#joel montgrand

[natlacentral]

ianousley be careful with this post. it has jumpscares.

[lasaraconor]

[azulasnailtech]

new instagram post from Joel Montgrand (Hakoda)

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Joel Montgrand has been cast as Hakoda (Sokka and Katara's dad) in the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series!

He is an Indigenous Cree actor best known for Altered Carbon and Beans (2020).

Season 1 has already wrapped, so he has already finished filming his role for Season 1, which will most likely be flashbacks.

Above, you can also see our completed Southern Water Tribe family: Kiawentiio (Indigenous Mohawk; Katara), Ian Ousley (Indigenous Cherokee; Sokka), Joel Montgrand (Indigenous Cree; Hakoda), and Rainbow Dickerson (Indigenous Rappahannock; Kya). 💙

Believe it or not, in the film Beans (2020), Joel, Rainbow, and Kiawentiio already played father, mother, and daughter. How cool is that?!

[sufferingsokkatash]

watching the latest season of true detective and completely distracted by joel montgrand. why hakoda kinda… 🥵

[randomrichards]

BEANS:

Native girl witness

Racism over protest

Involved with wrong crowd

[boomgers]

La verdad se esconde en la oscuridad… “True Detective: Tierra Nocturna”

Cuando cae la larga noche de invierno en Ennis, Alaska, los ocho hombres que operan la Estación de Investigación Ártica desaparecen sin dejar rastro. Para resolver el caso, las detectives Liz Danvers y Evangeline Navarro tendrán que enfrentar la oscuridad para profundizar en las verdades que yacen enterradas bajo el hielo eterno.

Estreno: 14 de enero de 2024 en HBO y HBO Max.

La serie cuenta con las actuaciones de Jodie Foster, Kali Reis, Finn Bennett, Fiona Shaw, Christopher Eccleston, Isabella Star LaBlanc, John Hawkes, Anna Lambe, Aka Niviâna, June Thiele y Joel Montgrand.

[gameofthunder66]

True Detective (2014- ) tv series

-(finished) watchin' Season 4 (6 episodes)- 2/25/2024- 3 [1/2] stars- on Max

[natlacentral]

Look who I found! Sokka! and he's hanging out with FIRE NATION?! Zuko, don't you talk to me or my son ever again. He's not even wearing blue! And why are they dressed like Earth Benders?! How far can someone bend before they break?

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[ultfreakme]

I like how Dallas pushes Zukka and Gordon pushes Kataang (as much as Gordon can without having that hive go after him). Does anyone on that cast like #that ship 😭

I want to speak more, but I fear that if I do, I will be getting into shipping drama and I have somehow dodged it for a year but it DOES feel like absolutely no one in the live action is inclined to ship.....#that ship (I also think it's because Dallas was a whole adult when he met Kiawentiio, who was 14 when they met, whereas Sokka's actor is the same age as him. Gordon and Kiawentiio were talking in interviews about doing schoolwork lol). Shout out to Joel D Montgrand for that insane Modern AU take on Zukka video with Dallas and Ian. Also Gordon for picking Katara without a second thought in choosing the water tribe siblings (I will remember you EP 8 scene where Yuekka is paralleled with Kataang)

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

re: malina and the north and south comic, i just want to let you know that hate is warranted. in my expert opinion. she is condescending and talks down on the swt. and they write hakoda like he’s just chill with all that. girly literally has that “the north is so developed and the south is so simple and has not yet evolved. we need to teach them our ways!” complex or whatever. anyway. she is nothing to me. i will spread the hater agenda for her and her alone

that checks out with that screenshot i saw where she says southern water tribe food tastes "off" and i was like "she came into his house and insulted his family's cooking and HAKODA DATED HER????" like her having that mindset and dating hakoda is so gross actually. like i'll be honest, i think you could argue there's a bit of racist sexualization in hakoda's design. there's a little bit of that "hot primitive" thing going on with the open shirt and bone-and-tooth jewelry. but he's also portrayed as a goofy dad who makes jokes and a smart inventor like sokka and surely if you were to expand on his character as he navigates leading the southern tribe post war you would maybe y'know, develop him that way instead of having him date someone who would see him as this ~primitive~ guy. like if there was maybe a little bit of racism in hakoda's depiction you could like. fix that rather than playing into it.

(i kinda wonder if that's why he's less hot in natla. but also i just think they were allergic to putting effort into water tribe casting. joel montgrand isn't unattractive but he absolutely doesn't look right and they did him dirty with the chin beard)

anyway yeah fuck that bitch

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Simu Liu (Shang-Chi, Barbie) to reprise his role as Paul Sun-Hyung Lee’s son by playing Iroh’s son Lu Ten in live action?

Simu Liu (Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Barbie) just potentially teased that he’s joining the world of Avatar on the side of the Fire Nation!

In a new Instagram story, he posted himself getting fitted for a bald cap or wig with the caption “And then the Fire Nation attacked”. Previously Daniel Dae Kim posted himself in the ATLA makeup chair when he was getting fitted for his Fire Lord Ozai wig.

Simu Liu previously played Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (live-action Iroh)’s son in Kim’s Convenience. Could this be a hint that he’s reprising that role in spirit by playing Iroh’s son Lu Ten?

It wouldn’t be the first family reunion in the live-action cast-- BOTH Joel Montgrand and Rainbow Dickerson (Sokka and Katara’s parents Hakoda and Kya) previously played Kiawentiio (Katara)’s parents in the movie Beans (2020).

[warningsine]

The fourth chapter in the True Detective saga, subtitled Night Country, is good. Really good, in fact. As Navarro, Reis brings a bristling intensity, whether she’s pinning down a bad guy or reluctantly opening up about her mother’s unsolved murder. The 37-year-old more than holds her own among a heavyweight cast, led by Oscar winner Jodie Foster, after two forgettable seasons fronted by Colin Farrell and Mahershala Ali, respectively.

With Night Country, Reis and Foster have guided the show back to the brilliance of Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson’s searing first series, but in a very different way. Foster plays Liz Danvers, the cantankerous police chief of a small town on the fringes of the Alaskan wilderness. She and Navarro must work out how and why a group of polar scientists left their station and ended up naked and frozen to death in a jumble of bodies out on the ice. In McConaughey and Harrelson’s Louisiana-set series, women fell into three categories: sex workers, “nagging wives” or dead. Night Country flips these tropes on their head. “This series wouldn’t work with two female nurses,” Reis says. “You have two detectives in a male-dominated world who have a gender fluidity that you can see throughout the series. They have this very masculine energy they both have to carry in this profession.”

It didn’t take long before this role reversal drew the ire of misogynistic “bros” – to use series director Issa Lopez’s term. The showrunner recently spoke out against “bros and hardcore fanboys” who review-bombed Night Country on Rotten Tomatoes, posting negative ratings to sabotage the show’s score. “If they could just get their heads out of season one’s ass, that’d be great,” Reis asks of the critics. “Issa did not attempt to rewrite the first season; there are connections to the first season, there’s an homage to the first season, but it is not trying to duplicate it.”

In a recent interview with The Independent, Christopher Eccleston (who plays Danvers’ married lover and boss) praised the series’ stereotype-defying sex scenes. “In the first episode you see both female detectives coming to men for sex and then leaving. Both men are shown trying not to come because they want to please the women, who are absolutely in charge,” he said. In the scene Ecclestone describes, Navarro flips local musher Eddie Qavvik (Joel D Montgrand) on his back and rides him while grabbing his throat. “I got accused of my character being a raper!” Reis says incredulously. “I’m like: what century do you live in?”

Sex scenes are new territory for Reis, who marks just her third-ever acting role in Night Country. The newcomer made her screen debut in Catch the Fair One, Josef Kubota Wladyka’s 2021 revenge thriller about a boxer who voluntarily joins a sex trafficking ring to find her missing sister. It was an obvious route into the acting world for Reis, who had built a name for herself as a professional boxer with a formidable record of 19 wins – five by knockout. Put her name into YouTube and you’re more likely to find clips of her bludgeoning opponents in the ring than a BuzzFeed puppy interview. “Everything was so new,” she says of filming the more intimate scenes in True Detective, “I was like, ‘OK, you guys gotta explain everything, is there tongue in there?’”

There were some more familiar fight scenes, too, of course. In one, Navarro goes on a self-destructive rampage, picking a scrap with three barflies who give her a beatdown (after taking a few thumps themselves). Was it hard for Reis’s boxer ego to get handed her first knockout defeat? “Navarro wasn’t knocked out, she was just knocked down,” Reis is hasty to point out. “That was a little tough, though, but I took notes from the people I’ve knocked down in the ring.”

Today, appearing from her home in Philadelphia, the former world champ looks comfortable. Her hair is tied up in a ponytail and she’s wearing a baggy T-shirt with the slogan “Stay Trippy” on it. Her face is punctuated by silver jewellery in her ears, cheeks and septum, and her nails are pointed black claws. She’s conscious that, from the outside, both she and Navarro might appear intimidating. “Being a professional boxer, you can hand me a gun and I can stand there and look mean,” she says. “The hard part is being able to bring the audience in without saying a word.” Throughout the series, the detective’s icy exterior melts into moments of fragility. “There are a lot of ways I’m like Navarro and there are a lot of ways I’m not,” Reis says. “I believe for me, personally, that my strength has come from my vulnerability. As soon as Navarro allows herself to become vulnerable, that’s when she finds her true strength.”

In 2017, a year after Reis won the WBC female middleweight title, her brother died from brain cancer. “Boxing was our thing,” she explains. “After he passed away, I didn’t want nothing to do with it.” As a result, Reis started exploring other options. She’d always been creative, or as she puts it, “a little Virgo” – “I asked for a violin aged nine for Christmas.” She laughs. Her mum, who raised Reis and all five of her siblings by herself, was always “throwing” her into plays as a child, whether she liked it or not. Besides that, though, there really wasn’t much thought behind her new career choice. “I was like, ‘You know what? Acting seems kind of cool.’ I don’t know, it was on my radar. I was thinking I could land like a cameo in a commercial, be an extra? I just wanted to try it.” Just one week after Reis put out some feelers, Wladyka reached out to her on Instagram about Catch the Fair One. “And here we are,” she says.

Both that film and Night Country deal with the murders and disappearances of indigenous women, a cause that Reis is extremely passionate about. The actor is of mixed Cape Verdean and Wampanoag Native American ancestry, while Navarro is Iñupiat and Dominican. “I am not Native Alaskan, Iñupiat or Inuit, but there’s a collective group of morals that indigenous people share,” she says. “So it’s very important for me to be able to have this type of project done the right way. We had Alaskan native producers going through the script with a fine-tooth comb. I don’t want to make the age-old mistake of assuming I know about a culture.”

We’re speaking the day after Lily Gladstone made history by becoming the first Indigenous American woman to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress, thanks to her role in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. “When she won the Golden Globe [another historic first], I was sitting folding laundry,” Reis remembers. “I literally burst out screaming and crying. This is an amazing time for Native American Indigenous talent.”

It might only be her third-ever acting gig– she also had a small part in Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s yet-to-be-released paramedic thriller, Asphalt City – but Reis carries Navarro with the assuredness of someone who knows they’re in a role they were born to play. “It’s funny, looking back at it now: I’ve been training to be an actor my entire boxing career,” she muses. “The constant ups and downs; repetition, repetition, repetition; being able to take criticism; thinking on your feet.” She compares directors to coaches, and likens working with two-time Academy Award winner Foster to training in a “gym full of champs”. “I’m not walking into a gym to be the big dog; I want to be the worst one in the room so I can get better,” she says.

The Silence of the Lambs star sounds like the perfect sparring partner for an up-and-coming talent. “She doesn’t take anything too seriously – if she screws up, she screws up,” Reis says. “And she’s so generous with her knowledge, her time, her ideas. She’s an amazing person.”

The cast also had an incredible set to work with, I tell her, addressing the elephant in the room, or rather: the “corpsicle” in the ice rink. In episode two, the frozen bodies of the scientists are transported to the local hockey rink to thaw in a mangled mess of limbs and frostbitten private parts. It performs a surprisingly central role in the series, with characters returning to it again and again like a demented version of the Central Perk café in Friends. “It was so amazingly made,” Reis says; “everything was so detailed, every hair, every testicle – the frostbite on the feet.” It didn’t take long to become desensitised. “By day two I was drinking coffee next to it, giving the dead dudes a fist bump.”

Without giving too much away, thawing the corpsicle promises to unlock the key to cracking the case. “It’s gonna shock everyone,” Reis teases of the forthcoming series finale, and the big reveal of who has been behind the murders. “I really think it’s gonna throw people off – in a good way.”

Reis now has “Prestige HBO Drama Star” to add to her list of titles. Will it be enough to tempt her out of the ring for good? “My career and women’s boxing as a whole has been on a really great trajectory,” she says with a smile. “I haven’t hung up the gloves just yet.”

[theolddivorcedzukka]

i am defending joel montgrand with sword and shield. he is a perfect hakoda. anyone who says otherwise dies by my blade

then kill me ig??

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