#mojotheplay

[rupertgrinthot]

Rupert at the Mojo Press Night

[rupertgrinthot]

Rupert in rehearsal for Mojo 2013

[rupertgrinthot]

Rupert in Mojo back in 2013

[whishawnews]

KCMANC: Here’s a photo I took recently of actor, Ben Whishaw

By ‘recent’ I think he means 2013… Kevin Cummins photographed the promotional images for Mojo and this looks to be from the same shoot. He has also posted photos of Daniel Mays and Rupert Grint.

[kissmypegs-blog]

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♧ Any part of their canon portrayal you dislike?

[ There’s not much too dislike (hahahahha). I emotionally dislike the moment he goes off with Johnny at the end, because it breaks my heart. But dislike in the way that I think it’s a shame for the story, there’s not a single thing and it’s like that for everyone.

Mojo was a play that was so gripping and intense that you didn’t even have time to decide whether you liked it or not. It fit perfectly and it was all a work of fucked up, amazing genius and that’s why nothing, ever, will top it, because any work of fiction, I will question and be disappointed with. But the only thing I was disappointed by was that there wasn’t more. ]

[kissmypegs-blog]

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❀ Share a headcanon you have not shared.

[ This is a constantly changing headcanon and I might as well write it as a scenario:

The reason Baby was so attached to the cutlass was clear to him. He’d never told anyone really, because nobody had asked, except for Skinny, but Skinny’s questions didn’t need answers. He wouldn’t listen anyway. So the cutlass was merely Ezra’s cutlass that Baby swung around all the time, but that wasn’t the truth and Baby knew that.

He remembered the cutlass always being on the stand in the hallway in his house. It was opposite the shoe-rack and he could see it from the stairs he sat on when he was little, listening to his mum and dad talk and drink together. He liked hearing them laugh, so he listened and looked at the cutlass’ blade shine in the low light of the hallway. But that wasn’t just why he liked it.

The night Ezra had made the decision to get rid of his mother, Baby’d woken up. He’d heard the shouting. He’d heard his mother shout for him, but all that time he’d laid still with shock in his bed. He couldn’t move, because what if that would make it worse? If he just shut his eyes and went back to sleep, it would be better again. Tomorrow would be normal. But it wasn’t.

His mother was packing bags in the middle of the night and he could hear the zips of the suitcase and the clinking of the clasps through the wall. He heard his father mutter angrily to go downstairs. That she couldn’t see Baby. He’d gotten out of bed when he heard that and heard the footsteps down the stairs.

And in the doorway they had another argument. Poppy, Baby’s mum again pleaded for her to see Baby, just before she went. Baby was at the top of the stairs, she couldn’t see him.

He shoved her out of the door and when she tried to come back, he’d reached up to grab the cutlass and pointed it at her. She’d sobbed when he’d done that, being forced to leave.

Baby loved the cutlass, because he hopes that, one day, he’ll be pointing Ezra out of the door with it too.

]

[kissmypegs-blog]

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What do you wish the author would reveal/had revealed about your muse?

[ That’s a difficult question, both because I’ve filled in all the unknown’s myself, really. One thing I always forget about is the scene in which Baby talks about sitting in the car with Ezra and the chainsaw, thinking he’s a goner, while they actually go and kill a cow. It’s such an unexpected scene, but also something that completely adds to the baby=ezra skinny=baby parallel that I love.

I’m getting very sidetracked.

I wish I knew about Baby’s mum. I have headcanons, very many. They sometimes change depending on the verse, but the base of it is always the same. I’d also love to know what Baby is planning on doing after Mojo. Where do he and Johnny go? ]

[merlins-earmuffs]

my review of 'Mojo' from 2013

I was looking back at some really old tweets of mine, and found two reviews of Mojo that I'd posted to Twitlonger two years before (23rd November 2013).

If you're interested, here they are:

first impressions

mojo in retrospect