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[spideyanakin]

Silent Britain - Chapter 5

Tom Holland x Reader

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Summary: You’re pretty new to Hollywood, finally getting a role in a blockbuster Martin Scorsese film, working alongside some of the biggest actors in the game. To your surprise, Tom Holland is playing your love interest in the high-stakes British Gangster film. Eventually, you and Tom become love interests outside the film, but is it too difficult to keep a relationship in all your new found success? Or will you and Tom find your happy ever after?

"Alright, well im going to go-” You choked on your words before wiping your tears with the back of your hand. “I’ll see you tomorrow”

~

"It went terribly" You sobbed onto Timothee's pillow as he looked at you with sad eyes, folding his t-shirts and dropping them into his suitcase.

"He hates me."

"Don't say that! I'm telling you, I don't understand his behavior." Timothee shook his head as he thought about what he was going to add to his bag, mixed with why Tom could have possibly been so mad at you. "He really loves you know?" He added as he did a full 180 to grab some of his pants, folding them and putting them on top of his shirts.

"Loved, you mean." You grumbled as you hugged his pillow and wiped the tears from your eyes. "I pushed him away twice and he doesn't want to be pushed away a third time, that's what it is. I brought this on myself. I was a terrible co-star and now karma has it for me."

Timothee looked at you with vague eyes, not knowing what to tell you next. He clapped his hands when he finally got the answer.

"I'm talking to him tomorrow. Let him cool down from whatever happened." He decided.

"What did happen!" You almost screamed and he backed away with a chuckle.

"Calm down Dicaprio in the wolf of wall street."

"That's a specific reference." You folded your eyebrows and looked down at your fingers.

"He's always angry and screaming in this film what do you want." He shrugged before handing you a chocolate bar and taking one for himself.

"Thanks." You grumbled opening the packet, letting the comforting taste bring warmth back to your body.

~

"Morning." Hardy smiled as he rolled his suitcase towards the taxi waiting area.

Tom grumbled something barely audible as he passed right through Hardy, almost hitting him with his shoulder.

"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed." Hardy laughed towards Tom who ignored Hardy's playful stare and planted himself right next to Timothee Chalamet.

“You alright Tom?” Timothee turned his eyes to him, clearly seeing the frustration in Tom’s eyes.

“Everything’s fine...” He looked away and scanned the line, surprised when you were nowhere to be seen.

“If you’re searching for Y/n she has the later Taxis and the latest plane” Timothee gave Tom a tight smile.

“Oh...” Tom suddenly felt sad as he realized you wouldn’t be on the same flight as him. But angry when he realized Tom Hardy would.

An assistant waltzed towards Tom’s group and handed out the plane tickets, and some further information about the arrival. Every actor took separate cabs, and Tom found himself walking into the plane in a short amount of time - headphones into his ears desperately trying to push away the anger he felt towards Hardy.

He eyed all the seat numbers until his eyes fell on seat number 38. His stomach did a flip when the window seat was occupied by the one and only Tom Hardy - the one person he didn’t want to see.

While Hardy gave Tom and a large smile, Tom looked away and placed his bag on top. Half a plane of business class seats and he had to be paired with the one person he didn't want to see.

Hardy took the cue and looked down at his phone - a little shaken up by Tom’s coldness.

Two hours into the flight and Hardy got his script out. Tom finally removed his headphones to order something from the flight attendant and the other Tom took it as his cue to nudge his shoulder.

“Hey man.”

“Hey.” Tom said a little harsher than he meant - but what do you want to sound like when the person is trying to steal your girl.

“Martin wrote a new scene yesterday and I’m still trying to learn and practice it - he said it will be the first thing we're going to shoot tomorrow do you mind helping?” Tom looked at the script that was standing on Hardy’s lap and then back to his eyes.

“Um sure.” He gave him a tight smile.

“Thanks." he nodded with a charming smile "Here.” He handed Tom his script. “Alright.” Hardy cleared his throat "You ready?"

"Yeah."

“Alright. Here we go" He gave the cue and started his line. "Lilibet this is a warning.” His line entered Tom’s ears as his eyes scanned the page to make sure they were the right words.

“Father - you don’t understand. This is more than just some-”

“No.” Just like in the script the line cut Elizabeth’s line. “This is about family.”

“He's also my family. If you can’t accept it, then he will be my only family” Tom’s heart pounded in his chest when he realized what the next line was.

“But what about us?” Tom felt his blood turn cold. What he had heard last night was rehearsing and nothing else. Hardy wasn’t trying at all to win you over, he was rehearsing the new scene Martin had written.

Tom gulped. “But, I love him-”

“How is he more important than this family?”

“It’s just ‘How is he more important than this?’ not family” Tom looked into Hardy’s eyes and he gave a thankful smile.

“I always get that one wrong.” He shook his head with a smile breaking from his character and Tom handed him an awkward chuckle in return.

‘Well maybe if he hadn't said the line right yesterday, maybe I would have discovered it was indeed just a scene’ Tom thought to himself before coming back to the lines.

“Im asking it again. How is he more important than this.” Hardy repeated and Tom continued.

“D- dad, you don’t understand.” - ‘If only I had stayed to heard this line’ Tom thought and suddenly felt a strike of stupidity flash through him.

“Hardy do you mind if I leave you for a second.” Tom pointed behind him. “I just remembered something I have to tell Timothee.”

“No problem.”

Before he knew it Tom took Helena’s empty seat and started rambling to Timothee about the whole situation.

“Hey calm down Gnomeo.”

“Gnomeo?”

“What? You wanted me to say Romeo?” Tom didn’t know how to answer. “They both die in the end - I don’t think you’d want that.”

“Can we get back to the actual problem?” Tom shook his head at Timothee’s absurd comment.

“Yes. So the fact that you got jealous for no reason. Because you thought that Edward Thomas Hardy CBE was in the way of your relationship with Y/n?”

“He’s a CBE?” Tom stayed frozen for a second.

“Yeah, men! how did you not know that? Aren't you British?”

“I am-” he wanted to say something but shook his head. “That's not the point.” He sighed in frustration. “and yes....” He grumbled.

“Dude he plays her father.”

“I know-”

“He could be her dad in real life.”

“I also know that.”

“He’s married.”

“I know,” Tom whined.

“He has kids.”

“I know.” He melted in his seat in shame. “But- they’re both such great actors and it sounded so real.” He looked away too ashamed to face Timothee's stare “And I’d just read The Princess Diarist.” Tom grumbled and folded his arms.

“Wait there's a book to the films? Oh my god iconic.”

“No not the princess diaries and there’s always been a book about these - the princess Diaaaarriist” Tom looked at Timothee whose eyes were full of confusion. “Carrie Fisher’s memoir. She talks about her affair with Harrison Ford- it got to my head.”

A loud chuckle filled the gap between the two boys and Timothee had to grab the chair in front of him to stop from laughing at Tom’s stupidity.

“You better tell Y/n that you love her, the second we land.”

~

The tropical air filled your lungs the second you landed. The view was breathtaking and everything was just perfect - apart from the fact that you might had ruined all your chances with Tom.

Great way to set the mood.

You checked into the hotel. Unpacking a few things and washed the flight away with a shower. You threw your clothes into the closet with frustration as you thought of Tom. Your head wasn’t even where it should have been - in the acting. It was far away wondering how in the world could you have been so stupid to push Tom away.

‘Maybe if you had given it a chance. He wouldn’t have been so mad.’ You thought. But that thought was too painful.

You threw on a bathing suit and the first dress your hand landed on and went off to explore Hawaii on your one day ‘off’.

You walked through the hotel garden and found a nice spot on a bench under a few palm trees. You let out a small sigh when you sat down, letting the day flow away from your mind and finally taking a second to focus on the scenes you were filming tomorrow. You thought your peace was going to last until a voice brought you back to reality.

“Hey.” A British accent that was all way too familiar made your eyes open.

“Hey?” You forced a smile as he sat next to you. For a second, there was only the sound of birds chirping and the wind blowing in the palm leaves.

“I’m sorry.” He sighed and you turned your head with a quizzical look. “I shouldn't have ignored you yesterday- That was wrong of me sorry.” He shook his head.

“Is it my fault?” You looked into his eyes. “Because I rejected you so many times? I came to tell you how I really felt yesterday. I came to give you a chance and you pushed me away. I guess I know how you feel now." You let out a sad chuckle

“You- you did?” His eyes went wide.

“Kinda yeah” You played with your fingertips.

“I’m such an idiot.” He folded his eyes and sat back.

“You want me to back up that statement?” You smirked.

“Yeah, yeah no need to rub it in.” He let out a stiff chuckle before looking back at you. “I was more stupid than you think.”

“What did you do now?” All the anger and sadness you felt suddenly melted away when you met his eyes.

“I was looking for you to make a huge love speech and ask you to give me a chance but I overheard you rehearsing with Hardy and I didn’t hear the whole thing and thought he was asking you to be with him instead of me.” He ended his rambling with a sheepish grin and you couldn’t help but laugh.

“Tom he’s married.”

“I know” He whined.

“He has kids.”

“I know.”

“You’re such an idiot.” You shook your head with a smile.

“I know.” He looked at you with a small smile. “Forgive me?”

“Yes. I forgive your jealous ass.” You shook your head in disbelief. “Now can we stop making each other cry or scream?” You giggled. “And finally... freaking finally get this to go somewhere.” Tom nodded at your every word.

“Y/n?” You nodded when he called your name. Tom smirk as an idea flashed through his eyes. He got down on his two knees and placed his hands on either side of your hips, looking right into your eyes.

“Will you be my girlfriend?”

“Yes, Tom. I will be your girlfriend.” You chuckled before pressing a kiss to his lips - sparks flying at the contact. Your hand climbed up to Tom’s curls - Tom smiling into the kiss.

“You’re not going to stop it this time?” He chuckled in between kisses.

“Never again” You shook your head. “I’m all yours.”

~

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Tom Hardy interview and exclusive David Bailey shot

Tom Hardy interview and exclusive David Bailey shot

By DANIELLE DE WOLFE

02 September 2015

ShortList meets the British actor who took on the Kray twins and won. Plus an exclusive image of the actor taken by the inimitable David Bailey.

Interviewing Tom Hardy is not like interviewing other film stars. From the moment he arrives – alone, dressed down in hiking trousers and black T-shirt, puffing away on a complex-looking digital e-cigarette – it is immediately clear this is not someone who will be exhibiting any kind of on-promotional-duties polish. He is very, very nice (I get a hug at the end of the interview), but there is unmistakably a wired edginess about him. When we sit down, it starts like this:

Me: I’m going to start with an obvious question, which is… Hardy: Have you seen the film? Me: Yes. I… Hardy: Right, well that’s the first question, then. The second one is, “What did you think?” I tell him I loved it, and why, and he is pleased (“That’s a f*cking result!”). When we move on to me asking him questions, his answers – again, in contrast to other film stars, with whom the game is to get them to veer slightly away from prepared, succinct monologues – are smart and eloquent, but long, drawn-out and enjoyably all over the place, veering off into tangents prompted by thoughts that have clearly just formulated. At the end of our allotted time, we are told to wind it up not once but twice, and even then he is still going, launching into theories about American versus British gangster films and life and humanity and such things (“Sorry man, I can talk for f*cking ever!” he laughs). He will be talking with a seriousness and sincerity (“All the risk was taken by [writer and director] Brian [Helgeland], to be fair…”), then will switch without warning into a piercing, mock-hysterical falsetto (“…letting me PLAY BOTH F*CKING ROLES, MAN!”).

In fact, briefly, while we’re on the subject of the way he speaks…

Tom Hardy’s normal speaking voice is not something we have been privy to onscreen. Since he delivered – whatever your opinion of it – the most imitated cinematic voice of the decade in The Dark Knight Rises, we haven’t come close. That thick Welsh accent in Locke, The Drop’s quiet Brooklyn drawl, the Russian twang in Child 44: we just never hear it. And this might be because it doesn’t exist. It’s five years ago, but if you watch his Jonathan Ross appearance in 2010, where he is very well spoken, he confesses he “sometimes picks up accents, and sometimes I don’t know how I’m going to sound until I start speaking”. If you then watch another video of a feature on GMTV, dated just a month previous, while addressing some young people from troubled backgrounds as part of his charity work with the Prince’s Trust, he is speaking to them in a south London street kid drawl. Today, in the flesh, he is about halfway between these two.

A natural-born chameleon.

Tom Hardy shot by David Bailey for ShortList

BEING DOUBLE

The role we are here to discuss today does not, by Tom Hardy’s own standards at least, involve a huge stretch accent-wise. But it is “the hardest thing that I’ve ever done, technically”. This is because, as mentioned, he plays not one role, but two. In the same film. You will likely have seen the posters for Legend by now, depicting Hardy as both of the Kray twins. Which seems an ambitious, almost foolhardy undertaking.

Hardy agrees. “It is one of them situations,” he says. “You get an actor to play two characters, and immediately, it’s pony. It’s gonna be rubbish. Just: no. It’s a bad idea.”

This particular “bad idea” came to him when he first met writer and director Brian Helgeland (who had previously written screenplays for – no biggie – LA Confidential and Mystic River) for dinner. Brian wanted Hardy to play Reggie (the hetero, alpha male, more-straight-down-the-line Kray). Hardy, though, had read the script, and of course, being Tom Hardy, was drawn to the more complex character. “I was like, ‘Well, I feel Ronnie,’” he says. “So which actor am I gonna give up Ronnie to, if I play Reggie? Errrrrggh…. I can’t have that. ’Cos that’s all the fun there! And Reggie’s so straight! But there was a moment when I could have come away just playing Reggie. We could have gone and found a superlative character actor to play Ronnie, and that would have been the best of everything."

But Helgeland sensed the dissatisfaction in his potential leading man. “I’m sitting there thinking, ‘Oh, he wants to play Ron,’” he tells me. “And the paraphrased version is that by the end of the dinner, I said, ‘I’ll give you Ron if you give me Reg.’”

And so began their quest to turn a risky, potentially disastrous idea into something special (as Brian puts it to me, “the movie’s either gone right or gone wrong before anyone even starts working on it”). Hardy found some comfort in Sam Rockwell’s two-interacting-characters performance in Moon. “I’m a big fan of Sam,” he says.

“And Moon gave me reason to go, ‘I know it’s possible to hustle with self, to create a genuine dialogue with self.’ So then it’s the technical minefield: can you authentically create two characters within a piece at all? So that the audience can look past that and engage in the film? It is what it is: it’s two characters played by the same actor. But I think we got to a point where people forget that and are genuinely watching the story."

This was the ‘why I liked the film’ reasoning I gave to him at the beginning of the interview. And it is a remarkable performance, or pair of performances, or triumph of technical direction. The opening shot features both Tom Hardy Krays sitting in the back of a car, and feels strange, but very quickly, within about 10 or 15 minutes, you settle into it, and forget that it is actually the same guy. This was made possible, in part, by Hardy’s stunt double from Mad Max: a New Zealander named Jacob Tomuri.

“He inherited the hardest job of my career,” Hardy grins. “I put on a pair of glasses, played every scene with Ron, then took ’em off and played Reg. And we went through every scene in the film, recording it on the iPhone. So he’s got every scene of me doing both characters, on his iPhone. He actually played both brothers, had to learn all of the lines. He was paying attention twice as hard to keep up. But he superseded that, and was eventually ad-libbing. There’s a line that ended up in the film, where Ronnie goes, ‘I bent him up like a pretzel, I hurt him really f*cking badly.’” “Where did that come from?!” Hardy shrieks, in that falsetto again. “It came from New Zealand."

The wife’s tale

The other big potential pitfall, as Hardy sees it, was contributing to the ongoing glamorisation and eulogising of two brothers who were, to say the least, not very nice. Somehow they have become almost as iconic a piece of the Sixties puzzle as the Beatles or the Stones. But this was not something that Legend would be setting out to reinforce. “One has to approach these things thinking about the families of the victims who were involved in the other end of it,” he says. “Before you find the heart to like somebody, you’ve gotta look at their track record as best as possible: the people who’ve been hurt, the bodies, the suffering, people who were bullied, who lived in terror, who lost significant parts of their lives in the wake of these two men. There’s a lot of sh*t to wade through. And a lot of people who do not, quite rightly, want to see anything to do with these two men. And if I were them, I wouldn’t want to be involved myself, but there’s also part of me that wants to know. That wants to get under the skin.”

So how do you go about doing that? About humanising, to any extent, such people?

“I think the first port of call is, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to do and say whatever you wanted to do and say in the world, regardless of the ramifications and the consequences?’ Ultimately, when I – we – go to the cinema or read a book or we go to escape, we respond to certain types of characters that go, ‘F*ck it: I’m gonna do whatever I want.'

And that’s because we can’t. Because most people would feel a responsibility.”

The answer to how Legend would do this came in the shape of a person who did feel some responsibility, namely Frances Shea: the troubled wife of Reggie, who died in 1967. Played by Emily Browning, she became the centre of the film when Helgeland met Krays associate Chris Lambrianou, who told him that “Frances was the reason we all went to prison”.

“We could have put more of the carnage and the crimes in that film,” says Hardy. “Not to say that it is not there, but what you do see, really, is Reggie, Ronnie and Frances. That’s the dynamic we focused on, that space, which hasn’t been seen before. What was that dynamic like? I don’t know if we came anywhere near the truth, because we weren’t there. But that was the playing field, if you like: Frances Shea, future ahead of her, caught up in something, and no one with her, the suicide. That sits with me in a way as the lead. She’s who we forgot. Ronnie, Reggie, they’ve done their bit. Frances was forgotten. And that kind of all ties it together for me."

FUTURE LEGENDS

The initial praise for Legend has been plentiful, but the mindset of Tom Hardy right now is such that he does not have the time to bask in it. There are other quite ludicrously challenging projects to be pressing ahead with. Coming in autumn is The Revenant, starring his good friend Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu of Birdman fame. Its trailer, as well as doing the not-going-anywhere trend for big beards no harm whatsoever, suggests that it will also match Mad Max in terms of an unrelenting barrage of intensity. Further into the future there’s the Elton John biopic Rocketman (initial challenge? Hardy “can’t sing”) and another foray into comic-book adaptation with 100 Bullets (news of which broke just after our interview).

And right now, as in this week, he’s working on a BBC series called Taboo, which is set in 1813 and stars Hardy as an adventurer who comes back from Africa and builds a shipping empire. The story has been developed by his production company Hardy Son & Baker (formed with his father, Chips) and has been written and directed by Locke/Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, with Ridley Scott also exec producing.

“We’re sat on something really awesome,” says Hardy. “And it’s trying to piece it together. I’ve never produced anything before, so I basically don’t know what I’m doing. But I’ve got some options and solutions: if you say something is not working, you better come up with at least four other options. But it’s good. It’s just different.”

Another day, another big challenge. Another chance to do something different. It isn’t an easy life being Tom Hardy. But neither will it ever a boring one, and that’s good news for us.

Legend is at cinemas from 9 September

Words: Hamish MacBain. Images: David Bailey, Studio Canal

You can also read the Hardy interview in this week's ShortList Magazine. It'd be a crime to miss it.

Source: https://www.shortlist.com/news/tom-hardy-interview-and-exclusive-david-bailey-shot

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[fionnfanatics]

Request: Hi, I love your writing and I was wondering if you could write an imagine where you’re from Ireland and you meet Fionn through Cillian? Thank you so much xxxx

A/N: thank you darling 💕

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“Uncle Cillian!” You shouted happily, spotting the man you had been searching for.

It had been awhile since you had seen your favorite uncle, he had been super busy with filming.

The two of you had a very close relationship. Your parents were both workaholics, so often you would go to Cillian with your problems. You were like a daughter to him.

Since you were a little girl in pigtails you would visit him on set. Because Cillian worked with Christopher Nolan so often, you had met the man many times. Chris absolutely adores you, he never could deny any of your requests.

Which is why he had arranged for you to stay on set for the duration of your winter break at Uni.

Cillian spun around at the call of his name, barely catching you as you flung yourself at him. You were vaguely aware of others watching you, but you didn’t care as you clung to the uncle you had missed dearly.

“Y/N, is tha you?” Cillian asked as he pulled away from you slightly. When he caught a glimpse of your cheerful face, he pulled you tightly to his chest. “It’s been so long sweetheart. You seem so grown up.”

“Seems tha Uni does tha to ya.” You told him happily, pulling away from him. He ruffled your hair affectionately, making you huff in annoyance.

“I’ve missed ya.” He smiled, wrapping his arm around your shoulders. “But wha are ya doin’ here?” He asked curiously, glancing down at you.

“Chris told me tha you guys were talkin’ about me the other day. He said ya really missed me, so he asked me to fly out for break.” You told him, causing him to smile brightly. “But let’s all be honest here. I really only came for Tom.”

A loud laugh sounded from behind you, making you glance over your shoulder. As soon as you saw Tom Hardy standing there, you moved out of Cillian’s arms and launched into Tom’s.

“How are you little love?” He asked, using the nickname he had given you back during the filming for Inception.

“I’m brilliant! Finished off me first semester o’ Uni with top marks.” You told him, pulling away to smile at him.

“Atta girl.” He said, ruffling your hair just like Cillian had moments before.

“Blimey. I’m not 12 anymore. Ya both can stop treatin’ me like it.” You glowered in annoyance, fixing your hair once again.

“Nonsense. You’ll always be 12.” Cillian spoke, making you roll your eyes.

“I’d have to disagree. She definitely doesn’t look 12 to me.” A voice sounded in a smooth British accent, making you look towards the source.

There was a boy, right around your age, standing there and staring at you. His eyes roamed your body briefly, before locking eyes with yours and sending you a cheeky smile.

“And who might you be?” You asked, taking a step in his direction. You noticed that there were 3 other men there, but your eyes were locked on the dark haired stranger.

“My name is Fionn, love. And I gathered you’re Y/N?” He asked, offering his hand towards you.

“You’d be correct.” You told him, taking his hand with a smile. Instead of shaking your hand like you expected, he pulled your hand to his lips and pressed a kiss to your knuckles.

Internally swooning, you smiled shyly at the boy, hand dropping to your side.

“It’s a pleasure to meet ya Fionn.” You told him, eyes staying locked with his.

“Trust me, the pleasures all mine.” He answered, his eyes growing intense as he continued to look at you. You could feel a flush begin to take over your cheeks, but you quickly batted it back.

“I’m Jack.” Someone spoke, but you found yourself unable to move under Fionns gaze. “Not that you seem to care at the moment.” There were a couple laughs from the other men, but you hardly even noticed.

“No! Nope, absolutely not!” Cillian suddenly said, startling you out of your eye contact with Fionn.

“Wha?” You asked, glancing at your uncle in confusion.

“Don’ ‘what’ me lassy. I know tha look. Under no circumstances am I allowing ya to be with a boy. No boys until you’re 30, remember?” He said seriously, sending a glare at Fionn. All of the other boys were holding back laughs, obvious amusement in their eyes.

“Uncle Cillian, you’re bein’ ridiculous.” You whined, rolling your eyes.

“Head back to me trailer, I’m gonna have a little chat with Fionn here.” Cillian said, crossing his arms over his chest.

“No.” You told him, holding back the urge to stomp your foot.

“Tom.” He simply spoke, making you confused. Moments later you were airborne, finding yourself placed over a strong shoulder.

“Oh you’ve got ta be kiddin’ me.” You groaned, slapping Tom’s back slightly. “Don’ tell me you’re on his side! Put me down Tom!”

“Sorry little love, I don’t really like the way you and Fionn were looking at each other either.” Tom responded, laughing slightly as you squirmed.

“Ya both are actin’ nutters! So wha if Fionn and I are attracted to each other? I’m in university! I can make me own decisions!” You groaned in annoyance, giving up on trying to get down.

“Wipe tha smirk off your face Fionn.” Cillian growled, making you laugh slightly. “Go on Tom.”

“I swear ta god, if ya don’ put me down righ’ now…” You continued to utter threats to Tom the entire way to the trailer, making the boys laugh behind you.

“I wish I had some popcorn on me. This is some modern Romeo and Juliet stuff right here.”

“Shut up Harry.”

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Any period dramas you particularly recommend? (Also, very interested in your update on how many consecutive hours of watching one can manage)

With great shame I confess that I only watched four hours yesterday! But I was at the hospital, am radioactive, heavily drugged, have cancer, ETC. Today I’ll have more to show for myself because there’s at least no hospital visit interfering w my dreams and goals.My whole life is basically a front for me waiting for someone to ask for period drama recommendations. Uhhh, sure! I have a few casual Recommendations, Thoughts, & Opinions. I have seen these period dramas a very reasonable number of times, and have never spent days on end shut in a room with no sunlight ignoring my responsibilities and relationships to watch them. Here’s an incomplete list, only kinda in order of greatness:1. Little Dorrit - BBC production w an all-star cast, fabulous writing, and great fidelity to the novel and the Dickensian spirit, with his humor and his sensitivity to the precariousness of status/wealth among the middle class and the grinding oppression of the lower class

2. Our Mutual Friend - same as above3. the 1996 BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice - the GOAT, unrivaled by the Hollywood production bc although Matthew MacFadyen is excellent, Keira Knightley is a blight on contemporary period dramas

4. North & South - brilliantly acted (and Richard Armitage’s big break), deals w issues of class and labor, set mainly in a northern factory town which is an interesting cinematographic change from most period dramas5. Bleak House - a darker Dickensian adaptation but all the same virtues as LD & OMF, the legal system is a kind of villain

6. Daniel Deronda - unusual subject matter for ol’ George Eliot in her time (Jewish ppl who aren’t antisemitic caricatures), rendered beautifully on screen and acted well

7. Jane Eyre - BBC series w Toby Stephens and Ruth Wilson; the Wasikowska/Fassbender Hollywood version is also good, but not as good, in part bc you can’t get the same depth of character development in a shorter film; the Zeffirelli film is good too but it’s been ages since I saw it

8. Wuthering Heights - I like the British TV version with Tom Hardy & Charlotte Riley best, but the Hollywood film w Ralph Feinnes might actually be better written (although I found Binoche ill-suited to the role of Cathy)

9. The Way We Live Now - really rich adaptation of the Trollope novel, great cast, blatant antisemitism but what else is new??

10. Robin Hood - BBC series that starts off cringey campy but deepens and intensifies and by the end you’ll be wholly transported

11. Lark Rise to Candleford - I could barely hear this one bc my husband was constantly asking when it would be over, but this a really sweet and engaging story w a lil feminist flare 

12. various BBC Austen adaptations - Sense & Sensibility (the Thompson/Winslet film is great too, but again shorter and less character dev), Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey… I’m ~rubbish~ for them all

And I’m not giving it a number but I’ve been watching Outlander sporadically. It’s gorgeous visually, the traditional Scottish music is great (not the opening song lol), and the Highlander accents and Gaelic are fun. The acting is strong in much of the ensemble cast but weak in prominent characters (Claire :/), the writing is cringey, and it’s soooo graphic that I have to skip a lot of scenes. Like GoT - which I couldn’t take beyond a few episodes - it relies on shock and awe (including r*pe, can we stop??) to keep the story moving and idk why anyone subjects themselves to that. I’m probably done with it, but I’ll sure miss the bagpipes

#period dramas #film #charles dickens #jane austen #bronte sisters

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Les Mis, Grantaire crushing on Enjolras, library lost and found, snippets, crack/humor

Grantaire notices Enjolras'--or, who Grantaire knows as 'Really shouty blonde guy who always wears red and drinks far too much caffeine and has no idea how reality works'—coat in the library's lost and found and claims it so he can give it to him.

Or, Grantaire steals clothing for meet-cute reasons.

(...Is what it was going to be, but, SHOCK, I didn’t finish it!  If you want it, drop me a comment first please.)

--

Grantaire will not go into depth about how he knows that is Shouty Blondes' coat, will not bore anyone who is stuck working the same shift (Eponine) or complain into his drink (Joly) or just bring it up randomly (Bossuet, punchy guy at the gym, yoga mom at coffee shop).  It has been in the lost and found for a week, just daring Grantaire to pick it up and return it to the blonde who obviously doesn't miss it since he's been in the library the past two days without asking if anyone's found a beautiful expensive coat the color of a child's toy fire truck.

Maybe he secretly hated the coat; it was a present from distant parents who tried to buy their son's love or an ex who broke his heart, but had really good taste (but obviously not because who would break up with that guy?).

Maybe he hasn't been bothered because the weather's been unseasonably warm this late in Autumn.

Maybe he's just really unobservant and doesn't notice it's missing.

Maybe he's super shy and left the coat there as an excuse to talk to Grantaire.

Grantaire's not admitting which theory he likes the most, but...the coat is really nice, and it's still in the lost and found.  He can only keep it out of Gavroche's sticky fingers for so long, though Eponine has started expressing an interest in it as well.  Grantaire mostly thinks she's kidding.

"What are you doing?"

Eponine shrugs, "Wanted to see how it would fit."

She holds her hands out to the sides, skeletal fingers only just peeking out of the sleeves of the red coat.  The shoulders are a few inches too low, the hem is around her knees, and it's basically like she's drowning in red, dry-clean-only, Italian wool.

"Do you think he'd notice if I walked right past him wearing his own jacket?"

"Probably," Grantaire shrugged. "Take it off, it's weird that you put it on in the first place."

"Why, are you super attracted to me now?"

"Yeah,” Grantaire answered bluntly, “You've cured my gayness, better than Jesus Camp.  10/10, would recommend.”

"Oh please, it's not like I go around trying everything on in the lost and found, we get some real sketchy people in here," She folded the jacket up and placed it back on the counter.  "Plus, he hasn't noticed it's lost, and he hasn't noticed you staring at him.  You fell for the thickest guy on the planet." Eponine took one last look at the table where the blonde and his friends were studying, "Also, the whitest."

Grantaire shot her a look and she rolled her eyes at him.

"I'm just saying, dude's channeling T-Swift."

"Just 'cause he's white, and blonde, and wears red, and has a personal microphone...”

"I bet he writes songs about those who've wronged him.  It'd be about the government and corporations and the library's closing hours and whatever else he likes to rant about."

"Coffee prices," Grantaire added. "And speaking of falling for really thick guys, as I change the subject smoothly, how's Marcus doing?"

Eponine smiled and let her hair cover her face, "Marius, is doing well, thank you for sarcastically asking.  We actually walked together this morning and he bought me coffee."

"Way to go, though you seem to be going backwards in having guys pay for you.  Usually you start with coffee and move towards rent.”

"That was a kind gesture, I was only fifty behind.  He's a sweet boy."

"He's a bleeding heart," Grantaire rolled his eyes.

"He's generous," Eponine insisted.

"He's here," Grantaire pointed to the door, "And he seems to have brought Shouty Blonde's twin sister.”

"What?" Eponine hissed and ducked behind the counter, before realizing how ridiculous that was and popped back up. "Don't say anything."

"Hey, Marco!  Or Marcus!  Eponine's over here!”

"My god, we work in a library, stop shouting," Eponine said quickly, nudging Grantaire hard with a bony elbow.  It got him right in the hipbone and he immediately stopped.

“Ow!  You need to eat more, can you hear your bones rattle every time you take a step?”

“Go bite a curb and die in a gutter, you absolute assh—hi, Marius.”

--

"Oh my god, Marcus—"

"Marius."

"—and Shouty Blonde know each other.”

Eponine huffed, "Shouty Blonde's name is Enjolras."

"What?" Grantaire turned to her, "How do you know that?"

"Marius talks about him sometimes.  He pointed him out to me one morning."

"Then why haven't you hooked a brother up?"

Eponine made a face, "Because I don't know him, and I get the feeling Marius is kinda...scared of him.”

-

"Wait, you know Courfeyrac?"

"I think everyone knows Courfeyrac?” Eponine shrugged.

“Courfeyrac knows everyone," Grantaire corrected.

"No, Bahorel knows everyone."

"Who's Bahorel?"

"Tall guy, super tall—” Eponine raised her hand over her head while standing on her tip-toes.

Grantaire waved his hand, "Everybody is super tall compared to you."

"Shut up, he's tall for a professional basketball player.  And dreads that he ties back with, like, flower scrunchies?  Or actual flowers?  I think I’ve seen both.”

"Oh, shoot, does he have really heinous mustard yellow jeans?"

"Yeah, they make my eyes hurt, but he manages to pull them off so I have respect,” Eponine nodded sagely.

"He's my sparring partner at the gym!" Grantaire exclaimed.

Eponine’s eyebrows crinkled in confusion.

"We spar, punch each other's faces, insult each other, never really exchanged names,” Grantaire said sheepishly, “He calls me Mexican Tom Hardy."

"You're not Mexican.”

"I know," Grantaire said with shrug and left it at that.

Eponine scrutinized him for a few seconds, "I also don't see the resemblance to Tom Hardy."

"I do a really good British accent?"

"No you don't.”

“I could.  If I really cared enough to, I could.”

--

“Hey, Shouty—” Grantaire immediately tries to swallow his words, “Shorty, hey shawty.”

“I’m…taller than you,” Enjolras replied, a puzzled look on his face. “I don’t understand.”

“No, no, Enjolras,” Courfeyrac butted in, a huge grin plastered across his face, “Obviously, this man is a time traveler and has come here from the early 2000’s.  The correct response to his greeting is, ‘It’s your birthday’.”

“But it’s not,” Enjolras said, turning to his friend and then back to Grantaire, “I’m sorry, you have me confused with someone else, it’s not my birthday.”

“Enjolras, no, I just want to hear you say it,” Courfeyrac insisted, fiddling with his phone before pointing it at Enjolras, “Alright, Filipino Shia LeBeouf, do it again.”

“What?” Grantaire started before leaving off in an exasperated huff and pointing to Courfeyrac, “I’m going to give you pass, but only because I have never heard that one before.”

“Combeferre, if you could just drop a beat, I think it will really elevate this,” Courfeyrac moved to stand in front so he could get everyone in the screen, then began pointing, “Okay, Enjolras, when you reply, say it more like ‘birfday’.  It will make me very happy.  Whenever Combeferre starts, that’s your cue to come in.”

“Is this for, like, a school project?” Enjolras asked.

“What kind of beat would you like?” Combeferre asked, rubbing his hands together in anticipation, “I’ve been playing around with some new sounds, but I feel like you’re going for a more of the original vibe for this.”

“Original is good, we can do remixes later.”

#les miserables #les mis #grantaire #eponine #Grantaire and eponine friendship #crush #library #snippets #take it if you want it #crack #humor

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Sean Teale on The Gifted, superheroes and learning from the best.

Sean Teale has already played major roles in Skins, Reign, and now Marvel's The Gifted – and he's still only 25. We chatted to one of British acting's most exciting talents

(THURSDAY 5TH OCTOBER 2017)

YOU’VE BEEN CAST IN FOX’S MARVEL SERIES, THE GIFTED. CAN YOU TELL US ANYTHING ABOUT THE SHOW OR YOUR CHARACTER?

The Gifted is in a way a street level view of the X-Men Universe and the people within it. The show tracks two families of sort that are thrust together. One is an all American family of four and the other a group of Mutants who are part of a Mutant Underground Network designed to help other mutants. In our world mutants are persecuted and oppressed by a hostile American government agency who deems them a danger to public safety. I play one of the main members of Atlanta’s Mutant Network Marcos Diaz (or Eclipse) – alongside his girlfriend Polaris and his best friend Thunderbird.

YOU'RE PLAYING A NEW MUTANT CHARACTER CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR THE SHOW. DOES THAT GIVE YOU MORE SCOPE TO PLAY WITH THE CHARACTER OR PUT YOU UNDER PRESSURE TO IMPRESS LOYAL MARVEL FANS?

It actually contributes a bit of both. On one hand you get the benefit of working on a character never seen before - you have a certain freedom in not being shackled to anything historically. At the same time you have no backstory to go on other than what you’re told or personally create. Luckily Matt Nix and our writers have given me information to help with the process and hopefully keep it within the universe the fans are so dedicated to, which its hugely important.

APPARENTLY YOUR CHARACTER WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO TO ABSORB AND MANIPULATE PHOTONS. IF YOU WERE ABLE TO CHOOSE A SUPERPOWER, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

If I could choose anything I’d choose teleportation. Flying would be great but it’s a lot of faffing about and who knows how quickly you can fly. Knowing me I'd mess up and find out what the inside of a plane engine looks like – much like Thunderbird in the comics does at some point.

WHAT’S THE SECRET TO MASTERING THE AMERICAN ACCENT?

I’ve always loved accents and I don’t know if there is one specific secret per se. When it comes to accents I’ve always just really enjoyed impersonating. When I was a child, growing up I would basically be a Parakeet. We’ve had American programming flung at us from a very yearly age so tie that in with the amount of American work available and you find your way. But I enjoy manipulating accents and playing with intonation, tone and stress so you just have to stick at it. The history also of why people speak with the speed or cadence they do is pretty fascinating. It’s all useful but just requires time and desire.

GROWING UP DID YOU HAVE A FAVOURITE SUPERHERO?

I mean across all the many superhero comics and movies Sir Patrick Stewart as Professor X stands out performance wise – especially in Logan. Deadpool is great. My childhood was a lot of Batman movies with different Batmen.. some were far better than others...

WHY DO YOU THINK THE SUPERHERO GENRE REMAINS SO POPULAR? FOR THE LAST CENTURY IT’S DOMINATED OUR CULTURE...

I feel like there's a plethora of reasons for this and this interview would be endless and I'd bore everyone if we got into too much. Overall the genre can be entertaining, tell interesting, different stories and be broad in size and scale which means there’s something for everyone in there. But alongside that it’s also the perfect medium to tell stories of humanity, and resonate with issues occurring in the real world. The perfect example is the X-Men and how relatable they are - Professor X and Magneto were to some degree based on MLK and Malcolm X.

THIS FUTURISTIC ROLE CONTRASTS THE PERIOD ROLES YOU’VE PREVIOUSLY PLAYED. IS THERE A DIFFERENCE IN PREPARATION?

To be honest there isn’t too much difference in overall preparation. Really the difference exists in your character prep - it varies from role to role with who they are and what world they live in but you’re still preparing for it the same way. Admittedly shows set in the modern era are simplified to some degree by us existing at the same time as they’re set. In shows set centuries ago you have to take into account society, how they spoke, movement from a time you didn’t exist in. It’s all fun.

YOU MADE YOUR NAME IN SKINS – DID YOUR TEENAGE DEBAUCHERY MIRROR THAT OF THE SHOW?

To some degree it did yeah. That show was completely insane to be a part of in the best possible way. On and off camera we had a lot of fun - but most of the serious stuff we saved for on screen.

YOU’VE WORKED WITH SOME GREAT ACTORS, INCLUDING TOM HARDY, BEN AFFLECK AND MATT DAMON. DID THEY TEACH YOU ANY VALUABLE LESSONS OR SHARE ANY TIPS ABOUT THE BUSINESS?

I’ve been very fortunate to work with some of the people I have over the last few years. Working alongside creatives with so much experience means you’re always learning, picking up ideas on prep and execution that resonate with you and some that you try and find aren’t quite your gambit. There’s no real direct route to success in an industry like this though so often people thankfully don’t just tell you specific tips that will guarantee you get to where they have. But they’ve all been a font of knowledge, experience and ideas to learn from or play with which is awesome.

DO YOU HAVE ANY DREAM ROLES / PROJECTS FOR THE FUTURE?

I want to try my hand at anything and everything to be honest - it’s more about the stories that are being told and the role itself than a specific name or franchise.. but.. two books that I’d love to do well or be involved in in any way now that their rights have been bought are the Spademan Chronicles and The Sisters Brothers - all amazing. I wish I could've been involved in Band of Brothers too. And show me someone who wouldn’t like to take on Bond and I'll show you a liar!

Via: https://www.squaremile.com/features/sean-teale-interview-the-gifted/

#sean teale #interview #website