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"Biopics of massively famous musicians are rarely very good, often because they stumble at the question of whom exactly they’re being made for. Are you making a movie for the already initiated die-hard fans yearning to see the life and times of their hero reflected back at them in exacting detail? Or is your movie a welcome mat for novices, a breezy jukebox of greatest hits aimed at cultivating new generations of fans, goosing streaming tallies and catalog sales in the process? Most musician biopics never manage to resolve this tension, in part because they’re usually also serving a third master, namely the musician’s estate, which tends to hold its own, very specific ideas about on-screen depiction.
Bob Marley: One Love, the new movie about the late reggae superstar that’s produced by Marley’s widow, Rita, along with some of his children, is a biopic that does seem to know whom it’s for, which isn’t a point in its favor. The film is directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard) and stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as Marley, who does his best with the role despite not really looking or sounding much like the real Marley. (Within the past four years Ben-Adir has played Malcolm X, Barack Obama, and Bob Marley, quite the triptych of historical figures.) Lashana Lynch plays Rita and steals the film in every scene she’s in, even if the movie’s script fails to elevate her character past the archetypical suffering-yet-supportive wife of a genius.
Rather than taking a cradle-to-grave approach to Marley’s life, One Love instead focuses on a single period of Marley’s career, his self-imposed exile to England in the aftermath of the 1976 attempt on his life at his home in Kingston, during which time he recorded Exodus, the 1977 LP that marked his full breakthrough into global superstardom. The film opens with the assassination attempt, after which we’re quickly whisked to London, where the film depicts Marley writing most of Exodus’ songs in a cloying series of “eureka!” moments that tend to populate movies of this kind. Snippets of Marley’s classic “Redemption Song” surface as a recurring musical motif in the film, and in one of the last scenes, we see Marley performing the song for his awestruck family in a sappy flourish that’s also anachronistic. (By most accounts, Marley didn’t write “Redemption Song” until 1979.) Periodically we’re treated to a series of flashbacks of the singer’s earlier life, a clichéd device that this movie could have used more of: Brief forays into Marley’s conversion to Rastafarianism are surprisingly well done, and a scene of a teenage Marley and the Wailing Wailers performing “Simmer Down” at Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One is the best moment in the film.
One Love is an inspirational tale about a Great Man who used music to unite the world, one that reduces one of the most consequential and complicated artists of the 20th century to a walking fount of genial aphorisms, the guy who suggested we all get together and feel all right. As such, the film indulges a decadeslong public appetite for a particular imagining of Marley that his estate now seems depressingly eager to feed. It’s been 42 years since Marley died of a rare form of melanoma at age 36, and I’m not sure there’s a musician who’s more literally iconic: Go to any commercial district in any part of the world and within minutes you’ll find an opportunity to buy something bearing Marley’s likeness. In the United States, Marley has been a staple of dorm-room walls for generations: The casual and underinformed co-optation of Marley by American bro culture has even inspired a recurring meme in which Marley’s name is erroneously affixed to an image of Jimi Hendrix.
To a certain brand of musical cynic, Marley has become the embodiment of a musician whom people own posters and T-shirts of but don’t actually listen to, which isn’t totally fair to most of the owners of those posters and T-shirts. Some of Marley’s music is still enormously popular: His 1984 greatest hits compilation Legend is currently enjoying its 820th week on the Billboard 200, a position it will likely maintain for the foreseeable future given One Love’s early, strikingly robust box-office projections. The only album that’s spent longer on the chart is Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.
But in the pop-cultural imagination, Legend has completely eclipsed everything else Marley ever released. The album has sold more than 15 million copies in the United States alone, while no other Marley LP has sold even 1 million stateside. From a purely mathematical standpoint, this would indicate that for many fans, Legend is the first and only Marley album they’ll ever listen to. I’m not sure there’s another greatest hits compilation that has played such an outsize role in the public definition of an artist.
Legend is a fine little collection, but the idea that it’s some sort of one-stop synopsis of Marley’s career is absurd. For starters, 10 of its 14 tracks date from the period of 1977–80, a four-year time frame that represents the height of Marley’s global popularity but is a relatively minuscule cross section of a staggeringly prolific, nearly two-decade-long recording career. (Five of Exodus’ 10 tracks are included on Legend, which I suspect is one reason that One Love is so invested in the album’s significance.)
This period also coincides with a time when Marley’s music seemed to take a step back from revolutionary politics, a tack that may have been driven at least in part by the aforementioned assassination attempt. The Marley canonized on Legend is not the Marley who sang “I feel like bombin’ a church/ Now that you know that the preacher is lyin’ ” or who called for “burnin’ and a-lootin’ tonight … burnin’ all illusion tonight” or declared that “Rasta don’t work for no CIA.” The dominance of Legend in the U.S. is particularly striking when one considers that Marley’s highest-selling album in this country during his lifetime was 1976’s Rastaman Vibration, which peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 and includes such overtly political tracks as “Crazy Baldhead,” “Rat Race,” and “War.” Legend doesn’t include a single track from Rastaman Vibration, instead opting for romantic fare like “Is This Love” and “Waiting in Vain” and feel-good anthems like “One Love/People Get Ready” and “Jamming.” (For an excellent deep dive into the history and legacy of Legend, I recommend this article from the Ringer earlier this week.)
One Day’s Director Has No Regrets About the Movie’s Controversial Ending
Legend’s preeminence has helped turn Marley into the musical equivalent of a tourist destination, at which One Love is just one more cozy attraction. This is worse than a shame, because the real Bob Marley was one of the most remarkable musical talents of the 20th century. As a songwriter, he was so prolific that music seemed to pour out of him, a quality that has sometimes led to a naturalization of his gifts that veers into exoticizing primitivism. (One Love certainly partakes in this.) But rather than being some carefree savant, Marley was a fiercely disciplined and ambitious artist from the very beginning. He wrote and recorded his first single, “Judge Not,” in 1962 at the age of 16, and it remains an astonishing debut, an effortlessly catchy melody sung by a voice that sounds both nervous and supremely confident in a way that only a teenager can manage.
By the time he signed to Island Records in 1972 and began his ascent to international superstardom, Marley had already written a lifetime’s worth of great songs. He had a preternatural ear for hooks and crafted songs that were ready-made hit records, three-minute gems of perfectly crystalized musical ideas. As a singer, his indelible tenor rasp and thrillingly improvisational style were the byproducts of an extraordinarily well-honed sense of intonation and time. And during the 1970s, he fronted what might have been the best band on the face of the earth, grounded in the peerless rhythm section of drummer Carlton Barrett and bassist Aston “Family Man” Barrett, the latter of whom died earlier this month at age 77. (Aston’s son and namesake, an accomplished musician in his own right, plays his father in the film.)
One Love doesn’t know how to begin exploring this artist and his art in any way that even begins to be interesting. Instead it just feeds back the same sanitized and saccharine idea of Bob Marley to the same audience who has been eating that up for generations. It’s a movie about a poster. Over the end credits of One Love, archival performance clips of Marley flash onto the screen, and for a few moments we’re treated to sounds and images that are infinitely more magnetic and thrillingly alive than anything we’ve seen over the preceding 100-ish minutes. That Bob Marley, and the extraordinary body of music he left behind, is still out there for those who go listening for it, but this movie isn’t where you’ll find him."
Kingsley Ben-Adir has become very familiar to television audiences from his appearances on the Netflix drama The OA and the BBC series Peaky Blinders, along with a breakout role as Malcolm X in the acclaimed film One Night In Miami... Now, he's back on the big screen playing another larger than life role, starring as legendary reggae artist Bob Marley in the new biopic Bob Marley: One Love. As he did with Malcolm X and with his role as President Barack Obama in the miniseries The Comey Rule, Ben-Adir spoke about how he took a very distinct approach to playing a real-life character like Marley and explained his process.
Bob Marley: One Love opens in theaters on February 14.
BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Trailer Brasileiro Legendado (2024) – ONE Media Brasil. 6 jul 2023
“Bob Marley: One Love”, filme que contará a história do ícone do reggae, vai mostrar momentos da vida pública e privada do cantor, como o início na música, o atentado a tiros sofrido por ele em 1976 e sua luta em defesa da paz. Paramount Pictures – 2023
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Rating: 4 out of 5.
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No. 1 at the box office! And your reviews are making me feel some type of way. Proud and thankful for all the love for @onelovemovie. A movie for the people
An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.
Credits: TheMovieDb.
Film Cast:
Archibald Snatcher (voice): Ben Kingsley
Eggs (voice): Isaac Hempstead-Wright
Winnie Portley-Rind (voice): Elle Fanning
Fish / Wheels / Bucket (voice): Dee Bradley Baker
Lady Cynthia Portley-Rind (voice): Toni Collette
Lord Portley-Rind (voice): Jared Harris
Mr. Trout (voice): Nick Frost
Mr. Pickles (voice): Richard Ayoade
Mr. Gristle (voice): Tracy Morgan
Herbert Trubshaw (voice): Simon Pegg
Oil Can / Knickers (voice): Nika Futterman
Fragile / Sweets (voice): Pat Fraley
Clocks / Specs (voice): Fred Tatasciore
Sir Langsdale (voice): Maurice LaMarche
Sir Broderick / Male Workman 1 / Male Workman 2 (voice): James Urbaniak
Boulanger / Male Aristocrat (voice): Brian George
Female Aristocrat (voice): Lori Tritel
Shoe / Sparky (voice): Steve Blum
Female Townsfolk 1 / Female Townsfolk 2 (voice): Laraine Newman
Background Boy (voice): Reckless Jack
Baby Eggs (voice): Max Mitchell
Film Crew:
Screenplay: Irena Brignull
Director: Graham Annable
Adaptation: Anthony Stacchi
Novel: Alan Snow
Music: Dario Marianelli
Animation: Travis Knight
Screenplay: Adam Pava
Animation: Stephen Bodin
Animation: Malcolm Lamont
Animation: Matias Liebrecht
Animation: Brian Leif Hansen
Animation: Payton Curtis
Animation: Joon Soo Song
Animation: Adam Lawthers
Animation: Shane Prigmore
Animation: Chris Tootell
Animation: Kyle Williams
Animation: Mike Hollenbeck
Animation: Danail Kraev
Animation: Kristien Vanden Bussche
Animation: Adam Fisher
Animation: Anthony Straus
Animation: Sean Burns
Animation: Mael Gourmelen
Animation: David Vandervoort
Animation: Dan MacKenzie
Animation Supervisor: Brad Schiff
Animation: Kevin Parry
Adaptation: Phil Dale
Producer: David Bleiman Ichioka
Animation: Jon David Buffam
Animation: Rachelle Lambden
Animation: Gabe Sprenger
Animation: Philippe Tardif
Animation: Ian Whitlock
Animation: Daniel Alderson
Animation: Charles Greenfield
Animation: Jason Stalman
Casting: Mary Hidalgo
Line Producer: Matthew Fried
Sculptor: Toby Froud
Visual Effects Coordinator: Jeremy Fenske
Choreographer: Nicole Cuevas
Visual Effects Coordinator: Claudia Amatulli
Sculptor: Benjamin William Adams
Set Designer: Emily Greene
Additional Editing: Ralph Foster
Visual Effects Editor: Todd Gilchrist
Set Designer: Carl B. Hamilton
Sculptor: Scott Foster
Production Design: Paul Lasaine
Production Coordinator: Jocelyn Pascall
Editor: Edie Ichioka
Art Direction: Curt Enderle
Editorial Coordinator: Dave Davenport
Art Department Coordinator: Zach Sheehan
CG Supervisor: Rick Sevy
Music Supervisor: Maggie Rodford
Music Editor: James Bellany
Songs: Eric Idle
Visual Effects Supervisor: Steve Emerson
Costume Design: Deborah Cook
Production Manager: Dan Pascall
Additional Writing: Vera Brosgol
Post Production Supervisor: David Dresher
Editorial Manager: Trevor Cable
Visual Effects Supervisor: Brian Van’t Hul
Additional Editing: Christopher Murrie
Director of Photography: John Ashlee Prat
Set Designer: Polly Allen Robbins
Visual Effects Producer: Annie Pomeranz
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Ren Klyce
ADR Voice Casting: Barbara Harris
Gaffer: James WilderHancock
Modeling: Paul Mack
Publicist: Maggie Begley
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tom Myers
Production Design: Michel Breton
Prop Designer: Alan Cook
Animation: Paul Andrew Bailey
Assistant Art Director: Phil Brotherton
Executive In Charge Of Post Production: Ben Urquhart
First Assistant Director: Samuel Wilson
Layout: Daniel R. Casey
Layout: Simon Dunsdon
Orchestrator: Geoff Alexander
Set Dresser: Duncan Gillis
Third Assistant Director: David J. Epstein
Animation: Anthony Elworthy
Animation: Dan Ramsay
Animation: Jan-Erik Maas
CG Animator: Carolyn Vale
Digital Compositors: Daniel Leatherdale
Digital Compositors: James McPherson
Foley Editor: Thom Brennan
Production Illustrator: Ean McNamara
Sound Effects Editor: David C. Hughes
Finance: Erin Baldwin
Finance: Jason Bryant
CG Animator: Jeff Croke
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Aida -The broadway musical by Elton John and Tim Rice ,that has a song that is hella awesome called Like Father Like Son
Princess of Thieves -Its about the daughter of Robin Hood with Kiera Knightly as the lead,Stuart Wilson as Robin Hood , and Malcolm Mcdowall as the Sheriff
Walt & El Grupo :A documentary about Walt Disneys tour of Latin and South America that lead to Saludos Amigos and Three Caballeros
Tuck Everlasting :Something about immortals and Ben Kingsley is the bad guy
If Bridgerton were to recast the duke, I wouldn’t be upset at all. It would mean a lot more to have Simon be around as a father, and to have Daphne's story continue. Simon being an absentee father completely ruins the arc his character made at the end of his season, and his recast would mean Simon be the dad his father wasn’t.
So here are some suggestions based entirely on my own opinions, in no particular order:
1. Lucien Laviscount, 30 (bruh his last name is Viscount, just give him the role already), notable roles include, “Emily in Paris”, “Scream Queens”, “Coronation Street” etc. He’s easily got the pretty boy look down that had so many women competing for Simon's attention and I've appreciated him in his roles in the projects I’d mentioned earlier. I rate this a 8.5/10
2. Kingsley Ben Adir, 36 has had roles in “One Night in Miami” as Malcolm X, “High Fidelity”, “The OA”, “Peaky Blinders”, as well as many other projects. I added the photo of him with Regé, because if you squint they look mildly related which can go a long way for a recasting, he’s also known for his rather serious roles and I think he would excel at playing Simon. Yes Kingsley's hair is nearly entirely grey now, but being a Duke might’ve caused some stress on Simon. 9/10
3. Alfred Enoch, 34 has played in the “Harry Potter” series, “How to Get Away With Murder”, “Troy” etc. This one I admit might’ve been biased, I've always adored Alfred as an actor and he’s wonderful as Wes Gibons in HTGAWM, and though Dean Thomas might’ve gotten minimal screen time, he did his thing. But all in all, I feel Alfred would excel at playing Simon as a father. 7/10
Those are the three actors I’d love so see as Simon, if ever the production team ever decided to go through with recasting the Duke.
My list of top villains antagonists (cuz one or two of these guys could be debated to not fully count as full-on villains) because @gavillain did it and I am shamelessly stealing the idea:
Bowser (Nintendo)
Jafar (Aladdin/Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
Palpatine/Darth Sidious (Star Wars)
Jason Todd/Red Hood (DC Comics)
Takuto Maruki (Persona 5 Royal)
Frieza (Dragon Ball)
Wilson Fisk/Kingpin (Daredevil/Hawkeye TV series)
Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash (The Flash/Legends of Tomorrow TV series - would probably be considerably higher, like #3 or #4, if I deleted everything after Flash season 1 in my mind oh well can’t do that)
Cora Mills/Queen of Hearts (Once Upon a Time)
Ardyn Izunia (Final Fantasy XV)
Flowey/Asriel Dreemurr (Undertale)
Slade (Teen Titans animated series)
Kuja (Final Fantasy IX)
Barbara Kean (Gotham)
Heckyl/Snide (Power Rangers Dino Charge)
Rufus Shinra (Final Fantasy VII)
Peter Pan/Malcolm (Once Upon a Time)
The Batman Who Laughs (DC Comics)
Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts)
Scourge the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog Archie Comics)
I feel like I did some of these guys dirty and kind of regret their placements, and I’m sure there are villains/antagonists I am forgetting about.... but these are the names that jumped to my mind in the last few minutes while sitting down to type this out. I’m very tempted to add Queen (Deltarune), Lord Zedd (Power Rangers), and Zamasu/Goku Black (Dragon Ball), but I dunno, something held me back and I’m not quite sure where they’d all fall on here.
EDIT: Also Albedo Piazzolla (Xenosaga), Dmitri Yuriev (Xenosaga), Envy (Fullmetal Alchemist manga/Brotherhood), Praetor Amalthus (Xenoblade Chronicles 2), Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones), Gustavo Fring (Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul), Fish Mooney (Gotham), Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow (DC Comics), Edward Nygma/The Riddler (DC Comics), Roderick Kingsley/Hobgoblin (Marvel Comics)... hooooly crap there’s a lot I forgot lmao. Might expand my list someday soon.
"Grief is love's souvenir. It's our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says to the world: Look! Love was once mine. I loved well. Here is my proof that I paid the price" -Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior
Because parents are supposed to protect their children. Parents are not supposed to outlive them. Oh look, back with the inmortality pain again🙂🙂
“Would you like to come in?” Magnus asked.
Alec was going to kill him.
Oh, whatever. Alec knew whom he married.
Yeah, he married a dumbass with a golden heart smh😔
OH SHIT THIS DOES MAKES SENSE. Who knew actions have consequences, right Malcolm???
HE WAS BORN OF MAGIC. LITERALLY. OMFG.
Call her out Magnus!!! God this woman is CRAZY! Like mother like daughter I guess...
THEY SAID THE THING!!
“Agreed,” Jace nodded. “Remember when our biggest worry was our own parents?”
“Kids have it so easy these days,” Alec pointed out.
Oh, the simple good old days, where did they go?? 😭😭
You are too good to talk to Kingsley babe <3
ALEC'S SASS HERE 😂😂 TRULY AMAZING!! I AM LOVE MY PETTY BABE 🥰
Ngl, diplomatic Alec is a different kind of hot jdbdkdnd
The entire shadow world did. If Alec had kissed Magnus in the Accords Hall, Max had kissed David in Edom in the middle of a battle.
The Lightwood-Banes took dramatic romantic gestures a little too seriously.
Not complaining from my side😍
I dislike Kyle soooo much, but I will forgive him JUST A LITTLE BIT bc he saved Alec....
THAT WAS FUCKING COOL. And him gushing about warlocks just makes it ten times better djhdkdjd
I wanted them to meet for so long and you didn't disappoint me💙
Don't you understand that there are assholes LIKE YOU that will exploit all this magic???
YOU DIDN'T JUST THREATEN THE MF LIGHTWOOD-BANES!!!
“Tell me, Mallory,” Alec said. “What does it feel like to be everyone’s second choice?” I fucking love Alec kshdkdksks, she is so goddamn powerful rn and he still said "bitch, you thought!"
But there was nothing in the world that he cared about more than his Max I'm not sure how much more mavid angst can I take😭😭😭
Jackson and David>>>>>
This memory loss is hurting LIKE A BITCH😭
What the fuck is Levithan upto???
Omg he is not helping Max, he has been helping David all along!!! Wtf????
“I want you to do what you were born to do,” Leviathan whispered.
“Destroy the nephilim?” David swallowed.
“Love Max,” Leviathan replied. “The rest will fall into place."
I am soooo many questions and 0 answers😭
Who the fuck is Merlin??? What is happening???
“Leviathan!” David yelled. “Is there a way to get my old memories back?”
“Try going back in time!” Leviathan yelled back.
Is this foreshadowing of going back in time bc at this point everyone has said this and I am kinda terrified....
She can create fire??? Are you fucking kidding me??? God am I STRESSED!!!
There are other solutions rather than destroying Idris and doing necromancy, you know? Like, therapy....
Mallory: *shows up in her house green and with magic*
Hunter and Devlin: yeah anyway, what about your brother???
HOW FUCKED UP CAN A SINGLE FAMILY BE???
Also I feel taking all this magic is going to backfire.... Good :)
Brisbanes Charlie Cameron Gold Coasts Alex Davies and GWS Toby Bedford banned for three matches by AFL Match Review
Brisbane star Charlie Cameron has been rubbed out for three matches and GWS forward Toby Bedford has copped the same ban as the issue of dangerous tackles hit the headlines yet again.
AFL Match Review
Charlie Cameron (Brisbane) — three-match ban for rough conductAlex Davies (Gold Coast) — three-match ban for forceful front-on contactToby Bedford (GWS) — three-match ban for rough conductMalcolm Rosas Jnr (Gold Coast) — one-match ban for strikingZane Trew (West Coast) — $3,750 fine for rough conductDayne Zorko (Brisbane Lions) — $1,875 fine for engaging in a meleeHarley Reid (West Coast) — $1,875 fine for engaging in a melee
On a big day at the AFL Match Review, Gold Coast midfielder Alex Davies also received a three-match ban for crunching into an opponent who was in a vulnerable position, while his teammate Malcolm Rosas was rubbed out for one match.
Cameron’s ban stemmed from an incident in which he ran in to tackle Liam Duggan and drove the Eagles skipper backwards.
Duggan hit the back of his head on the turf as the pair crashed to the ground, with the West Coast defender subbed out of the game with concussion.
The incident was assessed as careless conduct, severe impact and high contact, drawing a three-match ban.
Earlier this year, Cameron overturned a one-match ban at the AFL Tribunal for a dumping tackle on Melbourne’s Jake Lever due to what has since been dubbed the “good guy” defence.
The Lions have until Tuesday morning to decide whether to appeal Cameron’s latest ban at the AFL Tribunal.
GWS have already announced they are appealing Bedford’s suspension.
Bedford pinned Tim Taranto’s arms in a fourth-quarter tackle and the Richmond midfielder’s head hit the ground as the pair fell forward.
Taranto appeared dazed when he got up, with Bedford immediately checking on his opponent’s welfare.
The 26-year-old Tiger left the field and did not return after failing a concussion test.
The rough-conduct charge was assessed the same as Cameron’s.
“I saw it live, but it didn’t feel like he drived (sic) him (into the ground), slung him or anything like that,” GWS coach Adam Kingsley said after the match.
Gold Coast’s Davies was in hot water after bumping Lachie Jones in the head while the Port player was bent over the ball.
The incident was classified as careless conduct, severe impact and high contact.
Rosas copped a one-match ban for striking Logan Evans with an off-the-ball elbow, with the hit graded as intentional conduct, low impact and high contact.
After Brisbane’s win over West Coast, Lions coach Chris Fagan questioned the notion that players generally receive a suspension if their opponents end up concussed.
“It would be sad if it comes to that … accidents happen,” Fagan said.
If Cameron doesn’t successfully overturn or downgrade the ban, he will miss crunch matches against Sydney, Gold Coast and St Kilda.
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Prince William's Playful BAFTA Exchange: Ayo Edebiri's Viral Moment Unraveled
The glittering BAFTAs showcased not only cinematic excellence but also an unexpected highlight—Prince William's humorous exchange with rising star Ayo Edebiri. A seemingly unimpressed photo of Edebiri congratulated by the Prince sparked a whirlwind of speculation on social media. Was it nerves, boredom, or perhaps a royal revolution in the making? The internet, as ever, buzzed with theories, drawing comparisons to past royal encounters.
However, the truth, revealed in a viral video, painted a much more delightful picture. Edebiri and Prince William were engaged in lively conversation, discussing her breakthrough role in "Big Mouth," diversity in the industry, and the BAFTAs. The initial photo, a mere snapshot, had caught Edebiri mid-laugh, creating the illusion of awkwardness. The video not only set the record straight but also captured fellow nominee Kingsley Ben-Adir (Malcolm X himself!) making a funny face behind the Prince, inducing laughter all around.
This viral episode served as a potent reminder of the deceptive nature of perception, especially in the era of social media echo chambers. Context is key, and images divorced from it can spin narratives far from reality.
Beyond the pitfalls, the incident highlighted our enduring fascination with celebrity encounters and the unique connections that unfold in these seemingly disparate worlds. The BAFTAs, renowned for celebrating cinematic brilliance, unexpectedly gifted viewers a royal and rising star having a heartwarming and humorous interaction. While Edebiri didn't clinch the Rising Star Award, her grace and wit, showcased both online and offline, won hearts. The viral moment reinforced the idea that sometimes, a royal encounter can be unexpectedly delightful, proving that laughter can bridge gaps, even in the most unforeseen places.
So, the next time a fleeting online moment catches your eye, remember: there's always more to the story than meets the eye, and sometimes, the truth is far funnier than fiction.
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Originally published at hypefresh.com February 22-2024.