A hack I've found useful in trauma recovery is to think in two minute increments. I'm going to spend two minutes journaling. Two minutes meditating. Two minutes cleaning. I'm going to wait two minutes & breathe & cool down & center when I feel a self-sabotaging impulse.
You have to let yourself viscerally feel things - all of it, including the joy that makes you scared of false hope and the mourning that feels like drowning - and somehow decide that you want to move on, rather than languishing in the hollow comfort of staying the same.
imagine being in your 70s and dreaming your whole life of playing a vampire, then being cast as the romantic partner of an actor who looks like the reincarnation of renaissance painting muses. i'd also be acting like a teenager with their first crush on main, sorry.
the first language of interstellar contact being dance is actually so important to me. from the mary and blip-a waltz to rocky and grace’s second meeting… dance was first!!!
“The myth of representation is that all representation should be good representation. I think one of the exciting things about this show is that [non-white characters] Louis and Claudia and Armand are imperfect characters. They are incredibly rich characters and there is space to explore how problematic they are but also how beautiful and elegant and wonderful they are, but they don’t always have to make the right decisions. I think that’s something to celebrate. And it’s not something that’s that easy to come by now, particularly at the moment. I feel like some of that’s backtracked in the industry, generally.”
— Jacob Anderson describing to @GQMagazine the joy of playing Louis, a “nuanced and messy and antagonistic” character.
📸: Huy Luong