“We’re trained to be like, ‘If I’m not exceptional, I won’t be loved.’ Certainly, I think that was my thing,” Gatwa shared. “So, yeah, I think I’m just learning now like, ‘Oh, you are allowed to be loved.’ You don’t have to be excellent or aspire to that term, ‘Black excellence’. What the hell?”
He continued, “There’s so much white mediocrity that gets celebrated, and Black people, we have to be absolutely flawless to get half of [that] anyway. So, I’m slowly training myself out of that and being like, ‘No shit. You deserve love just for existing.’ And that has taught me to be a lot more loving as well, in a weird way.”
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this is a poll for a movie that doesn't exist.
It is vintage times. The powers that be have decided to again remake the classic vampire novel Dracula for the screen. in an amazing show of inter-studio solidarity, Hollywood’s most elite hotties are up for the starring roles. the producers know whoever they cast will greatly impact the genre, quality, and tone of the finished film, so they are turning to their wisest voices for guidance.
you are the new casting director for this star-studded epic. choose your players wisely.
Previously cast:
Jonathan Harker—Jimmy Stewart
The Old Woman—Martita Hunt
Count Dracula—Gloria Holden
Mina Murray—Setsuko Hara
Lucy Westenra—Judy Garland
The Three Voluptuous Women—Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall
The Agonized Mother—Mary Philbin
Dr. Jack Seward—Vincent Price
Quincey P. Morris—Toshiro Mifune
Arthur Holmwood—Sidney Poitier
R.M. Renfield—Conrad Veidt
The Captain of the Demeter—Omar Sharif
The First Mate of the Demeter—Leonard Nimoy
Mr. Swales—Ed Wynn
The Correspondent for The Daily Graph—Ethel Waters
Dracula in dog form—Frank Oz with a puppet
Sister Agatha—Angela Lansbury
Mrs. Westenra—Gladys Cooper
The solicitors are not described, but the very dull communication between Messrs. Carter, Paterson & Co. to Messrs. Billington & Son can be found here.
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Eric's input on the "Rest" scene & his own personal experiences:
It's very strange the young Daniel parallels a lot of my life when I was young Eric. One is that as a writer I was aspirational I had no accomplishment nor any way to get to accomplishment, I just called myself a writer and I didn't know how to write.
And the other was I was fucking high all the time and I was in every crazy bar I could find. So when he (Armand) talks about your life is just a waste and you're just going to be a waste, this was a passage that I passed through over the next couple of years in my own personal life.
What do you think is going to happen here because if you think somebody's going to fly down out of outer space and save you out of this morbid crazy life that you have, you're dreaming. It's not going to happen you have to find a way out of this maze, and I did.
What's also funny about this show in this character is that this character ultimately becomes very accomplished, I have some awards and things over here, that was also part of the story.
And then when you start the very first moments of the season one, Daniel is just sitting around being grumpy like it's all over it's finished, he's just hanging out in the house he's watching tv and he hates everybody, that's also very close to me and that's where I was at when I got the call to do this show. So the parallels are uncanny.
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