#fc: Bárbara Lennie

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Tags continued: Part 1

Barbrey Dustin/Rysewell-Fancasts

•She is tall, she is poised and put together.She wrinkles around her mouth and eyes, her hair is equal parts grey and brown. She normally has it in a widows knot. She wears dark normally black stiff clothes.She was possibly 18-23 during the events of the tourney of Harrenhal which would make her 34-39 in current events.

Morgana Pendragon (Katie McGrath) from the show Merlin BBC

(She is supposed to be playing a 16 year old but she was in her mid to late 20’s during the show so she could be good for before the tourney to Greyjoy rebellion.She has brown hair,she is poised and put together. She wears medieval ish clothes)

Clair Fraser (Caitriona Balfe) from the show Outlander particularly in the last two seasons

(She is the right age in season 4 but in season 5 she looks for like Barbrey. She has wrinkles around her eyes, she has brown hair with grey threw it, she is put together and she is tall.She wears 17th century clothes.)

Mary Tudor (Sarah Bolger) from the show Tudors

(She was 16 to 18 during filming so good for before and during the tourney.She has brown hair, is poised and put together.She wears Tudor ish clothes)

Susan Penvensie (Anna Popplewell) from the movies The Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian/The voyage of the Dawn Treader

(The character is around the right age for before the tourney and during but the actress is old enough for during Greyjoy’s rebellion.She has brown hair and is put together. She has a love interest that looks like Brandon and wears medieval ish clothes.)

Narcissua Malfoy (Helen McCrory) from the Harry Potter movies

(She’s a bit too old for current Barbrey but does have the right look.She has half dark brown and white ish grey hair.She is poised and put together. She has wrinkles around her mouth and eyes. She wears dark modern fantasy clothes)

Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) from the movie The Other Boleyn Girl

(She is in her late 20’s so she’s good for Greyjoy’s rebellion and pre the books timeline.She has brown hair and dresses in dark Tudor clothes in some scenes)

Joan of Portugal (Bárbara Lennie) from the show Isabel

(She was in her late 20’s just turning 30 during this show so good for pre the book timeline.She has brown hair and is poised.She wears 15th century clothes)

Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) from the show Downton Abby

(She is good for pre and current book timeline. She has brown hair, it’s tied back and she has some wrinkles around her eyes. She wears 1920’s clothes)

Morgana le Fey (Eva Green) from the show Camelot

(She was in her early 30’s during this show so good for current Barbrey. She has brown, is poised and put together. She wears medieval ish clothes)

Suggest more fancasts for her 😁~

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bárbara lennie ; avatars.

under used fc challenge by @sweetiesplum DAY 7 :  votre personnalité sous-estimée préférée.

avec un peu de retard pour la dernière participation au challenge, une actrice sublime et trop peu jouée à mon goût.  ♥

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Mapi Leon's coming out story: the impact of words.

Being the first professional Spanish women’s footballer playing in Spain to publicly come out she caused waves amongst the media and general public (Laura del Rio had previously given interviews about her sexuality but that only when she had moved to the US to play). I have translated the article in which she came out on this day two years ago below because google translate won’t do it justice, but I also wanted to give a bit of backstory about the impact that her coming out had. Now Mapi isn’t just any Spanish player, although obviously not that well-known, she made headlines for being the first female Spanish player to have a transfer fee attached to her when she moved from Atletico to Barça. The fact that she had a higher profile than most other players makes her coming out so publicly even more of a big deal, because her larger platform meant she had more to lose but also meant she understood the power of her words in influencing her audience. Although people just living their lives on social media and casually mentioning their same-sex partners in interviews without a coming out moment is very important, her doing an interview for the national press openly talking about coming out as well as discussing her footballing career is essential too.

Six months after coming out she did another interview talking about the reception that she got on social media after coming out. She said that ‘she didn’t stop receiving messages: “Thank You”, “I saw you and you gave me strength”, “I’m not alone”. Women and Men from all over Spain recognised her gesture and saw themselves reflected in it. “I read them all, but I wasn’t able to reply. I didn’t think that it would turn into something so important for so many people.”’ Her coming out resulted in her being invited to be part of the opening events of Madrid Pride 2018. “When I came out publicly, I became aware of the significance of the action, and that it was much bigger than a single moment or my private life.” She also recognised how different parts of Spain reacted dissimilarly to her coming out and being a public figurehead: “In Barcelona they said ‘well okay great,’ but maybe in less urban areas like Zaragoza [where she is originally from] it wasn’t all like that”, even if bigger cities are more accepting there are places that needed to hear her words more.

Not only was it an influential moment in many supporters’ lives, she also had an impact within the women’s football community itself. She said that as a result of her coming out she saw “more photos, more nods towards players being in relationships with women on social media… as if now one’s sexuality matters even less [in women’s football]. Before you shied away a bit, at the end of the day we’re footballers, not just people, we represent a club, a country, a supporters base… and maybe that was why there was a bit of shyness online. Now I see that everything is done more naturally, without shouting about it on rooftops, but indirectly doing just that.” Even though she didn’t know how much of an impact her words would have at the time, her coming out story helped so many people and continues to be a beacon in Spanish LGBTQ+ visibility – which isn’t always as holistic as it’s sometimes portrayed to be on here.

I have left the translated version of her initial coming out news article below the cut.

Woso Pride Month 2020 [Day 23/30]

FC Barcelona’s defender is left-footed like Messi, she’s just one the Copa de la Reina and in August she will be called up to the national team. She thinks that it is important to “stand up for everyone’s rights”

“I was never very into dolls. I preferred to play ball with my brother and his friends.” And did you beat them? “Well, if I had been bad at it the boys would have kicked me out.” Maria Pilar León is tenacious and tough, perhaps that’s why she’s a centre-back. This blonde 23 year old woman kicks a ball with her left foot like Messi, has a tattoo sleeve on her arm that reminds one of Sergio Ramos’ and they compare her with Piqué due to the ease she has with playing the ball out of the penalty box… although at first sight she looks more like Shakira. Like them, she steps onto the pitch with the fierceness of a warrior. Only a few weeks ago she won the Copa de la Reina with Barça, a goal in the last 10 seconds of the final gave them the victory over Atletico de Madrid. There’s another trait that makes her similar to those footballing icons: she openly and naturally lives with her sexuality, for she also likes women. “And there’s no issue with that. This is who I am and there’s nothing wrong about it”.

Mapi, like they call her on the pitch, doesn’t want life to catch her offside. In a sporting environment with notoriety of being sexist and chauvinist, she wants to score a goal against homophobia. “When you’re a public figure, you have some sort of responsibility. I think that it’s important to stand up for everyone’s rights, there is no need to hide. We often hear pretty disgusting things in football stadiums, not only homophobic slurs but also racist ones, and I believe that we – as the people in sport – need to send a clear message about tolerance and against hatred.” Fair play was about this.

Here we can return to the first paragraph. Mapi is tenacious and tough, she’s also brave and not only on the pitch. You need a lot of courage to talk publicly about something that male footballers are silent about. “I can understand their silence given how chauvinistic football can be. There are a lot of closed-minded people who would insult them, although that kind of insults tell you more about who says them… There’s a lot of pressure in a match, you have to be extremely concentrated and to stand up to that kind of thing is tough. So, in that sense, I understand why they don’t come out. But, on the other hand, it’s something so natural that it escapes me for as to why they don’t do it, I think if they were open the mentality would change bit by bit. In this sense, we have to move forward and progress.”

Chants such as “Michel, Guti (or whoever else), faggot” are common place in stadiums, but Mapi rests assure that she has never suffered from any homophobia on the pitch. “It’s true that there are players whose parents think that this is an illness, but I’ve been lucky in this respect. My parents told me that they would love whoever I loved. And never have I been insulted by anyone nor nothing like that. Maybe it’s because football is, above everything, chauvinistic and sexist. So the bottom line is that a lot of people aren’t thrilled that we women play. I guess those that come and see our matches a more in favour of equality. They are more open minded. They like seeing us play, they enjoy it.

And it’s true, every year more and more people enjoy women’s football. In other countries, like the US, the sport is clearly booming. 1,500 universities have their own teams and there are stars, like Alex Morgan, who take photos alongside Messi. In Spain the situation is a lot more modest, although it is beginning to change. Mapi, for example, has almost 45,000 followers on Instagram. A lot more than well-known actors like Bárbara Lennie or Emma Suárez. “Yes, one could say that I have fans. There are three girls who always come and see me play. It’s pretty cool when you see them with your shirt on. Thanks to her speed and her tactical intelligence she is one of the leading figures in the Liga [now Primera] Iberdrola. In fact, she was the first female Spanish player to be a paid transfer in women’s football. Barça paid 50,000 euros for her transfer from Atletico de Madrid. A big milestone for women’s sport, and something that felt impossible to this woman who collected Ronaldinho stickers when she was younger.

“I wouldn’t be able to explain to you what I felt when they signed me, I felt complete joy. It meant that I hadn’t be mistaken in choosing football as a career. To be honest I wasn’t a great student, I scraped through. In the 4th year of ESO [Year 11/Grade 10] one of my teachers always said: ‘be careful because next time you might not pass…’ He basically told me that I wasted too much time by playing sports and I should stop playing football. Now I think about him a lot. He didn’t see me having a future, but I stuck with my passion and it ended up being the right decision.”

Mapi has played since she was a young girl, but her career started when she was 17, when Real Club Deportivo Español made her an offer. She was forced to leave her parents, Javier the mechanic and Pilar, a caregiver, in Zaragoza and jump into this adventure head first. “They were sad that I left home, but they always supported me.” The next season she received an offer from Atletico de Madrid. With them she won the league. And from there came the famous signing with Barcelona. Now, having finished the season, the centre-back will meet up with the national team to train for two matches in preparation for the 2019 World Cup in France. They have already qualified and are ready to bring the cup home. “Hopefully the men will also win in Russia”.

QUESTION.- Don’t you fear your club’s or the Federation’s reaction after talking about you being homosexual? You are the first professional player in the league to talk about it publicly…

ANSWER.- I don’t think it will be a problem. My personal life is my own and shouldn’t bother anyone else. I hope that they will support it because football needs to start opening itself up. If there are now people who are openly homosexual even in government, how could there not be homosexual people on football pitches?

Q.- And in the changing rooms? Could that not be weird? Prejudices still exist…

A.- I once talked to a [male] friend about this. He got quite caught up about it, but it’s stupid. Your teammates are like family, like sisters. With the tension you have about a match you aren’t focusing on whether they’re looking at you or that kind of thing. There’s a lot of familiarity between us.

In some ways, Mapi has cracked a glass roof, but the financial figures that women’s football deal with, compared to the ones the men deal with, are still ridiculous. A mediocre player in La Liga can win around a million euros per season, whilst most female players earn around a thousand euros per month. There are agencies, such as Carlos Rodríguez’s UPro, who manages Mapi, that try to improve the situation, but the gap here remains an abyss. “There’s always a lot of talk about the difference in salaries between women’s and men’s football. I understand that they earn a lot of money because they generate that kind of money and I’m not against that. Although it’s also true that the figures are exorbitant, everything has got exponentially higher… In the end, we do the same that they do. We dedicate the same amount of time to the game but few follow us, it may be the case that people like us but what’s missing is more promotion.

Q.- For example Doña Letizia didn’t go to the Copa de la Reina final [this means the Queen’s Cup. Leticia is the Queen of Spain and the men’s tournament called Copa del Rey after the King is always attended by him]

A.- I don’t know why she didn’t attend it. Maybe she wasn’t made aware of it, but if the King goes to the guy’s cup final she should come to ours as it carriers her name. It would really help up as it would attract a lot of attention in the press. Hopefully she’ll go next year [Spoiler: she did!]

Q.- Your male counterparts are currently playing in the World Cup hosted in Russia, a country that has a legislation which contains a crackdown on LGBT rights. What do you think about a competition like this one being played in a country like that?

A.- It’s a mistake. In some way it seems like they’re backing the homophobic legislation. In Chechnya there have been concentration camps for homosexuals and that’s something that Putin tolerates. We shouldn’t look away when presented face to face with such issues. This isn’t only about LGBT rights; these are human rights. That’s not the message of tolerance and respect that sport, and specifically football, should affiliate itself with.

Mapi is very certain about this. The match against homophobia in football can be won. She has scored the first goal. Now what’s left to do is for a lot of other athletes to join the team.

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"Cold War" logra cinco nominaciones a los 31 Premios del Cine Europeo

Sevilla (España), 10 nov (EFE).- La coproducción polaca-británica-francesa "Cold War", dirigida por Pawel Pawlikoski, logró cinco nominaciones en la 31 edición de los Premios del Cine Europeo, que se presentaron hoy en el marco del Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla (sur). Producida por Ewa Puszcynska y Tanya Seghatchian, "Cold War" aspira a llevarse el premio a mejor película, mejor director, mejor actriz, mejor actor y mejor guionista. Con la Guerra Fría de fondo, la película presenta una historia de amor entre dos personas muy diferentes pero con un mismo destino en el horizonte. La gala de entrega de estos Premios de la Academia de Cine Europeo tendrá lugar en la ciudad española de Sevilla el próximo 15 de diciembre. - Principales nominaciones a los Premios del Cine Europeo 2018: . Mejor Película: "Cold War" (Polonia-Reino Unido-Francia), de Pawel Pawlikoski. "Border" (Suecia-Dinamarca), de Ali Abbasi. "Dogman" (Italia-Francia), de Matteo Garrone. "Girl", (Bélgica-Holanda), de Lukas Dhont. "Happy as Lazzaro" (Italia-Francia-Alemania-Suiza), de Alice Rohrwacher. . Mejor Director: Pawel Pawlikoski ("Cold War"). Ali Abbasi ("Border"). Matteo Garrone ("Dogman"). Samuel Maox ("Foxtrot"). Alice Rohrchawer ("Happy as Lazzaro"). . Mejor Actriz Marie Bäumer ("3 days in Quiberon"). Halldora Geirharosdóttir ("Woman at War"). Joanna Kulig ("Cold War"). Bárbara Lennie ("Petra"). Eva Melander ("Border"). Alba Rohrwacher ("Happy as Lazzaro"). . Mejor Actor Jakob Cedergren ("The Guilty"). Rubert Everett ("The Happy Prince"). Marcello Fonte ("Dogman"). Sverrir Gudnason ("Borg/McEnroe"). Tomasz Kot ("Cold War"). Victor Polster ("Girl"). . Mejor Guionista Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklof y John Ajvide Lindqvist ("Border"). Matteo Garrone, Uno Chiti y Massimo Gaudioso ("Dogman"). Gustav Möller y Emil Nygaard Albertsen ("The Guilty"). Pawel Pawlikowski ("Cold War"). Alice Rohrwacher ("Happy as Lazzaro"). EFE fcs/vg/jdm/rcf/cr

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Sorogoyen abre en el Festival de San Sebastián el debate sobre la corrupción

San Sebastián, 22 sep (EFE).- Los temas de corrupción en España fueron la inspiración de "El reino", el nuevo thriller de Rodrigo Sorogoyen que hoy compite en la sección oficial del Festival de San Sebastián, y del que su director asegura que el objetivo era "contar que el ser humano tiene mucha facilidad para corromperse". "El sistema está engrasado para funcionar así, es muy difícil cambiarlo", aseguró Sorogoyen en una entrevista con Efe sobre una película protagonizada por Antonio de la Torre y Bárbara Lennie. "El reino" se centra en Manuel (De la Torre), un influyente vicesecretario autonómico a punto de dar el salto a la política nacional, que se ve salpicado por unas filtraciones que le implican en una trama de corrupción. La historia se convierte en una trepidante huida hacia delante de un hombre acorralado, que de un día para otro se ve expulsado del "reino" y traicionado por quienes creía sus amigos, pero que no se resigna a caer solo. Aunque las referencias a la realidad política reciente son obvias, Sorogoyen y su coguionista Isabel Peña prefieren no hacer alusiones específicas. "Para eso habríamos hecho un documental", dice Peña, que sin embargo reconocen que fueron al juicio del caso Gürtel, sobre pagos ilegales entre 1999 y 2005 a cargos del entonces gobernante Partido Popular. Pero, precisa, "la idea era crear, a partir de la investigación, nuestro propio ecosistema". José María Pou, como líder supremo, Nacho Fresneda o Ana Wagener engrosan un plantel de personajes en cuya creación sus autores han contado con asesoramiento de políticos reales, tanto del PP como del Partido Socialista. "Nuestro mantra con los actores era que no hicieran de malos sino que entendieran a su personaje, que creyeran que estaban haciendo lo mejor para su país, o para su vida, su mujer o su hijo, eso era esencial y espero que lo hayamos conseguido, no es una película de gente mala robando que quiere aprovecharse del ciudadano", explica Sorogoyen. "De lo poco que hemos entendido en este viaje es que esta gente no está en su casa diciendo a ver cómo puedo estafar al ciudadano; tienen un nivel de conciencia extraño, limitado, lo que no quita para que sea punible y sintamos indignación", precisa. La crítica al sistema que contiene "El reino" no deja indemne al mundo periodístico y televisivo. "Intentamos reflejar los medios de forma realista, no ser ni crudos ni 'naif', contar lo que tienen de bueno y necesario pero también sus dificultades para ser realmente independientes", sostiene el director de "Que dios nos perdone". Una película que llega en un momento muy diferente al que se concibió, antes de que se presentara la moción de censura que puso fin al mandato de Mariano Rajoy, después de que la Audiencia Nacional condenara al PP como entidad jurídica a pagar 245.492 euros por lucrarse con la trama Gürtel. Pero Sorogoyen cree que aún hay mucho camino por recorrer en el camino del combate contra la corrupción. "No creo que se haya producido un cambio real de conciencia, aunque en la práctica sí, lo que se lleva ahora es la tolerancia cero". EFE mt/fc/agf