Josh St. Clair

The Man of Steel is a self professed comic geek, and one who also gamesand games hard enough to not only purchase a new PC, but also to insist on assembling the device himself. (Hes been lockdown gaming for months, favoring Total War: Warhammer 2, of which he even paints small figurines. Cavill is not some filthy gaming casual.)

And for those not already convinced Cavill isnt somehow everyones fantasy husband incarnated, his description features high quality dad joke/tech innuendos, warning that this kind of material isn't for everyone....viewer discretion is advised. You may see a lot of parts that you haven't seen before. Yes, show us all the parts, Henry. All. Of. Them.

To Cavills credit, there is little DIY censorship. He spends at least three days assembling the computer with a small amount of head scratching and building errorsand a large amount of bicepall to the sweet sound of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdbNoXrbUFY" id="2d1228bb-faa9-3c6f-af04-421844e6216a"> Barry Whites What Am I Gonna Do With You. </a>

Cavill has been on break since March. However, <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a30273102/witcher-season-2/" id="ce61e24d-6693-3189-ac40-1014bdda0941"> Season 2 of </a> <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a30273102/witcher-season-2/" id="10d8ebbe-faf0-3959-a098-3c2e0d42013c"> The Witcher </a> where Cavill plays the hmmm-grunting monster slayer Geraltis <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/netflixs-the-witcher-may-soon-resume-production/" id="2e84cac4-a0f8-3631-a9f7-9c544e78dc8b"> planned to resume production next month </a> .

Until then, were hoping for more Henry Cavill Builds Stuff. Make it a thing, internet.

Followers of <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a29774618/henry-cavill-the-witcher-superman-interview/" id="16254f2e-b1eb-3af0-aec2-57db6a8ba02b"> Henry Cavill </a> s incredibly <a href="https://www.instagram.com/henrycavill/?hl=en" id="117e6726-3295-3df6-aab6-201240287f13"> wholesome Instagram feed </a> these days featuring: isolation roast dinners, veteran and NHS shoutouts, and dog videoswere treated to 5 minutes and 36 seconds of the 61 British deity assembling his brand ...

Watch Henry Cavill (and His Massive Arms) Assemble a New Gaming PC

One just right weird scene featured Ashtray, a tattooed 12-year-old who Rue inexplicably finds in the backroom of a gas station, spooning cereal and presiding over cabinets of drugs. His first words: I thought your ass was dead.

<h1> So what's the deal with Euphoria's child drug dealer? </h1>

Ashtray is played by <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a33300628/javon-wanna-walton-interview/" id="86642ed4-3c55-3060-af56-66d92ad474c0"> Javon Wanna Walton </a> , and if you couldnt guess by the fact that his middle name requires quotation marks, Wanna is a boxer. Actually, hes a Junior Olympic boxing prodigy. Hes also sponsored by Under Armour and appears in a commercial with The Rock. Lets try that again: He appears in a commercial with The Rock. In the commercial, he actually gives The Rock an eyebrow raise. Again: he eyebrow-raises The Rock. Walton is a total G.

And no, his Euphoria face tattoos are not real.

Aside from throwing down, Walton is also a gymnastics star. His coach, Dayna Alkire, told <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7aQksYg_M" id="b7bd353c-0239-30ad-afe7-bc7556880b3f"> Whistle </a> that Walton is the only elite youth trampoline athlete in his home state of Georgia.

Walton's been a competitor since birth. When he was five, Walton told his kindergarten teacher he wanted to go to the Olympics. His nickname comes from his wanting to do everythingWanna. And his work ethic shows it. Walton wakes up, boxes, does school work (he <a href="http://www.fox5atlanta.com/good-day/10-year-old-boxing-genius-javon-walton-shoots-for-the-stars" id="f85286e6-f1fe-37e2-aaec-664a61a5ff9b"> reportedly </a> was a strait-A student in school before taking online classes), hits the trampoline, and then caps off the day with more boxing and gymnastics practice. His mother told Whistle that Waltons first infant movement resembled more an army crawl than a baby crawl.

Waltons father, DJ Walton, is a boxer himself. He worked on stunts for Creed II and appears in the film as Michael B. Jordans sparring partner. Hes also Wannas trainer and founder of the familys gym in Braselton, Georgia, <a href="https://www.onwardathletics.com/" id="28486323-0c13-32ad-a175-1fd10e6c3ddf"> Onward </a> .

We're not yet sure how prominent a role Walton's Ashtray will play in the rest of Euphoria (so far, his character is only listed for the pilot), but we sure hope he gets to throw hands. Or do a backflip. That's something we def wanna see.

Meet Euphoria’s 12-Year Old Drug Dealer

Last Sunday, the pilot for HBOs Euphoria dropped viewers into a <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a28073946/euphoria-drugs-sex-teenagers/" id="c3a19205-6805-3d5b-a994-6c8b3f48b0c6"> hyper-unreal Gen-Z </a> , <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a28065893/euphoria-eric-dane-sex-scene-fan-reactions/" id="58d387fb-3bd5-3dc0-ab19-70ae7853ab50"> nightmarish </a> party-rock anthem. Basically: it was weird and dark. And while the dark may have been unpleasantly dark, t...

Euphoria’s 12-Year-Old Drug Dealer Is Actually a Junior Olympic Boxer

Longer than the nearly two-decades long War on Terror, notes Amaryllis Foxhost of Netflix's newest documentary series, The Business of Drugsis the War on Drugs (declared by Richard Nixon in 1971).

And whats been profitable for syndicates and cartels is also profitable for television and Netflix, which has an almost-unending queue of narcotics-based documentaries: Dope, Drug Lords, Inside the Real Narcos, the practically celebratory Have a Good Trip, the list goes on.

Helping us navigate this series of drug investigations is Fox, who introduces herself and her career:

"I grew up all over the world, because my dad was an economist who focussed on developing economies. And then I wound up doing my undergrad at Oxford University focused on international law. It was my last year there that 9/11 happened, and it completely shattered my universe. I wanted to understand what caused it and how it could have happened. So I set about writing an algorithm that took historical data and processed it to predict the next attack. And it got the attention of the CIA. And I worked with them for almost a decade as a field operative, keeping WMDs out of the hands of non-state actors, terror groups like Al-Qaeda and their affiliates around the world."

Fox worked primarily on weapons. That algorithm she described used a variety of metrics to identify hotbeds for terrorist activitya ratio of hookah bars to madrases and portage beneath livable wage a border guard gets paid, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/books/amaryllis-fox-life-undercover-cia.html" id="f0ed710e-66da-3fc3-a882-8ffd44d01728"> Fox told the New York Times </a> in an interview for her novel, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA. She was recruited by the agency at 22.

For eight years, Fox posed as an art dealer abroad, recruiting assets for the CIA and helping prevent terror groups from acquiring weapons of mass destruction. (For a separate operation in Shanghai, Fox writes, she and her husband allowed themselves to be surveilled by the Chinese government while the CIA also watched; the CIA was spying on the spies.)

Fox left the agency in 2010. She now lives in Los Angeles with her daughter from a previous marriage; her now-husband is Robert F. Kennedy III, son of Robert Kennedy Jr. (the two <a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/cia-art-dealer-shanghai-13384/" id="b5e96ba2-da0d-3ad1-a66b-8de5700b7177"> met at Burning Man </a> ).

Foxs book is currently <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/03/brie-larson-star-executive-produce-female-focused-cia-drama-series-apple-1202570603/" id="f9b81439-9b16-370c-a5e7-ccdd4eaddb1a"> being adopted into a an Apple TV series </a> starring Brie Larson. There is no release date yet.

The book met some criticism, however, when <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/ex-cia-spy-readies-publish-book-without-approval-agency-n1050456" id="6690d428-1376-398d-a5cf-0a6a3d596864"> former intelligence officers questioned some of Foxs accounts </a> (of course, Fox had to change details to protect sensitive information, an editorial decision she says accounts for any discrepancies.)

Since leaving the agency, Fox has covered current events, appearing on news outlets like CNN, Al Jazeera, and the BBC. She also co-hosted American Ripper on the History Channel.

Fox said she shot most of the Netflix series while in her third trimester of pregnancy; she gave birth in January 2019.

The Business of Drugs Host Amaryllis Fox Has a History in the CIA

As a first installment, Netflix's The Old Guard is an odd one. It takes the Young Initiate Thrown into an Unknown World (typical first film stuff) and subsumes the storyline beneath the Veteran at the End of the Road (typical third film trilogy stuff). The results are mixed, the former storyline stripped to essential motifs (the discovery, the Neo/Morpheus fight training, the strong-headed refusal, the revelation and absolute commitment) and the latter played out perhaps faster than we can develop sympathies for our hero, Andy.

Luckily, the film seems to have overcome most of its world building growing pains, getting down to business with its final superhero-style closing scene: a group of Avenger-like misfits dramatically stepping into frame and looking just off camera. Assemble! Roll credits! (And queue <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a33252148/old-guard-ending-explained/" id="3f2bb58a-c382-37bf-ac01-0e1a3b4f8599"> cliff-hanger post credits scene </a> taken straight from the Marvel easter egg basket.) It's the kind of closing that more than anticipates a sequel. Netflix, it seems, wants to set up The Old Guard as a potential network franchise.

<h1> When will The Old Guard sequel release? </h1>

Well, nothing has been officially greenlit yet, and with the COVID-19 pandemic nothing is really in production quite yet (that we know of). But there's a strong possibility that we'll get more information in the coming weeks as Netflix assesses viewership, and if things get up and running, a sequel could be out within a couple years (think about how quickly Netflix got sequels into the mix for comedy hits The Kissing Booth and To All The Boys I've Loved Before. Different genres, but still, worth thinking about).

For now, sequel bets are smart bets.

We don't quite know yet. But they certainly have the source material for it. The graphic novel series upon which the film is based (written by Greg Rucka and illustrated by Leandro Fernandez) contains at least ten issues. Director Gina Prince-Bythewood <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGzt9hk6whE" id="97199061-ee4c-3dfe-a3fb-6bef7635720f"> said the novels were her "bible" </a> when adapting the film, and she worked alongside Rucka when expanding characters.

In an <a href="https://www.gamesradar.com/the-old-guard-2-netflix-sequel-explained/" id="646ff743-1bc8-35e2-a509-171eece5f6b6"> interview with Total Film </a> , The Old Guard star Charlize Theron said that "we went into this talking about [a sequel] as a possibility, and it's definitely something that excites us."

Theron expanded on this possibility in an interview with GamesRadar+, saying that any sequel will be "based on the graphic novel. In terms of what Greg has written, Quynh has reared her head, and that causes some issues, absolutely. But also, there's a very grounded story tackling problems within the world, which again brings more villains that are not with immortality, so it's a really cool balance between the two, in the graphic novel."

<h1> Will the original Old Guard cast return? </h1>

A lot of the time it's hard to expect major movie stars (like Theron) to return for franchise sequels past the first film. Other times, they'll return up to a certain point, only eventually to be replaced in the lead (think Jeremy Renner taking over for Matt Damon in The Bourne Legacy). But granted Theron's quote above talking about a sequel being a possibility from the get-go, it's fair to be optimistic that she would return.

Kiki Layne, who plays Nile, could also be a fair bet to return, considering the journey her character went on in the film. Fellow team members Marwan Kenzari and Luca Marinelli can be expected to return too, and Matthias Schoenaerts and Van Veronica Ngo's presence in that final scene would seem to make them essential. Also essential? Theron's fellow Academy Award-nominated star Chiwetel Ejiofor, whose character, Copley, seems to join the team in a more permanent manner in the movie's closing moments.

'The Old Guard' Is Probably Getting a Sequel

Netflix's The Old Guard Is Probably Getting a Sequel

Netflix kicks back with another international action thriller, The Old Guard, which you likely thought would resemble its previous Hemsworth-athon, <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a32300705/will-there-be-an-extraction-sequel/" id="66391bfe-dd84-3f92-af45-f8f9e484035a"> Extraction </a> , but realized was actually closer to The Expendables meets Interview with the Vampire. Confusing genre. Still some pretty decent action. (Can we get a Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth movie now, please? Our fight money is on Theron.)

The Old Guard, based on the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Old-Guard-Book-One-Opening/dp/1534302409" id="8377bbe2-2de4-312f-a428-080344299c8d"> graphic novel written by Greg Rucka and illustrated by Leandro Fernandez </a> , follows a group of immortal soldiers who heal Wolverine-style (though its unclear how they overcome explosions or missing limbs; do they, like, grow them back?). The power arrives randomly during an individuals life and also disappears randomly, or when the plot calls for it. The disappearance is supposed to mean something, but seems to only mean someone is getting ... old.

Age becomes, then, a salient talking point throughout the film. We learn that two characters were vampire bittener, we mean, immortalizedsometime during the Crusades (so, anywhere between 1095 and 1492, though likely closer to the First Crusades). Another character became immortalized in the 19th century. And then theres Andy, also referred to as Andromache of Scythia.

Andy is the oldest known soldier. She doesnt remember exactly when she first realized her immortality, which seems odd.

(Other questions Does time move slower for Andy since shes so old? Does her brain stay its age forever, and if so wouldnt she also be super smart and not just good at killing? And if you are super smart, why keep killing if all you want is to better humanity? Couldn't you learn everything there is to know about medicine and just, like, do experiments for hundreds of years? Also, why abandon Quynh when you have literally centuries to find her, and those Spanish ships couldnt have gone THAT far out to sea? And can you really drown forever if your lungs are still full of water? Wouldnt you just stay asleep?) We digress

The hint is in that word "Scythia," which Copley mentions toward the end of the film. The word also appears during the bulletin board credits.

Scythia was a nomadic empire located across much or Eurasia in what is now Ukraine, Russia, and Crimea. Like the Mongols, the Scythians were revered for their horse-riding and warring. Historians trace the Scythians as far back as the 8th century BCE. That would be almost 10,000 years ago, making Andy very old. The empire collapsed at the hands of the Sarmatians before 200 CE.

Theron's Andy is, therefore, anywhere from 10,000 to about 20,000 years old.

That makes her almost twice as old as the other oldest living organism on Earth, a <a href="https://askabiologist.asu.edu/questions/what-oldest-living-thing-earth#:~:text=The%20Great%20Basin%20Bristlecone%20Pine,non%2Dclonal%20organism%20on%20Earth." id="b97746ea-a617-39c0-a63f-a165e5f5aa01"> Bristlecone Pine tree </a> , which is about 5,000 years old.

Andy's Actual Age Is the Biggest Mystery of The Old Guard

~ Erving Goffman, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life

IT'S WINTER 2010 and Jim Carrey has once again walked through the door, Truman style. Walking through the doorthe metaphor taken from Carreys role as the Truman Shows titular movie star (Carrey, the movie star within the movie), which became a prophetic part both for Hollywood culture and for Carrey himselfwalking through the doorhappens every so often. It has become the life-imitating-art way for Carrey to express escape. From fame. From expectation. From having to play himself. Like most pathways to enlightenment, the threshold crossing can be painful; walking through the door at times means sweet euphoria and, at times, supreme hell.

So Jim Carrey is through the door once again, and, now on the other side, dragging large paint cans down the cold streets of the West Village. Hes set up an art studio here. He spends all day painting and parts of the early morning dispatching drunks and most hours heartbroken. Hes battled depression his whole life, was on Prozac for a time, and had since switched to a regimen of part cognitive behavioral therapy and part holistic medicationhydroxytryptophan and tyrosine, just enough to bump his dopamineand now part painting, which is doing wonders for Carrey, because creativity is medicine.

Word has gone around town that Carrey is painting. Word is: Carreys looking for a writer to help pen an essay about his paintingswhat they all mean, this hellacious euphoria put to canvas.

Across town in Park Slope, writer Dana Vachon decides to take full advantage of the offer and go say hi. He has absolutely no interest in authoring Jim Carreys art manifesto; he just wants to meet the comedian. They swap numbers.

Not long after, Carrey texts: Hey man, what are you doing?

Vachon is back at his apartment, stealing Wi-Fi from his neighbor and fully expecting never to talk to Carrey ever again. (Carrey, now, years later: He had no idea how badly I needed a friend.)

Vachon: I dunno, what are you doing?

Carrey: John Barrymore in Jekyll and Hyde.

And then, all of a sudden, the two are on a phone call, both watching the 1920 horror flick together, riffing.

And then Jim Carrey, step by step, begins breaking down the facial performance of John Barrymore: Now watch here. Barrymore knows he needs to do these things with his face. So theres an economy that hes . . .

And then, for whatever reasonmaybe its their shared late-night, cable-surfing insomnia, or how theyd both known extreme highs and lows in life, or how theyd both been at one point disgusted by the faade of their industries (Vachon began as a Wall Street analyst)this kind of conversation continues. For years.

And then one day, something comes to Vachon, an opening to a story, Jim Carrey's story. The two had been discussing writing Carreys biography together. But neither of them had wanted to write some boring memoir, because do you ever really know someone after reading their memoir? (And can you ever really know anyone anyway?) Carrey didnt think so. Carrey wanted to create.

Vachon: Hey, Ive got this scene. Theres this guy. His names Jim Carrey. And hes in his house. And he spends like, a lot of time there. And you wouldnt expect it, but hes just mainlining content.

Theres a long pause. Vachon is terrified. Carrey is about to tell him its a horrible idea, he thinks.

Carrey, finally: And you know what else? Sometimes Jim Carrey makes himself up before he goes to bed, because hes afraid of selfies that will be taken at the morgue, if he dies in his sleep.

And thats itthe book is born. It begins with that scene and then it explodes: deepfake Jim Carrey pornography, Chinese conspiracies, backyard epiphanies, aliens. Carrey and Vachon cant stop themselves.

Is it true? Did these things really happen to a man named Jim Carrey? It doesnt matter. They feel true. They feel truer than any celebrity memoire. For Jim Carrey, it feels like the truest version of himself hes ever created.

Do you know Jim Carrey? The real Jim Carrey? Jim. Jimmy. Jimbo. The Jimster.

Youve seen the fun, farting Jim Carrey, the goofball. The physical comedian. The 1994 Jim Carrey, star of that breakout year when Ace Ventura and The Mask and Dumb and Dumber all pushed his salary to $10 million per film (and then not long after, $20 million), when he was getting compared to Buster Keaton and Jerry Lewis and the head of Columbia Pictures said he may be the biggest star in the world. Well, for a time, maybe until the mid 2000s, Carrey probably was the biggest star in the world.

And then there was a gapmaybe ten yearsin which you probably forgot Jim Carrey existed.

And then he resurfaced, and you probably read about the new Jim Carreys, the bizarre, the provocative, the wait-is-that-really-Jim-Carrey Jim Carreys. Maybe you read about how he became a painter and a political cartoonist. How he began painting multi-ethnic Jesus (Christ consciousness) and then Trump. Or how he nearly lost his mind filming Man on the Moon, and, how, a few years ago, after that documentary about how he nearly lost his mind filming Man on the Moon, he grew out a beard and began going on talk shows and saying things like: I used to be a guy who was experiencing the world, and now I feel like the world and the universe experiencing a guy. Or, during that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JmNKGfFj7w" id="a587a083-6273-39df-a185-6fb8d40848c5"> uncomfortable fashion show interview </a> : I didnt get dressed up. There is no me.

You probably thought Jim Carrey just went crazy.

But the truth is stranger and more wonderful still.

For eight years, they talk. Talking and writing is medicine, salvation. And Jim Carrey tells Dana Vachon about everything. Everything it has ever meant to be Jim Carrey. All the Jim Carreys. The child Jim Carrey making faces in his bedroom mirror. The teenage Jim Carrey, the high school dropout, driving with his dad hundreds of miles through the snow to perform standup. The Jim Carrey making his big break, opening for the legend, Rodney Dangerfield, booking The Tonight Show, getting his first TV role. The 1994 Jim Carrey. And then the Jim Carrey that remained when the mega star Jim Carrey began to fade.

And with all these Jim Carreys assembled, the two friends begin crafting the next Jim Carrey, the Jim Carrey to contain all Jim Carreys. A Jim Carrey different from the Jim Carreys of past writers and journalists, those people who believe after an hour or so with a subject, they can somehow capture that person, read his inner most self in everything he does: in the way he responds to a fan, or drinks a Diet Coke, or swings a golf club. No, you just get more Jim Carreys. The Rolling Stone Jim Carrey or the Esquire Jim Carrey or the TMZ Jim Carrey. And can you actually call those real?

No. But while helping write this new Jim Carrey, the Jim Carrey who battles aliens with Gwyneth Paltrow and isnt real, something really weird starts to happen: Dana Vachon begins to see the Jim Carrey everybody else kinda missed.

One day, while the two are writing an absurdist scene fixated on Carreys fathers bowtie, Carrey leaves the room and Vachon, still writing, looks up to see Carrey standing there holding the actual bow tie, like a relic. On another occasion, working on a hallucinogenic dialogue with his fatherhis father being ground to death in a Play-Doh Fun Factory beltCarrey writes the line, I started dreaming for you, and Vachon thinks, hell, here in the craziest, most unreal scene was the truth of a father son relationship: I started dreaming for you.

Carreys father died in that breakout year, 1994. He never saw Carrey become a mega star. If theres one thread that ties together all the Jim Carreys, it is he, Percy Carrey, Jims father. How his father reminded him of a real-life cartoon. How his father had given up musician dreams, artist dreams, to raise a family and see his son through the snow to his comedy gigs, his sons art. I started dreaming for you.

A truth. Did Vachon stumble upon ... a truth? And does Danna Vachon know Jim Carrey now? The ur-Jim-Carrey, the true Jim Carrey?

Well, if you ask Jim Carrey who Jim Carrey really is, he will probably tell you that Jim Carrey is, in fact, no one. Jim Carrey doesnt exist. And doesnt that make a purposefully fictional Jim Carry who doesnt exist just about the most real Jim Carrey of them all?

If Jim Carrey didnt go crazy, then what the heck actually happened?

The answer is that sometime around 2000, Jim Carrey began to see. He began to see the charade of personathe Latin origins meaning something like: a theatrical mask. Like Carrey's own film, The Mask: its something you wear, something that alters you and also becomes you, but falsely.

And the true story of Carreys not-crazy path to enlightenment begins in Toronto. Carrey started, in his teenage years, as an impressionist. He did Elvis and Henry Fonda and Ghandi and dozens more. Then one day, he wanted to be original. So he dropped the impressions and took the stage each night simply as Jim Carreywith nothing prepared. He would just improvise on the spot. Some nights he got killedyelling, bottles thrown. Some nights he did the killingand the throwing. He was becoming someone new each time, some new Jim Carrey.

But who did Jim Carrey want to be? Who could he be? He was still so young.

So young that when Rodney Dangerfield first spoke to Carrey in his dressing room, he just looked down at the young comedian and, without saying a word, began howling uncontrollably with laughter.

He turned to his friend, Joe Ancis, and said: Who the FUCK is this guy, man?? Look at him!

Then to Carrey: Have you ever been in LOVE??

He had not. But what Carrey could be was the audiences release valve. He could be unbridled joy. He could be a man Free from Concern, so that his audience would be free from concern. That would be his persona, his main mask, he decided.

Erving Goffman, the Canadian sociologist, wrote of social behavior as mask wearing. When we dine with friends, when we meet strangers, when we interview for jobs, we, like thespians, are wearing faces. We do this unconsciouslyand mostly to blend in. But there is one person among us who wears his mask differently, consciously, intentionally. Goffman called this wearer cynical. A cynical individual may delude his audience for what he considers to be their own good, or for the good of the community. Elsewhere, Goffman refers to one cynical act as a pious frauda kind of innocent deceit.

Carrey as Stanley Ipkiss in 1994s The Mask. The year would prove to be Carreys Hollywood breakout.

For years, the Man Free from Concern was Carreys fraud. He laughed and farted and climbed up walls and lived knowingly, willingly, inside Hollywoods Truman Showall to make his audience roar. But a time came when Jim Carrey no longer wanted to be that man, when the jesters face became too heavy and he took that mask off.

Thats what his novel with Dana Vachon comes to be about. Its about dismantling Persona. Its about the persona of Jim Carrey, someone who tried so hard for so long to be one thing, but realized, later, he was no longer doing it for an audience, but for himself. His mask, his Ego, demanded relevance and so he was performing for it, for himself. He was committing self-fraud.

So he threw the mask of Jim Carrey away, and he began a new, better, more cynical act: a war on Jim Carrey, a fraud to reveal fraudulence.

You see, for the last two decades, Jim Carrey has been on a singular quest to reveal and then vanquish Ego. To tear off its face, to stretch it and show that face as a false idol. And then to paint on it several contradictory faces that are somehow all true and falseand then to wear it.

What happened when Jim Carrey set forth on this quest? Well, the world couldnt see what Jim Carrey was doing. What he was doing with those weird red-carpet interviews and bizarre late-night ramblings: he was showing the audience their own masks. They didnt understand.

And what happened after he did these things? The world simply had enough of Jim Carrey. They started writing things like <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/20/jim-carrey-political-odd-no-longer-funny/" id="7b96152b-927a-353f-a0f9-6ed6f3e4ac7f"> Why wont Jim Carrey just shut up </a> ? and <a href="https://www.looper.com/36926/hollywood-wont-cast-jim-carrey-anymore/" id="59daa3eb-b49c-3dc2-ac7d-48d9720d4112"> Hollywood wont cast Jim Carrey anymore </a> . He had all these colors to paint with nowhumor and heartbreak and self-awareness. (Thats what Dangerfield meant when he laughed: there was a world of emotions left to be had and with them you construct art and with art you get to be free and not burdened by Self. With art you get to teach others about the burden of Self.)

Yes, he had all these colors now, and he walked through that door on a quest to vanquish self, and he dragged paint cans down the streets of the West Village, and all the while we thought he was just losing his mind, losing his relevance. But it was the opposite. OH BOY! was Jim Carrey on to something this time.

Jim Carrey is sitting in his L.A. kitchen with Dana Vachon a month before publication. Theyre doing a Zoom interview about their novel and looking like two brothers who cant seem to sit still at the dinner table. They wear the same devilish grin.

They talk about meeting each other and becoming fast friends and how they didnt mean anything by turning Gwyneth Paltrow into a militant alien killer, because Jim Carrey actually really respects Gwyneth Paltrow, and also we plugged Goop, so what do you want??

And then there comes the question, the question no one really knows the answer to anymore, because they stopped asking: who is Jim Carrey nowall these years later?

2018 British Academy Britannia Awards presented by Jaguar Land Rover and American Airlines - Portrait Room

Carrey becomes serious. Im two things, he says. Im a body and mind that has to defend itself and take care of itself and try to make a good show of itself in the world. (The original fraud.) And then Jim Carrey is the other thing, which contains the first: he is everything. There is nothing that isnt me, he says. And this everything is why he, Jim Carrey, doesnt really exist. Because how can you exist, when you are the same as all things?

And then Jim Carrey tells the story of the first time he walked through this door, Truman style. The moment when Jim Carrey didnt want to be Jim Carrey anymore and his new beautiful fraud truly began. It's a story best told last. Would you believe it if told first?

In a very desperate moment in my life, I was driving up the Pacific Coast Highway in a convertible in December, and it was cold and I had tears pouring down my face, trying to figure out what the hell this whole mess is all about, Carrey begins. He was brokenhearted then. No bags. Hell bent on San Francisco. Wanting to just check into a random hotel. Then I thought: What are you doing? People know you. You can't just, desperately check in with no bags and looking like a maniac.

Carrey decided to turn around. When he turned onto the on-ramp back to L.A., he thought about his recent roles as Andy Kaufman and Tony Clifton in Man on the Moon. He had disappeared behind those masks, and for the first time in a long time, he was free of Jim Carrey. He realized he was free only when he was someone else. And then Jim Carrey thought: what if I am someone else? And this feeling came over me, Carrey remembers. Every bit of concern that I had in my body drained out of me. And suddenly everything was crystal clear. The moon, it was like I could reach up and pull it out of the sky. And I started laughing hysterically. I'm driving in the cold, and I'm laughing hysterically, and Im crying at the same time with laughter, and my mind just started writing jokes, one after the anotherjokes, jokes, jokes, jokesto make myself laugh. I was free. I was totally free.

The experience lasted for three days. And then the world returnedemails and calls from agents and, just, life. But Carrey glimpsed enlightenment: wholeness. And for the rest of his career, through art, he has wanted to convey this truth. But only if we can sift through the fraud. The fraud is for our own good.

You must read beneath the words, Carrey concludes. Because [the novel] is really close to the bone. There are things here that are the source of terrible pain and the source of terrible challenge in my life. Theyre all there in one form or another. It just might not be the exact details. But if you open up to reading a little deeper, youre gonna know me.

So maybe, in the end, we can know Jim Carrey. He's just, well, a little different, and maybe he isn't even Jim Carrey anymore. That's the strange and wonderful truth. As to which parts are true truth, which parts are personas and which parts are crying in convertiblespeople will want to know.

And then, loudly, in a different voice and maybe a different Jim: ITS THEIR PROBLEM, MAAAAAAN!!

When the individual has no belief in his own act and no ultimate concern with the beliefs of his audience, we may call him cynical . . . the cynic, with all his professional disinvolvement, may obtain unprofessional pleasures from his masquerade, experiencing a kind of gleeful spiritual aggression from the fact that he can toy at will with something his audience must take seriously.

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2) Coco (2017) Coco was inspired by the Mexican holiday "Day of the Dead," which begins November 1. About memory, death, tradition, and family, Coco is just about as Halloween as a movie can possibly be. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coco-Theatrical-Version-Anthony-Gonzalez/dp/B0779FK899/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Coco&amp;qid=1593548487&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="64393861-2d94-3284-a55a-5ba944bf1196"> WATCH HERE </a> Disney

3) Halloween (1978) The classic 1978 slasher film introduces one of the most iconic figures of cinema and the holiday: Michael Myers. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Halloween-John-Carpenter/dp/B018A5RPYU/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Halloween&amp;qid=1593548522&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="ee4b9b63-4ca0-3448-a972-343a8a444af1"> WATCH HERE </a> Compass International Pictures

4) The Halloween Tree (1993) Based on Ray Bradbury's novel, the made-for-TV film follows four children across culture and time as they quest to save the soul of their dying friend. It's might be said Bradbury did for Halloween what Charles Dickens did for Christmas. We agree. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Tree-Ray-Bradbury/dp/B00FGI4M3M/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Halloween+Tree&amp;qid=1593548542&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="8603b925-2f35-348e-ac46-1a135067f477"> WATCH HERE </a> Cartoon Network

5) The Vvitch (2016) The Vvitch chronicles all the harvest-time horror of colonial New England. The cinematography looks like a series of oil paintings and the film's supernatural storyline will make you thank the gods for electricity. And science. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Witch-Anya-Taylor-Joy/dp/B01BT3SDQO/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Vvitch&amp;qid=1593548697&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="5d729788-63e6-3d22-a823-1eeb12fc9086"> WATCH HERE </a> Netflix

6) A Ghost Story (2017) While A Ghost Story doesn't take place on Halloween, it's basic concept (a man wearing the lamest Halloween costume of all time) explores all the themes of death and loss and time that makes Halloween Halloween. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Story-Casey-Affleck/dp/B075JVQHYL/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=A+Ghost+Story&amp;qid=1593548724&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="4f841588-cd8c-36c5-a512-7433977641ce"> WATCH HERE </a> A24

7) Sleepy Hollow (1999) Based on maybe the most famous New England folk tale ever, this Tim Burton adaptation expands the story in ways somehow creepier than the original tale. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sleepy-Hollow-Johnny-Depp/dp/B00AALY4PG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Sleepy+Hollow&amp;qid=1593548751&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="034cb13d-bd8b-35ad-a166-86d593eda9ae"> WATCH HERE </a> Paramount

8) The Exorcist (1973) The story is based on a series of apparent demonic possessions in 1949. While not explicitly a Halloween story, The Exorcist more than qualifies as the Super Scary Classic Movie That Must Be Watched In October. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Exorcist-Ellen-McRae/dp/B00124PXW8/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Exorcist&amp;qid=1593548776&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="d03d015a-2848-343c-aa26-48411c19b969"> WATCH HERE </a> Warner Bros.

9) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) In the same spirit is The Silence of the Lambs, which is just a Halloween must watch. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Silence-Lambs-Jodie-Foster/dp/B002CMV1N4/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Silence+of+the+Lambs&amp;qid=1593548806&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="2fdf611e-d00a-3fea-af72-c43aab82ff8a"> WATCH HERE </a> Orion Pictures

10) Scream (1996) Inspired by the Gainesville Ripper, a serial killer who killed five Florida students in August 1990, Scream is essential fright night viewing, and the iconic mask worn by the killer is maybe the most famous American Halloween image there is. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Scream-David-Arquette/dp/B004U8VUQG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Scream&amp;qid=1593548847&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="f1be113a-3c79-3183-a72b-b13e01fc8c06"> WATCH HERE </a> Dimension Films

11) Donnie Darko (2001) Halloween means doomsday in the classic cult film, which we never get tired of watching. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Donnie-Darko-Jake-Gyllenhaal/dp/B002MGGM9I/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Donnie+Darko&amp;qid=1593548863&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="1447dcb3-cb44-325b-a5b8-c0cc2ba2bf00"> WATCH HERE </a> Pandora Cinema

12) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) The Persian vampire western horror epic features just enough costume parties and horror for us to call it a Halloween movie. And just enough social and sexual subtext for us to call it a modern classic. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Walks-Alone-Night-English-Subtitled/dp/B00TTRBGIK/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=A+Girl+Walks+Home+Alone+at+Night&amp;qid=1593548879&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="faa04863-d115-31e8-a3d0-4480bb29b789"> WATCH HERE </a> Vice

13) Poltergeist (1982) The 1982 horror classic features just the sort of realm crossing beings the Celtics feared during ancient times. The new threshold is TV. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Poltergeist-Craig-T-Nelson/dp/B00471TLZS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=poltergeist&amp;qid=1593548901&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="7e4cef2b-9650-36be-a348-b50681cbda68"> WATCH HERE </a> MGM

14) Ghostbusters (1984) And when the ghosts do come out ... <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ghostbusters-Bill-Murray/dp/B008Y70TMK/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Ghostbusters&amp;qid=1593548923&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="f96da26b-e92f-3223-a143-c002b83c3bc0"> WATCH HERE </a> Columbia Pictures

15) The Blair Witch Project (1999) The found-footage horror touchstone shows events after a group of students who go missing in October. It'll make you keep your costume party indoors. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blair-Witch-Project-Heather-Donahue/dp/B000KDZSA4/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=the+blair+witch+project&amp;qid=1593548945&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="aa1b4fbf-e5d0-3152-a812-e3787a2a0e60"> WATCH HERE </a> Artisan Entertainment

16) Scary Movie (2000) The spoof horror film turned into a massive franchise and pop culture classic. Beware of middle school humor. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Scary-Movie-Shawn-Wayans/dp/B00AYB0YFQ/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Scary+Movie&amp;qid=1593548967&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-2" id="50c71ebc-d702-39d6-a829-4ff40a12b4ce"> WATCH HERE </a> Dimension Films

17) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) The Halloween flight of Elliott and E.T. makes the film not only a cinema but also an October classic <a href="https://www.amazon.com/T-Extra-Terrestrial-Henry-Thomas/dp/B009GN6DT4/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=E.T.+the+Extra-Terrestrial&amp;qid=1593548983&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="74588a91-e56c-3a26-aa1a-da5a3e170222"> WATCH HERE </a> Universal

18) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) The film features the birth of Freddy Krueger and the most overused Halloween costume ever. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nightmare-Elm-Street-John-Saxon/dp/B002R1UTAQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=A+Nightmare+on+Elm+Street&amp;qid=1593549000&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="e92a1f8b-08d8-33b3-a4e0-da2f5ceff03f"> WATCH HERE </a> New Line Cinema

19) The Crow (1994) It's a superhero film all about death and Halloween and revenge was also the last performance for star Brandon Lee. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Crow-Brandon-Lee/dp/B005ZD8I6K/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Crow&amp;qid=1593549032&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="d8fa4a29-b4c8-32a6-a377-8f133b47fb3a"> WATCH HERE </a> Miramax

20) The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) After turning 13 on Halloween, Rynn Jacobs must protect a family secret. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Little-Girl-Lives-Down-Lane/dp/B01DEG0A4W/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Little+Girl+Who+Lives+Down+the+Lane&amp;qid=1593549068&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="831fe195-c493-36a3-a3c3-5ee18a570d76"> WATCH HERE </a> Astral Films

21) Song of the Sea (2014) The fantasy film follows Saoirse and Ben who are caught up in a supernatural battle one Halloween. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Song-Sea-David-Rawle/dp/B00TFVZCIU/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Song+of+the+Sea&amp;qid=1593549472&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="822f1cdd-a819-319f-a8bd-0238ecbc56aa"> WATCH HERE </a> StudioCanal

22) Corpse Bride (2005) Another necessary Tim Burton entry. And a good one. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Burtons-Corpse-Bride-Johnny-Depp/dp/B0091XEGTI/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Corpse+Bride&amp;qid=1593549500&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="654c7903-e95c-3ed1-ab8f-f3327a902968"> WATCH HERE </a> Warner Bros.

23) It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) An absolute classic full of tricks and rocks. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Its-Great-Pumpkin-Charlie-Brown/dp/B001IZ1PY6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=It%27s+the+Great+Pumpkin%2C+Charlie+Brown.&amp;qid=1593549596&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="155363b1-455a-322c-ae16-1abcf8d68d77"> WATCH HERE </a> CBS

24) Trick 'r Treat (2009) Trick 'r Treat is a Halloween horror anthology that pays tribute to some of the holiday's many legends. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trick-r-Treat-Quinn-Lord/dp/B002SAA4I8/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Trick+%27r+Treat&amp;qid=1593549617&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="2790020e-b5f7-31d2-a5f5-fde0070cf436"> WATCH HERE </a> Warner Bros. Pictures

25) Frankenweenie (2012) Another necessary Tim Burton addition. C'mon does anyone capture the spirit of costumed childhood better? <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Frankenweenie-Charlie-Tahan/dp/B00AOOIIVA/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Frankenweenie&amp;qid=1593549634&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="239fe9e0-6597-32cb-a2c6-0598d98806af"> WATCH HERE </a> Disney

26) Pet Sematary (1989) Not every Stephen King work takes place around Halloween (it's too easy a setting). Pet Sematary is one of the few. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pet-Sematary-Denise-Crosby/dp/B07GRGLQSD/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Pet+Sematary&amp;qid=1593549653&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-2" id="d4a84bf6-80f0-3c3f-ace2-e5de1198d24f"> WATCH HERE </a> Paramount

27) The Adams Family (1991) When every day is Halloween ... <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Addams-Family-Christopher-Lloyd/dp/B0035LJY6C/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Adams+Family&amp;qid=1593549674&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-2" id="c28ea966-26b9-39c4-accc-04af00c566fd"> WATCH HERE </a> Paramount

28) Casper (1995) It's the cutest and most wholesome of Halloween tales. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Casper-Christina-Ricci/dp/B000I9S5SC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Casper&amp;qid=1593549699&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="2dfeb380-d410-33bc-a76c-2451e028049c"> WATCH HERE </a> Universal

29) Hocus Pocus (1993) Three witches return to comedic life after a teenager resurrects them on Halloween. Now a cult classic. But not as culty as our last pick .... <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hocus-Pocus-Bette-Midler/dp/B004JMY312/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Hocus+Pocus&amp;qid=1593549718&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="761076ee-9d1c-3b40-a06f-874dc18811a9"> WATCH HERE </a> Walt Disney Pictures

30) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) The film that will forever be associated with Halloween even if it's hard to tell just what the hell is actually happening on screen. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Horror-Picture-Show/dp/B001HLZMUE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Rocky+Horror+Picture+Show&amp;qid=1593549736&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1" id="b29b325a-a6bf-34be-a7b5-bc0e53071caf"> WATCH HERE </a> 20th Century Fox

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2) It Comes At Night By "It," the title likely means nightmares. But if those nightmares aren't actually fake, well, then what are they? A24's art house horror flick is a must-see. A24

3) The Vvitch The Vvitch ("witch" in Jacobean era spelling ) works because it digs into the origins of American horror: folktale and paranoia from a God-worshipping, Satan-fearing people. Every frame looks like a beautiful and ominous oil painting. Netflix

4) The Evil Dead See the blurb? <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/g30443371/stephen-king-movies-tv-shows-list/" id="dd6a2bab-fe5f-3bd0-ae08-85beef62309a"> Stephen King </a> called the movie "the most ferociously original horror film of the year." What more convincing do you need? Renaissance Pictures

5) Green Room This super low-budget horror flick features a punk rock band hunted down by neo-Nazis. Don't mistake "low budget" for not scary. Plus: Patrick Stewart. A24

6) Hush A home invasion thriller that's all about sound. Or rather: the lack of sound. Netflix

7) Train to Busan Just when we thought the zombie genre had pulled all the lumbering, brain-groaning tricks, Train To Busan comes along to remind us just how terrifying human mad cow disease actually would be. Next Entertainment World

8) Shutter Shutter is one of Thailand's best known horror flicks and utilizes a classic horror tropefaces showing up in polaroidsto chilling effect. GMM Grammy

9) The Ring Before you die, you see the ring. Also, before you die, you should totally go see The Ring. It's a classic by now. DreamWorks Pictures

10) The Ritual Based on the novel by Adam Nevill, The Ritual is a wilderness survival horror you probably recognize, but never get tired of. Netflix

11) Coraline If Coraline terrified you as a child, don't worry; it will still terrify you as an adult. Focus Features

12) Under the Shadow A mother and daughter are haunted in Tehran by an unknown evil. Both horror movie and commentary on post-revolution Iran, the film satisfyingly twists the horror genre. XYZ Films

13) 1922 Based on the Stephen King novella, 1922 may not be the best of the King adaptations, but it's one of the most satisfying in a while. Netflix

14) Apostle From The Raid director, Gareth Evans, Apostle follows a man a remote island cult. Netflix

15) The Invitation More psychological thriller than straight horror, The Invitation offers up maybe (maybe) the worst yuppy suburban dinner you can imagine. It also features one of the creepiest final shots of any film on this list. Drafthouse Films

16) Creep Another found footage horror installment from the Paranormal Activity producers, Creep is a smarter and more rewarding take on the genre. This is not the Mark Duplass you've seen in The League. Path

17) Creep 2 And another one. And maybe even better. Path

18) Candyman Say his name five times in front of a mirror and he appears, the murdered son of a former slave. Watch now and get ready for the reboot/remake/sequel coming soon from Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions. TriStar Pictures

19) Insidious You'll recognize director James Wan's style from The Conjuring films. The jump scares are predictable but still terrifying. FilmDistrict

20) Bulbbul While maybe not the scariest of scary movies (not that it's exactly marketed as such), Bulbbul is just a visual feast and one of the more imaginative of Netflix's original films. Netflix

21) Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Another entry in great visuals. Just, without a lot of terror behind them. Necropia

22) The Autopsy of Jane Doe Dead bodies, supernatural events, a pair of coroners, this film offers up all the horror ingredients for a solid pay off. IFC Midnight

23) Backcountry A wilderness survival tale where the terror walks on four legs and is a bear. IFC Midnight

24) Gerald's Game Stuck in a house and handcuffed to a bed beside her dead husband, the psychological thriller begins. Another Stephen King adaptation. Netflix

25) Les Affams A Canadian zombie flick with more things to say than just braiiins. Entertainment One

26) XX This anthology horror film is directed by four separate filmmakers, each with a horror style her own. XYZ Films

27) Velvet Buzzsaw While more satire than horror, Velvet Buzzsaw still retains many tropes of its genre, while also bending and twisting them to make grander statements about art. Yeah, it's one of those movies. Netflix

28) Tusk For more art house-like horror, there's Tusk, a story about a man transformed into a walrus. Directed by <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a26146513/kevin-smith-heart-attack-weight-loss-interview/" id="0278b48f-e5e3-3846-a97d-e49b20000cff"> Kevin Smith </a> . This movie is...bizarre! Fair warning! A24

29) The Golem Based on the Jewish legend similar to Frankenstein, but featuring a creepy child. Epic Pictures Group

30) Emelie A tale of babysitting and demonic child possession that's familiar but worth a few good scares. Dark Sky Films

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The adaptation will be a retelling of the original series, helmed by series creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. The duo have spoken about <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/g32799296/avatar-the-last-airbender-live-action-remake-dream-cast/" id="0c4c8f19-82f8-384c-a693-644c9fcc69ba"> casting for the series </a> (which is reportedly still taking place), and how they wanted to maintain the ethnic diversity of the original seriesone of many mistakes of that other adaptation of which we will not speak.

According to <a href="https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/netflixs-avatar-airbender-adaptation-reportedly-feature-lgbt-characters/" id="87e286ac-1023-30d2-a169-1ab0d9142a73"> sources close to We Got This Covered </a> , the Netflix adaptation will also feature several LGBTQ characters.

For those about to point fingers and accuse the creators of <a href="https://ew.com/movies/2019/03/19/harry-potter-fantastic-beasts-jk-rowling-dumbledore-sexuality/" id="62567754-322d-39ee-a331-f3f4a092e7d0"> JK Rowling-ing </a> the characters sexuality (that would be: deciding characters sexual orientation retroactively and performatively), know that the reports suggest these will be new characters, original characters. Which is exciting for several reasons; not only will the series become even more inclusive to its diverse younger audience (and <a href="https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/publication/documents/2017-11/ipsos-mori-almanac-2017.pdf" id="e05e2a5e-0bd4-3a7c-a2e4-87936f3192fa"> some studies show </a> that more members of Generation Z identify as gender non-binary than any previous generation), but these additions also imply totally new storylinesand that the adaptation wont simply be a shot-by-shot remake of the original. Thank god.

Fans of Avatar know that these additions won't be the first LGBTQ characters in the shows universe. The sequel series The Legend of Korra featured a queer protagonist. Though, <a href="https://www.pride.com/geek/2020/6/08/netflixs-live-action-avatar-might-have-multiple-lgbtq-characters" id="865d6526-a29c-39f6-a76f-a19092f8c6a2"> some have pointed out </a> the rapidity by which this development took place; it wasnt until literally the final scene that Korras queerness was made evident to the audienceand in a way that seemed afterthought-ish.

DiMartino and Konietzko seem to have recognized that criticism. We cant wait to see how they handle things this go-aroundif 2022 ever arrives.

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If you think you grew out of animated television before the early 2000s, or your Netflix watching consists entirely and predictably of The Office, its time to climb out from under your comedy rock (also, reassess your views on animation) and watch Avatar: The Last Airbender, literally one of the <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/g32380506/best-animated-series/" id="d3b7d583-e47f-3f2e-a52b-09b1079d7233"> best animated series of all time </a> . For those of us on our umpteenth ...

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Coleman, now 56, wanted to clarify certain aspects of his history of using steroids, which began at age 30 after he was tired of getting my ass kicked [at competition]. Once he began using, Coleman shot up middling ranks to winning the annual bodybuilding competition. Steroids helped leveled the playing field, he said.

Everything was legal back then, Coleman saidthough he may have meant "acceptable" given that anabolic steroids were still considered a controlled substance at the time. Coleman said he would get steroid prescriptions from doctors and that hed even show the prescriptions to drug enforcement officials when they approached competitors. Coleman also suggested that to attain the physique he achieved during his Mr. Olympia days, one might necessarily have to use some kind of steroid or growth hormone.

Coleman noted, however, that people carried a misconception that he was recklessly taking all kinds of steroids. I wasnt taking tons of stuff. I probably wasnt taking any more than what those baseball players were taking." Even when he stopped using steroids (cold turkey), Coleman said he felt totally normal. (Use of anabolic steroids have been found to cause <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181121073244.htm" id="639c5686-1eaf-3ed5-a2ce-5c7c2e6a1c8a"> higher rates of premature death in men </a> , and some limited studies have found that <a href="https://watermark.silverchair.com/10-2-291.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAncwggJzBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggJkMIICYAIBADCCAlkGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMNRnDL3G6GxAZDwBdAgEQgIICKnHvbzcDddHTzW941SxUJEkeMMQs3oGv-ij8y9zLPwB4t076qQJuoo1RSfGd2ONfBCZCncSeqMbSMIewsgw_zBXUz1kOs7vDWpTKvz1-P8Abc9-B5meK0Zzq8upGxS4vTGP8gVKn_9GttbrdylEQRuG1Xp8YViEADGwGHVVdW9tZlOtcXFQ57qS7kckF5C4JXZHiN0YChFqYWN3xB4e9p0JUQe82mWfVGUBu71wz1uyWjSZE6eScIYfm9ZSo4dQOoPkfH2PiSoh3UaV2TQVOxxH82xQj5CVtZJlH5KiT2Z8K-h42CzDub83DZHqqXThkMhVOcP8bKDSgyiKycqXi93-4M17PxdiF-D0nyBDxRUauQMv-idni0IHH-zkojDT9kMQT3ZvniXlmpv8a_40cWP9zd393l3w3ljXBo1dx16Qb9VBoGR8aCuhnMjHMlo58wlFg4_Cm-KVMMZq88coLgt51SoCjh94u-4H93PzRFZc8RgVGmBzvfQUPr0NH8wWtS0JXAa5B_jxlRFMC7oy6suKAOXu62crM-6w1i4etigk-ieQVAPn_5sySnjv4BGFO1mrK2c6UcOrwzlgkMpsF58YTNFlLqWL2lIAuTUMZp-Y1vLsVpKWsDEQZr2Yz8eJx3T-C7fP5UA6DXyqVfLGrAhOmaRqQBhxRVtQRF3ozg2B3X99i-O-DEpDWE5UWze4F4LrSn1G5jytzjUxjoCQ8HuXbHQgSBBAZhT7q" id="c4eb8f82-3cb2-39a8-a999-db799a75c02d"> those who abuse steroids are at a greater risk of suicide </a> .)

Coleman told Rogan that he was also able to reach his peak Mr. Olympia size without any apparent long-term health conditions, though he conceded that both his size and reaction to the steroids is likely exceedingly rare. He was also juicing under constant supervision, he added, and said his doctor would run blood tests on him every three to four months.

Ronnie Coleman Tells Joe Rogan About Steroid Usage

Professional bodybuilder and eight-time consecutive Mr. Olympia winner Ronnie Coleman <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi5OlUE3BLc" id="5582384f-7de1-3655-aadb-2f97c3ec3f1f"> appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience </a> podcast yesterday, where he discussed bodybuilding and steroid usage.

Ronnie Coleman Tells Joe Rogan How He Successfully Doped During Mr. Olympia

Mark Ruffalos face appears now before Derek Cianfrance. The director is seated in his Brooklyn basement, editing his HBO show, I Know This Much Is True. And then: another Mark Ruffalo, two Mark Ruffalo faces, now side by side on the same screen. Mark Ruffalo is playing twins, Dominick and Thomas, Dominick a divorced housepainter, Thomas a paranoid schizophrenic.

Both twins, both Mark Ruffalos, are in pain, but the pain looks different on each face. For Dominicks pain, Derek Cianfrance wanted Mark Ruffalo to be tired and agitated, and so he had Mark Ruffalo do 50 pushups right before shooting, so that he would seem breathy and taxed and a little aggressive when answering a phone or climbing a ladder. For Thomas, he wanted the pain to be even more physical. So Mark Ruffalo gained 30 pounds and hunched over a lot. And then Derek Cianfrance decided to open the curtain with pain, and so the very first scene is Mark Ruffalos Thomas sitting in a library and sawing off his hand with a knife.

Derek Cianfrance doesnt yet know what all this pain really means. Hes still editing. He knows only that it is important. He knows he wants to show Mark Ruffalo first from a distance and then from up close. He wants Mark Ruffalos bodily pain to draw the viewers in. Then his face will keep them. His imperfection, Derek Cianfrance believes, they too will love.

I Know This Much Is True is a six-part epic of unending misery, piling on as much torture for Ruffalos twin protagonists as it does for the audience. CBR

The critics do not love Derek Cianfrances TV show with Mark Ruffalo. The series hasnt even aired yet and already they are trashing it.

They think the TV show is too heavy and dark and depressing. A parade of misery. The Boston Globe uses the word orgy, as in, an orgy of misery. Other critics call it misery porn, suffering for the sake of suffering. In short: They fucking hate it. It fucking bums them out.

Derek Cianfrance loves Mark Ruffalos face. He loves that his face lacks symmetry and isnt classically beautiful. That the left side of his face and the right side of his face arent quite in syncnot since Mark Ruffalo suffered a brain tumor when he was 34that each side still, sometimes, betrays its brother. Derek Cianfrance especially loves Mark Ruffalos teeth. That they are not movie star teeth. They have chips in them; they have not been straightened. Derek Cianfrance hates pearly white perf...

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