#how to be a great actor

[sharktooth-jacket]

ofmd has so many great characters but can i just take a sec to say how much i appreciate Pete. he means so much to me!

Pete is a bald, chubby guy with a speech impediment and visible facial scarring. and i'll be honest, when the show first started i thought i knew where they were going with him. i'm also a bigger guy with a speech impediment. i'm used to characters who are like me in these ways being nothing but jokes.

and that...never happens. no one ever mentions Pete's lisp or pretends they can't understand him. he's a fat, bald gay man with a lisp and the show presents him as desirable, attractive, and really just a decent guy. there are no jokes about Lucius "settling" for him or cracks about "really? you're dating him?" and Lucius kind of going "oh beauty's on the inside," there's none of that. Lucius and Pete very obviously find each other sexy, and other characters treat their relationship with respect and feel genuine joy for them.

it's just so, so refreshing. when Pete is the butt of a joke, it's because he's a blowhard and a big ol goofus, not because of things he can't help. he's shown as desirable and attractive because he is, and that's not a joke. he even gets a sweet story about moving past toxic masculinity and finding love, and he's one of the funniest characters on the show with so many great lines! i just love how the writers handled this character so much.

[kdramaxoxo]

I’m living for how everyone in ‘When The Phone Rings’ is in a thriller—except for hong joo, who is clearly in a rom com. 😂

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Sento gets a page too.

[sayidsjarrah]

it's so strange to me that naveen andrews was completely absent from that variety article on Lost's racism in 2023. not a single mention of him or sayid whatsoever (except for an odd comment from harold) especially considering he did come out and express his "general dislike" of the show.... especially considering sayid is subjected to some of the most obvious racism from the show over the course of it's run.... he was completely absent from the getting lost documentary.... he gets a pretty rough treatment from the "fans" who seem to consider him a bad actor because he drops his accent on occasion.... even though he was the only non-white supporting Lost actor to be nominated for an emmy and golden globe..... and they blame and talk shit about him because he proposed the romance between shannon and sayid (and we all know how the average misogynist Lost fan feels about shannon)..... and he wasn't happy when maggie grace was written out of the show.... the decision kind of fucked over sayid's entire arc....... his role and screen time was heavily reduced after it..... and sayid's six season presence in the show was reduced to fans complaining that sayid should have been with nadia in the finale – not shannon..... when that doesn't make any sense for the thematic premise of the show... and naveen is a hardcore #shayid fan – obviously.... idk but I feel like there's a lot more to come out about what went on behind the scenes, with both the non-white and female cast and crew..... it's interesting that Lost has had such a massive comeback as soon as that variety article came out. very interesting.

[kraftykelpie]

Hera💚

[dropthedemiurge]

Lee Taevin every second for the past year: Love for Love's Sake is so precious, I loved this project, I will remember it forever, did you know we became one of the main representatives of BL genre in Korea? Yes, now everyone go watch BLs, I seeked this project after my queer storyline in ordinary Kdrama was completely erased, anyway about my love for Love for Love's Sake–

And then after LFLS he went and played on stage a gay red flag character in historical play "Angels in America". Lee Taevin, THE MAN THAT YOU ARE 🥺

[borgialucrezia]

"I play a tortured character who asks questions of pride, ego, and responsibility, and is always found wanting. Poor Juan Borgia. He failed despite trying so hard. I guess sometimes we get dealt a hand we can’t win, however hard we might train, change the rules, or cheat." — DAVID OAKES

[only-lonely-star]

i was js scrolling on pinterest when i saw this pop up.

i immediately thought ‘hm, looks like soda’s flannel. i can see steve wearing it.’

they’re so cute good the fuck bye.

[possession1981-moving]

JUNG EUN-JI as Lee Mi-jin MISS NIGHT AND DAY (2024) Dir. Lee Hyung-min | Ep. 1

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as the greatest criminal mind, Ratigan - The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

[balladofthe101st]

Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings by Langston Hughes // Elegy While Listening to a Song I Can’t Help But Start to Move to by Chen Chen // War of the Foxes by Richard Siken // Erika Sanchez // Untitled // The Day You Died Because You Wanted To by Andrea Gibson // Invasive by Ada Limon

[starrrbakerrr]

Peeta has said many charming things, but this line always has me giggling and kicking my feet. I don’t understand how Katniss was so strong.

Suzanne really decided to create the perfect man: he can bake and paint, he’s charming but not cocky, and is really kind and caring only to then strip and distort his entire personality, thanks suzanne.

I kinda hate how they changed this in the movie. Even in the paragraphs before this they had this flirty banter that was so so good. The movies erased or changed nearly all of their banter though.

But, anyway - Peeta Mellark is the blueprint that no other book boyfriend has lived up to.

[sapphicyanli]

truly rare netflix w for casting the gayest person in the natla cast as zuko. literally couldnt get any better than this

[starssoblue]

"the reason adrien is just instantly good at everything he tries is because he is programmed to be that way as a senti" aside from the fact that i don't think that's how it works (and also while he was decent at everything he tried with marinette he wasn't instantly good at all of them, and what marinette actually said to him was that he could improve in anything with practice but it was a great first attempt) did we all collectively forget about how adrien actually canonically isn't the best singer?

[gojuo]

two siblings two teenagers forcefully married to each other have children together have discord in their marriage and they just lost their child in what was one of asoiaf's top 5 most horrific events to have ever happened and their actors had to beg the writers for them to have a scene together....

this is what hotd's writing is worth.

[khaoala]

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translation credits to @/nellyangyang on twitter