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Lee Pace is best known as an actor, who has appeared in cult series Pushing Daisies and Halt and Catch Fire, as well as blockbuster films like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 and The Hobbit trilogy. But he’s also an avid photographer, as evidenced by the gorgeous photos he shares on his Instagram. In a new interview with Variety, Pace shares exclusive photos from the set of his latest job, Apple TV+’s science fiction saga Foundation.

“When I look at the pictures that my parents took of us growing up before they got a digital camera, there’s something about, you pull out the camera on a special day. You pull up the camera on someone’s birthday, at the wedding, or the day that you’re just like, ‘I love everyone here and I want to remember this day and everyone here,’” Pace said in the interview. “I love my iPhone and the pictures I can take on it, but it feels kind of ubiquitous. There’s a ‘marking a special moment’ when I pull out that film camera that it’s more than just how the picture looks, it’s how I feel I’ve approached that day.”

Pace posted some of his photos from filming in Malta, as well as Fuerteventura and Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.

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Based on the award-winning novels by Isaac Asimov, Foundation chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire. Pace plays Brother Day, the middle member of a series of genetic clones of Cleon I who reigns as Emperor of the 12,000-year old Galactic Empire.

But fans were less interested in the series itself than the absolute thirst trap photos of the Pace. Pace’s post caused a horny internet meltdown the likes of which we haven’t seen in a minute. Pace, who has long been a lowkey heartthrob, is now blowing up on social media and quite frankly, it’s long overdue.

Everyone on twitter is hot for Lee Pace rn. You love to see it.

— Isaac Butler (@parabasis) November 6, 2021

Many took to social media to swoon over Pace:

No one is enjoying being hot as much as Lee Pace is enjoying being hot. https://t.co/sU6skBngjY

— Eric Sipple (@saalon) November 6, 2021

So we can all agree that Lee Pace pic.twitter.com/mb1GeFi9Ay

— Sean Abrams (@seanybrams) November 5, 2021

Lee Pace is 6'5". pic.twitter.com/D6hN2gmz4E

— Jen-O-Lantern (@darlinginmyway) November 5, 2021

Oh to be the lil chicken tucked in Lee Pace's jacket https://t.co/iAanzK8zRb

— i, too, overflow (@iwishiwasafinch) November 5, 2021

If Elizabeth Debicki (6’3) and Lee Pace (6’5) were ever photographed together I think half of this website would go into cardiac arrest…………screaming, crying, throwing up etc etc

— Will Kellogg (@Will_Kellogg) November 6, 2021

i feel like lee pace is doing to people who like men what rachel weisz once did to queer women. it’s nearly unsurvivable, so good luck

— Jill Gutowitz (@jillboard) November 5, 2021

Lee Pace is kind of the Beyoncé of "dropping" photos of his own torso.

— George Civeris (@georgeciveris) November 5, 2021

Lee Pace's abs singlehandedly doing the marketing that Apple TV refuses to for FOUNDATION https://t.co/AdiSgSKibN

— Hoai-Tran Bui (@htranbui) November 5, 2021

Congrats to Pace and Pace fans everywhere. Today we feast. Oh, and watch Foundation, I guess?

(via Variety, image: screencap/Lee Pace)

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Few comic book movies are more highly anticipated than Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The film is a follow-up to 2018’s Black Panther, an Academy Award winning smash hit that earned over $1.3 billion at the box office. But Chadwick Boseman’s tragic death from cancer in 2020 saw director and writer Ryan Coogler take a step back, as he tried to reimagine the sequel without its leading man.

Unfortunately, the film has been hit with a few more setbacks, chief among them the pandemic and the on-set injury of Letitia Wright, who plays Shuri in the franchise. Wright, who sustained an injury in August during a stunt rig accident.

Wakanda Forever will shut down for the rest of the year and return to filming in 2022. “Letitia has been recovering in London since September from injuries sustained on the set of ‘Black Panther 2’ and is looking forward to returning to work early 2022,” said Wright’s representatives. “Letitia kindly asks that you keep her in your prayers.”

Wright was recently criticized for promoting an anti-vaccine agenda on social media. Wright denies promoting anti-vaxxer beliefs on the set of Wakanda Forever.

Wright’s Shuri is expected to take a more prominent role in the sequel, as she is the heir to the Wakandan throne. There’s no word yet on whether Shuri will become the next Black Panther, but she seems like the obvious choice. She will be joined by Emmy winner Michaela Coel in an undisclosed role, along with Dominique Thorne, who will be introduced as Ironheart/Riri Williams ahead of her own Disney Plus TV series

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is set to release on November 11, 2022.

(via Variety, image: Marvel)

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• Football star Aaron Rodgers is an anti-vaxxer, takes medical advice from Joe Rogan. (via The A.V. Club)
• Here’s an explainer for the post-credits scenes in Marvel’s Eternals. (via io9)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s beloved musical episode “Once More With Feeling” turns 20 today.

The Buffy musical ‘Once More, With Feeling’ is 20 years old today pic.twitter.com/qTFjaUxBaj

— Wh*donesque (@whedonesque) November 6, 2021

• Hailee Steinfeld on Dickinson season 3 and Hawkeye. (via Collider)
• Tom Welling talks Smallville‘s legacy. (via IGN)
• Cardi B + Penn Badgley forever. (via Jezebel)

Wait a minute. Are they making out in front of Jesus?! pic.twitter.com/IR5zbeRmmU

— G. Willow Wilson (@GWillowWilson) November 5, 2021

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In yet another remake from the 80s, Dune makes its way back onto the nostalgia train and into the pop culture collective memory. For the record, this is the second film but the fourth adaptation of Frank Herbert’s award-winning novels. This is the second movie remake for director Denis Villeneuve and he does not disappoint as a filmmaker. There is grand and sweeping cinematography mixed in with intimate performances from seasoned actors. Dune had everything it needed out of the gate and gains so much momentum on the strength of its direction. Y’all, it does the original vision justice.

Denis Villeneuve holds the line in another sci-fi remake. Listen, he’s got a style, it worked in Blade Runner 2049 and it is even more refined in Dune. Highly contrasted between the extremes of light and dark in each shot. There’s a high level of creativity and intention all throughout the film. It would be easy to just glaze over the undertaking by calling it ‘a love letter’. Nah fam, there were so many obviously deliberate choices and painstaking details that the movie really does just vibrate with the resonance of Villeneuve’s signature style.

Casting is loaded but not at all overdrawn. A lot of heavy hitters in this cast. While Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya are top-billed and do the damn thing in their roles, my goodness, everyone else carries this first outing. Everyone understood the assignment. Rebecca Fergusson as Lady Jessica is a complex balance of the affection and ferocity of any and every mother. Charlotte Rampling alone, as the Reverend Mother completely ate every moment of her less than five minutes of screen time. The bruisers of the film – Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, and Dave Bautista provide the edge and gruff to contrast the deeply woven (and intentional) feminine strength that defines the main story arc; but never counteract it. Oscar Isaac, Stellan Skarsgård, and Javier Bardem bookend the cast as the patriarchs fighting for interplanetary supremacy and survival of their peoples. Each and every character is portrayed in the fullness of their humanity, and the actors leave nothing on the table. Also, shout out to David Dastmalchian for being in everything and being memorable in every role.

Denis Villeneuve is a Dune Stan and he is not shy about it. In several interviews and featurettes, he goes in about Herbert’s work being instrumental in his personal development. He went so far as to say he made this movie for himself since there would be no greater critique. In response to that, his interpretation of Dune is visually stunning. It is clear from the first moment that every penny possible went to making sure the visuals were without flaw or failure. The logistics alone required to bring this world to life make this a must-see in cinema history.

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That said, there are some cultural moments that didn’t sit right with me. For those of you seasoned in the Dune-iverse, quite a few bodies hit the floor in the first part of the book and the original movie. Which is great for getting the story arc off to an explosive start, but literally all of the primary speaking roles for the Black and Brown actors are killed off! When the movie opens it says, “Dune: Part One”, so why oh why can’t these actors have been characters that live? It was so sad to watch the life leave their bodies in such a rich narrative landscape. Quite honestly, it’s a little triggering with all of them but for the one that goes out with some dignity.

Another thing, the OG Dune was very much inspired by various cultural influences, most notably language and aesthetics sourced in Arabic. None of that seems as important or revelatory in this interpretation, but this is only the first installment of a series. Hopefully, there are more people in the room to create longer-lasting opportunities for actors of color in this franchise. Suffice to say, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is a phenomenal movie and it demands to be seen.

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Welp. The movies and tv shows have officially begun to catch up with the comics in terms of absolute ridiculousness. The barriers of space and time have been rendered inconsequential and the multiverse is starting to take center stage. Decisions made in a split-second splinter into infinite possibilities, versions, and combinations of characters that can sometimes be inspiring, creepy, or mind boggling. Most of the time, like in Marvel’s anthology series, What If…?, the result is pretty much always nerd service of the highest order. It almost gets a little meta because current iterations of some characters and stories we see being touted as movie universe canon spawn from years of comic interdimensional madness.

So, maybe now, the multiverse won’t be so darned white. One popular tradition in Hollywood is the idea that a story with white leads can whitewash a usually diverse place with their very presence. For example, anyone who ever watched Friends probably can’t remember seeing more than two Black people in their iteration of New York….bonus points for a speaking role, daily double for a line that actually incurred a laugh track. Friends NY didn’t even have any good stereotypes of color. Even in the most gentrified parts of the Big Apple, surely Joey Tribbiani would have run into a dude trying to sell him a mixtape. All that time spent commuting and we never heard a dance troupe yell “SHOWTIME” on the train? Now, take that lack of representation and multiply it times an entire universe.

Remember that show, Sliders, where a dudebro scientist opened a random portal through the multiverse and took his friends through it without any way to return home? Remember the Black guy….a blues musician? Ignoring how nonsensical it is to take a Blues musician joy riding through the dangers of all space and time, see if you can recall how many counterpart versions of the Black guy you ever saw on Sliders. Because I remember exactly none.

But now look at us making power moves in this sector. Loki went on a six episode Doctor Who adventure with the blonde, smarter version of himself to destroy the time/space continuum branch of Dunder Mifflin, and they find a Black man holding it all together! And the second Sylvie delivers his sudden, untimely fade, the multiverse immediately descends into chaos. See what happens when you keep Black owned businesses off the field? In fact, even the Watcher, omnipresent observer of all things possible and impossible across the multiverse….is a Black dude. And it’s not just that he’s being voiced by the incomparable Jeffrey Wright, but let’s unpack how important that is real quick. Even though the Watcher is a longtime staple in Marvel’s comic lore, the What If…? cartoon series is a hit and has propelled the character into the collective consciousness. And the voice a generation will hear in their head for the foreseeable future is likely going to be Jeffery Wright. Going forward, you’ll be hard pressed to imagine any other voice when the Watcher appears.

It’s like how hard it is to separate Josh Brolin’s voice from Thanos. I couldn’t help but hear the Mad Titan instead of Gurney recently when I was watching Dune. That’s gonna be Jeffrey Wright every time you watch Westworld going forward or even when he shows up as Jim Gordon in the upcoming Batman film. That’s powerful on his own, but on top of all that, he’s depicted holding his own in a fight. The Watcher is a Black dude with gravitas and hands!
And that’s not even mentioning the representation of fixed-point characters in time.

I grew up with the DCAU cartoons where the lesson was that Lex Luthor is repugnant in just about every timeline…even when he’s not a villain. And Superman is represented as the one main symbol of good throughout the infinite possibilities of the multiverse. Now, we see characters like T’Challa who is depicted as an inspiring figure even when he’s a rogue intergalactic treasure hunter (and basically an entertaining tribute to the great Chadwick Boseman himself). And then there’s his cousin Killmonger whose treachery transcends time and space. He’s shown in What If…? stabbing Tony Stark in the back and lying his way to the Wakandan throne. This is only to playing along as a “Guardian of the Multiverse” long enough to pump fake his teammates and steal the infinity stones for himself as a play to ascend to godhood. Mr. Hey Auntie has come a long way since poisoning white women’s pumpkin spice lattes.

And honestly, this is just the beginning if writers don’t backslide and keep the landscape as diverse as it has become in the past few years. Anything’s possible. One day soon, there will be a generation of kids who can’t remember a time when Spider-Man wasn’t a Black kid in Jordans. I mean…we can dream, right?

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