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thephantomcasebook · 8 months

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If thw rumors are true, then HBO/Ryan really wasted that much money filming scenes that later got scrapped 😭 They didn't foresee issues? I am baffled at their lack of foresight because wow that is just... (mind exlodes)

You'd be surprised how many productions are now written and changed on the fly.

It's not like the old days - if you can call them that - with "Downton Abbey" and "Game of Thrones" where they have one script and there's some room for adlibbing, but you stick to the written script as is - with the few alternative takes.

Most productions - especially Disney productions - now basically write on the fly. They have a finished script and then they basically toss it out the window and makes changes or scrap things in real time and start afresh.

In 1x08 - 1x09 of House of the Dragon there was no Aegon rape plot and no child fighting ring, and the dragon coming through the floorboards was not pre-planned. All of those things were written and worked pre-viz as last moment things on set in pre-shoot. They've admitted as such since then and in the "Making Of" docs and interviews.

It's absolutely conceivable and has precedence that they were shooting preliminary photography on the "Daeron and his Outlaw Band" storyline with Alys and Daemon - including rehearsing fight scenes with Matt Smith and Papernik - only for them to realize that they didn't have the budge for it and then quickly shift to something else.

I mean, for God sake, Gayle Rankin was literally hired the day before shooting even began, got sent home after a few weeks, and then came back months later to shoot again.

I would say that it isn't just a "House of the Dragon" problem as it is a complete culture change on how they shoot television in a producer driven industry. Now a producer can take a finished script during shooting and alter it to whatever they want - as one did in 1x08-1x09. It's a terrible precedence to set, but now every major studio is doing it.

#House of the Dragon

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eileenleahy · 5 months

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dreamt a completely non-existent downton abbey episode last night. it was pretty good my subconscious is a great script writer

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j4m3s-b4k3r · 2 months

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Little Mansion on the Prairie

We have been sketching from TV shows, and a recent fave is Downton Abbey, starring the wonderful Maggie Smith. In my opinion, she steals every almost episode as the dowager Countess, Lady Grantham. Inflecting every line with subtle flaring of nostril, tilt of head or withering stare, that imbue her character with equal part haughty snottiness, dry humour, and wry wisdom as the scene requires. She is so much fun to watch. This sketch here was my attempt at a straight portrait with my left hand, but my cartoon roots betray me. Try as I might to deliver a faithful representation, my version of Maggie Smith ends up looking like a pug dog in a fur coat.

Downton Abbey is a glorified soap opera about the privileged British aristocracy (written by the real-life Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, no less). So, why should an uncouth Australian like me care two hoots about Lady Rose's utterly spiffing debutant Ball at Buckingham palace? Or whether Lady Mary can ever live down the beastly scandal of finding a dead Turk in her plush 4-poster bed?

A big part of the appeal for me is the beautiful recreation of period detail, which British TV shows do so convincingly. Leaving me with a nostalgia for a past that I would have most certainly been shut-out of, had I been there. This fascinated ambivalence is best represented in the show itself by Tom, the lefty Irish Chauffeur, who started out reviling the CrawIeys but is now one of them. Sort of.

I grew-up wondering whether the impoverished Walton family, or the equally desperate Ingals family, could make enough to survive their next winter. Now, for better or worse, I watch each week to see the tribulations of the 1% Crawley family. Will Lord Grantham find enough money to run his 80 room country Mansion and his opulent London Townhouse? Can he keep his pampered family in hot-and-cold running servants, and multiple changes of posh evening wear and diamonds? "I say, frightfully desperate times, what?"

This soap opera about the two communities living side by side in an early 20th century British mansion– upper class aristocrats and their working class servants– may be an obvious choice for a country with a history of an ingrained class structure, such as England. But I think it’s interesting that American shows don’t do this more often.

In an American TV show about a legal firm we only follow the lawyers and never meet the people in the mailroom. If a show is set on a Starship, we will meet only the bridge officers and not the tech support dweebs on lower decks. If it is set in a hospital we only care about the doctors, and not the orderlies or the folks processing the stool samples in the lab. Come on America, where’s your sense of upstairs/downstairs 1%/99% camaraderie? The fantasy here in the USA is that it is a completely egalitarian society, but the not-so-simple reality is rarely examined on TV.

As much as I enjoy the milieu of DOWNTON ABBEY, after several seasons the show is not as interesting to me as it once was. Simply because a status quo is maintained episode to episode and season to season. There’s always something just about to happen. Someone is about be accused of murder. Someone is about to be disgraced by scandal, and someone is about to leave the family. Inevitably, most of these things work out and are back to approximately where we’d started.

The series’ first season, set in 1912, started off strong, with boyfriends dying during covert sex. Their corpses secretly carried through the mansion by candlelight in dead of night. There were revelations about this servant or the next, and mini scandals always a-brewing with the aristocrats upstairs. And we were constantly warned that the modern world was about to change everything.

Then of course there was WW1 to deal with. But in hindsight, the only true drama in the entire series happened when a couple of the real life actors tired of the corsets they had to wear and the scripts they had to read, and decided to leave the show. Which forced the writers’ dramatic hand, and some characters had to actually die to be written out of the series.

DOWNTON ABBEY promised to be a chronicle of a time of great societal change in Britain. Strange then that so little of that real-life drama is in the show. The most recent season is set in 1924, and the only dramatic change in circumstances was the death of the dog in the title sequence.

I could hold on a few more seasons till WW2, just because I know that eventually Hitler can be relied upon to force some drama, the bloody trouble maker. But any time that you see Fascism as a solution to your problems, it’s time to re-examine your priorities.

#downton abbey #maggie smith #illustration #caricature #tv sketching

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adamsvanrhijn · 6 months

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Holy shit it's hard to imagine Claybourne Elder as Oscar. He's so composed as John, and Blake Ritson's Oscar is just so... well, you know. I don't know who would've played John then, they'd need to find a guy the size of a mountain for him to climb all over him (because of course that is in the script)

it would be a COMPLETELY different vibe... i think he could do it but it would be soooo different for so many reasons. apparently they basically ghosted him on his original audition and then called him up and offered him the john role on the spot without a further read, which Fascinates me.

i haven't seen blake ritson in Anything else but i feel like a huge part of the john/oscar ship appeal is the physicality - the body language, totally different Bearing and Carriage - that john is So still and oscar is so Not and like, everything that brings to the dynamic...

i can't really think of it any other way!

& god i hope oscar sitting in john's lap is in the script. i would die for script books of the gilded age and/or deleted scenes. like i would lose my mind. they need to be successful so they can give us downton abbey levels of merch!

#the gilded age tag

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springlighthappytogether · 2 years

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DA2 thoughts

Spoliers Spoliers Spoliers

Just some personal thoughts of DA2 regarding Thomas Barrow.

Sorry in advance for my incompetent English as a non-native speaker. But if I am not expressing my thoughts right now, my head gonna explode.😂

To be clarified, I am a latecomer of being Downton Abbey fan. I watched season 1-6 and DA1 three days straight in early April 2022. I fell in love with the show quickly and mostly due to the existence of Thomas Barrow. Thomas is the main reason I watched the show in a continuity almost without sleeping or eating because I was dying to know what would happen to him. It gave me tremendous hope after DA1 and I became undying Barris shipper ever since. In the short period of time as in two months, I watched almost every Barris fics on AO3 and rewatched the clips including Thomas Barrow and Richard Ellis at least 100 times. I was devastated after I learned the spoilers, still, my expectation of DA2 was high until yesterday when I finally watched DA2 with ultimate disappointment.

It is not even about Richard getting married that upset me, it is the way they handled Thomas's character. I would rather like to be convinced that there is another hopeful ending for Thomas, but yet I felt nothing at all after watching DA2... Everything is in such a rush, Thomas only gets dialogues that keep the plot going, can't even see him as much in the background. Compare to DA1, I simply don't think they give Thomas enough attention and care in DA2. I have searched Thomas in every shot, I couldn't help but notice the difference. Thomas is either having grim expressions or lacking emotions in most of his screen time which felt a completely different person from the show and DA1. They reduced everything to a minimum and only kept the dialogue scenes that keeps the plot going on. Am I the only one think that they didn't do Thomas justice??? If they gonna give him a new romance, shouldn't they give it more development? To be honest... I am not convinced by Guy and Thomas's minimal interaction... I found Guy adorable and I'm a fan of Golden Hollywood era but yet I am not convinced that Thomas should leave everything at Downton and go to Hollywood. That smile on Thomas's face was treasure though, besides that, I was disappointed in how they filmed Thomas. Like, for example, they didn't give Thomas a reaction shot when Molesley propose to Phyllis, while Thomas and Phyllis's relationship has been developed for so long. And in the funeral scene, Thomas was wearing a fabulous long coat and so handsome(I was screaming in my heart how gorgeous he look), but they only shown him in a wide shot and then that's it. I was like " You guys didn't even want to show him in a medium shot with the others. Urgh." and sometimes in the background he was just blurred...

As I recall, these didn't happen in DA1. Maybe I just noticed these things as I watched films on a daily basis and being picky. Somehow I just felt like the direction of DA2 didn't care about Thomas that much, except the plot they got to show as JF has written down on the script. I think the reason why DA1 and Barris has such a huge impact on me is because the direction had lifted up the script and the actors did a marvellous job. The way they captured how Richard looking at Thomas... His eyes didn't hide the affection... I had studied it frame by frame and Max Brown's eyes don't lie... They glint in a way that tell us everything about how Richard fell for Thomas which makes it believable. Robert James-Collier is still the best in DA2, although felt like not enough scenes for him to elaborate...

I wish I could like DA2, but unfortunately I dislike it... Such a disappointment...

#thomas barrow #barris

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scotianostra · 2 years

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Happy Birthday Elaine Constance Smith was born on August 2nd 1958 in Baillieston.

At the age of 16 Elaine auditioned at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and enrolled on a course to become a drama teacher. As a student Elaine discovered life beyond the Argyle street department stores her mother brought her to as a child. In the smoky pubs Elaine earned a crust tending bar and singing in club bands. She credits this experience for introducing her to the Glasgow patter and helping her acquire a thick skin.

Elaine moved to Edinburgh to complete her teacher training but it was her love of theatre that would call her back to her adopted home. Wild Cat Theatre Company was established by former members of 7:84 theatre group and it focused on political subjects with musical features. It was a perfect match for Elaine, famed for her vocal prowess and never one to shy away from a political statement or two.

When Tony Roper handed Elaine his script for a play that had been rejected elsewhere, Elaine took it to the Wild Cat Theatre Company. Tony’s play The Steamie, became a great success, and still well loved today. It also gave Elaine the chance to show off her acting chops as she was cast as Dolly alongside Dorothy Paul and Katy Murphy.

Since then, Elaine has found success in the comedy scene in seminal Scottish comedy shows such as Naked Video, City Lights and Rab C Nesbitt as well as a stage career that’s taken her around the world, the most famous of which is her portrayal of fellow Scot Susan Boyle in I Dreamed A Dream, a musical about the Bathgate singers life.

I really enjoyed Elaine in her own travel series, Burdz Eye View, where she visited Scotland’s holiday destinations including the East Neuk of Fife, Ayr, Nairn, Largs and Millport, Aviemore and the island of Arran, learning about the area’s history, local delicacies and way of life. More recently she has been starring in the sitcom Two Doors Down.

Last year she said in an interview she always sees herself playing the typical Glesga woman. She said

“I play these women because they ARE real. These are roles that resonate. I know women like them, and I want to tell their stories and get their voices out there .The best compliment I ever got was years ago, in a shop on Buchanan Street, when a woman recognised me and asked if I was ‘that lassie that played Mary Nesbitt. ’When I said yes, she grabbed me arm and said, hen, naebody does a Glasgow wummin like you.”

She also said she doesn’t see herself in a period drama like Outlander or Downton Abbey, stating “ I’d be the cook. Or the nurse. There was talk of an Outlander episode at one point, I think, but probably ‘hag-up-a-hillside’ or the like….”

Elaine is always a lady for supporting charities and social causes, she recently talked about the cost of living crisis, she says;

“The cost of living is going through the roof and thing are getting harder for people. We all need to create more of a stooshie about homelessness, and more needs to be done but this event gives a bit of light and hope and will raise money for desperately needed projects.”

She will be taking part in a charity cycle event, Social Bite’s Break the Cycle challenge to help raise £1m to fund vital projects. She has agreed to do the “Wee” one, a three mile segment with her Granddaughter. The event

The full event is a 60-mile cycle from the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow to Edinburgh's Murrayfield and takes place on Sunday September 4th, full details on the link below.

Elaine now resides in the East End of Glasgow, where she still answers to an affectionate “ho! Mary doll!”

https://www.breakthecycle.co.uk/

#Scotland #scottish #comedienne #Actress #happy birhtday

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#SpoilerTV

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whenthegoldrays · 10 months

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Random thought of the day

If a long-running series has a character that's already widely shipped with another and the creators want to stop all this shipping, the answer is not to throw in a new love interest for one of them out of left field, because it'll just feel rushed and awkward and none of the shippers will accept it.

That's not to say you can't introduce a new love interest, but put some time and work into it! Introduce them as their own character, interacting with their intended and slowly building a relationship and chemistry, and then, eventually, let them get together.

Case in point: Natalie Teeger from "Monk." As a Natalie x Monk shipper, I was so disappointed when they tossed in a boyfriend for her near the end of Season 8, whom she was already kissing by the end of his first episode. Like, why?? Who is this Steven, why should I care about him, and especially, why should I believe that he and Natalie make a good pairing based on their half an hour of interaction vs. her five seasons of history and chemistry with Adrian?

A show that did it right was Downton Abbey, with Isobel Crawley and Lord Merton. As much as Team Clarkson (myself included) was disappointed in Isobel's choice at first, the show really did establish a relationship between her and Dickie over three seasons, giving them real conflicts to face together and to bring them closer. Every time I rewatch DA (which has been several times over the years), I find myself rooting for them more more as I rewatch their love story, to the point where I'm completely Team Merton by now.

This has been a PSA for authors and script writers: feel free to introduce a new character as a love interest, but establish them properly before you tear away your viewers' OTP dreams.

#the same goes for your fanfics when you introduce an OC!#monk spoilers #downton abbey spoilers #monk tv #adrian monk #natalie teeger #downton abbey #isobel crawley #lord merton #dr clarkson downton abbey #elly's posts

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bitletsanddrabbles · 2 years

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“I was sorry that we had to lose the reference here to Hepworth being put into the bedroom next to Lady Rosamund’s, because one of the things that is shocking to our generation is that these hostesses, who were incredibly correct in their public life, were perfectly happy to put married men and women next door to their lovers. In many houses a husband and wife would be given two bedrooms, but on the other side of the wife’s bedroom would be her lover, and on the other side of the husband’s bedroom would be his mistress, so it was all worked out quite carefully. If you go to these houses, including Highclere, they frequently have intervening doors between the bedrooms that mean you wouldn’t have to go out into the passage.”

-Julian Fellowes, Complete Scripts Season 2, pg 511

YES! I FOUND IT! FINALLY! I FOUND IT I FOUND IT I FOUND IT I FOUND IT! ....I read that once and have been searching through the second half of the book for it for years now!

#downton abbey #julian fellowes #complete scripts #author commentary #season 2 #aristocratic shenanigans #rosamund painswick #torrid love affairs

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polikszena · 2 years

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Honestly, there's nothing like tearing up about Mary and Mr Carson during your lunch break

I mean:

"For Carson, Mary is the daughter he never had and he both loves and worries about her as much as Robert does."

- Downton Abbey: A celebration by Jessica Fellowes

Which makes me think of this scene in the script:

Anna ducks away as Mary descends the staircase, looking like a dream. Both Carson's and Robert's eyes shine as the father takes her arm. She glances at her other father.

MARY: Will I do, Carson?

CARSON: Very nicely, m'lady.

- Downton Abbey: The complete scripts - Season three by Julian Fellowes

#downton abbey #mary crawley #mr carson #julian fellowes #jessica fellowes #no cabbages involved #work

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jocia92 · 3 years

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Dan Stevens, who grew up in Wales and south-east England, spent his summer holidays at the National Youth Theater at the age of 15, and he was drawn to the stage while studying English in Cambridge. Since his big breakthrough as Matthew Crawley in the hit series “Downton Abbey”, he has also repeatedly appeared in films such as “Inside Wikileaks - The Fifth Force”, “At Night in the Museum: The Secret Tomb” or “Beauty and the Beast” . Most recently, Stevens played the Russian Schnösel singer Lemtov in the Oscar-nominated comedy “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” from Netflix. At the beginning of June, the German film “Ich bin dein Mensch” by Maria Schrader celebrated at the Summer Berlinale Premiere, which starts on 1.7. comes to German cinemas regularly. Stevens plays the role of a love robot in it. Unlike on the screen, however, the 38-year-old prefers to speak English in the zoom-conducted interview. He chose a brick wall with a lion motif as the digital background. No allusion to the song “Lion of Love” from “Eurovision Song Contest”, but a photo of the famous Ishtar Gate in Berlin’s Pergamon Museum, where “I am your human” was filmed last summer.

Mr. Stevens, in your new film “I am your human” you play a humanoid robot that is entirely geared towards fulfilling the romantic needs of a skeptical scientist. You yourself recently described the film as “delightfully German”. How did you mean that?

I wanted to say that here pretty big questions - such as what actually makes a person or how much perfection love can take - are negotiated in a very light-footed, elegant and sometimes humorous way. In my experience that is a very German quality. At least I have often seen with many of my German colleagues and friends that they are very good at not discussing difficult issues exclusively deadly serious and melancholy.

Where does your personal connection to Germany and the German language come from?

My parents had friends who lived in Bielefeld and we used to visit them in North Rhine-Westphalia during the school holidays. Traveled from England by car! That’s how I learned a little German as a child, and later I learned it as a subject at school. I even did a short internship there through our friends in Bielefeld. I really love the language. Funnily enough, I was later able to use my knowledge of German professionally, because my first film was “Hilde”, in which I was next to Heike Makatsch played the British actor and director David Cameron, who was married to Hildegard Knef. After that, I always hoped that there might be another chance to speak German in front of the camera, because playing in a foreign language is an exciting challenge. When the chance arose to shoot “I am your person”, I could hardly believe my luck.

Did you know the director Maria Schrader who gave you this chance?

Funnily enough, when the script for the film landed on my table, I had just watched the Netflix series “Unorthodox”, which she directed. I had also watched a few episodes of “Deutschland 89”. In general, I knew that she was a great German actress, not least because friends who knew their way around the German theater scene often raved about her. Working with her was a joy now. Her understanding of actors is quite instinctive and brilliant. I have seldom seen someone who can help an actor who is having difficulties with a scene with such simple means.

The fact that you had already seen “Unorthodox” shows, of course, how quickly “I am your person” must have been implemented in the past year …

Oh yes, that was really quick. In March I was still in New York and was about to premiere a new play on Broadway. But then the pandemic came, everything was canceled and I flew back to my family in Los Angeles. A few weeks later, Maria and I met each other via Zoom - and shortly afterwards I was sitting outside in a café in the Berlin June sun for the first time in months to discuss the upcoming shoot with her. That was pretty surreal because I hadn’t actually left the house since March.

Is it correct that you oriented yourself to Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart to portray the romantically programmed robot Tom?

In any case, these were role models that Maria and I spoke about. When you think of the game between the two of them, you always see an enormous clarity and directness. Cary Grant, for example, was always quite funny, especially in his romantic roles, but also flawless in an almost artificial way from today’s perspective. I found that very suitable for a robot. Apart from the fact that the ideas that Tom and his algorithm have of romance and love are certainly also shaped by the classic romantic comedies from Hollywood. Oh, the woman is sad, so I’ll bring her flowers! Such automatisms from the stories from back then were very appropriate for Tom now.

Keyword role models: Who shaped you in your career as an actor?

There were of course many. Jimmy Stewart was certainly something of a role model. My mom and I watched a lot of his films when I was little and I was always impressed by the kind of sweet tragedy that went into all of his roles. But maybe Robin Williams’ work influenced me even more. I always found the incredible variety of his films remarkable. He could make his audience laugh hysterically like no other, but also move them to tears in other roles. I always wanted to emulate this range.

In fact, the range of your roles is enormous and ranges from the Disney blockbuster “Beauty and the Beast” to a comic adaptation in series format such as “Legion” to bulky independent films such as “Her Smell” or the horror thriller “The Rental “, Which we just released on DVD. Is there a method behind this diversity?

Not in principle. I like variety, but I’m not just looking for roles that are as different as possible from one another. Rather, there are always similar factors that I use to select my projects. Sometimes there is a certain director that I really want to work with. Or the role itself is irresistible because it presents me with acting challenges. And sometimes a script is just fantastically written and I am interested in the topics it is about. With “I am your person” it was definitely the latter, especially since the timing was just right. In 2020 there were so many societal questions that ultimately touched the core of human existence. Such a script, which deals with something very similar in a light-footed way, was just fitting.

A few years ago you said in a questionnaire from the British Guardians that your greatest weakness was not being able to make up your mind. So every time you are offered a role, do you ponder whether you should accept?

No, no, when a script appeals to me, it actually does it very quickly. It’s such a gut feeling. If I’m unsure and skeptical, that’s a good indicator that this is not the right thing for me. That with the difficulty in making decisions related rather to something else. For example, it takes me forever to order in a restaurant because I can never decide what on the menu appeals to me the most.

You became famous with the role of Matthew Crawley in the series "Downton Abbey”. Did you immediately suspect at the time that something big was going on?

At first we were all pretty clueless. There are really many British history series, and we were one of them. When the first season aired in the US and was a huge success there, it was pretty unexpected. I never expected the impact the series would have on my career.

Barely ten years later, are you still being asked about the role?

Oh yes, regularly. Probably nothing will change about that either. I got out after three seasons!

In the meantime, however, the flamboyant Russian singer Alexander Lemtov from “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” should also be a character with whom you will be immediately associated, right?

Right, it has been mentioned more and more recently when people recognize me on the street. This charming, silly film obviously had a nerve with the audience last year in the middle of the corona pandemic. Especially since the real Eurovision Song Contest had been canceled.

The film was the number one topic of conversation on the Internet for a while - and Lemtov GIFs and memes were everywhere. Did you follow that?

It was really hard to avoid it. I wasn’t looking specifically for what people were posting. But of course my friends passed a lot on to me, and there were already some very funny Lemtov things. But he’s also a figure made for GIFs.

Another question every British actor under 40 has to put up with these days: Would you like to become the next James Bond?

Oh, of course, everyone gets to hear this question again and again who meets certain criteria. But it is completely hypothetical. Although a few years ago I read in an audio book by Ian Fleming’s “Casino Royale”.

You mentioned earlier that you and your family have lived in the United States for a long time. How big is your homesickness?

I actually feel very comfortable in Los Angeles. But every now and then I miss the sidewalk culture of European cities. People on foot, street cafes, things like that. Last year the longing for it was particularly great, although it was of course clear to me that there was a state of emergency in Europe too. In any case, I found myself reading books that were set in Europe and made me homesick. Which is why the unexpected trip to Berlin was really a boon.

You are also an avid cricketer. That’s certainly difficult in Los Angeles, isn’t it?

There are quite a few cricket clubs here. The only problem is that the few people who do the sport here are so good at it that I have problems keeping up. That’s why I always lose sight of the matter here a little. Even as a pure TV viewer, it is not easy to stay on the ball, because of course there is no cricket broadcast here at prime time. But as soon as I’m home in England in the summer, I really want to play again!

#ich bin dein mensch #i'm your man #dan stevens #maria schrader #faz.net #interview #long post

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yetanotheremptypage · 2 years

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Fic Writer Interview

Thank you so much for the tag @irishseeeker!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

I have 30 works on AO3.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

227,684!

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

14, Jesus. Bridgerton, MCU (counting AOS and Agent Carter separately from the rest of the MCU since that’s what the MCU appears to have decided, the traitors), To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, Game of Thrones, Girl Meets World, Glee, Angels in America, Chronicles of Narnia, Aida (musical), Percy Jackson, Les Mis, Downton Abbey, and Mortal Instruments.

I think someone just needs to take AO3 away from me at this point.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

From 5-1:

Kiss Me Once (’Cause You Know I’ve Had A Long Night) [TATBILB]: Getting married is more tiring than it looks, but Lara Jean has Peter. Always and forever.

drink with me, my love [Game of Thrones]: for there’s fire in the sky, and there’s ice upon the ground; either way my soul will die. || Sansa, Tyrion, and things never thought possible.

it’s like some kind of clarity [Game of Thrones]: when the letter's done and signed. || Correspondence between the Hand of the King and the Queen in the North.

no escaping your love [Bridgerton]: Kate/Anthony + 100 ways to say I love you.

take my hand, wreck my plans (that’s my man) [Bridgerton]: If two months ago you’d told Kate Sheffield-Sharma that she would be sitting in her flat with Anthony, Viscount Bridgerton, on the couch across from her and a positive pregnancy test sitting on the coffee table in between them, she would’ve told you that you were insane. But here they were.

5. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I didn’t always used to, but I do now. I’ve always treasured every comment, but by responding I’ve had to work on accepting praise and human interaction, two of my biggest weaknesses. Plus it helps me feel more connected to you all which I love.

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I’m shit at angst which is why I’ve avoided writing it as much as possible in recent years--maybe it’s like some kind of clarity is the angstiest ending? But tragically, my AO3 account is old and can attest to fics that technically meet this. So it would actually probably be 1989 or Time That Just Went Away.

7. Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

No, I don’t.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not that I can recall.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Bad smut is what I write. I’ve dipped my toe into the water this past year and it’s all utter trash. All of you who read it without cringing are saints.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge.

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No, but my fic bully coward victim has a podfic which is super cool!

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No. It sounds fun but I would be a nightmare to work with tbh.

13. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

Ah, no, this is too hard! I love enemies to lovers and will leave it there.

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Every Right Thing (Will Find Its Right Place). I think I am firmly past my Glee phase (which is for the best tbh) and as much as I loved Quinn and Puck back in the day and I did love this fic, I’m not sure it will ever be completed. But never say never!

15. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue. I’m a theater major and while I started writing fiction first, I also write a lot of scripts. I often will build scenes or even full chapters around a dialogue exchange.

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

Plotting and editing. I’m getting better at exposition and voice but there’s still more I need to work on there.

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I speak French pretty well (not technically fluent but I’ve been studying it for a long time so I’m pretty close) and have always wanted to write a story where I can use it. But I haven’t quite nailed down how best to do that for non-French speakers to know what’s going on. If anybody has a good system for translating dialogue hit me up!

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Um, I think it was Mortal Instruments back in like 2013/2014 but I also feel like it could’ve been the Warrior Cat books? I read, and then wrote, fanfic for a few years before I started publishing, first on FF.net, then FF and AO3, and now pretty much exclusively AO3. The first story I ever published was for Glee.

19. What’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

Oh, okay. Um...I really love The Dreams We Might Have Missed. This is an Unpopular Opinion (as it should be) but something about it always makes me really happy.

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APA Speculation Sunday

I don’t really have anything new to go off buuuuut...

As I alluded to earlier, I had some theories I was iffy on, but then saw a handful of people on here and Twitter have come to the same conclusion sooooooo:

I think Tom might be moving out of the abbey, and he and Lucy are living elsewhere. Whether that’s Lady Bagshaw’s idk, but I think it’s away from Downton.

We know Mary is doing even more when it comes to the estate than last time, which leads me to believe that Tom has stopped all together helping her with agent stuff. What this means for Branson & Talbot Motors, I also have zero idea. In the great Henry debate... I just don’t know.

There’s a part in the trailer were Sybbie is hugging Robert that seems like she hasn’t seen Donk in awhile (i.e. after the wedding, as I do definitely think the wedding is at the beginning of the film). While it could be that it’s Fifi just happy to see Hugh, I wonder if maybe this is after Violet’s gotten the villa and the Bransons are coming to drop off Sybbie to be watched at the abbey by nanny while they are on the trip (as much as I want the children on the trip, I need to be realistic whoops).

I do think it’s possible that Sybbie actually gets handful of lines this time, as she’s older, but that then draws attention that Fifi is older than Sybbie ought to be. Whoops.

As for the “Mary stays behind” theory, I’m still not completely sold but I suppose it could happen if she has too much to do (and with Anna then also staying behind she can help watch all the children, I’ll try to make some of this go in my favor lol).

Michelle’s quoted by Metro as saying: “There is a trip to the south of France… So a lot of the characters are taken out of the environment that they’re used to. It’s really interesting to see the characters in another place. It’s a really fun film. That’s all I can tell you!”

That can be read either way. Her saying “the characters” twice and not mentioning Mary herself fits the one theory, but her talking about “seeing” them in another place then would be only on paper (i.e. reading the script) if she wasn’t there filming it with them. That said, it’s a turn of phrase, so it doesn’t have to be literal though.

She does say “a lot” of the characters, so I can read into that that not all go. But who knows.

(also I hope that this time fun =/= silly, but we’ll see)

I’m hoping we get some new promo coming up. Focus Features does have another film coming out soon, so maybe we’ll get a new trailer. We also still don’t have posters. I’m leaning towards them not giving us character (well, couples’) posters this time, but we’ll see.

#downton abbey #da 2022 #da movie spoilers #film: speculation sundays

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