#my edit: mr selfridge

[english-ingenue]

“What do you think I should do?” “Maybe… Wait for her?” “I’m good at waiting.”

[sissi459]

Name 10 Characters from 10 Fandoms that you love:

No, I wasn’t tagged, and yes, I’m doing this anyway. Even though I’m legitimately not sure I HAVE 10 fandoms because I am a pretty one-trick pony…

1.) Call the Midwife: Shelagh Turner/Sister Bernadette. Always and forever top of my list. (Hon. mention Trixie Franklin, but she’s kind of a distant second)

2.) Mr Selfridge: Lady Mae Loxley

3.) Downton Abbey: Lady Mary (she’s a boss and we all know it)

4.) Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Phryne. I mean, duh. (Hon mention: Dr Mac. Yay, redheads.)

5.) Orphan Black: Mrs S (Hon mentions to Felix and Sarah.)

6.) Voyager: Janeway. See earlier note about redheads.

7.) Gilmore Girls: Lorelei. ADHD women unite.

8.) Does I Dream of Jeannie count? Because I had a truly formative teenage obsession with Jeannie (and everything 1960’s mod)

9.) The Durrells in Corfu - is this even a fandom, help: Louisa Durrell (hon. Mention Larry Durrell, bc writers)

10.) Stranger Things: Hopper, but like…only season 2 and maybe 3. I love Dad-mode Hopper. He’s like the most amazing healthy male character on tv. (I’m completely ignoring S4 where they basically made him into some kind of weird war-hero Superman with no meaningful depth and more resilience than ever any middle-aged American dad could possibly have). But legit, I am the most casual watcher of this show and don’t really even consider myself a true “fan.”

I almost did Derry Girls for my 10th, but honestly, how can you choose? I’m between Orla, Clare, and Michelle…or Uncle Colm, just for hilarity value.

Edit to add: I somehow forgot NCIS?!!

Ziva David. No question. Total badass.

[love-karens-style]

School of Style – Sassy Sequinned Style: 3 Fast Facts

 (source: © Lima Ché, via pintrest.com)

“Elegance is elimination.” –Cristóbal Balenciaga

1. Black Blouse – Today ladies, shall we start, with the above quote by Mr. Balenciaga? This quote ladies, can be interpreted in several ways, and this paragraph will be used to explain my own personal interpretation of this quote. I firmly believe that this quote could potentially be adopted, when it comes to accessorising an outfit. This is because, years ago, back in early 2008 to be precise, during my time at Selfridges & Co. in London, Oxford Street, where I sometimes worked closely with the Personal Shopping Team, one of my colleagues from Personal Shopping, introduced me to one of Coco Chanel’s insanely important quotes, which is that, “When accessorising, always take off the last thing off that you put on.” Therefore ladies, I’m eternally grateful for the fact that Lima, in this instance, decided to refrain from wearing plenty of jewellery. In particular a necklace and earrings. Why? Because, as you may have noticed, Lima is wearing a small stack of bangles and a bracelet on her right wrist, and just a few rings. This observation, is in line with what style strategist, Nina Garcia said in her book, The Little Black Book of Style, in terms of accessories, which is to “Make sure you don’t go overboard.”

2. Clean Canvas – Secondly ladies, not that you need to be told to do this, but I will mention this next point just in case you need to be reminded, please, do your best to gently and thoroughly, thoroughly, thoroughly remove your make-up at night. Or, as we say in the skincare sector of the beauty business, “take the day off,” (i.e. remove everything from your face that you may have applied in the morning, including make-up and sunscreen) before your head hits the pillow. Ladies, if you wish to maintain a clear complexion, thoroughly cleansing your face, will help to ensure that you wake up with a ‘fresh face’ in the morning. Ladies, here is what model and mogul Kimora Lee Simmons had to say about the importance of cleansing, in her book, Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It, “My number one tip is to keep your skin clean, no matter what.”

3. Justified Jacket – Ladies, the final fashion fact based on my analysis, that I wish to share with you, is regarding Lima’s beautiful blazer. I am definitely delighted to see that the glamorous gold ‘ties in’ with the gold hardware on Lima’s high heels, bag and most of her jewellery. I think that this is absolutely amazing, as it promotes a polished finish, and shows that she properly pays attention to detail. Ladies did you also notice that Lima has also specifically selected just one stunning sequinned statement piece (The Blazer), and kept it at that? This is great! Because, in the words of Coco Chanel, “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

Love, KF X                                                                                            

Happy to help: karensworldofstyle@live.co.uk or karens_style on X (Twitter)

This article was researched, written, edited, produced & published by Karen, on 26th August 2024

[artcalledcinema]

When I Watch When I watch An old Bruckheimer Nothing but Stars All those dudes Prior to CoEd army No Army movie been made Like this Including Females When I watch I see this movie of future I see another one also That one series too BlackHawk Down Ext. Edition I need a shot of Malibu On a beach in Kenya Watch a carving in wood Nothing but Stars From a Knight in Munich, faeries of LordsOfRings, Jedi, Batman Nemesis Bane, Prison Break, Operation Fortune, Saving PVT Ryan, Snow Piercer, SOA, Sleepers & Drop Dead Fred, Very Bad Things, Game of Thrones, Confidence, CSI NewYork, Missing Persons, we don’t fly in bad weather The Island, Safe Passage (can’t own or watch) add Blackthorn Pearl Harbor, whose movie was it! Watching stars I can see the places went Watching stars beef before co-ed Some will cross over Or burn like an asteroid Perhaps I shall add my other favorites of above stars Didn’t include : MadMax, Revenant, Inception, Bronson, Warrior, Band of Brothers, Deliver Us From Evil, Hanna, Lone Survivor, Troy, Trainspotting, the Island, Doctor Sleep, Last Days In The Desert, Big Fish, Robots, Black Dahlia, Sleven, Most Wanted, the Rundown, Trainspotting2, WonderWoman, Armageddon, Go, Contact, Professor & The Mad Man, BigLove, BourneSupremacy, Judgement Night, the Kingdom, Mr Selfridge, Wild, The Other Woman, Kingdom Of Heaven, God of Egypt, Pirates of the Caribbean, Coyote Ugly, BadBoys, The Rock, Gone In 60 Seconds, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, Days of Thunder It’s rainy in my Hollywood parts I’m watching Stars When I watch Stars You all men must be contracted

No likes

I just escapades into a new gender

But stars are paid before

This isn’t music

We got paid before

We need you in theater next

Purchasing a ticket

It helps later

It’s not music

Documentaries cry, read, lip syncs

Out for ourselves paid prior

Contracted

We can comment

May hurt future proceeds

You can understand

I’m not a singer or band member

I’m an actor

I was paid for prior performance

Not ticket and see a performance

It’s different

[mirai-desu]

10 Fictional Couples I Love

(not in any order other than my OTP of OTPs on top - see captions for names)

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

Victor Colleano and Violette Selfridge having... a good time.... 😏

I'm almost done with Mr Selfridge, 4 seasons went by surprisingly fast! Didn't expected joying it as much either.

[lookforastar]

Mr. Selfridge - 29/? times Lady Mae hides behind her façade (1x01)

[thatdandyboy]

365 Days of Men // Day 322 // Oliver Jackson-Cohen

[mrsabbington-blog]

Amanda Abbington as Miss Mardle in Mr Selfridge

[queen-abbington]

Amazing miss Mardle  💕

[mariekavanagh]

Do you have a fancast for the Blacks?

Yes and no. I have a few solid images of some members, vague image of others, and none for some at all. 

Orion: 

I don’t have a fancast for him. I do, however, love the way he is pictured by the wonderfully talented @toujourspur12. You should check out her work, if you haven’t already. Her Black family artwork is superb. For me, her Orion is my Orion.

Personal fave image of Orion is this one: 

Walburga: 

I have a mixture of images for Walburga. Eva Green is by far the most popular fancast for her, which I used to dislike because the images of her used for Walburga are almost always from Penny Dreadful. I just don’t think she looks pretty enough in that show to be Walburga (by which I mean the way the character is made up; hair, costume, make-up and expression, not Eva herself). I haven’t seen the show but she always looks very... grumpy, for some reason lol. Very much against the Penny Dreadful Eva Green for Walburga. 

However, I have since looked into shots of Eva from other projects she’s done and I’m a tad more convinced. Faves include shots from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, which makes me think of Walburga around the 1970s...

...and this one from Casino Royale, which makes me think of a much younger Walburga in her 20s, around the time she was giving poor Orion the runaround haha 

I do also think of Walburga when I see some shots of Katherine Kelly as Lady Mae Loxley in the first series of Mr Selfridge. 

She has the sharp features I see Walburga having, and doesn’t she just look like she’s scheming something? XD 

None of these is a solid fancast but I can see aspects of my Walburga in each of these shots.

Regulus: 

Regulus is probably the character I have the most solid fancast for. I see him as Colin Morgan, particularly in this shot:

I feel like he looks very proper but there’s also some softness there which feels very Regulus (and also not bad looking lol. I know canon says he’s “less good-looking” than Sirius but Sirius is supposed to be a work of art so Reg can’t be that bad off xD) 

I’ve never been a fan of the popular Regulus fancasts. They just don’t look very him to me. 

Sirius: 

As with Walburga, I don’t have a solid fancast, but there are aspects of him that I see in some other people’s. The most popular by far is definitely Ben Barnes, but I don’t 100% see it, although he’s probably the closest real-life person I’ve seen who fits the image in my mind. 

A lot of people like to use shots of him as Dorian Gray for Sirius, but they’re not really for me, personally. Also, many people use them for images of Sirius when he’s Hogwarts-age, which I think he looks a bit too old for. 

This is one image that convinced me not to be 100% against him as Sirius. I tend to save photos I find of costumes which look wizardy to me, for descriptive writing inspiration, and Ben in this costume (I think it’s from one of the Narnia films?) does look rather Sirius to me, particularly with the red and gold colouring. To me, this is No Azkaban AU Proud Aristo Sirius (post-Circinus, perhaps, assuming he doesn’t send himself back to Azkaban lolz).

Aside from this, I pretty much just have the Sirius in my mind which I’ve never found a perfect replica for and will probably never have the skills to bring to life myself. Tragic. 

Arcturus: 

I have yet to find an actor that comes close to how I imagine Arcturus. However, this work from @toujourspur12 is VERY close to the Arcturus in my mind: 

Just imagine him leaning on a cane and scowling lol.

Bellatrix: 

I’d never had a fancast for Bellatrix, until I saw this artwork of her by @vagueenthusiast, based on Katie McGrath: 

I had, until this point, been unconvinced by Katie McGrath as Bellatrix, but this does it for me, perfectly. 

Alas, I don’t have any fancasts for other members of the family. This post was probably far more detailed than it needed to be, but I have editing to do so naturally I’m going to seize the opportunity to turn it into a complete fancast album xD 

[english-ingenue]

"He'll be a lucky man who gets you for a wife, Aggie."

[lorelaigilmoure]

i’ve finished my first harry x mae fanvid and will post it soon.

[art-by-sable]

Tagged by @kasielartist to list my top ten favorite characters! Which is difficult because who can narrow it down to just ten?! Here they are, in no particular order:

DI Joseph Chandler (Whitechapel)

Agnes Leclair, née Towler (Mr. Selfridge)

Cara Dune (The Mandalorian)

James Bond

The Mandalorian/Din Djarin (The Mandalorian)

Laura Hobson (Inspector Morse & Lewis)

Robbie Lewis (Inspector Morse & Lewis)

M (Judi Dench edition!)

Fleur Perkins (Midsomer Murders)

Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger, fashionista (M*A*S*H)

[sleemo]

Daisy Ridley: How to survive Star Wars

— The Telegraph | Dec 8, 2017

Almost two years ago to the day, Daisy Ridley was propelled into the stratosphere via the Millennium Falcon. One minute she was a little-known actress from London who had had a bit part in Casualty and the dubious honour of being cut from an Inbetweeners movie, the next action figures were being created in her likeness.

As Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Ridley wowed audiences with her punchy portrayal of a scavenger who discovers that she in fact has mighty powers – the force is strong with her, if you will.

The film ended with her seeking out Luke Skywalker and presenting him with his father’s lightsaber. Are the two related? Is Rey Darth Vader’s granddaughter? So many questions, so little chance of anyone being able to answer them before Christmas 2019, when the last of the current crop of Star Wars movies is due to be released. 

So we come to The Last Jedi, episode eight of the franchise and the reason that we find ourselves in a galaxy far, far away – or at the very least, a hotel room in Los Angeles. When we meet, Ridley can’t tell me anything about it – partly because then, she’d probably have to kill me, partly because she hasn’t actually seen it herself.

It has been directed by Rian Johnson, who worked on Breaking Bad and, Ridley says, ‘is far more secretive than JJ Abrams, who directed episode seven. But what I can tell you is that [the film] picks up right where we left off, and what Rian and I were discussing is that it’s not always a good idea to meet your heroes, because occasionally it doesn’t work out. And it may do. I’m not saying that it’s all awful between Luke and Rey. But Luke is not expecting Rey, and his reception is perhaps not what she thought it would be. She looks at him like a myth, but they actually have to communicate – and it’s not this mystical thing that’s away from her and up in the clouds, it’s this thing that is happening right here. There’s a threat, obviously, but also there’s room for both of them to grow. So now she actually gets a chance to ask herself questions like, “Why is it that I’m here, what is it that I’m doing, and where am I going to end up?’”   

These are questions that most of us ask ourselves at some point in our lives. For Ridley, who is just 25, they came up a little sooner than usual due to the avalanche of exposure that comes with being in a film franchise so huge that it has spawned its own religion (people are now allowed to choose ‘Jedi’ when asked their faith on the census). She had therapy for six months last year, once filming had wrapped on The Last Jedi.

‘I have always suffered with anxiety since I was a teenager, I should have done it way before, but I suddenly realised how good it is to talk about this stuff. Going through the whole thing with the same group of people is wonderful, but also occasionally it’s really good to step away [from the cast and crew of Star Wars] and actually really process what went on, and how I felt in it all.’

Ridley made the decision to leave Instagram last year, after posting a picture of herself at the 2016 Teen Choice Awards, accompanied by a caption in tribute to people lost to gun violence. She was targeted by trolls; a shame, given that she had previously shared honest posts about her battle with endometriosis (which has had since she was 15) and the acne she suffers as a result.

‘[After the Teen Choice Awards post] suddenly people were not very nice. I had put on weight after finishing filming, and I thought, why do I have to be slender to have the views I have? For three days I was shell-shocked. It was the most rude awakening to what the internet could be. So I came off, because I just thought my soul was more important. As I’m in more films and everything gets more public, I savour the private stuff more.’

She tells me that she also read a report linking teenage anxiety with Instagram. ‘I suddenly thought, what world are we living in, where we are affected by things that are edited online? I’m pretty solid in myself, but my confidence was ruined. It was really unhealthy. I’ve felt so much happier since I came off [social media].’

Ridley worries about the need for online validation. ‘Everything is for someone else now. How we look on our holiday has become for someone else. It’s really nice to have stuff that’s just for you, that you can do and go home and say, “Hey Mum, this, this and this happened, I still have pictures to show you, but I can also tell you the story and it will be a wonderful, personal thing I’m sharing with you.”’

She describes 2016 as a ‘total head-f—’. Why? ‘The film coming out and seeing people’s reactions and freaking out a bit and hearing people talking about whether you did a good job in it.’ But she got great reviews, I say. ‘But I didn’t see that, so it’s also sort of reconciling what other people are seeing and you’re not, and then realising that it’s OK not to see that.’

Ridley says that her sudden fame was hard for others, too. ‘I know it was really difficult for my mum. I mean, it’s difficult for someone’s youngest child to suddenly be this thing that people are claiming parts of. Sometimes I’ve felt like I was limiting myself in [talking about] the good or bad things, because I never wanted to seem ungrateful – what I am getting to do is extraordinary. But it’s also not easy all the time.’  

Daisy Ridley was born in London in April 1992, the youngest of three daughters. Her mother works in communications for a bank, while her father is a photographer; Daisy attended the Tring Park School for Performing Arts in Hertfordshire, where she specialised in musical theatre, but she has said that she never had a burning desire to act.

She credits  a drama teacher with being the first person who made her think she could do it as a profession; after leaving school, she started a degree in classical civilisation at Birkbeck, University of London but dropped out to pursue acting.

There were small TV roles in Silent Witness, Toast of London and Mr Selfridge, but when Ridley heard that JJ Abrams was seeing unknowns for the next episode of Star Wars, she lobbied her agent to get her an audition – the films have a rich history of turning nobodies into somebodies (not least Harrison Ford), and Abrams was keen to stick with that tradition.

Five meetings with Abrams later, she landed the role of the girl from nowhere thrust into the centre of the Star Wars universe. Ridley says that in Rey, there is a lot she can relate to.  She remembers meeting the late Carrie Fisher for the first time at a dinner before shooting started on The Force Awakens.

‘All the men were on one side of the table, and she said to me, “Come and join the oestro-fest!” And she was wonderful. The Leia thing… I mean, yes I did look up to [that]. But, to me, it was much more that Carrie didn’t shrink from everything that she was and everything that this is too. She owned it. She knew what Star Wars was in her life, and what it had done for her. She was just incredible.’

Fisher advised Ridley to ‘fight against being the slave girl’, in reference to the gold bikini Leia famously wore in Return of the Jedi. ‘But what is amazing is that I didn’t have to fight against anything. I thought it was a super-cool role because Rey wasn’t making choices because she was a girl, she was just making choices because that’s what people have to do.’

When we meet, Ridley is wearing a Roland Mouret dress with Jimmy Choo heels. ‘I’m so scruffy usually,’ she says. ‘My goal in life is to be really elegant and smart. My sister says, “Dais! Stop buying men’s jumpers then!” But I love a man’s jumper.’

How much has life changed since Star Wars? ‘Well that’s the thing. I don’t know if it has.’ She is aware how ridiculous this sounds; what she means is that she tries not to let success go to her head. ‘Career-wise it’s changed everything. There’s no way I would have recorded with Barbra Streisand [on her album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway] had I not met her through JJ.’

She has recently been in cinemas as Mary Debenham in Murder on the Orient Express, ‘and there’s no way I would have been able to do that because Ken [Sir Kenneth Branagh, who directed the film] may not have seen me. So that stuff is different. But life stuff is… I don’t know. I hope I’m smarter than I was and make better decisions, but I think it’s pretty similar.’  

She catches the cynical look on my face.

‘Obviously I am living a different [life] to the one I was before, but I still live in the same place [London], my family are still my favourite people, my friends are the same, I still go on the Tube.’ Does she get recognised? ‘Not really. Everyone has their own stuff going on, they’re going to work, they’re living their lives.’

Ridley adds that she’s not sure what it is that everyone assumes she should be doing – perhaps living in a gold palace, I suggest?

‘Yeah. I don’t think people necessarily actually think that, it’s just a thing that once you get into conversation with someone, they realise that you still have to buy friggin’ tampons. My friend texted me the other day to say that her sister had seen me getting my eyebrows threaded in Superdrug for £3.50. And you know how they do it in the middle of the shop. She was like “Dais! Go somewhere else!” But I won’t because Superdrug is the best place.’

Today Ridley’s modus operandi is to look after herself and try to stay as calm as possible. ‘Reading a book or running  a bath – that to me is self-care, because you get a moment to be tranquil and listen to your own music.’

She recently finished playing the title role of Ophelia in a new film that tells the story of Hamlet through the eyes of the tragic heroine, also starring Naomi Watts and Clive Owen, due for release next year. She says, ‘I worked pretty much every day for eight weeks. What I needed to do was go home and sleep. And that is self-care too, deciding what I need right now.’

In her spare time, Ridley does Pilates and then she likes to ‘sit on the sofa. I don’t drink very much, but last week I was back for three days so I went to the pub with a smattering of my friends and my parents and sisters and we had a little drink and made merry. Also, I love washing. People take the piss out of me – on a day off I’m like “leave me alone with my detergent”.  Nothing is sweeter to me than being in my flat and hearing the washing machine go.’ She laughs.

After Ophelia, there’s Chaos Walking, an adaptation of  the young adult novel by Patrick Ness. She has just been signed by Netflix to star in a superhero comedy alongside Josh Gad, and of course there is the ninth (and final, for now) instalment of Star Wars.

What then? ‘Well, I just want to keep working with people who give me as much joy as the people I’ve got to work with so far. Just that. That is what I want.’ She pauses, smiles. ‘And also to be able to continue to have a voice. To be able to take a month off if nothing right comes along. That would be wonderful.’

Star Wars:  The Last Jedi is released on 14 December.

— The Telegraph

[mirai-desu]

Happy birthday, @breakfast-at-bateses!!!