#julia thistlewaite

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REGENCY LADIES + pink

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MY FAVOURITE DUOS - PERIOD DRAMAS

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Zawe Ashton as Julia Thistlewaite & Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Lord Cassidy in Mr. Malcolm’s List (Film, 2022).

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Mr. Malcolm's List: Love Stories Through Newspaper Cartoons

[viscountessevie]

I was thinking of Julia and Selina and imagining if they became pregnant at the same time, but they switched personalities? So Julia becomes unusually calm and level-headed and Selina is now tired and a little unhinged.

The way the first thing that came to mind was Wow their sperm really affected the girlies' hormones 😂😂

Like Ossory is super chill and Malcolm is a little unhinged so it would be so funny if it was hormones but also their husbands influencing them!

I can see Julia having an easy pregnancy and she would get spoiled rotten so girlie is veryyy comfortable. Selina thinks it will be an easy one but it's a little harder than she imagined. So she becomes very irritatable and in pain a lot. In turn, she also gets spoiled and fussed over.

Uncle Cassie brings them both new expensive blankets amd pillows to soothe them and swaddles for their babies.

As you mentioned in our PMs, the husbands would 10/10 be a little freaked out and unnerved but would do their best to be there for them. Also them hiding at the un when they need a break is so funny they totally would! Cassie's like Stranger things have happened. I can see him being popular with the ladies so he knows what's up with pregnancy and ladies in their ever changing moods. Everyone especially rallies around Selina to make sure she's okay. Sometimes they have to walk eggshells on her. Whereas with Julia, they all get a reprieve from her schemes. Though at times, Cassie would be suspicious of her since calm Julia seems like a trap. By the time he trusts her, the 9 months are up and she's back to her hijinks lol!

Don't ask me why but I think the Ossorys would be boy parents - Julia needs another mini Cassie to manage lmao - and the Malcolms would be girl parents. You bet when their buddles of joy come, they'll be wrapped up in the finest silk sheets courtesy of Uncle Cassie and his ✨expensive taste✨

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Zawe Ashton Appreciation Moment

If there’s any justice in this world, Zawe should be getting out of jail about now (instead of only out of the house) because she straight-up stole Mr. Malcolm’s List. She embodied the role of Julia Thistlewaite to a degree that one would’ve thought the movie was made to showcase her skills. And here she was a last-minute replacement. As you’ll see in the gifset that follows (as well as the gifset for St. Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold), she’s showing frustration in two different classes and timeframes. She has an enviable range and displays it with a kind of elegant grace (even when she ain’t being elegant). If they ever want to redo My Fair Lady with her (and Tom Hiddleston as the Professor Henry Higgins), I’d be there day 1.

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Snippet From My Lord Cassidy/OC Fic That Shall Likely Never See The Light Of Day

Thanks to @viscountessevie for inspiring me, and kudos to her for sticking with Cassie when I didn't 💀

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Graceful Machinations

Recognizing her graciousness here.

Mr. Malcolm’s List (2022) dir. Emma Holly Jones

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Meet cute alert 🚨 (Mrs. Thistlewaite's head tilt is hilarious)

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"There is a female friendship in this movie that plays as strongly and as powerfully as any of the romances. If feels very real and very nuanced" —Zawe Ashton "(...) As much as this film is about the love story of Mr. Malcolm and Selina, it is as much a story about female friendships, and about Julia and Selina's bonding — and also the ups and downs in a female friendship as well." —Freida Pinto

· MISS SELINA DALTON & MISS JULIA THISTLEWAITE · Freida Pinto and Zawe Ashton · Mr Malcolm's List (2022)

[justzawe]

Zawe Ashton Covers AMAZING Magazine | Issue 4

Actor, author, playwright and new mum Zawe Ashton adds another string to her bow: supervillain. As she joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she tells AMAZING about her love of poetry, getting physical on the set of The Marvels and the unwavering support of her own parents.

Zawe Ashton is no stranger to playing the antagonist. From her very first film role as rude schoolgirl Bianca in 2009’s St Trinian's 2: The Legend Of Fritton's Gold, to playing the intimidatingly cool Violet “Vod” Nordstrom in four seasons of student sitcom Fresh Meat and – more recently - as the rejected Julia Thistlewaite in 2022 period drama, Mr. Malcolm’s List, Ashton has a knack for taking on characters who appear unlikeable on paper… and making audiences fall in love with them. However, for her latest role as Dar-Benn in The Marvels, she had to go full villain.

“Very little can prepare you to have to embody an antagonist at this level, in a Universe that is literally not known to anyone – like our Space - and to make it real and impactful,” says the London-born actor, a new recruit to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “There's something deeply humbling about having to return to the sandbox; you have to go back to the playground and that was something I was not expecting. You have to indulge in adult play and it’s surprisingly vulnerable. I know that there are gamers out there, there are cosplayers out there, there are adults who have managed to keep that level of childlike play going and I respect it so much. There's a self-consciousness that can take over if you are not careful. Trying to react realistically to a laser coming towards you is not something I’d done since I was seven years old, and I had to get to that level of childlike confidence to just delve into the imagination. Once that was all clearer, the villainous elements came so much from the physical world, with costume and hair.”

For 39-year-old Ashton, adult play will likely become a more frequent fixture in her life, thanks to her most exciting new role – as a mother. She welcomed her first child in 2022 with fiancé Tom Hiddleston, her co-star in the 2019 revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal on London’s West End, later transferred to Broadway. “What has genuinely surprised me about motherhood is how much I don't feel ready to talk about it,” she laughs. “And this isn’t to shut down the conversation. I have gained so much insight from public people who have this incredible candour and this disarming, relatable dialogue about it very early on, but it's something that I am just dedicating time to absorbing. I’m listening rather than expelling energy. That genuinely has surprised me, because it's something you want to shout from the rooftops about; it's the most unparalleled, most important role in my life. The surprise has been how quiet I want to be about it. Maybe that's also me as a writer and this is something that will come through the pen at some point.”

Ashton attended London’s Anna Scher Theatre School from the age of six and was a member of the National Youth Theatre, before getting her degree in acting at Manchester Metropolitan University, but writing has always been significant in her life. She won the London Poetry Slam Championship in 2000, becoming the event’s youngest winner, at 17. “I may have been knocked off that pillar long ago, but in my head I'm still the youngest,” she laughs. “I love poetry. I had not written for a really long time; during the pandemic I lost a huge chunk of my creative soul when it came to putting pen to paper, which was really scary and was clearly the fallout of being in survival mode and feeling quite fearful. People's attention spans just went all sorts of different ways, didn't they? It was very hard for me to read, and it was very hard for me to write, which is very strange for me.

“More recently, a friend of mine from drama school who I used to do open mic nights with in Manchester – I used to perform poetry and she used to sing - asked me to write a poem for her wedding. I had a few moments where it was really tough, but I did it. I love her and I'm so happy for her, and being inspired enough to get a poem out and read it aloud really opened the floodgates. So, weirdly enough, I've been writing a lot of poetry recently and found a new love for it. I will always continue to use poetry as a way to understand the world. It's just so much part of who I am.”

For Zawe's full interview and shoot, order your copy of AMAZING issue 4 now. The Marvels is out now.

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Zawe Ashton as Julia Thistlewaite in Mr. Malcolm’s List (Film, 2022).

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zawe ashton as julia thistlewaite in mr. malcolm's list (2022, dir. emma holly jones)

[zawescource]

Actor, author, playwright and new mum Zawe Ashton adds another string to her bow: supervillain. As she joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she tells AMAZING about her love of poetry, getting physical on the set of The Marvels and the unwavering support of her own parents.

Zawe Ashton is no stranger to playing the antagonist. From her very first film role as rude schoolgirl Bianca in 2009’s St Trinian's 2: The Legend Of Fritton's Gold, to playing the intimidatingly cool Violet “Vod” Nordstrom in four seasons of student sitcom Fresh Meat and – more recently - as the rejected Julia Thistlewaite in 2022 period drama, Mr. Malcolm’s List, Ashton has a knack for taking on characters who appear unlikeable on paper… and making audiences fall in love with them. However, for her latest role as Dar-Benn in The Marvels, she had to go full villain.

“Very little can prepare you to have to embody an antagonist at this level, in a Universe that is literally not known to anyone – like our Space - and to make it real and impactful,” says the London-born actor, a new recruit to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “There's something deeply humbling about having to return to the sandbox; you have to go back to the playground and that was something I was not expecting. You have to indulge in adult play and it’s surprisingly vulnerable. I know that there are gamers out there, there are cosplayers out there, there are adults who have managed to keep that level of childlike play going and I respect it so much. There's a self-consciousness that can take over if you are not careful. Trying to react realistically to a laser coming towards you is not something I’d done since I was seven years old, and I had to get to that level of childlike confidence to just delve into the imagination. Once that was all clearer, the villainous elements came so much from the physical world, with costume and hair.”

For 39-year-old Ashton, adult play will likely become a more frequent fixture in her life, thanks to her most exciting new role – as a mother. She welcomed her first child in 2022 with fiancé Tom Hiddleston, her co-star in the 2019 revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal on London’s West End, later transferred to Broadway. “What has genuinely surprised me about motherhood is how much I don't feel ready to talk about it,” she laughs. “And this isn’t to shut down the conversation. I have gained so much insight from public people who have this incredible candour and this disarming, relatable dialogue about it very early on, but it's something that I am just dedicating time to absorbing. I’m listening rather than expelling energy. That genuinely has surprised me, because it's something you want to shout from the rooftops about; it's the most unparalleled, most important role in my life. The surprise has been how quiet I want to be about it. Maybe that's also me as a writer and this is something that will come through the pen at some point.”

Ashton attended London’s Anna Scher Theatre School from the age of six and was a member of the National Youth Theatre, before getting her degree in acting at Manchester Metropolitan University, but writing has always been significant in her life. She won the London Poetry Slam Championship in 2000, becoming the event’s youngest winner, at 17. “I may have been knocked off that pillar long ago, but in my head I'm still the youngest,” she laughs. “I love poetry. I had not written for a really long time; during the pandemic I lost a huge chunk of my creative soul when it came to putting pen to paper, which was really scary and was clearly the fallout of being in survival mode and feeling quite fearful. People's attention spans just went all sorts of different ways, didn't they? It was very hard for me to read, and it was very hard for me to write, which is very strange for me.

“More recently, a friend of mine from drama school who I used to do open mic nights with in Manchester – I used to perform poetry and she used to sing - asked me to write a poem for her wedding. I had a few moments where it was really tough, but I did it. I love her and I'm so happy for her, and being inspired enough to get a poem out and read it aloud really opened the floodgates. So, weirdly enough, I've been writing a lot of poetry recently and found a new love for it. I will always continue to use poetry as a way to understand the world. It's just so much part of who I am.”

For Zawe's full interview and shoot, order your copy of AMAZING issue 4 now. The Marvels is out now.

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Title: Mr. Malcolm’s List

Author: Suzanne Allain

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2009

Genres: fiction, romance, historical fiction

Blurb: The honourable Mr. Jeremy Malcolm is searching for a wife, but not just any wife; as the target of matchmaking mothers and desperate debutantes, he’s determined to avoid the fortune hunters and find a near-perfect woman, one who will meet the qualifications on his well-crafted list. After years of searching, he’s beginning to despair of ever finding this paragon...until Selina Dalton arrives in town. Selina, a vicar’s daughter of limited means and a stranger to high society, is thrilled when her friend Julia Thistlewaite invites her to London...until she learns that it’s all part of a plot to exact revenge on Mr. Malcolm. Selina is reluctant to participate in Julia’s scheme, especially after meeting the irresistible Mr. Malcolm, who appears to be very different from the arrogant scoundrel of Julia’s description...but when Mr. Malcolm begins judging Selina against his unattainable standards, Selina decides that she has some qualifications of her own, and if he is to meet them, he must reveal the real man behind the list.

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Mr Malcolm’s List Movie Review

When she fails to meet an item on his list of requirements for a bride, Julia Thistlewaite (Zawe Ashton) is jilted by London's most eligible bachelor, Mr. Malcolm (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù). Feeling humiliated and determined to exact revenge, she convinces her friend Selina Dalton (Freida Pinto) to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he's found the perfect woman...or the perfect hoax.

Well...at least it wasn’t as boring as the book. This time, the characters weren’t bland, though I cannot say that I particularly enjoyed most of them. And the storyline is only as good as the investment you feel with the characters.

 At first I liked Selina, but then felt she became a little insufferable. Lord Cassidy and Captain Ossory were quite fun and injected some great humour into the film, although I must admit that Julia was by far the standout in Mr Malcolm’s List. Zawe Ashton did an incredible job with a character that could very easily have appeared as a kind of one dimensional cartoonish villain. Instead, whilst Julia makes many questionable decisions, she is also immeasurably amusing and also someone I could sympathise with. For the most part, it is the fun she has that keeps the narrative from dragging too much, and I really enjoyed her scenes with Lord Cassidy and Captain Ossory. I felt that out of all the characters, those three had the most chemistry with each other. I just didn’t feel connected to any of the other relationships, whether platonic or romantic because I don’t think they had any chemistry.

Mr Malcolm was by far the worst character of them all. Every time he was onscreen I felt like I was enduring something painful. Not only did I not feel any chemistry between him and Selena, I found him to be a truly unbearable character. And unlike Julia, I don’t feel like there were any positives to make up for it. He appeared arrogant, rude, selfish, egotistical and condescending. With the way Julia acted I perhaps shouldn’t have felt so sorry for her, and yet I did. At no point did I feel bad for Malcolm. Not to mention that Selina could’ve done way better.

I think I disliked this version of Mr Malcolm more that I did in the book, but for the most part, I preferred the film. Whilst largely lacking in wit and romance, it was much easier to finish the film than the book, though it could have done a bit more on the satire side of things. The dialogue didn’t make me roll my eyes and immediately wish I was reading Austen instead as opposed to the book, and the narrative was somewhat well constructed. However, again, I found myself thinking that this particular idea could have been improved by a better writer.

I wouldn’t say I regret watching Mr Malcolm’s List, but it’s certainly not a film I’d bother revisiting.

My review of the book here