You have no idea dude. I work in the industry and executives are making the worst decisions you can imagine based on their own narrow, moronic view of culture. It’s enough to make you want to quit the career entirely sometimes.

Yeah I cancelled with the last increase. Just insane.

Your spoiler tag doesn’t work in my app (Mlem, iOS). But I fully agree with that series idea. Like how has that not been done?!

Saving you a click: LA fires have caused much of Hollywood writ large to delay announcements. Several film festivals have delayed their lineup announcements for the same reason.

If you don’t watch the trailer or read the name of the movie, Shaun of the Dead sorta plays out that way.

Graham is the pitch master. He doesn’t miss a beat and he’s so engaging. It’s incredible to witness. He’ll be in the middle of it and just start crying. And then the person sitting next to him, his assistant, will go, “OK, [and keep explaining for him].” And then he gets his composure and starts again. It’s really fun.

Interesting detail.

They’ve been moving at this pace from the start and it’s remained awesome.

Saving you a click: Regular internalized performance nerves, nothing too interesting.

What was something that you were maybe most like nervous about going into it?

Everything. All of it. I was nervous about doing the character justice. I was nervous about what it would be like to work in a giant franchise, because I’ve never experienced that before. I was nervous about being bad. I was nervous that the swings I was taking would be embarrassing, sort of your run-of-the-mill shame tornado, kind of everything and anything.

I was going to say, “At what point did you feel like you got over it?” But did you? Because that’s sometimes a thing that actors have to just compartmentalize.

I experience this with a lot of what I work on, and I know other actors do too. I definitely calm down once I know there’s a certain amount of footage that they have. And I know that, like, at this point, it would be hard for them to fire me because they shot so much of it. I usually am like, “I think they would tell me by now if I were fired,” but so always in the beginning, it’s nerve wracking. So by the time we got to 4, I was like, “I think they would have let me go by now.”

Incredible show

I think this show is gonna be great. Only a month away!

The report suggests these assets would be “better positioned as a consolidated, linear-focused vehicle with scale benefits that can drive affiliate and advertising negotiation as well as synergies.”

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I learned these real quick in the workplace as a young adult, around a coworker with a mentally disabled child, and with a coworker who was gay. The abstraction is what made using such crude language easy. As soon as I knew someone affected by the words, I snapped out of it.

Abstraction, come to think of it, is what permits a lot of bad behavior.