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[Jade Bahr]

 

 

Kinda fun article lol

 

What it’s like to hang out at Cop26: dating apps, Leonardo DiCaprio and queues

Yes, delegates in Glasgow may be saving the planet. For the rest of us it’s a mad circus, says Luke Jones

 

(...) The moment was saved by Leonardo DiCaprio, famously fond of a sinking ship. Because I don’t know about you but when the world is heading towards climate catastrophe I want the man who made Critters 3 in the room. You could tell it was him because he had an extra shirt button undone and enough oil in his hair to suffocate an albatross. He held a book, albeit a comic book, to show us he meant business. He swooped into the leaders’ meeting followed by the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, who a Danish reporter said “looked hot even under his mask”. (...)

 

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[Mirella]

2 hours ago, Jade Bahr said:

 

 

Kinda fun article lol

 

What it’s like to hang out at Cop26: dating apps, Leonardo DiCaprio and queues

Yes, delegates in Glasgow may be saving the planet. For the rest of us it’s a mad circus, says Luke Jones

 

(...) The moment was saved by Leonardo DiCaprio, famously fond of a sinking ship. Because I don’t know about you but when the world is heading towards climate catastrophe I want the man who made Critters 3 in the room. You could tell it was him because he had an extra shirt button undone and enough oil in his hair to suffocate an albatross. He held a book, albeit a comic book, to show us he meant business. He swooped into the leaders’ meeting followed by the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, who a Danish reporter said “looked hot even under his mask”. (...)

 

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😂 Critters 3 of all movies. Fun article. 🌞

[Mirella]

3 hours ago, Jade Bahr said:

Seems indeed she's campaigning. #meryl for oscar

 

Meryl Streep for President

Meryl Streep explains how she prepared to play a fictional (and not especially competent) U.S. president in Adam McKay’s apocalyptic satire “Don’t Look Up.”

 

Meryl Streep as President Orlean, a commander in chief very focused on her approval ratings in “Don’t Look Up.”Credit...Niko Tavernise/Netflix 

 

Who would you turn to if you learned a comet was on a collision course with Earth and decisive action was required to prevent the extinction of all life on this planet? If your first thought was Meryl Streep, you have made both an excellent and terrible choice.

 

In “Don’t Look Up,” from the writer-director Adam McKay (“The Big Short,” “Vice”), two scientists played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence find themselves facing this end-of-the-world scenario and must turn to a United States government led by the fictional President Orlean for assistance.

 

The good news (for the movie, which will reach theaters on Dec. 10 and Netflix on Dec. 24) is that Orlean is played by Streep, the venerated film and TV star; the bad news (for humanity) is that Orlean is a self-centered scoundrel who cares a great deal about her public image but little to nothing about running the country.

 

Orlean is one of several malefactors in “Don’t Look Up,” a social satire that McKay wrote about climate change but that he fully expects will be interpreted as a commentary on the pandemic. The president is also a character whose many faults and shortcomings Streep delighted in bringing to life, and she credits McKay for giving her and her co-stars the latitude to indulge in awfulness.

 

As Streep explained in a recent phone interview, “He never lost heart or confidence in this vision that he had for this thing, which was to make an atmosphere as free as possible for everybody — just go nuts and do what you want. But with a deadly serious intent.”

Here, Streep and McKay explained the steps they followed to put President Orlean in the Oval Office.

Create a back story.

Based on what she’d read in McKay’s screenplay, Streep said she was already envisioning how President Orlean could have won office. “You could imagine a group of various miscreants was pulled together, and she was the least bad of a lot of other candidates that they could have put out there,” Streep said, adding that she thought of Orlean “as someone whose elderly husband had a lot of money, and she got rid of him, and it was in California so she got half. She had no real agenda except to have and retain power, and when she got there, she just realized that the job was pretty easy.”

McKay said that in naming the character, he was thinking of New Orleans — “It’s a fun city, but it’s kind of in jeopardy” — and not the fact that Streep played the author Susan Orlean in “Adaptation.” (The notion that he manifested Streep in the role by naming it for her, McKay said, is “definitely not the case.”)

Draw on real-life inspiration.

McKay said he thought of President Orlean as “a goulash” of recent chief executives. That meant “the self-serving con man aspects of the last president, the dangerous inexperience of George W. Bush, the slick polish of Bill Clinton, the celebrity of Barack Obama and the coziness with big money,” McKay said. Another inspiration was the finance expert Suze Orman, whom McKay described as “a brash populist with a strong fashion statement.”

 

To that recipe, Streep said she added a dash of the “Real Housewives,” whose televised squabbles often play in her house when her daughters come to visit. Though Streep won an Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady,” she said that performance was instructive only up to a point. Thatcher, she said, “wielded a kind of femininity that was intimidating to men, and part of her power was how she could pull it together — it was very specific to the ladder she climbed there.” Orlean, she said, is “more of our time — algorithmically put together.”

 

Streep on the set. Her look was modeled on that of news anchors.Credit...Niko Tavernise/Netflix

 

Look the part.

Streep had a hand in devising Orlean’s fashion sensibility, which she said communicated something essential about the character: “So what if she’s 70 years old and dresses like she’s 35?” she explained. “No one told her you can’t be 35 forever.” That meant attire modeled after TV news anchors who, Streep said, “tend to pick these broad swaths of bright, happy colors to put on themselves — no prints, no polka dots or plaids or, God forbid, florals. None of the things that other people wear. Just these power suits and pencil skirts.” It also called for a specific hair regimen: “When I was in high school, you’d set your hair in rollers, then take it out and brush it 100 times,” Streep said. “This is the kind of hair where you take it out of rollers and just leave it like that — the longer the better. And then those are sprayed and crisped and the ends curl out in weird ways. And that’s a thing. It has always escaped me why this was good. So I thought, well, I’m going to try to that — God knows I won’t do it in my real life.”

Get ready to face the crowds.

All that advance planning may still not fully prepare you for the demands of the presidency, as Streep discovered on her first day of shooting. She had spent several weeks in isolation, as screen actors have been required to do during the pandemic. Then, on the appointed day, she said, “I bundled up in my big down coat, put the dog in the back of my car, drove through a snowstorm to Worcester, Mass., and got out at a stadium and parked.” Once there, Streep said, “They tried to turn me away at several points to get into the set. I said no, I’m in it.” After getting into hair, makeup and costume, Streep took to the stage where she saw her face on a Jumbotron and heard the delayed echo of her voice as she spoke to a crowd of several hundred extras. “And I just lost it,” she said. “I thought, well, I clearly have to retire. I can’t do this. I actually can’t do this. It was really a crisis of confidence.” Needless to say, Streep did find her bearings, but, she said, “it took a while.”

Ad-lib as necessary.

As he did on his movies like “Step Brothers” and “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” McKay allowed for some improvisation in “Don’t Look Up,” and the director said Streep had a talent for extemporaneous dialogue and reactions. “Her character is almost never bothered by horrible things that people say to her or how horrible she is,” McKay said. “She has an utter shamelessness that could almost be misconstrued as confidence.”

 

Streep — who had just completed “Let Them All Talk,” a Steven Soderbergh movie with entirely improvised dialogue, before filming “Don’t Look Up” — isn’t immediately thought of as an ad-libber. But she enjoys the process and admires colleagues who can expertly riff. “Actors get a raw deal,” she said. “People think they’re dopey. But most of the good actors I know are really, really smart — I haven’t seen their math SATs, but I don’t care. Being able to pull that brilliance out of the air, really, it’s a form of writing. It’s an amazing thing when people are good at it.”

Don’t actually run for office.

Despite a successful sojourn into fictional politics, Streep said she harbored no desire to pursue elected office in real life. For one, the experience of waging a campaign, she said, is likely more than she could bear: “The cost, since the rise of social media, is so high that you have to be a nun to be elected,” she said. “Anybody in your family who was in trouble or in jail or anything, your family is offered up on the altar for sacrifice. I can’t even imagine what that’s like.”

 

Acting, said Streep, “is the only thing I can do. I could act like a politician, but I wouldn’t be good at it. I acted like I could play the violin, but I can’t really play the violin.”

 

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I hope she wins if that is a possibility. The odds are for the cast of this movie to end up on stage at the Oscars hugging each other. 🙃 Or so at least I believe. I heard somewhere that Meryl Streep always goes to the Oscars or is that just a rumor? No matter if she is up for an award or not. 

[Jade Bahr]

via Leo (sometimes I almost forgot he has his own insta account while looking for new pics + infos)

 

 

On my final day at #COP26 I was honored to meet with the amazing Juma Xipaia, a young indigenous leader, who since childhood, has fought against the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Xingu river of the Amazon. Her continued fight for the survival of indigenous peoples, the rainforest, the empowerment of women, her dreams and hopes born from her struggles and threats, deeply touched my heart. Juma’s words will stay with me forever.

Indigenous peoples are on the very frontlines of this climate emergency.  We must hear their voices and join their fight to protect the planet as they are the true guardians of nature. It is time to listen and stand together as one people.

 

 

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Love this:

[Jade Bahr]

#power of Leo is all I'm saying here, guys.

 

 

My week at COP26 in Glasgow and how I got dinghied by Leonardo Di Caprio

 

Walking through the Exhibition Hall at COP 26, browsing at the stands from countries around the world, I was aware one of the many entourages, that were barrelling though the venue, was sweeping towards me.

 

The man in the middle of this fast moving parade looked vaguely familiar.

 

Just as the party was passing, it came to me. It was Leonardo DiCaprio. Hollywood star, Oscar winner, Jack Dawson, Romeo Montague, the Wolf of Wall Street, and he was heading to the Kew Gardens pavilion.

 

While waiting for him to come out, I messaged my colleagues and newsdesk to tell them I’ll send a photo as soon as he’s out. The newsdesk expects but one colleague's reply was ‘Never mind a pic, get his number”. He’s still got it, has Leo.

 

Word spreads fast, so, when he emerges, it is to a crowd ten times larger than the four or five of us there when he went in.

 

DiCaprio was meeting the Costa Rica President to discuss deforestation and protecting species and habitats, just in case anyone is interested in the reason he was at COP 26.

 

The aforementioned promised pic was impossible in the melee and Leo is ushered away through the hall towards the exit into the main SEC concourse.

 

But you can’t fail to deliver on a promise to the newsdesk, so I find myself plotting a detour, hurrying through the hall to head the scrum off at the pass.

 

Just in time to be right alongside the star and whip out my phone and get on to video mode.

 

Leo suddenly remembers he is a movie star and pulls out a pair of shades from his top pocket, even though he is indoors in Glasgow, in November. Or maybe the flashing of cameras had something to do with it.

 

I need words, I could say ‘Leo my daughter had a little postcard pic of you on the wall in the late 90s’. She did.

 

Instead, I call out “How are you enjoying your time in Glasgow, Leonardo?’

 

That, deservedly, went down like the Titanic and he was off and away up the escalator, back to his movie star world.

 

I had been dinghied by DiCaprio.

 

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[oxford25]

Video of Leo talking to Jeff Bezos and girlfriend at LACMA GALA 

 

Had to laugh at comments as Jeff's gf sure seems to like Leo  

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CV-OBbCD1YC/

[Lilja K]

13 minutes ago, oxford25 said:

Video of Leo talking to Jeff Bezos and girlfriend at LACMA GALA 

 

Had to laugh at comments as Jeff's gf sure seems to like Leo  

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CV-OBbCD1YC/

Thanks for video! I'm sure we all can relate to Jeff's gf😏 I think even Jeff himself understand her well. 

 

It's just me or Leo looks giant compared to these two? 

[SexyLeo91]

Thanks Jade for the articles, and ox for the clip! I enjoyed reading all of the COP26 news, especially the ones in which a person gets a glimpse of Leo 😍

 

Leo's so tall and gorgeous  in that clip, and Bezos looked really tiny compared to him, and Jeff's girlfriend, well, we all feel that about Leo too🥰

[oxford25]

Gala pic with pal Steven Spielberg

 

 

 

 

Liljak

 

Bezos is short, but I think it is ,also, the room itself has graduated floor levels , as you can see at end of vid Jeff's gf starts to step up 

[oxford25]

LACMA Gala pix with pal Avi , Jared Leto, and Elle F

 

 

[Jade Bahr]

^Lacma (slightly better quality)

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[Jade Bahr]

4 hours ago, oxford25 said:

Video of Leo talking to Jeff Bezos and girlfriend at LACMA GALA 

 

Had to laugh at comments as Jeff's gf sure seems to like Leo  

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CV-OBbCD1YC/

More of those comments 👇

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CV-gFZeFybQ/

 

She seemed indeed a bit ... thirsty LOL Not that I could blame her this close to Leo

 

Fave comment so far lmao

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CV-rv03gsvo/

[Lilja K]

54 minutes ago, Jade Bahr said:

Fave comment so far lmao

LMAOOO

[Mirella]

2 hours ago, Jade Bahr said:

^Lacma (slightly better quality)

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He sure is handsome. 😍 Busy time for him. 🙃

[Jade Bahr]

On 11/5/2021 at 3:25 PM, Mirella said:

 I heard somewhere that Meryl Streep always goes to the Oscars or is that just a rumor? No matter if she is up for an award or not. 

Isn't she like always nominated? lol Can't help but having nothing but respect for the woman who managed to get nominated for Into the Woods literally one of the worst things I've ever seen. And heard.

[Lilja K]

From Vanity Fair

His smile💘

 

[Jade Bahr]

^Is it just me or is Leo looking so animated and happy these days like he hasn't in -I don't wanna say years but- a long(er) time? It's really nice 

[Lilja K]

34 minutes ago, Jade Bahr said:

^Is it just me or is Leo looking so animated and happy these days like he hasn't in -I don't wanna say years but- a long(er) time? It's really nice 

I noticed it too. I don't remember seeing him genuinely enjoying the event last years. It warms my heart to see he smiles and laughs❤️

[Mirella]

44 minutes ago, Jade Bahr said:

Isn't she like always nominated? lol Can't help but having nothing but respect for the woman who managed to get nominated for Into the Woods literally one of the worst things I've ever seen. And heard.

 

Ah, now you broke my heart. 💔 Literally shattered in pieces. I haven't seen Into the woods but will stay away from it 😂 now. 

 

I think she just should be nominated to be alive. Wonderful woman. No effort needed from her. 🌞

 

Yes, he does look happy. Nice to see him enjoying himself and having fun. ❤ 

[Jade Bahr]

1 hour ago, Mirella said:

 

Ah, now you broke my heart. 💔 Literally shattered in pieces. I haven't seen Into the woods but will stay away from it 😂 now.

Wut? Noooo girl, never trust a stranger - especially not about movies!!!

 

I mean here are some of my faves aka most watched guilty pleasures (bad taste can be so beautiful sometimes)...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

... so it's not like I'm living the high oscar standard

 

Do I give a sh!t what other people think of those movies? Hell no