that I think you will find illuminating

"It felt like such a small thing. Claire [Scanlon], our director, when she called up to offer it, she said, "Just so you know there's like a little connection here." And I mentioned it to Dais that evening — she was away filming — so I said, "You know there's this thing..." And she just said, "Oh yeah, I heard about that," but we didn't think it was a big thing until we were in Montreal shooting and I was made aware that it's a bigger deal than I thought it was. But she thought it was great. She basically said, "Anything that gets people reading." And also those characters are so beautiful in Star Wars, of course they're going to inspire other people to write things around those sorts of characters. And it's why I was was drawn to playing the role. Obviously it's based on such a brilliant character that's so loved. To play a sort of shade of that, of course I was attracted to it as an actor." "It's nice to have Daisy's stamp of approval. Like, the one person whose stamp of approval we needed."

Just wanted to bring to your attention that the term whump was actually coined by the Stargate fandom specifically to describe making this guy suffer. He is the original Mr. Whump (no that's not his actual name). That's how torturable this guy is.

Everyone say mean things about him.

Here is a non exhaustive list of what he goes through in canon btw:

His parents get crushed to death right in front of him when he is a kid

He is forced to relive the memory of his parents death countless times

He dies and gets resurrected

His wife gets possessed

He fails to save her and she dies in his arms

He dies and gets resurrected again

He gets infected by a virus that makes him act crazy and gets put in an insane asylum

He dies and gets resurrected again

His ex gets possessed

He is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation

He dies and ascends to a higher plane, then gets kicked out of the higher plane and his memory is wiped

He gets kidnapped by a princess

He gets kidnapped by a fish alien

He gets kidnapped and tortured by some terrorists

He gets kidnapped and tortured by another alien

He is driven to insanity by an alien device

He dies and gets resurrected again

Currently reading You Should Be So Lucky and it's so good. Mark's characterization has me longing for a rivals to lovers situation in maybe a modern setting so there doesn't have to be so much focus on homophobia in the 1960s.

Someone liked this post so I checked if she's written anything new, and she's written an Enemies to Lovers book and I think it's set in modern times??? And is about the entertainment industry???? It's like she wrote this just for me!

Ey, this evil bard character is kinda cool, I wonder who played him...