#I was watching an interview of Culkin and was like

[rustyghostviolin]

NO HEAR ME OUT, HEAR ME OUT

KIERAN CULKIN COULD PLAY DAVID EILANDER.

Do you see the vision? He has that younger brother who will mock you one minute and then put frogs in his pants the next energy. He can do that little mischievous smirk David does!

They're just itching to perform a magic trick. Rusty Lake, you just have to shave a bit of his beard and then use some makeup to make him look younger and that's David Eilander.

[waystarresourceco]

Kieran Culkin on Roman's playboy image and the way the actors/writers understanding of backstory fits together. (x)

[rainjupiter4444]

Guys in horror I think deserve more hype

#1

Rory culkin

I think so many people hate him just because scream 4 is considered a new generation scream movie but I love scream 4 also I think Rory in scream 4 playing Charlie was amazing, the scene when he stabs Kirby was such a good reveal. I also think Rory is so hot and good at playing awkward people🤭

#2

any of the guys from the bowers gang from IT (2017)

Ok for this one heavy on Owen Teague and Nicholas Hamilton I think they both did such amazing jobs at playing their characters. There was a lot of stuff left out of the movies for good reason the book is very disturbing but I think they all did good at giving their characters personality. I think Owen Teague did a great job playing Patrick because people were so scared when they heard he was going to be in the movie because of how intense his character is in the book but I think he still gave Patrick his sense of psycho personality with facial expressions with what they could include in the movie. Also pretty much all of them are hot or cute in their own way💋

#3

 bill skarsgård

I think bill skarsgård is a phenomenal actor especially in horror he played pennywise so good in it 2017 and 2019. I think he really brings his characters to life and has a deep understanding of how to lure people in and then scare them such as how pennywise is so enticing in IT. I also think he is very cute and funny during interviews. He’s in #3 because I think he is pretty popular but he is perfect so🤷‍♀️.Theirs more reasons but I can’t think of them right now🤭

#4

Ashley zuckerman (in fear street)

I know this man is in his 40s but god damn is he fine that’s mostly why he is on this list but I think nick goodes character in fear street was very well thought out from the second movie where he is played by Ted Sutherland and in the rest of the movies when he is played by this lovely guy. IKNOW he is suposed to be evil but tbh he liked ziggy from when he was 16 in the movies to when he is around 40 that man is a keeper if I’ve ever seen one. I also like the fact that we really don’t know nick goode is the killer until fear street pt 2 and 3. Also I think the fear street fandom needs to come back because they are literally some of my fav movies and their is a new one coming out in 2025🤭🤭

#5

Fred Hechinger (in fear street)

I think Simon in fear street is so cute and quirky I think he shouldn’t have gotten killed off so fast he was my fav character the first time I watched it and still is. I think his character is supposed to be the comic relief person but I think him and Kate were the most relatable characters in the movie and ofc they were the ones to get killed off. He is so cute and funny in the movie and he feels like would be the best friend that would flirt with you or complement you all the time🤭

[glitter-stained]

you like Roman Roy and Jason Todd? You must really like em dog coded huh (also if you don’t mind can you give me the scoop on the Roman Roy csa theory. I didn’t follow the show closely enough to catch that but I’m nosy)

Oooh yeah I have a thing for dog coded characters it's called attachment issues/hj

Okay so watching/reading succession I saw like very obvious hints/signs of csa in Roman and at first I thought okay maybe I'm biaised so me and my partner in crime checked and turns out (can't remember if it's from an interview or the the scripts + commentary) it was on purpose, they wrote him as a victim of csa but then realised addressing it would mean like making that a big focus in the show, it would take a lot of space, and so they ended up deciding not to confront it, but by then the implicit had already been pretty well established in Roman's character, especially with Culkin being an incredible actor. Idk I just find, both in the cases of Roman and Jason, that the non-treatment of these implications are both ironic and fascinating on a meta-level.

If you're looking for more concrete examples of how it's hinted at, what comes to mind immediately are:

-the rape/csa jokes centered around himself as the victim, which he made even as a kid/teenager (esp since Roman is shown to "jokingly lie" about things we know are actually true)

-the bed wetting as a teenager

-the contradictory relationship to sex (always making jokes about sex/being sexually promiscuous but then being very uncomfortable with sex/trying to skirt around the act and emotions associated with it, like that failed sex phone attempt or the time he told his girlfriend like "yeah of course I'm capable of having sex I'll prove it to you, if you lie perfectly still like a corpse I can fuck you why are you acting so upset"

Those are what come to mind immediately but I know there were other stuff I noticed in the show, hope that answers your question!

(@littlelordfckleroy care to fact check me?)

[thefudge]

i HATE kiernan culkin's vibes and i need to know if anyone else does too. asking esp bc youve watched succession. i have not- i only know him from his interviews and red carpet moments and thus found him absolutely distasteful. but do you see it or no be honest

i think watching succession would make you hate him more LMAO

i know what you mean; i don't hate hate his vibes, but i don't enjoy him outside of roman roy; he strikes me as always trying too hard to be quirky. but he seems to be well-liked by people he's worked with, so maybe he's not a real asshole. that being said, he IS obnoxious. and jeremy should've absolutely won that oscar

[weclassybouquetfun]

The Oscars are gone, but not forgotten...yet.

While I was completely part of the CONCLAVE Hive

I was forewarned.

I am not mad about ANORA's wins as I quite loved it. I just loved CONCLAVE more (and BETTER MAN even more than all, but it wasn't in contention).

Our Best Actresses and Actors.

Post-Oscars bits and bobs.

In the past some nominees would host a dinner for the fellow nominees in their categories (Whoopi Goldberg and James Franco comes to mind as those who have hosted for their category), but this is the first time I've seen nominees across categories come together outside of the nominee luncheon.

They didn't know they were at the losers table: Sebastian Stan, Edward Norton, Colman Domingo, Demi Moore, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes and Jeremy Strong.

Awards season not just about accolades, it's about the friendships made along the way.

This years Best Actress and Best Supporting Nominees Fernanda Torres and Isabella Rossellini had more in common than some know. Both of their mothers were Oscar winners.

Isabella honoured her mother all season long, and at the Oscars honoured her ex-partner / collaborator David Lynch.

I really thought it was your year, Isabella!

I would have to say Team!Anora had the most fun of all during awards season.

The entire time watching ANORA I thought Mark Eydelshteyn was faking an accent. He sounded like BORAT.

Sir, why aren't you doing European pron?

Yes, because if Mikey gets to be sexy, let's give equal time to Mark.

Homages.

These fanfic writers need to step up with ANORA.

The Oscars was also a time for reunions. The Academy announced that they were returning to the Fab Five method of presenting with having past five winners introduce the actors for each category, but after Karla Sofia Gascón's wildly offensive tweets coming to the fore and her desire to stand ten toes down and sloppily defend herself, they discarded the idea, seemingly because who would praise her?

What could have been again.

I must say, I really enjoyed EMILIA PÉRÉZ and some presume that its nomination was because the industry was trying to show how progressive it was, but I've been to screenings for the film and the audience loved it. I went to one where the couple behind me had already seen it and was excitedly telling their seat mate about it, careful not to spoil anything because they said, "You just have to see it!", but there was genuine enthusiasm for the film. And while I've not read many interviews with writer/director Jacques Audiard, at the post-screening Q&A neither he nor Gascón, Selena Gomez or Zoë Saldaña patted themselves on the back for being revolutionary or touted the project as something that is going to change hearts and minds. The closest anyone came to that was Saldaña who was just proud that there were three Latinas leading a film.

Have to hand it to her, she didn't flinch.

-Some Oscar night moments: Halle Berry getting her revenge kiss on Adrien Brody, Kieran Culkin running to give Jeremy Strong a hug on the red carpet, the men of ANORA greeting, the Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn and YYura Borisov introducing their clip, Colman Domingo hyping up the audience with Frankie Beverly and Maze, Mark Eydelshteyn dancing it up at Neon's party and Adrien Brody's next day Oscar thoughts.

[akajustmerry]

Kieran Culkin for the reverse popular opinion ask meme!

omg omg literally when I went to see The Apprentice yesterday the trailer for A Real Pain played just before it and I was grinning in the cinema like a dog with a bone. The cool thing about watching Kieran in Succession was literally watching him become better at acting each season, which isn't to say he was bad at acting before, but the difference in calibre of his performance between season 2 and 4 is astounding!!! And I'm so so excited to watch his post-Succession filmography to see him expand into more interesting roles that use and build on the kind of performance he was doing in Succession. But honestly even if he doesn't, I just enjoy seeing him in things so much he's just very enjoyable to to me, and when I see him in interviews with all his bracelets and silly aphorisms I want him so badly I'm kicking my feet I'm chewing on the walls etc 🥰

ask me for a reverse unpopular opinion (in which I must gush about whatever topic I'm sent)

[redravenblogs]

Life update:

Currently unemployed post-graduation and dogsitting in exchange for a place to stay in NYC while I attempt to *~*network*~*

Mixed results so far but not totally unsuccessful

I'm two weeks in out of approximately seven weeks.

Going to Central Park more days than I don't, which is cool. Need to do more sketching/painting while I'm there.

Trying to see some shows before my money runs out, too. I've managed to catch Sunset Boulevard (ft Nicole Scherzinger) and Glengarry Glen Ross (ft Bob Odenkirk & Kieran Culkin).

Stressed bc this is the first time in my life (aside from Covid, but I'm not counting that) in which I haven't known what's next. Fingers crossed that a coffee meeting that is not so secretly an informal interview this Friday goes well.

My sleep schedule is shit right now, but it's not like I have any responsibilities except for dog walking and feeding, so *shrug*

Have been finally catching up on some TV. Amazon Prime is the only thing I can tell is set up on my host's smart TV, so if you have any recs, send them. So far I've marathoned The Boys, Gen V, and Fallout. Finally watched Saltburn. Thinking maybe Wheel of Time next?

[pynkhues]

I love watching shows but never really follow the cast but with iwtv I am kinda doing it with Jacob and Sam now, in terms of watching interviews etc. and their chemistry and friendship is so good. I imagine a lot of that is like the forced proximity but it also feels very sincere idk if most casts are like this but im really enjoying them

It is! I've talked about it a little bit in another post which tumblr's search function is not being helpful with, haha, but I think there were a whole bunch of circumstances at play probably with Jacob and Sam forming the relationship they did. In particular, I think it was probably a perfect storm of the pandemic intensifying the circumstances, both being at similar points in their careers in that they'd been jobbing actors but were becoming established in their home countries and so IWTV marked a huge step up for them both professionally given they're lead roles / it's a high budget series/ a US production, and that they seem to have pretty similar ideas about not just what they're adapting, but the culture they want to create on set as the actors at the top of the call sheet, and their processes more generally.

I think it's the latter thing that often is a pretty major influence too? The last two fandoms I've been in were Succession and Good Girls, and those casts had very different dynamics. The Succession cast - particularly the actors playing the father+siblings I think fell into that family relationship a bit, which in my experience isn't all that uncommon, so while there was a lot of love (and Sarah seemed closest with basically everyone), they also as a cast pretty clearly annoyed each other in that sibling-way too (Jeremy was actually the one to say that they literally feel like a family for better and worse to which Kieran very much nodded, haha). I think it was compounded by the cast clearly having very different approaches to acting too (Brian Cox being traditional-Shakespearean, Jeremy Strong being method, Kieran Culkin increasingly improvising / trying to make the others break) which is lowkey funny to me, but I can understand why that would create friction. It probably wasn't helped by the fact that members of the cast knew each other before the show and that many of the leads were at very different stages of their careers.

They seem to talk a lot less in general, but also seem to still be supporting each other's new projects and a lot of them have been spotted at each other's theatre shows over the last year even, so I think the love is genuinely still there.

Good Girls there was like, one person (the fan favourite and half of the main ship at that, lol) who very much had a rift with the rest of the cast, but the three lead actresses had (and still have!) an extremely adorable friendship. Retta and Mae Whitman were even recently at Christina's wedding and they all even regularly post nostalgically about working together on Instagram even though the show ended three years, which is really cute.

But yeah, there are also a lot of casts who are just colleagues or even hate each other's guts, haha, so we've truly lucked out with this cast. Hopefully it stays that way!

[buzzleaktv]

Brenda Song Taught Macaulay Culkin How To Do Laundry

I love these two — so much so that I’ll definitely excuse the fact that Macaulay didn’t know how to do his own laundry. With that in mind, it sounds like he wouldn’t have been too good left Home Alone… get it? (Sorry).  You can watch Brenda on the Jennifer Hudson Show here, and this is where you can find her full BuzzFeed interview.

[ju5tl1k34w0m4n]

Oscars

Yesterday was the oscar so i wanna talk about it

1.-Sean baker

i love Sean baker, i remember when i first saw "The florida project" film, i was so excited and i really like the movie, but my dissapointment was when the oscars didn't award him for that masterpiece, so i think it was very fair to give him 4 oscars for anora. Anora is such a beatiful film that sees the world from the eyes of a vulnerable woman but even in the worst the movie would make you laugh or even grin just a little bc of the humour, is such a beatiful film and i recommend it so much.

2.-The performance (Lisa, Raye and Doja cat)

i personally love them, specially lisa bc i really liked her when she was in blackpink and i'm a big fan of them since 2017, i was so surprised when lisa start singing "live and let die" by Macca, bp and the beatles are two of my favorite things in the world and see them in the same sentence makes me so happy, about doja performance, i really liked, i was in shock when i heard her singing bc i always see her as a rapper, but this performances changed my mind completely and i really aprecciated her as a singer more than a rapper, and Raye was absolutely fabulous, her voice, her looks, her hair, EVERYTHING, i really think that she is the future of female vocals (also shout out to her album "My 21st century blues" is a hell of an album).

3.-Best actor - Adrien Brody

i really like "the brutalist" but in my personal opinion timothée should win, as a die hard Bob Dylan fan i really saw a complete unknown as a stupid film that is only for begginers fans (and also a day before i watch the other Dylan biopic "i'm not there" for the 3th time and i think that's why i didn't enjoy acu) but ngl timothée did a flawless performance, also i love his interview with Nardwuar where he is just expressin how much he love Bobby.

4.- best supporting actor - Kieran Culkin

AJSHCWFG9WEYUEJVN, MY BOYYYYYY FINALLY DID IT IOV3WIEUVB. I really love Kieran is like one of the nicest person in the world and i remember when i saw him in "Home Alone" (lol) it was my favorite character as a kid even though he only played an kid that piss, but when i grew up and i see him in "scott pilgrim vs. The world" i was like wow, bc Wallace is one of my favorite characters from Sp and i never expect see him as W.W, then succesion and i was really sure he should win an oscar, and when i see a real pain i was really, really sure he would win it, and now, seeing him winning an oscar for one of his best roles is awesome, is like watching your kid growing up only that he is more older than you, anyways love my baby girl.

5.-Best animated feature film - Flow

i was amazed that this was even nominated, It is truly a great achievement in independent animation and the visuals are just nuts, a 10/10 film, nothing more to say.

6.-Best cinematography - the brutalist

I mean, i really liked the brutalist, but nosferatu is just crazy, as a fan of the original novel, i think it captures well the vibes and atmosphere and i love Robert eggers works, such as the witch and the lighthouse, but i'm just happy that Emilia Pérez didn't win.

7.- Best international feature film - I'm still here (aun sigo aquí)

I didnt watch the film, but surely it deserves the oscar more than Emilia me la Pérez, a film that i really like from the same director of "i'm still here" is "Diarios de motocicleta" which is contextualized in 1952, Argentina, is a really good film and the score is just mind blowing, specially "al otro lado del rio" by Jorge Drexler, a singer-songwritter from Uruguay.

8.- Best original song - Emilia Pérez (el mal)

Everything was going alright 'till this fucking film win for best song, as a Mexican this is really an ofense how ignorant they were in the film and songs, it's unbelievable, i think "Never too late" should win, Elton John is not only an idol in music, but for the piano players and the lgbtq+ community, Elton is just an idol and seeing him realising new music feels like a dream, but anyways.

9.-Overall

I think the awards were good, good films like Anora had their space and it was very nice to see the performances, but after all, the awards in general are bullshit and we should not be influenced by them and enjoy cinema as an personal experience.

[astonishinglysane]

Movies I’ve Watched - 2025

65/?: A Real Pain (2024) - watched 3/27/25

I’ve heard that Jesse Eisenberg is a dick based off his interviews, but my read has always been that he is a normal, if anxiety-ridden, person bewildered by the very abnormal reality of Hollywood. He comes across like a thoughtful person, and this is certainly reflected in A Real Pain. The movie seems like a simple narrative, but Eisenberg hints at oceans of things below the surface. He has the lack of vanity to throw the movie to another actor, while also giving himself a showcase that plays to his strengths. Kieran Culkin is great here, and he manages to show Benji’s pain beneath the bonhomie without making it maudlin. I look forward to future works from Eisenberg.

a real pain (2024) dir. jesse eisenberg

[judeiscariot]

succession is not a television show with a script and carefully crafted plot arcs to me it is a documentary about real human beings those are not actors . kendall roy is real to me

[roombagreyjoy]

Had to watch the last Suck Sex Scion episode subbed instead of dubbed for the first time… I miss Roman's VA so much… he's my silly goose

[tinylilvalery]

people are taking matthews quote from a recent interview out of context abt tomgreg (he said he didnt play it as romantic but thinks it's fun that the fans see it that way) and claiming it means tomgreg is dead and he hates it... i'm so frustrated with this goddamn fandom smh...

It's interesting that he said that (I haven't seen the interview) considering how he acted Tom, but also people gotta realise

1. It's shipping... You can ship things whether actors ship it themselves or not. Hell, William Shatner has said time and time again that Jim Kirk is heterosexual, and yet you can watch TOS and see how Jim interacts with Spock and like... I really don't need to explain, I'm sorry sksnsk. So I look at Tomgreg the same way if it's really true MattMac doesn't ship it (again, idk what he said, but if he did say that these are my thoughts on shipping even when an actor doesn't). I have very close friendships and I don't behave in the way Tom does with Greg, but that's just me 🤷‍♀️. To summarise I'd say, it's like death of the author actor, because the performance itself transcends the actor's comments on it after the fact.

2. Actors aren't solely responsible for the character and the characters relationships W others, therefore they can't really take full credit of the character. Yes they embody and bring them to life, but there's also the script (multiple writers), the showrunner, as well as editing and direction as all the other massive contenders as to who creates the characters and the relationships on screen. As a writer myself, I do find it really um,, like very irritating¿ that people keep anointing actors as the sole creator of a character. They interpret script and bring it to life with direction but they didn't write the character and so they didn't create it. Kieran Culkin's acting practice is that he doesn't like to know where his character is heading, so he lives in the present and episode to episode when acting Roman. What I mean by this, is regardless of Kieran, there was ALWAYS a set path for Roman as to where he was headed in each season, and it didn't matter what Kieran was up to, his plotline still existed despite not knowing it. Does that make sense? My point is, whether an actor knows it or not, things are written in by writers, and I consider Tomgreg VERY MUCH a part of the text and subtext of the show.

So to summarise, if MattMac really said he didn't play Tomgreg as romantic and doesn't see them that way he basically achieves Death of The Actor because his performance speaks louder to me than his comments about his approach to acting Tom. Tom looks at Greg with such adoration that I've never seen him look at another character, he speaks to him in tones that he doesn't speak to other characters in, so again, his acting transcends his post comments. And SECONDLY, MattMac's comments still aren't a ship killer to me because he didn't actually create Tom alone. He interpreted the character, brought him to life, and definitely would have had say + freedom in his performance considering what we know of Succ's production, but he didn't CREATE Tom. That credit is owed to the writers who literally wrote Tom, and wrote Tomgreg's scenes how they did. The credit is also owed massively to editors in how they edited all the many hours of footage to portray Tom and Greg's relationship as we saw it.

We all know Succession is an incredible show. There's so many undercurrents happening all at once that surface at various times in forms of parallels and callbacks. I think it's funny to think that despite the pedigree of Succession, something as massive as Tomgreg was some sort of shared hallucination. It wasn't. Tomgreg is part of the sauce, and they're an intentional ingredient.