“I did one tape… When the breakdown came in, I felt I was so right for the part. And yet, for whatever reason, when it came down to taping, it became really late at night in England, and my girlfriend and I… I just couldn’t do it.
I remember getting really emotional, on the brink of tears: ‘I just can’t do it. I’m giving up acting. I’m never doing this again. I’m done with self-tapes. I’ve been self-taping for months and months and months, and nothing’s happening.’
And then she said, ‘All right, look. Give it one more go. Stop being ridiculous.’ So I gave it one more go, and I’m not going to say the rest is history, because it’s not quite at that point. But, things moved on.
At that point, when I got offered the part, they said, ‘Right. Just to let you know, you’re playing Picard’s son.’ So I was like, ‘Oh, okay. That’s news.’ And it was hard to get my head around what that meant until I spoke to [Picard season 3 showrunner] Terry Matalas, and he gave me the full throttle rundown of what that was going to mean, and what would transpire for the role.”
— Ed Speleers on his audition for the role of Jack Crusher [x]
im annoyed and a little pedantic so can i just say as a blanket statement
queerbaiting is when the promotion for a FICTIONAL STORY intentionally hints towards two characters having a romantic relationship, without any intention to follow through in the show, in order to get queer people watching without discouraging the homophobic enjoyers of the show
queerbaiting is NOT:
a celebrity who you think is queer because theyre gnc or they have a 'vibe'. that is a real person and they cannot queerbait
two friends of the same gender pretending to flirt with each other for fun. those are real people and they cannot queerbait
a show with two characters of the same gender who are canonically friends that YOU PERSONALLY think would be better in a relationship. that's not bating, that's shipping, and subject to opinion
there are more but those are the main examples of people misunderstanding what queerbaiting is and being mad at something that isn't actually a problem
some silly stuff with my explorers team lol, sapphire’s human lingo occasionally rubs off on bubbles, who doesn’t grasp the weight of some of the words, and it gives her whiplash every single time
(or, something like: the robin mantle is a curse, but that isn't inherently anyone's fault and someone has to wear it)
i adapted the two pages below the cut bc they were haunting me—tim having a nightmare the day of his mother's funeral, from Batman (1940) #455: “Identity Crisis, Part 1”, from this post