Welcome!
If youāre here, you already know who Ewan Mitchell is. And if youāre anything like me, youāve spent an embarrassing amount of time thinking about him for someone who has, by all accounts, made it his personal mission to reveal as little as humanly possible. Fair play Mitchell. It has, however, done absolutely nothing for my ability to keep my thoughts to myself.
This blog is first and foremost a discussion blog about Ewan. His career, his roles, his interviews, public appearances, upcoming projects, the wider film and television industry, and occasionally whatever thought has decided to set up camp in my brain that week. Sometimes weāll deep dive into an episode of HOTD. Sometimes itāll be a film. Sometimes itāll be a single interview. Sometimes itāll be one sentence from one interview that absolutely did not require the level of analysis Iām about to subject it to. And sometimes, about Ewan himself.
Soā¦ why does this blog exist? Because I genuinely think thereās a gap.
The main fan pages keep almost everything centred around the work. Then at the opposite end of the spectrum youāve got gossip accounts that in my opinion have wandered so far off the map theyāve forgotten thereās an actual person involved. Anonymous messages become evidence, speculation becomes certainty, and peopleās lives become entertainment. Personally I think thatās a horrific direction for a fandom to head in. Somewhere along the line, nobody with any sense of proportion really stepped up to occupy the middle ground. I wanted to try.
This isnāt a gossip account. I have absolutely no interest in digging through accounts, hunting for information that was never meant to be found, or encouraging anyone else to do it either. Leave people alone. If something was clearly intended to stay private, I donāt think itās my business, and I donāt want this blog to become somewhere that rewards or encourages that kind of behaviour.
The reality though is that not everything stays private. Sometimes things escape into the public conversation completely without your involvement. You open TikTok and there it is. You scroll X and there it is. Once that happens I donāt think it makes much sense for everybody to stick their fingers in their ears singing āla la la laā and pretend they havenāt seen it. People have seen it. Naturally theyāre going to have questions. I sometimes have questions, and I wanted to find space and people to talk about this stuff with.
Iād much rather those questions were asked here than in corners of the internet where complete strangers treat another personās private life like a sport, where anonymous asks are elevated to fact, and where the next outrageous theory is always more exciting than the most likely explanation. People are too afraid to ask these questions elsewhere because it results in a block from the main accounts. This pushes people towards the gossip accounts. Itās a vicious circle that doesnāt need to exist.
If something has already entered the public conversation Iād rather we could talk about it. Share how it made us feel. Ask whether it actually makes sense. Add context where we can. Challenge our own assumptions. Sometimes reassure each other that weāre probably reading too much into something and need to calm the fuck down. Sometimes conclude that actually, we just dont know. Not because every conversation needs to end with a definitive answer, but because I think a little perspective and a little humanity go a very long way.
That way of thinking extends well beyond discussions about someoneās personal life. Itās how I approach interviews, performances, press tours, career decisions and the wider industry generally.
The rule I try to hold myself to is incredibly simple: would I say this to Ewans face? If the answer is no, it doesnāt go up. Itās not a perfect rule, but itās served me pretty well so far. That doesnāt mean we canāt disagree, criticise, question or have difficult conversations. It just means trying not to be dicks in the process.
So thatās what youāll find here. Expect long posts. Expect overanalysis. Expect me to become disproportionately invested in one sentence from an interview that everyone else forgot about five minutes after it was published.
He gave us very little to work with. Weāve somehow made a hobby out of it.