MY FRIEND, I ABSOLUTELY CAN!!!! ๐ฅฐ Starting from the beginningโฆ
PART ONE: ORIGINAL FILMANIA PRODUCTION & FATE
Itโs 2019-20, youโre Mile Phakphum Romsaithong, a very rich socialite who plays guitar. Youโre bored and youโve been thinking about getting into acting, and have been offered misc. BL casting opportunities before, but never really felt like any of them were For You, so you turned them down.ย
Then, one day, you find out that there is a BL currently casting from the studio Filmania, where the male lead is based on you, at least your public persona/physically/whatever. Being a puppy of a man, you are delighted, and go read the script, and then the books, and decide youโll go to the casting call for it.
At casting call, you re-meet Apo Nattawinย Wattanagitiphat, who you went to college with and had a giant crush on. You guys hit it off IMMEDIATELY, chemistry unhinged, and get cast as Kinn and Porsche. Apo takes it, even though he has historically had a bad experience with the Thai acting industry. You are delighted by this incidence of FATE!!!!!!
PART TWO: IF YOU DONโT HAVE FATE ON YOUR SIDE STORE-BOUGHT IS FINE
The show gets dropped. Something something the authors, something something the company, whatever. I assume, if you are Mile, you are very sad! And if youโre Apo youโre also pretty sad, because it seemed like for once even with all the industry BS you had a cool dude on your side who you hit it off with, and it was gonna be a cool show. On the heels of that, if you are Mile, and have stacks of money, and see your college crush who is an unbelievable actor about to re-give up on acting and call it a wash, you are like,ย โwait, I have stacks of money and know everyoneโ.
So you, Mile, call up the head of the small talent agency youโre signed with, Be On Cloud, which is really just your buddy Pondย Krisda Witthayakhajorndet in a fake mustache and a trench coat, and go, hey! So! Have you ever wanted to make television? I have a man here I CANNOT allow to be sad under any circumstances, and also, weโre really good at this and thereโs an audience here.
PART THREE: BE ON CLOUD, KINNPORSCHE TAKE TWO!!!!
Pond, being just as unhinged as Mile, thinks about it for a second, and is like. Well. How different can making television be from running an event planning company, which is my real job. Itโs just calling up a bunch of different guys who are good at their jobs and putting them in one place. And I know so many different guys! Letโs do it!
They get the rights (handwaves this I donโt know anything about it) and jump into production. They get their shit together UNREALISTICALLY quickly, and on top of that, since theyโre starting from scratch and theyโre just A Bunch Of Guys led by Pond and Mile, they decide that their priorities are #1 making art and #2 making Apo happy. With regards to #1, they rework the script, hire the best acting coaches money can afford, and put the cast through character-building and intimacy workshops. With regards to #2, they toss out all the industry bullshit that has sucked for him in the past โ no more crew/cast hierarchy, no more homophobia on-set, no more fake fanservice.
FINALE: MIRACLES IF U BELIEVE ETC.
Magically, it turns out, when you create a great working environment, you get really, really good TV!!!!! Which means that their unhinged plan succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, and now Mile & Apo are internationally famous superstars who hang out 24/7 with their squad of 16 close friends, and we get to watch them do it. And it has been, genuinely, a fucking privilege.ย
To end this tale with a personal note, one of the reasons I allowed myself to get soย invested in KinnPorsche so fast is because it was evident from every aspect of it โ the show itself, the BTS, the actors interviews โ that the people working on this show both really cared about the show and were genuinely having a great time. There is nothing like seeing art made by people who are passionate about making it!ย
Their enthusiasm, their hard work, and their obvious enjoyment of the process & each otherโs company are what made me feel like I could trust what they were making, because you could tell no matter what else it was, it was from the heart. And thatโs really something special! Especially in this day and age!!ย
And even though they could pull it off this time because of the circumstances (financial and social), I hope that it shows BL television CAN be made in a way that keeps the actors comfortable and safe and happy, and encourages change for the better across the industry as a whole. KinnPorsche shouldnโt be the last wild BL passion project; it should be the first one of a new wave. (bangs gavel) Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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