#speaks: oscar granger.

[euphoriclusts]

"what are you doing here?" / @svftlove

[euphoriclusts]

leading her towards the table, he too pulls a chair out for her, throwing a reassuring smile her way. it took quite a lot for oscar to feel jealous and he trusted edwina, so whatever they had wandered into was exactly what they claimed it to be. in spite of her suspicious behaviour. he knew her well enough to know it was almost in her nature, he didn't think twice about it and attempted to offer chelsea a reassuring glance too, prompting her to recognise the same. "i'll help you, mate. can't have you bring four drinks over here by yourself." he didn't know much about victor, but he felt no malice towards him. so what if they were betrothed to one another. they hadn't got married, and he seemed to have moved on. at least, everything indicated as such.

whatever she might've believed she'd stumbled into, she really did trust victor. which spoke volumes about what she felt about him. so, when he takes the lead, she happily follows. complies when he pulls a chair out for her, taking a seat. "thank you," she mouths, truly grateful for his kindness. it wasn't what she was used to and she was sure that were anyone to discover her origins, they wouldn't shy away from conveying how undeserving of a man like him, she was. yet she soaks it up right now, that dull ache in her chest dissipating slowly. maybe she'd need more reassurance, but that would come, she hoped, in time. when they were alone again.

EDWINA HADN'T BEEN PROUD OF that chapter in her life, but she hadn't completely concealed it from Oscar. She had been honest with him. Though their conversation hadn't been in-depth, but she had moved on from it. Renewing her ties with Victor is another thing. She doesn't think they'll ever restore their friendship the way it was, but they can at least stand each other in the same room and be civil. She relaxes as Oscar grasps her shoulder, the gesture assuaging her guilt. "I'm dandy," she answers with a titter. "Okay, a drink, but don't knock yourself out."

         "Whatever you all want. The world is your oyster. You're all welcome," Victor quips, attempting to lighten the mood. He turns to Chelsea, sensing her apprehension. She's good at keeping her composure, but he knows her tells and knows her well enough that it's not always the case. He wants to ask her, but maybe later, in the right place and the right time. He just hopes that his suggestion for them to get drinks together won't sour her mood. He takes her hand in his and meets her gaze, intertwining their fingers, giving it a reassuring squeeze. "Anything you want." He leads her to a table, and pulls a chair for her.

[skeelly]

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[typingtess]

A few thoughts on “The Noble Maidens”

It seems fitting that a storyline that started on the Sunday after Ash Wednesday wraps up on Easter Sunday.  And maybe that’s the problem.  CBS had a bunch of preemptions due to the Meghan and Harry and the Grammys so maybe a lot of more this will make sense on the Rewatch where the episodes are back to back to back to back.  For example, Nell’s steel spine through the episode probably has a lot more meaning just hours after her unhappiness over her  position in the office.

As a standalone, as with all the episodes here, the action was solid, the pacing was good and the writing was fine.  The payoff worked – the team worked as a team to save Anna.  All good.  It just seems like a long road of four episodes with the DOJ and Carlson, the Russian pilot, whatever is going on with Callen and Zasha, the coming and goings of Adm. Kilbride, Kirkin and Arkady to end with Callen sitting bedside with Joelle and Anna moving back in.

The total ret-con of Anna seems odd but it worked with Arkady brought up that Hetty was doing the same with Callen and her band of orphans.  Kilbride certainly mentioned that Hetty could have been behind Anna’s 2020 found freedom – maybe she knew.  

Speaking of Kilbride, if they need a new “Granger” character – a worthy opponent for Hetty’s decision-making – they have that character.  He’s comfortable confronting Nell and the others but is ultimately on their side.

Nell was terrific tonight.  Always happy to see Eric.  Fatima and Roundtree haven’t had much to do lately, I hope that changes but this was a Callen and old team centric storyline.

The end with Kensi and Deeks was the first reminder that Deeks wanted out (and to a lesser extent, so did Kensi) just months ago.  There was a good line in Deeks’s interview with the investigator that he didn’t know how much he loved what he did until it was going to be taken away from him but tonight was a reminder, the bar was a way to stop getting shot at by Russian Noble Maidens and other criminals.

The show is in reruns (next week, April 26th against the Oscars) or preempted (April 18th for the CMAs) until the beginning of May.  See you in a month, show.

[retvenkos]

“nerds travel in packs”

BEING A BFF TO OUR BOYS, PETER PARKER AND NED LEEDS, HAS TO BE SOMETHING LIKE THIS...

so you, ned, and peter are close - like the three musketeers

ned was the one to claim this, but you objected because the three of you were way too nerdy and dorky to be them

so, naturally, peter googled iconic trios to find a compromise between the three of you

that didn’t happen

ned claims you are luke skywalker, leia organa, and han solo

him being han, ofc

but you and peter objected

peter says you are harry potter, hermione granger, and ron weasley

he’d be the hermione of the group

but ned refused to be ron

even after you insisted that ron was more than comic relief, ned refused

he said it was because he could never be a ginger

so you jokingly said that your crew was obviously the alvin and the chipmunks

peter objected, and you said that he was simon by nature

and sadly, it stuck

and that was just the start of the obnoxious alvin and the chipmunk jokes

peter claimed to hate it more than anything, but one christmas he gave you a dvd of alvin and the chipmunks: chipwrecked

you forced he and ned to watch it with you, joking that it deserved the 2011 oscar for best-animated feature

rango who?

watching it was one of the worst experiences of your life, but it was fine because it was with your besties

and you know that the three of you have crazy inside jokes

do any of your conversations make sense to other people?

definitely not

which makes it quite easy for you to tease peter about his crush on mj without making it obvious

unlike ned, who had  z e r o  filter

“it’s part of my charm, (y/n)!”

and speaking of mj, you know you get to befriend her too

and she will forever say that the three of you are the worst, but when the “iconic trio” argument comes up, she claims that it has to be star wars because she is obviously lando calrissian

and that makes ned’s whole world

“but that means peter has to be luke. (y/n) is obviously a leia.”

and we all know that peter has seen star wars just to humor ned and doesn’t really understand what is happening

but now that he knows mj likes it? he forces you and ned to have a marathon with him

and being friends with peter is great

because he’s actually really funny when he wants to be

he mumbles under his breath a lot because our boy is RESPECTFUL and doesn’t want to be rude, but it’s actually really great running commentary

especially when it comes to teachers.

our boy can rip them a new one

and another perk of being peters friend is that he is  c r a z y  smart

do you have homework struggles? ask him! he wants to help! and pls tell him ‘thank you,’ this boy needs validation

you jokingly say that he should make youtube videos on different math and physics concepts, and he actually does it

it’s now his main source of income, now

and you almost die when you see your teacher use one of his videos for a lecture

“you’re famous, pete!”

oh, and you know that you were with ned when he finds out that peter is spider-man

and then you buy any and all spider-man merchandise

peter’s eyes are so wide when he first sees your spider-man backpack

it’s also become a way to give him a gag gift

you and ned definitely bought him a spider-man toothbrush

and he secretly uses it

but also being peter’s friend means that you have to cover for him when he is doing spider-man stuff

you frequently “faint” from “chronic iron deficiency” whenever peter needs a distraction

you also try to fall on flash if you can, because revenge is fun when it’s “not your fault”

you and ned have also made many elaborate lies about peter to cover his superhero status

one time, peter came to school with bruises and black eyes and instead of coming up with a normal excuse, ned blurted out the first thing he could think of:

“he has scurvy!”

ned looked to you and you nodded, horrified “vitamin c deficiencies, y’know?”

peter made it a point to drink only orange juice for a week to punish you and ned

but mostly, he loves you guys

movie night is saturday, and it’s at ned’s house

the three of you see a lot of movies, especially older ones

it’s come to the place where all of you can have conversations in almost entirely movie quotes.

and the three of you are inseparable. it’s cute

AND FLUFF ENSUES.

[emma-what-son]

(Echee post) Emma Watson criticises 'dangerously unhealthy' pressure on young women

Posted on March 30 2014

From theguardian.com March 2014 Emma Watson has criticised the "dangerously unhealthy" image projected by the fashion industry and said the pressure to look perfect has taken its toll on her. The actor has also described her doomed attempts to merge into the background as a student at an American university, where she found herself being trailed everywhere by British photographers. After the recent New York premiere of Noah, she tweeted a photograph of the array of cosmetics – and a guardian angel pin – that she said were essential aids to her flawless appearance, and another of herself in a backless dress captioned: "I did NOT wake up like this." The actress said she is better at taking criticism these days than she once was. "As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling." Watson became famous playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies and has been constantly in work since. She is about to start filming a thriller, Regression, by Alejandro Amenábar and is also trying to complete her degree at Brown University, Rhode Island. She enrolled in 2009 for what would have been a four year course, but has taken several breaks for film work, and spent a year studying at Oxford. "After Harry Potter, all that mattered was university," she said, in an interview with the Sunday Times. "It wasn't always easy to break down barriers, as having men from the British press following me with cameras didn't help my mission to integrate. The American press, by contrast, "afforded me so much privacy", but her fellow students recognised her at once. "On the first day, I walked into the canteen and everyone went completely silent and turned around to look at me. I had to say to myself 'it's OK, you can do this'. You just have to take a deep breath and gather your courage."

GUARDIAN COMMENTERS SAY: So something like this Burberry campaign she did a few years ago? Hypocrisy at its finest. She flaunts with the fashion industry and enjoys its perks all the time, but hops on the 'female beauty' bandwagon and enjoys a moan when it suits her. I'd find her socially conscientious pleas convincing if she hadn't profited in the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) from the big, bad, evil fashion/beauty industry. A few years ago, Emma Watson appeared in high-profile advertising companies for posh Paris fashion house L'ancome. I'm guessing she was handsomely remunerated for her 'work'. Certainly she was not forced into letting her photo shopped image be used to market expensive cosmetics and perfumes. Did she only discover how 'oppressive' the fashion industry is when L'ancome cancelled her lucrative contract? Ms Watson is essentially a third-rate actress, and her pronouncements on large and complex issues, such as the pressures on women, are so idiotically vapid that one is brought to conclude that she really can have very little aptitude for higher education. I mean, her comments are hardly indicative of an educated person, or even of a moderately literate or intelligent person. By the way, I understand that she spent a year at Oxford as a visiting and/or exchange student while enrolled at Brown. How come? She is a British national, and so by rights she should not have gone to Oxford on a visiting/exchange student programme, irrespective of whether she happens a student at an American university. If I am wrong about this, then I should like to have some explanation as to her status at Oxford, and how she came by it. Otherwise, I suppose that one might be forgiven for thinking that it is yet another case of a once respectable academic institutions bowing down before the false idols of celebrity and money. (This is quite apart from the fact that all that one has read about her since she began life as a student concerns her acting career, her modeling and her various boyfriends.) SOME COMMENTS FROM THE DM ARTICLE Notice how it's always people who are very aware of how attractive they are that babble on about how it's okay to have physical blemishes? I'd like to see an ugly person say the same thing. Only someone young, beautiful and with her whole life before her can say that, and mean it. Sometimes, her comments maKe her more stupid. Get lost and Wingardium Leviosa. What a daft thing to say. But, then again, this is coming from someone who can't seem to finish uni. I feel like I've aged about 10 years reading this article. Annoying girl. Not only annoying, but also pretentious and disingenuous. ^None of this is my words. It from commentators from two sites emma-what-son posted many more so check out her page

Here's what I think As for what she is saying about Brown it's a complete 180 from how she described it before 2013. In 2013 she started to elude to the fact it was not as great as she made it out to be. She gushed how wonderful her experiences had been to so many magazines. Now I think she's looking for pity and to have excuses why she never stayed at Brown. She preached how she was staying put. I am so fucking tired of having to post quote after quote proving my point with this when she lies time after time. She is not honest! What the truth is doesn't matter because she always lying. It's a constant thing with her. As for the pressures on women she is really a piece of work. The guardian commenters summed it up nicely. She had no problem attaching herself to Burberry and Lancôme. She's had no problem giving them praise and talking about fashion and make-up in just about every interview. That part where she talked about photo shopping and air brushing. Just wow! Did she see the Wonderland magazine she edited? Some photos it didn't even look like her. She'll continue allowing her image to be manipulated no matter what. She thinks she’s aging? She still looks 15 without all the make-up and photo shopping. Last year she was stopped at JFK because they thought she was a unaccompanied minor. Did you know one of the product she pushed when modeling for Lancôme was an anti-age cream? That's the dumbest comment in her entire interview. But really she's said this kind of stuff the last three years and most notably in 2011 where she had a various quotes about body image and being comfortable in your skin. I wont bore you with those quotes since I have before. She gets lauded for those comments and people place her in role model status but when you closely look at it they were just words that meant nothing at the time other than to make people think, “Emma is so anti-Hollywood!! She’s a role model for women and young girls” but meanwhile she never believed in any of it in the first place. At the time she said those things she was at a more healthier weight than she ever was. In 2011 you can tell she either stopped working out or ate more. I thought she looked her best then. Now she’s back to stick thin and even surpassed it a way IMO is unhealthy. She sending a bad message to women. From standard.co.uk July 2011, “She sees modeling as an extension of acting, in fact - just playing a role - but is conflicted about its demands. “I think the pressure the media and the fashion industry put on women to look a certain way is pretty intense. There’s a certain tyranny to trying to achieve that kind of beauty. I don’t know, I’m maybe not the best person to speak about this because I obviously completely adhere to it,” she laughs nervously. “ ^She really needs to start taking her own advice and quit being a judgmental hypocrite. Not just with this topic but everything she tends to speak out against that she does it herself. Recently she tweeted a photo of all this make-up and I posted this on my tumblr days ago

^Same phone in this photo is what they're using in the bottom photo that I also posted on tumblr She said something else recently (Sunday Times interview) that is just typical Emma. I covered this a few times. From emmawatsonbelgium.blogspot.be March 2014, "For someone who has starred in eight blockbuster movies and is worth an estimated £30m, she is endearingly modest about how green she felt leaving Harry Potter behind in 2011. Emerging from that magical machine was “really intimidating”, she says. “I’d done two tiny plays when I was, like, six and eight, but I wasn’t driven to act. I wasn’t doing Oscar acceptance speeches into a hairbrush." Yeah it might have no been a hairbrush but who knows she could be lying about that. She'd practice her speeches in mirrors. From telegraph.co.uk July 2007,  "Pauline is utterly obsessed with being an actress and I was just like that when I was younger. I dreamt of it. I practised speeches in front of mirrors. Whenever there was a part at school, I went for it. I was probably a bit of a show-off in the sense that any chance to get up and be seen, I did it. I was such a drama queen. I used to wail and moan and cry, and little things were blown up into being big things. I don't know how my parents stood it, really. I've grown up a bit. I've had to. I actually really want to be an actress, a proper actress who makes it her career. I'm always expecting to be found out and I thought, If I'm no good, now is the time to find out." She really wants people to think she all of a sudden wants to act. What I think is she is really trying to distance herself from her lack luster post Potter career by making it out like she now wants to act and that’s why she has no lead roles because her resume does not equal her hype. The last few years she’s separated herself from “always wanted to be an actress” to “I was not sure”. She’s being disingenuous as usual and people believe it. Plus she said she did modeling so directors and producers would look at her differently so that's why she used Burberry and Lancôme. And she did a course at RADA in 2008 so if she was not sure or didn't want to than why did she do these things? One more thing from the Sunday Times interview From emmawatsonbelgium.blogspot.be March 2014, "It’s about as close as she’ll get to revealing anything about her newest relationship, with Matt Janney, rugby hunk and Oxford’s most eligible bachelor. “I can’t comment on it, I’m sorry,” she says, suddenly jumping up and hastily bundling her things back into her bag, which has exploded across the sofa beside her. “I’m trying to keep my private life sacred, although I don’t want to lock myself up and never go out. So I guard it, because I don’t date people who are famous, and I don’t think it’s fair that, all of a sudden, intimate details of their personal life are public as a direct result of me. I find that so uncomfortable, and I wish there was a way I could protect those people, but it’s not in my control.” When I suggest her boyfriends are consenting adults, she looks worried. “But you don’t choose who to love, who you have feelings for, do you?” She throws her phone into her bag and retreats home to pack, as she’s flying to LA. Just a normal girl, then, off to present an Oscar."

So she can go to international magazines and complain she can't find a man or that men are intimidated by her? She had in the past before Will Adamowicz. It was in almost every one of her interviews for a few years. So she can use Matt Janney (this new guy) on a beach in a bikini PDA session as a publicity stunt to cover up her ex boyfriend being caught rolling coke bombs and also use him to product place an iPhone in Madrid but she wants to keep it private? And she doesn't date famous guys? What about Johnny Simmons (Young Neil) and George Craig (Front man for rock group One Night Only)?  If you can Google their name and you see them in movies or music videos, they're famous.

[daisymondays]

Prompt: Harry and Draco (as a couple or not yet) meeting Aunt Muriel Weasley. It can be another wedding, a Ministry reception, whatever you want. Props if you make her poor old eyesight really bad and she thinks Draco is another Weasley. Hope it inspires something in you even if it ends up not being this prompt :D

Aahaha i’ve been meaning to do this prompt for a while and I got sort of carried away but i amused myself and do enjoy

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Harry tried to keep his eyes from glazing over as he listened to whatever-his-name with the red nose and squinty eyes drone at him about something that Harry absolutely ought to put his name behind. Harry didn’t like to stereotype when he was aware that his boyfriend was the biggest posh twat to exist, but he had a feeling from the tone of the man’s voice alone that it wasn’t a petition Harry would have much interest.

Harry wasn’t sure who had invited this prat to a raising money for Werewolf rights, but he was probably important. If Harry squinted he was pretty sure he could recognise the face… he just couldn’t put a name to it.

Harry glanced over red nose’s shoulder (maybe his name was Ralph?) to where Draco was schmoozing away with the Head of the Prophet. Draco was much better at these sort of things than Harry, and Harry wasn’t sure why he’d let himself become separated from Draco in the first place.

Draco — unlike red nose — was not an eye sore and he made the entire evening more entertaining but encouraging Harry to get absolutely shit-faced and by making sarcastic comments under his breath. Dating Draco had drastically increased Harry’s ability to keep a straight face when wanting to laugh.

Draco — as if knowing that Harry was watching him — looked up from who he was talking to, a secretive smile playing at his lips as if he knows that Harry is dying of boredom.

“I’m really sorry,” Harry said, cutting off red nose mid-conversation, “I’ve got to go and speak to…” He paused, desperately trying to think of an excuse, “Hermione Granger about the speeches later.”

“Oh, are you making a speech?”

Harry fucking hoped not. “Maybe, you’ll have to wait and find out,” he said, nodding as the other man laughed before quickly slinking away. He tapped Draco on the shoulder, gesturing for him to follow him before making his way over to the bar.

The alcohol at events like this was always over priced but it was more than worth it to avoid having to be sober. He bought two glasses of firewhiskey and was just telling the bartender to put it on Draco’s tab when he felt a hand resting against his back.

“That better be for me,” Draco said, leaning over and picking up one of the whiskeys and taking a sip.

“They were both for me actually, but go ahead.”

“Walking around with two drinks in your hands in a way to end up on the front page of the Prophet,” Draco teased.

Harry rolled his eyes. “Walking around is a good way to end up on the front page for me.”

“It’s because you’re so handsome,” Draco sighed, taking another sip, his face glowing in the warmth of the firey whiskey. “No-one can resist looking at you.”

“I long for the day they tire of my face,” Harry said, bumping Draco with his shoulder. 

Draco bumped him back. “Good luck with that.”

Harry laughed but it was cut short when his eyes fell on an overly large hat coming his way. “Draco—” he managed to get out before he winced at the sound of—

“Well, if it isn’t darling Harry Potter!” Aunt Muriel screeched as she stalked over towards them. Harry had a feeling her use of the word darling was sarcastic seeing as the last time they’d met had been Hermione and Ron’s wedding and he’d spilled champagne over her so-called priceless robes. Harry had never claimed to be able to tell designer from dumpster but he was pretty sure her robes were more moth-eaten than anything. 

The ones she was wearing now were a deep red shade and that was all Harry could notice because he was utterly distracted by what looked to be a stuffed fox on her hat.

She was wobbling, and Harry had a feeling the glass of champagne in her hand was far from her first. It had to be if she had decided that a stuffed fox hat was an acceptable thing to wear ever, let alone to a Ministry Charity ball.

“It’s been too long, Harry,” she cooed, squeezing his cheek. “I was just telling my good friend Arnold about you, and your closeness with my family.”

Harry grimaced both at the pain in his cheek and the fact that he was probably going to end up in the paper. She really was a stupid old bat.

“I can’t wait for the day you and Ginerva finally get back together and you become a true Weasley.”

Harry felt Draco stiffen beside him and decided it was time to end this conversation for good. “I don’t think Ginny and I will ever get back together,” he said slowly so as not to offend Muriel, “and I actually have a boyfriend, this is Draco.”

Muriel’s beady eyes turned to Draco, narrowing as she took him in. Harry readied himself for the onslaught of rude comments that he was sure he was about to hear from either one of the two sharp tongued people beside him.

Muriel hummed. “Well, I would have rather a witch, but a Weasley is a Weasley none the less,” she said and Harry paused, lost utterly for words. He didn’t seem to be the only one as Draco let out a whimper from beside him. “I’m certain you’re not one of Arthur’s lot,” Muriel continued, reaching up and pinching Draco’s cheek, “Are you from Oscar’s side of the family? I imagine so, they’ve softer hair, just a gentle strawberry blond. I blame it on his wife, honestly…”

Harry tuned her out as his brain couldn’t quite keep up. Weasley. Oscar. Draco. Strawberry blond. Draco. Weasley.

“I’m sorry,” Draco said, sounding anything but as he managed to refind his voice. “Are you suggesting I’m a Weasley?”

“What was your name again? Was it Daniel? Yes, Oscar certainly has a son called Daniel,” Muriel continued, not seeming to care for Draco, “I am glad that you’ll be marrying into the family, Harry Potter.”

Harry bit his lip hard enough that he could taste blood as he tried to stop himself laughing. He could feel his shoulders going, as his jaw trembled.

“Marrying into the family,” Draco repeated.

Muriel sighed. “Honestly, Daniel do you need a hearing-aide.”

“No,” Draco snapped, “but you might need a pair of glasses!”

“I beg your pardon?!”

Harry snorted, and took a sip from his whiskey to try and hide it.

“How dare you accuse me of being a Weasley?!”

“Accuse?!”

“I am a Malfoy! I am Draco Malfoy!” Draco said, sounding like he was moments away from stomping his foot like a child. “I am not a Weasley!”

“Well obviously not,” Muriel sniffed, “a Weasley would never lack such manners!”

“Manners?” Draco squawked, and Harry lost it. He tried to turn his laugh into a cough but he couldn’t control it and was forced to walk away from the pair of them before he completely and utterly lost it.

Kingsley tried to stop him but Harry was forced to hold his hand up in apology as he hurried from the room, wheezing with laughter. Once out in the corridor, he finally let himself go, resting his hands on his thighs as his whole body shook.

“I’m glad one of us is amused.”

Harry glanced up at the sound of Draco’s voice, his cheeks hurting from grinning. “That was the best thing I’ve ever witnessed.” He couldn’t wait to tell Ron.

“I hate you,” Draco said, but there was a smile playing at the corner of his mouth.

“You know your hair does look kind of strawberry blond in some lights,” Harry said, biting his lip again as Draco glowered at him.

“Don’t make me hex you Potter.”

“You wouldn’t dare,” Harry said, letting Draco crowd him up against the wall, “Malfoy,” he added.

Draco grinned at him before leaning in and claiming Harry’s lips. “And don’t you forget it,” he murmured against Harry’s mouth.

Harry smiled, losing himself in the kiss because he had no intention of forgetting who he was dating. Ever.

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Black Actors Who Played White Characters

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Black Actors Who Performed White Characters

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Shade blind casting, or non-traditional casting, has opened up alternatives for black actors, albeit slowly. There have been many black actors who performed white characters, however there’s nonetheless room for extra range in Hollywood general.

White characters performed by black actors have paid off on the field workplace as a result of audiences recognize a wonderful efficiency – no matter race. Whereas many followers reacted negatively the casting of black actress Noma Dumezweni as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Youngster, others had been excited that such an completed actress was moving into the position. Even Potter creator J.Okay. Rowling defended the casting selection.

In lots of instances, black actors who’ve taken on white roles have modified the way in which a personality was seen eternally. Pink has been portrayed as black ever since Morgan Freeman performed the half within the movie adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption. We’ll all the time consider Agent J in Males in Black as Will Smith. Michael Clarke Duncan was so excellent for The Kingpin in Daredevil, that Marvel wrote a tribute to the actor when he handed.

This record seems to be at among the prime black actors who performed historically white characters. And whereas we’re speaking about non-traditional casting, which position would you prefer to see a black actor tackle? Let everybody know within the feedback

Zendaya Coleman as Mary Jane Watson

In August 2016, it was introduced that African American actress Zendaya Coleman will play Mary Jane Watson, Spider-Man’s love curiosity, within the 2017 Marvel reboot Spider-Man: Homecoming. Zendaya beforehand appeared in numerous Disney Channel exhibits, together with KC Undercover and Shake It Up!, starring because the title character within the former.

Mary Jane (who, in line with IMBb, will be called Michelle within the reboot) was played by Kirsten Dunst within the authentic Sony Spider-Man movie sequence and by Shailene Woodley in scenes that had been deleted from The Superb Spider-Man 2. Within the comics, Mary Jane is a pale redhead. Survey says? Change is nice.

The casting resolution ignited a mini-furor in fan communities, as such selections have done in the past(and likewise this). James Gunn, director of Guardians of the Galaxy, took to Fb to handle these considerations, writing:

I can’t reply to the racists – I’m not ever going to vary their minds. However for the considerate majority of you on the market:

For me, if a personality’s major attribute – the factor that makes them iconic – is the colour of their pores and skin, or their hair shade, frankly, that character is shallow and sucks. For me, what makes MJ MJ is her alpha feminine playfulness, and if the actress captures that, then she’ll work. And, for the document, I feel Zendaya even matches what I consider as MJ’s major bodily traits – she’s a tall, skinny mannequin – rather more so than actresses have previously.

Noma Dumezweni as Hermione Granger

Play: Harry Potter and the Cursed Youngster

Regardless of her accomplishments as an actor, there was backlash over Dumezweni’s casting as Hermione within the play. J. Okay. Rowling, the queen of getting none of it, squashed the criticism, tweeting, “Canon: brown eyes, frizzy hair and really intelligent. White pores and skin was by no means specified Rowling loves black Hermione.” Different Harry Potter forged members supported Dumezweni within the position. Matthew Lewis tweeted, “And Neville Longbottom was blonde. I actually don’t care. Good luck to her.”

Dumezweni said to the haters, “It stems from ignorance. They don’t need to be part of the inventive act. To say it’s not because it was supposed is so unimaginative. I don’t assume they perceive how theater works. We’re right here to heal you, make you smile and whisk you away.”

Will Smith as Robert Neville

Movie: I Am Legend

Neville is the final man in New York Metropolis, or so he thinks. There have been many variations of Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel, however this was the primary time a black actor performed the virologist.

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury

Movies: The Avengers franchise

David Hasselhoff performed Fury in a 1998 TV film, but it surely’s Jackson who conjures a particular form of Fury.

Morgan Freeman as Red

Movie: The Shawshank Redemption

Within the e book, Stephen King describes Pink as white and Irish. The road “Perhaps It’s as a result of I’m Irish” was left within the film as a nod to the e book. Stage variations of the e book now forged Pink as black, because of Freeman’s iconic efficiency (which earned him an Oscar nomination).

Idris Elba as Heimdall

Movies: Thor, Thor: The Darkish World

Within the Marvel comedian sequence, Heimdall is a Norse god, however he’s simply as mighty within the arms of Elba on display screen.

Denzel Washington as Bennett Marco

Movie: The Manchurian Candidate

Richard Condon’s 1959 novel was made into a movie in 1962, with Frank Sinatra asBennett Marco. Washington, who lends one thing to each position he takes on, performed Marco effectively sufficient in a so-so remake in 2004.

Quvenzhané Wallis as Annie

Movie: Annie

Many actors have tackle the position since 1982, most notably Aileen Quinn. However Wallis was a refreshing replace to the white, freckled redhead. Wallis’s efficiency obtained a 2014 Golden Globe nomination for Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Movement Image – Comedy or Musical.

Brandy Norwood as Cinderella & Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother

Movie: Cinderella

The 1997 ABC TV particular was the primary time Cinderella and different characters had been performed by black actors. In addition to Norwood and Houston, Veanne Cox and Natalie Desselle performed Cinderella’s stepsisters, and Whoopi Goldberg was Queen Constantina. Filipino-American Paolo Montalban performed Prince Christopher.

Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm

Movie: The Improbable 4

Say what you’ll in regards to the 2015 movie, however Jordan was a refreshing replace to Storm. Chris Evans, who performed Storm in 2005, thought Jordan was a positive selection as effectively.

Will Smith as Agent J

Movies: Males in Black franchise

Within the Aircel comics, Lowell Cunningham and Sandy Carruthers depicted each brokers as white. Smith, being an enormous star (particularly in 1997), was a straightforward selection as Agent J alongside Tommy Lee Jones as Agent Okay.

Michael Clarke Duncan as The Kingpin

Movie: Daredevil

Duncan performed the villain to perfection in 2003, and left his mark on the character. A lot in order that Marvelhailed him after his passing in 2012.

Pam Grier as Jackie Brown

Movie: Jackie Brown

In Elmore Leonard’s e book Rum Punch, Jackie Brown is a blonde flight attendant. Tarantino noticed the character as black and particularly wished Pam Grier for the position in his 1997 movie.

Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent

Movie: Batman

The Batman comedian sequence portrayed Dent as white. Williams added his personal particular qualities to the villain onscreen in Tim Burton’s 1989 movie. He additionally revealed that he was on the right track to play Two-Face within the sequel, however producers went one other method, selecting Tommy Lee Jones.

Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell, and Richard Pryor

Movie: The Wiz

One of many first black casts to tackle the beloved 1939 The Wizard of Oz, the 1978musical was an on the spot hit with audiences and continues to be produced and toured worldwide.

Alfre Woodard, Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, and Others

Movie: Metal Magnolias

The all black forged – rounded out by  Jill Scott, Adepero Oduye, and Condola Rashad – appeared within the 2012 Lifetime remake, however confronted a troublesome reception from the diehards of the 1989 film.

Dwayne Johnson as Hercules

Movie: Hercules (2014)

Hercules is Greek; The Rock just isn’t. Nonetheless, that didn’t cease him from being an superior Hercules. Steve Reeves, who performed Hercules in two totally different motion pictures within the late ‘50s, would pull down some columns in approval. Kevin Korbo’s fashionable portrayal in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys ran from 1995 to 1999 and he was irked when producers turned him down for a cameo within the Dwayne Johnson movie.

Eartha Kitt and Halle Berry as Catwoman

Movie & TV Collection: Catwoman & Batman

On the web page of the comics, Catwoman is white and plenty of positive actresses from Julie Newmar to Michelle Pfeiffer have performed the character. However Eartha Kitt made Catwoman iconic together with her well-known growly voice within the late-’60s TV sequence and Halle Berry introduced Catwoman again to black within the 2004 movie.

Bernie Casey and Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter

Movies: James Bond franchise

A number of white actors have performed Leiter through the years within the Bond franchise, most notably Jack Lord. Casey took on the position in 1983 in By no means Say By no means Once more; Wright introduced weight and realness to the character in 2006’s On line casino Royale and 2008’s Quantum of Solace.

Will Smith as Jim West

Movie: Wild Wild West

Robert Conrad performed James T. West within the fashionable 1960s TV sequence, with Will Smith portraying the character within the 1999 movie.

David Oyelowo as Henry VI

Play: Henry VI

In 2000, David Oyelowo was the primary black actor to play the English king for the Royal Shakespeare Firm.

Sam Jones III as Pete Ross

TV Collection: Smallville

Within the comics, Clark Kent’s pal is white. Ross turned a fan favourite when he stepped into the position in 2001 on the TV sequence.

Mos Def as Ford Prefect

Movie: The Hitchhiker’s Information to the Galaxy When followers noticed 2005’s The Hitchhiker’s Information to the Galaxy, they had been delighted and puzzled to search out Mos Def within the position of Ford Prefect reverse Martin Freeman’s Arthur Dent. Prefect is a pink head in Douglas Adams’s e book. Def’s model is considerably extra cool than David Dixon’s Prefect on the BBC TV sequence, however each work in their very own method.

Colin McFarlane as Gillian B. Loeb

Movie: Batman Begins, The Darkish Knight

Loeb was a corrupted baddie within the comics. McFarlane’s Loeb performed him with sophisticated motivations in each movies.

Naomie Harris as Miss Moneypenny

Movie: Skyfall

Lois Maxwell performed Miss Moneypenny for 23 years. Then 4 different actresses (Barbara Bouchet, Pamela Salem, Caroline Bliss, Samantha Bond) took on the position. Producers and forged stored the key till Skyfall’slaunch in 2012, as Naomie Harris turned the primary black Miss Moneypenny.

Laurence Fishburne as Perry White

Movie: Man of Metal

Fishburne portrayed the primary black the Editor in Chief on the Each day Planet in 2013’s Man of Metal. A number of white actors, together with John Hamilton, had portrayed the character up till then.

Laurence Fishburne as Jack Crawford

TV Collection: Hannibal

Crawford has been performed by Scott Glenn, Harvey Keitel, and Dennis Farina. Fishburne was tapped for the position of the FBI agent within the NBC sequence from 2013 to 2015.

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My Top 10 Favorite Women Characters

Thanks so much to @anais-fromanotherplanet for tagging me in this awesome meme! 

Despite my complaints that people don’t write enough awesome female characters in fiction, once I started listing them, the list just went on and on. It was so hard picking my top 10, so I had to throw a few honorable mentions in...

1. Rell (LoL, my own fantasy novel OC) 

Well, being my original character and the badass action hero of the story + comic relief with a kind/loving soul, she’s basically my idea of a perfect woman. So ofc she is my number one. ^^

2. Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) 

No one does the things Homura does for love. No one dares the things Homura dares to do. No one is that courageous. No heart loves so much. Homura is fucking epic. And she’s damn stylish and cool too! XD

3. Moana (Disney’s Moana) 

THE PERFECT HEROINE. Everything about her, from her adorable voice (which is EPIC when she sings!!), her extraordinary hero’s journey arc, to the way the narrative treats her with the respect and dignity a hero of whatever gender deserves. Loved her movie, loved her compassion, loved her bravery, loved her closeness with her family, loved her love of the sea, loved everything about Moana.

4. Daenerys (Game of Thrones) 

People build shrines to her both in real life and in the world of Game of Thrones for a reason. She’s so epic, dares so much and accomplishes so much. She also suffered terribly in the beginning and started from nothing, building everything she eventually grew to have with her own hands. And through it all, she kept her compassion, and still tries to do what’s right, even as she grows wiser and strong enough to do the hard things a ruler must do.

5. Aquila Yuna (Saint Seiya Omega) 

A female underdog hero story done RIGHT. In terms of her journey as a young warrior/Saint of Athena, the way she dresses, carries herself, fights like an utter badass, relates to her friends, and earnestly seeks her way makes her the perfect teenage girl protagonist for me. Plus, she’s just so graceful-looking despite packing such a wallop, and looks epic in armor (my eternal weakness) like all my favorite male Saints.

6. Tachibana (Aoharu x Machine Gun) 

Lol, this girl is teenage me in another life. Her extreme passion for justice, her compassion that balances her towering wrath and extreme smiting power against the evil and the unjust, her tomboyish looks and sensibilities, her kindness, her intelligence—I love this girl.

7. Mrs. Bradley (Diana Rigg – The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries) 

When I grow up, I want to be Diana Rigg. She mixes high intelligence, dignity, and a deep capacity for love and compassion into the perfect, elegant package in any role she plays. I loved her especially as the wry, smart, and modern Mrs. Bradley, who is her own woman, has carved a place of respect for herself in the male-dominated world of Edwardian England, and has a fun, scintillating relationship of wits (and romance?) with her chauffer George. A lady so ahead of her time and making it work—I love her.

8. Historia Reiss (Attack on Titan) 

Easily the most interesting and fascinatingly developed/grown female character in AoT despite not being one of its many awesome badass warrior women. Her outburst against her father in the cave (and the way she bosses Eren around there XD) is one of my favorite moments in the entire series. Plus, the way she uses her political power when she gets it is proof of the kind of genuinely good person she is.

9. Marinette/Miraculous Ladybug (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)

A perfect teen heroine--full of dreams/hope/excitement, smart, relatable, adorable, fully fleshed out, and fun. The entire show is just so well done and does excellent, diverse characters in spades. I love this unabashedly girl-centric show, its beautiful graphics/aesthetics, its hilarious scripts, and its appealing character designs. 

10. Madoka Kaname (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) 

Had to get her on here, because even if her story arc isn’t as epic as Homura’s, the decision she makes in the end with full knowledge, intent, and foresight, is one for the ages. She’s the very picture of an empowered woman, who grabs back charge of her mind/body/soul/DESTINY from those who tried to disempower and manipulate her, finds clarity, and delivers to us not only the right/perfect answer to an impossible-seeming dilemma, but does so with selfless love and grace. Those who detract from Madoka, saying she doesn’t do anything for the majority of the series, clearly didn’t pay attention to what was going on behind this big, sweet eyes—there was a very intelligent, observant, compassionate soul there, seeing and learning and piecing together the things she needed to to save us all.

Honorable Mentions:

Dowager Countess Grantham (Maggie Smith – Downton Abbey) – in terms of cool factor, few female characters can top the Dowager Countess—and she’s an old lady, which kicks up both her adorable-ness factor and badassery. XD Sharpest of all wits and tongues, and style and dignity for days. I love this lady.

Sailor Neptune/Michiru Kai’ou (Sailor Moon) – with her quiet intelligence, charm, elegance, brimming talent, and courageous/fierce inner character, she’s the perfect role model. I also loved that she holds love and her beloved above all else. As a fellow “follower of Aphrodite” so to speak, I really relate to her.

Ms. Marvel/Kamala Kahn (Marvel Comics) – the first truly relatable American comic book character I’ve ever read. And she reads/writes superhero fanfic. XD I love Kamala.

Mikasa Ackerman (Attack on Titan) – not sure if this is more props to Isayama-sensei, her creator, but I love that Mikasa is universally acknowledged by her peers as the physically strongest warrior among them and is never undercut by the narrative like so many other purportedly “strong female characters,” especially in Shounen manga. I can’t relate to her much in personality/thought process though, which is the only reason she doesn’t make my Top 10.

‎Oscar François de Jarjayes (The Rose of Versailles) – the badass beautiful lady with a compassionate heart and endless dignity who started it all. The Rose of Versailles, the godmother of badass warrior women in manga/anime ever after (and the savior of my beloved Takarazuka Revue ;-)).

Random Bonus:

Chloe (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)

This is probably a shocking mention because Chloe is AWFUL--the consummate Mean Girl and petty, entitled brat extraordinaire. But she’s just so absurdly over the top in her awfulness that she almost becomes lovable for being so flawed. Also, she has the most hilarious lines and I respect that she’s a girl who definitely knows her own mind and isn’t afraid to go after what she wants. ^^

You poor darlings who read through this whole thing, I tag you all! Please tag me if you do this, I’d love to see your lists! <33333 Also tagging @kiriblabs, @oleanderhoney, @hannibalcatharsis, @sensitive-eruri, @prosotankutu, @careruri, @cherryamber, @momtaku, and @lostcauses-noregrets if you guys are up for it! <333333

Cuz I had so many, here’s a list of more awesome women characters I love under the cut~

Saber/Arturia Pendragon (Fate/Zero)

Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)

Pocahontas (Disney’s Pocahontas)

Haruka Ten’ou (Sailor Moon)

Misaki Ayuzawa (Maid-sama!)

Hanji Zoe (Attack on Titan)

Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Peggy Carter (Captain America)

Sayaka (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Annie Leonhardt (Attack on Titan)

Ymir (Attack on Titan)

Princess Leia (Star Wars)

Mami (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Maya Toomi (Fafner)

Brienne of Tarth (Game of Thrones)

Kyoko Sakura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Squid Girl (Invasion! Squid Girl)

Professor McGonnagall (Harry Potter)

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Film Review: Beauty and The Beast (2017)

So....Beauty and the Beast. If the live-action Maleficent was (in my opinion) a bastardization of the animated source and Cinderella closer to an adaptation, then this is a true modernization. While it has the same songs and hits a lot of the same story beats, Emma Watson's Belle is clearly closer to a heroine akin to the actresses' famous Hermione Granger than the classic Belle (often lampooned as a Stockholm Syndrome victim). That mistake can't be made here: this new Belle asserts herself, has attitude, and is unabashedly a feminist (all of which I loved). And not just her; the choreography, the humor and Le Fou's (understated and overhyped) homosexual attractions are all hallmarks of a 2017 sensibility. Speaking of Le Fou, the terrific Josh Gad hits every joke he's thrown and nails his part in the signature "Gaston" (and Gaston himself isn't as exaggeratedly evil and macho; "where my hug at" Gaston has never been a better descriptor). But it's not just the subtle things that got changed; the new songs and story beats add new depth and tragedy to the characters (and some fascinating Christological paralells) and the Beast's solo is an early Oscar contender. While some of the changes are distracting and others too on-the-nose, most work, and this is coming from a guy who ranks the original BATB not far behind Frozen. The magic is still present, the enchanted objects have been updated with today's technology convincingly enough to make you question your own lamps at home, the songs are majestic set pieces straight out of the Disney Parks, and the singing is at least equal to the original voice actors. But the main point is that if you walk in expecting the 1991 version, you're only setting yourself up for failure. And what many seem to forget is how progressive the original was; Paige O' Hara's Belle was more assertive than any princess before her had been, and was constrained by the tried-and-true Disney formula that had never really been challenged in the way that Tiana and Moana and all the other modern princesses have by now. In short, while I'm not sure it exceeded the original, this is a fantastic reimagining for the modern age (and the modern little princess).

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Thank you so much for tagging me Hannah @sherlooks, here come your questions, I loved them! ❤

1. What is your favourite place/location?

London? :) If we’re talking somewhere I frequently am at, the living room at my parents’ house.

2. What’s the name of your favourite childhood toy?

I really used to love my Legos, and my stuffed animals of course.

3. What languages can you speak (even if it’s only a few words)?

German, English, Spanish and French.

4. What is your favourite painting?

I don’t know much about art, so I don’t exactly have a favourite, but Starry Night by van Gogh is really beautiful.

5. If you could meet with one person from history, who would it be?

Arthur Conan Doyle? Oscar Wilde? Too many options?! :’D

6. What fictional character do you most identify with and why?

I would say it’s still John Watson (not S4 John though, and not necessarily only the BBC version). We’re both short, grumpy, bisexual, pretty clever (nowhere near Sherlock level though), good and loyal friends (most of the time) and have trust and communication issues and repressed feelings sometimes. I’m not nearly as brave and badass as him though. Another character I identify with is Hermione Granger.

7. What fictional universe would you most want to be a part of and why?

The Harry Potter universe probably because MAGIC! :D

8. What animal (real or fictional) would you most like to be your loyal companion for life?

Some sort of bird, a falcon maybe (or if we’re talking fictional, a phoenix).

9. What fictional squad would you most like to join?

The Marauders maybe? Or the guys from Shadowhunters (Alec, Izzy, Clary, Jace, Magnus, Simon ect).

10. What is your favourite subject?

Back at school? German and English. :)

11. What are 3 things you would like to have happened to you, your friends or the world in 20 years time?

For me personally, having found someone I would want to spend my life with and having found a good job. For the world, just peace please?

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Here's Everything You Missed At The 2018 Golden Globes

Listen, I get that not everyone can commit to watching a 3-hour long award’s show on a Sunday night. So if you didn’t get a chance to catch the show, but don’t want to miss out on all the Golden Globes small talk that will inevitably be happening today, we’ve got you covered.

As usual, this year’s Golden Globe Awards brought the drama. Here are the top moments that you need to know about…

1. Natalie Portman called out the fact that no women were nominated for Best Directer in the most boss way.

Portman introduced the category alongside Ron Howard. Before announcing the nominated directors, she said, “And here are all the all-male nominees.”

In the history of the Golden Globes, Barbra Streisand is the only woman to win this category. Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird), Dee Rees (Mudbound) and Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman) were all snubbed at this year’s Golden Globes — despite directing critically acclaimed movies.

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People were definitely here for it…

Natalie did not come to play around!

Twitter | @GlossarieCo

2. There were multiple protests.

While many celebrities chose to wear black to express their support for the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, others stood outside the venue dressed as handmaids from The Handmaid’s Tale to also express solidarity with the victims of sexual assault and harassment.

Twitter | @scheng

3. There was a mini Harry Potter reunion and Twitter could hardly contain itself.

Harry Potter fans everywhere rejoiced last night because Hermione Granger, Cedric Diggory, and Remus Lupin were all present at the Golden Globes this year.

Be still, my Muggle heart!

One thing is for sure, if these events are any indication of what we can expect from The Oscars, then I can’t wait!

Twitter | @taronegertuns

4. James Franco blocked Tommy Wiseau when he tried to grab the microphone, and people have mixed feels about it.

James Franco is tearing fans apart over his treatment of Tommy Wiseau after he called him up on stage.

Franco blocked Wiseau from speaking after Franco won Best Actor in a Motion Picture/Comedy for his performance as Wiseau in The Disaster Artist. 

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While some fans thought Wiseau shouldn’t have reached for the mic in the first place, others thought Franco should have let Wiseau have his moment.

Including Hugh Jackman, who looked super confused about the whole thing. Franco also did a lengthy impression of Wiseau during his speech.

Uproxx| Twitter | @rmayemsinger| Twitter | @IndieFocus

5. Oprah Winfrey became the first black woman to win the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

The award is basically the Golden Globe’s version of a lifetime achievement award.

Before Oprah, only three other actors of color had won the award: Morgan Freeman, Sidney Poitier, and Denzel Washington.

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And her incredibly powerful speech was one of the best parts of the the night.

“I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like my mother, had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue,” said Winfrey.

Watch the speech here.

Twitter | @ava

6. Ewan McGregor looked a lot like Obi-Wan Kenobi on the red carpet…and he lowkey knew it.

He actually said he’d love to revisit the role!

“There’s a lot of talk, and I’d be happy to play [Obi-Wan] again, but I don’t know anything more than you do,” said McGregor.

Twitter | @JosephScrimshaw

7. Sterling K. Brown became the first black man to win a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a TV drama.

Brown took home to award for his role in This Is Us. 

He thanked showrunner Dan Fogelman for creating the role of Randall specifically for a black man.

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8. Dakota Johnson was caught watching Angelina Jolie’s reaction to Jennifer Aniston — and we could all relate.

Dakota Johnson is the human embodiment of the eyes emoji, but deep down I know I’d be doing the exact same thing.

Twitter | @MaryPerson

9. Debra Messing called out E! while doing an interview with E! for not paying their female co-hosts as much as their male co-hots.

“I was so shocked to hear E! doesn’t believe in paying their female co-hosts the same as their male co-hosts. I miss Catt Sadler. We stand with her,” said Messing.

Twitter | @cmclymer

10. Seth Myers did not pull his punches.

“It’s been years since a white man was this nervous in Hollywood.”

Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump, and #MeToo are just some of the topics that Seth touched on in his opening monologue.

Twitter | @MintzPlasse

11. Timothée Chalamet (Lady Bird)made this face when he realized he was sitting next to Tonya Harding and it was hella tight.

Timothée was shook, but can you blame him? That is literally the Tonya Harding!

Twitter | @silkysheets

12. Barbra Streisand realized she’s the only woman to ever win the Golden Globe for best director.

“I’m the only woman to get the best director award,” said Streisand, “That was 1984. That was 34 years ago. Folks, time’s up!”

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13. And finally, Hugh Jackman became one of 2018’s first memes when he made this face.

Fresh meme, everybody. You know what to do.

What was your favorite Golden Globes moment? COMMENT and let us know.

Twitter | @katieenallen

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Emma Watson: the feminist and the fairytale

From TheGuardian Feb 2017: This person really thinks her feminism is genuine, but at least they’re pointing out that she isn’t A-list.

She’s about to star as the heroine of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, but post-Potter she has received more plaudits for her activism than her acting.

It may seem strange that one of the most anticipated films of 2017 should be a live-action remake of a Disney cartoon about Stockholm syndrome, but Beauty and the Beast has already built up the kind of fan base that is normally reserved for rebooted sci-fi franchises and adaptations of erotic bestsellers. When the first trailer went online in November, it was viewed a record 127m times in 24 hours, beating the previous leaders in that particular field, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Fifty Shades Darker. Stranger still, 27m of those views were on the Facebook page of the film’s star, Emma Watson. 

That figure might suggest that the 26-year-old who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series is now a bona fide superstar. But Watson’s celebrity status is slightly more complicated. As a Hollywood player, she isn’t going to give Jennifer Lawrence or Scarlett Johansson sleepless nights, but as an actor-activist she has the kind of influence that would have been unimaginable a generation ago.

For proof that Watson isn’t yet an A-lister, you just have to glance at her filmography since she hung up her Gryffindor robes. Broadly speaking, she has taken supporting roles in ensemble projects, such as Simon Curtis’s My Week with Marilyn and Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, and above-the-title roles in films that vanished without trace. Alejandro Amenábar’s repressed-memory chiller Regression didn’t recoup its $20m budget, and Colonia (AKA The Colony) pulled in a grand total of £47 in its opening weekend in the UK. Meanwhile, she turned down the title role in Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella, and accepted then dropped out of La La Land, thus handing Emma Stone the part that may well win her a best actress Oscar. In the years between Harry Potter and Beauty and the Beast, in other words, Watson was better known for films she wasn’t in than for films she was.

In contrast, Kristen Stewart followed her stint in the Twilight series by embracing arthouse cinema and being embraced right back: she was the first American female actor to win a César award for her performance in Clouds of Sils Maria. And Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, has grabbed every possible acting opportunity, from big-budget capers (Now You See Me 2) to indie curios (Swiss Army Man), from television (A Young Doctor’s Casebook) to theatre (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead). Compared to them, Watson is barely trying.

But there is more on her mind than acting. Having stepped away from the business to study for an English degree at Brown University in Rhode Island, she now spends as much time on feminism as she does on films. In 2014, she became a UN Women goodwill ambassador; in 2015, she was named on the Time 100 list of world’s most influential people, and last year she continued to make headlines by, for example, leaving feminist books around the London Underground system.

None of that may appear very remarkable: Watson isn’t the first film star to double as a political activist. But few stars can have been as reassuring or inclusive in their consciousness-raising. When Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio signed up to humanitarian and environmental causes, for instance, they were already untouchably glamorous demigods whose lives seemed a million miles away from their fans’, and whose jet-setting activism seemed almost as distant. Watson is different. She may have flown to Bangladesh, Uruguay and Zambia on behalf of the UN, but she doesn’t come across as if she is lecturing her fans from on high – more as if she is learning alongside them.

The first reason for this is that Watson’s fans feel, with some justification, that they know her. Not only have they watched her growing up onscreen in eight blockbusters, but they have heard her admit that the character she played in those blockbusters was just like her. In an interview with feminist author bell hooks in Paper magazine, she said that when she started reading JK Rowling’s novels, at the age of eight, “the character of Hermione gave me permission to be who I was,” ie, “the girl in school whose hand shot up to answer the questions”. But when she was cast as Hermione she used her earliest interviews to deny she was that girl: “At first I was really trying to say, ‘I’m not like Hermione. I’m into fashion and I’m much cooler than she is,’ and then I came to a place of acceptance. Actually, we do have a lot in common. There are obviously differences, but there are a lot of ways that I’m very similar. And I stopped fighting that!”

If Watson-watchers believe she is just as earnest, studious and intelligent as Hermione, then, they have her permission. Whereas so many former child stars have shattered their youthful images, either by going off the rails in their personal lives (eg, Drew Barrymore) or choosing to play edgy, sexualised roles on film (eg, Dakota Fanning), Watson has been brave enough to carry on being the school swot. The youngsters who identified with her when they saw her in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 2001 can feel that she has yet to let them down, nearly 16 years later.

Even her activism is bound up with that swottiness. Rather than manning the barricades, Watson has focused on reading, discussion, and chronicling her studies on social media, thus making them accessible in a way that would once have been impossible. Last year, she set up a Goodreads online book club, Our Shared Shelf, which recommends a text to its 168,000 members every two months. Its current book is Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. “There is so much amazing stuff out there,” Watson enthuses on the club’s homepage. “Funny, inspiring, sad, thought-provoking, empowering! I’ve been discovering so much that, at times, I’ve felt like my head was about to explode.”

Again, these are hardly the pronouncements of a Tinseltown divinity, but the sincere effusions of someone who is really getting into her homework project, and who wants her friends to get into it, too. It is no wonder Watson’s fans have taken to feminism with her. And it’s no wonder those fans are so thrilled about her starring role as Belle in Beauty and the Beast.

Watson rejected the part of Cinderella, she has said, because the passive character didn’t “resonate” with her. But Belle is a more Hermione-ish heroine. In the original 1991 cartoon, she wasn’t content to do the housework with the help of some chirruping bluebirds: she strolled through town with her nose in a book. And Watson told Total Film magazine that she had pushed the character even further from the traditional Disney doormat, so as to ensure that she is “the kind of woman I would want to embody as a role model”. She isn’t just Belle, but bell hooks. Never before has there been such continuity between an actress’s online persona and her two most iconic roles.

Of course, Watson is still playing a fairytale heroine in a film with “Beauty” in the title, so she isn’t exactly dismantling the patriarchy. “She’s a very useful figure for feminism, because she attracts people who might not be drawn to it in another form,” says Professor Diane Negra, the author of What a Girl Wants: Fantasising the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism. “But she is a particularly palatable version of a feminist celebrity. She is a very glamorous and polished figure with all the markers of privilege. She is clearly not an activist of the old school.”

One way to understand Watson’s very 21st-century celebrity activism is to see her as a multi-hyphenate entrepreneur in the vein of Beyoncé and Gwyneth Paltrow. It’s just that instead of using her brand to promote her own range of perfumes and cookbooks, she is using it to promote gender equality. And if Disney gets a ton of free advertising along the way, so be it. For every hundred Watson fans who go to see her in Beauty and the Beast, there will be one who reads The Vagina Monologues on the bus home.