El Chisme

and shares a filming update for The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.

this is the most doomer thing in the article for me. Please just let LOTR die.

I think this is the place to start. Have a piglet who understands that they are sort of more intelligent to a certain extent, but actually, all his best friends, i.e., Boxer and all of the other animals, make him connect with them, be best friends, and not see differences between them.” So, that was the point.

So Andy completely buys into Orwell's elitist vision of the world. That's just great. Luckily the movie is going to bomb because only weirdos like us are paying attention to it.

"I wanted to tell a story about fascism"

Ok so then adapt Orwell's life, not this drivel, it'll have more impact

"Fascism is when the government does stuff. The government doing stuff is communism. So fascism is communism. I am very intelligent."

• Andy Serkis, probably

I'd love to adapt 1984 extremely faithfully but secretly adhering to that theory that 1984 has a biased narrator, and that Oceania is actually a quite effective and benevolent socialist state especially when given the context of a recent devastating nuclear war and an ongoing three way cold-war that Oceania cannot win outright. Show Winston as the petty misogynist with SA fantasies he is in the book. Show the peaceful and comfortable living conditions of the proletariat. Make the fanatical party members cool and given them amazing uniforms like a reverse empire from Star Wars, that tricks nerds into thinking state socialism is cool.

Serkis Act :kelly:

Andy Circus

I want to just point out how far America has fallen. I'm American and I'm embarrassed. Back in the day, the CIA, I read, were the first people to finance a version of Animal Farm, and now you think about our government, and they wouldn't in a million years want people thinking like this. It's crazy.

Odd coincidence that this shit comes out right as millions of libs are taking to the streets, an experience that may radicalize some of them

Because Gilroy chose to focus on writing future episodes and rarely came to set, Luna served as his consigliere. In addition to advising on casting and production and art design, he addressed actors’ questions about the writer’s motivations for a character and asked for certain scenes to be shot again to align more with Gilroy’s vision. When deciding whether to give actor Muhannad Ben Amor, who plays young rebel Wilmon Paak, a bigger role, Gilroy looked to Luna. “I go to Diego, ‘Man, tell me, what do you think? Let’s talk to this kid — can we really get this second season out of him?’ Those kinds of things are invaluable.” (When asked about shouldering so much responsibility, Luna laughs: “I slept much better than Tony over those years.”)

huh dunno why I posted this unrelated extract about Diego Luna. Anyway how come Serkis wasn't in Andor season 2? his character's death may have been implied but starwars characters have survived far worse odds and Andy's performance in season 1 got a lot of buzz...

goat status: washed

An actor has a bad opinion?

But how!?

Boxer will be played by Chris Pratt. He's so cool!

Both pieces of media are easily digestible libertarian propaganda. Anticommunist takes on Andor are more common than the people calling it Marxist would think