Author: seareigns

xparrot:

This scene to me is maybe Loki’s most tragic moment in the movies. Because it’s one of the few times we see Loki entirely alone, not putting on a show or lying to anyone, so his panic and heartbreak are real.  And he reaches out to Odin – and it’s the reaching out that gets me, that moment where Loki hesitates to touch him – and then he when does dare touch, he almost immediately pulls his hand away, and maybe it’s just shock, but also – Loki was just holding the Casket, has just found out what he is; and he knows what a frost giant’s touch does to Aesir.  He’s scared to touch his father, scared that he might freeze him, hurt him further.

(The original script had him holding Odin, but this – this says so much about Loki, about what scares him, how frightened he is of his own self, and what damage he can do…)

ave-me:

Claire Danes | Going Rough, NY Times Style Mgazine

“The mania that Danes acted in Carrie, painstakingly researched and played with full abandon, had some in the show’s audience concerned for her own sanity. Gansa later told me they received mail particularly from “people who were bipolar themselves, who were worried that Claire must have it too, to bring it to life so convincingly on camera.” He said that often when you watch an actor play a person with a mental disability, “you feel you are watching Dustin Hoffman playing Rain Man, or Sean Penn playing Sam. But to a large degree, you don’t feel it is Claire playing a role. It is Carrie Mathison.”