Normal People released their first official teaser! Coming Spring 2020.



A first look at Hulu’s new drama series based on Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel. Normal People is an exquisite, modern love story about how one person can unexpectedly change another person's life and about how complicated intimacy can be. It follows Marianne and Connell over several years, as they embark on an on-again/off-again romance that starts at school and continues through college, both testing their relationship as they explore different versions of themselves. Coming Spring 2020.

Normal People will be available on Hulu in the United States and on BBC Three in the United Kingdom.

Did you read the book?

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*Doritos is giving us a sneak peek of their Super Bowl ad for this year.

*Sam Elliot gives a dramatic reading of Old Town Road in a saloon.

*The teaser cuts off as a booming amount of bass indicates the arrival of someone..I am guessing Lil Nas X and hopefully not Billy Ray Cyrus.

*Meanwhile, MC Hammer relives the role Cheetos had in creating his biggest hit:








Do you care more about the commercials than the game ONTD? Or are you just into the Super Bowl for the snacks?

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Main Course:
We’ll take the customers that we can get. We’ll not discriminate great from small.


Hollywoo Poor Folk, What Do They Know?
Do They Know Things? Let’s Find Out!
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Stars & Celebrities Who Grew Up Skint
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“Brits now live in a country that is determined by the classification system.”
ALAN RICKMAN
Baby Boomer: 1946 – 2016

Being that January 14th was the four-year anniversary of his death (silently crying into my bowl of basic Raisin Bran), the late and great King Alan Rickman was known for his distinctive baritone voice and coolly played, sarcastically intelligent characters. Yet far from the suave, classically-educated, fashionably suit-obsessed Hans Gruber (you really German, boy ‘cause you ain’t foolin’ anyone with that accent, honey?), Alan’s upbringing bears little resemblance to his array of middle to upper-class characters. (Naturally, less than well-to-do actors playing posh characters doesn’t have the same implications if it were in the reverse. Alan’s RADA training likely gave him a boost above the rest over other actors from deprived backgrounds. Director of RADA Edward Kemp said to the Independent in 2014: “We train people to transform. Some of the actors that people think of as middle class aren’t. Ben [Whishaw] is not middle class, nor [sic] is Gemma [Arterton]. The fact they can take those roles is because we’ve trained them to do it. […] We’re sometimes the victim of our own success, and a lot of actors will go to where the work is, which is largely middle-class roles. It would be great to have another working class drama but where are those stories being told? They’re not.” Alex Andreou for the Guardian argued he’s only half-correct.)

Born on the other side of the wealth system at the beginning of the baby boom, Alan was raised in a largely single-parent home in a semi-detached council house on Lynton Road in Acton, West London with his two brothers and sister. His father, Bernard sadly died of lung cancer when he was eight (apparently, his dad was fairly young, too).

He stated in a personal 1998 interview for the Guardian that his mother, Margaret (nee Bartlett) eventually remarried in his teens though the marriage lasted no more than three years. Both his parents came from working-class roots (of Irish Catholic and Welsh Methodist backgrounds from Fulham and Glamorgan, respectively) where his father was an aircraft fitter during World War II, factory worker, painter and decorator. He revealed in a candid German interview in 2011 that when his mother was widowed, she worked various odd jobs to make ends meet. He reflected, “[My family] were very aware of what things cost. You could not simply snap your fingers and get what you wanted. We Brits now live in a country that is determined by the classification system. But I guess my background and my childhood—what they taught me—is how it has shaped me. Only material things [were missing]. Otherwise, I got everything what I needed: love and the encouragement to be myself. My father was missing to me, naturally. [My mother] took up a number of jobs. Cleaning offices, working as a telephone operator, she even sat at a sewing machine and sewed covers for car seats. She did what she had to do in order to feed us children.” The Great British Class Survey places cleaners and service jobs under “precariat,” “emergent service sector” or “traditional working-class” depending on income.

According to a sketchy unauthorised biography by Daily Fail writer Maureen Paton, Alan’s mum reportedly also worked for the Post Office near Wormwood Scrubs Prison where the council rehoused the family following her husband’s death. The Great British Class Survey places postal workers in the “new affluent workers” of the working-class, though the classification would have been different in the ‘50s; in 2011, they made up 15 percent of the population. Alan remained open with how close he was to his mother, saying, “My mother was an exceptionally talented singer. She even had a few appearances, but then my father died, and we had no money. Thus, a career never came from it. I often think, how unfair that was.”



At age eleven, Alan won a scholarship through the direct grant system (which was abolished in 1975-76 during the mid-70s recession) in order to attend the highly selective and posh Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith (formerly an all boys’ direct-grant grammar institution, it is now independent and co-educational, seeing the likes of Imogen Poots and Toby Regbo as fellow alumni). The posh environment was an adjustment. He said in 1998 to the Guardian, “You find yourself becoming middle class, and you have to deal with that. You feel guilty and you have to come out the other side of that.” Obviously, Alan wouldn’t have paid these fees (of course the value of the British pound sterling would have been different in the post-war era—during World War II in 1940, £1 was the equivalent to $4.03; in 1966, the pound was converted to a decimal currency and in 1967, £1 was the equivalent to $2.40; the conversion would vary today and since the UK voted to exit the European Union, equity values have dropped significantly by $2.5 trillion as of June 2016); but simply for our reference to track what students pay now, the term fees for Latymer like most independent schools [applied to 2019/20] is £6,945 and roughly £20,835 a year.

There, Alan took up lessons in the arts and got his start performing in plays before continuing his education at 18 for a graphic design degree at Chelsea College of Art and Design (now Chelsea College of Arts a part of the University of Arts London) and the Royal College of Art. For the Foundation Diploma at Chelsea, UK / EU students over 19 years of age [applied to 2019/20] pay £5,280 (+£140 awarding body registration fee); and £16,060 for international students. In 2020/21, international students will pay £18,300 (+registration fee). He performed in amateur theatre with the Brook Green Players and Court Drama Group and once he left school, he worked at his graphic design studio in Soho (with the most ArTsY hIpStA nAmE EVA), Graphiti and as assistant stage manager at the Basement Theatre Company. In 1972, aged 26 he won a second scholarship and studied drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he supported himself by freelancing in graphic design and working as a wardrobe assistant for Nigel Hawthorne and watched Sir Ralph Richardson perform. He said in 1991 to European Travel and Life, “[T]here was an inevitability about my being an actor since about the age of 7, but there were other roads that had to be traveled first.” To clarify, this doesn’t apply to Alan, but for our reference, tuition fees for a B.A. in Acting [applied to 2019/20] are £9,000 a year for home students (most universities when they became fee-paying in 1998 charge the standard of £9k per term). [OP note: Thank you to dandelion for schooling my dumb American ass in the last post!]

RADA, however, is interested in helping kids from families that earn an income of less than £25,000 a year. Alan was a supporter of his former school. In spite of this, the director Edward Kemp argued in 2014, “There is absolutely no evidence that people from poor backgrounds aren’t coming to drama school,” which he based strictly on the applicants sent to RADA since the twentieth century. 36 percent [OP note: out of 55,000 seats and 350,000 applicants] of students came from working-class backgrounds in 2013. In addition to class, the lack of opportunities for actors of colour often goes ignored (RADA graduate David Harewood, the son of a lorry driver and caterer from Barbados, has been a critic of this).

At the time of his death, Alan’s net worth in the US was estimated to be $16 million (my math skills suck, forgive me, but I want to say this is roughly £12.2 million). His assets in the UK were roughly more than £4 million (about $5.2 million). He had separate assets in Italy. Shockingly, this seems awfully low for such a veteran actor—even with that sweet Harry Potter money—but to be fair, Alan gave a shit ton away to funds and charities and no one can hate him for that instead of hiding his worth in offshore havens, like the good sis he worked with in a certain franchise—I’m not naming names, but…



He said in 2011, “I owe everything to [winning the scholarship to Latymer]. I was allowed to go to a great school, where one was celebrated if you were interested in such two different things such as art and physics. Well, [physics] would have certainly not been my choice. […] My school had a large theatre tradition.” He added during a Muse of Fire interview in 2015, “You know, [theatre] seems still to be largely the preserve of the middle-aged, white middle classes. […] I feel a kind of Daily Mailness [sic] coming off. […] We [need to] make [theatre] cheaper. It’s got to be more of a priority.” On the money, Alan!

During his lifetime, Alan was a staunch Labour voter like his parents and wife, former councillor Rima Horton and a strong activist in a number of causes, including advocating for actors of colour and fighting against defunding of the arts (UK politics is an explosive battleground, but the Labour Party has in the past challenged the ridiculous audition fees of drama schools). Before he died, he founded the International Performers Aid Trust, which is “a charity created for the relief of poverty amongst people involved in the performing arts.” £25k of his assets went to the charity in his will.

“[What I want from success is to] still be out there as an actor doing something somewhere at 70,” he lamented in 1998.

# OKBoomer who? Alan wasn’t flawless per se, though considering the state of society white boomers should follow his example and of course, the world is far bleaker without him.




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“I could [go to school] because I got a full grant.”
JULIE WALTERS
Baby Boomer: 1950

An acting giant of theatre and film, Fairy Godmother Dame Julie Walters has been relatively candid about her working-class childhood. She was raised in a terraced dwelling on Bishopton Road in Bearwood, Smethwick, an industrial town in Sandwell, the West Midlands (council housing was developed there in the late 1920s and like most homes during the ‘50s, there was no central heating). She is the youngest of five children. She has two older brothers (two siblings, a girl and boy, sadly died at birth). Her father, Thomas worked in a factory and the bar staff of a pub before becoming a builder and decorator. Her Irish Catholic mother, Mary (nee O’Brien) was raised on a farm in County Mayo, left school young and moved to England where she eventually found work as a clerical assistant for the Post Office; she later worked at Cadbury’s packing chocolates. Low-paid service sector jobs are considered to be the “emergent service sector” of the working-class by the Great British Class Survey. In 2011, they made up only 19 percent of Britain.

According to Julie’s accounts, her mother was a tough, traditionally-minded woman who was never quite satisfied with her daughter’s (or sons’) achievements (one of her brothers went to Cambridge). While Mary never received further education herself, she wanted nothing less for her children.

Julie has kept no secrets that she grew up in a deplorable area and in her 2008 autobiography That’s Another Story, she recalled that her mother wouldn’t allow her to venture to the park at the end of the road because untrustworthy men were known to prowl there. When she was ten, she along with two of her best friends and one of the friend’s little sister were sexually assaulted by a paedophile and nearly abducted whilst playing in the garden of an abandoned house by the bus stop. At the time, she didn’t fully comprehend what had been done to her (she thought the man touched them to determine their ages), though she would later experience night terrors. She said in 2016 to The Big Issue that Smethwick “is now one of the most deprived areas of the country.”

She was a pupil, rather unhappy, at a convent preparatory school in Birmingham run by “frightening” nuns—Julie described them as being “of the classic penguin variety” because of their uniforms. There, her mother was keen she’d pick up a ‘proper’ middle-class accent, but then she moved to the Holly Lodge Grammar School for Girls which she said in 2016, “sounds very posh.” While in prep school, Julie was ashamed of her working-class status: her accent, her home, her father’s occupation, her hand-me-down school uniform. Naturally, she envied the other girls in her class for being able to afford holidays to Italy. At Holly Lodge, however she found herself at home, expressing herself through comedy. “There wasn’t a nun in sight,” she stated happily. After leaving in her Lower Sixth (she was basically kicked out for being a shit student), she trained at 18 to become a nurse at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital—her mother’s wishes. After three years, Julie thought to herself, ‘Ah, fuck. I’m going to act.’ Receiving a college grant, she studied drama at Manchester Polytechnic (renamed Manchester Metropolitan University). She recalled, “Mum went mad, of course.”



In the 1970s, she made waves in the underdog rep theatre scene at the Everyman Theatre Company in Liverpool and performed in pub shows with many actors that would become notable figures, including Bill Nighy and the late Peter Postlethwaite. And for us stans, we all know she was besties with the good sis Victoria Wood (R.I.P. Queen). Unfairly and despite her seasoned status as an actress and comedian—a BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee AND published author—her estimated net worth is a pathetic $2 million (around £1.5 million) or according to other sources, $5.5 million (about £4.2 million). I mean, I don’t know about y’all, but there is some messed up shit with this picture. Like, what the absolute golden fuck?! Give Mrs Weasley her Potter money, Warner Bros! Disney needs to check themselves, too! What criteria, for those who are enlightened on these matters, does the UK go by to dish out paychecks to their oldest talent? Genuine question. Of course, I’m aware British, Australian and New Zealand unions don’t pay their boos residuals like their American homies and talent in these respective industries have (rightfully) not been quiet about it despite the complexities of equity rules.

Admirably, while it appears common for underprivileged actors to be pigeonholed into lesser roles reserved for their “type,” Julie reinvented the working-class character—notably as Angie Todd in the gritty 1982 Thatcher-era drama series Boys from the Blackstuff, the Liverpudlian hairdresser Susan (a.k.a. Rita) in Educating Rita and the tough dance teacher Sandra (a.k.a. Mrs Wilkinson) in Billy Elliot. In a 2015 interview for the Guardian, Julie went in with her views on Britain’s classist culture: “People like me wouldn’t have been able to go to college today. I could because I got a full grant. I don’t know how you get into it now. Kids write to me all the time and I think, I don’t know what to tell you. Working-class kids aren’t represented. Working-class life is not referred to. It’s really sad. I think it means we’re going to get loads more middle-class drama. It will be middle-class people playing working-class people, like it used to be.” A Labour voter, she added, “I’d create proper grants for all working-class kids so they could go to drama school.”

In 2016, she elaborated, “I remember visiting my brother in Cambridge when I was 16 and thinking it was another world. I remember feeling quite angry at middle class people. Their privilege. ‘Middle class actresses? You should be fucking good, you have had all the privileges.’ Which is a load of rubbish, of course. Acting isn’t about that. Although nowadays, getting to drama school bloody is. People can’t afford it.”

Plus, a little tidbit: In 2015 on Graham Norton, she admitted she read the entire Fifty Shades horror series on her (then) new Kindle. “BUT by mistake, I didn’t know what I was getting!” Slay, Snow-Haired Queen.



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“Culture starts to become representative not of everybody but of one tiny part […] it’s also damaging for society.”
JAMES MCAVOY
Gen X: 1979

The Scottish Prince who entered the world of acting almost by sheer accident was raised by his maternal grandparents from the time he was seven when his mother, Elizabeth “Liz” (nee Johnstone), a psychiatric nurse and his father, James McAvoy, Sr., a builder and roofer, divorced (they had been childhood sweethearts and had their kids young). He grew up with his younger sister in one of Glasgow’s roughest post-war housing schemes, Drumchapel (called ‘The Drum’ by locals) where his grandfather supported the family as a butcher. The Great British Class Survey classifies builders and carpenters as the “precariat” and assistive personnel as the “emergent service sector” of the working-class. In 2011, “precariat” only accounted for 15 percent of society.

While his grandparents, Mary and James instilled in him strong life values and he credits them along with his mother for giving him everything he needed, he shares a strained relationship with his father who he hasn’t spoken to since he was a kid. “I can’t really be bothered with it [perusing a relationship with my father],” James said in a 2006 interview. “If I was less secure in myself, I might be more interested. But I know what made me, I know why I am the way I am. […] I know what happened and I know what didn’t happen.”

Despite winning a place at the drama school the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now named the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), being a former member of PACE Youth Theatre and garnering sudden prestigious recognition for his work in 2007’s Atonement, James feels the most comfortable retaining a mundane lifestyle beyond the glitz and glam of red carpets. It should be noted he worked in a bakery to pay for drama school expenses; RCS charges £10,000 to £12,000 per year for rent and living costs on top of tuition fees [applied to 2019/20], though they offer scholarships.



Circa 2008, he lived with his then partner Anne-Marie Duff (also born poor) in a North London flat that cost £178,000. He was quoted: “I hate getting dressed up like this [for awards ceremonies]. I don’t like being flashy. I drive a Nissan Micra. […] I’m always worried that somebody is going to find me out and say: ‘Ach, you’re not as good as you thought you were. You are just a wee boy from Drumchapel’.” As a seasoned actor, his estimated net worth is $17 million (about £13 million). Like Alan Rickman, he donated a ton to funds and charities.

While his upbringing was far from comfortable, that didn’t stop James from feeling sickened by the poverty he witnessed in Uganda during shooting of The Last King of Scotland. “I used to think that [I had a tough upbringing]. I used to have a bit of a working-class chip on my shoulder, because the area I come from is so rough,” he said in 2008. He went on to support the British Red Cross for their work in Uganda.

In 2015, James was rightfully vocal about the dominance of privately educated actors in Britain, saying, “Whenever we talk about this we have to be very, very clear. There’s a lot of posh actors, that have been to boarding school and all that, who are feeling very embattled, sort of cornered. Nobody has got anything against an actor who is posh and is doing really well. But we are real [sic] worried about a society that doesn’t give opportunities to everybody from every walk of life to be able to get into the arts, and that is happening. […] That’s a frightening world to live in, because as soon as you get one tiny pocket of society creating all the arts, or culture starts to become representative not of everybody but of one tiny part, and that’s not fair to begin with, but it’s also damaging for society.”

The same year, he contributed £125,000 to a scholarship programme at RCS to aid poor students. Bless this wonderful human being and we seriously don’t deserve him.



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Seconds & Desserts:
Fortunately, it’s also clear that ev’rybody goes down well with beer.



+Bonus #1 (Seconds): Star of Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar (and numerous other indies, i.e. In America)—Samantha Morton directed, produced and co-wrote a semi-autobiographical made-for-television Channel 4 film on her childhood in 2009 starring a fairly young Molly Windsor, The Unloved. Vaguely, the film reminds me of the 1997 British ITV movie No Child of Mine starring a baby Brooke Kinsella (the themes are similar). The daughter of a factory worker Pamela (nee Mallek), Sam grew up in Nottinghamshire and spent her formidable years in and out of the relentless care system since she was a baby. When she was eight, her parents divorced. Her father, Peter was an alcoholic, physically abusive and absolute scum: he impregnated and married a 15-year-old girl who babysat Sam and her two siblings; she has six half-siblings from her parents’ relationships (although Sam, understandably, has a complicated relationship with him, idolizing him in some respects). Unable to take care of her, Sam was removed from her parents, made a ward of the court and placed in care (which her film touches upon). When she was 14, she was arrested for attacking a girl in a care home. At 13, 14 and 16, she was homeless and living in bus shelters and a hostel. She had an abortion in her teens and contemplated suicide. Throughout her life, she experienced drug, physical and sexual abuse. While in care homes, she attended the comprehensive school West Bridgford until she was 13, which she said she felt out of place at; it is located in an affluent area.

She said in 2009 to the Guardian: “The houses on that road are million-pound ones, yet I was living in a children’s home two buses away, where I was up most nights because of riots or sharing a room with a prostitute. You can’t get your homework done and you fall behind. […] I had a massive chip on my shoulder, like a big bag of McCains. I walked past the girls’ high school in Nottingham, a private school, and I’d see them bunking off [OP note: slang for skipping class], and I’d think, you twats, your parents are spending a fortune on your education. I was very bitter, I suppose. My appetite for knowledge and literature and music was massive. The reason I didn’t go to school was because, at that point, I’d already—excuse my language—fucked it because I’d run away so much when I was younger. […] [My anger was] never, never [directed at] my parents. Always authority. Always the establishment. That’s because I grew up in Nottinghamshire in the 80s with Margaret Thatcher destroying everything.”

In her recent film, “I Am Kirsty” for the I Am Channel 4 anthology series in which she played the lead, she explained in a 2019 Vanity Fair feature: “[What happens to the main character, a single mother who struggles to makes ends meet and contemplates sex work] this is happening to people right now who can’t get out of it. When you’re part of a subsection of society… you’re at the mercy of it. If you need to pay for medical bills, or in the U.K. it would just be your food and keeping the roof over your head, you’ve no other place to go. You’ve taken everything to the pawn shop and you’re at that last stage. I had experience with that.”

The Unloved went on to win a BAFTA TV Award (which I think is pretty deserving). She is a strong advocate for keeping state-funded children’s homes open, yet she expresses no regrets with working with Woody Allen on Sweet and Lowdown (which in early 2000 secured Sam’s first Oscar nomination).

Yikes. I’ve been a casual fan of her filmography since I was a kid and applaud her for her activism, but nobody’s flawless, I suppose?

Thanks to cyrindha for the suggestion!



+Bonus #2 (Seconds): Star of Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank—Katie Jarvis has been relatively quiet in the acting scene since the indie drama’s 2009 release date, although for a time, she was uncertain if she wanted to continue working in entertainment. The East London-born (then) 17-year-old was spotted by chance by Arnold’s casting agent as she was arguing with her boyfriend at Tilbury train station in Essex (seeking ordinary underclass people with no acting experience is a common casting method by Arnold and her team). She got off the train in Upminster, was approached by the agent and was subsequently given an audition. Three auditions later, she secured the lead part as Mia. Having left school young (although leaving school at 16 in the UK is not unusual), she gave birth to her first daughter, Lily Mae in May 2009, prompting Katie, at 19, to miss the Cannes premiere of the film. She said to Evening Echo: “It was hard [doing the film], but it was rewarding. It shows you don’t have to go to drama school to get into it, but I think I was one of a kind. I don’t think anybody else will get picked off a train station.”

Katie’s on-screen mother Kierston Wareing also came from and underclass background (she lived in a caravan) and struggled to make it as an actress for a decade before working as a secretary to support herself. The Cannes premiere of Fish Tank was the first time she was lent a Prada dress and Chopard diamonds to wear for the red carpet (she went on to appear in EastEnders and Hollyoaks and has been nominated for a BAFTA and won British Independent Film Awards).

Katie, like her Fish Tank co-star, appeared in EastEnders in 2018. In spite of the fact that Katie seems to be living her life in the way she pleases (more power to her), that hasn’t stopped the wonderfully respectable British press from mocking her. In October 2019, Katie took a break from the acting world and was working as a security guard for a retail store in Romford, B&M Bargains. Now 28, Katie elegantly stood up for herself amid the “job shaming”: “That’s the life of an actor—I like to be busy and learn new things. […] As long as you’re working, that’s all that matters, no one should be shamed for what they do. The way the story was portrayed wasn’t very nice. It was quite nasty—to be made to feel degraded is wrong. Security guards put themselves at risk, there’s a lot goes into it. I feel I need to stand up for working class people.” Droves of entertainers came to her support on Twitter, including actress and comedian Kathy Burke. Bravo, Princess Katie for defending your integrity and character.


Because I can’t possibly talk about everybody, that’s too much, man!
Thanks to all the nominations in Part 1:

Honourable Mentions (Desserts): St Catharine’s College alumnus—Sir Ian McKellen (who has been a big advocate for working-class actors and the dying art of rep theatre); RADA Fam—David Harewood, Clive Owen, David Morrissey, Ben Whishaw and Gemma Arterton; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art Lad—Dominic Cooper; Guildhall School of Music and Drama Greats—Michelle Dockery, Jodie Whittaker and Michaela Coel (also of University of Birmingham and RADA); PACE Youth Theatre and RCS Scotsman—Richard Madden; Theatre Peckham Prince—John Boyega; Liverpudlian Queen—Jodie Comer; Manchester School of Acting Sicilian-Irish Prince—Nico Mirallegro; Central Junior Television Workshop Irishman—Jack O’Connell; National Youth Music Theatre King—Idris Elba; Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts Brighton Queen—Lesley Manville; New College of Speech and Drama Queen—Helen Mirren; Bedfordshire Activist—Stacey Dooley; St Aloysius’ College Prince—Daniel Kaluuya; Dublin Prince—Barry Keoghan (like Morton, he spent his childhood in foster care and at 12, his mother died of a heroin overdose); Burton College and University of Brighton King—Paddy Considine; Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Lancastrian—Christopher Eccleston; University of Glasgow Scotsman—Peter Mullan (like Morton, his father was an abusive alcoholic and he was homeless in his teens); Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance Lancastrian—Stephen Graham; University of Birmingham Queen—the late Victoria Wood (also of the Everyman Theatre); Richard Hale School Ginger King—Rupert Grint; Liverpool John Moores University and Oxford School of Drama Mancunian—Claire Foy; BRIT School Pop Princess—Adele; Harris Academy South Norwood Rap Prince—Stormzy; Everyman Theatre Liverpudlian—Daniel Craig




The dining table is full (again), so stay seated for…
Part 3: Stars & Celebrities Who Grew Up Posh & Understand Privilege
Starring Pocket Prince Daniel Radcliffe and Queen in the North Sophie Turner
Coming Soon to a Pie Shop on Fleet Street

The Rest of the Bonus Round + Honourable Mentions (from the nominations in Part 1) will be in Part 3!
(Because I ran out of characters lol)
Featuring Helena Bonham Carter, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Florence Pugh




Film Recommendations (British Cinema):Our Mother’s House (Drama, 1967; Dir. Jack Clayton); Kes (Drama, 1969; Dir. Ken Loach); Educating Rita (Drama, 1983; Dir. Lewis Gilbert); Naked (Drama, 1993; Dir. Mike Leigh) and Vera Drake (Drama, 2004); An Awfully Big Adventure (Drama, 1995; Dir. Mike Newell); Fridge (Short, 1995; Dir. Peter Mullan ) and his feature Neds (Drama, 2010); Trainspotting (Black Comedy, 1996; Dir. Danny Boyle); No Child of Mine (Drama, 1997; Dir. Peter Kosminsky); The Unloved (Drama, 2009; Dir. Samantha Morton)

More recs from BFI


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Thank you to everyone who appreciated all the hard work that went into Part 1 and hopefully, the sequel delivers, too!

TL; DR If the rich were pastries, would they be more appetizing, ONTD?

Make good choices this weekend!

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Chris Hemsworth is teaming up with National Geographic for a new docu-series! https://t.co/KEmXr9dE2e

— JustJared.com (@JustJared) January 18, 2020

Chris Hemsworth is teaming up with National Geographic for the upcoming series called Limitless, in which he will become a “human guinea pig” in the name of science.

Per Deadline, 'Limitless' is about “discovering how to live healthier, smarter and longer lives." Chris will transform “himself by training for six extraordinary challenges, showing how to fight aging at every stage of life.”

Hemsworth will train and meet with leading longevity scientists to complete challenges and try to unlock the secrets of ways we can all live longer.

Episode topics include: regenerating damage, maximizing strength, building resilience, shocking the body, supercharging memory and confronting mortality.

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Stargirl from Disney+ is a tender and offbeat coming-of-age story based on the critically-acclaimed, New York Times' best-selling young adult novel about an unassuming high schooler who finds himself inexplicably drawn to the free-spirited new girl, whose unconventional ways change how they see themselves... and their world.

Stargirl premieres March 13, streaming only on Disney+.

Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of "Stargirl, Stargirl." She captures Leo Borlock's heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first.

Then they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her different, and Leo, panicked and desperate with love, urges her to become the very thing that can destroy her: normal. In this celebration of nonconformity, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the perils of popularity and the thrill and inspiration of first love.

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Did anyone else read this book growing up?

The #PGAwards winners list (updating live) https://t.co/GLafrnJu74

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 19, 2020

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
- 1917 (WINNER) - Producers: Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne‐Ann Tenggren, Callum McDougall
- Ford v Ferrari - Producers: Peter Chernin & Jenno Topping, James Mangold
- The Irishman - Producers: Jane Rosenthal & Robert De Niro, Emma Tillinger Koskoff & Martin Scorsese
- Jojo Rabbit - Producers: Carthew Neal, Taika Waititi
- Joker - Producers: Todd Phillips & Bradley Cooper, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
- Knives Out - Producers: Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman
- Little Women - Producer: Amy Pascal
- Marriage Story - Producers: Noah Baumbach, David Heyman
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Producers: David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, Quentin Tarantino
- Parasite - Producers: Kwak Sin Ae, Bong Joon Ho

Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
- Toy Story 4 (WINNER) - Producers: Mark Nielsen, Jonas Rivera
- Abominable - Producer: Suzanne Buirgy
- Frozen II - Producer: Peter Del Vecho
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - Producers: Bradford Lewis, Bonnie Arnold
- Missing Link - Producers: Arianne Sutner, Travis Knight

Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television - Drama
- Succession (Season 2) (WINNER)
- Big Little Lies (Season 2)
- The Crown (Season 3)
- Game of Thrones (Season 8)
- Watchmen (Season 1)

Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television - Comedy
- Fleabag (Season 2) (WINNER)
- Barry (Season 2)
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Season 3)
- Schitt's Creek (Season 5)
- Veep (Season 7)

Outstanding Producer of Limited Series Television
- Chernobyl (WINNER)
- Fosse/Verdon
- True Detective
- Unbelievable
- When They See Us


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Orlando Bloom, Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner appear all partied out following Dasha Zhukova and Stavros Niarchos' wedding https://t.co/VNSGcAu8no

— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) January 19, 2020

- Dasha Zhukova is the ex-wife of Chelsea owner Roman Abrahamovic,

- her father was linked to a network of offshore companies by the Panama Papers and paid no tax for 13 years as UK citizen,

- she was married to billionaire Stavros Niarchos in St Moritz on Friday,

- he previously dated Paris Hilton, Jessica Hart and Mary-Kate Olsen,

- it's their second wedding and it costed £6m,

- Orlando Bloom, Karlie Kloss, Jared Kushner, Princess Beatrice, Kate Hudson, Gayle King, Stella McCartney, Wendi Deng and Stella Maxwell attended the wedding.

Guests at Dasha Zhukova's £6m wedding in the Alps flaunt pricey labels in biting temperatures https://t.co/tzyzI5661a

— Angie Katz (@KatzAngie) January 19, 2020

Dasha Zhukova and Stavros Niarchos arrive in St. Moritz before wedding https://t.co/y2mGvgZwdS

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) January 16, 2020

January 17, 2020. Princess Beatrice of York and her fiance Edoardo Mopelli Mozi were photographed in St Moritz Switzerland where they are due to attend the wedding of close friend Dasha Zhukova. pic.twitter.com/pahmjUPnjY

— Royal Ladies (@vaninaswchindt) January 17, 2020

📷 | Karlie Kloss arriving for Dasha Zhukova Wedding in Alps January 17, 2020 #2 pic.twitter.com/3n1r9M4piu

— Karlie Kloss Updates (@KKUpdate) January 17, 2020

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Stella McCartney and Kate Hudson pose for a fun selfie as they dance the night away at Dasha Zhukova's star-studded wedding in St Moritz
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— Επικαιρότητα - V - News (@triantafyllidi2) January 18, 2020

Charlotte Casiraghi, Princess Caroline of Hanover during the wedding party of Stavros Niarchos III. and Dasha Zhukova on January 17, 2020 at Hotel Kulm in St. Moritz, Switzerland. (Photo by Gisela Schober/Getty Images)
Gayle King manages to be everywhere. Annoying! pic.twitter.com/COcYQKFKxo

— Louise G. (@LouiseGhislaine) January 18, 2020

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Prince Andrew spotted with mystery blonde at Sandringham https://t.co/U0veVlBLdppic.twitter.com/2eF5VLtIoz

— The Scottish Sun (@ScottishSun) January 18, 2020

- Andrew joined the Queen and Prince Philip for lunch at Sandringham,

- he was seen with mystery blonde woman,

- it wasn't Sarah in blonde wig.

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BREAKING NEWS: Exclusive footage from the Sandringham kebab shop last night. pic.twitter.com/C63o61oNxk

— Darth Frog (@darth_frog) January 18, 2020

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Stars showed up for the 31st Annual Producers Guild Awards wearing a lot of black and formal pants. Judge accordingly:


Kaitlyn Dever


Laura Dern


Rachel Brosnahan


Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig


Caitriona Balfe


Zoey Deutch


Charlize Theron


Nicole Kidman


Eva Longoria


Kate Beckinsale



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Auditory sensory meridian response, or ASMR, is a tingling sensation that comes from listening to certain sounds. Lips smacking, keyboards clicking, chewing, hair being brushed—if a sound has ever made you pleasantly shiver, that’s it.

The Pokémon company is getting in on it. Put on a pair of headphones and listen to Chespin having a snack. It’s sort of soothing. Or if you prefer ASMR more natural and elemental, fall asleep with the sounds of a Charmander resting by a crackling fire.



What sounds give you nice feelings?

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The way Hayao Miyazaki works sounds stressful: https://t.co/I7Py4cggfmpic.twitter.com/zLh1TbfcGW

— Kotaku (@Kotaku) January 16, 2020

In his forthcoming memoir, Sharing a House With the Never-Ending Man, we learn of the process to make a film for legendary studio Ghibli, from animation genius Hayao Miyazaki.

He says that a person only does his best work when faced with the real possibility of failure and its consequences. Several times after the completion of one of his films, Miyazaki would suggest the studio be shut down and all the staff be fired. He thought this would give the animators a sense of the consequences of failure and make them better artists if and when they were re-hired for the next film. No one was ever sure if he was just kidding.

To begin a new project he imagines ideas and images, capturing them in drawings or watercolor sketches. Often he had ideas for two or three new films going at once. When he had an idea for a new film, he would confer with his producer to discuss them. They would agree on an idea, tell other people in the studio about it, the people who heard about it would enthusiastically approve of it, and a week later the idea would have been discarded in favor of another completely different idea. Eventually an idea would stick and other artists were brought in to do concept art for the film. A formal decision would be reached and more artists would be hired to do background art and location hunting.

Miyazaki’s reputation in Japan is such that once the film was announced, every theater in Japan already wanted to play the film. The film was almost always announced in December. The film would play in theaters in mid-July two years later, the best time to play a film in Japan because every school in Japan would be on vacation. Miyazaki’s skill at delivering his films on schedule was the thing that made this kind of scheduling possible. The studio only missed the July deadline once, and there had been extenuating circumstances beyond the director’s control.

Miyazaki drew the storyboards for his films which Ghibli call the econte. The econte was a combination storyboard and screenplay, a complete menu for a film that served as a blueprint. Miyazaki usually divided the econte into five parts; A, B, C, D and E. Each was just approximately 20% of the expected length of the film.

Miyazaki usually had all of Part A and Part B in his head when the film was announced. By the time Part D started, he would begin having doubts about the five parts and the length of the film or story. He usually had no idea how the film would end. He might have competing ideas about how it should end that he couldn’t resolve. Or he might have no idea at all. The animators would be catching up to Part D and the writing process would have slowed to a crawl.

A sense of crisis would seep into the studio. Miyazaki would stop writing and spend his time doing things unrelated to the film like chopping wood for his studio’s Vermont cast iron stove. Someone would report it to the producer who would go over and try to get him to stop chopping wood and get back to work.

Part E had not yet appeared and the entire studio would be churned by an atmosphere of high stress. The theaters were booked. The production was behind schedule. And then, Part E appeared. The animators and back end production staff began violating Japan’s labor laws and working an illegal number of hours to finish the film. When the animators were ordered to go home and get some sleep, they either pretended to leave and snuck back to their desks, or just refused. All staff were keeping the same hours as the animators, even the ones that didn’t have any more actual work to do on the film, out of solidarity with your comrades who had to work, and the unspoken code of traditional Japanese peer pressure; if everyone else is working, so are you.

Once the film was locked he traveled all across Japan to meet with theater owners and the press. Then he took a month off and retreated to his small house in the mountains with his family. Before long he was already thinking about the next film and starting the whole process over again.

How’s your work, ONTD?

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23 TV Age Gaps Between Actors That Are Genuinely Shocking https://t.co/GF228jkWrP

— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) January 19, 2020

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Mila Kunis was 15 at the start of That '70s Show, and got paired up with 20 year old Ashton Kutcher

Cole Sprouse played a 16 year old on The Suite Life on Deck, and now still plays a 16 year old (or 17? who even knows with that show) on Riverdale 11 years later

24 year old Tom Welling played 14 on Smallville

Nicola Coughlan (Clare on Derry Girls) is 31 playing 16

Orange is the New Black's Elizabeth Rodriguez and Dascha Polanco are two years apart and played mother/daughter on the show

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Oxygen dropped the trailer for KKW: The Justice Project which airs in April.



source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEjxdiaUqgc&feature=emb_title
Will you be watching ONTD?
Will she ever take the baby bar exam?
Is this to help people or to further her political aspirations?

Yuck! 🤮 https://t.co/DhzX2Cmin7

— Us Weekly (@usweekly) January 19, 2020

-Chrissy Teigen hates Nutella

-Khloe Kardashian hates pork

-Goopy Gwyneth hates spray cheese and does not eat dill or “baby mammals,” such as lamb and veal or octopus

-Zendaya is a vegetarian "who doesn’t like vegetables too much — makes it challenging"

-Shawn Mendes hates tomatoes, saying "they ruin everything"

-Jimmy Fallon hates mayo

-Michelle Obama hates beets and left them out of her garden of 55 different fruits/vegetables

A few more at the source!

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ONTD, do you have Michelin-star taste?

It's about that time when New Year's resolutions get a bit harder to stick to. To offer a little inspiration, I want to share my go-to #WorkoutPlaylist with you. These songs always seem to give me that extra boost to get through my toughest workouts. What's on your playlist? pic.twitter.com/GFP56Yi9A6

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) January 19, 2020

Former FLOTUS Michelle Obama shared her go-to workout playlist with her Twitter followers today, which includes songs by such ONTD favorites as Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez and Lizzo.

Lizzo - "Soulmate"


Jennifer Lopez - "Feelin' So Good" Remix (feat. Big Pun & Fat Joe)


2 Chainz - "Rule the World" (feat. Ariana Grande)


Beyoncé - "Before I Let Go"


Ed Sheeran - "South of the Border" (feat. Camila Cabello & Cardi B)


You can check out the full playlist at the source.



What's on your workout playlist?

Weekend Estimates (3 Day): https://t.co/eDAZ4bUdNW.......
1. #BadBoysForLife $59.2m/$59.2m
2. #DolittleMovie $22.5m/$22.5m
3. #1917Movie $22.1m/$76.8m pic.twitter.com/bLWLMkcbFL

— The Numbers (@MovieNumbers) January 19, 2020

Bad Boys for Life, the third installment in the series coming 17 years after Bad Boys II, made $59.2 million this weekend, well above early projections. Robert Downey Jr's Dolittle came in a distant second with $22.5 million, nearly beaten by the third place PGA winning 1917 with $22.1 million. Everything else in theaters did single digit numbers this weekend, including new release Weathering With You in 14th place with $1.73 million, coming in just behind Parasite, which just expanded to more theaters and made an additional $1.74 million.

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Oscar nominee Florence Pugh eats 11 different English foods for Vogue.

Ontd, what foods would you choose to represent your country?