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ladyhawke · 2 years

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this is really stupid but i can’t get over the fact that some actors just don’t have the face to be in a period piece

#dakota johnson for sure #but i watched the emily bronte biopic trailer to see my girl ali dowling #and the actress who plays emily just looks so off #why does this bother me so much????#also this film looks like a mess #the trailer seems to put down charlotte and anne #and they’re forcing a romance?#anyway alexandra with little glasses 🥹#carol.txt

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queenshelby · 10 months

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The Fourth Season (Rewritten)

Part One: Intro

Pairing: Cillian Murphy x Reader

Warning: Religious and Anti-Religious Themes

Notes:

Being obsessed with Cillian’s post Oppenheimer image, I have decided to rewrite this story as well and make it play during the filming of “Small Things Like These”…

I hope I still get some following and promise no further re-writes! Following my break from the fandom last year, I struggled a bit with finding my style and my head was a bit all over the place, so when I started this fanfic, I wasn’t planning it out properly. I do like the premise of it though and do not want to abandon it.

I also won’t rename it as “The Fourth Season” seems quite fitting considering that “Small Things Like These” follow a character leading up to Christmas.

Background

This fic plays in 2023 and, as usual, there will be an age-gap romance as Cillian is 46 and the reader is 25. I made her a little older than usual.

The reader comes from a strictly catholic family and, as a result, her family is appalled by the fact that the reader has taken a roll in this movie as it does not put the catholic church into a very good light.

For the reader, however, this is an opportunity not only for her career but also to get away from her family for a little while which is still in turmoil after the reader had separated from her high school sweetheart and husband James McCallum.

As for Cillian, in early 2023, he is divorced with two young children. He has been single for three years and life was good. He finished filming Oppenheimer and took some time off before embarking in this passion project of his.

Six months ago…

Cillian’s POV

It was late July and the summer heat was scorching as Cillian walked down the pier in Dalkey with a fellow actor friend Matt Damon who, just like Cillian, had invested in the movie production.

The movie was said to be produced by Tim Mielants who also accompanied Cillian and Matt on their walk, and filming was scheduled to commence just after Christmas which left just one minor issue yet to be considered.

Whilst Cillian was staring the lead role of Bill Furlong, the woman who had been casted by Tim to play Bill’s wife Eileen had just pulled out, leaving this role yet to be filled with an affordable actress.

“You could ask Emily” Matt joked, seeing that both him and Cillian were close friends with Emily Blunt, but both of them knew that Emily would not be available for this role.

“I think we should concentrate on getting someone Irish” Tim told both Matt and Cillian who, by this point, had already come up with four unsuitable candidates for Tim to choose from.

“I think Matt was joking when suggesting Emily Blunt for the role” Cillian chuckled while adjusting his sunglasses and looking towards the horizon which prompted Matt to an idea.

“You know guys, I’ve seen a play last night at the Gaiety” he said before pulling out his phone and handing it to Cillian and Tim.

“The actress in that play was good and, when I say good, I mean really good. The play was called Dark Horizon and she played a widow named Siobhan who lost her husband at sea. Her ghost then plagued her until she was driven completely mad” Matt explained while showing Cillian and Tim the video he took from last night’s performance.

“She is good. What’s her name?” Cillian asked as he watched the video with an intention of his own to go and see the play.

“Y/N McCallum, aged twenty-five, from Cork” Matt said after pulling his phone from Cillian’s hand and opening the e-pamphlet which he had saved on his screen instead.

“She might be a little too young to play a forty something year old woman” Cillian chuckled while Matt put your name into Google.

“Make-up can take care of that” Tim said before continuing to read your agency profile and anything else that popped up in his newsfeed. “The bigger problem I see now is that she is married to James McCallum and working with couples on set might get a little annoying” Tim then pointed out, causing Cillian and Matt to furrow their eyebrows.

“Who is James McCallum?” Cillian asked as he could not remember anyone by that name

“He is in charge of logistics. You would have met him on the set of Peaky Blinders last year. He is thorough when it comes to staying within budget and organising essentials for the cast, which is why I hired him for the shoot” Tim explained and Cillian remembered him.

“Fuck, I do remember that guy. He gave me a bible after he caught on to…you know…never mind…” Cillian said, aborting his sentence but Tim already knew.

“After he caught you and Sarah making out?” he thus said, causing Cillian to swallow harshly.

“Who is Sarah?” Matt wanted to know as he was not privy to this kind of onset gossip.

“His ex” Tim explained but Cillian shook his head.

“It wasn’t like that. It was just a fling. Nothing serious” Cillian pointed out but Tim couldn’t help but make another joke about it.

“Yeah, that’s why he gave you a bible, so that you could pray for forgiveness for your sins” Tim laughed before suggesting to see the play together with Cillian that night.

Your POV

Later that night, Cillian and Tim had indeed gone to see your play and the way you performed a troubled woman like the one on stage blew them away.

They were both mesmerised by your performance and ought to speak to you when you finished, which was something that you had not expected.

“This is a little weird but there are two men here to see you” one of the theatre clerks said after barging into the change room where you and some of the other actresses were putting on your regular clothes.

“That sure is weird” you joked, seeing that you did not usually get any visitors backstage.

“One of them is Cillian Murphy” the clerk then said and your chin dropped. You have heard of him, of course. Your husband had spoken of him in the past when working on set, although he did not have the nicest things to say about him.

“The actor?” you ought to clarify nonetheless, causing the clerk to nod.

“Yes” she said. “Do you want to speak with them?” she then wanted to know and, of course, you were intrigued about what they had to say.

“Tell them I will be just a minute please” you instructed the clerk who did as you had requested and, after putting on a jumper and tying back your hair, you met with Cillian and Tim in the lobby.

Both men greeted you professionally and with a handshake before telling you that they enjoyed the play and your performance.

“Thanks. I really appreciate it” you said before asking the men whether there was anything you could help them with and, when Cillian said that there was indeed something you could him with, you looked at him with some surprise.

“Okay, what is it?” you asked with a smile while struggling to focus. His eyes were really as blue as everyone had said and he must have noticed you starring at them by now.

“Well, we’ve got a role for you in a movie” Cillian said, causing Tim to furrow his eyebrows. Cillian was clearly more confident than he was and he would have approached this a little differently to say the least.

“And you want me to audition for it?” you queried, causing Cillian to shake his head.

“No, I want you to take it. Your performance on stage today was incredible and I would love to work with you” he responded, causing your chin to drop again.

“I have never been in front of a camera before” you explained but Cillian did not seem to care.

“There is always a first time for everything” he reassured you and you felt somewhat shocked.

“Well, I feel flattered” you said before asking Tim and Cillian for a script.

“I will send it to your agent tomorrow along with all of the particulars for production” Tim said just before shaking your hand and when Cillian said that he was looking forward to working with you, you could not help but chuckle.

“I didn’t say yes yet” you informed him.

“I know, but I like being optimistic” he winked which left you and some other girls in the lobby somewhat speechless.

To be continued…

Please comment and engage. I love getting comments and predictions pretty please!

#cillian murphy #cillian murphy smut #cillian murphy imagine #cillian murphy x reader #cillian murphy x y/n #cillian murphy x you #cillian murphy fanfiction #cillian murphy fanfic

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ride-thedragon · 26 days

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I see Laena casting discourse again. They really did age her up unnecessarily, and I do think it was to communicate how bad the whole picking child bride thing is while making her a suitable (young) match for Daemon. I genuinely remember the sheer disbelief that she was teen Laena.

Milly and Emily are Rhaenyra and Alicent from ages 14 to 20, respectively, somewhere in that timeline they become Emma and Olivia's versions of the characters. Nova is Laena from 12 to about 15, and then from 16 to 20-ish, she's played by Savannah, who then passes over to Nanna until 26, Laena is at best 26 when she dies. It's a less similar time frame for Laenor who , as much as I love young Laenor, should've been played by the same (teen) actor as he and Rhaenyra are the same age.

Back to Laena, I think they should've just casted younger and kept 1 Laena for youth and one Laena for adulthood like the other girls. Yes, she's younger but not young enough to need that much of a difference between episodes 1 and 5. I'm not promoting the sick comedy of Daemon and Youngest Laena, but that's the general point. You can't want to show the world we're in with Viserys and Rhaenys and then falter when it's Daemon's turn. Those actresses do not have a 4 year age gap. Even casting an older actress in both parts but changing their styling would make sense.

I'm not upset because I adore every Laena actor. They looked and found the prettiest actors they could, and they DIDN'T DISAPPOINT, but it was biased storytelling.

I think this was a case where hiring a young actress and allowing costumes and acting to tell a story would've worked beautifully.

Another way it would've worked was seeing as production and filming takes so long, hiring a young actress and filming baby laena at the start and teen Laena at the end of filming.

Are there no black 14/15/16 year old actors to hire?

I also don't like the fact that they cast Laena with much older actors when they are done with that initial point.

Nova is 14 now, and Savannah is 28. Nanna is 37.

They were 10/11, 25/26, and 34/35, respectively, while filming.

Respectfully that's insane.

They are playing 12, 16, and 26.

It's a clear oversight and is weird because yet again, they didn't consider the implication of a 16 year old black girl going after a 30+ year old prince. Or the idea of going from casting Laena with an actress younger than her age to two actresses a decade apart from her canon age.

Anyways: Casting 101

When 2 actors represent the spectrum of ages, your character is at (10 to 26), maybe cast between them for a teen version.

I don't like the inconsistent casting. I genuinely think the only reason I don't hate it more is because of the fact that the inconsistent costumes piss me off more.

No hate to the actresses again. This is about character continuity and not at all a reflection of their performances. They are our Laena's and the reasons we wish we got more of the character.

#hotd #house of the dragon #laena velaryon #lady laena #laena casting #hotd casting #weird age consistency #something very nefarious is at play #idk why I put kyleigh there but she's a good actress so....#hotd meta #its all so weird

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onepiece-polls · 7 months

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OPLA fan cast polls - Nefertari Vivi Prelims B

The top 2 will advance.

Propaganda under the cut.

Keira Kneightley: I know she's way older than Vivi's supposed to be, but she'd be perfect.

Tara Emad: She's an Egyptian actress who's around the same age range as the rest of the cast, and I really think she looks the part

May Calamawy: She’s an Egyptian-Palestinian actress and was in Moon Knight. She’s just so pretty and sweet, I think she’d be a great Vivi!

Yasmina El-Abd:

A 16 year old Egyptian-American actress with a few acting roles already

She is an Egyptian actress and is actually around the same age as Vivi during the Alabasta saga :) She's also a relatively newer actress and I feel like she would do a great job!!

Saoirse Ronan: Saoirse Ronan has often played many period pieces, including roles as royalty and queens, so she is familiar on how to play a noble role. She is also around the same age as Emily Rudd as Nami, so the relationship and friendship between Nami and Vivi would still feel close and not too much of a stretch. She is also a very sweet actress, and I could imagine that, with blue hair, she could pull off the role of Vivi very well.

#one piece #opla #one piece live action #Nefertari Vivi #opla fan cast polls

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maester-of-spreadsheets · 1 month

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Tagged by @vonlipvig and it's come around at a great time because I've actually been finishing media lately. Imagine that.

Last song/piece I listened to: Chor Bazari from Love Aaj Kal. AZAD HOON MAIN TUJHSE! AZAD HAI TU MUJHSE! wait i just noticed that the lyrics are saying "now i'm free from you, now you're free from me" but it's using the most informal 'you.' Which kinda implies they still have a degree of emotional intimacy despite being exes. Despite the whole song being about how they're exes who are handling this reunion super maturely even if they're bemused by it all lol. Interesting.

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(also Deepika was still in her awkward rookie actress phase here but I can see the glimmers of the kind of stuff that would go on to make her really good at more naturalistic roles.)

(great now I want to rewatch it even though I remember it being the platonic ideal of a timepass hahah. If only to rewatch the sequence where early on they have a 'we're breaking up!' party because they dont want to do long distance and then later on she calls him from the airport and they have this lighthearted conversation talking about their gripes with one another that they never mentioned in the relationship in order to keep the peace.)

Last book I read: Diavola by Jennifer Thorne. Horror novel about the bisexual disaster black sheep of a family going to a family reunion in Italy and... oops [cocks gun] villa's haunted.

On one hand is it kind of a mess with weird pacing and some dropped plot threads and it has multiple themes that don't quite congeal? Yes.

On the other hand, did it FUCK MAJORLY?? Yep!! Probably my favorite book I've read this year so far. So cathartic.

Last film I watched: Piku, solely to look at several actors' faces and it delivered on that front.

Last TV series: I don't... know? I think it might have been that documentary series about Nickelodeon. And I'm glad survivors got to tell their stories, but like a lot of recent true crime documentaries about systemic crimes I felt like it didn't go deep enough. For every Dan Schneider, there are quite a few people above people him in the corporate ladder who have to sign off on their abuses. But that's all very bleak so let's move on. (Also it turned out I am still not far away enough from The Old Job to really be able to deal with this content.)

Last video game: Pentiment! I was playing a "choose the rudest option" round and was shocked every character hated me.

Last thing I googled: Diavola to remind myself of the author's name.

Last thing I ate: Pasta and broccoli.

Sweet, savory, or spicy: Spicy.

Amount of sleep: As usual I genuinely don't know how much was actual sleep and how much was lying around half awake.

Currently reading: Uhhhh so many things. My Lent resolution to only read things I own and/or have started didn't go too well (but better than I had been before because I actually finished some things.) I'm probably going to try and make an effort to return Emily Wilson's Iliad translation and/or the biography on J. Dilla.

Currently watching: Uhhh does watching the Murder on the Orient Express play all the way through every other night count?

Tagging @onetrueharem @ponydeathisland @amarguerite @invaders-forever @sickfreaksirkay aaaand honestly everyone who wants to do. And doesn't want to YOU LOT ESPECIALLY

#Youtube

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batrachised · 9 months

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Extremely important question: at any point in time, have you ever had a fan cast for Walter Blythe? Or even just a face cast? As someone who has despaired of ever picking a suitable Emily or Dean, I’m curious about your success with your own LMM blorbo.

~@no-where-new-hero

This is definitely a question near and dear to my heart, which makes it all the more frustrating that I do not have much of an answer (gnashing my teeth over the lack of satisfying lm montgomery film adaptations rn). Most especially bc, imo, fancasts are fun, but I've always had a problem with them in that they rely on already famous actors - a very limited pool to pick from, thus landing on the emily and dean problem. I'm also somewhat biased in that the vast majority of time I tend to prefer unknown actors for roles because once someone gets famous enough, all I can see is the actor playing a role, not the role itself (rare is the actor transformative enough to make me forget I saw a buzzfeed article about them two weeks back). All this to say, if you're reading this hollywood-powers-that-be, please make a true to the book lm montgomery movie, i''m desperate.

I think we've discussed in the past that this photo has extreme Rilla vibes to me (Walter, Shirley, and Jem); I think Colin Morgan can pull off the otherworldly elf fey vibes Walter has going on, shown by Merlin.

Genuinely, though, I feel like with LM Montgomery characters, it's less about the physical characteristics (besides key markers ie red hair being the obvious one) and more about bodying the soul of the character. The actress of Mrs. Lynde from the 1980s show didn't really match the physical description in the book, but she embodied the spirit of Mrs. Lynde so effectively it didn't matter. Imo unless it's really egregious (idk, not giving Anne red hair, making Leslie plain, ungnoming Barney), a range of actors could match a single character. Megan Follows looks entirely different from BBC's Anne, but both of them flesh out Anne extremely well. Meanwhile, the Anne with an E cast doesn't really read like the characters at all to me despite matching the physical descriptions, because they're so far removed from the books.

Your mention of Emily and Dean has me scratching my head over that, because I think that would be difficult. Because I read the Bantam books at a formative age, the illustration of Emily on the front is exactly how I pictured Emily, which makes it difficult to select someone who looks different. There's the actual casting of Emily and Dean from the tv show (I took the image from this gifset), neither of which I really liked, although i do find it interesting how they played up his priest name with his costume.

This just making me want a faithful to the books Emily of New Moon TV series STAT where I can see how a professional would choose to bring the characters to life....sigh.

#also fancasts always land on people who look like models #i like people who have more of a homespun quality for lm montgomery shows #less of a glossy barbie/ken one #i have such a specific image of dean in my head too and i am cursing my lack of drawing skills right about now #lm montgomery

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alicentsgf · 1 year

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hey! i started following you only recently so i don’t know if anyone has already asked you, if that’s the case i apologise in advance, but i like the way you express your opinions and the way you put things when you talk about things you like/don’t like, so i wanted to ask you if you liked emily carey’s and olivia cooke interpretation of alicent in hotd ,,

hope you have a nice day/night ✨

Hi babe! Thank you so much - I'm gonna try and sum up my feelings on this because I do have some thoughts. I think by and large we've got it really good with the HotD cast in general theres only very few comments they've made where I personally disgree, and none of those are from Emily or Olivia.

Beyond all the repressed lesbian jokes I do think making the subtext of Alicent's character repression and queerness and shame was... Inspired actually. And that apparently came primarily from the actresses. Emily and Olivia saw the potential on the page and really elevated it. Alicent in the book was sometimes implied to be a bit of a (heterosexual) sex pest, as women are oft remembered to be when history wants to blame them for every terrible thing that happened to them... (should I reference Anne Boleyn again?) So the writers critiquing that element by flipping it on its head for the show, and the actresses taking that and going 'actually she was incredibly sexually repressed and its at least in part because this world would never have even let her recognise what she desired' was a great direction to go with it. Because this is a world that does not encourage women to have any sexual agency, or even an awareness of their own sexuality (in Alicent's case). Just look at Rhaenyra - look at the consequences she faces for the semblance of sexual agency she enjoys. So yeah, call me biased lmao but making Alicent the poster girl for catholic shame and queer sexual repression and then putting her next to Rhaenyra, who isnt ashamed or sexually repressed at all, really drives home how neither of them could win; gilded cage, gilded handcuffs, a gilded knife at your throat... choose your pretty affliction if you like, it all ends the same anyway. And they were always going to make Alicent her father's puppet, someone who cant comprehend her own desires, so the actresses building on that and making her a closeted lesbian, who cannot even fathom what desire means because she is so repressed that she doesn't even know how to want anymore. In a lot of ways her longing for intimacy with Rhaenyra isnt even sexual, because she'd have to cut through the calcified surface of her sexual appetite for what she feels to become lustful. And Olivia herself basically said this I think.

I do think I prefer Olivia's portrayal, even though Emily's young Alicent is still incredibly important to me. I just think Emily's youth worked against her even as it was so necessary to role because Olivia's just a more seasoned actress and she seems relaxed enough to make choices that really added to her performance where Emily has a slight stiffness sometimes. Also its not really a fair comparison because I truly believe Olivia is out-acting every single person on that set, not just Emily. Don't get me wrong they're all incredible actors but the only other person coming at all close for me is Paddy, or maybe TGC (but I haven't seen enough of him yet to say that definitively).

I just keep coming back to the knife scene and how well acted that was by Olivia. The pain and righteous anger was all too palpable and you could really plot Alicent's emotional journey playing out so beautifully in Olivia. She and Paddy really were the dream team the way they played off each other - that shot where Viserys gets in Alicent's face, the uncertainty and guilt in Viserys eyes even as he all but growls at Alicent because even he doesn't really believe what hes saying but hes not going to back down, and Alicent with her tear-streaked face - the realisation he will never ever choose her or her children first even when they are bleeding and pleading for him so obvious in her eyes. I really feel the framing did Olivia so dirty because they made it so difficult for people to truly understand Alicent's perspective but absolutely none of that was Olivia's fault, she played Alicent to a T.

#ask #anon #hotd #hotd cast #alicent hightower #olivia cooke

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instantpansies · 9 months

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adhd ramble time!!!

so i'm researching significant films from queer history right, bc i already have an interest in that and also bc of this queer media archive nick and i are working on (see my pinned post)

anyways i found the silent film Salomé (1922), which stars Alla Nazimova (generally went by just Nazimova), a Russian Jewish sapphic silent film star. several of the female characters are played by men in drag and there were supposedly several gay cast members but yk. altogether the film is not extremely canonically queer but is definitely one of those queercoded fun experimental things from the silent era. it's impressive though, and a very expensive and cool-looking production (watch here)

so i decided to research nazimova who as it turns out was in a lavender marriage for a while and had several relationships with women. her most steady girlfriend was Glesca Marshall, another actress, who lived with her in the hotel nazimova established and then sold off, the legendary Garden of Allah Hotel. marshall was later buried with another girlfriend, Emily Woodruff. interestingly, nazimova's goddaughter was Nancy Davis, who would eventually marry Ronald Reagan. yeah.

another of nazimova's girlfriends was the surrealist/magical realist painter Bridget Bate Tichenor, who was at one point the editor of Vogue, was influenced by and in turn influenced several huge names in the surrealist movement, and. wow. check out her paintings!!! that's so cool!!!

there are so many! here's the link where i found all of these.

in conclusion this is your sign to go wikipedia surfing about a random topic!! these paintings weren't even on wikipedia i had to do extra research but it was so fun! so yeah check out all these people bc they're so cool. thanks bye ok

#queer history #art history #toast watches #bridget bate tichenor #art #queer #toast rambles

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chinloopa · 2 years

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House Of The Dragon S01E02

Continuing my review of each episode we’re on to episode 2, titled: The Rogue Prince!

Clearly there are a LOT of spoilers here, so please don’t read if you don’t want to be spoiled!

We’re a little slower to start this episode, but we open with our first look at the official opening sequence - and it’s to the previous opening theme music!!!!

It’s as lovely as it ever was in GOT - though maybe a little less clear what’s going on as we move into it. No map this time, instead we seem to be moving through an ancient tomb of some kind - or maybe even the streets of King Viserys’ pet project in his royal chambers - the carved city of what is either old Valyria or perhaps plans for an expanded Dragonstone. We get a bloody rose line flowing between different mechanical sigils, connecting families and alliances that I’m sure are important but I honestly couldn’t keep up with them. It’s less clear what’s going on and what the significance of the visuals are but it’s still beautiful to look at for sure and it’s so nice to hear the old theme music again!

There’s a lot happening between characters this episode, less action and more stage-setting but that’s completely understandable. Milly Alcock’s ‘Rhaenyra’ is still carrying this show, but Emily Carey does a lovely job as ‘Alicent’ picking up some of the slack. I was actually very surprised to see some major chops from ‘Laena’ actress Nova Foueillis-Mosé for how little screen time we got of her and how young she is. She was poised, believable and surprisingly endearing. We get a cast change next episode - Laena will be played by Savannah Steyn moving forward, so I’ll be very sad not to see more of Nova on screen - in my opinion she stole the scene between Laena and Viserys in the gardens.

Matt Smith is a powerhouse. He has had very little screen time thus far and still manages to shine spectacularly every time he’s front and center. His depiction of Daemon Targaryen is nuanced, complex and so enjoyable to watch. There’s currents of spoiled brat, potential villain and ‘Mad Prince’ in every moment of his performance but there’s a vulnerability and sweetness there as well - that’s a hard combination to achieve and Matt nails it each and every time he steps on screen.

We also get more of Eve Best as ‘Rhaenys’ or ‘The Queen That Never Was’ this episode, as well, and - just as I predicted - she is every bit the Sassy Queen we deserve in a GOT spin-off - a barbed tongue to compete with the Queen of Thorns herself. She and Rhaenyra have a brief ‘stand-off’ of sorts and it was lovely to see. The way these two actresses feed off of one another was incredible to watch, they were both totally in their element and 100% on top of their game. I can’t wait to see more of Eve Best as the season progresses and I hope to see more scenes between her and Milly, they really played well off of one another.

The scene on Dragonstone between Daemon and Rhaenyra steals the episode for me, however. The chemistry and tension between the characters alone was utterly profound, but the CGI scenery and dragons are the best we’ve seen to date. The long stairway to Dragonstone looming out of the fog is stunning and so visually appealing, but then we get Caraxes crawling onto screen and I actually caught my breath. He is a beautiful work of digital art and every time we see him he seems to get even more lifelike and fluid; The Blood Wyrm indeed! We briefly see Syrax as well, but not nearly as much as I’d like - she is just as stunning as she was in the first episode, however, so how can I complain?

Daemon and Rhaenyra’s stand off is everything I want and need in my life. Rhaenyra as a character is definitely quickly becoming a favorite, and Daemon isn’t far behind. Once again, however, I find myself liking almost all of these characters. Viserys, who I was not too fond of last episode, moved up a few points in my opinion by refusing to wed Laena, despite pretty much everyone telling him it’s the right move at the moment. Alicent is still much too young for this, but she’s better suited to the role than Laena would be. The tense stage between Rhaenyra and Alicent moving forward has been set to absolute perfection and I cannot wait to ache and cry for the falling out between them. I wish they had a happier story, but that’s not the nature of what we’re watching here.

A shoutout to ‘Corlys Velaryon’ actor Steve Toussaint, he brought Corlys front and center this episode and held him there marvelously. He wasn’t as strong a presence as Rhaenyra or Daemon or even Rhaenys - but I get the feeling that was intentional. Corlys is a quieter sort of storm, and I know for sure we’re going to see much more dramatic things from him moving forward, especially with he and Daemon’s secret meeting at the close of the episode.

The Crabfeeder... aaaah, we got our first look at this mysterious character this episode as well. I don’t know if they’re setting him up to be a ‘Big Bad’ or if we’ll see him eliminated as early as the next episode, but either way his design was fantastic and highly memorable.

The costume and design department for this show have really proven that they are not here to fuck around - each and every one of these characters are decked out to the nines and we love to see it.

FINAL RATING: 10/10

As far as I’m concerned, this is the pinnacle of television. Everything from the writing, to the cgi and costuming and sets. The acting, it’s all here and it’s all as good as it gets. House Of The Dragon has cemented itself as THE show to watch right now for me. I have nothing to critique or complain about right now except having to wait six days and twenty hours to see the next episode!

COME ON HBO! Get on the BINGE wagon and give us the whole season all at once, cowards!

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officecyborg · 4 months

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spoilers for the game Her Story. like I’m literally talking about the solution to the mystery here, don’t read this if you’re intending to play it

So I knew Hannah and Eve were two people going in. What I did not know was, uh—okay, a lot of people talking about it, tvtropes, even wikipedia, seemed to come away thinking it was “ambiguously” a case of two personalities rather than two people. Which, after actually playing it, flabbergasts me, because the points you’re likely to notice that might make you think “is this a different person played by the same actress?” are concrete, physical pieces of evidence. Like aside from multiple personalities being a trite and harmful trope, I think it would be difficult to fake an old tattoo after not having one the previous day. And the key evidence in the case is the police proving that she was in two places at once. I mean maybe I was more conditioned to accept the premise because it’s shared with a certain book/famous movie, but I’ll be honest: if ambiguity was Barlow’s intention (which again, I don’t think it was) it wasn’t conveyed successfully.

I kinda think people just didn’t like the solution to the mystery? So they’re coming up with something less outlandish that doesn’t actually work? TBF I was so-so on it. I mostly just liked the character of Eve enough that I didn’t care too much. Emily Short’s analysis of it as “gothic” rather than “forensic” won me over, though. Yeah, I guess it is operating in that space rather than a police procedural.

(Actually the ending ambiguity I’d really like to discuss, and why I was looking it up at all, was what happens to Hannah at the end. It sounds like she wasn’t arrested. Did Eve kill her? Did she run off and let Eve take the fall? Did they both agree that Eve should take over the Hannah identity, since her fingerprints wouldn’t match the crime? etc.)

I also wonder how many people actually saw the sixth interview with Hannah, because certain things people say, like “you can tell who is speaking by whether their hair is up or down” and some timeline stuff are disproven by that one. (Though I guess if you thought that was true you might just assume it was Eve?) Which, like, we also had trouble finding it and only got one clip by cheating with a line from the trailer. I think there’s one obvious keyword someone might search from it, but we didn’t watch most of it until we went through all the videos chronologically. Short and not a lot of monologuing/content.

Side note: It was funny when we realized you could just go through the videos in chronological order. I think this was intentional rather than a mistake—like, yeah, you can do this if you want. It’s the most time-consuming way to do it, and doesn’t have the “I’m a genius” factor of making a good database search that gets you a meaty video. But you can.

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How Harry Styles reinvented the playboy

No mud-slinging exes or disgruntled girlfriends here — the heartthrob singer is championing respectful relationships

Sarah Ditum

Sunday April 02 2023

Like every former boybander in search of a solo career, Harry Styles had to create a new identity when One Direction split in 2016. But he didn’t just reinvent himself for the post-1D era. Styles, 29, has also been credited with reinventing manhood for a modern-day audience.

“Harry Styles is rewriting the rules of masculinity on his terms,” raved the women’s magazine Grazia in 2021. The New York Times heralded Styles last year for his “liberated” take on gender. That liberated take, though, hasn’t precluded him from reportedly having lots (and lots) of girlfriends.

According to reports this week, the model and actress Emily Ratajkowski is the latest in a string of famous and gorgeous women with whom Styles has been linked. There was the late Caroline Flack, who was presenting The Xtra Factor, the sister show of The X Factor, when Styles was a contestant in 2010 (she was 32 and he was 17). After that he went out with the comedian Emily Atack for a short time.

Styles’ last public relationship was with the actress and director Olivia Wilde, who he met when he worked on the film Don’t Worry Darling.

He also dated Kendall Jenner. His relationship with Taylor Swift was brief, but creatively fertile: her album 1989 is rumoured to be shaped by their romance. There was a scattering of Victoria’s Secret models in between. Most recently, he was involved with the director Olivia Wilde (who cast him in the film Don’t Worry Darling) in the middle of a messy break-up with the father of her two children, the actor Jason Sudeikis.

There’s something quite retro about Styles’s romantic history, matching the dreamy Seventies influence in his music. His capacity for hooking up with the most impressive beauties of his era recalls the great shaggers of the 20th century — men like Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty and David Bowie, all of whom seemed to have had a cheerful kid-in-a-candy store attitude to sexual possibilities afforded by celebrity.

But serial dating can look tawdry rather than glamorous in the 21st century. Think of the general shudder greeting the actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s endless procession of young girlfriends, none of whom seem to last beyond their 25th birthday.

So how does Styles do it? He has always rejected the playboy label, and his version of maturity is different from the laddish one espoused by previous teen idols turned adult stars. See Robbie Williams, obliterating his Take That pinup status in 1995 by partying with Oasis at Glastonbury. Or Justin Timberlake, making vulgar comments about his ex Britney Spears in 2002 to kill off his nice-guy ’N Sync image.

Styles is known for his flamboyant looks and defying masculine conventions.

No such boorishness for Styles. He is, instead, the gold standard of modern sensitivity. He wore a dress on the cover of Vogue, and a sheer blouse and pearl earring to the Met Gala in New York. In the film My Policeman, he played one half of a tender gay romance, and he’s lent his support to causes including Black Lives Matter and LGBT rights. At one concert, he supported a fan in coming out to her mother, leading the whole audience in a chant of: “Tina, she’s gay.”

This image has helped to make him staggeringly successful: his 2022 album Harry’s House broke streaming records, won best album at the Brits and the Grammys and spawned a 15-night residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Coupled with his delicate handsomeness, this may explain the queue of girlfriends.

Like his ex Swift, Styles has pointed out that he doesn’t actually date more than the average person his age — he just attracts more attention when he does. In the case of Ratajkowski, one photograph of the two kissing in the street in Tokyo has been worldwide news for days.

Styles also dated Kendall Jenner. He likes to remain on good terms with his exes.

In response, Styles maintains the gentlemanly habit of rarely discussing his love life. It’s not far off the old music industry wisdom that heartthrobs should avoid relationships to keep themselves notionally available to their fans. But it also protects him. Having been famous since he was 16, Styles has had to learn to draw a line between his public and private selves to survive. And it protects the woman he’s with from jealous fans, who perceive any girlfriend as a rival to be attacked. A corner of his fandom can be “crazy” and “mean”, he has said.

Styles’s respect for his partners is in line with contemporary manners. Timberlake initially gained credibility for trashing Spears but by 2021, at the peak of #FreeBritney outrage, upset fans pushed him into a grovelling apology nearly 20 years on. Chivalry is back in fashion.

Styles also gets points for his apparent fearlessness around women who are impressive on their own terms. While the age gap with Flack raised eyebrows at the time, he’s subsequently been linked to multiple older, accomplished women.

Unlike a lot of famous men, he seems happy to be with an equal — or even, in the case of Swift, her muse. He also keeps things amicable post-break-up and has made friendly appearances with Swift and Jenner.

Beatty is also known for keeping his exes close. “What happens is fame gives you access, so you’re lucky enough to be exposed to these very admirable women,” the actor said in 2016. “Not just physically beautiful, but great people and talented and intelligent people.”

Harry Styles hasn’t reinvented masculinity but maybe he’s rediscovered the trick that separates a great lover from a playboy: he actually seems to like women, as well as wanting to sleep with them.

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https://people.com/emily-deschanel-carla-gallo-excited-to-reminisce-bones-rewatch-podcast-exclusive-7554437?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&utm_content=new&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=649c743d25570b000116322b Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo 'Excited' to 'Reminisce' as They Launch 'Bones' Rewatch Podcast (Exclusive)

The first episode of 'Boneheads with Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo (A Bones Rewatch Podcast)' will be released July 19

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Kelly Martinez

It’s a good day to be a Bones fan.

PEOPLE can exclusively announce that Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo are launching Boneheads with Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo (A Bones Rewatch Podcast) on July 19.

The Wishbone Production podcast, executive produced by Allison Bresnick, which is slated to air weekly on Wednesdays, will feature behind-the-scenes secrets and insights as the actresses — who played Dr. Temperance Brennan and Daisy Wick — rewatch the Fox series, starting with the 2005 pilot episode.

“It very much is for the fans, but it's also for us to look back and reexamine what the show was for us and what it meant in our lives and other people's lives,” Deschanel, 46, tells PEOPLE. “I'm excited for [fans] to hear some behind-the-scenes stories, to be a fly on the wall with Carla and me talking about our friendship and the tangents we'll go on.”

Emily Deschanel Thinks the Likelihood of a 'Bones' Reboot is '50/50': 'It Could Happen'

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The podcast will feature a slew of Bones cast and crew as guests, including executive producer Barry Josephson, writer Hart Hanson, director Greg Yaitanes, TJ Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), Eric Millegan (Dr. Zack Addy), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro) and author Kathy Reichs, whose novels inspired the series.

When asked why Gallo, 48, was the perfect companion for this project, the Devil in Ohio star says that their pairing is the perfect balance of perspectives. While she was there from the very beginning as Temperance, Gallo didn’t appear as intern Daisy until season 4 and has more of a “fresh eyes” point of view.

“I like that pairing for us because we have the insider, the person who was there every day — that's me — and then Carla, who would come and go and didn't come in for a while,” Deschanel explains. “She's the outside perspective who can ask the questions of, ‘Why did you do that?’ and, ‘What were you thinking here?’ and, ‘What was the story there?’”

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Deschanel also hopes that her and Gallo’s friendship will add to the podcast’s charm.

The two met while filming Bones and have been inseparable ever since. “We chat and can't stop chatting all the time. We love talking with each other. It's hard for us to even get off the phone,” she shares. “Hopefully [it will] feel like you're in the room with two old friends who are just chatting, making each other laugh and talking about the show that brought them together.”

Emily Deschanel Is on a Mission to Save Farm Animals

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Bones ran for 12 seasons on Fox from September 2005 to March 2017. The crime procedural comedy-drama centered on Deschanel's forensic anthropologist and David Boreanaz as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, who solved different case files involving mysterious human remains.

The show remains Fox’s longest-running scripted drama series to date, and Deschanel says she wants to give dedicated fans a “companion piece” to the series through the podcast.

“We encounter fans of the show all the time who say they've [seen] the show multiple times,” she tells PEOPLE. “There are fans that have watched more than we have, and they love it and know more than we do.”

“It seems to give people a lot of comfort and be nostalgic for people as well,” she added. “People found it comforting to go through your hard times in their life watching the show. So people watch it many times over, so we wanted to give a companion piece to that experience too.”

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All 12 seasons of Bones are available to stream now on Hulu ahead of the July 19 debut of Boneheads with Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo (A Bones Rewatch Podcast) on major podcast platforms.

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Who would you cast in a live action Corps Bride.?

Ah! Fun, anon. Okay, I think I'd go - -

Bailey Bass as Victoria. I was initially thinking of her for Emily, and while I do think she'd kill it as the titular Corpse Bride, I feel like that role might be a little too similar to Claudia in Interview with the Vampire. Victoria in a lot of ways is a bit of a harder role to play - after all, it's a lot less scene chewing, and requires some pretty serious vulnerability and charisma as an actress, and I really think she could pull it off. Plus I want her to have a happy ending <3

Hunter Page-Lochard as Victor. Hunter's probably one of my favourite local Australian actors right now, and I keep waiting for him to cross over internationally and it's just not happening! Anyway, I just think he's great and always brings so much warmth to characters who can be morally dubious, which Victor ultimately is. Balancing Victor's dilemma while also being able to play lovestruck in a way that will keep an audience on his side is something I think he'd really be able to nail.

Aimee Lou Wood as Emily. I mean, yes, a part of it is down to the look and the voice, haha, but I also think she can really act. I really enjoyed her in Living and she's consistently been one of the best parts of Sex Education, and I think letting her get a little bit angry and a little bit evil while still inhabiting that naked vulnerability and loneliness a character like Emily has would be movie magic.

#thanks!#these are always fun haha #the corpse bride #recastings #welcome to my ama

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https://www.tumblr.com/wellthatwasaletdown/713601858580742144/how-harry-styles-reinvented-the-playboy

I couldn't read the whole article because it's not free. But I find it funny how the title says "reinvented the playboy" while the sub headlines says he's "championing respectful relationships". Like you can't call someone a fuckboy and says he's a champion at RESPECTFUL relationships the very next thing. The oxymoron used is weak af

Here you go.

From here:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-harry-styles-reinvented-the-playboy-9h36p6pd2