i feel so bad for actors like jacob anderson and myha'la herrold because they do such great work only to be critically sidelined in favor of their white counterparts despite being the ones who made their respective shows popular in the first place
Lexi isn’t really about that screenwriting life because if my friend started talking about Nazis, Black cowboys, encounters with God, and working with the DEA, I would’ve dropped everything and pulled out a paper and pen. These are the stories you should be killing for! #Euphoria
The 14-year-old in this photo is now earning $1 million per episode on HBO and signed a $12 million deal for Christopher Nolan's next film. She got there by doing something no Disney Channel kid had done before.
Shake It Up paid Zendaya roughly $47,000 per episode. The show ended in 2013. Disney came back to her at 16 with a pilot called Super Awesome Katy. Most teen stars sign the deal and call their agent on the way home.
She didn't sign.
She handed Disney a list. Rename the show. The family on screen has to be Black. The character can't sing, can't dance, can't be "artistically inclined" because every Disney lead breaks into a song by episode four. And she gets a producer credit. At 16. Disney said yes to all of it. The show premiered as K.C. Undercover in January 2015.
That producer credit at 16 is the entire story. From there: Spider-Man Homecoming, Greatest Showman, Euphoria, two Outstanding Lead Actress Emmys by 26, both Dune films, and Challengers at $10 million on a $55 million budget. That's 18% of the film going to a former Disney sitcom kid.
Euphoria Season 3 just opened to 8.5 million viewers in 72 hours at $1 million per episode.
The part nobody talks about: her TV per-episode rate went from $47K to $1M over 12 years. Her film salary multiplied 33x from Homecoming to Challengers. The Disney pipeline produces dozens of teen stars per decade. One built ownership at 16 and compounded it for 13 straight years.
Every kid star talks about "doing it differently." Zendaya actually did it.
A staggering achievement. That’s literally more than the combined trailer views of DUNE 3 and the recent ODYSSEY trailer.
This feels like Laika’s moment. The culmination of CORALINE, PARANORMAN, KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS—a testament of their ethos for hand-crafted animation.
ppl are already pointing this out but it saying “from the HANDS that created-” instead of “from the creators/makers-“ is an absolute power move. will be seated for this on day one and i mean it
nadie vio la serie de scream y por ende nadie ubica a la mega reina gay de brooke maddox pero ya nadie la vea que chasm scream DEP brooke maddox vuela alto 🕊️
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What do you think?
We’ve legit lost the plot. I honestly have zero idea what people are looking for these days, we needs a major shift in criticism. The movie I saw was well written, well directed, beautifully shot, insanely well performed & the sound was amazing. Are we “film” critics or not?
Everyone is getting her storyline wrong because Gen Z must be told what to feel when they watch shows.
The point of her character is to make you feel disgusted by the ways influencers and OnlyFans girls degrade themselves for vapid displays of wealth.