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Thread from Jon Levine on Reddit about working on ‘Loki’ (from 6 months ago)
The most inspiring day I’ve had in my career
I’m going to preface this story by saying I won’t be naming the production (but it’s a big, big one) and I won’t be naming the star (though they are a big, big one). I also want to say that I’m not a star by any stretch. While I’ve had some success and I have some good credits, I’m still a day player, booking small(er) roles.
I just got off set, wrapping a role in the largest production I’ve ever been a part of. It wasn’t a big role, but one integral to the story and I was working with the lead.
The first day of my shoot, I met the star in passing and they were very friendly. They stopped, introduced themselves, and we had a brief, but nice conversation.
Today was the first day we worked together and it was just the two of us in the scene. We shot their single first (over my shoulder) and it went very well. They were improvising, which led me to improvise, the director loved it, and we had good chemistry together.
We finished their single and then the camera had to turn around to do mine. In between, they needed to shoot another shot with the lead that I wasn’t in. Unfortunately, this shot took longer than expected. Once finished, the director and 1st AD came up to me, very apologetically, and told me that the other shot went long and that the star had to do a big costume and makeup change, and because time was getting short, I would need to work with a stand-in to do my single.
Like I said, I’m not a named talent and it wasn’t a big deal to me, so I was like sure, that’s not an issue. They were very thankful and expressed gratitude for me being flexible.
About 5 minutes later, the star comes walking by my chair and stops. They say they just heard that they’re not going to be able to work with me for my single. Honest to god, I totally expected them to say, “I wish I could, but...” or “we’re on such a tight schedule, so...”, which would’ve been fine. I was totally ok with it. But that’s not what they said.
They said, I’m not going to let this happen. I need to be there for you and I’m going to fight for it. I’m going to rush and get through wardrobe/makeup so that I can shoot with you.
I was blown away.
They ran off and 20 minutes later when they had the set ready, the star jumped in and was ready to work. We shot the scene, found some amazing moments along the way, and it was fantastic.
It was hands down the best, most inspiring thing that’s happened to me in my, albeit short, career. I thanked them for doing what they did and how cool it was for them to do it. They just looked at me and said, “hey, we gotta stick together, right?” It was a reminder that no matter how big you get, it’s about doing good work and helping lift others up.
Today is a day I’ll never forget.
Note: The project isn’t named, but the actor is the same one who is in the trailer as the TVA bureaucrat - and he mentions in the comments that the project was going to come out in May (original date).
https://www.reddit.com/r/acting/comments/j6i4vt/the_most_inspiring_day_ive_had_in_my_career/
Sweet Dream recording session
Via IG: @/sunshinerecording
INTERVIEW: Jon Levine on Loki, Cobra Kai, and More!
Nice interview with the guy who wrote the Reddit post, again talking about what a great guy (and actor) Tom is, as well as some details about the process of filming the show, as well as working on Cobra Kai. (No spoilers, of course!)
Why MariMed is Doubling Down on Brand Consistency & the Boston Tea Party-Style 280E Protest ft. Jon Levine
“‘No taxation without representation down with 280E” might well have been the catalyst prompting lawmakers to consider rescheduling cannabis to Schedule 3, potentially eliminating the controversial tax code. As MariMed ambitiously aims to become the ‘Coca-Cola of Cannabis,’ their unwavering focus on brand consistency emerges as a pivotal reason for their dominant position across various markets. Jon Levine is here to discuss more about it. Listen to the podcast to know more.
If we don’t get a new song by June, you have til the end of December
Via IG story: @/danfarber
A trove of e-mails on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop found that he played a role in helping a California defense contractor analyze killer diseases and bioweapons in Ukraine.
Russia’s assertion that President Biden’s son Hunter was “financing . . . biological laboratories in Ukraine” was based in truth, according to e-mails reviewed by The Post.
A trove of e-mails on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop — the existence of which was exclusively reported by The Post in October 2020 — found that he played a role in helping a California defense contractor analyze killer diseases and bioweapons in Ukraine.
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US intelligence officials had earlier dismissed Russia’s messaging as war propaganda, explaining that Ukraine’s network of biological labs dedicated to pathogen research were not secret, and had publicly received funding from Washington.
However, Russia’s new claim that the first son’s investment fund was involved in raising money for biolab projects in Ukraine was accurate, according to e-mails involving Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine, first obtained by The Post and initially reported on by The Daily Mail Friday.
Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners invested $500,000 in the San Francisco pathogen research company Metabiota and raised millions more through firms that included Goldman Sachs, according to the e-mails found on the computer, which was abandoned at a Delaware repair shop in April 2019 as Joe Biden ran for president.
Hunter introduced Metabiota to officials at Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company where he was a board member, for a “science project” involving biolabs in Ukraine, the e-mails show.
A memo from a Metabiota official to the then-vice president’s son in 2014 said the company could “assert Ukraine’s cultural and economic independence from Russia.”
Metabiota vice president Mary Guttieri also wrote to Hunter about geopolitical issues involving the company’s research in the former Soviet republic in April 2014, two months after Russia invaded and annexed the Crimea region.
“As promised, I’ve prepared the attached memo, which provides an overview of Metabiota, our engagement in Ukraine, and how we can potentially leverage our team, networks, and concepts to assert Ukraine’s cultural and economic independence from Russia and continued integration into Western society,” her memo read.
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The US awarded $23.9 million to Metabiota later in 2014, with $307,091 allocated for a “Ukrainian research projects,” government spending records showed.
The younger Biden bragged to investors that his company organized funding for Metabiota and helped it “get new customers” including “government agencies,” according to e-mails.
B&V had been commissioned in 2010 by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency to build a lab in Odessa, to “enhance the government’s existing surveillance systems to detect, report and respond to bioterrorism attacks, epidemics and potential pandemics,” the company’s website said.
Hunter Biden’s ventures raised the eyebrows of a former CIA officer.
“His father was the vice president of the United States and in charge of relations with Ukraine. So why was Hunter not only on the board of a suspect Ukrainian gas firm, but also hooked them up with a company working on bioweapons research?,” Sam Faddis told the Mail.
‘It’s an obvious Russian propaganda attempt to take advantage of this. But it doesn’t change the fact that there does seem to be something that needs to be explored here.