i don't remember them playing mahjong but they do other old man things like going to the wet market together and drinking soup and taking walks. anyway go watch suk suk / twilight's kiss
big olā list of my favorite paul moments from tgwdlmr (+ the uk)
note : a lot of this is stuff iāve heard from folks whoāve seen it live , but most of it is my own musings !! contains spoilers under the cut for reprised , the digital ticket , the proshot , and the uk digital ticket :3
paul unplugs and plugs his mouse back in
he does little air quotes around hp āinkjetā
i donāt think he really likes mr davidson ?? when he enters paul looks slightly visibly annoyed / over it
^^ he like? hesitates to put his hands back on the keyboard and makes a face like ājeez this guyā
he looks over when charlotte says cuddle night
paul HATES ted i love it so much
after the godspell jokes both he and emma would realize how close theyād gotten to each other and sort of scoot/look away from each other
he looks like heās rehearsing it for a second before he says āi donāt like musicalsā boy why you so autism
he looks SO uncomfortable during lah dee dah dah day. like every time someone touches him he makes a face and flinches away
heās also far more noise sensitive in reprised!! he flinches every time the hive claps
paul repeats billās hand motion from āitās a musical!!ā when heās trying to explain to the ccrp gang what happened
he looks like heās going to cry during wdywp
when mr davidson is wheeling him around the desk he scrabbles for the phone. to do what dude ? who are you gonna call
DYSLEXIC PAUL !! allegedly his dyslexia is specifically mapbased. also shoutout to that one show where emma said sheād never take advice from a man in a suit and he says āoh. but i like wearing suits. :(ā
paul tries to shield bill and emma during show me your hands when the police are chasing them
he takes samās gun, kinda looks around for a sec, tries to give it to bill (who refuses it), then gives it to ted who apparently throws it in the trash LMAO
he stims pretty consistently throughout the entire show
not paul but ivĆ”nās hidgens wipes his hand from the goo off on samās arm and it made me giggle
paul looks DISGUSTED when hidgens grabs his shoulder
he says ādid your sister smoke a lot of pot?ā so quietly itās really cute iām ngl
he squares up to fight with sam (he does it really stupidly i might add) and then immediately gets punched in the face
paul looks incredibly dazed (moreso than emma) when their heads are smashed together, heās almost limp in charlotteās arms
something me & a few others noticed: when charlotte and sam puppet emma and paul to do the little arm motions during ju&d, emma has a closed fist but paul actually makes the correct hand gestures that go along with the dance (yk. the pointing and stuff). hereās how the half infected paul show loop theory can still win
he and emma and he and bill have so many more touchy cute together moments in the reprise in general; it makes me super happy
paul and emma and ted ALL chime in with billās rendition of the circle of life, rather spiritedly, and when theyāre finishing he makes a circle with his arms as if to demonstrate. whatās his issue
he sounds a lot more angry? or maybe itās stubbornness or something when he says āi will never be in a FUCKING musicalā
thereās like a growl in paulās voice when he says āiām not gonna let you dieā
his voice is so shaky itās barely even there when he says ābill..?ā like he canāt believe billās dead in his arms oh my god
he smoothes out billās shirt and tie after heās dead and hesitates to get up from next to him even when the infected teens are approaching
the whiny ass pathetic āwhat the fuuck :(ā he does when heās lying on the floor after not your seed
he also covers his ears when the teens are harmonizing. mind you he didnāt think at this point that it spread through hearing infected so he was completely just doing this bc they were loud
heās very emphatic while heās explaining āhe wanted to be Choked By His Wife. WHIIILE he Jerked Off.ā
before paul even sings his first note he looks dazed, swaying to the music. you can see that he can hear it much more pronounced in west end
his body relaxes and you can visibly see his shoulders slump. when nora grabs him and moves him, he sort of? accepts it?? he looks sort of dead/lifeless when heās swaying- then he recoils straight after
he says āno..ā so small and sadly when he starts dancing oh my god iām gonna be sick
iām too insane to put into words how i feel about let it out and how jon acts out paul losing autonomy of his body, but the way he moves and the way heās so shaken after every dance section is so fucking cool and creepy i feel crazy
paul is VERY VERY puppet coded in reprised. most of his dance movements in let it out are extremely puppety (thatās like the only way i can describe it) and it looks like the hive is puppeting him multiple times. he jerks his arms around loads too, like heās being puppeteered around
when hidgens is singing he backs paul back up against the meteor where heād be breathing in the most spores
a couple times during let it out he looks at his hands and he looks horrified it is sickening
during his sort of soliloquy (i say soliloquy because everyone else on the stage is dead and heās technically talking to the audience) he looks like heās crying, or about to cry, but he canāt properly sob, because he has to be singing. he looks fucking miserable
paulās more hunched over and stalking her through the ensemble after the āplant my seedā line itās properly terrifying kinda like heās hunting her down
before i forget!!! cool thing we heard last night at the sinners Q&A: MBJ decided to wear different sized shoes while playing smoke and stack. for smoke he wore a size too large, the explanation being that when you're wearing shoes that are too big, you're less likely to want to move around because of how uncomfortable and clunky it is. as a result, smoke as a character is very still and purposeful with his movements. and then for stack he wore a half size too small because it makes you constantly shift around on your feet trying to find a stance and a position that feels right and takes the pressure off your feet. that makes stack more fidgety and restless. so MBJ said that wearing the different shoes made it a lot easier to embody the twins because he was just reacting naturally to what his body was telling him, rather than overthinking his movements. just the coolest shit. such a neat acting choice. i love movies, man.
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