#The Foxhole Cast

[thefoxholecast]

Hey Nate and Oona, I listened to the first two episodes and loved them, I don’t know if you’ve covered this yet:

I would love to hear your thoughts on Wymack’s and Kayleigh’s age difference. With the second side story on the Rainbow Crate special editions we learn that Wymack was willing to marry her and disappointed that Kevin wasn’t his. We know that Kevin is 20 in 2006, and that Exy is 30 years old, also that Kayleigh and Tetsuji created it as a college project back in Japan when they were around 19. We also know that Wymack is at the most 42. So he would’ve been around 22-23 when Kevin was born.

We also know that Wymack and Kayleigh met when she ALREADY was teaching it. Exy is around 10 years older than Kevin, which means that Kayleigh was almost 30 when she had him. So that age difference, and Kayleigh refusing to tell Wymack that Kev was his makes me wonder what are your thoughts on her actions? To me, she was way to grown to be acting that messy.

First of all, thank you for listening to the pod and for sending in this ask!

Second of all, we have NOT yet talked about Wymack and Kayleigh's age difference! We didn't even realize there was one! We had just assumed they were around the same age.

Unfortunately, after I (Oona) sent a screenshot of this ask to Nate, we did not have what you'd call an "intelligent" "discussion" about the Wymackayleigh (Daviday?) age gap lmao

[idiotscopics]

My foxhole court sketches from 10 years ago are getting attention again, and I just… can you folks like my newer stuff? Please? /jk keep it up thank you!

[aleclighttwd]

“Two, five, ten years from now, if Neil was even still alive, he’d still be alone. He could be anyone, anywhere in the world, but he’d be alone.”

Neil and his ticking clock. For a majority of the books, it was Neil and the upending weight of having to give up the Foxes for the inevitable ending his father wrote for him. He spent the first two books with a noose hanging around his neck…but then came Andrew. Then came the boy who promised people the impossible and didn’t ask for anything back. In the end, Neil Josten wouldn’t die a lie and he wouldn’t die alone.

My main observation is how Neil and Kevin sort of switched endings. Ever since Kevin would remember, he always had a partner by his side — whether that was Riko or unofficially Jean and then Andrew. Kevin always lingered around the orbit system of someone else; there was always a presence he could count on to help him. Then Neil went missing and Andrew wanted to tear the entire stadium down bolt by bolt until he found him. Then Kevin realized that Andrew’s love for Neil would surpass that promise that Andrew gave him. Those hands around his neck, those red indents, are a reminder that now he is not Andrew’s priority and for a man who spend his entire life with a rope tied around his waist to someone else that must have been terrifying. But, he had made Andrew the promise that Kevin will give him something to build his life around — a reason to keep going until that reason blurred into so many others: Neil.

So, in the end, Neil wouldn’t die alone or a lie but Kevin lost the only constant element in his life: a partner.

[justamessssss]

love @thefoxholecast if y’all like aftg please give it a listen!

[elliotdawsonnn]

If you are obsessed with AFTG, y’all should listen to The Foxhole Cast! It’s a podcast that rereads and talks about All For The Game! I’ve been obsessed with it and NEED people to listen to it!

They have a tumblr too! @thefoxholecast

[blue-arson]

I did my best

[jtl-fics]

But also... Andreil on the great British bake off (they have celebrity seasons)

Look, I'm gonna be honest.

It's a disaster in two parts.

Neil is there EXPLICITLY because Stuart found out that he had been asked to go do it because he is technically British. Stuart has asked him to be the bane of Paul Hollywood's existence and is willing to do quite a bit to make the man's life hell.

"He knows what he did." is all Stuart will say on the matter.

Neil agrees to come be a Baker on the stipulation that Andrew also gets to come. Andrew has no interest in baking other than what it can produce for him to eat, he has no desire to do the laborious task of baking himself.

Stuart offers him an Aston.

Andrew agrees.

Neil is a nightmare in the tent. He hates desserts. He hates measuring. He has never done a single prep bake. He has no idea what the desserts are during the technical challenge. He just goes with his gut (his iron gut). He produces three straight desserts that Paul will not let Prue eat for fear that she will just straight up die if she eats it. He is a pile of misery upon consuming all three.

When Neil is kicked off in round one no one is surprised. Paul pats Neil on the back as he leaves the tent and Neil just leans in, "Stuart Hatford sends his regards." he says now that the mic has been removed. Paul Hollywood's tan fades but Neil doesn't look back.

Andrew is a nightmare for a completely different reason and that reason is that he very visibly and honestly does not give a single flying fuck about what he's doing but he's doing quite well. He is the most boring man on camera, zero quips, won't interact with Noel and whoever the fuck is the other presenter by this point, just him doing exactly what the recipe requires and then he always makes a point of grabbing whatever Paul and Prue have judged and taking it all back to his station so that he can eat it. He stares straight into the camera as he eats an entire three tier cake. He dedicates every week he is Star Baker to his inspiration: Kevin Day.

Andrew makes it all the way to the Finals with impressive bakes that he basically just decided on 100% by how much he thinks it would upset Kevin to watch him eat it knowing that he SHOULD be doing weight training for the olympics. ("Weight TRAINING not Weight GAINING Andrew! Do you have to hold up two fingers as you eat the entire thing? Can you at least PRETEND it's not to SPITE me?" Kevin wails as Andrew calls him for the post-credit scene where the star bakers call their families usually but Andrew just uses it so everyone can hear Kevin Day lose his mind on Public Access.)

Andrew gets to the finals and his show stopper....it's immaculate. It's gorgeous. It's a work of art. Paul Hollywood is looking at this feat of modern baking engineering in wonder.

He shakes Andrew's hand before he even tastes it and-

"Stuart Hatford sends his regards."

Paul Hollywood is now nervous to eat this cake. Does he look out at the gathered friends and family of the contestants and see Stuart Hatford? Does he remember what he did?

He eats the cake because show obligations and it tastes as good as it looks but he is oddly silent as Prue talks about it.

Andrew Wins and Paul Hollywood stays exactly one entire party's width away from Neil, Stuart, and Andrew during the entire victory picnic.

Andrew gives his post bake-off speech and flat out says it was kind of boring and he wants to go home to America. The next scene is him driving off with Neil in an Aston Martin.

Edit: Thanks @the-inner-musings-of-a-worm for the idea once again!

[tara-the-star]

i personally think everyone who is shipped with kevin should be put in a little box and fight to the death

[andrew-minyard-stan]

ok you may hate this question but i have to ask it

who is your favorite fan cast for Andrew and Kevin. I can imagine how Neil looks like but when it comes to Kevin and Andrew i literally can't imagine their faces idk why lol their faces look blurry in my head

it’s okay, thank you for asking it lol. I don’t want an Aftg show bc I think it will be terrible, but fancasting for Andrew (Aaron too) and Kevin, are pretty accurate I think. Andrew and Aaron we have Freddie Fox and I think lots of people do but you should look him up. And Kevin, this model named Dani Garcia. He looks pretty much like Kevin and I think it’s a good choice. THANKS FOR ASKING

[codename-adler]

Jean Moreau & Notre Dame de Paris . just saying.

[thefoxholecast]

Kevin kept reminding me of a character from a LGBTQ webtoon which conveniently is sports based.

If your familiar with the Comic Crush3d, tell me Kevin doesn't remind you of Reuben Massaad.

Honest to God I thought I was reading the same character.

We aren't familiar with this comic, we'll have to check it out! What sport do they play in that one?

I will tell you that John has been showing Nate and me (Oona) Kuroko's Basketball, and sometimes when Kagami is on screen I have to restrain myself from saying "that's some Kevin Day behavior."

(Screenshots from the show of Kagami sitting angstily in a locker room.)

PS: Do you have artist credits for these?

[capcavan]

I think Jean’s injuries should be career ending, in a way setting him free

[redraspberryleaf]

Was trying to find examples of 5 foot tall male athletes to understand the proportions of and visualize the minyards and I couldn't so instead I tried to find actors and struggled but finally found solid examples.

Anyway, I propose in a film adaptation of AFTG the twins be played by Elliot Page and Danny Devito.

To make sure they read as identical twins, they just keep trading roles and use the arm bands to differentiate.

[adnrewminyard]

fancasting myself as allison bc just like her i’m sexy and in love with renee walker

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

Actor Matthew Settle, having personally auditioned with Tom Hanks for a number of leading roles, won the part by delivering steely performances of key scenes. During the casting process, Hanks branded Speirs “a dark character.” Settle unequivocally embraced this categorization as filming commenced in England.

[...]Ron conveyed to Dick. “This TV business is all smoke and mirrors anyway. They can put my nametag on some guy and pretend it is Sparky. They are faking the combat scenes with a stand-in playing Sparky, so why not finish it up that way? I am just not up to the hassle and pressure of an interview. This is not what you want to hear, but I want to be candid about my situation.” Few were more disappointed in Speirs’s decision than Matthew Settle. Many of his fellow actors forged enriching relationships with the veterans they portrayed. Settle was denied this luxury. “It seemed as though he wanted to shy away from the whole process of Band of Brothers,” Settle later noted of Speirs. “He wasn’t quite sure in what light it would leave him.” Because filmmakers lacked Speirs’s direct input regarding his more controversial traits, they “presented the idea to the audience and let them decide whether or not he had killed prisoners and perhaps his own men,” said Settle. “I think that was tastefully done. But perhaps that was why he wasn’t open to being spoken to.”

The absence of Settle’s mysterious character in episode one of Band of Brothers permitted the actor to discover his character in other ways. While the rest of the cast shot the series introduction in England, Settle retraced Speirs’s steps across Europe on an odyssey of his own. He visited France, toured museums, and sought out sites where Speirs had fought. Settle ventured into the Bois Jacques, discovered Easy Company’s foxholes, and was warned to watch out for live ordnance as he did so. At Foy—where Speirs embarked on his iconic run—the actor traversed the wide field and was amazed to see dwellings in town that still bore scars of battle. He ventured all the way to the Eagle’s Nest in Germany. “It made it really come to life for me,” Settle said of the journey. “I’m very happy that I was able to do that.”

Deprived of the ability to converse with Speirs, Settle searched for perspectives on leadership in battle. In addition to reading several Ambrose books, he leaned on Captain Dale Dye—the film’s technical advisor who himself was a decorated combat veteran. “You gotta help me find this guy,” Settle implored to Dye. “Who is he? What’s his tone?” The subsequent coaching greatly benefited his performance: “I had a natural finality that served his character well.” On film, Speirs was stern, direct, and honest. Settle relished interpreting the Speirs mystique—a colorful balance of bravery and secrets. He naturally considers the Speirs scene at Foy his favorite of the miniseries.

[...]A 1,000-person tent was erected on site for a gala and the screening of a ninety-minute compilation of Band of Brothers scenes. Amid all the activities, Matthew Settle finally conversed with his character in the flesh. “When I actually met Speirs, he seemed like he was stoic and quiet and passive,” Settle recalled. “He definitely seemed like a person that may have been hurt once or twice in his life.” The actor’s observations of Speirs during the debut itself were even more affecting. “I sat next to him and Winters as they watched the invasion on screen together,” said Settle. “I honestly just watched the two of them. I couldn’t help myself…. It was powerful. They were reliving it.”

Settle regretted that his interactions with Ron were so fleeting. “I never really got into any deep conversations because Speirs was always very hesitant to talk about anything deeper than just the weather. A lot of the vets would approach him and he would say, ‘Which war?’ I don’t know if he was pretending not to remember them or what.” Speirs’s question was likely an earnest effort to distinguish those who served under him at different stages of his career. Self-consciousness of his hearing loss further precluded him from active conversation.

~ Jared Frederick & Erik Dorr

[elliotdawsonnn]

GUYS NEW FOXHOLE CAST EP DROPPED LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

New hyperfixation within the hyperfixation dropped 🫶

Anyways go follow @thefoxholecast on tumblr and listen to it wherever you get your podcasts 🫶🫶