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Late 18th Century Swiss verge gold and enamel pearl set watch in the form of a stag beetle.

Source: http://thesupplemental.com/index.php/the-gallery-of-object-lessons-past/

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EMMA STONE AS OLIVE PENDERGHAST EASY A (2010) Dir. Will Gluck

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So much time has gone by, I didn’t know how much I would change

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LIZZO accepts the award for Record Of The Year at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards (February 5, 2023)

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Stephanie Hsu’s audition for Everything Everywhere All At Once

“The Daniels surprised me by showing this clip to an audience at the Hamptons Film Festival when I was receiving the Breakthrough Artist Award,” says Hsu now. “I had never seen it! The first thing I said after I saw the clips was, ‘Woah, I guess I really understood this movie!’”

She was surprised, she says, to see so much of the final conception of the character in the audition. “The Daniels and I did so much deep diving, developing the character and story once I was officially on board. It felt really special to witness that even in the early stages, before bells and whistles, there was something I really understood about the philosophical and emotional core of this film. Or perhaps that is also just something I wanted to bring to life on screen: the porosity of a villain/non-villain on the thin ice of hopelessness; a daughter at heart.”

Hsu says the challenge of playing Joy and Jobu Tupaki was in figuring out how they were similar more than how they were different. “Jobu is both everything else and also still Joy, and Joy has Jobu within her,” she notes. “The Daniels and I talked about the concept of that particular character track, because it’s so essential to the movie making sense, even through the chaos. We did try to weave that into the fabric of the film, and one of my favorite shorthands for it was ‘Joybu’. A combination of both Joy and Jobu. It wasn’t a real thing, but we knew what it meant, so when the seams start to pull apart a bit, sometimes we’d do something in a scene that was clearly Jobu, like the hallway scene, but then we’d say, ‘OK, let’s do it again, but this time let’s do it Joybu.’ It made sense of the meta, because if someone can jump and be everywhere all at once, they can also still be the daughter.”

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from an interview with It’s Been A Minute on NPR:

LUSE (HOST): I’m glad you bring up wildness because that reminds me of your audition video for “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” which has gone viral.… It was amazing. I mean, for me, just from my perspective, it was amazing to see how you had such a clear idea in your mind of how you wanted the character to come across. And you make so many interesting choices, and you really do bring a real wildness to it. What did it feel like to do that audition? Like how were you feeling in the room that day? And had you rehearsed it like that, or was it just something that came to you?

HSU: Yeah, you know, the Daniels showed me that video recently. I hadn’t seen it. That audition video was from 2019… I’d never seen it. And they asked me permission, and I said, sure, surprise me, as long as I’m not terrible. And it was kind of amazing and actually really healing for me to see, because the movie is so wild and spectacular that you wanna talk about the bigness of it, the costumes, the craziness. And it was quite healing, actually, to witness also, like, oh wow, I guess I really did bring something to this. And I know I knew that, but just to see the very bare bones of that performance and the magic that even happened in that audition room that day. The kind of concept of it, and the kind of scariness of it—and also the heart of it feels really apparent even in that room.

LUSE: Absolutely. I mean, you know, the Daniels have since said that it’s one of the wildest auditions that they’ve ever—

HSU: There were even crazier things that happened. I remember, like, slamming my butt against a wall, and a painting fell…

LUSE: I heard that you’d said things like, “Oh, wouldn’t it be funny if I didn’t get this part?” Like, saying ‘wouldn’t it be funny if I didn’t get this part’ in an audition. That is- there’s all sorts of roles I could imagine that people need to really provide like an off-the-wall audition to nail, right? But, I mean, you really went for it though.

HSU: I did. Well, I also had nothing to lose. Because, yes I had been on Broadway, yes I was on Maisel, but I literally had just been in LA for about a week when the Daniels called me. I didn’t know who Sarah Finn was—she’s one of the biggest casting directors in Hollywood. I didn’t know Michelle Yeoh was attached. I understood, sort of, A24, what the concept of that was, but I didn’t really get it, you know? So for me, it was like… hey, this is what I would like to bring to it, and this is what I like to do. And, take it or leave it. And I love you guys, and so no matter what happens, it’s all good. But it was so wild and unruly that I was putting so much of my art-heart out there, that I was like… yeah, that’d be pretty funny if I didn’t get this, huh? 'Cause y'all are seeing all inside me.

LUSE: Like, I have splayed myself open.

HSU: I’m a-splayed.