#steven g norfleet

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STEVEN G. NORFLEET Beauty in Black 1.06 "Bang Bang"

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Replacing the Magnolia tree with a portrait of Paul and Claudia’s yellow dress, might be the most important thing this show has done for me

[fishslappping]

Altar Boys Come Dancing Everyday For God(dammit im sad now)

[crazykuroneko]

IWTV's Submission for Emmy Awards 2023

These are candidates available on the Emmy ballots from IWTV. I only found links for performers, writing, and directing. I will update if I find other categories. You can find the rest of submissions. And of course, they submitted for The Best Drama Series

Best Lead Actor in Drama

(yes, Jacob listed first on the ballot thanks to his name)

Best Supporting Actor in Drama

Best Supporting Actress in Drama

Best Guest Starring Actor in Drama

Best Guest Starring Actress in Drama

Best Directing in Drama

(Episode 3 and 6, FYI)

Best Writing in Drama

(Episode 5, by Hannah Moskovitch)

EDITED:

The rest of IWTV ballots for technicals and craftw:

Production design: Ep 1

Casting

Cinematography: Ep 1 & Ep 3

Period Costumes: Ep 1

Main Title Design

Period and/or Character Hairstyling: Ep 7

Prosthetic Makeup: Ep 1

Music Composition (Score): Ep 1

Original Music and Lyrics: "Come to Me"

Main Title Music

Music Supervision: Ep 6

Picture Editing: Ep 6 & 7

Sound Editing: Ep 1

Sound Mixing: Ep 1

Stunt Performance: Ep 3

Voting period for nomination round: June 15–26

Nominations announced: July 12

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Kalyne Coleman as Grace de Pointe du Lac Delainey Hayles as Claudia Steven G. Norfleet as Paul de Pointe du Lac

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Steven G. Norfleet as Paul de Pointe du Lac and Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac in Interview with the Vampire (TV Series, 2022- )

[msshan]

Me when I knew what Paul was about to do after telling Louis he loved him

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A tribute to Louis and Paul

[blueiight]

“Unimaginable challenges may await us, but our love is built to last,” Mr. Hemingway said to Mr. Norfleet in his vows.

Anthony Hemingway and Steven Norfleet traveled in similar Hollywood circles, but didn’t meet until after a church service.

link

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On the video you can watch director/executive producer Alan Taylor and titular vampire Jacob Anderson talking about the tap dancing scene, and a clip of Jacob and Steven G. Norfleet rehearsing. Transcript and sources are under the cut.

Rewind the tape —Episode 1 highlights

One of our favorite bits of trivia is...

No doubles were used in Louis and Paul's tap dancing scene! Steven G. Norfleet is a professional dancer, and Jacob Anderson learned to tap dance in less than a month, over Zoom, while he had COVID.

What's a favorite fun fact of yours? Is there a line that was adapted straight from the page, or smartly repurposed? Did one of the people involved in the show say something interesting about the episode? Was there any review of the pilot that had you nodding and cheering as you read? Does any of the paintings that show up on the episode have an interesting meaning?

Reblog with your highlights, or make a new post with the tag #vampterview to join the conversation!

And, if you're just getting caught up, learn all about our group rewatch here ►

Transcripts and sources

Katie o'Shaughnessy Chatting with Alan Taylor! (Director/ Executive producer S1 IWTV!):

K.O. And with the dancing as well, I'd wondered, between Louis and Paul, the tap dancing scene, was that, how much of that was them and how much was doubles?  A.T. Like, entirely them. We had we had doubles come in, in case we wanted to do closeups of their feet and stuff, and we had the doubles standing by and almost never used them, because… Paul, it turned out, we'd cast because he was a wonderful actor with a heartbreaking quality, but it turned out he was a professional dancer too. We didn’t know that when we hired him. So Paul had it down and Paul was helping Jacob, who would spend his weekend half dancing with the coach. And so when the time came to shoot it, we didn’t need the doubles, and the energy between these two guys as brothers was so good that we didn’t want to, you know, break it with cutaways to professional dancing. So, yeah, wild. K.O. That’s amazing, I would have assumed it was doubles.

Xfinity Hangouts: Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid:

Interviewer: Jacob, I was not prepared to see you tap dance so beautifully in that first episode. Is that a skill you already possessed or something you had to learn?  J.A. No, it’s something that we had to learn. We had, how many weeks did we have?  S.R. Like a month to prep. But, but… J.A. Yeah. But I got COVID, and uh, so I had to isolate. I didn’t have any symptoms, thankfully but… so I had to then do all of my lessons remotely in my house in New Orleans. S.R. And they sent you a board, right? J.A. Yeah, I had like, some plywood on the floor and my tap shoes, and yeah, we had like three weeks after that to just keep practicing but… And with respect to the doubles, they had two tap dancing doubles that they sent home before we shot the scene.  S.R. Didn’t even use them. J.A. So all of the tapping you see in the show is me and Steven, and we learned most of it over Zoom.  Interviewer: Amazing.  J.A. So hard. Because tap is all about sound. The lag is awful. 

Tap dancing backstage video with Jacob and Steven, from @misaraesblog

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BEAUTY IN BLACK (2024)

Written and Directed By: Tyler Perry

TERRELL CARTER (as Varney)

&

STEVEN G. NORFLEET (as Charles)

[cousinoyaya]

It's the French part that he didn't like about Lestat it seems...

Steven G. Norfleet and Terrell Carter Beauty in Black 1.05 "Unraveling Threads"

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Steven G Norfleet

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top five comics ❤️

NO ORDER!! Also just going with western comics here:

X-Statix

Grant Morrison's run of Animal Man

American Vampire (THIS IS NOT A GOOD COMIC!!!! But it heavily impacted my art style back in high school and helped me think about what I dislike seeing in vampire fiction lmao)

Daredevil End of Days

Ok so truth be told I got distracted writing this by Shin Ultraman and if I had a fifth pick I've totally forgotten it.... that being said I have been meaning to reread Watchmen specifically so I can rewatch the HBO show along with it because I don't remember much of the show itself but I remember having a TON of mixed feelings about it, but at the time I was watching it I didn't have the comic on hand. So I'm wondering how that holds up (also fun fact Steven G Norfleet is in it tho I think only briefly)

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if it’s one thing Florence is gonna do its distance and disassociate herself from anything that colors her sense of morals or virtues.

don’t talk about louis pimping he gon figure out a better way to keep us in our comforts soon enough like jim crow isn’t unraveling every possibility of that.

dont talk about pauls mental state or draw attention to our past decision to hospitalize him.

Grace talks about how a month from her wedding she dreams of having a quite breakfast without Louis and Pauls bickering and Paul preaching at the table instead of dancing with her husband and children running in the yard.

then a month later after dancing with her husband and right before she has children to run in the yard she finds out what a waking nightmare it is to have that dream realized. Paul is dead, and Louis is too in his own way. and they never have breakfast all together again.

Priest saying nothing is beneath him, but Louis knows he’d be condemned to the hell below for just being who he is so he makes a comment of being aware that some things are in fact beneath him.

Steven G. Norfleet’s performance is really underrated (granted i’m new here so forgive me if y’all were going up for him the way y’all should have been). His physicality as Paul and the way he delivers his lines is 👩🏾‍🍳🤌🏾✨

the way he walks to the confession box and his delivery of “I want father Mathius. thank you” all so so good. he’s amazing in this and brought such depth to Paul. Paul’s portrayal could have been so hammy and over done and he found a real delicate balance of vulnerability and comedy. but the comedy didn’t feel disrespectful. it didn’t feel like punching down. it felt like layers to a person. i understand why Louis enjoyed his time with Paul despite their differences. Steven’s depiction of Paul’s mental illness feels really well done imo. I appreciate so much what he brought to this.

down bad if the ass you seeking is that particular man Louis, but i know it’s not many options

They both speak french, and english (and lestat can read Louis’ mind), but their communication is still off.

I think about Lily’s frustrations here cause this her job and Louis is acting up right now potentially fucking up her money. like she trying to work and Louis fighting Lestat cause he got to the girl Louis wants first. so she has to find a way to keep the peace between them and i’m sure she picking up on the undertones of their exchange what with having a job where men confess desires they can’t tell their wives and with Louis literally confessing things to her he can’t tell anybody else (coming off the back of the scene where the priest tells him he can come to him with a confession if he ever needs help). the way lestat’s uses her to get a rise out of louis. the way louis isn’t mad at how lestat is treating lily, but how lestat treating lily that way in front of him emasculates him. lily is the one he came here to purchase time with. and lestat out bids him and in louis’ retelling of this moment lily’s humanity is as invisible as it is meaningless to lestat.

like she can’t speak french and so there are parts of this conversation where she is othered and made to feel like an outsider while sitting at the table with them. she even asks what he said. and they keep her in the dark. but she plays her role anyways in helping the men connect with one another because she notices they really want each other “your his destiny louis!” but are too prideful to be real about it “the gentlemen are swapping sausage recipes”

Louis: I had come there for Lily [hands over pristinely kept name card] but i left thinking of only him.

that moment where they bid for her time/body is like that silent auction scene in get out if it went over your head in this context. like louis’ treatment of her here is just so wretched. for her to later call him a beautiful man bc he pays her so he can express vulnerability and nothing more. but that’s still emotional labor. she just clearly prefers it to whatever those horrid rich white johns at the fair play saloon probably have her doing.

emasculation and admiration in equal measure. you admire the way lestat exploited her you say?? that he had the means and the swagger to take her from you??👂🏾

(i know i just said all that, but is it bad that i wanna what was in that kiss that stole her breath a little 🫣. tell me the truth i’ll erase this right now and act like i ain’t never said it)

iwtv ep 1 rewatch thoughts

[i am eating Popeyes right now and i promise didn’t plan it this way, but seeds were planted so here we are.]

first things first we [the viewers] are introduced to our two time Pulitzer Prize winning professor Daniel Malloy. We all come to this course with a variety of understandings of the topic just like in any other course. Right off the bat he’s telling us of his expertise in a pervious recording and at the same time we witness his visible skepticism of his own claims in the more nuanced present setting. if you think he’s the only reliable character it’s very much being challenged in the first few moments, which i’m sure has been pointed out many, many times.

he flips the channel there’s a war happening (clue about where we’re at in terms of timeline?? idk. i’ve only engaged with AMCverse so maybe?) and flips it again and the fantastical is going to become a reality. he just has to put the pieces he doesn’t have together so he sits down to do a puzzle (a devils minion easter egg apparently) and he’ll get those pieces by accepting the extended invitation sent to him by none other than Louis de Pointe du Lac, which picks up from his mail box after trying to fit missing pieces together. very solid intro.

Daniel: Why get any closer to the bug than i need to?

he says before he gets on an international flight and exposes himself to countless risks. It’s what he does tho right? i’ve seen a couple sc of the books where he describes Armand as looking like an insect. he is not put off by getting close to perceived bugs. Its funny tho as he’s asking the question, he’s unboxing the answer—louis’ handwritten invitation—as to what would be worth risking your life for right above the devils minion easter egg.

-bc the bug has been following your career (like the way armand followed him yes?) and you like that

-bc the bug wants you and has invited you and you are a risk taker in the ways an investigative journalist has to be to get to the story/truth. in a way a man who refused to face his mortality chooses to be as pointed out by the lovely tumblr user blueiight here (hope it’s okay that i linked you. lmk)

Louis definitely clinging to threads of the past. in 2020 he’s sending hand written letters (on papers with Lestat’s initials) instead of emails and original cassette recordings instead of digital recordings. A lot if not all of his threads to humanity are threads to the past (“in my day” old headass) since right now he seemingly doesn’t really have any connection to humanity in the modern time. being an out of touch billionaire will do that to you, on top of being a century old vampire.

I think thats another evil that gets overlooked when some of y’all are looking for “he’s just as bad” reasons to pin on him. Instead of the imaginary he bit claudia before bringing her to Lestat…like…in addition to his pimping he’s literally a billionaire. like its right there. that encapsulates the worst ways to exist in this world. he the manpire of humanity as well like…

which i guess is goes into the many faces of violence that fade to the background and don’t get called out enough. violence isn’t alway brutality and i noticed just this past couple of days people only see violence when it’s in tandem with brutality, but im not about to sit here and lecture y’all cause that’s not at all fun. and thats why im doing this. bc its fun. i just think this show does a wonderful job of showing the spectrum of violence and evil and i think you do a great disservice to what they have done here if you’re only seeing those things from one angle. and i think thats one of the reasons why so many people struggle with Lestat and don’t appreciate how masterfully (no pun intended) he’s been crafted bc you don’t recognize those things [violence and evil] anywhere else in the story as being as bad.

if thats Daniels box of the past he doesn’t have much kids stuff, just a pink stuffed animal and a bike helmet, so i wonder how much of his kids lives he’s really missed. Like it doesn’t even seem like there was a joint custody situation where they spent a great deal of time at his home as well. idk maybe he has things in storage. but i’m curious about that and how that parallels with how louis let his own child down as has been pointed out.

ngl he look tf good while he listening back to this tape 😩😅 someone zoomed in on his muscle flexing when he pressed play and i just want to say to you i agree wholeheartedly with you whoever you are.

he mad tho. snatched that letter up quick after pausing the tape. 😂

He dives into the (possible) eternal sunset on a highway that looks like water.

If this is a way to get Lestat’s attention, which I think it can be said is a part of why this second interview is happening given the papers Louis chose to write the invitation on, I think its very pointed that Louis is introducing himself as a keeper of knowledge considering one of his (possible*) final moments with lestat as pointed out here.

one of the last things Lestat ever did before he was poisoned, had his neck sliced, and was dumped in a garbage yard to feed on rats, was humiliate Louis about his love of books and claim the role of the knowledge keeper in their family. I think its a very pointed message that this is a book (especially with all the mediums available in 2020), of course Louis loves books, but also Lestat has beef with books lol (Between Gabrielle and Louis). If there’s anyway to get a rise out him (hehe) its a book where Louis is identified as the knowledge keeper of the immortal life Lestat gave to him. and it’s written by a savory inferior as well. louis could have written the book himself. God knows he has the skill, time and the access to do it so that was intentional. Lestat gone drop through the ceiling of the dubai penthouse in a rage.

*possible final moments bc we don’t know yet if Louis has seen Lestat since Paris etc. etc. which i think he will see him in paris bc of Rolins “can’t burn him twice” comment, but i’m open to being wrong.

i haven’t pointed out anything that hasn’t been discussed extensively, but this is a verrryy solid opening introduction to the show. right off jump they established this to be a well crafted episode.

i need yall to know right now that as we go forward in this episode i cannot be held accountable for who i become when faced with brown eyed louis’ fine self. you’ve seen it yourselves please don’t hold this against me!!!! i am not god’s strongest soldier! i am weak at the knees! i will buckle! i will fold!