#Articles & Inteviews

[kathrynhahnonline]

Would Maya have approved of the fact you’re only about 10 years late to the game?

“No, I definitely be a loser for sure. She’s like you don’t screen grab pictures of your own photos and then put them out there for the world to see.” #TheStudio

[violentdevotion]

American Nepo Babies Have Nothing on the British - Elle Hunt

[hulknussen]

I randomly saw this thing

www(.)formula1(.)com/en/latest/article/the-secret-life-of-nico-hulkenberg.57hfxsnNTOCi0cuQaUYIqA

A lot to analyse there

Q: Which film last made you cry? NH: I watched ‘Marley & Me’ recently on a plane and I really had to hold back tears.

Q: What are you afraid off NH: Spiders. Seeing one turns me into a screaming little girl. (Laughs)

Q: What was the best thing about being a child? NH: You have no luggage. You can do things without thinking about any consequences, because somebody else is taking care of you.

Also this:

www(.)renaultsportclub(.)co(.)uk/forum/the-lounge/motorsport-forum/f1/96568-formula-one-2018-news/page189#post114908

What is your most memorable moment so far? My birth. When the Hulk was born.

He must be the first person to remember their birth, good on him.

first article - it's from may 2017 and my God does it pack some punches. I appreciate you finding this and sending it in anon thank you for that it nearly short circuited me

the first two you put down were just "yeah duh" reading them but the 3rd one... you're telling me every time I characterized him as someone who just wants to get taken care of because it takes so much energy to think everything through I was RIGHT. there was a BASIS to it. yeah okay sure whatever

there's also this bit:

which stood out to me. the sweet tooth is established. the fidget is established to me by just watching the guy do, uh, anything. but it's kinda nice to see the confirmation. yeah, he IS a fidget, and he's an annoying fucker who doesn't pay attention. thank you for your self awareness king maybe I was wrong to call you a single celled organism with no thought behind those eyes that one time

I like that he collects money. gets basically not any more impersonal. and I know you'd be right to point out that a lot of answers in this inteview are personal. but also: the collection of liking chocolate and being afraid of spiders and collecting money is so. chef's kiss. it's so stereotypical, almost? I appreciate that

last thing to me was "my own smell". I dont know if I can even try to unpack that. maybe the omegaverse girlies will take enjoyment from it though

then he said that he hates taking selfies. which again is something, to me, that makes me go - yes, of course he does. duh. this entire interview is strangely vindicating to read.

the other link you sent is this one. where he again insists on how much he loves chilling and having his quiet time and how much he hates the media and the media people. my insincere fake driver who hates his job more than he loves it, never change

the birth part, when I first read it, I thought he might elaborate on it more and call back to where he earned the "hulk" nickname or something. but, nope, he just leaves it at that. which does really sound like he remembers his literal birth. and something something point to be made about calling himself hulk in that reference, when he was most definitely not hulk at all by the point of his birth. like you said good for him. a bit off putting maybe

amazing read for a sunday night thank you again anon. Im going to stare at a wall I think

[sol-consort]

question about your femshep: how would she react if confronted with her private affairs by the media and what do hackett and anderson think of her having multiple children and affairs/ how did they react?

I love your character, so different from what people normally do with paragons!🩷🦑

thank you! I like the concept of characters who make the best heroes yet are bad in their personal life.

It really makes you feel conflicted about how their scaled heart would weigh against a feather. On one side, they save people's lives, on another side, they break their lovers' hearts.

They make mythical legends, great leaders, even good friends, but terrible partners.

One of the benefits of going paragon is the high persuasion. A paragon Shep is effortlessly charming, the media's darling even. When it comes to the extranet viral interview vids, it doesn't matter what she's really saying as long as how she's saying it is seemingly convincing.

A reporter tries to corner her about another spouse who filed for divorce after catching her in bed with another? Femshep mentions how, yes, that did happen, and she takes full responsibility. That it's their right to divorce her if they feel like it, that's their freedom, isn't it? The same freedom she's been defending for decades, the freedom everyone almost got robbed of by the reapers not so long ago, the entire galaxy would've been wiped wasn't it for her stepping up and convincing everyone to put their differences aside and work together.

Do tell her, reporter, do you have a family? Are they from earth or an outer colony? Who do you think kept it safe? Kept your family and friends safe while you were spreading high-school lockerroom gossip about her. You should be ashamed of yourself. She is not perfect, yes, but who is?

Or something along those lines. As if those unrelated things excuse her actions.

Evading the question, speaking with confidence, appearing charismatic on camera, and she's got every viewer in her pocket. Die hard fans ready to defend her wrongdoings because "She is commander Shepard!" and "we should be asking what the ex-spouce did to cause her to cheat? It can't be her fault." as if it's ever the fault of the person who gets cheated on.

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Admiral Hackett

He is shown to have looser morals than the rest of the alliance multiple times in canon. He understands how messy the real world can be, how you can't achieve results without getting your hands dirty and sweeping things under the rug.

Not only did he massively stall the alliance investigation on Shepard back when joining Cerberus, replying to every email sent to him—presented with hard evidence of Shepard's treasons—requesting permission to open an offical case, with "negative."

He is a seasoned vetran, a decorated admiral who has seen everything the world has to offer. If the saviour of the galaxy is a serial adulterer, then so be it. He genuinely could not give less of a shit what Shepard got to in her own free time, as long as it doesn't make the alliance look too bad, as long as her legacy remains unblemished, then everything could be overlooked.

But he still went to Shepard for help when it came to rescuing an old friend. In the aftermath of the mission, he promised to keep the government officials off Shepard's back until the collectors threat is no more.

Hackett is one of the first people to completely dismiss and shut down any interviews with him trying to expose Shepard's infidelity. He denies every all and all allegations, offers no comment, and ensures no printing press would ever accept these "baseless" articles or host them online.

Thanks to him and the alliance PR team, Shepard's inner life conflict is kept hush-hush on the down low. The average person wouldn't know about it, you have to really dig deep and look through courtroom records and deleted inteviews and articles to find out about it. To do that, chances are you're either an obsessed fan or a nosy reporter, reporters can be bribed and fans are too deep in denial to face reality.

This isn't the first or the last time an important public figure fucked up, a little corruption is needed to grease the wheels of the goodness machine. Shepard's risking her lives for people and doing it with the efficiency of an entire fleet. As long as she keeps at it, Admiral Hackett has no qualms cleaning her messes.

Paragon or Renegade, in his views, the world needs a Shepard. If anything, he's relieved it's just being a shitty partner & cheater and not like money embezzlement from the government, legal matters are always annoying to cover up.

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Captian Anderson

He feels...immensely guilty, as if he failed Shepard, as if it was him who led her down this scummy path. Especially after their conversation in ME3 ending, where he tells her she'd make a great mom.

She is a mom now, an even decently good one... but at what cost? Being a terrible wife.

He always defended her against the crew, always sang her praises in front of superiors. How could he not? She was the textbook definition of the perfect soldier, diligent and hardworking, she was the best XO he has ever had.

With that rough uprising she had on earth, he expected her to have a million problems he'd have to sort through, attitude, stubbornness and prejudices... yet to his surprise, there was nothing. Shepard was a squeaky clean slate, even when he tested her faithfulness to the alliance on multiple occasions.

Turns out, it was a different kind of faithfulness she lacked. The kind that breaks families, he should know, the mention of his ex-wife's name still leaves a bitter taste in his mouth.

So he blames himself for not knowing, for not paying much attention to the different people she'd mingle with during shore break, only to abandon them for a new shinier person. Maybe if he was more observant, he could've prevented this, he could've had a serious talk to her about it.

the way he views it, of course, it is his fault, for how could it be hers when she never had a father to sit her down and explain love and trust? How could it be hers... no, it can never be Shepard's fault. It must be his own.

He was there for her as a captain, but he failed her as a friend.

Is what he tells himself to take the blame from her.

It's never mentioned why he divorced his wife, but from the huge amount of responsibilities he had, I assume she left because she was feeling neglected.

Only for him to find out she "met" someone else back when they were still together through a Facebook post where she's gushing about their anniversary, the timeline not adding up, until things click into place in his head.

He used to be in denial about Shepard's "predicament," just reporter drama. Until catching up with one of his old crew—be it Kaidan or else—and hearing first hand of how Shepard broke their trust and betrayed their love. How she showed no remorse yet still maintained a friendly relationship with them after the breakup, how it didn't take her much to immediately move on to a new person. For the cycle to start all over again before their eyes.

The immense disgust and disappointment he felt in that moment, the stained glass painting of Shepard in his mind shattering into a million pieces. It was almost as if it's his own heart she broke, a person he proudly called a friend, one of a kind.

It stung even more with the knowledge that Shepard kept repeating the same mistakes despite Anderson entrusting her about what happened between him and his ex-wife, venting to her like an old friend, how uncharacteristic it was for her to just sit there and not say a word, changing the subject afterwards.

And now he carries that guilt with him akin to a ball and chain, mulling it over a glass of whiskey...or three. Nursing his glass as he wonders if it's too late for an intervention, Shepard is well into her 40s by now...is it too late for him to step up as a guardian again?

Does she even see him as a father figure anymore? They drifted apart after the reapers incident. A peaceful life was never Shepard's style, and so she was determined to make the most out of her field days before old age forces her into a retirement or an admiral uniform.

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As for Shepard herself, she doesn't grant herself excuses or justifications, the charismatic speeches she gives to reporters don't work on her own mind.

She is forced to stare into the brutal truth of her being rotten at the core, that despite all of her virtues, her mortal sin resonated in the most hurtful way possible to the people closest to her hearts.

Whatever new relationship she starts, she dreads the eventual breakup once her old habits creep up again. She doesn't know why she does this. It simply feels right during the moment to give into temptation. The mere idea of her being chained to one person makes her skin break out in hives.

Their love is never guaranteed. In her perspective, it's better to just hop on whatever new opportunity presents itself.

She is guilty over her lack of guilt when it comes to infidelity. How it feels like second nature for her to shamelessly break her oaths of devotion and love for a one night stand with a lovely woman she just met at a bar.

Because deep down, she knows she's lying through her teeth when she admits to her partners about her cheating being a bad habit.

Deep down, she genuinely has no problem with it. She's only saying what she learned to say to appease the other person, to mediate the situation.

[mi6021mariakozireva]

1 Week

Inteview

I contacted an old classmate who used to do the mountaineering on a serious level. Hopefully she can give me some basic knowledge and share some stories from her own experience.

How often occur the thought of possible death during climbing?

How you started and why?

What is the reason for doing it now?

Field research

I researched what are my possibilities to get at least a peek into this world of deadly risks, height and physical discomforts. Well I could spend a fortune and lots of time to climb the highest mountain in UK which is Ben Nevis (Scotland), but probably I will just go to Climb Newcastle on Friday and climb some walls. Hopefully it can be useful as well. Apart from that contacted `Simonside Outdoor Adventure`. Explained my situation and asked for more information on what they can provide, since they did not have much on their website.

Online research

Modern recreational climbing quite young- first decade of the 20th century

Free climbing = equipment only for safety

Free soloing = without any protection

Aid climbing = equipment for pulling yourself up

Bouldering = kind of practice on a small cliff so you can relatively safely land

the first free climb of the Dawn Wall route took more than two-week climb

For the first 70 years of technical climbing, the piton—a metal spike driven with a hammer into a crack in the rock— was the primary form of protection.

In the late 1970s, climbers near France’s Verdon Gorge began rappelling down from the top of otherwise unscalable cliffs to explore and pre-equip routes with permanent bolts before attempting to free climb them from the bottom.

Sport climbing = Hang-dogging (that is, rehearsing a sequence of difficult moves over and over again while resting on the rope between attempts in an effort to master the climb) + bolt-equipped climb (began rappelling down from the top of otherwise unscalable cliffs to explore and pre-equip routes with permanent bolts before attempting to free climb them from the bottom.)

Traditional climbing =  refers to climbers who place and then remove their own protection as they go

Climbers use a highly technical system of grades to keep track of relative difficulty and rising standards in sport climbing, bouldering, trad climbing, and aid climbing.

The first purpose-build indoor walls were introduced in the 1980s

For climbing’s Olympic debut, competitors will compete in three disciplines: bouldering, lead sport climbing, and speed climbing, for one medal.

Opposite leg&hand

Contra pressure

90 degree

gravity centre inside base of support

It's amazing how some people risk their lives. And for what? I wander if they let in the thought of falling down while performing the free solo? Maybe I should show this thought in the animation and reveal only after the fall, that its just in his head.

Sleeping high above the ground sounds exciting. Maybe I should add this element.

This video clarify how the solo aid climbing looks like.

Probably I need some transition or a reasoning behind why he changes to free soloing. Maybe his equipment will fall down accidentally, or he will look up to the top and simply act by inspiration.

Need to watch:

 Free Solo

[philhoffman]

One of the things that irks me about so many articles or interviews with PSH (especially as he was breaking through but also throughout the rest of his career/even after his death) is the unbelievably common “wow, he’s a surprisingly talented and famous actor despite being fat and unattractive!” angle. Not those exact words, but pretty damn close sometimes! If you’ve read any story about him you know what I’m talking about. There’s always a remark about his weight followed by some qualifier or feigned astonishment about how he’s so successful despite his appearance

Like, actually he’s hot because he’s fat, not in spite of it! And he’s talented no matter how he looks at any particular time! The nearly constant, played-up sense of incredulity at his tremendous success as a fat actor just encapsulates how extremely narrow the typical Hollywood sense of “attractive” is/can be

[shannendoherty-fans]

Shannen Doherty Is Not Signing Off Just Yet

Fighting Stage IV breast cancer has forced some self-reflection, but the ’90s icon and so-called diva refuses to slow down.

By Kate Pickert Sep 29, 2020. Photos by Kurt Iswarienko. Elle USA October 2020 issue

On a cool evening in February 2019, Shannen Doherty invited some friends to a Venice, California, rental house for a dinner party. Doherty’s actual home was in Malibu, 20 miles north, but she and her husband, photographer Kurt Iswarienko, had fled the property a few months earlier, when a wildfire that started inland burned nearly 100,000 acres on its way to the Pacific Ocean. The couple’s house survived the blaze, but Doherty says the property sustained significant damage that made it uninhabitable.

The guest list for the dinner included only people Doherty trusted: her husband and the friends who knew the real Shannen—not the 1990s tabloid caricature, the loudmouthed bad girl with a temper. Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar was there, along with model Anne Marie Kortright, Malibu real estate agent Chris Cortazzo, and a Los Angeles doctor named Lawrence Piro.

Doherty had compiled the guest list, but it was Piro, her oncologist, who drove the conversation. Less than two years earlier, the actress had finished treatment for breast cancer, and Piro was at the dinner to explain that Doherty’s disease was back. The cancer, Piro said, was now metastatic (also known as Stage IV), meaning it had spread beyond Doherty’s breast and lymph nodes. “The way he presented everything to everyone was matter-of-fact,” Doherty, 49, tells me when we speak in June. The news was devastating, of course, and Doherty had invited Piro so her friends could get answers to the questions she knew they would have. Would she die of this? Probably. Would she die soon? Probably not. Why did this happen? It was impossible to know. Could this be treated? Yes, to a point. “Everybody got to ask questions and know what we were looking at as a group, as a team,” Doherty says.

About 300,000 American women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. In the majority of cases, initial treatment for the disease is effective, curing the patient. But in a significant share of cases, the breast cancer returns, either to the breast or nearby lymph nodes or to other parts of the body. In Doherty’s case, despite the surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation she had undergone after her first diagnosis, it seemed that some cancer cells had survived the assault and made their way to her spine. Eventually, the disease will most likely spread further, to Doherty’s brain, lungs, liver, or some combination thereof.

Still, there was reason for hope, Piro told the group. Treatment for metastatic breast cancer, which was once an automatic death sentence, has advanced in recent years, with patients living longer and having a better quality of life. Some survive for a decade or more. Doherty’s treatment would include hormone therapy to block the estrogen fueling her cancer, plus a second targeted drug that is often effective at stabilizing metastatic disease. If this didn’t work, there were other drug combinations to try, but the bottom line was that Doherty would be in treatment for the rest of her life. As Piro explained all this, his patient sat at the table, listening.

Nearly 30 years after she played Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210, Doherty is still striking, with high cheekbones and shiny, jet-black hair. “I think people have a mental picture of Stage IV cancer as someone sitting in a gray hospital gown, looking out a window on their deathbed,” Iswarienko, tells me. “I don’t see a cancer patient when I look at Shannen. I see the same woman I fell in love with. She looks healthy and vital.”

As if a massive wildfire and a metastatic cancer diagnosis weren’t enough, there was more bad news to come. Weeks after the Venice dinner, Doherty’s 90210 costar Luke Perry died suddenly of a massive stroke. After the show, they had grown apart, but they’d reconnected in recent years. They were even talking about working together, developing a new television project.

At a memorial service for Perry in March 2019, Doherty saw Brian Austin Green, the only other 90210 castmate she could call a close friend. Green had known Doherty even before they were onscreen together, and she shared the news of her metastatic diagnosis with him, even though she was keeping it under wraps publicly. Doherty and Green chatted at the memorial, and the conversation eventually shifted to the latest reboot of the show, called BH90210, a scripted-reality version of the old nighttime drama set in the present day. Castmates Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth had helped come up with the idea for the series, which had been green-lighted at Fox, and all the principals of the original had signed on—except Doherty.

Even before her cancer diagnosis, Doherty was dead set against doing the show. “I had already done two 90210s by that point,” she says. “I didn’t really see it as something that was going to help, but I did feel that it could stir up stuff from when I was 19 years old.”

The 1990s made Doherty a household name, but the decade also left scars. She had helped build 90210 and the Fox network into juggernauts, but on and off set, she seemed to run into problems wherever she went. Celebrity tabloids regularly published stories about Doherty fighting with producers, writers, and actors. She was a diva, according to reports. She was a bitch, they said, impossible to deal with. A 1993 People magazine cover declared Doherty “Out of Control!” after the actress’s ex-fiancé accused her in court of threatening him with bodily harm. The story itself, one of many like it, reported that Doherty had “left a trail of bad debts, trashed homes, exhausted friendships, and wasted relationships.” There was even an I Hate Brenda newsletter devoted to bad-mouthing Doherty and her onscreen character. “The more stories that were written about me, the more defensive and closed off I became,” Doherty tells me. “And the bigger the walls I built around me. I had a lot of resentment.” 

Doherty had worked hard to move on from that time. When the newest reboot came around, she had long been out of the spotlight, but her relative obscurity had an upside—privacy, which she prized more than anything. She didn’t want to go back, to the tabloids or her castmates. But Green asked her to reconsider. “I was really pitching her: ‘I know it’s going to be fucking hard, but come do it. I think it’ll be really good for you,’ ” Green says. The actors had grown up and were all different people now, Green told her, and so was she. He would act as a buffer if she needed one. “ ‘This is a rare opportunity to experience each other again in a much different way,’ ” Green says he told her. 

Perry’s death shifted things for Doherty. Maybe the show could be a sort of tribute to him. Maybe it was a chance to prove to herself that metastatic breast cancer didn’t mean the end of working. Maybe it was both. “Things happen and you go, ‘All right, this is what I’m supposed to be doing at this moment,’ ” she says.

This moment would be different. Doherty had changed, yes, but so had her ability to fight back against negative stories in the celebrity press. “I knew that once I signed up for the show, the bullshit would start all over again. And, in fact, it did,” she says. The reboot’s showrunner and several writers quit before the new show began shooting, and rumors swirled that Doherty was once again acting out. “I addressed it immediately,” Doherty says. On Instagram, she wrote, “I refuse to be cast in the same villain role because ‘journalists’ lack imagination.… I am a woman with my own story.” She wrote that the rumors about her causing upheaval with the new show were untrue and that she was a more complicated person than the headlines made her seem: “I promise,” she wrote, “you don’t know me.”

Part 1 - Part 2

[norton-addiction]

James Norton on playing a gangster in new crime drama

Cape Town – The global organised crime drama McMafia will launch exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in South Africa on Tuesday 2nd January.

James Norton sat down for a quick Q&A about his role.

What appealed to you about this project?

When we talk about the Mafia, it is so tied up with those portrayals which we're so used to in The Sopranos and The Godfather. But what's so lovely and fascinating and so relevant about this story is that it shows how the Mafia is a totally new phenomenon.

Tell us a bit more?

The Mafia is now a totally globalised corporate entity. It straddles all these different countries and financial systems. It is no longer just a protection racket. It's the Panama Papers, it's corrupt presidents and prime ministers, it's even in the possible link between the Kremlin and the White House and how that's facilitated. That was what was a real eye-opener for me, and I hope that's what the show will reveal.

Does McMafia show that crime pays?

No, it’s more nuanced than that. The audience are taken on a journey into the world of crime through Alex’s eyes. It is fascinating, and it's kind of sexy and empowering because there is this whole underworld of people who don't abide by the rules and do what the hell they want - and it's exciting. You get seduced by it, but you're never quite sure how much you're being seduced.

Can you please amplify that?

Alex convinces himself that it's about protection and it's about survival, but there's another side to it, and the beauty of Hossein's writing is that Alex and the audience are never quite sure. Each choice Alex makes - is it to do with survival or is it a bit more to do with the fact that he just wants to go deeper and deeper and gather more control and money? So, McMafia is brilliant because it’s never about villains and heroes - it's all about that wonderful mess in between.

Does that also contribute to the ambiguous portrait of Alex as an anti-hero?

Yes. In the beginning, he doesn't have a choice, and you're left as an audience member going, 'OK, I totally understand he has to make that choice'. And then at a certain point you’re not sure, and you're going, 'Would I make that choice? Maybe my choice would be different'. And then later on you're going, 'How the hell did I end up here?' As an audience member, you're never quite sure where you stand.

Do we all have similarities with the outlook of these Mafiosi?  

Yes, these mobsters are all just like us - they're looking out for each other. Of course, they have a slightly warped version, and their moral compass is slightly different from ours, but their priorities are the same. They need to put food on the table, they need to survive. So what's great is that you're never really sure where your allegiance lies as an audience member. You're thrown all over the place.

All the same, doesn’t McMafia run the risk of glamorising criminals?

No. What's great about the writing is that for every character who's living the high life, you also see the women being trafficked, the drugs going through Mumbai and 50 000 addicts who are suffering. So yes, there is a glamour to it, but equally it's always qualified by the cost.

Finally, what is it about the world of the gangster that remains so gripping to outsiders?

We're all fascinated by this compelling world of the Mafia. It's that slightly subversive, dark underworld. We're all obsessed about it in various forms - in books, film, TV. Look at popularity of The Godfather. It's the anarchic quality of those people who live on the fringes of criminality which we all as law-abiding citizens find fascinating.  

[zot3-flopped]

wow how can a person be so deffensive over gay rumors. If I disliked Shawn before and tought he was bi and closeted now i despite him more and i think for sure he is (either gay or bi). He contradicts himself in that inteview a lot of times. I understand now why he sound so desperate talking about Harry (like if Shawn wasn't famous he speeks like a harrie lol. they could meet, do a collab whatever!) But I bet Harry doesn't like Shawn attitude at all. Everything Shawn does and says screams forced and inorganic. All the oposite of Harry

He inadvertently created sooo many new gay rumours with that article.

[violentdevotion]

how do you connect with a city that tried with all of its might to lock you out

[realmadridfamily]

Sandra published inteview with Paddy in newspaper! I'm sad because she is no longer our wags and you will not translate it for us :(

Yes, I saw it, it was Hola Espana. I am positively surprised by this article and I think it will be interesting :) But as you noticed, Paddy is no longer Real Madrid WAG so I can't make an exception. Maybe I will have the opportunity to have it, so I can share with someone who has a blog about Spanish WAGs :)

[suminomiyyas]

Interview with Uesaka Sumire about her Precure Debut as Cure Cosmo

Images had clearly not related to article excpet the cat, it’s just an eye candy

It's inteview from The TV about Sumipe recent Precure debut in Star Twinkle Precure https://thetv.jp/news/detail/196382/

――キャストに決定した際のお気持ちを聞かせてください。 ――Please tell us about your feeling when you're added to the cast.

「プリキュア」のオーディションを受けるのは今回で2回目だったので、すごくドキドキしました。オーディションを受けてからすぐ、キャストに決定したというご報告をいただいて。 This is my 2nd time of applying the "Precure" audition, and i was really excited about tit, after taking an audition, i receive the cast announcement right away.

すごくうれしかったのですが、喜びをかみしめる間もないくらいすぐに収録が始まったので、収録を行っていくうちに少しずつ、「プリキュア」になった���だって実感が湧いてきましたね。 I was delighted, the recording begin right away after i receive that joyous info, after the recording little by little i begin to feel like i am getting closer towards a "Precur" image.

でも、実感が湧いていくうちに「私で本当に大丈夫なんだろうか」と言う不安な気持ちも出てきました。 But, as time goes by i feel this anxious feeling say "Is it okay to be me ?" .

――周りの方々の反響などはありましたか？ ――Any reactions from people around you ?

そうですね。キュアコスモの正体がこれまで明らかにされていなくて、もう誰かに話したいと言う気持ちはすごくあったのですが、秘密にしないといけないのがもどかしかったんです。 Let's see, Cure Cosmo identity hasn't been revealed so far, of course i had this feeling that i want to talk about this to someone, to keep a secret no matted what sure is a hard task.

いざ発表されると、いつも応援していただいてるファンの方や、現場の方まで本当にいろいろな方から「おめでとう」と言っていただけて本当にうれしかったですし、そういった言葉をもらう事でも、「私がプリキュアになれたんだ」って実感しました。 But when she was announced, i am really happy to receive "Congratulations" word  from the fans who's always with me and everyone on scene. and i had this thought "Ah i am a Precure now".

テレビの前で応援している子どもたちにも、喜んでいだたけるように演じようという思いでいっぱいです。 To the Children who's cheering me from the TV,  with lot's of feeling i feel happy to play this role.

――上坂さんは「プリキュア」という作品にどのようなイメージを持たれていますか？ ――What kind of "Precure' image that Uesaka-san had in mind ?

「プリキュア」シリーズというと歌がすごく印象的です。初代の「ふたりはプリキュア」(2004-05年)の頃から、主題歌がすごくパワフルで、とてもキャッチーな曲が多くて大好きです。 The songs from "Precure" series are really impressive, Start from the very first "Futari wa Precure" in May 2004. The theme song is really powerful and catchy i love it.

あとは、「プリキュア」は1年間かけて放送されるアニメなので、何話も何話も掛けて積み上げられて描かれる物語が本当にすばらしいです。 Also, "Precure is an anime that broadcasted for 1 year cour, The story that come one after another is really amazing.

主人公たちの成長や友情といったポジティブなパワーにあふれていて、こんなにも明るい物語が10年以上もシリーズとして続いているのは、「プリキュア」の魅力だと思います。 The growth of main characters,their friendship and positivity, to think that this bright and cheerful story last over than 10 years, as for me it's one of Precure charm.

――歌というと、変身シーンの時の歌う曲も印象的ですよね。 ――Speaking about songs, Don't you think the Singing while transforming scene are amazing.

オーディションでも歌の審査があって、その時に初めて歌わせていただいて、その後に他の方と一緒にレコーディングしました。短い曲ではあるのですが、何度も何度もリテイクした思い出があります。 Even in audition there's a song examination part, that time i was asked to sing, after that i was recording with other people, there's lot's memories about my countless of retake.  

――アフレコ現場の雰囲気はいかがですか？ ――How was the atmosphere of the site after the recording ?

毎回、長丁場な現場なのですが、すごくにぎやかで楽しい雰囲気がずっと続いています。キャラクターが多いので、現場に参加される声優さんもすごく多いのですが、本当に教室のようなにぎやかさです。 Every time, it's long talk, a very lively and enjoyable atmosphere, there's lot's casts, and the Seiyuu on the scene are really packed, it's like a classroom.

隣によく、キュアセレーネを演じる小松(未可子)さんがいらっしゃるので、一緒にお話したり、お菓子を食べたりしますが、キュアコスモはどちらかというと周りのプリキュアとは一歩引いた存在なので、演じているうちに私自身も、周りに一歩引いてしまうことがありますね。 Next to me, there's Komatsu (Mikako)san who play a Cure Serene, we had some conversations and eat sweets, because of Cure Cosmo is one step behind the other Precure, while acting as one, i sometimes step back a little during that time.

なので、自分からはあまりグイグイいけずに、ユニと同じように「楽しくやっているわね」という気持ちでアフレコしています(笑)。 That being said, Because i am not that sloopy myself, and like Yuni said "Let's have some fun" that's the whole after recording (lol)

――他の共演者のご印象は？ ――The impression about the other cast ?

キュアソレイユ役の安野(希世乃)さんとは、別の作品でもご一緒させていただいたことはありますし、キュアスター役の成瀬(瑛美)さん��、でんぱ組.incのライブを見に行かせていただいたりしていました。 About Kiyono (Yasuno)san who play Cure Soleil,  we had our time to play in same series in other work, Naruse (Emi)san who play as Cure Star are Denpagumi inc member and i've seen her live.

キュアミルキー役の(小原)好美さんは、今回が初めましてだったのですが、緊張はまったくなくて、皆さん同世代の“チーム”という結束力が強いですね。 Kohara (Konomi)san who play Cure Milky, This is our first time together but there's no nervousness around us, we had this strong cohesion as "team" for this generation.

――キュアコスモをはじめ、怪盗・ブルーキャットや宇宙アイドルのマオなど多くのキャラクターを演じていますが、それぞれの印象はいかがですか？ ――Cure Cosmo start from Thief Blue Cat, Space Idol Moa you play lot's of character, the impression for each of them ?

ユニというキャラクターは、“レインボー星人”という宇宙人で、宇宙アイドルのマオだったり、怪盗・ブルーキャット、そしてキュアコスモといろいろなキャラクターになることができる設定なのですが、それぞれのキャラクターの演技プランがまったく違うので、演じるのがすごく大変ですね。 Yuni Characters is, an Alien from "Rainbow Star Tribe", Since each of their characteristic are very different start from Space Ido Moa, Thief Blue Cat and Cure Cosmo herself, i had a hard time when playing the character plan.

私自身、ユニというキャラクターの芯の部分をまだまだつかめていないところはあるのですが、ユニはこれまでずっと一人で戦ってきて、でも孤独感を感じているわけではなくて、一人で戦うのが当たり前だったという子なんです。 As for myself, I still haven't fully grasp all of Yuni characteristic yet, but Yuni always fighting all by herself but it's not a lonely feeling since that was natural for her.

自分を殺して、一人で全部やろうという使命感がすごく強いので、本当の自分というがまだ見つけられていない子だなという印象ですね。 Self suicidal, strong feeling to do her mission  and everything all by herself, she still hasn't found her true self yet, that's what i thought.

レインボー星人なので何者にでもなれるんですが、それ故に何者にもなり切れないというか、そういったアンバランスさがあるキャラクターです。 Because of Rainbow Tribe Aliens can shapeshift into anyone, at the same time she can't full transform into anyone, that's some unbalance thing that i felt from her.

――それぞれのキャラクターを演じ分ける上で意識していることはありますか？ ――Did you feel conscious about playing different character at once ?

マオやブルーキャットはキャラ付けがはっきりしていて、マオはアイドルらしくかわいいというの��前面に出して、ブルーキャットはキザに格好良くと、演じ分けという意味ではやりやすいのですが、逆にユニを演じる時はあまり演技の構成を考えないことが多いですね。 Mao and Blue Cat has clear characteristic, Mao bring out a cute and idol like appearance, Blue Cat is cool and sly, acting as them is easier but it's the opposite when i am playing as Yuni, i often spaced out a lot for her.

毎回、毎回ユニの心がバラバラなことが多くて、うれしそうな気持ちの次のシーンでは、急に冷めた態度をとったり、かと思ったら女の子らしいリアクションをしたり、自覚のない“ツンデレ”という感じです。 Everytime, over and over Yuni's heart are bit disorganized, the scene where she's happy, then she had a cold attitude, if you put it at word in girls dictionary, "Tsundere' term fits her.

――20話では初めてキュアコスモが登場しましたが、初めてコスモを演じたお気持ちはいかがでしたか？ ――Even though Cure Cosmo appear in Episode 20,  what is your feeling the first time you play as her ?

やはり“「プリキュア」になる回”というのは一回しかないわけですし、変身シーンの時の口上を言えたのがすごくうれしかったです。 Of course since it's only that one time i become "Precure", I was happy to shout the Transformation scene.

基本的にはクールなキャラなのですが、キュアコスモに変身する回は、涙を流したり自分の感情を爆発させる、とても熱い回だったので余計に印象的でした。 Simply put she's a cool character, When she transform into Cure Cosmo, I shed a tear and had a lot's of emotion, that scene was really rise my tension causing lot's of unecesarry emotions.

――最後にメッセージや意気込みをお願いします。 ――Lastly give us your message and enthusiasm.

皆さん、キュアコスモの登場を楽しみにされている方が多くとてもうれしく思っています。キュアミルキーに続いて、2人目の“宇宙人プリキュア”なのですが、キュアミルキーとは良い意味で対照的なキャラクターになっています。 Everyone, Thank you very much for looking foraward to Cure Cosmo debut, after Cure Milky i am the 2nd Alien Precure, and both of us had a good contrast with each other.

まだまだ他のキャラクターとなじめていない中で、これからどういった形でプリキュアたちの仲間になっていくのか注目してほしいです。 To everyone who still didn't understand the characters, i would be delighted to witness how will the Precure eam adventure forward.

[therealcalicali]

Alex Hogh Inteview:

This is the english translation from the interview with Alex Hogh from the new magazine article:

[dojae-huh]

Entry 21

There was a research on sparrows that showed that a flock is smarter than an individual bird. The sum is not equal to its parts. As they say, two heads better than one. Same with shippers, the more there are, the more pairs of eyes and curious minds, the more details are being noticed. 

Recent development: shippers caught on Doyoung’s habit of copying other people. I’d say this avid mirroring is the side-effect of his predisposition to attune to people (there’re many articles on mirror neurons, go read them). The closer he is to somebody, the more often he does it. He copies both Taeyong and Jaehyun.

When mirroring is discussed in articles like “how to make other person like you” and “how to establish good rapport”, the authors talk about subtle gestures, topics of conversation, smiles. Doyoung repeats big movements. He has to copy, involuntary, like there is a spring inside him that needs to get lose. 

Side note. Tayoung, with his predisposition to take care, constantly does small stuff like drawing out chairs, righten member’s clothes, taking off specks of dirt, giving out snacks, hugging, etc. There was a moment when he made a move of putting his hand on Do’s shoulder for a group photograph and adjusted Do’s shirt’s collar at the same time, not even looking at his direction. Master level.

Side note two: three bats make a camp! On a pumpkin patch!

I’m watching the haloween Dispatch Vlive and when Jae says he chose a leather jacket to wear for the sole reason of dressing up as Dracula and adjusts his jacket, Do looks down at his (leather, huh) jacket and also adjusts it. 

LOL, when Mark remembers Jaehyun lived in America and, embarassed, laughs.

When Jae smells the pumkins, Do repeats. (Although, here it might be concious decision, participation in antics is part of the job during shooting a live). 

TY comments on JH and the bat ring “Oh, he got married” and gives a glance to Do. Do non-supportively laughs. Mark shakes his head in dissaproval and glances at managers. Haechan sings a tune. Preoccupied Jae doesn’t notice the comment and switches the ring to index finger, enlargering the ring. Hmmm... you know what I’m gonna say, so deduce yourself.

Another examples: 

- trying to touch his nose with his lips after Jae during EnNaNa,

- repeating dance movements with arms, when sitting side by side in group inteviews,

- extending his hand vigorously after Jae during group Vlive backstage.

[ohmyreputaytion-blog]

Just read the Elle USA article and I'm in love with it. It's really my favourite thing ever. Taylor is so relatable and I've never felt this close to her. Ever. I just love her so much and I am so proud of everything she accomplished in her life. Every wall she crashed through, every mountain she moved.

I really had the time of my life reading this article that is so inspiring. I really love how she's not hiding the fact that she's a human and that she's fragile and delicate.

I love how she approaches every single subject you could possibly think of : style, body, cooking, anxiety, insecurities, music, relationships, family, (self)love. I really am in awe of her. The inteview et so beautifully written, it's the one-of-a-kind interview that is going to make you laugh and cry at the same time. I just love how Taylor and I share the exact same passions. That makes me feel so close to her.

This 10 year gap between Taylor and I really makes her like my big sister which means that every possible advice she's giving is like an advice that I would receive directly from my sister. She's like family. The best family you could think of. And the fact that we share the same insecurities is really touching and reassuring.

She's my hero.

I love you @taylorswift. So much. 💛

Emilie

[xxsparksxx]

So we have almost two yrs for s5, ended Dec 1799 maybe just before xmas, so starts off 1800,

We don’t know when it’s covering.

We don’t know when it starts.

And I really, really don’t care what’s written in articles or interviews.

Until we’ve got the show itself on our screens, anything written in inteviews should be taken with a pinch of salt. What people say and what actually comes across on screen from script and performances are two completely different things.