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The famous Billy Meier photograph famously used in The X-Files ‘I Want To Believe’ poster.

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This is a compilation of highlights from a panel held at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force with Kirk Saduski (executive and producer at Playtone), Donald L. Miller (author of Masters of the Air), and Nate Mann (you know who he is 😌). The whole discussion is very insightful and really fun to watch, especially because Don knew Rosie very well, so I highly recommend that you watch it in its entirety. You can watch it here. There's a summary below if you don't want to watch the compilation 😉

Don on Rosie and Nate: “I’ve never met a more impressive human being in my life… his poise, his coolness, his composure.” He thinks Nate “played [Rosie] to a T.” 

Nate on the cast getting to know each other and the friendships formed: “A mission like [Münster]… took probably three weeks in a replica cockpit… all the while, Josh Bolt, my co-pilot is sitting right next to me… this was going on for a year… I was just texting him today… that kind of friendship is really the foundation of something like this… because they’re really up there for one another.”

Don on the show: “What makes the film for me is what Kirk talked about… the attention to detail is incredible and the dedication on the part of the actors, they jumped into these roles… I never saw a group of actors so emphatically committed to the project as these guys were; it was really incredible.”

Don on Rosie and Nate: “Rosie was [the] kind of guy who walks into a room and commands the room.” To Nate: “I thought you did that brilliantly, in an understated way. It would have been so easy to overstate that.” —> Nate: *nods vigorously and mouths 'thank you'* 😊🙏

Kirk to Nate: “You’re at the beginning of what we know is going to be a brilliant career, Nate.” —> Nate: *embarrassed* 🤭🙈🙉🙊🫣

Nate on how playing Rosie affected his life: “Things stick around… It’s always a good sign when you keep coming up with questions you might ask of your character. I would love to just sit down and talk to [Rosie] about jazz… I still feel this curiosity about him.”

Nate on how the incorporation of Rosie’s love for music was helpful: “When I first encountered Rosie, the thing you’re struck by is the magnitude of what he went through and what he chose to do in spite of what he went through, and that warrior-spirit... juxtaposed with this incredible warmth and this grace, and that’s where the music lives for me... He had this sense of trying to bring a buoyancy into others’ experiences, and I think he did with his crew. That balance there, between that steel-headed courage and his effortless warmth with others, was kind of where I tried to pivot.”

During the pandemic, Nate found a letter from his grandfather on his father’s side: it was from 1941 and mentioned how “unhappy he was.” 

The letter said: “I just feel this frustration… this sense of wanting to do something with my life, this sense of responsibility, this sense of responsibility to you, to my parents, to my country, and to this society that gives me, a jew, a chance to live.” 

Nate thought of that letter when auditioning for MotA because “that personal sense of duty, for Rosie, was so pivotal to his inspiration and helping him fight.” He further said that “getting to explore that connection to [his] grandfather… it’s one of those unexpected great wonders of getting to do the work that [they] get to do.”

Nate on what stands out with this project: “This is unique in that, feeling connected to this history and being able to be part of sharing it with you guys and helping to educate the public on these men, on WW2, on that sacrifice, brings a whole other dimension of meaning to our work.”

The rest of the video is made up of clips of Nate being an adorable, sweet, thoughtful, and supportive human being 🥰

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NATE MANN as ROBERT ROSENTHAL

MASTERS OF THE AIR Part Six

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Better late than never.

EDWARD ASHLEY and CALLUM TURNER as JACK KIDD and JOHN EGAN

MASTERS OF THE AIR (2024) Part three

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Behind the scenes of The Virgin Suicides (1999) dir. by Sofia Coppola 🎀🐇🪽

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Jodie Foster in True Detective you're so hot

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Old buildings in Grand Teton National Park that I looked slightly to the left of.

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i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

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This is a little clip about Nate Mann from an interview with Sam Rosenthal. Sam Rosenthal is Lt. Col. Robert "Rosie" Rosenthal's grandson, who played Lt. Arthur L. Jacobson in Masters of the Air. You can see him in the cockpit with Austin Butler and Freddy Carter during the Regensburg mission in episode three.

I highly recommend that you watch the full interview. It is always so touching to hear stories from the veterans' families and their thoughts on shows like Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and Masters of the Air, especially since it tells the story of someone they held close to their heart.

Sam Rosenthal, Nate Mann, and Dan Rosenthal (Rosie's son and Sam's father) at the premiere of Masters of the Air in LA.

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We’re Harkonnens. So this is how we’ll survive, by being Harkonnens.

Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen photographed by Ira Resnick on the set of "Badlands," 1972.

From the book "The Seventies: A Photographic Journey".

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I will stay dressed, Mr. Neville; you will not

THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT (1982)

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ANYA TAYLOR JOY as ALIA ATREIDES — DUNE PART TWO (2024), dir. Denis Villeneuve

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just went on a walk that felt and looked like what americans probably think the entirety of the uk is like

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 ━ The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King