I think my favourite behind the scenes story for the production of Shang-Chi revolves around the director Destin Daniel Cretton.
Cretton is already known to not really “over exert” his actors by forcing them to do multiple takes. Both Brie and Simu have mentioned this where on set, they say they’re down to do more takes but Cretton will go, “Nah, we have the take, we’re good.” And it’s known that he does this out of consideration for the actor not to push them over the edge emotionally when it’s not warranted.
And then Cretton gets to direct Tony Leung who is like, THE MASTER OF ACTING. So that Cretton even said on record himself that for filming of the opening conquering scenes (some of which has been cut anyways), Cretton saw Tony Leung act and went to his team going, “...I don’t know how to tell him that we got the take already on the first try....” AND this has been corroborated by the legend Leung himself who said a lot of his scenes were completed in 1-2 takes to his surprise.
NOT TO MENTION THIS IS EXTRA HILARIOUS because Leung’s frequent collaborator Wong Kar-wai is known to LOVE doing numerous takes so that the actor has time to immerse themselves in the character and adopt nuanced details.
Just...amazing to see the contrast in approaches to film work.
Why is this so accurate though
charlie gillespie + the three stages of fangirling | insp.
So when watching the live streams last night with the fans who found the boys, I was seeing how Charlie was interacting with them and thinking, "gdi Charlie you're always too nice to the fans. Even when the behaviour is creepy. It's just going to reward bad behavior. "
But seeing some of y'alls interpretations that it was one way to kind of take the brunt of the fan interactions in case Owen was getting overwhelmed as well as hopefully get them to agree to not share this information has made me feel a bit more warm and fuzzy in light of a bad situation.
Hopefully anyone who knows the address stays true to their word 😕
Like yes, I know we technically do not know him as a person
And yes, Luke is a very cool character
But sir, I do indeed stan:
-A proud Acadian who brings his flag to shoots. Also proud Canadian
-An incredibly hard worker who went through intense prep work for his JATP audition & role as well as spent a lot of time working on the songs
-An incredibly talented musician and actor who introduced GREAT ideas for JATP (Luke’s fashion, using the grand piano for Edge of Great, EDGE OF GREAT GUITAR SOLO)
-An overall hype man for the whole cast and crew. As well as for his friends
-A person who consistently cares about the environment and who shared a Ted Talk given by an Indigenous speaker
-A person who can sustain platonic relationships with the opposite sex as well as demonstrates zero toxic masculinity with his guy friends
-A person who is respectful of his female castmates (talking to Madison’s dad, being worried about Madi’s dress during the Perfect Harmony lift, wanting to walk Tori and Sav home)
-A person who really appreciates and tries to give back to his fan base, even when it’s increasingly hard given how it’s exponentially grown. But the fact that he tries to send fans videos, loves all the fanart, remember usernames of funny TikToks he’s seen, etc. *chefs kiss
-A person who flips an interview and will ask the interviewer questions when he’s not doing strictly JATP-promo things
That’s way more layers and dimensions to like than Luke. And I think some of the best parts of Luke (the talent, supportive vibes, fashion sense) come from Charlie anyways
Will probably add more the more I think about it
Local old man tries to date again.
Not me missing the first line and getting excited at the sentence "JATP has been finally renewed" 😂
Picture the scene:
JATP has been finally renewed.
We are constantly trending on Tumblr from that moment until the premier date, hovering around the number 7 mark
Because we’ve been hyped about it for months.
The cast have been posting teasers and photos all over social media for the weeks leading up to it premiering
Each time a new photo/tidbit goes up we spike in the trending
We’re trending at number one on tumblr the day of the premier because there’s so much hype and excitement surrounding it
Seriously, all the other fandoms are like “wow, they’ve really done it this time!”
Someone has even done a countdown clock for the event
We watch and….
It’s a bit meh.
Not shit or rubbish or anything, just a bit mediocre.
Collectively we think we could have done better (in fact the fanfic writers HAVE done a better job!)
Honestly, that would actually break my heart a little bit okay a lot. It would break my heart a lot.
K, this one piece of dialogue is bugging me from TFATWS finale. Wouldn’t be surprised if I also come back with more questions.
But when Bucky is talking to Karli and mentions how he’s tried to fight for something bigger than himself and failed twice....does anyone know what he’s referring to?
I can imagine WWII is the first one.....is the 2nd one Hydra-related? How did he “fail”? By being brainwashed? By struggling to recover? Or is the 2nd one Avengers-related somehow?
The way this killed me I s2g 😭
What’s the offer?
She never responded.
I love their friendship
Gonna boost this post since I really didn’t want to give the OP any more notes even though I really disagree with what they wrote and how they’re targeting and attacking people over nothing. And to be perfectly honest, I don’t even read JATP smut, but I know a baseless accusation when I see one. I’m especially alarmed that they want to report these accounts for pedophilia?! Seriously?!
So what, we’re going to also report, say, the entire cast and crew of Sex Education for depicting sex scenes with teen characters? How about literally any CW show featuring teens and sex or the sexualization of teen bodies (albeit not as explicit, but the content is still there). We’re going to report every published YA author who writes or alludes to a sex scene between teen characters?
All these users have been responsible with their tagging. Kudos to a lot of them for being really mature and calm over this situation.
It’s fiction and art. If it’s not your cup of tea, don’t engage. Heck, sure, you can unfollow or block if you want to. But to falsely report people over their art? Some people need to get over themselves.
https://fairygclds.tumblr.com/post/650764357260771328/jatp-fandom-blacklist
Funny of them to assume all these people are adults. Funny of them to accuse people of writing smut about minors when the writer either ages Julie up or thinks of the boys’ adult bodies. Stop trying to villainize people in a fandom. We rate our fics the way ao3 was designed to categorize smut fics into (E if it has explicit content ofc). None of these people are pedophiles. None of these people wrote their smut for pleasure. It’s just fun to write smut.
Someone tell Charlie to get ready as Taylor Swift starts re-recording and releasing her country albums 😅
So hyped for Fearless 🥰
Julie and the Phantoms fan. Long time/OG MCU stan. Spoiler blog galore. Let's try to keep fandoms unproblematic, k?
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