#if sasha were here she could exploit the situation so bad!! there's NO talking about feelings and validating each other's strengths!
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Concept: in her obsessive need to control Anne and Marcy, Sasha tries to cause tension between them because they're getting a little too close and they might be oblivious but she sees the way in which they look at each other and - oh, oh no, no no no no no she's not having that. There's a reason they called their garage band "Sasha and the Sharps" and it's because it's always been her and her two girls, not her two girls... weirdly crushing on each other and leaving her behind.
Thankfully, she knows the inner workings of their psyches like the back of her hand. She knows all about their strengths, weaknesses and insecurities. She just needs to compliment Marcy's intelligence a little too much in front of Anne while rubbing on Marcy's face that she'd probably be alone and unable to handle herself in public without Anne bringing her down to reality. Stirring Anne's jealousy and Marcy's insecurity is surprisingly easy, especially when it starts to reflect in the way in which they treat each other.
#amphibia#marcanne#anne boonchuy#marcy wu#sasha waybright#my posts#watching treasure hunt and 2 things jump to my attention#1) how easily anne becomes jealous and envious of Marcy and how quickly that turns to mild hostility#(âwoah! this sewer is shockingly cleanâ / âthere's actually a reason for that! đ I -â / â����đŽâđ¨ rehauled the sewer system?â)#and 2) how much faith marcy has in anne despite knowing puzzle solving is HER specialty. she really doesn't underestimate anne at all here!#she's happy to go along with her ideas and really takes her seriously when anne is secretly seething in jealousy đđ#if sasha were here she could exploit the situation so bad!! there's NO talking about feelings and validating each other's strengths!#only dwelling in insecurities!#marcy is a huge doormat with both anne and sasha so itâ#it'd probably end with anne blowing up and becoming increasingly hostile because sasha made her think everything marcy does#is some kind of jab at her intelligence#this shit really kills the love đ
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âWhatever Iâve gone through, Iâve gone through. But, ultimately, this particular arena of my life has been so absurd...âÂ
 Johnny Deppâs NEW INTERVIEW!
Last saturday, August 14, The UK Times, released a new interview with Johnny for the Sunday Times section. It was realized sometime earlier this month, in London, probably on the same day he and Andrew Levitas were recording for the Q&A for the âMinamataâ release in UK. This is Johnnyâs first interview since the UK trials in London last year, and released three years after Johnnyâs major interview for the British GQ Magazine. Here Johnny and Andrew Levitas speaks about âMinamataâ, his future as actor and a thing or two about his personal life, although he cannot talk about the court case.
For those who couldnât read yet, here is the FULL interview:Â Enjoy.
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âIâM BEING BOYCOTTED BY HOLLYWOODâ
Johnny Depp has a new film out this week. In the opening scene his character, the real-life photographer W Eugene Smith, says, âIâm done. Iâm tired. My body is older than I am. Iâm always in goddam pain. I canât trust my f***ing dick any more. Constantly in a foul mood. Even the drugs bore me.â
I ask Depp if Smithâs despair resonated with him. Depp stops. Rocks back and forth. âThatâs interesting,â he replies with painful hesitation.
âI didnât approach playing Smith in that way⌠Although you bring your toolbox to work and use what is available. Having experienced...â He stops again. Depp takes any questions that might refer to his calamitous libel case last year slowly, in a mumbly, croaking drawl. âA surreal five yearsâŚâ
In the film Smith needs to revive his reputation. In real life Deppâs task is even more daunting. Thanks to the judgment, everyone can call him a âwife-beaterâ. Now he must convince a Hollywood still convulsed by #MeToo that heâs not toxic â and that any attempt to rebuild his career is a risk worth taking. This is Deppâs first interview since the case.
We are speaking over Zoom, Depp in his London home, in front of a gold-framed painting. The 58-year-old is wearing a lot of clothes. Earrings. Floppy hat. Sunglasses. Bandana. Scarf. Checked shirt over a T-shirt with an indiscernible slogan. If you saw him on the Tube*, you might think he was off to work at the London Dungeon*, to play most of the characters.
PS. For those who are not familiar with British words: * Tube = British slang for London Underground, the subway trains. * London Dungeon = is a walk-through experience that recreates scenes from London's scary history in a mixture of live actors, special effects and rides.
Depp resumes, talking in broken sentences about the new film, Minamata, in which Smith, via Life magazine, exposes the brutal mercury poisoning of Japanese villagers in the early 1970s.
âHow do we do this?â he asks rhetorically, meaning how to speak about the elephant in the Zoom. âWell, thereâs no way one canât recognise the absurdity of the mathematics.â He grins. âIf you know what I mean?â No. âAbsurdity of media mathematics.â He talks in riddles. âWhatever Iâve gone through, Iâve gone through. But, ultimately, this particular arena of my life has been so absurd...â
He trails off again. He is holding a big brown roll-up of some sort. âWhat the people in Minamata dealt with? People who suffered with Covid? A lot of people lost lives. Children sick...Ill. Ultimately, in answer to your question? Yeah, you use what youâve got. But what Iâve been through? Thatâs like getting scratched by a kitten. Comparatively.â
Last July, I went to the High Court in London to watch Depp on another screen â a video from the socially distanced court where the Hollywood star was losing a libel action against The Sun after it called him a âwife-beaterâ. It was the grottiest showbiz trial of the century. There were photos of the actor passed out in a foetal slump, socks on show. One lengthy exchange involved faeces. Another urination, inside or outside a house, after a violent night with his ex-wife Amber Heard.
This had all been going on for a while. In 2016 Heard applied for a temporary restraining order against him. The couple had long endured a narcotic, booze-filled, childish relationship, but that does not matter â 12 incidents levelled against Depp were proved, said the judge, and abuse is abuse, regardless of how badly they both behaved. Depp wanted to appeal, but the court said no. Next April in the US he has a $50 million defamation case against Heard relating to an opinion piece she wrote about being the victim of domestic abuse. It may be his last roll of the dice.
In the 1990s Depp was a sensitive heart-throb. Cooler than DiCaprio, edgier than Pitt. In this past year he has been stripped of his status and dignity. On day three of the trial Sasha Wass QC, representing The Sun, asked Depp about daubing a penis on a painting. He could not remember. âThat would be quite a big thing, painting a penis on a picture?â Wass asked. âQuite a big thing?â Depp asked.
It was a well-delivered line, but Depp was on show. Performing. Now he is more timid, less lucid. His people say he cannot talk about the court case given the looming US trial, yet it hangs over everything. The director of Minamata, Andrew Levitas, is also on our call â as a pub trivia aside, Levitas is married to the Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins.
The two men clearly get on. âWith regards to journalism, it was important for us to put across in the film the power of truth,â Levitas says. Depp nods. âThe responsibility of journalists to look after citizens of the world. [Our film] coincided with the moment important publications had to put Raquel Welch on a cover to get enough eyeballs to sell enough ads in order to put something meaningful inside. A result of that is clickbait â itâs destroying the purpose of journalism,â Levitas continues.
âYou said it beautifully,â says Depp, one of the worldâs most pinned-up men, who built a career on magazine covers. âI couldnât say it better than that.â
Last month Levitas wrote to MGM, which bought Minamata for the US market but decided not to release it. He accused MGM of being concerned that âthe personal issues of an actor in the film could reflect negatively upon themâ. Then the letter got really strong. Levitas accused MGM of failing in its âmoral obligationâ to release the film and said it needed to explain to the victims âwhy you think an actorâs personal life is more important than their dead childrenâ. He then attached Smithâs photos of ghastly deformities that shocked the world 50 years ago.
âItâs important that the movie gets seen and supported,â Levitas says. âAnd if I get an inkling itâs not going to be, itâs my responsibility to say so. Where it goes from there? I donât know. But we have responsibility to these victims . . .â
You can see why heâs passionate. The film is good. MGM bought the film because it is good. Depp is good too. He disappears into the role, far from his more recent pantomime parts. Itâs being released worldwide, just not in the actorâs homeland.
Depp, who also produced the film, interrupts. âWe looked these people in the eyeballs and promised we would not be exploitative. That the film would be respectful. I believe that weâve kept our end of the bargain, but those who came in later should also maintain theirs.â
âSome films touch people,â he adds. âAnd this affects those in Minamata and people who experience similar things. And for anythingâŚâ He pauses, as he does. âFor Hollywoodâs boycott of, erm, me? One man, one actor in an unpleasant and messy situation, over the last number of years?â He trails off. âBut, you know, Iâm moving towards where I need to go to make all thatâŚâ Again, he trails off. âTo bring things to light.â
The fact, as I think Depp knows, is that for his career, the court that matters is not one of law, but public opinion. On social media, where a lot of minds are made up, Deppâs good reputation will always outweigh the bad, thanks to his frequently blinkered fans.
Outside the High Court, as Heard arrived, I saw Natasha, 30, yell: âGet hit by a truck, Amber!â She is extreme, but the persistent way his fans demand that others think their idol is a saint shows a career revival will happen. After all, most filmgoers do not follow his private life at all. To them, he is Jack Sparrow, Edward Scissorhands. To them, he is a star â and a star can take an awful lot of heat before it burns out.
âThey have always been my employers,â Depp says of his fans. âThey are all our employers. They buy tickets, merchandise. They made all of those studios rich, but they forgot that a long time ago. I certainly havenât. Iâm proud of these people, because of what they are trying to say, which is the truth. The truth theyâre trying to get out since it doesnât in more mainstream publications. Itâs a long road that sometimes gets clunky. Sometimes just plain stupid. But they stayed on the ride with me and itâs for them I will fight. Always, to the end. Whatever it may be.â
Depp will talk like this for ever â about his âtruthâ. Minamata is the last film Depp has listed on the industry site IMDb, where actors usually have half a dozen in development. So, yes, fans of the actor can see Depp in a new role now â it is a return, but is it a relaunch? The film was finished in 2019, way before last yearâs court case. Is that it? His last film? He thinks and looks off to his bookshelves, at biographies of Betjeman and Olivier.
âEr...no,â he says, eventually. âNo. No. Actually, I look forward to the next few films I make to be my first films, in a way. Because once youâve...Well, look. The way they wrote it in The Wizard of Oz is that when you see behind the curtain, itâs not him. When you see behind the curtain, thereâs a whole lot of motherf***ers squished into one spot. All praying that you donât look at them. And notice them.â
I would ask him to explain, but I am not sure he is an explainer. Watch this space, I guess, but he is already taking a first step back. After we speak, it is announced Depp is getting the coveted Donostia award at the San Sebastian Film Festival next month. Some people are just too famous to fail.
~ Interview by Jonathan Dean, in London, for The Times UK (released on August 14, 2021)
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