#collider interview

🎥 collider:

JCB: I went into work every day for the first 3 weeks crying with joy....The little boy inside of me was going, "I cannot believe we are here!"

Jamie speaks of the series and of the Tolkien universe as a whole with such a deep love, excitement, and respect. TROP Season 3 can't come soon enough!

A wonderful, tear-inducing interview. He's so humble.

Very happy for him!!!

"theres a couple moments in this season where i'm like oh this is the beginning of laurens van"

Maybe I have a different perspective somehow but I feel like people are mad at the lack of information on Agatha and Rio’s lives together but are even more mad at the information that the show runner is giving us…?

Maybe it’s different in some ways as I had less personal stakes in the outcome but didn’t Wandavision also leave us with a lot of ends that were not tied up? Didn’t it leave us with a bunch of them that are still not tied up, four years later?

I understand that people want to see these stories on screen, I want to see them on screen too! But I can’t understand why people are mad at the story not wrapping everything up neatly when Jac Schaeffer has never given us that in a marvel project before.

Also for those blaming Jac specifically I think it’s worth remembering that a) there have been directors and writers who have turned down working with Marvel due to lack of creative license and b) Jac has actually told us that she was only allowed to use the word ‘gone’ when talking about Wanda. To me that says enough, we know that marvel is very tight on what the writers and creators are able to do, so we shouldn’t be complaining about rhe showrunner’s input, we should be complaining about the higher powers.

I guess I just find it sad that instead of people being excited that we now have knowledge of this marriage they are more interested in complaining about what we don’t have.

Maybe I’m too old but I think people forget that the huge amount of insight we have nowadays into the behind the scenes aspect of both film and tv hasn’t always existed. We never used to get this wealth of interviews and even when we did it wasn’t to this level.

As someone who creates things I know how much of a story is often held back. I know how much writers might want to include but can’t for multiple reasons, the only difference is that now they get to share that stuff with us.

If you have been watching Showtime’s new series Fellow Travelers, you’re bound to have noticed that the episodes can get quite steamy: While Hawk Fuller (Matt Bomer) does whatever he can to stay closeted, he also doesn’t deny his sexual desires, and this results in some pretty unforgettable moments with Jonathan Bailey's Tim Laughlin. In an interview with Collider, the Bridgerton star talked about how the production team approached Hawk and Tim’s sex scenes.

The actor revealed that, much like every other aspect of Fellow Travelers, the sex scenes were also thoroughly discussed so that both he and Bomer knew what they were supposed to convey at the time of filming. For such delicate and intimate scenes, it’s vital that all the production team is on the same page, as Bailey explained

"What we were all on the same page with is the way in which the intimacy was gonna be told and captured on film and how, really, the intimacy lies between the eye contact and the shifting power dynamic. It's a conversation that they're having with their bodies. I think that's really perceptive, and that's so true. Everything was talked through, and as me and Matt got to know each other, those scenes became more easy and clear in how to do it. We were exploring that just as much as the characters were in terms of, yeah, how that intimacy is told."

Bailey also added that he sees Tim and Hawk’s sex scenes as “intrinsic" to the story, as it also shows how the couple’s dynamic evolved throughout their relationship. At the same time, we do have to factor in that the duo lived in an era in which their very lives were at risk, so Bailey underscores that "there was just no chance for them to have a healthy relationship,” especially when Tim was going through an awakening in his activism while Hawk was prioritizing his own safety. For today’s standards, Hawk’s move may seem like cowardice, but Bailey capped it off by stating that "Hawk's decisions and his survival mechanisms are just as valid as Tim’s."

In the next few weeks, Fellow Travelers will air its final episodes, and we’ll finally discover how Tim and Hawk’s relationship continues to evolve throughout the years. We already know that there was a massive shift in their connection due to the HIV outbreak in the 80s, but we’re yet to know how Tim will choose to deal with the 80s and present-day Hawk.