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Oh hey, some news! I have signed with @CPMagents for all the acting stuff (except for voice, look to @BeHeardVoices for that)! Looking forward to taking this chance to meet some lovely new industry people and get back in touch with some others I've not seen for a bit 😊

@TheStage @Leemountjoy First the Actors centre and now this - is the building cursed??

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SHE HAS A NAME!!!!!!! Eva Ramón Gallegos successfully eliminates HPV

🚨🇲🇽 BREAKING — Mexican Scientist Successfully Eliminates HPV.

@JamesMelville @JohnCleese He's an awful man who cannot bear to be challenged.

A journalist does her actual job and asks a difficult question to Donald Trump regarding the Epstein files: Trump: “You’re a terrible person and a terrible reporter. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and is so wrong.” In the court of Trump, he only wants fawning sycophants surrounding him and shuts down, threatens and demeans anyone who has the guts to question or stand up to him. The diametric opposite of what freedom of speech should stand for.

Christ, the absolute tone-deafness to celebrate someone who "hurt innocent people". Awful, awful man

Nobody fell off harder than the hammerhead shark. Was a top shark for me as a kid and now completely obsolete in media and conversation.

It’s a privilege to make a movie. A bigger one to do it with your best friend. Bigger still to have so much help from so many brilliant artists and friends old and new. But the biggest privilege of all is when people you’ve never met give you their time and attention and take a seat. Without that generosity a film cannot exist. Thank you, friends. Thank you strangers. Hope you love it.

@anon_opin THANK YOU.

One Gü cheesecake is not enough.

@anon_opin Buddy, maybe in the 80's they weren't. I hated wearing jeans as a child. But denim now feels much softer, stretchier and more comfortable.

How did we all get duped into the lie of "comfy old jeans"? Jeans are not comfortable and they never have been.

@YourselfJasmine @anon_opin Wild to think that just because you haven't heard it, it doesn't exist

@anon_opin Never ever heard of it. Stop making shit up.

People named Christopher who choose to go by 'Topher' can fuck right off. Pretentious twats.

Saw the headline and immediately assumed it would be terrible. I was correct. I always defend art as being subjective, truly in the eye of the beholder - but Miller's art makes me doubt it. "Frank Miller Draws First Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cover" share.google/aTQQqlYBBpXs7v…

Project Hail Mary demonstrated what should be the new standard for how to karaoke. Do two verses then, when it gets repetitive say "That's all" and end the song. No need to stand up there for a minute long guitar solo. Especially at a venue where you usually pay by the hour.

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

@RonFilipkowski Awful and embarrassing and yet somehow still unsurprising and totally in character

Holy shit. Even for Trump this is bad.

@29Punta @RonFilipkowski You think he's intimidating?

@RonFilipkowski What a man just love it . Amazing how people can't stand someone that tells it to your face , and the truth with it . People are so scarred of someone who is intimidating . Love it

@nyaraVT @ellorysmith Having visited repeatedly, briefly lived and worked there, i'm absolutely not visiting the country again until there's change. As an outsider I can't do anything to effect change other than deny my tiny amount of tourism money.

This is why you don’t have healthcare btw.. it’s not trans people it’s not undocumented migrants it’s not refugees this..

Rolling Stone names the moment the ‘Golden’ acceptance speech was cut off as one of the worst moments of this year’s Oscars: — "Last year, Adrien Brody spoke for an interminable five minutes and 40 seconds when he won Best Actor for The Brutalist. At no point was his mic turned off. But this year, when the KPop Demon Hunters song “Golden” won — the first K-pop song to be honored by the Academy — a member of the songwriting team, Yu Han Lee, didn’t get out more than a “thank you” before producers cut away and killed his mic… and didn’t bring it back, even after an audible negative reaction from the crowd as the orchestra swelled. It was a shockingly rude moment for a group of people who’d just made history, and whose earworm song had the audience singing along earlier in the night. They could have given that man 30 seconds to soak in the glory. And when Brody presented a few minutes later and mocked his long speech last year, the joke landed with a thud."

@rhysrmann @comaweng "Why aren't people involved in the arts anymore" gosh I wonder

Parents! Want to take your kids to see family favourite War Horse at the National Theatre? That’ll be £440, please!