [which was about 5 hours away] was the big city to me. There was one store, which was the supermarket. I spent the majority of my childhood catching snakes and genuinely pursuing kangaroos and rabbits. And messing around on farms and going bush bashing at night, which is doing up old cars—we [built the cars ourselves] and then went out into the bush [as a group] of people far too young to be driving. And thrashing the cars around, and hoping that we didn’t crash. Which of course I did, and many others did. I’m lucky to have made it out with my life! I look back, like, [who] let these children do this? [laughs]

DC That’s a huge shift…I can’t imagine a lot of people in Southern Cross are in huge Ryan Murphy [productions]…

CF I mean nobody at that point in Southern Cross had been to university. I was the first person to go to [college]. It wasn’t like a dawning realization that something was very off. I always knew just by looking at the world around me. I always had dreams that were bigger than where I was located [but] every time I expressed them, [I heard] “That’s not possible, that’s not real, that’s not achievable.” I was expelled from school, and went to boarding school, where I heard the same thing. And I’m the kind of person that hears that and digs [their heels] in and goes, “Well fuck you. I’m going to prove you wrong.” In terms of [the choice] to act, it was [initially] that I wanted to express something inside of me, and the only other place that I had seen such things expressed was in cinema. [Although at the time] I didn’t know [to call it] “cinema.” The funny thing is that I remember the exact [turning point], which was when I was 12. I saw Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth, and it was the first time I consciously understood [acting]. That this is not real, she is not the real queen [of England], but I believe that she is, and she’s absolutely the real queen for me right now.

DC Speaking of Australian actors, one of my favorite things [is meeting] people who watch you, and assume you’re American. I go, “You know he’s Australian?” And it suddenly multiplies your street cred by fifty. So kudos!

CF Aw, thanks Darren.

DC Of course, man… I’m going to shift over to the fashion side of things. Considering you once told me you didn’t get dial-up until you were 17, was [your interest] in fashion something you were always able to cultivate? Or how did you first start paying attention to fashion and certain designers and looks?

CF I think it’s what you said: cultivating. I definitely have always been interested in fashion, but I never had a sense of style. I very recently realized how many colors are in the crayon box. And that I’d been using about three of them. And I think a large part of that came from never really having a sense of self. I only very recently, certainly within the last two or three years, have become more comfortable with who I am as a human being. Before, those three colors I had been using were to hide or to fit in or to ameliorate. To make sure that I didn’t stand out at all. Or that I wasn’t perceived as weird. But at a certain point in time, I discovered who I was. And fashion came naturally after that point, because all of a sudden I needed to find different forms of expression. And as an artist, I was really able to say to myself, that’s what I am. “I am an artist.” And it’s a hard thing to come to, right? Because it’s this sense of shame in it. You’re like oh, well I can’t say I’m an artist because I’m not Meryl Streep…yet!

#darren criss #cody fern #vman magazine #press #aug 2019 #acs versace cast

84 notes · View notes

barcarole · 4 years

Note

(lil caveat : i don't agree w welles' generalisation of the timid, as i know people with timid personalities who are genuinely just socially anxious, but) THANK YOU THANk you THank YOU for your beautiful take-down of woody allen & his movies. i will NEVER UNDERSTAND why his works are beloved by anyone. never. "a shell bemoaning its lost pearl when there was never anything inside it" yes. yes. i want to put that to a backing track and dance to it for hours

[I’m a socially anxious, permanently elusive introvert and I understand what you mean (even saying it comes off strangely to me) - but I appreciate Welles’s candor and the way he then restated his description: He acts shy but he’s not - he’s scared. And that last remark is so true. That apparent shyness is just a projection of his perverse insecurity.]

Thank you, anon ❤ I saw Annie Hall and Manhattan and never understood either, since the dialogue always seemed forced and arrogant (and the characters insufferable - the kind you have the misfortune to know casually and can’t wait to escape from). A friend of mine (who is a huge Allen fan) basically gave me half his filmography in hopes of changing my mind, but it only reinforced my initial idea about his movies. Even with better premises like Blue Jasmine (just because it’s based on A Streetcar Named Desire and has a Cate Blanchett performance in it) and Midnight in Paris (that is acted in the most egregious way at times), he manages to infuse it with his puerility and somehow this is thought of as quirkily inventive…

#Ask

16 notes · View notes

mccdimples · 4 years

Text

50 questions you've never been asked

Tagged by @regalmadness, thank you so much!

1. What is the colour of your hairbrush?

It's brown

2. A food you never eat

There's this thing in my country called bucho/dobradinha, which is a ox’s stomach. I find it pretty gross

3. Are you typically too warm or too cold

It really depends but lately I've been feeling too cold

4. What were you doing 45 minutes ago?

Having breakfast

5. What is your favourite candy bar?

Chokito and there's this other candy, that's not really a candy bar, called Caribe. It's a banana flavored candy and the best thing in the whole world. 100/10 would recommend

6. Have you ever been to a professional sports event?

Yesss, I've been to a couple of soccer games with my dad and my uncle.

7. What is the last thing you said outloud?

“I’m sorry Nina” I said to my dog as I bumped into her.

8. What is your favourite icecream?

Chocolate flake

9. What was the last thing you had to drink?

Chocolate milk

10. Do you like your wallet?

Yes, my mom gave it to me

11. What was the last thing you ate?

Grapes

12. Did you buy any new clothes last weekend?

Huh, I wish

13. Last sporting event you watched?

Yesterday, a channel here in brazil did a rerun of a women’s soccer match between brazil x usa. It was the final game of the 2007's pan american games.

14. What is your favourite flavour of popcorn?

Butter

15. Who is the last person you sent a text?

My best friend

16. Ever go camping?

No, but me and my friends are planning to

17. Do you take vitamins?

Nope

18. Do you go to church every sunday?

I haven't gone to church in a long time

(insert the it's been 84 years meme here)

19. Do you have a tan?

Nope, and if i stay a little too long in the sun without using sunscreen, i'll look like a shrimp

20. Do you prefer chinese food or pizza?

Pizza 100%

21. Do you drink your soda with straw?

No, I don't mind drinking things straight from the recipient

22. What colour socks do you usually wear?

They're usually white but my favorite one is red christmas themed

23. Do you ever drive above the speed limit?

I don't even drive guys

24. What terrifies you?

Losing my grandparents, I know we all die someday but I'm not ready to say goodbye yet. So stay the fuck away from them covid-19

25. Look to your left what do you see?

An orange wall and a window

26. What chore do you hate?

Hanging clothes on the clothesline

27. What do you think of when you hear an aussie accent?

Cate Blanchett or Chris Hamsworth 🤷‍♀️

28. Whats your favourite soda?

Coke, but there's this brazilian brand called Cajuina that is amazing. Unfortunately it's not very common in my city.

29. Do you go in a fast food place or just hit the drive thru?

Lately it's been delivery but I usually go in

30. Whos the last person you talked to?

My mom

31. Favourite cut of beef?

Honestly, I don’t have one, I’ll eat anything

32. Last song you listened to?

What Kind of Man - Florence + The Machine

33. Last book you read?

Profile of a Criminal Mind - Brian Innes

34. Favourite day of the week?

I like wednesday and saturdays, don’t ask me why because I have no idea

35. Can you say the alphabet backwards?

I can’t

36. How do you like your coffee?

With a lot of sugar.

37. Favourite pair of shoes?

My black Vans sneaker

38. At what time do you normally go to bed?

Before quarantine it would've been around midnight but now it's around 2am

39. At what time do you normally get up?

9-9:30am

40. What do you prefer sunrise or sunsets?

Sunsets

41. How many blankets are on your bed?

Just one

42. Describe your kitchen plates

There are 2 types: a brown set and a white set with some painted flowers

43. Do you have a favourite alcoholic beverage?

I really like skol beats, which is a beer based drink with multiple flavors

44. Do you play cards?

Usually when I'm with my friends

45. What colour is your car?

Don’t have one

46. Can you change a tire?

I never tried to but I like to believe I can

47. What is your favourite providence?

Okay, this got me confused for a little while, in fact I still am, but I’m going to assume that the use of providence in the question is used as destination (and i’m so sorry if i’m wrong but english is not my first language). There’s this little town in the countryside of the state where my family owns a house and some relatives live, it’s very peaceful, relaxing and nice. Usually when we go there our whole family get together, so we always have a good time.

48. Favourite job you've ever had?

I was an intern in a publicity agency, I miss it so much

49. How did you get your biggest scar?

Surprisingly I don’t have scars

50. What did you do today that made someone else happy

It’s still early in the day, but I went to my grandma's house (it’s under mine) to say hello and check how she's doing.

Thank you guys for reading, this was nice.

I’m suppose to tag people but I’ll leave this free, so if you wanna answer the questions, do it and tag me as your “tagged by” 😊 .

#asks #txt post

1 note · View note

katemc39 · 5 years

Text

Gentleman Jack Season 2 Proposal

What a glorious finish to #GentlemanJack. Sad it’s over for now but glad it’s coming back! Now, not that the marvellous Sally Wainwright and Co need MY input. I’m just an overzealous fan. However, this is the Internet. So, I’m going to offer it unsolicited anyway.

Many lesbians, myself included, suffer from WoLSD or ‘Well of Loneliness Stress Disorder’. This is a condition that is brought on by an unreasonably high percentage of sad endings for lesbians in pop culture. (See approximately 99% of lesbian content… I have.)

GJ has been a wonderfully romantic series, culminating in a beautiful and hopeful final episode. What we know is that…post wedding…things weren’t ALWAYS plain sailing for the LesbiAnn(e)s.

Spoiler warning…thanks a lot THE TELEGRAPH, you cabal of tight-assed Tory-huggers.

When told that the next series of GJ could take a sadder turn, 2 out of 2 lesbians surveyed in my house agreed that it would be ok to take a liberal artistic license with what happened next for Halifax’s favourite power lesbians.

I mean, TBF, even diaries must be read with a grain of salt. Lord knows my sister’s was full of lies about me.

I’ve gone one step further and am offering an outline for the next eight episodes.

Episode One—The Honeymoon. One thing that we DO know from the diaries is that these two were champion 'grubblers'. Let’s see that. Some folks feel that every episode of a TV drama needs at least some element of peril. Or an arc of a sort. They are wrong.

Episode Two—Back at Shibden, A and A find some kittens. At first Anne is like ‘kick these crofters off my estate’ but then she’s like ‘Hey ho, I guess you’re right Puffy Sunshine (her nickname for Ann), we can keep them’. Marian takes three.

Episode Three—The Heist! They rob back all the coal that the Rawsons stole. Cate Blanchett is there and helps out.

Episode Four—The Pits! This is a musical episode around the workings of the coal mines. There are children’s choirs and loads of dance numbers. Anne continues to look ace in a top hat. Lots of cane twirling.

Episode Five—Anne Ho! This is a flashback episode told by Mrs. Rawson. She takes us through more of Anne’s historic affairs. Mrs. Rawson finds scandalising the upper classes with tawdry tales of Anne ‘landing the gentry’ delicious.

Episode Six—A Christmas Tail. Told through the eyes of Argus, the aloof and lanky d̵o̵o̵r̵s̵t̵o̵p̵ Scottish deerhound, we get to see the cheerful buzz of the holiday season at Shibden. Loads of the ‘downstairs’ people get some dialogue in this one.

Episode Seven—Operation Rescue Elizabeth. Ann and Anne go and get Elizabeth away from Captain Sutherland. Mrs. Priestly tries to stop them by saying 'YOU'RE PLAYING WITH FIYUH!' again but then decides to help. Loads of HOME ALONE style trickery.

Episode Eight—Anne convinces Ann that they should travel. They have a super time. The episode ends with them in 1948 convertible Ford De Luxe floating towards heaven, like in Grease.

Anyway, I’d definitely renew my TV license for any one of these episodes. Can’t wait to see my ideas on TV. The only payment I request is a walk-on role as Santa in the Christmas one. Thanks for reading.

#gentleman jack #suranne jones #mrs. rawson #sophie rundle #season 2 #lgbt #sally wainwright

24 notes · View notes