There’s another bit in the interview where Hardy mentions that Theron wanted someone there for protection, and his response was basically saying he thought it was odd because Theron could kick the shit out of him.

“I think Miller has to take some of the blame for setting a call time that he knew his star wasn’t going to make.”

He’s British. Being called a cunt for showing up massively late is the least insulting way she could have berated him.

If Hardy was three hours late on set even though he knew full well what time he was supposed to be there he deserved to be called that and more.

The cares of Ad Execs are besides the point. The cares of *their clients* are the, and their, priority.

Absolutely - producing client-driven, cringe inducing tripe that you know will flop is the worst. There’s nothing more rewarding in the agency world than putting out a concept that people really enjoy.

I work in-house, not for an agency, but we absolutely do care if people hate our ads. 

They’re a web company. Their website is the entirety of what they offer. Not handling the load from an expensive ad isn’t a good thing. Not giving credit to the people who designed the ad is another not good thing.

Only a crypto bro would think otherwise. 

There was a point in final act of the Last Jedi where I realized that I had no idea what was going to happen next. That’s a feeling I had never felt before with Star Wars, and I haven’t felt it since. Just because of that, TLJ was my favorite SW media since ESB.

So, it’s better for the studios (Amazon in this case) to boost their profit margins and keep more of the money in their shareholders’ pockets?

I consider myself a pretty fair Tolkien fan - grew up with the books, and I’m even named for one of the characters. They’re my favorite book and film series ever, and while I’m no Stephen Colbert, I can recite off a fair bit of history.

I see this response in every single article about the show. Morgan Cooper shot a short film with this concept himself a few years back and posted it online. It got a ton of attention and a lot of positive feedback - Will Smith saw it and loved it as well. That’s why this show is being made.

So putting it all on the shoulders of this one company, where this “wealthy” cast is working multiple jobs, is a bit disingenuous.

Well first off I would say people need to stop knee-jerking all criticism as instant vilification. Second we need to understand that not all criticism is going to necessarily include solutions and definitely not convenient “plan-of-action” solutions. You can be critical of something without having to know the best way…

The “solution” is the same as it ever was: Listen to the criticism of marginalized people and try to do better next time.

I guess the question is why are there so few plus sized Oscar winners or celebrities lol? I feel ya’ll are just arguing some really fatphobic views and you don’t even realize. Dismiss it as what? That you’re entitled to wear a suit to look plus sized when it’s not even important to the role? Or that an actual plus…

No one is owed a role in a movie. The implication of this is that if you had to choose between Ocar-winner Renee Zellwegger and a terrible plus-sized actor to play this role, then the latter is the right choice. And that’s absurd.

I had to look up all the authors you mentioned because I don’t remember hearing about any of them being banned and, sure enough, this is just a sad case of “whataboutism”.

Because I am a giant nerd, just a minor nitpick on the Discovery entry. Stamets isn’t Chief Engineer of Discovery. I don’t believe that person has ever officially been named...maybe Jett Reno? She was Chief Engineer of the ship they found her on in season two. Anyway, Stamets is a science officer and expert on the…

I mean, they didn’t really bury their gay relationship since it continues to be a key part of the show to this day.