The process of opening myself up to new people — to work creatively — is very vulnerable.
“We didn’t, like, grab coffee and have a list of ice-breakers or something,” Starkey says. “We just started working. We jumped into movement rehearsals and that was a great way to learn how to be free with the other person. It never felt like there any walls up.”Not having walls up was, in many ways, the abiding nature of “Queer.” And for Craig, it was one of the most rewarding experiences of his career. He and Guadagnino are already planning another film together.
“I don’t have any grand plan for my career. It’s been OK ’til now. It’s been going along,” Craig says, with a grin. “Then something comes along like this and you find a group of people to have this wonderful experience with. It makes me go: I want to keep acting. I never wanted to give up, but if I could get this again, I’d love to do it.”WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Five years after the end of the first season’s events,picks up in Wyoming, where Joel and Ellie — played by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey — are settled into everyday life alongside an ensemble of returning characters and new faces protecting their fortress from the infected.
Ellie is at the center of Season 2,, as she sets out on a quest for vengeance (to tell you more would be a spoiler). But Season 2’s new cast members also include
Isabela Merced (“Alien: Romulus”), Young Mazino (“Beef”), Danny Ramirez (“Top Gun: Maverick”) and Kaitlyn Dever (“Apple Cider Vinegar”) as the long-awaited Abby, a character introduced in “The Last of Us: Part II” video game who is set on avenging her father’s death.
with her own father, was originally in talks with series co-creators Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin to portray Ellie in the first season. But Abby, she now says, was the role she was meant to play.As fragile as their new existence was, Hassan pounded the dust with his metal cane when asked if they could ever go home again. Absolutely not.
That’s in part because their area of Somalia is controlled by an extremist group, al-Shabab, which other people who fled described as having little pity as crops withered and livestock died by the millions. The extremists, affiliated with al-Qaida, continued to heavily tax residents by asking up to half of their harvest, even as people began to starve.Because al-Shabab makes it almost impossible to reach areas under their control with humanitarian assistance, their presence has played an especially deadly role in droughts. An estimated quarter-million people died in the famine declared in Somalia in 2011, many because al-Shabab wouldn’t allow most aid in or, often, suffering people out.
This time, those arriving told the AP that the extremists are allowing some of the mothers, children and elderly who have lost everything to flee.The fighters stopped and checked the small vehicle carrying Issack and Hassan from Ufurow, then let them pass for their three-day journey here.