DANI & JAMIE in THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR
Dani and Jamie in THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR (2020)
There are other nights, and there will be other nights.
Q: Victoria, what do you think it is about their relationship that’s gonna be so captivating for fans?
Victoria: I’m glad you asked…. I love Dani and Jamie and I really hope people respond to it as well.
There are other nights and there will be other nights
Dani and Jamie in THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR
dani and jamie + the domestic sapphic dream
I just want everyone to know that no matter how much of a Naya stan you think you are, you will never be a bigger stan than 2011 Heather Morris.
Anonymous asked:
Hi, if you're doing a rewatch of that Noemie and Zoe's IG live, can you please help translate the French bits? Thank you so much :*
Well there’s not a lot of french tbh and most of what has been said in french has also been said and translated by Zoé in english haha. There’s nothing very interesting in french aha.
Like at 6:28 Noémie just ask what Zoé said because she didn’t understand so zoé just said she asked if people also thought they both look alike.
Same at 9:10 Noémie asked Zoé if she could sum up in french what she just said in english just before, so Zoé did that. And then around 9:50 Noémie answers in french but zoé translates what she said just after that. That it was a very technical scene, that she had to find the right emotions and find the balance. And it was different from all the other scenes with Jumbo. And that it’s almost a dialogue with herself because Jeanne is projecting what she wants in Jumbo and she’s more open and more alive that way. So there was a real work on the physical aspect of that. But yeah Zoé said everything already aha.
And then at 31:10 the question was if there was going to be more premieres of the film in France. And Zoé said that yes they will do all the premieres that they couldn’t do because of the quarantine. So they’ll try to do all the promo they couldn’t do. But it’s going to be tough because a lot of films will come out at the same moment and it’s hard to compete against all the huge american blockbusters so they need all our support and we have to go watch it in theaters with friends and family. Then someone commented that they should go to Bordeaux, a french city. And Zoé says that she would love to but it’s hard to bring indie movies in cities like this one.
Meanwhile Noémie is just reading comments, not following what Zoé is saying AT ALL lmao, and at 32:10 she laughed at a comment asking is she bought all the toilet paper needed for her dog lmao. And Zoé is trying to ask her if she bought enough toiler paper for the quarantine and Noémie was still to busy reading comments to hear her and answer her hahaha.
At 32:20 Zoé goes back to the premieres and says that there should still be one in Paris. And Noémie adds that it would be cool if there was a premiere at Nantes, since it’s where she comes from.
At 32:50, Noémie says that she’s not able to listen to music at the moment. And Zoé says that she’s listening to music all the time, especially Manu Dibango who died from covid 19 a week ago and the new Christine and the Queens EP and that she’s watching some of Chris lives on instagram aha.
At 34:40 Noémie reads a question asking what kind of movies they would recommend to watch during the quarantine. Zoé asks her to start. And Noémie says that she rewatched Rear Window.
And at 35:10 it’s hard to understand what Noémie says because Zoé speaks at the same time but she says something like “the dog is sleeping so weirdly i don’t understand what’s happening”.
At 35:53 Noémie asks if she has to tell her favorite scene to shoot or to watch because it’s not the same thing (i particularly love this moment because again, Noémie is so french when she says “c’pas pareil” lmao)
At 38:18 a comment says that Gino is very popular in the chat and Zoé says “yes indeed” and Noémie replies “yes, maybe he has a word to say. Ah! he opens his eyes” and Zoé says “Gino you want to lick the camera?”
I think that’s it ! it was actually much more than i thought aha.
Noémie, I was curious to know what attracted you to the script, like why were you not like this is a crazy story I’m never going to take that risk and I’m not going to do the film? I’m just going to go for it, why? I thank you for it, I’m very happy you did.
Zoé Wittock & Noémie Merlant: Jumbo Instagram Live | 28 March 2020
[Thank you for the comment-free recording @bereaving]
Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck. This sensual gaze pierces my soul.
Want to talk about it?
Anonymous asked:
Have you watched the short Cid Story with Noémie Merlant? I'm assuming it's a love triangle between 2 women and a man that ends up with murder? It's what I can surmise being a non-French speaker. It's easy to say that it has a lesbian trope (LGBTQ people being violent murderers), but it would be unfair to say that when I don't even know what the dialogue is about. What are your thoughts? P.S. Thank you for all your translations - especially the ones for the French released Portrait DVD. ❤
For those who are wondering what we are talking about, you can watch the short movie here (the password is rwsrws).
Okay so i guess that short movie is hard to understand for non french people haha. But Le Cid is a very famous tragedy written by Pierre Corneille in the 17th century. And i think have to explain the play before explaining that short film aha.
I’m so bad at summaries please stick with me, tragedies are so fucking complicated and hard to explain and it’s gonna be very long lmao.
Basically the story is about two dudes, Don Sanche and Don Rodrigue who are fighting for the hand of Chimène. Chimène prefers to marry Rodrigue. But Chimène’s father (Gomes) kills Rodrigue’s father (Diègue) because of some conflict (i believe Diegue got the position of Governor that Gomes wanted badly and he got jealous and killed him… men’s ego smh).
So here comes the problems…. Rodrigue has to defend his father’s honor and so he must kill Chimène’s father to avenge his death, even though that means that he’ll break his lover’s heart. But anyway he still kills Chimène’s father. And so Chimène can’t marry him anymore obviously and she’s looking for a man who would kill Rodrigue to avenge his father’s death. And she promises to marry whoever kills him. And so Sanche,who wants to marry her, says he’ll do it. But he fails miserably and Rodrigue is still alive. And Chimène realizes that she still loves Rodrigue even after what he did but still can’t forgive him for what he did so she still won’t marry him.
So basically that’s the story.
In the short film Noémie plays Chimène and Carolina (the other actress) plays Elvire, who in the play is Chimène’s governess. And when you read the play you can see that Elvire has a kind of fascination for Chimène, and it’s a bit ambiguous. And so the director of the short movie is playing with that ambiguity and gave another version/ a sequel to the story where Chimène and Elvire have a love story together and Elvire decides to kill Rodrigue to defend Chimène’s honor, the woman she loves.
And the scene they are doing in the short movie is the original text of the Act III, scene III of the play, that you can find here (in french though). That’s why Noémie is sounding quite dramatic when she talks haha.
But anyway, as you can understand it now, this has nothing to do with showing lgbtq people being violent for no reason haha. It’s actually about making a minor female character quite badass and about creating a lesbian love story in an classical play that doesn’t have one haha.
Noémie Merlant, in the light
On February 28, Noémie Merlant was on the list of the César nominees for best actress for her performance in Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma. Her role as a painter, who’s living a love story with another woman in an eighteenth century corseted, made her earned the recognition of her peers. “This nomination is important for the rest of my journey, but given the context, and given the film, the stake is beyond myself” she said a few days before the ceremony.
“As soon as I read the script, I felt that it was powerful, that this film offered a vision that was missing in cinema and that its material would be innovative.” At 31, the young woman, who spent all her childhood and adolescence in Rezé, already has a substantial filmography. She is not, however, a child who grew up in an artistic environment. “My parents ran a real estate agency in the Saint-Paul district in Rezé, where we also lived. We hardly went to the cinema. My sister introduced me to kung fu and horror movies, but I didn’t really have a film culture”. Dance and song were her true artistic passions, but she never made them professional goals.
A lucky journey
“I was thinking of going to business school after my high school diploma”. In 2007, a few weeks before the baccalauréat (french high school diploma), her father saw an ad for the cours Florent, an artist training school, and told her about it. Rather reserved, Noémie first said no. “But I finally listened to him. He thought that expressing myself artistically could fit to my personality.” After a month-long internship, she joined the Parisian school. “I discover theater, what a movie set is, I read lots of things: I discover the desire to play and to make it my job.” Supported by her parents, who came to join her in Paris a year after she moved there - ”we are a little clan“ -, she also finances her studies thanks to modeling, which she started as a teenager.
In 2010, she obtained a first role in L’orpheline avec en plus un bras en moins, by Jacques Richard. That first experience confirmed her passion for cinema: ”I feel more comfortable (in cinema) than in theater, I can both let go and control myself better. I like the attention to details that we develop in cinema.“ She then went on to make a few short films and appearances in French series, then small roles until she met Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar with whom she filmed Les Héritiers in 2013, then Heaven Will Wait in 2016. ”She’s an important director for me and I made two other films with her.“
Something to say
Her role as a young girl ready to go and serve in jihad earned her a nomination for best new female actress at the César in 2017. Last January, thanks to Portrait of a Lady on Fire, she won a Lumière award for best actress of the year, awarded by the international press. ”I was very happy but terrified to speak in public, especially since I wanted to give a speech on the contribution of this film to cinema“ she specifies with a relieved smile. And Noémie Merlant has many more things to say. She has written and shot two short films and is currently finishing her first feature film. The subject ? “It’s a fiction related to the story of a Roma family I know. I discovered this community a few years ago by volunteering and I am outraged by the racism they experience, a racism that seems to be tolerated by everyone. I have lived things with these people that are very far from the stereotypes that are conveyed and I feel like they brought me more positive things than the opposite.” Titled Mi Lubita, her film has yet to be released.
Guérande and Le Pouliguen
With all these activities, Noémie Merlant hasn’t taken a lot of holidays lately. Perhaps she will spend a few days with her family in Guérande or in Pouliguen. She must also take the time to convert and furnish her new apartment: ”This is at least my tenth address in Paris. As chance would have it, my new apartment is on the same street as where I was born.” Under a lucky star, without a doubt.
Source: loire-atlantique.fr
Céline and Noémie talk about their chemistry with Adèle and how the environnement created by Céline helped them
(As alway, @bereaving made those wonderful gifs !)
Céline: “Here again a representation of desire, with delivery, filming the delivery in cinema. It’s completely on their shoulders: to deliver and to receive.”
Noémie: “With Adèle, we didn’t work on our relationship before the shooting. We didn’t prepare the scenes. But a real environment of collaboration, of kindness, was created from the start, an horizontal gaze. And it’s this horizontal gaze that the film speaks about, the gaze between collaborators. And this vision, that Céline shares even in her way of working, helped to create this relationship. And we created this relationship with Adèle as she and I got to know each other during this shooting. We observed each other a lot. We also used it to create our relationship between Héloïse and Marianne.”
Noémie Merlant for DeMorgen.
In this interview, Noémie talks about her modeling career, the César, Céline and mentions for the very first time that she suffered from eating disorder when she was working as a model…
(I used google translate so the translation might be approximative sometimes)
Rising star Noémie Merlant: ’Being a model is terrible. It shouldn’t exist’
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WEIGHED LIKE AN ANIMAL
How it feels to fall on an object may have remained somewhat abstract for Merlant; she understands what it is like to be viewed as an object herself. For eight years she was a much sought after photo and catwalk model. But she certainly does not have fond memories of that period. “When I was 17, I moved from a suburb near Nantes to Paris to study at the Cours Florent theater academy. Then I suddenly had to earn money to pay the rent. Since I am quite tall, I regularly did assignments as a model since I was 16. I expanded that activity in Paris. ”
Until she was 24, Merlant will string together shows and photo shoots, “but only because I couldn’t live off my work as an actress before,” she says. “Being a model is a terrible job. I think it shouldn’t even exist. All the while I felt like just a piece of meat. You are weighed, measured and touched like an animal. And then comes the comment, “No, she’s too fat. Here’s a little too much grease running over the edge of her underpants. ” They really talk about you like you’re not just there. And worst of all, there is no protection whatsoever. At some point, rules were introduced to fight anorexia in the industry: those who weighed too little were no longer allowed to work. But in practice, it just came down to putting weights in our bra when the occupational physician came by. Totally irresponsible. ”
We ask carefully whether her time as a model has ever left her with an eating disorder. “It is,” she replies quietly. “For a long time. While I never had a problem with food before. Being a model made me sick. ” She pauses. “Crazy, it is actually the first time that I have said this in public. But it seems important to me to talk about it, because it remains taboo, and it is also a disease that is very difficult to get rid of. I was lucky: cinema saved me. Because acting allowed me to express myself. While in the fashion world I was always expected to keep silent. As a model you are objectified in such a way that you lose your voice. In the long run, I also failed in my personal relationships to say what I felt. I dared not say no anymore”.
THE POLANSKI SHOCK
Today is different, she recently proved at the ceremony of the Césars - the French Oscars. When the contested Roman Polanski, who is still wanted by the American court for the rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977, was awarded the best director prize for his historical drama J'accuse, actress Adèle Haenel stormed out of the room from. Merlant, who shared the screen with Haenel in Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, quickly joined her and strode out.
What went through her then? “Polanski had already won the Best Adapted Screenplay award earlier that night, so it wasn’t just about getting his film an award. We were shocked that he was also lauded as the best director, and things were shouted in the audience like ‘bravo, Roman!’. That felt very ambiguous at the time. ”
Their action has sparked a media storm, Merlant realizes. “There is a lot of division now, and there are hard words. But we also get a lot of support. We set something in motion by standing there and leaving. At least there is now real discussion about this theme. Not only on the internet, but also within families and groups of friends. And even though those discussions can sometimes run high, movement still seems to me better than standing still. ”
What does she think of the often heard argument that man should be separated from the artist? “I find that a very difficult issue,” she admits honestly. “But when I look at myself, I don’t feel like I become a different person when I act or write. Moreover, I do not think that cinema, or art in general, is above the law. I think what you do in real life is more important than cinema. ”
NAKED AGAINST YOUR WILL
In fact, good behavior in real life can also improve the quality of art, Merlant thinks. She learned that from director Céline Sciamma on the set of Portrait de la jeune fille en feu . “Céline is very good at listening to others. She does not impose her opinion and wishes. She just gives the others space and time to express herself. That egalitarian atmosphere constantly produced pleasant surprises, just because everyone dared to imagine things. If everyone feels comfortable and feels free to speak, it is very enriching. Mutual agreement is therefore a very positive thing. It does not mean that you are not allowed to say anything more, on the contrary: it means that everyone has the opportunity to speak out and be heard.”
The contrast with her experiences as a model could not be greater, Merlant concludes: “As a model I was not given the space to say no. If you are a minor, and they ask you to take your clothes off, it is very difficult to refuse. Because you have always been told that you have to like it - that that is your only reason for existence, even. So you start undressing, even if you don’t feel like it. ”
And then our conversation is over, and it’s time for … the photo shoot. Does she not find it difficult to get back into the role of model? “I don’t really care,” she laughs. “I don’t think it’s the most exciting part of my job, but I’ll take it in. The atmosphere with this kind of shoots is also much better than when I worked as a model. Because the power relations have now changed: I am no longer 'the model’, but 'the actress’. Then a photographer suddenly speaks to you in a completely different way. I am no longer treated as a thing, but as a human being. ”
Noémie Merlant as Charlie in Les Drapeaux de papier (2018)