um i want to talk about right because this this was a theme kind of uh you've been going off on
twitter we have we have tom cruise hanging off planes doing the most even at 60 doing all his own
stunts and it's like i know like i can't expect a woman to you know because we're just so fair
and delicate you you fragile little flowers you we're so fragile if you're so fragile like why are
you in this line of work this is the thing like you know there's been so many awesome accuracies
and stuff and stunt women over the decades that have done incredible like high-risk things and
they've not complained about it but then you get stuff like this it just makes me want to
puke i don't know maybe i i feel like this is and i haven't even really looked at this article yet
but i think this is happening because when you're a white person it's not enough just to be like
do your job and be white you have to be like somehow a victim and i think this is her way
of like gaining some kind of of a victim status it's so sad now i will give her or i'll give the
article at least um a degree of latitude because what they're basically saying here is that she
couldn't stop herself from showing fear during battle scenes
you know when she had like a big muscly guy coming at her with a sword she just flinched away from it
over and over again and she needed help she needed therapy to stop herself from doing that
uh but again i don't know isn't the point of being an actor that you can pretend to do stuff
or pretend to be someone that you're not yeah isn't that part of her training like you're
doing battle scenes like i mean i think yeah i think you would be smart enough to realize
like when a person comes at you with a sword they're an actor as well they're not actually
going to attack you you know you're just putting on a show for the cameras oh yeah it's not when
i was playing collegial the stunt team said you've got a problem because you're because
you're used to being attacked on film she told empire about jrs tolkien's middle earth fantasy
world i would flinch a lot when people came at me they did uh so they did exposure therapy with
me where i would have all these huge huge men running at me screaming with swords to stop me
from looking frightened because i've definitely been cast as a victim and galadriel is not that
i'm not even sure what i can describe galadriel as i think someone described her as like a mixture
of a karen and uh yeah oh what was the other thing amiri sue and i think that's probably
pretty accurate yeah i've only watched the first two episodes and i can't decide if i find her
performance like a little flat or she's trying to do this like kind of forced stoicism this
kind of you know trying to just be overly calm and controlled i i think it's the former because
there's scenes where the character is clearly meant to be reacting to things and she's meant
to be all fired up with people like if someone questions their judgment or suggests that you know
she needs to she needs to let this one go you know she's meant to show real fire in those moments
but the actress can't really bring that to the fore and i don't know if she's just too young or
too inexperienced or what but she doesn't really she just can't convey that kind of gravitas and
that danger that you would expect from someone like this at least the way they've written her um
she's perfectly fine when she just kind of has to stand there looking at things off in the distance
it's like yeah okay she's really prey and stuff and she captures that kind of look that you would
expect from an elf like this but man she can't bring it when she needs to in terms of acting
range and i know she's like this beautiful actress but and we mentioned this on like fnt the she her
face was never dirty once like i've never seen her actually look dirty or bloody or she's always like
at a ten in every scene and i'm just like i have man like you're really even from that first scene
like they're climbing up this glacier with the crampons and nobody's slipping and falling to
their death like they they climb all the way up and then they're like uh i guess we're done we're
gonna go back i mean plot aside i just i wish i could have seen them make her look a little bit
more disheveled and like she's actually been working on uh she's just she should look like
she's having a hard time getting around you know it's just not that realistic
when i think they will yeah i think they will show in later episodes because well the picture
there's a case in point but then there's other stills that i've seen where she's like walking
through like some battlefield and there's fire and everything behind her and she kind of looks
a bit messed up there but um yeah who knows how well she's going to be able to actually sell it
obviously she is she's very dusty here i'm looking forward to seeing her get dusty uh i'm excited
to stay tuned the 33 year old rings role is different from the types of jobs she usually books
she is most recognizable for portraying a traumatized nurse in saint maude but she's
always been a fan of tolkien's franchise even if she's right right away sure she was [ __ ] reading
these books when she was 10 years old like i was like yeah right every actor who's in this now
claims that they've been a lifelong fan of tolkien it's like ah what did he have never even heard of
him until like you know 10 minutes before you were cast i was used to playing a traumatized nurse so
part of my therapy included my holding a clipboard and uh people in scrubs running after me
let's see traumatizing for her the first audition i didn't know what i
was auditioning for clark recalled the actress next to me looks over all sneaky and was like
do you know what this is for it's lord of the rings and i'm forever grateful to her
i i refuse to believe that's true so she auditioned for something without
even knowing what it was that's impossible how would you know how to prepare for it or anything
even when you arrive like even if you're auditioning for a commercial you get there every
place you go to sign in the script like you'd have yeah i i don't believe that she had no idea
look at this as well this next light i went into the toilet and stared at myself and i was
like you've got to pull yourself together you've been training for this for years
like how have you been training for years you didn't even know you were auditioning for it
and you weren't and you're saying you weren't the biggest fan but you've been training for it for
years yeah you know what to do it's in your blood so yeah and then everyone applauded ah because
i've been obsessed oh now she's been obsessively watching lord of the rings for her whole childhood
sure i believe you always a fan wow the series is said thousands of years before the original
films and features new diverse characters that are meant to modernize the series
why do we need to modernize the series drinker because it's got to reflect the world we live
in even though it's a completely fictional fantasy world because literally it's impossible
to separate contemporary politics from art now at least if you're a hollywood writer
it is impossible and it's never going to stop i don't think
maybe we should blend uh blame jeff bezos who also is everyone's a longtime fan of the franchise uh
he passed that passion down to his son who bezos said gave him some advice on the show
i don't know how much of this is his fault i mean obviously he originated it all because i
i'm pretty sure his directive was just give me a microwave to game of thrones that'll just be
like and it's like what can we use like what's recognizable lord of the rings like biggest
fantasy you know name on earth like the most classic of all time cool let's just buy that
and we'll throw so much [ __ ] money at it it'll it'll overcome every problem and that
seems to be the mentality behind it and then it's lower level people that ultimately make
all these decisions about casting and um you know reflecting the world we live in today
so yeah i think jeff's just just a completely out of touch billionaire who just wanted a hit
yeah his son looked him in the eyes and said very sincerely dad please don't eff this up
bezos shared at the series premiere in london on tuesday and then sorry and then and then his dad
took the the prime tape that's on all the boxes and taped my mouth up with it and said shh i got
this it'll it'll be there in two days this is the problem though right because it's such a big deal
like and one way or another it's contentious and it's just all generating publicity for the show
the first few episodes will get insanely high ratings because everyone one way or another wants
to see it even if they just hate watching it but uh that's the problem because then they're gonna
trump it as like the biggest show on tv because of that but then it's not necessarily a reflection of
its quality yeah it's interesting like they will be so critical basically of anyone who is critical
uh or who leaves a negative review but at the same time do you think that people such
as yourself or gary or the geeks and gamers guys actually draw more attention to shows like this
and ultimately help it get more views even if you do have a negative review i mean it's
hard to say because the attention was there already i think because you know it's been
you know a saturation of publicity over the past six months like it's been everywhere there's been
news articles trailers everything it was out there regardless of what we said or did
but it's a reflection of how just how massive the amount of interest in this show is like when i
watched the first two episodes i did like an impromptu live stream with no prep work or
anything um in the middle of the afternoon here so it was like early morning in america and i had
13 000 people watching me live just talking about it that's how much interest there is in the show
wow not me but the show and like just because i was talking about it that's what that's what got
so many people watching um and so yeah it's a huge deal for for better or worse i guess
yeah interesting as a comment in the chat here bezos just needed a billion dollar write-off to
counter all of amazon's profits and i'm looking here that the rights alone cost 250 million
it was reported that the first season cost 462 million to make in contrast the first season of
amazon's other big fantasy series the wheel of time uh only cost 80 million i mean this is uh
this is an argument i've heard and it doesn't you know it's not without merit because when you come
to like do your taxis and stuff as a big company and you want to write off all this stuff you could
say that you spent practically anything you want on a show you don't necessarily have to have spent
it because it's hollywood accounting you know money disappears into a black hole when it comes
to movies um and so yeah it's um it'd be quite an easy way for them to dispose of a lot of profit
you know yeah like did you know quick drinker that when i do my taxes i can write off like waxing and
hair well it's it's part of your performance isn't it you gotta do it to maintain your appearance
that's what i wonder but i'm like what kind of waxing is it like can i only write off
waxed parts that the audience can see i don't know i'm gonna have to look into it i'm still learning
i i'm trying to figure out if i can write off booze as like tax deductible because it's a
business expense for me to function i think yes i think it's part of your whole brand it's your
whole thing yeah love you guys thank you for the chat thank you for the comments i will see
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