The difference between members and Yoongi is frying me 😅
Members: soundcheck, dancing, vibing
Yoongi: soundcheck, stagecheck, light fixtures check, floorcheck
@solmerv Tampa day 1 I sat next to the sweetest older gentleman who had been Army since 2016! It was so nice talking to him before the concert and we had a great time!
@solmerv@ParkLY23 I need to get offline… I’m going to be jealous every single day lol. I was at Tampa day 1, which was AMAZING! But I’m still jealous! Bapsaeeeeee!
Spoiler warning: Rachel Reid on Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov navigating life as an out and married couple in ‘Unrivaled’
“Unrivaled is very much about [the realities of a world reacting to their relationship]. This is really where the world's gonna judge them, right? 'Cause now they're on the same team, it's in people's faces, they have to decide how they feel about this. And they're gonna be loud about it. I think it's two sides. There's gonna be people that are extremely excited and supportive of it — some of it in maybe a parasocial way, which isn't at all based on reality. And there will also be the other side: just blatantly homophobic and bigoted and terrible.
And then on top of that, we have these two still relatively young men who are trying to be in this now-marriage together when they've always had this secret relationship. Now they're living together, working together, traveling together, openly a couple, openly married to each other. Everybody knows, and they also have to be role models in that way. It's all new, all at once. It's a lot. So I can definitely relate to life changing very quickly. That's definitely helping influence the story a little bit, but, yeah, that's mostly what it is. Even though they had their happy ending, it's a complicated happy ending, and there's still a lot of things that they're gonna have to deal with. That's why I decided to write the book — because I felt like there's still more story to tell.”
🔗 Read more here: ew.com/rachel-reid-he…
Christina Chang talked to Glamour about how Connor really ate the pasta during the dinner table scene on episode 6 of Heated Rivalry.
"Sitting across from him…it was outrageous. It was Connor’s idea to eat like that, and he made a great choice. And you’re right, it does showcase his comedic abilities because he’s not winking at it in any way. He’s literally shoveling food into his mouth, but he understood it’s nuanced, and that in this totally serious scene while his boyfriend’s about to break down, he’s just like, Oh God, look at the family drama; it’s amazing. He did say to Jacob, 'You never see anybody eat in a scene. I’m going to eat in the scene.' Meanwhile, I always put something in my mouth and then it’s time for me to speak. So I’m always like, Ugh. But in that scene, when the cameras were on them, we couldn’t get through several takes. You can hear everybody laughing because Connor would have noodles hanging out of his mouth. So at some point, Jacob was like, 'Okay, we need to cut. This is outrageous. We can’t even understand what you’re saying between the spaghetti and your accent. Let’s start over.'"
🔗 Read the full interview here: glamour.com/story/heated-r…
François Arnaud reveals that #HeatedRivalry was nearly derailed by studio notes from another big streamer before it ever reached audiences.
Director Jacob Tierney decided to move the production to Canada and preserve the original vision, leading it to become an unexpected hit: “I don’t think this show could have been made in the U.S.” cbsnews.com/video/franois-…