Oscar Isaac says he’ll “probably not” return to Star Wars ever, and it sounds like he finds the Disney system to be a giant bummer. [Pajiba]
This Dr. Luke-Kesha story is so depressing. [Just Jared]
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Madonna… does not understand what censorship is. [Dlisted]
Lucy Hale looks so pulled-together. [Go Fug Yourself]
Please donate to the person running against Susan Collins. [Jezebel]
The Honest Trailer for the Oscars. [OMG Blog]
The Revenge of Donald Bigly Smallhands. [Towleroad]
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God, Oscar Isaac is HOT.
YES
YUP!
THIIISSSS
And I *love* him & his wife together (also they are two beautiful ppl, & I have a soft spot for shortwe men w/taller women. Listening to him telling his story of how his partner took care of his mother when she was dying… How he saw her comforting her & bathing her, he knew… “This was my wife, forever.” ❤️❤️
That man should have won an oscar by now. He is SO TALENTED & underrated!
I agree with Keela. Loved him in The Two Faces of January. Excellent actor though don’t know much about his private life except he was married to a latina and is now married to a documentary maker. Loved him playing against Rachel Weisz in Agora too. And he played an East-Timorese-Portuguese guy very convincingly too (Balibo). Ex Machina, A Most Violent Year, etc. Great, great actor.
I love now he’s a bit older and has this Captain Von Trapp sexy thing going on
I don’t think it’s the Disney system in general. He has said in interviews that he told Pedro Pascal he should do the Mandalorian (which ironically could work out far better than the trilogy did!). I think it’s pretty specific to this last film as he seemed content previously. I’ll be more interested to see if he ever works with JJ Abrams again. 😬
I hope he’s not burning bridges. His box office and critical record outside of Star Wars has been atrocious! Just…remarkably terrible. Love ya Oscar but…YIKES.
He’s already been on the record that he tried to push for a romance between his character and Finn and Disney was too cowardly to do it.
Also love Oscar, but he’s in so many bad films.
I think the last film demoralized several people who worked on it. Not sure what happened, but I’m guessing in general it was stressful due to the accelerated timeline after the first writer and director were fired.
With Isaac specifically, he has criticized Disney for not being willing to do a Finn/Poe romance.
“I think the last film demoralized several people who worked on it.”
That’s pretty clear, see also: John Boyega’s social media and basically the entire press tour. “Why” exactly is an interesting question. There’s a behind the scenes story there, absolutely, but who knows if we will ever get to hear it!
I’m aware of his comments about Disney and the Finn/Poe thing, but I doubt it’s just that by any means. He can’t have been so naive as to have just figured out on this movie they were never going to do it. If it is that, he’s going to be upset for a long time because the day major Hollywood studios risk international money on having their two “hero” lead males in a major franchise in an integral romance together is sadly still VERY far off. I don’t say that to be cruel, just realistic. I really don’t think that this “representation is important to us! It’s coming!….here’s a 15 second scene we can easily cut!” is any kindness.
The Mandalorian is already 10x better than this Star Wars trilogy 🤷🏽♀️.
I’m a fan but he has definitely had a rough few years outside of SW. He has Dune at the end of the year and is gearing up for a Paul Schrader film so here’s hoping he’ll get some sort of reboot. Doesn’t have anything to promote but will be presenting at the Oscars so I’m hoping he gets some networking done or something.
Oscar is super hot! I definitely don’t think he needs Disney anymore, he’s not hurting for film roles. Also I disagree about his critical record, he’s got a lot of good reviews in ex machina, a most violent year and annihilation. As with any actor there are some duds in there but his career is definitely not in trouble.
I, for one, am fine with actors hiring speechwriters. It’s better than listening to them ramble for 2 minutes.
Acting is basically role playing while speaking other people’s scripts. If that is what you do best, why change? And if those speeches are pivotal for future jobs and box office scores, why on earth would you gamble? Who among us has enough entertaining yet pithy speeches for every last one of these award shows? Have them all get speech writers!
I don’t really understand what his problem with Star Wars is. I actually liked the movie and thought it did him more justice than the first two, wherein he hardly appeared or was made to look very foolish. As for a relationship between the two male characters, that would have been great if it was set up but through the first two movies, from Abrams OR Johnson, it was not set up at all.
The middle film made him look foolish; the first didn’t. His character was doing the right thing in questioning an opaque leadership and ended up being used as a device to show how important it is to follow your superiors without questioning. Overall the characters just weren’t drawn out enough, even Rey, and the interrupted story arc due to Rian Johnson’s awkward middle film didn’t help at all. I loved the Rise of Skywalker but they should have stuck to JJ Abrams directing all three, with his eye and good judgment for old-fashioned adventurism, and added a good dose of Lucas’s original worldbuilding nerdiness to make the series really resonate and become classics. (Three prequels were on the other side of the spectrum in nerdiness on the other hand.) Alternatively they could have gotten someone like Steven Spielberg to do something slightly deliberately hammy like the Indiana Jones movies. But then SW has always been terribly earnest.
In addition to Gideon against Collins, donate to Mark Kelly against McSalley and to Amy McGrath against McConnell. And don’t forget about Doug Jones down here in Bama. Thank you.
Yes!! Donate if you can, please!
The annoying and disturbing thing about many of the Republicans is that a bunch of them said Trump was guilty. Then came up with bs reason for acquittal for political reasons.
Kathleen Kennedy and JJ failed big time. There was no plan, it was all thrown together and it showed. Snoke went from being this evil, scary character to someone that belonged in the ICU. Lets throw in the old bad guy cause people know him? Oh, and now he has a huuuge fleet? WTF?
They need someone in charge that can plan out a trilogy BEFORE IT STARTS FILMING EPISODE 10!!! Not just fling a dart at dartboard of ideas and hope it fits together. If that is her, fine, but at this point Star Wars is a rental/stream only choice until she/Disney proves otherwise. I only saw the new one because my friend wanted to go a couple weeks after it was out.
Exactly. They needed JJ’s light breezy take on a horribly earnest franchise but also the input of someone who was super nerdy and into worldbuilding for its own sake – BEFORE they started casting and filming!
I think they brough Kevin Feige onboard
“Lets throw in the old bad guy cause people know him?”
— JJ Abrams wanted Palpatine back in the sequels from the very, very start. It was reported he was bringing him back and then kind of shuttered up news-wise probably because of spoiler potential.
Everybody uses writers.
Everybody.
I think it’s a shame that the general internet consensus of The Rise of Skywalker is “Disney Star Wars Bad.” I really loved it, and so did the majority of people I know. There are definitely valid criticisms, just like with every Star Wars movie, but the good outweighs the bad for me. It was one of my favorite installments.
Oscar was also upset they made his character a drug smuggler. The Latino lead and they give him a stereotypical background. Ofc he is pissed and done with Disney.
Han was a drug smuggler and no one cared, but since he was resistance from day one, yes he should have been smuggling something more helpful… food, medicine?
As far as a romance between Poe and anyone, it didn’t feel necessary, at least not more so than Rose’s transparent crush.
I love me some Isaac but I never really liked the Poe character, he was Solo with the arrogance but not the charm and that’s the writers crime because that man is soooo likeable..
I love Oscar. I hope being of Disney and SW will give him the opportunity to take the roles he wants to, and really start to shine.
Gawd, Oscar is HOT. I’m not a Star Wars fan (there, I said it and I’m not ashamed) so I have no opinion on that, but I loved him in that Netflix movie that I can’t remember the name of.