#lesser known roles

[not-so-rosyyy]

Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, Tom Holland's rumoured Juliet Capulet for Jamie Lloyd's West-End revival of Romeo and Juliet

#she's cute! #and i love that she or whichever lesser known actress nabs this role #will get to be thrust into the spotlight because of this #francesca amewudah rivers #tom holland

[novelconcepts]

It’s always so funny to me when someone can’t tell the difference between an actor who’s over the top and an actor who is doing an intentionally over the top performance. The former can be super aggravating, I get it—but the latter can be so goddamn effective. Especially when you know the actor already, know they’re fully capable of giving normal human facial expressions and chill line deliveries. And they’re out here doing The Absolute Most all of a sudden? It’s for a reason, dude. It’s almost always for a reason. And once you can see past the camp on the surface, it’s so much fun digging in to what emotions the character is actually hiding.

#this is mainly about servant (and to a lesser degree YJ) #like Ambrose in servant is (pardon me) serving SUCH a chaotic performance #but having known her for decades I know full well that’s on purpose #Dorothy is over the top because she HAS to be. because she’s built walls so high around her own grief that the denial comes out in Crazy #and she fully thinks she’s the only one paying attention. the only sane one in the room. #you get glimpses of her being ‘normal’ in flashbacks #still a little Much. still a product of wealth and expectation. detached from reality to a degree. #but the character she becomes after the tragedy is. A Character. #it’s not the woman she was before. she bricked that woman up. she’s taken her performance from television and made a baby blanket out of it #it’s so. so intentional. #and you sort of get a similar thing going with Hewson in early eps of YJ #totally different starting block. Van doesn’t start out traumatized. but she does start out Big #she’s loud she’s silly she’s being intentionally wacky to get laughs out of people #and some of it comes off a little cringe. because it’s a kid playing a role #this is how you like me. I’m gay. I’m butch. I’m hiding. #if I’m a jester you’ll see what I want you to and nothing more. that’s the plan. it’s working. don’t look at the goalie. #not as a person. #but as the show goes on (or as she’s spending time with taissa) she slows down some. quiets. she’s snarkier. holding tension differently. #Hewson starts the performance at an 11 so they can really delve into who Van becomes when the mask is off #when there’s no point in playing the class clown #when it’s like. ah yeah. here’s the kid who grew up too fast. #here’s the kid who’s scared to death. and angry. and willing to fight to live. #it’s not an overacting thing. it’s VAN overacting to keep her secrets #watch the face so you miss what the hands are doing #actors man. actors are fucking cool. storytelling is fucking cool. #deconstructing the illusion is my favorite thing #(anyway still watching servant and it’s still really. Something Else.)

[tytangfei]

the MDL girlies are so funny, some of them are saying that Lost You Forever would've been more popular if they casted other A-list stars like Dilreba and Yang Yang and Xiao Zhan and Gong Jun??? Huh????????? Lmao.

Nah, the current actors are doing fantastic, actually, and I'm enjoying their performances a lot. I'm glad they're getting a chance to shine, and really showing off their acting on a drama that requires so much emotional complexity. I love them and I wouldn't trade them for any other actor.

#i am esp deeply protective of deng wei #because he is lesser known apparently people are saying he should've been replaced or whatever #nah hes great actually and is perfect for this role #jina watches cdramas

[jimmyspades]

"Now kindly be out the door and take that wagon away from here. And godspeed to you." THE HOMESMAN (2014)

#if I was writing in the vernacular to match his accent it would be. now kindly be out te dooor an tahke that wwAAgon away frum hereee. #bless his accent work... good thing he's pretty #james spader #the homesman #* #aloysius duffy #this is a fascinating film in that no one ever remembers it exists at all #the cast is *incredible.* it got positive reviews. a little slow for me personally but not a bad movie overall #the most recent live action film james has done!!!! and yet #it doesn't come up even when we're talking about the lesser known js films we completionists have sat through! no one remembers it! #tbf from the spader perspective it's perhaps overshadowed by lincoln. similar period pieces and roles #anyway we need to discuss how we feel about this look. can't lie that double holster gun reveal makes me a little 🤤 #love his spats too

[slav-every-day]

#on a real Nicholas Galitzine kick tonight #like #I watched the Mary & George trailer and went fucking bonkers #and now I have consumed bits and pieces of like *most* of Mr Galitzines lesser known works in the past 5ish hours #did you know his first tv appearance was as a gay lover of some fuckin m16 agent #or smthn #I didn’t really pay attention to the non-Nicholas Galitzine parts #he also played a bisexual in a horror movie and then his character nearly immediately committed suicide after confessing that #ngl not my favorite of the Galitzine roles #I s2g I’ll do finals work anyyyyy minute now #slav #slav every day #voltron

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

ah yes actor josh hutcherson from paquita salas

#i love calling actors from their lesser known roles #anyways. josh hutcherson <3333

[lollytea]

Yes it might have taken me an embarrassingly long time to really pay attention to it but in ASIAS, along with the 'half a witch' parallel, both Hunter and Willow are motivated by upholding the legacy of those who came before them. That picture of Gilbert and Harvey being flyer derby champions is just as significant to her as the Golden Guard sigil is to him.

#other miscellaneous ASIAS thoughts that are not worth their own post but i think about them often: #its an episode that asks ''but who are you outside of the roles this story uses to define you?'' #this is the only episode of the Hunter Makes Friends series where his actions are not motivated by Belos #and Willow is neither one of Luz's two best friends nor the estrangled acquaintance to Amity #both characters are unnattached to those influences here. And without those roles slotting them into predictable places #we're able to explore new nooks and crannies of their personalities #stuff that really hasnt been revealed before #the two of them are trying out something new and a little out of their comfort zone and it pulls new traits out of them #Hunter’s hexside infiltration reveals him to be WAY more socially awkward than previous eps have shown #and then after his flyer derby match it really brings out his excitement over having friends and the genuine affection he has for them #Meanwhile this is the ep that really establishes what an ambitous go getter Willow can be #Shes never been a leader before. Shes never been this direct or ruthless. But her dedication to this team really pulls it out of her #and these lesser known sides of themselves are the version the other meets #lastly it is a very good take on a Person Vs Society story #again Hunter's internal conflict in this episode has nothing to do with Belos. He literally never gave a fuck if Hunter had magic #But Hunter was still born and raised on the boiling isles and no matter how sheltered he is #the inherent prejudices of the place is gonna gnaw at his self confidence. hes gonna internalize this shit #so while every Hunter ep before this was about how Belos has manipulated his self of worth as a person #this time we are dealing with how hunter views himself as a WITCH #MEANWHILE Willow's struggles with have always been entirely focused on her insecurity as a witch #her terrible grades and her severed friendship has always been about her insufficient abilities with magic #but in this ep you learn that it goes deeper than that #she berates herself not because of her magical ability but because she believes that shes stupid #the half a witch thing has severely deteriorated her worth as a PERSON #their respective struggles go in different directions in this ep and their emotions are complicated #but they still overlap enough that they can understand what the other is feeling #OKAY AND LASTLY AGAIN. Forreal this time #that scene when Darius is about to attack the entrails and Willow throws her arms out to shield all three of them #and then Hunter proceeds to run in and shield HER #because SOMEONE had to shield her. they are instinctive protectors. they are the same

[regallibellbright]

If I had a nickel for every iconic Nintendo DS game I played in my teens heavily utilizing the system’s central mechanics, with a wonderfully distinctive artstyle, themes about death and the need for connection, a huge reveal at the very end of the game involving a major supporting character’s true identity that makes them and the true plot impossible to talk about without spoiling, and a spiky-haired amnesiac protagonist who is dead, I’d have two nickels.

Incidentally, I finally got around to tracking down and saving Missile’s “Welcome!” as a reaction image and now I have Ghost Trick on the brain.

#Ghost Trick #Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective #The World Ends With You #twewy #subarashiki kono sekai #I could go further too the parallels do not end here #In a lot of ways I consider these two companions to each other as the Standalone DS Games About Death block #the fact that twewy is no longer standalone does not really change that fact #seriously I consider Neku-Sissel to be a STRETCH comparison it’s just that some of the others go into DEEP spoiler territory #also given how EXTREMELY DIFFERENT the two major supporting characters are I find the fact that I AM comparing them hilarious #but like. that one? not a stretch. for all that their motives could not be further apart their methods are VERY similar indeed #just one involves SPOILERS and is also in a sense combining the role of SPOILER. #… I don’t mind spoiling twewy but because ghost trick I’m pretty sure is comparatively lesser-known I DO care about spoiling that

[crickwater]

I don't have any strong feelings abt matt mercer dming for d20. I am enjoying seeing the intense reactions of everyone else tho

#matt mercer doesn't need this publicity I don't get why they did it #my feed is full of people both hating on matt mercer and loving him #my interest in this season is entirely dependent on the players and setting #like I'm not a huge matt mercer fan cause I don't have 5 free years to watch cr #but I don't hate him. I liked him on eftbk and pirol #this move feels v like. idk fan servicy? giving the people what they want #which makes me wonder if they are going to kinda lean into the oops all dms idea that has been around for years #and have like. aabriya brennan and murph as some of the players #I mean I'm 100% sure down to my bones that brennan will be playing it would be crazy of them not to put him there #I also do wonder if they'll maybe bring some lesser known players and use matt mercer drawing in people to like. give them some publicity? #I will say. I have seen people be like #and acting like it's some moral failure on the side of the show and that's. fucking crazy to me #like. d20 can still value giving platform to smaller creators while collaborating with Matt mercer #it's crazy to act like every single new dm has to be a smaller creator #plus even if you hate matt mercer you gotta acknowledge that without critical role d&d and actual plays wouldn't be where they are now #like it v much brought it into the mainstream and a new level of success #like I can't see a world in which d20 and exists without critical role's success paving the way

[sketchbook-rose]

#pan in his lesser known role as god of muffins #muffins #pan #graphite pencil #tagamemnon #my art #sketchbook rose

[terrence-silver]

I don’t get a lot of Jan Valek asks. 🤔💡

#one of tig's lesser known roles #but i do crave something with vampires #send me some please?

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

ok ok I know that kinning Eddie Munson isn’t a contest. however.....

I think I’m winning. 

#stranger things #stranger things cosplay #eddie munson #eddie munson cosplay #cosplay wip #My Lesser Known Kins #Critical Role #dnd #podcasting while painting #fabric painting #lightbox #also sorry for my messyass keyboard #working on something with plaster and gesso and paint just out of frame #you'll see that one in a few days hopefully #;)

[akkivee]

a radio show hayama-san is a part of will be hosting some vtubers and had i not recalled that, i would have been very confused why the hell the first half of the email i got from the channel hosting them was entirely in english lol

#this is vee speaking #the radio show is pretty quirky lmao so when the email subject was in english i really didn’t think anything of it #until i opened it and had the strangest sensation lol how do it describe it????? #like i could recognise that this was english but my brain had switched to jp mode expected japanese and just didn’t compute at all lol #but the channel’s growing and i’m both excited and feeling the need to gatekeep actually lol #like there’s this role that i want hayama-san to have in the future and i want him to have the notoriety to get it #and hayama-san and his partner on the show are pretty much femboys lol yay more femboy rep for international viewers lol #but the show is QUIRKY and idk what they have planned but i don’t want either of them to be scrutinised the way lesser known collabers are #we’ll see in a month ig lol but the real question is should i be speedrunning nijisanji streams to learn who tf these vtubers are lmao #c: seiyuu stuff

[aidenwaites]

I cant believe it was only an hour thirty. Like I sat through the whole thing and it felt like it was so long but it was only an hour thirty

#kaitlyn dever was so good in that role its a shame that this is probably one of her lesser known projects?? #at least compared to like. booksmart or something

[joycrispy]

Awhile ago @ouidamforeman made this post:

This shot through my brain like a chain of firecrackers, so, without derailing the original post, I have some THOUGHTS to add about why this concept is not only hilarious (because it is), but also...

It. It kind of fucks. Severely.

And in a delightfully Pratchett-y way, I'd dare to suggest.

I'll explain:

As inferred above, both Crowley AND Aziraphale have canonical Biblical counterparts. Not by name, no, but by function.

Crowley, of course, is the serpent of Eden.

(note on the serpent of Eden: In Genesis 3:1-15, at least, the serpent is not identified as anything other than a serpent, albeit one that can talk. Later, it will be variously interpreted as a traitorous agent of Hell, as a demon, as a guise of Satan himself, etc. In Good Omens --as a slinky ginger who walks funny)

Lesser known, at least so far as I can tell, is the flaming sword. It, too, appears in Genesis 3, in the very last line:

"So he drove out the man; and placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." --Genesis 3:24, KJV

Thanks to translation ambiguity, there is some debate concerning the nature of the flaming sword --is it a divine weapon given unto one of the Cherubim (if so, why only one)? Or is it an independent entity, which takes the form of a sword (as other angelic beings take the form of wheels and such)? For our purposes, I don't think the distinction matters. The guard at the gate of Eden, whether an angel wielding the sword or an angel who IS the sword, is Aziraphale.

(note on the flaming sword: in some traditions --Eastern Orthodox, for example-- it is held that upon Christ's death and resurrection, the flaming sword gave up it's post and vanished from Eden for good. By these sensibilities, the removal of the sword signifies the redemption and salvation of man.

...Put a pin in that. We're coming back to it.)

So, we have our pair. The Serpent and the Sword, introduced at the beginning and the end (ha) of the very same chapter of Genesis.

But here's the important bit, the bit that's not immediately obvious, the bit that nonetheless encapsulates one of the central themes, if not THE central theme, of Good Omens:

The Sword was never intended to guard Eden while Adam and Eve were still in it.

Do you understand?

The Sword's function was never to protect them. It doesn't even appear until after they've already fallen. No... it was to usher Adam and Eve from the garden, and then keep them out. It was a threat. It was a punishment.

The flaming sword was given to be used against them.

So. Again. We have our pair. The Serpent and the Sword: the inception and the consequence of original sin, personified. They are the one-two punch that launches mankind from paradise, after Hell lures it to destruction and Heaven condemns it for being destroyed. Which is to say that despite being, supposedly, hereditary enemies on two different sides of a celestial cold war, they are actually unified by one purpose, one pivotal role to play in the Divine Plan: completely fucking humanity over.

That's how it's supposed to go. It is written.

...But, in Good Omens, they're not just the Serpent and the Sword.

They're Crowley and Aziraphale.

(author begins to go insane from emotion under the cut)

In Good Omens, humanity is handed it's salvation (pin!) scarcely half an hour after losing it. Instead of looming over God's empty garden, the sword protects a very sad, very scared and very pregnant girl. And no, not because a blameless martyr suffered and died for the privilege, either.

It was just that she'd had such a bad day. And there were vicious animals out there. And Aziraphale worried she would be cold.

...I need to impress upon you how much this is NOT just a matter of being careless with company property. With this one act of kindness, Aziraphale is undermining the whole entire POINT of the expulsion from Eden. God Herself confronts him about it, and he lies. To God.

And the Serpent--

(Crowley, that is, who wonders what's so bad about knowing the difference between good and evil anyway; who thinks that maybe he did a GOOD thing when he tempted Eve with the apple; who objects that God is over-reacting to a first offense; who knows what it is to fall but not what it is to be comforted after the fact...)

--just goes ahead and falls in love with him about it.

As for Crowley --I barely need to explain him, right? People have been making the 'didn't the serpent actually do us a solid?' argument for centuries. But if I'm going to quote one of them, it may as well be the one Neil Gaiman wrote ficlet about:

"If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization." --Robert G. Ingersoll

The first to ask questions.

Even beyond flattering literary interpretation, we know that Crowley is, so often, discreetly running damage control on the machinations of Heaven and Hell. When he can get away with it. Occasionally, when he can't (1827).

And Aziraphale loves him for it, too. Loves him back.

And so this romance plays out over millennia, where they fall in love with each other but also the world, because of each other and because of the world. But it begins in Eden. Where, instead of acting as the first Earthly example of Divine/Diabolical collusion and callousness--

(other examples --the flood; the bet with Satan; the back channels; the exchange of Holy Water and Hellfire; and on and on...)

--they refuse. Without even necessarily knowing they're doing it, they just refuse. Refuse to trivialize human life, and refuse to hate each other.

To write a story about the Serpent and the Sword falling in love is to write a story about transgression.

Not just in the sense that they are a demon and an angel, and it's ~forbidden. That's part of it, yeah, but the greater part of it is that they are THIS demon and angel, in particular. From The Real Bible's Book of Genesis, in the chapter where man falls.

It's the sort of thing you write and laugh. And then you look at it. And you think. And then you frown, and you sit up a little straighter. And you think.

And then you keep writing.

And what emerges hits you like a goddamn truck.

(...A lot of Pratchett reads that way. I believe Gaiman when he says Pratchett would have been happy with the romance, by the way. I really really do).

It's a story about transgression, about love as transgression. They break the rules by loving each other, by loving creation, and by rejecting the hatred and hypocrisy that would have triangulated them as a unified blow against humanity, before humanity had even really got started. And yeah, hell, it's a queer romance too, just to really drive the point home (oh, that!!! THAT!!!)

...I could spend a long time wildly gesturing at this and never be satisfied. Instead of watching me do that (I'll spare you), please look at this gif:

I love this shot so much.

Look at Eve and Crowley moving, at the same time in the same direction, towards their respective wielders of the flaming sword. Adam reaches out and takes her hand; Aziraphale reaches out and covers him with a wing.

You know what a shot like that establishes? Likeness. Commonality. Kinship.

"Our side" was never just Crowley and Aziraphale. Crowley says as much at the end of season 1 ("--all of us against all of them."). From the beginning, "our side" was Crowley, Aziraphale, and every single human being. Lately that's around 8 billion, but once upon a time it was just two other people. Another couple. The primeval mother and father.

But Adam and Eve die, eventually. Humanity grows without them. It's Crowley and Aziraphale who remain, and who protect it. Who...oversee it's upbringing.

Godfathers. Sort of.

#good omens #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #good omens meta #I have no idea if I've made a coherent point here but I'm tired of this being in my drafts; RAW FEELINGS IT IS #it's about being sent to destroy and instead staying to love and protect and nurture I'M CRAZY I'M CRAZY RAAAAAAAGGHHHH #gnu terry pratchett

[legionofmyth]

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