taste that blade

making edits of the things i like.

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The fault rests with me and me alone.

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remyhii: Budabest friends

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Christopher McQuarrie on Sean (Deadline Q&A)

DEADLINE: Your villain, played by Sean Harris, felt more like a Bond villain than the bad guys we’ve seen in previous Mission: Impossible installments. Theatrical, exotic looking, a megalomaniac. How did you end up there?

MCQUARRIE: It started first and foremost with wanting to create a real rival for Ethan Hunt, somebody who was ahead of Ethan Hunt all the way. What Tom and I were interested in creating was a chess match between these two characters. And the villain had the upper hand and was beating Ethan at every turn. We started out by aiming toward some sort of physical confrontation between these two guys, I was really interested in something I hadn’t seen in the franchise, a villain that presented a physical threat to Ethan. But the more the movie involved, the more he became an intellectual threat. It became more a game of wits between the two of them, which is why the film ended the way that it did. Every time we tried to come up with a more classical confrontation between these two guys, the more it felt really hollow, action for action’s sake. Tom and I were adamant that any time there was action in the movie, it had to propel story, that the sequences themselves were stories within the story. Then, casting became the key. I maintain that the secret to a good villain is casting the right actor. You can write the greatest villain on earth; if the wrong person is playing him, you are dead in the water. I had seen Sean in Harry Brown and he was absolutely fantastic. Sean took some convincing. He was not interested in being in some franchise movie, or being a franchise actor. He was very reluctant in taking the role and I was grateful he trusted us.

DEADLINE: How do you convince an actor who wants no part of the blockbuster game?

MCQUARRIE: By not trying to sell him. At first, Sean didn’t want to take the meeting, because he didn’t want to do a franchise movie. I said, please, just ask if he’d have a general meeting. I won’t even talk about the movie. I took an opportunity to meet an actor I admired, and I don’t usually do that. The only time I’d done a general meeting I requested, was with Tom. I sat with Sean and we just talked about everything but the business, for two hours. At the end of the meeting, I wished him luck and his representation reached out to us and said, okay. Now that he’s talked to Chris and knows who he is, Sean is interested in finding something they can do together. That led to a conversation about this character. My one regret is there is one real showcase scene with Sean and it didn’t make it into the finished film. Ironically, it was the scene that enticed Sean to do the movie in the first place. For a lot of reasons we ended up cutting it from the film. To his credit, Sean saw the finished film and was very understanding of it. Sean is a real pro, someone who came in with an apprehension of what kind of movie it was, the tone, and what the film was asking him to do. He tackled the role despite it being more or less against his religion.

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Reviews for M:I5 are rolling in

…and the comments about our boy are as amusing as ever:

“Harris plays him as a pale, slightly creepy genius, and the cold-hearted serenity in his eyes proves significantly chilling.”

“Behind the Syndicate lurks a calculating uber-villain (played with understated menace by the protean Sean Harris)” 

“…the Syndicate’s leader, the blandly lizard-like Solomon Lane (Sean Harris, effectively using a thin, reedy voice)”

“…whispering, unblinking nutjob Solomon Lane (Sean Harris).“

“Harris is also effective as the slimy bad-guy, whose sinister villain delights every time he’s on screen – even if that screen time is limited to nothing more than just a small scattering of scenes.” (BOOOOO-URNS)

“One of them is MI6 agent Ilsa (Rebecca Ferguson), who has got close to the Syndicate’s boss (Sean Harris). Maybe, just maybe, too close.” (OH-HO!)

“Sean Harris (Prometheus) is one of the best British actors around and he gives anti-IMF chief Solomon Lane a chilling, playfully malevolent intensity.” (yas queen…’s subject)

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(rebageling with a few more bc WOO TONIGHT!)

“Special note must also be given to Sean Harris as antagonist Solomon Lane. The Mission: Impossible films have been pretty bland when it comes to villains, but Harris is a nice shot in the arm. He’s menacing, terrifying, and always seemingly a step ahead of our heroes. Lane truly is the best villain this series has produced.“

“Also very fine and deliciously creepy is the key villain of this piece Sean Harris as the determined and lethal Solomon.”

“Sean Harris is just right and just weird enough.” (that will be in my vows when we are inevitably wed)

“Their leader (Sean Harris) is a bespectacled, raspy-voiced anarchist, pragmatic to an inhuman fault. He’s like Steve Jobs as played by Hannibal Lecter.” (*stares glassily off into the distance imagining the Mads/Fassy sex tape*)

(and my personal favorite:) “That leaves Hunt to track down the nefarious Syndicate and its mysterious leader, Solomon Lane (Sean Harris, resembling an otter in a turtle neck).” (I can’t help but read it in a Boris Johnson voice and I just

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Sean in Cannes 23/05/15

Photo: @cinemacanalplus

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@vanessavands: Happy birthday @remyhii! Much love, from Sorga to Jingim

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❖ actor meme → 1. first role you saw them in

 Harry Brown (2009) | Stretch  » "What d’you want a gun for, brother?"

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I didn’t notice Sorga enjoying Marco and Byamba during Kaidu’s feast in ep 2 while Jingim pouts. Oh god I love her even more

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Iwan and Alfie at the US Game of Thrones premiere [x]

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bless the followers who tolerate your 95% fandom posts that aren’t even their fandom

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The height thing has vexed me too! The best I've come up with so far is that Vanessa Vanderstraaten (Sorga) is 5'6 1/2 on her imdb (but I could have sworn it said 5'7 before I double checked right now? Weird) and that he's still a bit taller than her. There's one pic of Lo with her on IG where he looks taller than her bUT still shorter than compared to Remy, lol. I'm tempted to just ask on Twitter.

lmao forgive me for the spam, I HAVE DONE CRAZY STUFF FOR THE HEIGHT THING. I legit asked Remy and tried to be funny, bad thing was he was funny right back to me lol (it’s on his twitter replies I might post the pic) but I found a pic of Lorenzo next to Uzo Aduba and she’s 5’7, so I feel like they’re both around 6’0. There’s a pic of Lorenzo between Remy and Uli, Lo is taller in it but DEFINITELY standing on his tiptoes, and Uli is like… 6’5-6’7.

i just saw the response and i’m rolling tbh i didn’t doubt for a second he’d be cheeky if anyone asked haha what a gem but also WHY IS IT THAT THEY CAN’T STAND LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE i’m baffled is it some ongoing joke amongst the three that remy and lorenzo are constantly teasing and/or trying to “out-height” uli

i mean

really boys

(no but it’s v endearing i’m almost getting a joey chandler richard vibe) anywho not the point THANK YOU for your impeccable research friend you have done us a great service

in conclusion remy and lorenzo can be deemed (for now) to be around the same height and are both likely ~6′0″

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@RemyHii: Life’s a beach

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remyhii: Yael Stone Cold Fox #LorenzoandRemyDoSydney