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There is a modern remake, but I turned it off almost immediately; just couldn't even looked at someone else being Hester, let alone Freddie.
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Milena getting to perform her birthday show with a lot of the swings and newbies that she got to teach everything to is sooo lovely. i love the way the universe works out sometimes
#like i know she had sm fun#this is so cool#i love broadway#like she got to help them learn their parts and live their dreams and now they got to perform and celebrate with her on the stage#the outsiders musical#the outsiders broadway#milena j comeau#davis wayne#cole zieser#cameron burke#anna k bermudez#ryo kamibayashi
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happy goddamn mountain goats day
#my voice is loud on all the other recordings from this show but not this one because this was the second time i'd ever heard this song :)#but other than that it came out pretty clear i think? gd bless the wide rim on the tall as fuck stage at the infinity music hall hartford i#and gd bless isa burke. and shaky eggs#or apples?#the mountain goats#tmg
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I don't have the citations and receipts to prove it, but I swear most creative decisions in the post-Eisner era of Disney has been fueled by the fact that their biggest rival Universal owned the rights to Wicked.
Think about the fact that they had Stephen Schwartz on Pocahontas and Hunchback of Notre Dame during the Renaissance and got him for their send up Enchanted with Idina Menzel in the cast) which like Tangled and Frozen would not be what they are without Wicked, from the stupid titling scheme to initially hiring Kristen Chenoweth as Rapunzel before replacing her with Mandy Moore and ultimately hiring Idina Menzel (again) for Elsa and deciding she ain't so bad after all and hell let's delete Kai and invent Anna the plucky contrast to her to really drive it home.
How about the fact that they bought and made a meh adaptation of Into The Woods, the original 'Kind is not Good' fairytale subversion broadway show. The okay that was a thing Maleficent movies where the king rips off her wings and Mal was misunderstood she was Briar Rose's real protector, see.
The fact that they sure love to market their villains, but boy do they not like to make new ones that aren't corrupted forces of nature that need their heart back to be good again or c.e.o.'s who gave us utopia only to find out he killing the planet oopsies or deceptive seemingly trustworthy Wizard-like authority figures who will stab you in the back in their best interest. A villain is either a twist to be subverted or is the hero you followed along, see. Something tells me the Mufasa movie is their half-apology or reasoning for why Scar is like that when the new Aladdin and Little Mermaid did shit for Jafar or Ursula but make them bland because they didn't have time to bake another uwu, babied misunderstood anti-villain so they made sure they can't chew the scenery or have too big of personalities to latch onto by children either, that be irresponsible.
Disney wants Elphaba and they're mad they don't have the special sauce that Broadway somehow wrangled out of a confusing book full of misdirection that pleased no one but the author and people who hate the Judy Garland film and would never read Frank L. Baum anyway to understand these characters are just different from that film and the shoes were not the Wicked Witch's birthright she wanted their power, it was not that deep, but so much of Maguire's decisions don't work once you account for Baum's that never accounted for the future MGM's art and costuming department, casting and script consolidations, but all Disney sees is, 'That Judy Garland movie should've been ours and fuck these people making sequels and prequels, those should've been ours.'
We see the root of this problem that existed before Eisner took over with Return to Oz under Ron Miller. As a company they've never forgiven anyone for having piece of the Oz pie. Oh, post-Eisner they swung their dick again and made that forgettable James Franco prequel, I almost forgot! A warning to Universal who guarded Wicked's movie rights for decades and the anger they have that Warner Bros. still owns the rights to the Judy Garland film while all of Baum's books are in the public domain before Eisner's lawyers could lobby with Senator Bono to extend copyright law in the 90's.
Eisner cooperated with Warner Bros. to license an Oz sequence with an advance for it's time Wicked Witch animatronic in the Great Movie Ride, in fact a majority of the films in that ride came from WB's vault. Bob Iger let that ride get scrapped for Pirates before he could own Fox's back catalogue. You know what else Eisner didn't do that Bob Iger did? Not make a stupid Cruella prequel to explain why she's so misunderstood, just a straight live action remake of the cartoon and Jungle Book that was boring, and not a whole lot of these were as churned out in his era as there was bad sequels to the cartoons, but oops Iger's doing that too.
Real point is Wicked the musical premiered in 2003, Eisner stepped down in 2005. Eisner and his people couldn't figure out the Snow Queen as anything but a romantic comedy co-starring a villain love interest because he forgot Ariel existed as a misunderstood and manipulated hero who could have served as a template for another similar Andersen character. Under Iger's people they casted og Elphaba and decided halfway they needed to not make her a villain after all. Coincidence? I think not!
#My Rants#Rants#Confusing#sorry i've sat with these ill feelings forever on why i think disney took a bad turn in quality for years and i blame envy for wicked#also i have thoughts on gregory maguire and how his confessions of an ugly stepsister remains one of the worst books i've ever read#my brother on his own read wicked and considers that his worst book and together we concluded this guy cannot write books#that aren't about misdirection and convoluted connections with a strange gaze towards women and disabled pain#oh and he can't write sacrilegious and borderline smutty stuff without pulling the rug out with catholic guilt wins out xp#wicked broadway phenomena confused us for years assuming it was even half like his book at all and we don't have high hopes for the film#assuming they add shit back in to make it this longer than the stageplay of a two-parter we hope we're wrong#still wish to someday to see an accurate glinda from the baum books somewhere else but i doubt it#manipulative twit billy burke will always cast a long shadow over a character that should've been up there with the wisest wizard chars#but is instead forever reduced to bad mgm script consolidation and bad acting by a racist stage actress#Disney Sucks#jury still out on wicked for me as i've never gotten to see the play and am forced to judge by movie which will be biased to the medium
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AMERICAN HARDCORE PUNK IN A NUTSHELL -- THE STAGEDIVE WAS BORN.
PIC INFO: Spotlight on skateboarder/punk rocker Chuck Burke stage-diving during a D.O.A., ADOLESCENTS, & STIFF LITTLE FINGERS gig at Perkins Palace, Pasadena, CA, on July 4th 1981. 📸: Ed Colver.
"We weren't beating the shit out of each other, but we were definitely trying to outdo who could backflip off the stage and land on someone. There was a style to it -- it was like Kung Fu but without the Fu."
-- JIMMY GESTAPO of NYHC band MURPHY'S LAW, excerpt from the book "American Hardcore: A Tribal History" (2010) Second Edition, written by Steven Blush
Source: www.mprnews.org/story/2006/10/19/hardcore.
#Chuck Burke#American hardcore punk#American hardcore#Hardcore punk#80s hardcore#Punk gigs#80s punk#Ed Colver photography#Stagediving#American Style#L.A.'s WASTED YOUTH#American Hardcore 2006 Documentary#WASTED YOUTH band#Ed Colver#1981#American Hardcore 2006#L.A. hardcore#WASTED YOUTH 1981#Stage diving#WASTED YOUTH#2006#Edward Colver#L.A. hardcore punk#80s hardcore punk#Edward Colver photography#1980s#80s#Sony Pictures Classics#Documentary#L.A.'s WASTED YOUTH 1981
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Prophecy (1979)
"It's a mutagen."
"A mutagen, what is that?"
"Freakism! Freakism, that's what's been going on out there. That's why there's a goddamn salmon five feet long, and a tadpole the size of what a bullfrog should be!"
#prophecy#1979#horror imagery#american cinema#horror film#john frankenheimer#david seltzer#talia shire#robert foxworth#armand assante#richard dysart#victoria racimo#george clutesi#charles h. gray#tom mcfadden#burke byrnes#mia bendixsen#johnny timko#graham jarvis#leonard rosenman#enjoyably over the top in its late stage carnage and grue‚ and appropriately handsomely shot elsewhere for an eco horror#that's (at least purportedly) as concerned with conservation as it is with mainstream horror stuff. someone's polluting the water and now#the beasties are turning huge and murderous and rubbery. facing it all down is Bob Foxworth's ecological inspector and his wife‚ plus a#native American tribe led by‚ uhh‚ Armand Assante. that in particular is a tone deaf and disappointing casting decision and one of two#major issues this film has; the other is at least one scene of genuine animal cruelty which‚ in a film that's supposed to be about#respecting the natural environment‚ it's not only needless and inhumane‚ it's truly galling. so kind of hard to recommend the film on those#two points‚ but if you can get past them (and why should you? but if you can) this is a fairly entertaining bit of 70s monster slop#Frankenheimer made a clutch of incredible‚ challenging films‚ but he also made some rubbish; this skews more toward the latter than the#former‚ truth be told‚ but his scenic work here is beautiful and the natural landscape shines
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Jane Austen In The Catskills, An Interview
#frontmezzjunkies presents: An Interview with Actress #LauraCable starring In #ShadowlandStages’ #MIissBennet: #ChristmasAtPemberley a play written by #LaurenGunderson & #MargotMelcon Directed by @ShadowlandStage’s Artistic Director #BrendanBurke
Shadowland Stages’ Miss Bennet: Christmas At Pemberley. Photo by Jeff Knapp. An Interview: Actress Laura Cable Stars In Shadowland Stages’ Production of MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY Laura Cable is a machine. An actress with an immense amount of power, she carries herself with poise and a heartfelt passion for her work. Her determination and high bar for excellence came in handy when she…

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Here I am, hours later, still crying about Furiosa and Praetorian Jack. George Miller, Nico Lathouris, Anya Taylor-Joy and Tom Burke are geniuses. They completely sold me on just how much these characters loved each other.
Furiosa coming out of a nightmare, wielding a knife, to be caught by Jack. He doesn’t say it’s all right or that she’s safe, she doesn’t say it was just a bad dream. They don’t say anything. Jack eases her back down to her cot and they settle down, aware of each other.
Jack stitching up Furiosa’s shoulder in a hidden spot in the Citadel, Furiosa showing Jack the peach seed that she’s kept hidden in her hair for so long, proving that the Green Place is out there, asking him to come with her, pressing her forehead to his while cupping the back of his head, showing him her love in the manner of her people, and him returning the gesture. After fifteen years, she’s finally going home, and he’s coming with her.
And then...
Spoilers beyond here!!!
And then:
The battle of the Bullet Farm, which is where the strength and force of their love really started to batter me. Furiosa manages to avoid the ambush and get out of the Farm before the gate closes, and Jack could easily have slipped through the gate to join her, but he sees the enemy forces mustering and knows they’ll quickly be hunted down if there's nothing to stop their pursuers. He shoots off a green flare that clearly tells Furiosa to abandon him and get the hell out of there, intending to sacrifice himself so that she has a chance to escape and set off for the Green Place. Furiosa does drive off, but gets maybe five metres before she decides ‘fuck this’ and goes back in to try and save him. And she saves him from his pursuers and she saves him from falling to his death, and they get to their escape vehicle and drive off, with nary a word spoken or exchanged until they’re on the flat and heading for freedom. And even then, all that’s mentioned is what direction they should take to reach the Green Place. That's it. They don’t need anything else. They survived, they got out, they're together, they’re going to be all right.
And they almost make it. They almost get away.
When they’re captured by Dementus and forced onto their knees, there’s no special close up on them; mostly they’re on the edge of the shot while Dementus is ranting centre stage or screaming into their faces. They pay no heed to him. That love infuriates Dementus. He shrieks, he tears at them, but he can’t break them. He doesn’t matter. What matters is that they spend their last moments touching each other, leaning into each other, pressing their foreheads together, breathing deep, loving each other.
There are no parting words between Furiosa and Jack, no declarations or promises or screams of despair, but it hit me so hard and cut so deep that the second to last time we see Jack’s face, he’s craning desperately to see what’s happening to Furiosa, trying to get one final precious glimpse of her, before he’s quite literally dragged to his awful death.
We don’t see Furiosa’s reaction to her torture on multiple fronts, as she is strung up by her maimed arm and forced to watch Jack die. We’ve seen her scream and weep for her mother, but this moment is hers alone. It’s not for us.
How fitting it is that Jack saves Furiosa one last time, as his execution distracts Dementus and his crew from noticing that Furiosa has cut off her own arm to escape.
The last time we see Jack’s face is in Furiosa’s last nightmare.
Furiosa doesn’t mention Jack in her final showdown with Dementus, when she screams about her mother and her stolen childhood. But from what’s shown to us, I think that the spot in the Citadel when she imprisons Dementus and grows the peach tree in the midst of his emaciated, maggot-ridden body…is the same place where Jack stitched up her wounded shoulder, where she showed him the peach seed, where she asked him to come with her to the Green Place and he accepted, where she showed him her love in the manner of her people, where they embraced. Where she avenged herself and Jack, upon the man who destroyed their lives.
Where Furiosa now plucks the first fruit of the tree to bring to the Five Wives, whom she will bring with her to the Green Place.
#they make me cry#furiosa#furiosa spoilers#furiosa a mad max saga#furiosa: a mad max saga#furiosa a mad max saga spoilers#furiosa: a mad max saga spoilers#praetorian jack#anya taylor joy#anya taylor-joy#tom burke#george miller#nico lathouris#I also liked that the type of love was irrelevant#platonic or mentor or familial or romantic#doesn't matter#THEY LOVED EACH OTHER SO MUCH
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I'd be remiss if I didn't do Holmes' husband too. So here's a buncha Watson studies featuring him in various stages of his life.
I was trying to figure out how I wanted to draw him. He was a little harder to figure out compared to Holmes, but I adore Hardwicke and Burke's Watsons so he's mostly based off them!
I tried to strike the balance between reservedness vs. vulnerability and I think I've managed to pin him down!
And since you guys enjoyed the last couple of bonuses, here's another one 😆
The picture that inspired the first one <3
#The blues were partly inspired by sfisyf#Then I decided Watson looks good in blues#I used Hardwicke references for a lot of these. I might like him just a little bit more over Burke rn#sherlock holmes#john watson#dr. john watson#as my friend dae likes to call: the watson cinematic universe#acd holmes#canon holmes#acd johnlock#victorian husbands#art#my art#fanart#sir arthur conan doyle#acd sherlock holmes#acd john watson#artists on tumblr
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#posting both because i'm not sure if i like him calling her by her first name or by miss winters more. both are good#LIKE.#it being roger's knife and burke's hand that lets her go in the version that made it to the screen is delicious.#wire boyfriend vs cloth boyfriend.#roger is sharp; malicious; a threat up to this point. everything collins about him made into a polished edge#that has heretofore been turned against vicki — now; freeing her.#and from a threat that is born out of his family and loyalty to them. matthew's axe; now roger's knife. but it needs burke's hand to#wield it; burke's insistence that they go save her; burke that caresses her; offers to carry her; kisses her.#but she doesn't go free without the weapon.#BUT AT THE SAME TIME.#''there. you're free; vicki.' !!!!!!!!!'#*roger* is the one bending over the ropes; undoing the last knot; ensuring she's okay?#careful; devoted — fingers and hands; not knives — side by side with burke. because their concern (love) for vicki outweighs everything.#(and implied at least to me burke and roger's shared history with the collins fleet from two very different perspectives.#and perhaps shared history with ropes and knots in other contexts. who can say)#the emphasis on *roger* being the one to free her when he's played her rescuer twice before#(once from the west wing and david; once playing white knight rescuing her from bangor)#both times a little less than sincere and the threat a little less pressing.#now delivering her honestly from danger; her white knight in earnest; this time.#anyway. it's a great ep. great scene for rvb freaks like me. (tags via @widowshill)
thinking about how roger is the one to undo the last knot and let her go in the original scripts.
#GREAT TAGS FOR RVB FREAKS LIKE ME.#tag meta#dark shadows#r/v/b tag pending#victoria winters#roger collins#burke devlin#if dan didn't want it to be weird then why [gestures expansively] all this stage business about roger's knife after 20 eps abt Burke's pen?#YOU'RE FREE VICKI [said by the man who will never be free to go! in front of the guy who'll never forgive or forget prison!]#anyway. great final scene. congrats on the polyamory muah.
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Jared Padalecki Joins ‘Fire Country’ For Guest Arc That Could Lead To New Franchise Offshoot
EXCLUSIVE: Jared Padalecki is returning to series television. The former Supernatural star, coming off a four-season run as the lead of Walker, has been tapped for a three-episode arc on the upcoming third season of CBS‘ hit drama series Fire Country, headlined and executive produced by Max Thieriot.
He will play Camden, a SoCal firefighter and maverick with a surfer swagger who is a force to be reckoned with and immediately recognizes Bode’s (Thieriot) raw talent.
The deal with Fire Country producer CBS Studios is strictly for the recurring role, sources said. Given Padalecki’s status as a popular leading man with two hit series under his belt, I hear there is a possibility for the guest stint to lead to a new spinoff headlined by him that would join the upcoming Sheriff Country.
Sources stress that the idea is still in its nascent stages. And similarly to the NCIS franchise, which originated on CBS and has generated four domestic offshoots on the network but has also expanded into streaming with the latest spinoff, NCIS: Tony & Ziva (as well as the streaming/broadcast NCIS: Sydney), a new Fire Country spinoff could be for broadcast or streaming. Reps for CBS and CBS Studios declined comment.
Fire Country, which was the most watched new broadcast series in its freshman season, was quickly identified by the CBS leadership as a potential franchise anchor that could spawn multiple spinoffs.
“We are focused on mass-appeal franchises,” CBS President and CEO George Cheeks said in June 2023. “This season’s number one show was Fire Country, which completely lends itself to building out a whole new universe… It became very clear that not only was the show special, it really felt like this could be a great example of us building together a franchise from scratch.”
The first Fire Country spinoff, the Morena Baccarin-starring Sheriff Country, which started off as a planted spinoff episode on the mothership series this past season, was recently picked up to series for 2025-26.
Keeping Padalecki in the fold has been a priority for CBS Studios following the end of its CW drama Walker, on which he was star and executive producer, leading to creating the opportunity for him on Fire Country. Walker was canceled for financial reasons despite being the network’s most watched series.
Fire Country averages more than 10 million viewers per episode in multi-platform viewing. (Live+35-day on Paramount + and CBS TVE)
Season 1 became available on Netflix in the US August 1 and has already reached #3 in the streamer’s daily rankings. This is an additional domestic streaming window for Fire Country whose first two seasons are on Paramount+. It is designed to give the show additional exposure ahead of its Oct. 18 Season 3 premiere on CBS.
From creators and executive producers Tony Phelan, Joan Rater and Thieriot, inspired by Thieriot’s experiences growing up in Northern California, the series follows Bode Donovan (Thieriot), a young convict seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence by joining a prison release firefighting program in Northern California, which sends him back to his hometown.
Billy Burke, Kevin Alejandro, Diane Farr, Stephanie Arcila, Jordan Calloway and Jules Latimer also star. Tia Napolitano, who also serves as showrunner, executive produces alongside Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed of Jerry Bruckheimer Television.
Since the end of Walker, Padalecki also has discussed a role on the upcoming fifth and final season of Prime Video’s The Boys, developed and executive produced by Supernatural creator Eric Kripke. He is repped by UTA, Industry Entertainment and Fuller Law.
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today's (feb 12th) matinee cover board!!
📷 bwaymatinees on instagram
trevi is on for ponyboy, aramie is on for dally, and cameron is on for trip!! with ryo and Jordan in the booth!
#ohhhhh yall at the show want to tell me everything about cameron trip#i fear i hear NOTHING about him im glad we r seeing him on stage again#the outsiders musical#the outsiders broadway#the outsiders cover board#aramie payton#trevor wayne#cameron burke
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Trigger warning: child death
* “It probably won’t be the real killer(s)” as in they just have to close the case, but they probably end up catching the wrong person(s)

❝ JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was an American child beauty queen who was killed at age six in her family's home on the night of December 25, 1996. Her body was found in the house's basement about seven hours after she had been reported missing. She had sustained a broken skull, and a garrote was tied around her neck. The autopsy report stated that JonBenét's official cause of death was "asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma". Her death was ruled a homicide.
The Boulder police initially suspected that a long handwritten ransom note that was reportedly found in the home had been written by her mother, Patsy, and that the note and the appearance of JonBenét's body had been staged by Patsy and her husband, John, to cover up the killing.
In 1999, the police and district attorney (DA) both said that JonBenét's brother Burke, who was nine years old at the time of her death, was not a suspect.
In 2002, the DA's successor took over the investigation from the police and primarily pursued the theory that an intruder had committed the killing.
In 2003, trace DNA taken from JonBenét's clothes (her underwear) was found to belong to an unknown male; each family member's DNA had been excluded from this match.
The DA sent the Ramseys a letter of apology in 2008, declaring the family was "completely cleared" by the DNA results.
Others, including former Boulder police chief Mark Beckner, disagreed with exonerating the Ramseys, characterizing the DNA as a small piece of evidence that was not proven to have any connection to the crime.
In 2009, the Boulder police took the case back from the DA and reopened the investigation.
The crime is still considered a cold case and remains an open investigation with the Boulder Police Department. ❞ — via: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_JonBenét_Ramsey
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“It’s the fifth play I’ve rehearsed here,” says Tom Hiddleston, looking round a bare, bleak room at a studio space in Southeast London with a broad smile and a surprising amount of pleasure. Hayley Atwell peers past an office desk and a stack of plastic chairs to look out of the window.
“And have you worked over there?” she asks, pointing at the building opposite. “That’s where Cate Blanchett and Tom Burke are doing The Seagull? And next door here, Jonathan Bailey is working on Richard II. That to me is so indicative of the romance of the theatre community. Everyone is doing their thing, but all together in a shared space. I find it so exciting.”
The pair’s enthusiasm is infectious. Both are movie stars who command cinematic franchises. Hiddleston is Loki, the trickster of the Marvel universe. Atwell plays Grace in the two most recent Mission: Impossible films. Yet both seem genuinely excited to be back on stage for the first time since 2019 in a new production of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Jamie Lloyd.
“I feel like I won the lottery,” says Hiddleston. “I absolutely love Loki. I got cast as this extraordinary character, this ancient archetype who represents mischief and chaos and then I get to do this too. What my whole journey through being an actor has taught me is I love it when it’s honest – it’s thrilling to watch and it’s thrilling to play when there is deep commitment in the work.”
He pauses a little. He has already made his mark in Shakespeare, notably as a memorable Coriolanus on stage at the Donmar in 2014, and as Prince Hal in the BBC’s adaptation of the history plays, The Hollow Crown. “If I had good fortune, I’d love to play Shakespeare for the rest of my life. I really love doing it. The plays are so deep, and they contain such wisdom about being alive.”
Atwell is also a fine classical actress, most recently in a devastating production of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm (costarring Burke). But Mission: Impossible has dominated her life for the past five and a half years: she has been combining rehearsals with shooting additional scenes for The Final Reckoning, which comes out in May. As the mercurial Grace – “she’s her own version of an agent of chaos” – she has, like the rest of the Mission: Impossible cast, signed up to do her own stunts. “I’ve brought quite a strong plank into rehearsal,” she laughs.
The actors met in 2002, on their final audition for RADA. “He did this improvised thing called the status game, and I was so impressed by it,” Atwell says, laughing. “And then he got in and I went to Guildhall instead, but because we were peers, there was always this social crossover.”
They stayed in touch, but even though they both appeared in Avengers: Endgame – Atwell as Peggy Carter and Hiddleston as Loki – they have never been on set together or interacted as characters. Planned joint projects have also fallen through. Playing Shakespeare’s warring lovers Benedick and Beatrice in one of his greatest comedies is their first experience of actually sharing a space.
Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s funniest and most resonant comedies. Its story of a group of men returning from war to sunny Messina to party and adapt to civilian life has just about everything: old lovers meeting and rekindling desire; new lovers being torn apart by suspicion and doubt. It is full of great comic set pieces and marked by near tragedy. Hiddleston and Atwell are the latest couple to take on Benedick and Beatrice, following in the footsteps of actors as various as Mark Rylance and Janet McTeer, David Tennant and Catherine Tate and Simon Russell Beale and Zoë Wanamaker.
They are having a good time. “It’s so lovely,” says Atwell, sitting back in her plastic chair. “It’s easy because there’s a lot of trust and a natural shorthand between us. The ice is already broken and so we can just try different things, and I know that if I try something Tom’s going to respond and give me something back.”
“You just dive in,” says Tom, smiling as he interrupts. This is the nature of their conversation; they spill over one another’s words, finishing sentences. It bodes well for their performances as a couple whose surface banter disguises a deep love for one another. “So much of what Benedick and Beatrice do is listen to each other and then use one aspect of what they’ve said and weaponise it. It means as actors we have to be very active in our listening. Every time Tom bats something to me, I have to keep the ball in the air. It’s so exhilarating.”
Atwell rattles on. She is a great and articulate talker. “They are bound by this chemistry that they don’t fully control and are keeping each other at arm’s length because of their fear of being vulnerable with each other.” Hiddleston smiles again before continuing the thought. “It’s genuine magnetism, a very intense attraction. And they think they are the smartest people in the room, until they’re not.”
Rehearsals have been marked by a lot of dancing. Much Ado is set at a family gathering during which a wedding is arranged. “And when old friends get together, people dance,” says Hiddleston. “’90s house music,” chips in Atwell with a grin. “It’s a very different kind of show.”
It sounds like a very Jamie Lloyd style of show. The director is famous for his stripped-back, direct style which is introducing classic plays to new and younger audiences. “The thing I love about him is his courage in honouring the plays. He asks us to engage very deeply and very personally with the material,” says Hiddleston.
The last time Hiddleston worked with Lloyd was in 2019 on a production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal in London and on Broadway, where he met his now wife Zawe Ashton. “It was an extraordinary life-changing time,” he says. “Hugely resonant. I talk about it every day. There is so much fondness in that experience and we all really enjoyed the work as well.”
Ashton has worked repeatedly with Lloyd down the years. “It feels like family,” Hiddleston adds. “I think really good work can come from this deep friendship. We hold each other to account and keep each other honest in the work. I love it.”
Atwell, who is married to the music producer Ned Wolfgang Kelly, has also collaborated with Lloyd three times. “I think he likes actors as a species,” she says, thoughtfully. “Not every director particularly does. We might be an odd kind of bunch, and we are slippery, mercurial things, playing like children do. He loves that. He wants rehearsals to feel like a playground.”
With that, the couple smile warmly and leave the room. Ready for another day of dancing.
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History time:
Mr. Dalrymple, the eminent surgeon in episode 3 of S2 of Good Omens, appears to be inspired by Robert Knox, an Edinburgh surgeon famous because of his connection to the Burke and Hare murders in the 1820s.
He became an anatomist at the Edinburgh College of Surgeons in Newington and quickly developed a reputation as a lecturer that guaranteed him a steady flow of students, but as with Dalrymple in the show, the shortage of available cadavers was a constant and persistent problem in the city.
Since it gets a bit grisly, I'll pop it behind a thingie.
Graverobbing became so common that many of the graveyards in the city installed watchtowers to keep an eye on the graveyards and some of them had mortsafes put in place:

The coffins were locked in these cages to give the bodies time to get to the stage of decay that would render them useless to anatomists, then popped in a grave afterwards.
This is where Burke and Hare enter this story. They lived in the slums of the old town of Edinburgh and learned that the surgeons would provide money in exchange for fresh bodies, so rather than dig up the graves and risk the watchmen, they cut out the middleman and started murdering people for profit.
Robert Knox was their primary customer and he claimed to be oblivious to the crimes that were being committed, even though Burke and Hare were showing up with unsettling regularity with fresh corpses, but since they were killing the poor, no one was really paying much attention.
According to Mr. Knox, he thought the men were picking up corpses from the poor houses, though there is evidence that suggests he was aware of what was happening: one of the victims was a well-known boy with distinctive physical disabilities who would have been well-recognised. According to contemporary accounts, Knox had the young man's head, hands and feet removed, so no one would recognise him.
Since this could never be proven, he wasn't arrested for his part in the whole affair, but he was described as being "deficient in principle and heart" and public opinion spoke loud and clear. He left Edinburgh in disgrace and was eventually also debarred from teaching by the Royal College of Surgeons in England.
Eventually, laws were brought in to prevent grave robbery, but not before dozens of people were killed for profit.
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