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How ‘Lovecraft Country’ Star Jonathan Majors Accepted Atticus’ Fate
TheWrap magazine: “He is now the edge of the spear for his family and for the next chapter of their legacy,” HBO star says By Jennifer Maas | December 23, 2020 @ 3:30 PM
A version of this story about “Lovecraft Country” star Jonathan Majors first appeared in the December issue of TheWrap magazine.
HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” threw viewers for a loop (spoiler ahead!) when the Misha Green-created horror-drama series killed off its lead character, Atticus “Tic” Freeman (played by Jonathan Majors), in the final episode of its first season. That death was also a gut-punch moment for Majors himself, who didn’t know the protagonist was going to die until well into shooting the season.
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‘Queen’s Gambit : How Chess Novice Anya Taylor-Joy Nailed Those Tournament Scenes
TheWrap Magazine: “I’ve never had an experience where I was so into a character,” Taylor-Joy says By Tim Baysinger | December 23, 2020 @ 6:55 PM Last Updated: December 24, 2020 @ 7:19 AM
A version of this story about “The Queen’s Gambit” first appeared in the December issue of TheWrap magazine.
Beth Harmon, the chess prodigy played by Anya Taylor-Joy in Netflix’s breakout hit “The Queen’s Gambit,” knows how to properly execute a perfect Fork Maneuver and beat any unsuspecting newcomer with a Scholar’s Mate. But before Taylor-Joy could feel comfortable doing either of those things, she had to take a crash course in all things chess from the hypercompetitive players around which the series is centered.
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Ryan Murphy on ‘The Prom : ‘The World Was Feeling Dark, I Wanted to Make Something Light’
TheWrap magazine: “It was one of those weird things where everything fell into place, which has never really happened in my career so far,” says the director By Steve Pond | December 23, 2020 @ 1:54 PM
A version of this story about Ryan Murphy and “The Prom” first appeared in the December issue of TheWrap magazine.
This was supposed to be a year when the
musical part of the Golden Globes Best Musical or Comedy category would really mean something. Three large-scale stage musical adaptations of Broadway shows were due to be released Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” Jon Chu’s “In the Heights” and Ryan Murphy’s “The Prom” making this the first time in 13 years that musicals might outnumber comedies among the nominees.
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‘Crip Camp’ Directors Grappled With a Question: Did a Teen Summer Camp Really Launch the Disability Rights Movement?
TheWrap magazine: “My jaw hit the floor, because I never in my life imagined a radical hippie summer camp for teens with disabilities in the ’70s,” says co-director Nicole Newnham By Steve Pond | December 22, 2020 @ 4:46 PM Last Updated: December 22, 2020 @ 4:56 PM
A version of this story about “Crip Camp” first appeared in the Documentaries issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.
One of the documentaries that opened the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, “Crip Camp” looks at Camp Jened, an upstate New York summer camp for disabled teens that helped inspire many key figures in the disability rights movement. It is a collaboration between documentary director Nicole Newnham (“The Rape of Europa”) and Jim LeBrecht, a sound mixer who himself attended the camp.