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This is the Rumbelle âUntold Storyâ tidbit from the OUaT Facebook game.
So, yes, this is canon. This comes from the creators of the show. This is a thing that he actually wrote to her.
âŠâŠâŠâŠâŠ.
I AM OFFICIALLY DEAD.
BURY MY BODY.
THIS SHIP HAS KILLED ME.
well đ§ââïž as a reminder this blog is NOT a safe space for trump supporters but it IS a safe place for women, queers, trans ppl, people of color, undocumented people, and any marginalized group.
My September 2024 election reminder: ideological purity will not win you anything.
I see people on the left saying that they can't possibly vote for Harris because she's too pro-Israel, because she's too far to the right on immigration, because she's too far to the right on criminal justice, because she was a cop (she wasn't), because you think this policy or that policy is too conservative.
Not voting for her only increases the chances that we get a president who is even further to the right.
Those are our two choices. Like it or not, support the American political system or not, we have two choices, and one of them is further to the right on every single policy that you have opinions about.
So if you think Harris is too far to the right on Israel/Gaza, remember: Trump is so much further to the right. You don't like that the Biden administration is providing military aid to Israel (a thing that Harris cannot actually stop even if she wanted to, given that she's not president)? Trump has already proven, on a policy level, to be more pro-Israel. Remember when he moved the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, functionally acknowledging Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem? He is extremely pro-Israel and has materially proven it. Harris, on the other hand, has been calling for a cease fire since March and has recognized out loud the need for Palestinian sovereignty.
If you're wondering why she hasn't changed U.S. policy on Israel, I would like to remind you once again: she is not currently the President of the United States.
Holding on to your precious ideological purity and not voting for someone whose policies you find distasteful will not result in policies you like. It only increases the risk of policies that are so much further away from what you want.
Voting is public transportation. Voting is harm reduction. Voting is moving us a little bit closer towards the policies we want or, at the very least, keeping us from moving further and further away.
Itâs wild the number of posts I come across where people act like voting for or supporting Harris and Walz in the election is tantamount to implicitly supporting genocide. You know what actually helps genocide? Doing nothing while pretending you have the moral high ground. America is deeply tied to Israel and there will be no candidate who is as critical of their actions as we want them to be. We as private citizens do not have the power to make the USA suddenly cease all activity with Israel and demand an uncompromising ceasefire deal. Instead, we have to get our hands dirty and decide what path forward will mitigate as much harm as possible. You have one presidential candidate saying Israel needs to finish the job and another saying that we canât ignore the tragedies in Gaza while vocally supporting a temporary ceasefire. These are your two picks. Thinking any third party candidate has a shot when none have any wide-reaching name recognition less than 100 days before the election is a fever dream.
The question then becomes, are you willing to say you voted âcorrectlyâ by voting for someone who has no shot of winning but is most closely aligned to you? Or are you going to vote for who will do the least harm? The idea that voting for a president involves liking them is a fairy tale. The establishment will always be the enemy of civil rights and safety. Youâre voting for which opponent you want in office. The writing is on the wall about which candidate will be less of an uphill battle to fight against, and sidestepping the responsibility of making that decision by throwing away a vote isnât moral or intellectually groundbreaking - itâs cowardly.
Robert Carlyle as Papa Dick in North of Normal (2022)
Was this movie ever released? I swear I never saw it in theaters or on a streamer.
It is streaming on Prime. I watched this last week. Bobby is great but I read the book and they just leave out SO MUCH.
Me, too! And you can't convince me otherwise.
BAELFIRE DESERVED BETTER
You should've seen him. He overcame worlds.
Yup. He was the heart of the show, ripped away by a Gary Stu.
Wait, who's Gary Stu?
Hook was and is a Gary Stu.
BAELFIRE DESERVED BETTER
You should've seen him. He overcame worlds.
Yup. He was the heart of the show, ripped away by a Gary Stu.
Recently started for the first time season 3 and i HAVE to know, which is your favourite season of Once Upon A Time?
pick one, leave the rest
season 1
season 2
season 3
season 4
season 5
season 6
season 7
Rofl! I love that everyone unanimously agrees, "Yeah, it just sucked after Season 3."
Noooo don't tell me that, I was hoping against it. Even though it's what happens to most series
Wanted to add there was no reason for the later seasons to suck. But the show runners were a-hole f*ckb**s and they decided their "vision" (which I would say they changed as much as they changed their underwear) was more important than viewer opinions.
Recently started for the first time season 3 and i HAVE to know, which is your favourite season of Once Upon A Time?
pick one, leave the rest
season 1
season 2
season 3
season 4
season 5
season 6
season 7
Rofl! I love that everyone unanimously agrees, "Yeah, it just sucked after Season 3."
Noooo don't tell me that, I was hoping against it. Even though it's what happens to most series
Based on what I've read of you blog, you will hate what is to come as we did when watching live.
I have a review of every episode except the S6 finale and S7 (will get to them someday) with snarky comments and tons of fandom history that might interest you. Feel free to search my blog by episode title for them!
Heads up, I am an extreme Hook and Zelena and Captain Swan hater. Like, aggressive hate level. I grade episodes by points and I take points off just for them being on.
Comic con interview from The TV Addict. This interview features the abuse question.
Did we ever figure out who was the twat that asked this moronic question? And as soon as they sat down!!
Still pissed about this 9 years later.
Robert Carlyle (Once Upon a Time), Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who) and Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education) are all set to star in Netflixâs Toxic To
New Bobby project!
Character Awards: Best Detective Weaver
Another curse, and another city give us another personality for Rumple in the form of a Hyperion Heights detective with a somewhat shady reputation. Once awakened, however, and with a purpose, to ultimately prove himself worthy of being reunited with Belle, ruthlessness and protective kindness make uncomfortable bedfellows, and lead us through countless fabulous fics where we take that journey at his side.
In the category of Best Detective Weaver, the winner of the 2023 Chipped Cup Award is DoppelgĂ€nger, by @celticheartedfangirlâ
Does Robert Carlyle, now 62, get his kit off in the new TV series of The Full Monty? âNobody wants to see that,â he says with a grin.Â
Photograph: Alana Paterson/The Observer
Interview
By Rebecca Nicholson, printed in Guardian/Observer
Robert Carlyleâs life has been defined by two remarkable characters: the explosively violent Begbie, and Gaz in The Full Monty. Here, he talks about his Glasgow childhood, Britpop hedonism â and playing the PMâŠ
It was 1997, and Robert Carlyle was in his mid-30s, when he first played the stripping Sheffield steelworker Gaz in The Full Monty. Last year, to get ready to play him again â this time for an eight-part TV series â he sat himself down to watch the film. He seems slightly embarrassed to admit it â heâs not the kind of actor who likes to watch himself. âAnd Iâm not about trawling back through something from 20-odd years ago,â he says. But The Full Monty was calling him to South Yorkshire, so trawl back he did. He decided that he would watch a few minutes, then he would move on. âAnd I sat there and watched the whole thing.â He was surprised to find that it still worked, even after 25 years. âI donât know if I can say this, but I really enjoyed it. It really stands up.â
The original Full Monty told the story of six unemployed men from Sheffield who put on a DIY strip show at the working menâs club. It was an indie film, shot on a very small budget, and it almost went straight to video; a last-minute re-edit saved it from obscurity and it went on to be a staggering global success, making ÂŁ200m at the box office. Carlyleâs Gaz is the ringleader, a schemer and a dreamer trying to keep enough money in his pocket to put the heating on when his son comes to stay.
I had misremembered it as a film about men getting their kit off, a bawdy hen night of British comedy. But rewatching it I was struck by how political it seems now. Three decades later, in the new series, people are still broke and Gaz is still scheming, but the working menâs club has shut down, the school is crumbling and children are going hungry.
âI love it when I dive into a job. Youâve got a little family unit, you love each other to bits and you think youâre going to be friends foreverâ
âItâs easy to forget that the film is quite heavily political,â says Carlyle. âIt makes a point. And I think the same applies to the TV show. These people have lived through what seems like 25 years of austerity.â He credits the writers, Simon Beaufoy and Alice Nutter, with its gallows humour. âBut you see that the older peopleâs lives have been pretty tough for the past 25 years, and then thereâs 20 years of what Simon calls the Young Montys, the younger characters, heading for the same shit. So itâs good that this has been made. It shows what people go through to survive the day to day.â Not just men getting their kit off, then. Does he strip this time? âNobody wants to see that,â he says, with a grin.
Carlyle is a great talker, open and funny and relaxed. He admits he was not always this way, particularly when it came to the press, though he did have his reasons. Heâs calmed down a lot since his wilder days, in part because he is, as he says, â125 years oldâ (heâs just turned 62, though he looks younger) and also because he now lives in Vancouver, on the west coast of Canada. âThereâs a laid-back attitude and quality here I enjoy,â he says. He moved there to film a TV series, Once Upon a Time, in 2011, with his wife, Anastasia Shirley, and three children, and found that he liked the city, though he has kept a home in Glasgow, where he grew up, and the family splits its time between the two. His kids are 21, 19 and 17.
Do they have Canadian accents? âAye, they do,â he laughs. âMy eldest sonâs got this strange â hang on, let me see if I can do it â this half-American thing with a bit of Scottish thrown in, you know?â
Carlyle is at his happiest when heâs at home. âIâm a homebody, thereâs no doubt about that,â he says. âIâve got loads of friends, particularly in London, and I enjoy it when I get to meet up with them. Itâs brilliant. But Iâve always been a bit of a loner to be honest.â Carlyle was brought up by his father; his mother walked out when he was a child. He has spoken before about moving around a lot, living in communes. âI always think about it as darkness and light, my life, because the first part of it was pretty dark. My mother had left when I was a wee boy. I was brought up by my dad alone in Glasgow in the 60s, and the single- parent family, there was not a lot of that around, especially a single-parent family with a father. That made me instantly different from the rest of the people who were around me.â He seems surprised by his own candour. âGenuinely, Iâve never really spoken about this before. But I guess thatâs probably where it started.â
I still love Begbie. It was such an explosion. An absolute avalanche
Did he feel like an outsider at school? âWhen I was very young, yeah, definitely. Itâs the little things.â He has a teacher friend and he says he is pleased to hear that things are very different now. âBut back in the day, if you had to get permission for something, the teachers would say, bring a note in from your mum. Stuff like that. Of course, when you donât have that, that really hits home, even when youâre a wee boy.â
Carlyle left school at 16, became a painter and decorator, and worked with his dad. At 21, he came across a copy of Arthur Millerâs The Crucible, and it lit something up inside him. He went on to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and set up his own theatre company. For a loner, he has picked a very sociable job.
âYeah, but Iâve been doing it for so long that Iâve become very good at separating those things. I love it when I dive into a job, whether theatre, film, TV, whatever. Youâve got a little family unit, you love each other to bits and you think youâre going to be friends for ever. Then two months later you never see them again,â he laughs. Family means a lot to him. âIâd always wanted to have a good family unit, to be able to connect with each other and be pals with each other,â he says, talking about his three children. âThankfully, weâre great friends.â
In 1991, he was cast as the lead in Ken Loachâs Riff-Raff, and worked steadily through the 90s, playing a serial killer in Cracker, which set the tone for more villainous roles to come. But nothing prepared him for the double whammy of playing the sadistic maniac Begbie in Trainspotting at the end of 1995 and Gaz in The Full Monty, 18 months later. âFrom that point on, they were massive shadows that then followed me around for the rest of my life, the rest of my career,â he says. âSo it was something that I had to get used to, the whole fame thing. Because I am, as Iâve been saying, quite a homely guy, a family man, it took me a long time to get used to that.â
To say the films were hits is an understatement. Both were phenomena that travelled around the world. One of the strangest things about watching The Full Monty again, he says, is that it took him right back to that time. âItâs looking at yourself in another life, and all the things that were happening in my life back then. I mean, we can all look back in photographs, but Iâve got this living, breathing thing in front of me.â
What was happening in his life back then?
âHa!â It was the height of the Britpop era, and because of those films, Carlyle was right at the heart of it. Back in the day, as he puts it, he was invited to everything and went to most of it. âI met all the personalities of the day, the Oasis lads, Damon Albarn, whoâs still a great friend. I was right in the middle of that whole thing, enjoying that life.â
Was it as hedonistic as it seemed? He doesnât pause for breath. âOne thousand per cent,â he grins. âIt was incredibly hedonistic, but it was exciting. If you think about it politically, weâd just come out of Tory rule. Blair was there, everything seemed to be on the up. And I can remember that feeling.â He appeared in an Oasis video, for the song Little By Little.
Was it easy to be friends with Blur and Oasis, given their famous rivalry? âHahaha. To be honest with you, I was really good at not getting involved. But I remember when I did Little By Little, Damon was like, âWhy the fuck did you do that? Come and do one for me!â I said, âBut you never asked,â which was true! And that was the end of the conversation.â
âIt doesnât sound like you were a homebody in those days,â I say. He laughs again. âNo,â he says. âThere wasnât so much homebody then. I certainly wasnât shy in getting out the door.â
But there was a darker side to that era. His fame made him a person of interest to the tabloids. He says itâs nothing compared to what some people experienced, but still it sounds unpleasant.
âAt the time, going through that was horrible, to be honest with you, because I didnât understand it. I was suddenly in this world and I was very open. Probably too open, at times.â The papers responded by reporting on his private life and his family. âThey got in touch with my mother and pulled her out the dark, and that was really upsetting. So I slammed the door shut for a long time, because I just hated it.â He was tight-lipped in interviews and wouldnât do chatshows, though he will say he still regrets saying no to Michael Parkinson. âI think that was probably quite clever, because then you do keep a little bit of yourself. I mean, you see people on these chatshows and everything comes out and you go, âMy God, I donât know how you can live your life like that.ââ
He does them these days, however. âBecause Iâm 125, Iâm more used to it,â he jokes. âI can do it better now. Time and age is a great thing.â
Is it just time? Has he mellowed with age?
âItâs family, children. My children came in the 2000s, so all the stuff in the 90s, there were no kids then, but once children arrive in your life, everything changes overnight. So that becomes more important. That becomes your focus. And you begin to think, âOh, the other stuffâs not actually worth bothering about.ââ
Carlyle has had the chance to go back to two of his most iconic characters. He revisited Begbie for T2, the Trainspotting sequel, in 2017. A sequel was always planned, and Carlyle says he and Jonny Lee Miller, who plays Sickboy, wanted it to be sooner. âBut Danny Boyle [the director] always said, weâll do it, but when youâre older. He was obviously right, because itâs in the face. You can see that life has been lived.â
Even more so than Gaz, the terrifying Begbie is the character who has followed him around the longest. âThe terrifying Begbie!â he laughs. âI love Begbie. I mean, who knew? Who knew what was going to happen with that character? It was such an explosion, Trainspotting. An absolute avalanche.â At the time, he knew that the film was going to be something special. âI thought this character is gonna be around for a while. But I thought, maybe a few years.â Yesterday, he says, he went to the butcherâs near his house, and the man in the shop, in his 20s, from Bilbao, recognised him and said he loved him in Trainspotting. âHe said, âIâve got a T-shirt of you, of Begbie with the glass.â This thing I thought was going to last a few years, is still there, in peopleâs minds, 27 years later.â Wherever he goes now, people still recognise him as Begbie. âThat mad character!â Heâs not exactly a teddy bear, is he? âI mean, this is a line from the film â heâs a psycho, but heâs a mate, so what can you do? I do love him. And Gaz. Both these characters have given me a tremendous career and a tremendous life, and youâve got to love him for that.â
Besides, Begbieâs not dead yet. There is a six-part TV series, The Blade Artist, in the planning, about Begbieâs post-prison life as an acclaimed artist in California. Carlyle is working on it with Irvine Welsh and Hex author Jenni Fagan.
âItâs been brilliant, this one. I mean, letâs face it, Begbie is me. So to be right in at the beginning of that and be able to go, well, actually, maybe change this, change that⊠thatâs where we are at the moment.â He thinks theyâll start shooting in the next year or two.
For now, heâs off work, relaxing in Vancouver, travelling with his wife, spending time with his family. âBack in the day, it was all about the next job, next job, next job and I donât think so much like that any more.â
Recently, heâs been playing the British prime minster, Robert Sutherland, in the political thriller Cobra. âWho would have thought? Begbie, Gaz, the prime ministerâŠâ he says. In the original Full Monty, Gaz explains that he canât go shoplifting because âIâve got serial killer written on my forehead.â Carlyle nods. âThatâs right. Thatâs probably my issue with parts. Certainly with Sutherland, when he gets angry, Iâve got to really pull it down. Donât get Begbie-angry,â he says. âBegbie as the prime minister!â I wouldnât put it past him.
The Full Monty will be streaming on Disney+ from 14 June
Waves hi -- been revisiting old posts so here's a reminder that OUAT has been off the air for almost FIVE YEARS and every project that A&E has attempted since has either tanked or been canceled before it even started.
I am now confident in saying that my curse worked!!!
Given that Doctor Who is available next day in the states, and I'm sitting here today in the US of A watching All Creatures Great and Small Series 3 -- what in the actual hell is taking so long for BBC Ghosts Series Four to get over here????
Seriously what is the fucking holdup with this???? Its ridiculous!!!!
