okay okay what’s your least favourite ‘classic’ novel you ever read. i’m curious xx

Stephanie Hsu’s audition for Everything Everywhere All At Once

“The Daniels surprised me by showing this clip to an audience at the Hamptons Film Festival when I was receiving the Breakthrough Artist Award,” says Hsu now. “I had never seen it! The first thing I said after I saw the clips was, ‘Woah, I guess I really understood this movie!’”

She was surprised, she says, to see so much of the final conception of the character in the audition. “The Daniels and I did so much deep diving, developing the character and story once I was officially on board. It felt really special to witness that even in the early stages, before bells and whistles, there was something I really understood about the philosophical and emotional core of this film. Or perhaps that is also just something I wanted to bring to life on screen: the porosity of a villain/non-villain on the thin ice of hopelessness; a daughter at heart.”

Hsu says the challenge of playing Joy and Jobu Tupaki was in figuring out how they were similar more than how they were different. “Jobu is both everything else and also still Joy, and Joy has Jobu within her,” she notes. “The Daniels and I talked about the concept of that particular character track, because it’s so essential to the movie making sense, even through the chaos. We did try to weave that into the fabric of the film, and one of my favorite shorthands for it was ‘Joybu’. A combination of both Joy and Jobu. It wasn’t a real thing, but we knew what it meant, so when the seams start to pull apart a bit, sometimes we’d do something in a scene that was clearly Jobu, like the hallway scene, but then we’d say, ‘OK, let’s do it again, but this time let’s do it Joybu.’ It made sense of the meta, because if someone can jump and be everywhere all at once, they can also still be the daughter.”

beds for a quiet little exhibition

If I see one more of you idiots comparing Rory and Logan to Lorelai and Christopher I am going to go crazy. They’re clearly Emily and Richard.

it’s always “rory should’ve ended up with logan… no, dean, JESS!” lane should’ve ended up with dave.

All that you ever wanted from me was nothing.

Rory/Logan & Sweet Nothing by Taylor Swift

GILMORE GIRLS CHARACTERS as TAYLOR SWIFT ALBUMS ( insp x x )

Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! (1986)

You are going to laugh until your stomach hurts again. You're going to be in awe of a sunset. Watch your favorite show while you eat your favorite food. Find money on the street. Discover a great band you haven't heard of before. You will find your way back.

So now I say it to you: Pass this with me. Here, in the warm parts. Now in your hands is a book that Drew and I made with our hands. We celebrate it. If the dead are watching, I want them to see us writing, dancing, singing, painting. I want them to see that we still reach out to each other.

- Richard Siken, Black Telephone

- November 2, 1911

- The diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1913

[ID: November 2. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart. End ID]

— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004)

fleabag (2018)

normal people (2020)

credit

BEN GILES / LES ECHOS WEEK-END / 2020 [collage on paper | unknown dimensions]