#i don't think he's ever claimed that his theories were law or anything

[dragon-tamer-1]

Man, watching MatPat's latest video had me in tears, gonna miss him telling the newest theories.

[fandom-susceptible]

So Harrow's In The Bird

So. I'm not here to argue with anybody. If anyone really dislikes this plotline, that's your prerogative, and if you want to use this post as a jumping off point to talk about it, that's your business. This is not a promise of interaction. This fandom has always been a comfort/safe space for me and I'm not changing that, but I did want to share some more . . . nuanced analysis of why I'm okay with this development.

The theory that Viren switched King Harrow's soul out with the bird has been a thing since 2018. I personally was one of the ones who really liked it, though I don't know if I ever bothered posting about it. The creators of the show claimed it wasn't true at SDCC 2019, but even if this was the plan, they sort of had to or it would have ruined their own plot twist. There was definitely something going on with Pip in the show, they made too much of a point of showing us the bird behaving oddly, so I don't think this was actually a last minute out of the blue choice. They've been genuinely planning this since the early seasons.

Now, part of the reason I was also okay with Harrow just being dead is that it does add to the impact of the story. Both old kings are dead, killed by each other's legacies, while their sons work together to bring about a new beginning. There's a certain symbolism in that.

However, Harrow's character is more than just the King of Katolis or Ezran's dad. He's also Callum's stepdad, which I think is more important for this particular plot line. Like Runaan, he had unfinished business. Not only did he leave behind both of his children, he never got the closure of having an openly stated father-son relationship with Callum. The same way Rayla still refers to Runaan and Ethari by name, Callum always called him King Harrow or Your Majesty, and Harrow never heard him say Dad instead.

I also don't think it's a coincidence that there were three Quasar diamonds, and Callum and Rayla only used one, with Claudia using the other. There's still a third out there that hasn't been used yet. Once again, I'm convinced they had this planned all along; it's not just a last minute hail mary to spare Runaan some sort of guilt or disgrace.

It's going to be messy when he comes back, if we get Arc 3, and I genuinely hope we do. It will be interesting to find out if he eventually agreed to Viren's plan or if Viren forced it on him knowing he could leave Harrow in the bird to watch and suffer as Viren usurped his sons and took control of Katolis. I genuinely look forward to the confrontation between Harrow and Runaan, Harrow facing down the man who killed him (also his son's father-in-law) and Runaan facing someone he killed (also his daughter's father-in-law).

The thing is, I really don't think Harrow being alive spares Runaan anything. He's a professional assassin and has been for over a decade (Rayla mentions he has 20 years more experience than she does, which may or may not include either of their training years). Harrow is not the first life he's taken, and having to face not just the outer consequences but actually look someone in the face and listen to them after killing them would be a mindfuck at best. Harrow being returned doesn't excuse what he did, and I really don't think Runaan will see it that way either. We see him struggling with guilt for almost killing Rayla, and his entire arc in season 7 was realizing how fucked up his worldview (which, admittedly, is highly driven by Moonshadow culture as a whole) is. One singular life being returned isn't going to backslide that entire mental breakdown, no matter how important that particular life is to everyone else. Runaan didn't have a personal tie to Harrow. It was just a job.

Now though, he does have a personal tie to Harrow, through their children, and I think that's going to play a role in how things develop in the next arc. I expected Callum and Rayla's romantic arc from the very first episode where they met, and I think this was all planned to fall into place this way.

So, Harrow kills the dragon king to avenge his wife, restarting a war that had somewhat cooled with time. His sons aren't involved with this decision, but they have to live with the aftermath.

Runaan kills Harrow to avenge the Dragon King, and brings Rayla in order to counter the shame of her parents' fleeing (which they later discover didn't happen, but while it's better culturally, it's not much better in the long run).

Harrow's sons and Runaan's daughter work together to rescue Zym. One of Harrow's sons carries the political plot by going home and taking the throne. The other continues with Rayla to return the dragon prince, and along the way, the two begin a romantic relationship.

Callum's father was killed by Rayla's. Rayla's father dies in Callum's father's dungeon.

Skipping forward, we discover that neither of their fathers were actually killed, but they were both cursed by Dark Magic. Importantly, they were both cursed by the same man, who was manipulating them both (Harrow personally, Runaan as part of a whole) in order to orchestrate his own ascension to the throne and an eventual war and attempted genocide.

They find out about Rayla's parents first, and Rayla looks at recovering them as a personal quest, but Callum looks at it as both personal and a way to undermine Viren's legacy. They only manage to obtain two Quasar diamonds, which means Rayla has to make choices about which parents to rescue, and this drives her personal arc of making peace with her abandonment issues (a plot which runs parallel to Claudia's abandonment issues) and cultural shame connected to Tiadrin and Lain. The father she recovers is the one who stayed with her growing up, and took her with him when he left for his duty.

He is also the one who is ultimately the most helpful as the plot develops. He doesn't run from the consequences of his assassination; Rayla's the one who breaks him out and urges him to go home despite his arrest, and he just doesn't argue with her (I have a whole other post about the confrontation between Ezran, Callum, and Rayla where I go into Runaan's response and why I think he behaved the way he did in season 7). And when greater forces are threatening the world, he doesn't hesitate to work with Callum. In the early seasons I was prepared for him to end up being as racist as Viren in the opposite direction, and I found myself pleasantly surprised by how he just treats Callum as another person.

I think Callum makes his peace with Runaan as a person due to his experiences with dark magic, actually. He understands being so driven by his need to protect someone that he'll do very dark things because he doesn't see an alternative. He's chosen to step beyond that, but I think he understands Runaan's worldview in a way that Ezran simply doesn't until he has the epiphany with Aaravos and the Nova Blade late in season 7. So he's able to look past it, especially since this is Rayla's father.

Then in the very end, we discover that Viren cursed Harrow too. So neither Callum nor Rayla's fathers are dead, but they were both cursed by the same man to be no better than dead and left that way. And Viren died before revealing it to anyone, so Runaan, the man who came to kill him, ends up also being the one whose story saves him.

So now, a killer from the previous generation, who contributed to the cycle of violence, has been returned not only to help end it but to save another and reverse a little bit of the damage he's done.

More specifically, Rayla and Callum both lost their adoptive fathers to Viren. Now, they will be the ones to rescue those adoptive fathers and finally get the closure of claiming them as such.

Plus, the impersonal angle of Harrow's assassination is now disrupted because there's a personal connection through their children now, which will further drive Runaan's cultural deconstruction and likely some mental dissonance for Harrow as well.

All in all, I hope they greenlight Arc 3, because I look forward to seeing how that develops Callum and Rayla's relationships with each other and their respective fathers, and how it changes Runaan and Harrow both as people. Runaan's development didn't really get the focus it deserved in season 7, which I really honestly think was because it was intended to take place over a longer period of time and the writers just didn't have it because Netflix refused to promise them seasons 8-10. So it'll be interesting to see how that goes once he and Harrow are both around to be having their midlife crises at the same time.

[cosmicjoke]

I completely get not taking what VAs say about the work they are participating in as law but I think it's really weird for us to disregard what Isayama himself says about his work, especially concerning the guidebook. I'm not even going to dive into the Levi and Erwin discourse because it's boring at this point.

However, I think you're the only one who I have come across who says we should disregard the author when they talk about the extension of their work.

Everything an Author wants to discuss about their work cannot always be shown inside the work itself because of publishing limits. I know this from experience.

I think it's a bit disrespectful to keep saying we should not care about anything the author says because we didn't explicitly see it in the manga. It's entitled. It isn't our work.

Honestly, I think whatever the author says is canon because they literally created the work and we're simply consuming it.

Saying we shouldn't regard an authors words about their OWN story as canon is wild. Unless they themselves say a certain information they give shouldn't be taken seriously. Otherwise, what authority do we have us readers to decide what is canon. Like, literally. What audacity do we have to decide how authentic what an Author says about his own work is or isn't.

It's my personal opinion and I'm allowed to state it. If you want to take what Isayama says in interviews and guide books as somehow vital or important to understanding canon, go right ahead. Nobody ever said you can't. But any great work of art, which I think AoT is, should be able to stand on its own merit and be able to be understood without needing supplemental material to bolster it. The vast majority of readers/viewers aren't ever going to see any of that stuff. So if your work requires supplemental material to understand it, then it's failed on some level as a work of art. Who's being disrespectful to the author now?

I promise you, I have the utmost respect for Isayama, unlike some bozos on this site who accuse him of giving in to editorial demands or fan pressure just because they don't like the way the story ended, or they don't like the direction of certain characters, or because they need something outside of the actual story to support whatever inane fan theory they have.

You don't seem to understand WHY I say what Isayama says in interviews shouldn't be taken as canon. You think it's because I'm being "disrespectful" and "entitled" and disregarding Isayama's words because I think I know better, but no, it's because in a large majority of these interviews that people constantly site as "proof" of their dumb-ass theories, the story was still ongoing, and it's logical and reasonable to assume that Isayama either couldn't reveal certain things because it would spoil what he had planned, or because he didn't have it quite figured out yet and so what he was talking about was subject to change. If what happens later on in the story contradicts what Isayama himself said in some interview from weeks, or months or even years before, then I'm going to take what happens in the story over what he said in the interview. Furthermore, half of these interview statements that people like yourself rely so much on were given at fan events, where Isayama was put on the spot to answer some random question from some random fan. Half the time there aren't even any, actual transcripts for these interviews. Just claims by people who were supposedly there. Most of the time, these aren't thought out, really thorough answers. So, again, I don't take any of it over what we actually see on the finished page. Of course Isayama's words are what's important, but it's what he puts down on the final page that counts, nothing else. Those are his final thoughts on the matter, his final expression, and it's ultimately the only thing that counts, end of. I'm sorry if you don't want to accept that.

You say that what an author wants to say "can't always be shown inside the work itself" because of "limitations". What limitations are you referring to? Your statement is based on nothing but speculation and conspiracy theory, assuming that Isayama meant something that he wasn't able to explicitly show because of some nebulous outside influence or pressure. And we're supposed to assume he meant something completely opposite or different from what we see on the finished page because he couldn't say what he really wanted to say? Then how are we meant to know what he really meant? If that's the case, why should we take anything that happens in the story at face value? Shouldn't it all be called into question then as Isayama not being able to express his true intentions because of outside influence? Are we meant to fill in what we THINK he really meant because he wasn't allowed to say it? We're supposed to connect the dots using some random interview answer that most readers will have never seen or heard of? Ridiculous. A ridiculous statement.

You accuse me of being disrespectful of Isayama because I dare to only to consider his actual, FINISHED work when analyzing his story, rather than dwell on supplemental material which itself has no, ultimate bearing on the finished product.

Whatever. You say you don't want to talk about Levi and Erwin, but my post about their actual, CANON relationship is what drove you to send me an anon message, and I'm guessing you're one of these same shippers that's been harassing me nonstop lately and that this little "ask" was spurred on by your frankly pathetic inability to let go of the fact that I won't acknowledge eruri or whatever other ship as canon. Try harder next time. You people are such worn out parrots of each other at this point.

[alphabetsoup-blogposts]

I don't know...

about just being a mouthpiece but I do know that Mr GC Banks was told something that made him very hostile, without any input from me.

I knew him well in his former life when he worked with J (coincidentally) at another institution. He was friendly and approachable. Then, one day he became more closely associated with the old lady. Within six weeks he was emanating extraordinary hostility. The switch was very, very marked indeed and worrying at the time, of course.

IMHO there are two people who may have been of influence in this situation. The Valet and a lady I am going to call Ms Well-done. The former you must have come to know by now. The second was GC's predecessor. I knew her very little but I did (back then) have an internal line reporting manager, a man I liked a lot but who didn't have (as I may have mentioned) the law on maternity leave ever at the forefront of his mind. Anyway, he once told me that Ms Well-done had developed the view that it was a scandal that I had a kind of entrée into his room and a claim on his attention. This is a VERY long time ago, so details are hazy but it came as a wild shot out of the blue to me. I am not hiding anything here.

So, yes, I had a kind of manager. We spoke regularly. I said what I was learning and sought advice. I once asked him, for example, whether I should accept an offer to be part of a team advising the government of Ukraine on European financial standards.

One day I heard that Ms Well-done objected strongly to this on the grounds—which were not express but seemed to be implied—that I was a suspected manipulator of some kind. I cannot explain this any better other than to say that it was 2009-ish and may have simply been due to a kind of post-GFC scrupulousness about a chain of access, since the markets had, to some extent, my ear. I might add that it was all the more extraordinary because, for employment law purposes, Ms Well-done also had managerial responsibility for me—I don't think the public record is quite representative on this point—and might, quite apart from anything else, have implemented changes as a matter of HR in the usual way.

Anyway, I was wildly surprised and disturbed by this turn of events—it played no small part in my decision to hedge my career bets... and was a significant part of the picture when I resorted (regrettably) to self-employment. A little later, my manager left and I was not given another, other than a token, changing name in a file which matched a face I had never seen and could not have talked about finance to, if I had. None of this was ever explained or, as best I recollect, notified to me. I just kinda found out one day that I no longer had meetings scheduled with any insiders. When I encountered HR and other problems I needed to ring the department and speak to whomever would answer the telephone. Mostly I avoided doing this... mea culpa.

My working theory (in so far as I gave it any thought) was that Ms Well-done had said something which convinced Mr GC Banks to switch suddenly into hostility but exactly what that might have been, I cannot imagine. Even if the view emerged that the structures involved (which I had not designed or shaped) were not appropriate, why would that entail disliking me so strongly and manifesting so much hostility? The first question, then, is what might have been said. The second is whether Ms Well-done was herself influenced in her view and/or whether something formative was said to her. I would say, having met her, that she developed the theory on her own. Anyway, what I can say, categorically, is that—unless there is a written record—we will never know how she arrived at the view she held.

One other thing, related but not exactly on point. Mr GC Banks later secured his place in plenary—despite the hostility—by telling me that the Man of Talent, whom I admired, liked and perceived to be flawed in human ways, had asked me to facilitate the appointment. I have always strongly doubted that that was true.

[scentedchildnacho]

I asked him if he had a spouse and children so he asked about me and I explained what I think I know though I suspect a law group does know the facts of my case.......

I told him I didn't want a job because the slow be sedentary of indigenous policy drives me crazy to fight or flight responses and fight responses are too unpleasant for me to try

I get attacked a lot by other chicks mostly and having to be a bad girl at another chick is just too karmically awful for me

I do want to work that's why I don't job

I already did a lot of be better business punishments then resistence and also......protest then more theory learning about disease phobia so I pretend I may be a part of reality not the fake world of sex image

There is like an economy and gnp and lifi not just wifi and digitization so on a management level there are financials going around all over the place yet they claim they can justify a formality of tangible exchange and touch between people who are really phobic of disease so if it's going to be bully intransigent then I don't or

Truth is I don't want to be a bitch bully so I don't get a job because it's not sexy and they think their sexy doing it and will have to go through reality checks

Consciousness can get like submerged.....or partially catatonic asleep and eventually good people come for everybody with look those were loans and actually your moral was elsewhere....

The Crow why won't the bitch go home and cook eggs only for her care in life

Why would a woman be told she has to be objective to be an economic though....

He asked me if I would do missions so I told him I suspect i have a christian with health strength and affluence who was suppose to do a mission for me and stalks me to serve their obligation....I'm really not strong enough for creationism or flannery o Connor...i probably do have a christian though that steals a lot from me....

Otherwise I think my case is like black men eventually a law group will mass mediatize my innocence and people will stop being allowed to slander me and random miracle the whole idea of hood will just not allow any of this activity any more

The intelligentsia keeps reminding people that people are human and so an actual real activity will start at some point.....

You think their can't be a miracle like all bullshit over and common wealth re established but eventually this is just corrupt is constantly confessed

Ultimate reality of chicks in jobs is they wish someone like me ripped up with knives and left on the side of the road so eventually some homeless will terrorize and leave them knifed up on the side of the road so I run away all the time from people who won't commit to resolutions surrounding rawanda

That's been my experience of karma things wished on me happen to people who wish them so I always wish everybody correct conditions

He asked me if I beg for money so I said I San Diego I really don't have any friends and the cult here scares me so bad I recommend to others to never ever ask that people for money....

The situation appears to really really harm and terrorize the people here so if it's not just quickly and freely given then they don't ever want that business owner given anything or he attacks them

Its been my experience that if their promotion was going well they would just give things without being asked to....

Otherwise people who riot to finally force car tels to realize that things were not just given to them they have to share not just theirs is for people much stronger then me....be careful of everyone even nice mother's it's a very very corrupt condition

He warned me that he does want a strong woman and thats his apology about candice the bartender those drugs didnt want one.....

He said if spousal he is very analytical and takes resumes so i said i think my story is esoteric czech emigration....this is all i do till i marry then thats all i do.....

I think that there was a divination that i will be saved from the animal barbarous kingdom to go to marriage.......but if you ask me im like my mother and they will send me to a religious type of man.....

Ive thought about how strictly dogmatic I'm kept and eventually i will be sent away....

[jgnico]

Not to be that person but i think you're exaggerating hard on Gojo's powers, his abilities have already been broken down by physic level graduates and literally explained in the most simple way possible which isn't even surprising as they were not that hard to get a grasp on what they actually are either, only it was Gege's horrible way of trying to explain things via mathematics instead of simply saying it like so but i suppose he wanted people to work their brains a lil. The way you are explaining though is something i would hear from a die hard fanboy that likes to wank Gojo because his technique has pretty colors. If you're going to argue that he can erase/create matter and literally erase everything in existence then please for the love of JJK stop there. Gojo is not a fuckin God, he is a human that's blessed with power, notice though that there's still word human in there. The fact that he himself is aware of his shortcomings proves that he knows he's not nigh invincible. Yet you wanna throw him towards a sun for science lol, nowadays all you're doing is attributing any kind of property you want into his abilities even when literal manga proves otherwise. The fact that Gojo cannot control space/gravity directly but does so via matter proves also that he cannot do it with just a forethought and has to use rct to constantly keep his brain from frying while doing so. What next, are you going to drop your self proclaimed claims that he moves at infinitely faster speeds in the jjk than anyone else? Are you going to say he's light speed maybe? The fact that Gege never intended something for something like this in the manga yet you'd argue it's true for whatever hypocritical reason. I mean seriously, at this point just say that Gojo can erase an entire universe and be done with it, you'd probably also just straight out say he can live in space without oxygen because so. If that was all the case, the whole point of JJK would be pointless. People like you are why Gojo gets hated left and right, throwing whatever attributes you want into his powers and turning him into a fucking alien instead of a human he so fights to be perceived as.

Wow what a really long ask with a lot of assumptions.

Never said that Gojo could get rid of everything in existence, so amazing job on reading there, I see that comprehension is still as prevalent as it ever was. I also never said that he could erase matter. I said that he could create matter, which is true; that's literally what Red Glow is.

Gojo's technique as a default is the manipulation of matter. Matter makes up everything around us and always has and always will. You're matter, I'm matter, my car is matter, the sun? Also matter. Regardless of whatever form that matter takes it cannot be made or destroyed, only changed or moved. This is called the Law of Conservation of Mass and it's a concept that has been around well before germ theory or the discovery of the atom. If the Ancient Greeks could wrap their heads around it, I think you could too with the help of google. Or a book.

Regardless, the fact that Gojo, through his technique, can break the laws of physics at will, annoys me. That was the point of my post, expressing my annoyance at Gojo's abilities because from a physics standpoint, they're a nightmare.

I also never said anything about Gojo being a god. In fact, I've made a point on this blog to point out how Gojo very much isn't one. He's just as human as any other character in JJK and the label of godship, the burden of being the Strongest, is a tragic aspect of his character since the people around him stop seeing his humanity as it truly is. They see his strength, they see his technique, they see his status, but they don't see his weaknesses, which is partially due to him intentionally hiding those weaknesses to safeguard against emotional harm and because Juju society cannot keep him on the pedestal that they've placed him on if they acknowledge that he's just a person with too much responsibility. He doesn't even have a God Complex like so many people in this fandom like to claim, he's just a dude that was born with abilities that, yes, break the general laws of physics as we know them.

But how do his Techniques break those principles and why does that annoy me so? Blue creates negative distance that pulls mass toward a specific point. Red creates matter, resulting in an irregularity in space that creates a vacuum. Neither of these things are possible or probable, as distance cannot be completely negated and something (matter) cannot be made from nothing. And yet, they're a thing that Gojo can do. If it had simply been that Blue condensed matter to a point and Red moved existing matter to where it previously wasn't, then I wouldn't be annoyed because while Gojo would still be playing with the building blocks of the universe, it would at least be using defined and "attainable" methods.

But whatever, I'm a nerd and it's possible that my anger toward the concept of Limitless (and Gojo, by extension) is because I personally enjoy breaking down things by science and logic as a hobby and I can't comfortably do that with Limitless because it defies science and logic. That's my own hang up, much like that post was me airing my personal grievances with the Technique.

I just find it interesting that I can talk (rant, really) about how much Gojo's technique annoys and frustrates me (I believe I capped the post off with "Fuck off, I'm eating bricks over here") and that be taken as me "fan-boying" over the Technique and Gojo because "pretty colors." I actually don't even like Gojo and I never have. Do I outright bash him on my blog? No, not unless you count me joking about him not getting hoes. Do I analyze his character and enjoy picking apart his relationships with others? Yes, but I enjoy doing that for all of the characters in JJK, because meta analysis is fun and Gege has given us a lot of detail to work with. Unlike you, dear anon, it's very possible for me to dislike and critique things that I read without being an asshole about it, so despite you starting with "I don't mean to be that person," I think you did, in fact, mean to be that person.

You just happened to send your disorganized, overly emotional and uninformed opinion into the ask box of an adult with an engineering degree and zero patience for someone putting words into my mouth.

PS: Gege using math to explain Gojo's abilities isn't "horrible," they actually did a decent job of simplifying their explanation of Limitless in a way that teenagers could understand. Which is the point, Jump is for a teenage audience. Regardless, Physics is a branch of Science that uses mathematics throughout it's entire framework. Those "physics graduates" used multiple pages worth of math to break down Gojo's techniques, there was no "said like so" about it.

PPS: Tagging my post as "day no 586 of wanting to launch gojo into the sun for science" was obviously a joke, but I'd love to know what properties I'm attributing to Gojo's abilites that haven't been disclosed by Gege in Q&As or stated in the manga itself. Send me something I've actually said and I'll explain it for you, but until then, never assume to know how I think or feel about something, especially when it's clear that you haven't read a single other post that I've made on this blog.

[eddie-redmayne-italian-blog]

Eddie's interview from Style Magazine

By Valentina Ravizza

Photo: Boo George

Styling by Fabio Immediato.

Translate by me from Italian to English

HE WOULD HAVE had to spend the holiday in Italy,” I have a real obsession for your country “,Eddie Redmayne responds from a gray London,” more suited to my pale complexion”, and tells for the first time (and I try to collect my own thoughts) of his next character, the American activist Tom Hayden, protagonist of the protests against the Vietnam war in 1968 and 77e trial of the Chicago 7, the new film by Aaron Sorkin, arriving on Netflix from October 16. "Democracy is something extraordinarily beautiful and complex, nothing comes easily, we must defend our freedoms if we don't want them to be taken away from us."

 It can be risky for an actor to take a public position, Aren't you afraid to undermine your popularity?

“The truth is, I'm not afraid to take sides, we all should. I feel a social responsibility as a human being: today more than ever we should ask politicians certain questions. I'm not one who particularly likes to take risks unless it's for something I deeply believe in.”

For exemple?

To play Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything I met several people affected  by ALS and doctors who helped me to learn more about the disease, and now I am among the supporters of the Motor Neurone Disease Association. During the lockdown in Britain was made a list of  vulnerable people  and I found it shocking that patients with  motor neuron disease were not part of it, so I spoke to several politicians and went to help them.  As an actor my voice has more chances to be heard and I can bring  more light on this topics, I have to do it.

Also politicians as in the case of The Trial of Chicago 7?

This film tells how we got rights by changing wrong laws and remember  that progress could have gone in one direction rather than another.

Is there any similarity between the protests of the 1960s and those of movements such as Black Lives Matter ?

There are moments in history when people ask for society to really represent them and that's exactly what happened then and what many people are doing in these months. The demonstrations mentioned in the movie were against the  Vietnam  war, but also supported the claims  of the civil rights and feminist movements, the one against which they are protesting today has it’s roots in systemic racism, so the similarities are many.And there are also several other parallels between the two political situations: at the 1968 Democratic convention there was a former vice president, Hubert H. Humphrey, right-hand man of Lyndon Johnson, who ran for the White House, as today  former Vice President Joe Biden is in running, and  there was a Republican candidate for president who was betting  for “law and order” , then it was Richard Nixon, now the same campaign is being carried out by Donald Trump.

 Today there is social media, what would have happened if Tom Hayden and the others from Chicago had it?

Hard to say, myself I don't use them . While they represent a great tool of democracy that gives everyone a voice from the shore to  power, they also contribute to exacerbate and amplify the falsehoods and prejudices of those who listen only to what they want to hear, in a sort of echo chamber, and they can be used to manipulate things in a very pervasive way.

Is it more difficult to play a figure you esteem like Hayden or one you despise?

I try not to judge, to dissociate my sense of reality to recreate hers. I do as much research as possible, accumulating a lot of information and then throwing everything away and play  only  what's in the script, hoping that all the prep work has been absorbed somehow into my body, And knowing that that movie will never be. a documentary: I am creating a painting, not a photograph. For this I must accept that I will never be able to be exactly that person, that in something I will necessarily fail.

And when the character is a pure author’s Fantasy product?

It’s like when you were told at school to make  a free written essay: I hated it, I said “please, give me a lead!”, In these cases I try first of all to understand what the boundaries are, to find some elements of truth: for example, in the saga of the Fantastic Beasts to become the "Magizoologist" Newt Scamander I started by observing the work of zoologists.

How is it divided between entertainment and committed movies?

In my choices I have always let myself be guided by instinct: I read a script that my body reacts, I get excited, I laugh, I am touched to the point of  seeing myself in the role of that and than understand that I really have to do it.

Did the same happen with Tom Hayden?

They first  told me about it three years ago while  I was on vacation in Morocco, when told me it was Sorkin who wanted me it was like a dream come true. I read the script and  it not only ran , but it had a kind of syncopated rhythm I immediately loved it. Then when I got better informed about the project, I found out that it had been written years ago and I couldn't believe  he hadn't seen the light yet.

In fact, the first draft is from 2007.

We wondered if this movie had an audience, if it was current enough.Instead with what’s going it has become more and more pressing 

So much so that in order to release it this year, given the health emergency Paramount Pictures has decided to sell the film to Netflix (56 millions of dollars) to be distributed directly via streaming.

There could be no better way than Netflix to reach as many people as possible. And I say this as a passionate cinemas’  lover . Unfortunately in the last 20 years I have witnessed a general loss of attention span: there is always a new story to know, we are constantly being pulled in different directions, and instead find ourselves in a cinema hall being forced to sit there for two  hours and  half even when our attention tries to escape, it’s a kind of pleasant claustrophobia.

And theater, is  it still part of your life?

I know that  more years go by without me returning to the stage  more what I’ll say l’ll sound insincere, but yes, my career started from there, I spent 5 o 6 years working in London theaters. I knew almost nothing about cinema until that world began to open its doors to me, I had to learn a lot on the set.  I’ve been looking for a theatrical project, but so far  what has been proposed to me are works by the greatest authors, and instead I’d like do something new, fresh. Maybe I found it, but  I still can't say anything.

Have you ever thought of letting yourself be taken one day by another passion besides acting?

My other great love is art,  but if I ever have to work on it, I imagine myself more as a curator than as a co-worker. But I honestly think that being an actor is extraordinary: whatever part you encounter on your path continues to grow:although sure it’s a wild life and it's a drug.

 Are you a workaholic?

In the beginning I was because I had no alternative: I was constantly auditioning and once I got a part  immediately got to work, Until in this unfair world of acting there came a moment when I was suddenly successful and overnight I finally had the opportunity to choose. Many people are looking forward to retirement, I hope I’m offered roles even when I’m 80 years old.

At that age maybe you will also be behind the camera?

I'm a bit of a control freak,so yes, I could potentially one day  go directing, even just out of curiosity  But only if I had to find the right project, something in which I feel safe,