#Amazing acting

[mikimeiko]

Nope (Jordan Peele, 2022)

[flanaganfilm]

what was the audition process like for samantha sloyan? she’s one of my favourite actresses in the flanaverse and i think she’s so underrated and seems amazing to work with!

Samantha Sloyan is one of the best actresses working today.

I met Sam through my wife, they've been best friends for over a decade. When we were getting ready to make HUSH, we needed someone to come out and play the doomed neighbor Sarah - it was a tough part to cast, because we needed someone to do a quick scene and then get brutally murdered. The movie didn't have much money at all, and Kate recommended Sam for it. She came out, and the rest is history.

She did a phenomenal job. Over the years, I was actively looking for opportunities to cast Sam again. She's just a joy to work with, one of the kindest, most hard-working people I've ever met in this business. Zero attitude, no ego, just a talented actor who wants to do great work. I was able to get her a smaller part in HILL HOUSE (she had to audition, and I don't think she should have had to).

But the big one for me was MIDNIGHT MASS. I wrote the part of Beverly Keane with Sam in mind, and I knew from day 1 that she'd crush it. As is the case with a lot of fantastic casting choices, I had to fight to convince Netflix to cast her - they made her read for it, more than once, over my objections - but finally they relented.

She owned that role. Which is funny to me, because Sam is about as far from Beverly Keane as a person can get. She's kind to a fault, humble, and gentle with everyone she encounters. She's profoundly accepting and empathetic. Watching her transform into Bev was nothing short of stunning, and now I feel bad because I think some people cross to the other side of the street when they see her in public.

Her work in FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER is also sublime. And a complete departure from anything I've ever seen her do.

I've never understood why more filmmakers didn't immediately scoop her up after MASS. She's one of the best kept secrets in the industry, and I don't know why people aren't just falling over themselves to work with her. I think it's because she was TOO good at her job.

[pixelbumblebee]

I just really like how some of the dialogue has double meaning in the show once you get the full context. Crystal saying: "I get angry [...] knowing you have a home but being unable to get there" makes sense the first time, sure. I'd be upset if I didn't remember my family. But once you know what her family is like, there's this whole other interpretation opening up: of her being sad and toxic before because despite her best effort, she probably could never get through to her parents to earn their love and affection. She couldn't go home. Because her home was not home for her.

[hyrules-warrior]

I love how Ellie had to save herself in the show. Joel didn’t find her until after she had decided she had beaten David to death enough and walked out of that burning building on her own. Only then does he find her, unlike in the game where he stops her from continuing to hit David.

She also just looks so closed off and broken as they stumble away together. Like she is just dead inside.

[jeraliey]

Okay, this is easily one of the best performances of We Both Reached For The Gun that I've EVER seen. This guy is INCREDIBLE! (The actress playing Roxy is doing a great job too! She's perfecting the illusion to the point that I actually forgot that it's him singing the whole time, even though I KNOW how the song is done!)

[queenofshilla]

Nastassja Kinski in TESS (1979) (dir. Roman Polanski)

[luxshine]

As I loved RRR, I've been watching more Tallywood films, in specific with Ram Charan and Tarak as main stars. Unfortunately not together, as their only movie together is RRR when seriously, they have the power and chemistry to be India's Terence Hill and Bud Spencer (To the fetuses in the audience, they were a pair of actors who made a ton of Buddy movies together, where something happened at the beginning that made them have to solve the problem by hitting everyone who got in their way. My personal favorite is Look out, we're mad. The extra twist was that Bud, the fat, hairy one, was usually the level headed one, and Terence, the blonde, blue eyed, traditionally handsome, was chaos in a bottle)

ANYWAY, I've watched so far Magadheera (Adorable romance, Ram Charan does a double role as Harsha, a biker, and Kala Bhairava, his reincarnation), Yamadonga (Funny as hell, where Tarak plays Raja, a thief who falls in love, but also ends up in hell where he steals the God of the Dead's power before getting sent back to earth), Rangashtalam (which I can't describe without spoilers but has one hell of a twist and also portrays a side of India that is not seen in Hollywood movies without being racist, and ALSO has amazing deaf representation in the shape of the lead play by Charan, without being disability porn), and finally, Jai Lava Kusa (A rollercoaster of emotions where Tarak plays not one, but THREE roles and each of them is wonderful)

Each of their roles is so different from Ram and Bheem, you can tell how amazing actors they are even if some cultural references go past you.

That said, Lava Kumar, from Jai Lava Kusa, is SO, SO gullible, that I am almost sure he's single handedly keeping Nigeria's economy afloat. On the other hand, Chitti Babu from Rangashtalam has my award for most human looking chicken, winning over Chickity Boo by a landslide.

[goddessmoonlady]

NIGHT FOR NIGHT | From Music Creator Simon Poole (2023)

Wow. I'm not sure what the plot was exactly, but it's powerful, and Percy's acting was amazing.

You certainly feel some type of way by the end. For something that's only about 5 minutes long, it's an amazing piece of work.

[nobodyknowsanythingaboutmef]

Alicents face when Rhaenyra made that toast was so hearthbreaking for me. The shock and hope and almost disbelief that her former best friend was still willing to be on good terms or at least netural terms with her after so many years and that she thinks of her like that. Especially because it was mostly Alicent who held stronger resentment towards Rhaenyra for years I don't think she would've thought that Rhaenyra is going to be the one who initiates the "peace".

I think she genuinely wanted to make things right in that moment.

So sad that we won't see their reconciliatin because of a fucking misunderstanding and everyone naming their kid Aegon.

[dbnightingale24]

Nah, I’m actually extremely pissed about that ending. What the fuck? Wholeheartedly, fuck Shiv.

[jesusagrees]

No like....the fact this man beat this shit out of her and their daughter....and Kang Hyeon Nam STILL mourns him!?!?!

BRUH....

This is a man she fell in love with once. She fell out of love just as fast, too. Damn. That frikin killed me.

She didn't mourn his death. She had been mourning for ages but gosh dang...that hit man.

Women are so powerful.

[gonnanaedaethat]

[nipuni]

"Midnight" is one of my favourite episodes!!

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on may 1st

[robynanthonystark]

This is cute

[triona-tribblescore]

I thoroughly enjoy the stage of huskerdust where they have yet to fully admit their feelings to each other uvu <3

P2

[cowboylikeyouu]

in germany, chris evan‘s roles (including steve) are mostly voiced by dennis schmidt-foß, but as johnny storm he‘s voiced by benedikt weber, and it made for a really cool moment during dp&w. bc wade’s super convinced that he‘s steve, but all the german people who watch the german dub of marvel movies religiously are already like huh??? bc that‘s NOT steve rogers‘ voice, and then when it’s revealed that he‘s actually johnny, wade‘s like "ah yeah, i should’ve known from the voice". and idk, it’s not hilarious or anything, but it just made me soo happy that they used wade‘s 4th wall breaks differently in different languages. just felt the need to share this