“If the Russian info was exposed and Trump lost, he’d immediately start screaming “Rigged election! Rigged!” to further eff-up American democracy with his own self-centered lying bullshit spread far and wide.”

I agree. Also, what would Trump or Kushner know about running a *good* American company, let alone a great one.

He just got $60 million dollars to do three Netflix specials without interference from the company, he just hosted SNL, and he routinely sells out large theaters around the country. Um...he’s successful. Period.

Considering the way some of his “fans” were constantly yelling “I’m Rick James, bitch!!!” in the middle of his sets of new material, I think he treated them appropriately.

It’s sort of gaslighting and I noticed that some black Brits are going to this tactic-arguing that they are getting the work because Hollywood is a meritocracy and they are just better, which is funny in one way (in what universe is Hollywood a meritocracy) and insidious (it’s a meritocracy so of course they wouldn’t…

There was an interview with Peele where he said he actually did want to hire a black American actor because he felt it was a specifically black American story and he hesitated to hire Kaluuya. They eventually had to discuss how/whether Kaluuya had some deeper understanding of the story before Peele would consider…

I think it’s more like the powers that be know that black American stories and black American culture are lucrative, and they want to mine that to make money...but they *really* don’t want to deal with actual black American people. Hiring black Brits gives them a convenient workaround.

Also Nicole Beharie of Sleepy Hollow , Andre Braugher, Wendell Pierce(Julliard), Andre Holland , Mahershala Ali, Sterling K Brown(NYU), and on and on. People that assume black actors are not trained are the same people who assume black Americans in general are not educated.

Captain Phillips was his first movie. It’s absurd to think that an unknown acting for the first time is going to get a lot of money-hiring him at all was a serious risk. He was second billed because his character was the second most prominent.

There are plenty of American actors that have formal training. And plenty of great actors that don’t. YMMV, but I would put up Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lawrence, etc. up against any British actor and none of them had formal conservatory training. Tom Hiddleston has formal training and he’s…

I think Cache is the first Haneke movie I ever saw-I haven’t seen enough of his stuff, just Cache, Amour, and Piano Teacher, but I want to see more. I love seeing Cache with an audience or with someone who hasn’t seen it just for their reaction to *that scene* (aka, the single nastiest shock scene ever).

I finally saw that movie after hearing about it so much...WOW. So hard to watch and hard to take your eyes away from (like all Haneke’s movies) and now I understand why other actors worship Isabelle Huppert. She did stuff in that movie that I am sure other actors would be understandably frightened to do. She was so…

Which is why I feel somewhat detached from the freaking out over this because I don’t think it’s on me. The only demographic that he won and where he still has majority support are white Americans, so I figure they are the sick ones and unfortunately they are the only ones that can stop him. And I don’t really see…

Yes.

I think it’s a little...interesting that that seems like the *only* subject that she seems interested in exploring.

“And for me, it’s a no-brainer who should be replaced in that Best Actress line-up: Meryl Streep.”

I’m *totally* against term limits. We already have them-especially for state-wide positions i.e. they can be voted out (obviously this is less likely for House seats because of gerrymandering, but gerrymandering is actually the problem with American politics). John Lewis has held office for 30 years now, should he…

Are you going to finance their travel, room and board? Poor women need abortions as well.

“The question is, how long can he get away with this before his true supporters and Republican politicians pretending to support him abandon him.”

“I hope your national parks survive him because I had intended to visit them”