Everything is obviously shit but I woke up in a good mood this morning and I listened to
this song on repeat on my commute which kept the good mood rolling so as I sit here I find myself trying to put optimism into the world. A monumnental task I have set for myself! Thankfully one of our faves actor Alessandro Nivola has done a lot of work on that front this week for us, so let's just take his lead. First off he gave us this new photoshoot via
Avenue magazine -- there's also a chat with him there,
click here for it. Seeing his smiling face always makes the world smile! But there's even more...
... do you remember that time he wore this tennis outfit in JC Chandor's film
A Most Violent Year? I did
a big post on it because DUH and hysterically the subject came up in
a new chat with him at Vulture! It's mostly about
The Brutalist but bless my fellow Pajibite writer Roxana Hadadi, who conducted the chat, for flipping the script over to the internet's thirst for him in these shorts. Here's what he had to say about it:
"Someone once sent me, I don’t know what you call it — a GIF, a meme, something — of that scene where I’m in my very short tennis shorts and there was some repeating thing of my ass filling up the camera frame. I figured somebody had posted it. I didn’t know that this was reaching a wider audience. [Laughs.] But I couldn’t be more thrilled."
That "someone" was me LOL and I am glad this Very Important Subject has been carried out of this here gay ghetto and into the world at large. Give it light! Anyway I wasn't going to post about this but reader Harrison -- hey Harrison! -- messaged me, egging me on, and I figured since we have a lot of Alessandro to talk about today we might as well relive those shorts. Make a full tennis movie, Alessandro! The people demand it!
Aaaaaanyway yes, there is even more Nivola News to share this morning -- the actor and exceptional silent screamer
has just joined the crazy amazing cast of a movie called (wait for it)
Diamond Shitter (lol!) that's to be directed by actor
Antonia Campbell-Hughes, who you should know from Jane Campion's
Bright Star or the recent terrific spy-series Black Doves. And what do those two properties I cherry-picked out of her sizable filmography have in common? They both also star Ben Whishaw, and yes our boy Ben Whishaw, the great gay hope, is also in this movie alongside Alessandro. Oh plus Eva fucking Green! My god! And also up-n-comer Raffey Cassidy who you should know from
The Killing of a Sacred Deer or
Vox Lux or
White Noise --
Vox Lux was of course directed by Brady Corbet, director of
The Brutalist (which co-starred both Cassidy and Nivola!) while
White Noise co-starred Alessandro's talnted son Sam Nivola (who's about to be seen on the new season of
The White Lotus) -- basically there's a lot of incestuous overlap with these folks coming together and I'm here for it! Good sexy talented people all around. And speaking of sexy people!
Hit the jump for the rest of this Alessandro shoot...
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