Great interview in Harper's Bazaar UK with Jenna Ortega, not about her films due to the strike, but about her career and her life, about the past and future, about her 21st birthday which was the first in a long time she was not working, about never being home, about representation, and about what she wants in the future. I like reading about her thoughts, she's a deep thinker.
Great photoshoot by Agata Pospieszynska as well. She's one of five cover stars for the 'Awards edition'.
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#JennaOrtega #HarpersBazaar
The Awards issue: Jenna Ortega
Her star turn in a record-breaking television series has brought the actress an enormous global fan base – and precipitated a change in her perspective on success. Now, she’s determined to take charge of her own futureSarah Karmali (Harper's BAZAAR)
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Rewatching Dark Places because I recorded it off tv recently and it has Chloë Grace Moretz in it somewhere. Though you have to wait until 30 minutes into the film for her to show up, but then it instantly feels less dreary.
I can't quite remember the story from the first time I saw it, except maybe that it was indeed 'dark'. Chloë did much dark stuff in her youth (in films I mean).
#ChloëGraceMoretz #DarkPlaces
Also, why does a post get federated with the wrong accounts of people tagged as well, even though I removed these before posting and these tags don't show up in the post on the origin server?
And why does Mastodon show images of a cw'd post even though the cw is collapsed, while Pleroma does it right?
And why don't post scopes work properly between platforms...
So many little incompatibilities can pop up in this fediverse thing.
@dansup fyi, and I don't consider it a problem for me, but the Pixelfed Android app installed from f-droid (1.0.0.37) triggers a warning by the Lookout scanner. It says the signing key is accessible to multiple developers. I guess this is just a result of releasing via f-droid. However, I'm not getting this message on any other apps I got from f-droid.
For the warning, see screenshot.
#JennaOrtega #DeathOfAUnicorn
'Death Of A Unicorne' Movie Adds Richard E. Grant, Will Poulter, More
A24 has wrapped production on Death of a Unicorne, its new film starring Paul Rudd (Ant-Man franchise) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) that has been at the center of the online rumor mill for months. …Matt Grobar (Deadline)
Excellent story on how HBO execs used an army of secret fake accounts on Twitter to harass TV critics who gave poor reviews to their shows
It shows why people shouldn't just write off anonymous comments online as just "trolls" — some of them are coordinated campaigns by extremely powerful people with an axe to grind.
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HBO Bosses Used ‘Secret’ Fake Accounts to Troll TV Critics
Casey Bloys ordered staffers to create fake accounts to fire back at critics, according to texts reviewed by Rolling Stone as part of a new lawsuit.Cheyenne Roundtree (Rolling Stone)
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And there used to be an incredible number of paid trolls fighting Scottish against independence.
In related news: in the past you needed to type well into her last name before type ahead search results on the various sites considered you might be meaning "Jenna Ortega", but I can report that now for IMDb "Jen" is enough and for Netflix a simple "Je".
The autocomplete on my phone needs nothing more than "J", or in fact just a #, but that's years of training...
#JennaOrtega
#JennaOrtega
Now watching Karen Gillan twice in Dual. I haven't seen this before but from what I gather the premise of this film is that in some sci-fi future, before someone dies, they can have their whole being copied into a new body. Karen's character is in that situation and does that, but then she doesn't die but her copy also doesn't want to go away. Karen plays both the original and the copy.
Karen Gillan is of course known as one of the great companions from Doctor Who: Amy. (There have been many... Clara, Rose, Martha, Yaz, Ace...)
#KarenGillan #Dual
#KlarizaClayton #FoxTrap #DontBlink
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From that post I recently shared, with the interview with Queen Rania, I also like to highlight the quote:
There can never be a resolution except around the negotiating table. And there's only one path to this: a free, sovereign, and independent Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the state of Israel.
These are words I can get behind. Better worded than some loaded slogans.
“I have never seen a Western official say the sentence: Palestinians have the right to defend themselves.”
– Queen Rania of Jordan
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Separate clip from her interview with CNN:
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Via @bebatjof
#israel #palestine #gaza #rania
Queen Rania decries Western double standard and deafening silence on war on Gaza
AMMAN – Her Majesty Queen Rania on Tuesday relayed the Arab World’s shock and disappointment at the world’s “glaring double standard” and “deafening silence” in the face of Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, emphasizing that, despite the prevale…Jordan Times
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@ButterflyOfFire So we close the door after Israel… did I get that right? Only Israel has a right to defend itself?
(So not the US, for example? Or are they also exempt? It feels like they might also be exempt. Is there a list somewhere of who is and who isn’t allowed to defend themselves? Would be useful to have for reference so the foolish among us don’t inadvertently make inferences based on flawed notions like human beings everywhere should have the same rights.)
This time of year:
*looking up from my monitor after a debug session* Who made it dark?
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Trailer for Finestkind is on YouTube. The film will be on Paramount+ from 15 December. The great thing: Jenna Ortega is in it!
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#JennaOrtega #Finestkind
Finestkind | Official Trailer | Paramount+
Finestkind tells the story of two brothers (Ben Foster & Toby Wallace), raised in different worlds, who are reunited as adults over a fateful summer. Set aga...YouTube
#DoctorWho
Are you ready for The Star Beast?
25th November.
Followed by Wild Blue Yonder on 2nd December.
The Giggle on 9th December.
Then it’s not long until the festive special 😄
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Just saw Pearl, the prequel to X, and it's quite a good film. It's not a prequel in the traditional sense, but something they made on the back of filming X while they were at that location anyway. Basically it seems like after the actress playing Pearl and the director had worked out the backstory, they figured why not film it.
There's an amazing monologue in that film, as well as other great things.
Interesting that they basically put the whole cast and crew of X in the thanks session in the credits here, acknowledging how connected making these films were. (So yeah, technically Jenna is in the Pearl credits)
#Pearl
Looking for an Emilia Clarke film to watch... The Pod Generation is still not available here and neither are the other films of her I still have to watch.
I was already thinking to rewatch Voice from the Stone for Emilia's 37th birthday today, so that one it is. From my own blu-ray, since this one is also not available on the services of course.
#EmiliaClarke #VoiceFromTheStone
She speaks a lot of Italian...
It's a beautiful story, beautifully made. It's surprising how completely different Emilia's characters are, there's not a hint of Daenerys in Verena yet this is still someone you would like to get to know.
#VoiceFromTheStone #EmiliaClarke
Opened a substack reader account as yet another rss-like app to probably ignore over time and have new buildup of stuff to read.
From what I can tell so far it really is just rss but with better looks. Except they also have non-free subscriptions, but since credit card is the only option, probably not.
Now trying to remember who of those I follow here said they had a substack.
In honour of Katie Douglas' 25th birthday last Thursday, I'm rewatching Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey. It's moved from Netflix to Disney+, where I've nicely searched for the film via Katie's name so the statistics show why people are watching this (as opposed to any recommendation by algorithm). I've got my tea and popcorn ready.
It's a harrowing story played intensely and touchingly by Katie. The deep misery her character Lisa is in even before she's abducted, then the strength of character Katie portrays to fight her way out of it, make a lasting impression. And it's a true story.
More films of Katie should be released in my country, she's certainly made more.
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Yasmin Paige is an actress I wish I'd hear more about. She did some great things. She was in the Doctor Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures as Maria and also in Pramface and the film Submarine. She was the reason I watched Ballet Shoes, a film with the very talented trio of Yasmin, Emma Watson (yes, the Hermione) and Lucy Boyton (who I've recently seen is still very good). I saw her first in The Mysti Show (yes, I knew Maria before TSJA).
Now I'm watching this film from that same early time, Tooth. Her name may not be on the cover, but she is as the title character, presumably a young tooth fairy. I like how sparkly this cover is! It changes colour with the light falling on it differently.
#YasminPaige #Tooth #NowWatching
#Tooth #YasminPaige #SallyPhillips
As a lifelong Helena Bonham Carter fan I've of course seen Wings of the Dove already (in the cinema even I think). It's long ago and this is the first time watching it from my own blu-ray.
#HelenaBonhamCarter #WingsOfTheDove #NowWatching
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The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict.letterboxd.com
#HelenaBonhamCarter #TheWingsOfTheDove
I hope someone somewhere finds a solution for the Israel/Gaza problem, but the only ones I can make up are utterly unrealistic. Of course the militants and instigators of the 7 October massacre need to be brought to justice (not necessarily by Israel). And of course the Israeli military needs to safeguard Palestinian civilians and definitely not block water and food. But with Hamas operating among civilian populations and no other Palestinian authority being present in Gaza to arrest and try them, any military action by Israel against Hamas can only be (and already is) disastrous. So hoping that Israel will stop its military actions and its siege is hoping for a miracle, but hoping for a miracle is all I've got.
And eventually, will Israelis and Palestinians be able to coexist? Will the factions that want to eliminate the other side give in? Or is this also an impossible dream of mine.
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You need to listen to Dove Cameron's Lethal Woman on better head/earphones. So much is lost on the cheap ones I had attached to the pc, I assume the same is true when playing it as background music (I guess if you're a streamer you're going to need to use TIDAL instead of Spotify for the sound quality). Now done my standard copying to phone, tablet and nas, and listening to it on my tablet.
She already said this song is quite different from what the other songs on the album will be. And indeed, it sounds somewhat chaotic in a way that I like and doesn't seem to have an obvious hook that her popular songs had (again, I like that).
#DoveCameron #Alchemical #LethalWoman
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •Other great photos by Agata Pospieszynska of Jenna Ortega in the Harper's Bazaar 'Award's issue'. See more in the above link!
#JennaOrtega
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •The same issue also has Emilia Clarke and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. I can't find on the site how to order the issue, so what's the point in making such a star studded one?
Decades ago I frequently checked a magazine shop. Do they still exist?