#TAIKA WAITITI IS GONNA PLAY BLACKBEARD

[3majorursaminor7]

He has nine guns. I repeat: he has nine guns. Or at least four that I counted but you could only see the top half of him in that shot. But I'm assuming he's doing the nine guns thing based on that drawing of him that he was so annoyed about.

#Prince started playing and I lost my shit #this is gonna be fucking great #ofmd #our flag means death #our flag means death season 2 #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 teaser #our flag means death season 2 teaser #edward teach #blackbeard #taika waititi

[natjennie]

idk maybe I'm in the wrong about all this but like, I just hate to see people upset and I know I can't please everyone but my empathy is hurting me rn like.. I don't know what I did to make everyone upset. and at the same time. it's my blog that I want to post stuff that makes me happy on?? block me and move on. I guess my whole thought process can be summed up with that post that's like "'oh I hate all the utter clown shit on this website' brother you're the one that came to the circus"

#literally if we're gonna take a step back and look at what happened. #i called blackbeard. fictional blackbeard played by taika waititi. my babygirl #i dont know guys am i an asshole? #am I genuinely in the wrong here I can't tell

[rhysdarbinizedarby]

“I Love Taking Risks”

Returning for the second season of his hit comedy series Our Flag Means Death this month, Rhys Darby chats to us about becoming ‘The Gentleman Pirate’.

It was the surprise hit of 2022 no-one had on their bingo card. Loosely based on the real-life exploits of Stede ‘The Gentleman Pirate’ Bonnet (Rhys Darby), Our Flag Means Death tells the hilarious and heartfelt story of the wealthy Barbadian landowner who gave it all up for life as a pirate in the 1700s.

After encountering the actually not-so-terrifying Blackbeard (Taika Waititi) of legend, who teaches him how to be a fearsome pirate – to little effect – in exchange for wisdom about the finer things in life, the two formed an unexpected romantic connection.

Of course, with the first season ending with the pair sadly going their separate ways, creator and writer David Jenkins previews things will be challenging for our star-crossed lovers in season two: “I think [we’ll be] watching… both reorient themselves. This is their first love… You’re rocked when that happens. You go into a crisis.” With the second season premiering this month, picking up a short time after the first, Darby sat down with FOXTEL magazine to give us the lowdown.

What’s your take on ‘The Gentleman Pirate’?

It’s an interesting role because this is a guy who has a midlife crisis, leaves his wife and kids, just runs out in the middle of the night and creates a pirate crew, heads off into the sunset. And in order to sort of get to grips with who would do that, you need to have someone play the role that you’ve got to root for but, at the same time, you go, ‘Is he crazy? Why has he done this? Does he not love his wife and kids?’ So, you know, I did a bit of reading about him and tried to get into that mindset as to why he would do such a thing. And I think what I got to was just midlife crisis and boredom, and he had the wealth to change his life.

Are you a risk-taker yourself?

I love taking risks; I could drop everything and suddenly fly to Mars, but I’d be sitting in the spaceship before launch and thinking about my kids and I would have opened the door and run back to them.

So there was something there, some deep-seated darkness in his soul that led him to that point. He’s a complicated guy. I’m glad I had to rise to the challenge and try to pull that off.

Will Stede ever be respected by his crew, do you think?

Yes. I think he will be. People did respect him eventually because he did become a decent pirate. If you look in the annals of the pirates and all the booty they took, there’s lists of who did the best and all that kind of stuff, and Stede’s up there.

Do you think he had any regrets about choosing that life in the end?

That’s a good question. If I was to guess I would say no, because he wanted the adventure. He regretted, in the end, not taking the pardon when he could have – the King put out a pardon and he said, ‘If any of you pirates come in and drop your swords now, you’ll be spared.’ A lot of them did sign that they would do it and then just went back to pirating.

Even in the end, Stede tried to get out of it – he really begged and pleaded and wrote letters to the King saying, ‘Please, I’ll do anything.’ But they wanted to make an example of him: it doesn’t matter how wealthy you are, you do what you did, you’re gonna hang. So they got him in the end. But they won’t get me!

You seem to have a knack for picking great roles. What does your process entail?

Yeah, it depends what you’re doing. You know, I’m not at a point where offers are rolling in left, right and centre. So you still do things because you need the money. But I’ve been lucky that my uniqueness has only really gifted me roles that suit me, for the most part. Usually they’re smaller roles and I do a lot of guest starring on comedy shows. Also, I have been lucky enough to do a lot of voicework through various animation channels and video games and things.

A few years ago, people started to realise that, and it’s through working with Taika and a few others in the comedy industry, that if you’re going to hire me, he’s going to give you a bit more than what’s on the paper. And he’s going to do it in his manner and his way, and that’s what you’re sort of paying for.

And so that meant that I wouldn’t get a lot of roles, but the ones that I did do, I would always shine in. So thank you, universe, for giving me anything.

Source: Foxtel Magazine Australia (October issue)

#rhys darby #taika waititi #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #foxtel australia #foxtel magazine

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

So I know this is a result of Taika having tattoos in real life but Maori Blackbeard is canon so I’m gonna run with it. Ed is named Edward Teach (an English name) and from what little we see of his childhood he seems to have been raised in a western European port town. His father is a white Brit and his mother is a Maori woman (Simone Kessell is mixed white and Maori but that doesn’t necessarily mean the character she plays is mixed, we’d have to know more about the character’s background I think). All this to say that Ed was raised surrounded by his father’s culture and not his mother’s. Despite this fact Ed has Ta Moko (traditional cultural Maori tattoos for those unfamiliar). We only see one as far as I’m aware in the show (the little house shaped one on his wrist) but Taika Waititi has one on his back and one on his shin and the show isn’t over yet so it’s possible we could see more (especially if we get a sex scene, fingers crossed). What I’m interested in is how he got those. My working head cannon (subject to change) is that his mother was probably born in Aotearoa (New Zealand for those unfamiliar with her proper name). Maybe she told Ed stories about her childhood at some point, probably referred to the island by name. At some point, probably after he became Blackbeard and had his own ship that he could sail wherever he wanted to go, he got curious about his mother’s heritage, and sailed to Aotearoa. It probably took some effort. He either had to find a newer dutch map that had the Aotearoa on it (made after 1642) or run into some helpful pacific islanders that he shared a common language with and didn’t run away from the pirate ship on sight to point him in the right direction (probably both maps of the time weren’t always spot on). He also would have potentially had to put the piracy on hold for a bit in order to pull it off. But anyway I’m thinkin he rolls up in this little island in the pacific to which people see his European style vesicle and go “aw shit, not these guys again”, then they see the flag and they’re like “different set of guys”, then they see Blackbeard, a long haired, brown skinned, heavily tattooed sailor and go “hey wait, is he one of us?”

I just think it’s the most likely scenario for how he got those tattoos

#and that accent tbh #blackbeard #blackbeard ofmd #edward teach #edward teach ofmd #Our flag means death #ofmd #It's very cool to me how thoroughly Ed refused to assimliate #even if his mom did #he comes from a legacy of long haired tattooed sailors so he became a long haired tattooed sailor #like independantly of having met anyone other than his mom from that culture presumably

[vaultedthewall]

Chronicles of Amber Fancast

Prefacing this with what I actually want from a Chronicles of Amber series is that tweet about not actually wanting an all star cast but ten unknowns and a scriptwriter that is deeply unwell. But if I'm gonna pick and choose big name actors here is who I would like based mostly on vibes, attractiveness (to me), and the likelihood it would really upset certain subreddits. AKA everything important in life. Mainly just the children of Oberon in the first five books bc it's already long enough as is.

Corwin - Oscar Isaac

Charismatic enough to make me forget how much I fucking hate Corwin, also he can sing. Thanks to Moon Knight we know he can totally rock "Protag who is just as confused as the audience as to what is going on" which is v important for Nine Princes In Amber.

Benedict - Idris Elba

Tall, 100% Done With This Family's shit, can carry the vibes of someone who only doesn't have the throne because he doesn't want it and everyone agrees if that was different he'd just have it.

Eric - Taika Waititi

Can balance both absolute piece of trash bag of dicks while still being charismatic which is really what's important about Eric.

Deirdre - Kali Reis

You want a battle maiden you'll get a battle maiden. If anything the main problem here is there's no way on god's green earth you could convince me she'd need Corwin and/or Random to come to her rescue for anything, but hey adaptations are for changing things.

Fiona - Sophie Turner

For all the redheads I thought it'd be important to pick people who normally play affable everymen/heroes/people you're used to seeing as goodguys, even if the nature of adapting a book series that's older than most of the people you'd cast in it means the 'big twist' of who the traitors are is something everyone sees coming. So someone well practiced at ingenues would be perfect for the actual baddest bitch in charge.

Bleys - K. J. Apa

We're gonna give him a better dye job than Riverdale though okay I promise.

Brand - Jack Quaid

Absolutely 'just this guy you know' vibes. Easy to overlook. Would YOU believe he was the big bad? Come on.

Llewella - Halle Bailey

Yes I'm making a Little Mermaid joke, try and stop me. But also given how shafted she was in the books I think it's important to use someone who can do a lot with having few speaking lines (though hopefully again that would be fixed in an adaptation)

Caine - Vico Ortiz

Literally I just want to watch them doing all the scenery chewing bullshit you know Caine has to get up to while they are manipulating and spycrafting their way through shit. Can fully believe they'd pull a finding a copy of themself to kill and leave so people don't know they're still around behind the scenes. Especially in their Blackbeard fit, come on.

Julian - Conrad Ricamora

Did I just cast my absolute most favorite Mister Darcy as my number one blorbo Julian? Call the fucking cops on me idgaf. His resting bitch face and sarcasm are second to none. Also watch Fire Island (2022) on Hulu.

Gérard - Jason Momoa

Along with being the biggest canon kinda implies he's also the hottest of all of Oberon's sons so absolute massive dreamboat Jason Momoa it is. Also for the lolz of him and Vico being the navy people.

Florimel - Jamie Clayton

Did you ever see a woman so beautiful you started crying?

Random - Bex Taylor-Klaus

They can absolutely go through the journey of youngest sibling in the jester position/fuckup because who cares > most responsible one after all.

BONUS

Bill Roth - Wil Wheaton

Look I adore his narration of the last five Amber books!!! I want him somewhere so the reliable chillax lawyer from earth who somehow just rolls with becoming the family lawyer for what amounts to gods of reality. I know I said I actually want a bunch of unknowns for the actual series but I will cry at whoever I must to make this happen. Please.

#chronicles of amber #fancast #roger zelazny

[spheronite]

Taika Waititi: ok we need someone to play blackbeard... who's it gonna be...

Taika: oh how could I forget

Taika: its me>:)

#taika waititi #ofmd season 2

[quillyfied]

Post that’s been trying to form in my brain since April, not sure if I’ve got all the words right but I’m gonna go for it anyway:

Starting disclaimer, absolutely we should be telling more historical and historical-adjacent stories about POC in these fraught colonial times bc it wasn’t just All White Europeans All The Time, and their stories were most certainly not weird white guilt fodder about slavery and imperialism. That said, there’s something kinda powerful, I think, in telling a story like Our Flag Means Death about Blackbeard.

Because Blackbeard, to this day, is THE dude. He’s THE pirate. Every single pirate in cartoons and comedy that has the name Something-beard (Stickybeard from KND being the most obvious example I can think of, followed by this absolutely ridiculous Studio C sketch, but I know there’s countless more) is parodying this guy. Blackbeard is a legend. Had a fierce reputation, supposedly set his own beard on fire to scare people, when he died the legend went his headless body jumped off the ship and swam around it three times before he finally quit moving. And piracy, as it is in the show, is a manly-man sort of profession in pop culture. In maybe a roundabout way, it could be said that since swashbuckling stories from the time of Blackbeard’s contemporaries all the way to now, Blackbeard is pretty much the ultimate macho manly man dudebro (for three hundred manly, manly years).

Certainly this is the reputation they bestow on Blackbeard in OFMD. He’s a legend. And it’s established from the first episode that piracy has certain expectations attached to it. And from the get-go, OFMD begins challenging Blackbeard’s historical image AND his real-world legacy and reputation. I mean, for a start, there’s the obvious: he’s played by Taika Waititi, who is not a Christian-raised white British man from Bristol or someone who can pass for that basic image (not how the costume department chose to portray him, anyway, I do recall that Taika has played an imaginary friend version of Hitler before, but the basics are still he ain’t a white Christian dude). And it keeps going, from details as small as wearing a knee brace and a crop top with leather clothing to details as big as Blackbeard falling for Stede Bonnet. There’s power, I think, in taking a household name and using him as a vehicle for a story that challenges pretty much everything that household name stands for, from brutality as a necessary masculine trait to heteronormativity to white domination of the seas.

And I think David Jenkins and his incredible team knew exactly what they were doing when they set out to tell this kind of story. They’ve said it before—historical real-world Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet were a nasty couple of dudes, racist and misogynistic and propagating violence, if not being horrifically violent themselves. So what a statement it is, to take the legacies of these real pieces of work and use them to tell a story that directly opposes exactly what they were all about in the real world, a story that resonates and has emotional depth and complexity. Not undoing or rewriting what the historical figures have done, but showing that life doesn’t have to follow the example they set, that if the legendary Blackbeard can feature in a story where he’s allowed to be softer and more vulnerable and battling how the world doesn’t want that from him but HE wants it from himself—idk man, I just like taking these monuments of toxic masculinity and using them to explore alternatives.

Hopefully this makes any kind of sense, I think I might have lost the plot a bit. TL;DR using toxic masculine icon Blackbeard to dismantle toxic masculinity is cool. It’s like beating a Dragon type Pokémon with another Dragon type but better. Using the same beams that upheld terrible ideology to dismantle said ideology. Happy S2, happy to sail alongside all o’ ye in this fandom, yohoho and a happy Pride to all bc Blackbeard’s gay now.

#our flag means death #idk if this makes sense anymore I’ve lost the plot

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

speaking of piracy WHO WAS GONNA TELL ME THEYRE MAKING A COMEDY SHOW ABOUT STEDE BONNET

#TAIKA WAITITI IS GONNA PLAY BLACKBEARD #if they don’t make this accurate i swear #because the accurate story is still so funny so a comedy could be done so so well with it #our flag means death #my post #caps tw

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

Hello friend! What is ofmd? It looks interesting but I have no idea what it stands for. The one with the guy that looks like black beard and his blonde friend

that's our flag means death! it's a fun little comedy show about pirates featuring taika waititi as blackbeard, that dude who played the main NPC in jumanji (sorry that's the only thing i knew him from lmao) as captain stede bonnet, and a crew of varyingly gay pirates

basically: rich posh dude runs away from home and leaves his wife and kids to become a pirate, does not understand the concept of "pirates = violent" like at all, is basically just calling himself a pirate while peacefully sailing around, and blackbeard's like woah. this dude's insane. no one's doing it like him. i love it. i'm fascinated. i'm gonna board his ship and make him teach me how to be a weird stuffy posh dude and i'll teach him how to be a real pirate and wow i sure hope this doesn't awaken anything in me

it's literally a gay pirate rom com with multiple gay pirate romances. cannot recommend it highly enough

#it's on hbo max but hey: yo ho yo ho #ofmd #our flag means death #nitghowl1600 #sam answers stuff

[that-homoerotic-blouse]

Now that I’m deep in gay pirates brainrot I have to confess that I feel as though Taika Waititi characterised as Blackbeard came to me, slapped me across the face and said “you’re going to have a weird aesthetic lesbian crush on me and you’re gonna like it” so now I have added another blorbo to my collection (DT and Taika) that make me feel like a flustered victorian lady for looking at middle-aged men playing gay fucking sluts

#sorry I don't make the rules #I'm- (redacted) #this doesn't make sense hope you understand #intense aesthetic attraction my beloved #why do I have this thing for 'feminine' men #fucking kill me #don't fucking look at me #dw #ofmd #good omens #our flag means death #david tennant #taika waititi

[oh-so-heavenly]

It's time for chapter four of Our Flag Means Death

mary and stede 💔

they look constipated on their wedding,

THEY GAVE THEM GRAVESTONES?? (tbh i'm so dramatic i would like it, i'd show it to everyone i know)

"and don't play pirates with them" aw, why not :(

TAIKA WAITITI MY BELOVED

he's so hot. i mean, he's always hot but here, covered in leather, with long hair and the beard, looking like he hasn't taken a shower in years -he looks extremely hot

AND THE TATTOOS ❤️👄❤️

"they die quite dramatically, don't they? The Spaniards?" I mean, just above in this post i was saying how I'd like to have my own grave as house decor so, yeah

HE LOOKS SO GOOD

(sorry but the highlights are gonna probably be just Blackbeard from now on, he deserves it 🔥😌)

What's a frankfurter???

"Can we please focus?" I've got ADHD and I don't like your attitude, so, no :)

Ohh sausages, he's already seeing dicks on the clouds #mood

the uszh™ now available on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video

that jump was so unnecessary and dramatic I LOVED IT

"hello, everyone I'm Blackbeard" hi, can i get your ig??

"huge fan, sir" that's a simp if i've ever seen one

I CAN SEE HIS BELLYBUTTON I NEED TO BOOP THE BELLYBUTTON BOOOOOP

"they've got a bird guy" unsupervised kindergarten kids indeed

#karl's the bird that's my mental state from now on

once again Stede is there with his tits out... as he should >:)

The Lighthouse 🥺

"and the children did that" look, Stede, my boy. I love you, alright? But AAAAAAAAAA

Blackbeard giggling owns my heart ❤️

"if you don't make a decision soon we're going to fucking die" "oh, now, there's an idea. I haven't done that one yet" i'm DEAD

I'm convinced Blackbeard is justa Gen Z: obviously not straight, has ADHD, loves trinkets and being dramatic all the time

NOT FRENCHIE NAILING HIS SHIRT

"hooolaaa" jsjsjs me encanta

"who's this Mary then?" R U JEALOUS??

the whole nightmare with Blackbeard looking like how Black Pete described him is hilarious

HE'S TOUCHING HIS HAND HE'S TOUCHING HIS HAND HE'S-

"do you work for blackbeard??" error 404 ed.exe has stopped working

"I'm Ed" SHUT UP AND KISS ALREADY

"if you're not jim, can I be jim" jsjsj

"most pirates i know, they're dead" ok so the bar is pretty low then

✨rather exquisite cashmere✨

THE SECRET PASSAGE AND ED IS SIMPING FOR HIM HE'S LIKE A CHILD ON CHRISTMAS

"is that Blackbeard" "mh? No, I'm Blackbeard" I CAN'T- 💀

oh, fuck me, his sly smirk and the little "shh"

Frenchie is so stupid but I love him, this guy doesn't have a single braincell

HE'S SHOWING HIM THE LIBRARY

AND HE LIKES IT

idk viking vampire clown sound's fucking terrifying to me dude

"Nine guns??" That's what bothers him

"You're a fucking lunatic and I like it" that's explicit eroticism and i like it

WHAT IN THE- HE'S WEARING ED'S CLOTHES, HE LOOKS SO FANCY AND COOL AND LIKE HE'S SERIOUSLY TRYING TO LOOK COOL

HE'S MOVING THE SLEEVES, HE'S DANCING they are both dorks

Izzy just went out of the frame like, i'm done with this shit

"you can be a real bummer sometimes" all the time, don't be shy ed and admit it, he's a party popper

"That's Blackbeard" I love Ed so much

oh, wow, that was a resignation

"do you speak Spanish?" I do, cariño, in case you need any help

Ecclesiastical latin??? (The worst thing is that he's kinda right, Latin is easy when you know Spanish)

Asdfghjkl I cannot believe they were saved by fucking dick clouds

Please no don't make Blackbeard sad he can't be sad, he's like a puppy, he deserves to be happy :(

"just kind of rocky and flat" yes it is, Frenchie, yes it is

THEY ARE GOING TO BECOME A LIGHTHOUSE

They are hugging

!!!

he got rid of some gunpowder so he could have his marmalade, you gotta love this guy

WAIT WHY IS HE MAKING IT SOUND LIKE HE WANTS TO KILL STEDE. I DON'T LIKE THIS

More highlights: episode one / episode two / episode three / episode four / episode five / episode six / episode seven / episode eight / episode nine /episode ten

#our flag means death highlights #our flag means death spoilers #our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #ofmd #stede bonnet #blackbeard

[timetravelingsherlockian]

Continued Clueless Liveblogging of OFMD.

Al-right! Part one is here (x). Let's see how I get on w/ part two.

Throwing a "Read More" in here, somewhere to keep things tidy.

- Blackbeard's gonna end up their nemesis, at some point, isn't he? The skull-belt is a nice touch.

- Deserted Island Episode! Already!!!

- Captain, pushing it ain't gonna do it. You row out to any islands in the tiny little boats for a reason. You're just lucky that your hull didn't pull a Titanic ... which is a reference that's about 150 years too early. Ah well. Like an egg. No, it doesn't matter if it's a raw one.

- Buttons is the one guy who knows things! Good for him. You always need the one guy who knows things.

- "Happens to everyone!" Narrator: This does not happen to everyone. In fact, Cap. John is the first pirate to ever maroon his own ship listening to stories.

- I appreciate the outfit change!

- Oh no Nigel is a ghost please go away. We only need cute, flirty, poetry-obsessed ghosts here.

- "You're dead, and I'm not listening." Right response.

- "I'd like to view this as a holiday, of sorts!"

- They're right about the "once a murderer".

- What's the relationship b/t the big guy & the afab one (I'm sorry. I'm not sure if this is a Mulan or an Albert Cashier situation; is the person's name Jim??)?

- I'm starting to hate this Nigel.

- I love the ribbons on his shoes. Whoever the costume designer -- kudos.

- Masked locals. In a Taika Waititi piece. This is going to be interesting.

- The tipping palm tree was a nice touch.

- "The eighth time, shame on us." -- That made me laugh. Also, nice headdress and beadwork.

- I like how he gets old-timey counseling. We were there before Freud & the APA stepped in. Bit of professional pride, on my part.

- "...only to yourselves, because you're mediocre pirates..."

- This is definitely a post-2020 show.

- "I am adequate." What a battle cry. Low-enough expectations.

- Me, wrangling my D&D party. Actually, that's just generally the captain's vibe.

- "Well, I was thinking, a compermise."

- If I don't play my D&D character like the captain this week, you can have my skin. Or, at least, some of it. Let's negotiate.

- Aww! Teamwork!

- " -- and accurate."

- Please, give this man a new shirt.

- Ooh. The ominous music.

- Funny, who gets the language in this series. Barely noticed it was on HBO until now.

- Yup. There's Blackbeard. Or, at least, his flag. A little sooner than I anticipated.

Still a good series. Still feel for the captain-guy. I think the afab person is a woman?? Just b/c you have to have one woman on the ship, and they seem to be treating it like that. But, who knows. (Edit: Nope! Was wrong! Jim's like me. With slightly more knives.) Compermise is good, actually.

#omfd #omfd spoilers #liveblog #my writing

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

the guz kahn thing was a response to someone being like, wow this guy is in ofmd and supports palestine too, that's so cool. and he was like, i'm not in that anymore actually, not sure why. i do support palestine though. those things aren't related. and then some people decided to be anti-semitic and went aha i knew taika was secretly a zionist. it's just twitter being weird and people putting screenshots together in a way that makes things seem more dramatic.

That's possible. Like I said in the tags to the post I think it probably has more to do with the budget cuts. We know OFMD's budget was cut for s2. Guz Khan is a fairly popular actor as I understand it and so paying him is somewhat expensive and his character is easier to write off than many of the others. That's my working theory.

That said I still don't think people were wrong for asking questions about it when he mentioned that he would never compromise for a job shortly after getting laid off. He said that he's not saying OFMD is that job and I'm personally choosing to take him at face value there but others are not wrong for reading into it. Additionally I've never seen anyone accuse Taika specifically of Zionism over this (or at all personally). I've seen people talk about Con O'Neill's Zionism, though I don't think that's relevant to this particular discussion it's a fair criticism of Con. Somehow I don't think Taika would be making that call. He got laid off at around the same time the show got renewed, which makes me think that David Jenkins and the creative team probably hadn't made any concrete creative decisions at the time the lay off happened. To my mind that means that he was more likely laid off by someone higher up on the chain. I don't know exactly how these things work but that would track with my money based theory and if he was laid off for ideological reasons I think anyone who knows anything would be squinting at HBO max as a company rather than at Taika who has taken a bit of a step back from his role as EP to play Blackbeard and might not even have the power to pull the trigger like that.

I'm willing to believe that there's nothing there and that things were said and data was compiled in a way that make it look a bit sus when it wasn't. I just don't think that raising that suspicion is wrong.

All that said don't be weird about Taika. That's a huge leap in logic and to my knowledge he has a) never said anything about Palestine and b) spoken out against colonialism repeatedly in other contexts so his politics while sometimes inconsistent do not seem to align with the biggest proponents of Zionism so there's literally no reason to think he has anything to do with anything. All the Jews I know personally are anti-zionist. I know that there are Zionist Jews but from the information I'm working with they're in the minority among Jews. Taika Waititi's Jewishness is unrelated to the Guz Khan lay off. I also gonna go out on a limb here and say Taika Waititi is unrelated to the Guz Khan lay off.

I'm gonna leave this tweet here because I think it's relevant

#that said #if ivan comes back with a different actor next season #i will be red pilling on the 'Guz got layed off because he supports palistine theory' #i wont be blaming taika or david for that without a smoking gun tho #blaming hbo max the company for everything that goes wrong is my favorite thing #i love blaming companies and institutions for problems