@L0SH_4RT@KJBee27 BROOOO NOOOO 😭😭😭😭 I think Ilya would fell like so confused and then he will be like hopping Shane quits it, since he does not want him to be like him ah
Rachel can say it’s a ‘performance diet’ all she wants, but tbh it shows shane’s restriction, guilt, obsession and pressure. You can’t write those patterns in detail and then act surprised people took it seriously.
remembering the olympic village moose named shane and rescued sea lion named hollander and shane hollander day in ottawa and how shane hollander is recognized as actually good autistic representation in media and how widely loved he is... that's something you can never take away
if shane and ilya were treated the same way by the author, we’d see ilya being called lazy for his depression, people around him telling him to just ‘unclench’ about his family trauma, and his attempts to fit into a new team and country would never even be mentioned
i think the worst thing that can happen to you is when you really love some book or characters from it but the fun is ruined not because of the fandom or the plot or anything but because of the…author of this book. like all the fun is dead. there’s this huge disappointment.
Hudson Williams on the differences between himself and his character, Shane Hollander
“He's like a giant wooden suit with not too many articulating joints. I love him dearly, but he is exhausting because although it's my accent to a degree, it's not my voice. I'm very expressive, I'm loud, and he is tight-lipped and tight-throated, and he walks like a little frickin' square. He's like a Roomba, and has the emotional expression of one as well.”
“So it’s exhausting, but the friction is also sort of liberating in a sense that I can just be very sardonic and not necessarily earnest all the time. I'm trying to work at that. Even if Shane just says ‘you're an asshole’ or ‘fuck you’, his heart is on his sleeve no matter what. It's just pure earnestness and a real lack of ability to articulate himself into a lie or a less truthful place. His heart is always in his eyes, and that is kind of refreshing to be in, but it's also scary.”
“Sometimes I think people might not like him, but it's like, ‘Oh, I hope people understand him.’ This is someone who's very close to me. These are family members. These are friends. These are neurodivergent people I know very well. So I'm also scared for him because a lot of the time I'm like, do I make him more cinematic and more sellable and more of a charismatic performance? Shane is not charismatic. There's a wardrobe person on set who said, ‘Hudson, you're hot as hell, but Shane's unfuckable.’ And I was like, ‘Well, yeah, I guess that's Shane.’”
Full interview: https://t.co/OwTpEWtu1m