Jonny On Orgasms & Brokeback Mountain

Ooh today is coming in hard and fast -- do you hear me, Jonathan Bailey, coming hard and fast! -- because no sooner had I posted that Oliver Jackson-Cohen photoshoot then did I see a new Jonathan Bailey photoshoot for Interview magazine! But even better -- Jonny is chatting with his Crashing co-star Phoebe Waller-Bridge and listening to the two is just like firecrackers popping off. Here's a choice bit where PWB asks him about if there were any gay romances he had on-screen to learn from:

"Unfortunately, there just weren’t that many were there growing up... but I met Matthew Rhys recently, who I just love. And I was thinking about that relationship in Brothers and Sisters. And then there was Queer as Folk. Russell, T. Davies changed the game. So many people owe so much to him just purely for visibility. There is no Tim and Hawk to a 2023 audience without Queer as Folk.... 

Speaking of history, I was doing media studies with an amazing teacher and I decided that I was going to do my dissertation about the representations of Hutus and Tutsis and the Rwanda genocide, looking at Hotel Rwanda and Shooting Dogs. And then Brokeback Mountain came out and I was like, “Hang on, how can I possibly create a world where I can go and have a free pass to go to the cinema to watch it 10 times?” I’m really proud of my 17-year-old self, I wasn’t necessarily out, but I changed the topic to representation of homosexuality in Brokeback Mountain and I watched that film 10 times. And this amazing teacher, Dr. Brunton, who probably had an idea of what was going on, was just like, “This is brilliant, keep going, keep going.” And I think it was the best mark I ever got."

There's also a lot of talk of eye-fucking strangers and orgasms and everything you want to hear Jonathan Bailey talk about so make sure you go read the entire thing. But first here I have the photos for you after the jump...

You Win This Round, Krasinski

There isn't a whole lot that could make me want to see a kid's movie directed by John Krasinski and starring Ryan Reynolds -- a pornographic movie, sure? But a kid's movie? Nahhh. I am of the mind that Krasinski's Quiet Place movies are politically retrograde and shoddily crafted and Ryan, bless his continued hotness, has turned himself into a brand who only churns out terrible Netflix movies. But then they went and released a trailer for their kid's movie called If -- it's about a teen girl who can see everyone's imaginary friends -- and they put Ryan in suspenders...

... and against bookshelves no less, and this is a pure and undiluted act of violence against my will, y'all. I love a man in suspenders. I've admitted this fetish before but ever since that formative photograph of shirtless Benjamin Bratt's back in suspenders appeared in my life back in the day I have had very little willpower as far as suspenders are concerned and Ryan appears to spend...

... like half of this dumb movie in a shirt and suspenders. Violence, I say! Anyway I'm not posting the trailer but you can watch it right here -- there are really good people doing (what I assume is) voice-work in this movie too. People like Maya Rudolph and Sam Rockwell and Christopher Meloni and Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Fiona f'ing Shaw! So I won't hold it against anybody if they're excited about this. I'll just be over here with these gifs feeling very unclean, is all.

So What's Your Destiny

Let it be known that I went into Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny with exceedingly low expectations -- the second that James Mangold was announced as director all my hopes melted away like that one Nazi's face at the end of Raiders. I found Logan vastly overrated and was nearly bored to literal death by Ford v Ferrari, and so I figured this was gonna be a disaster. And yet here we are -- I actually thought Dial of Destiny was pretty fun! Click here to read my review at Pajiba where I get into it. It's got some issues but it's better than Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -- Ford is wonderful (of course he was) and I love love loved Phoebe Waller-Bridge in it. I also loved the go-for-broke ending, and there's a really weird scene where Antonio Banderas shows up with a boat full of shirtless muscle-bound sailor-men that is totally gratuitous aka made for me. And made for any of you reading this, I'd wager! PS in related news if you missed it earlier today I ranked Harrison Ford's hotness at Mashable, which you might also appreciate. 

We Named the Dog Indiana

Okay baby -- tonight's Indy 5 night! Spin that dastardly Dial of Destiny because this is really happening. Whatever the hell a "dial of destiny" is. I guess I will know tonight. And I'm not sure if I am excited, terrified, indifferent -- we'll see what the movie delivers and decide then. Which is the way it should be, I suppose -- I just wish I could go in anticipating more. I tried to re-watch Kingdom of the Crystal Skull a few weeks ago and, uhh, didn't make it too far. I think I have tried to re-watch that movie like four times since its release and I never make it all the way through? I definitely haven't seen the ending with the spinning alien nonsense since the first watch, even though that shit's burned into my brain. And not in a good way. Anyway stay tuned for my opinion next week, I will be reviewing this one. I'll be off for the rest of the week for Tribeca stuff -- more reviews will be appearing soon enough! Until then have a good weekend...

Which is Hotter?

Although they're still withholding the title of the film from us (boo!) Empire magazine has the first information on the fifth Indiana Jones movie -- the first that wasn't directed by Steven Spielberg it should be noted, which gives me pause, especially since I'm no fan of director James Mangold. But I suppose there's plenty of time before it's out next June, and the movie does have an absolutely stacked and killer cast -- Antonio Banderas, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Toby Jones, Thomas Kretschmann, and the villainous two-some of Mads Mikkelsen and Boyd Holbrook, the latter of whom describes his character as, "a lapdog to Mads, and a crazy one at that." Now raise your hand if you wanna see Mads and Boyd dom-sub it up hardcore! Which brings me to my main question...

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Do Right By Me, Banshees

The first poster and trailer for Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin starring Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell -- and yes warm memories of In Bruges should be washing over your entire mind and body right this moment -- has arrived this morning, and good god I love it. I've made so secret of the fact that ever since In Bruges -- one of my absolute favorite movies -- I've disliked to outright loathed everything that McDonagh has done, and been very very very depressed about that fact. Will this be a Lucy-Football situation, and McDonagh's once again weaponized Colin Farrell's eyebrows to make me think we're in for a treat...

... only for it turn out to be another sack of bullshit like Seven Psychopaths and Three Billboards? I sure hope not! What I am really secretly hoping that maybe some of his girlfriend's brilliance -- one Phoebe Waller-Bridge, if you're unaware -- rubbed off on him, which is to say he let her do a pass on the script. I know to some (including probably Phoebe, because she's nice like that) that sounds like sacrilege, as McDonagh is a prize-winning playwright, Oscar nominee, blah blah blergh. My belief in him has really been worn down in the fourteen years since Bruges. But this feels like such an explicit callback to that movie that I can't help but feel he feels that too? Get that Bruges magic back, baby!

The Banshees of Inisherin is out on October 21st.

When the Groff's A'Knockin...

The good movie news today is that a double dose of hot homosexuals have been cast in M. Night Shyamalan's next movie -- good so far as the "hot homosexuals" part goes; I'm not so sold on Shyamalan these days but we'll take what we can get. The homos of choice are Jonathan Groff and former-Fleabag-ian Ben Aldridge (see our previous posts on Ben here), who are joining Dave Bautista and Rupert Grint in Knock at the Cabin, a thriller which... probably involves a cabin, who knows. M. Night's not saying. There will be knocking? One hopes of the bedpost-against-wall sort with Ben & Jon specifically, but Night's movies are always sexless so I have my doubts on that front. Dare to dream. In related news...

... Ben's Fleabag queen Phoebe Waller-Bridge has set up a new series at Amazon! And like with M. Night's movie we know absolutely nothing about it! But it's great news all the same. She should make it about a throuple played by Ben, Andrew "Hot Priest" Scott, and her Crashing co-star Jonathan Bailey. I know I know they are all very similar looking white gay men but... I'd still want to see that. Who wouldn't want to see that? If you wouldn't want to see that you just hate fun. 

Jonathan Bailey, Netflix and #Bridgerton respecting the time honored tradition of hot fops getting out of the water in soaking white shirts within period-storytelling you love to see it pic.twitter.com/uueTss6eiW

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) March 2, 2022

Andrew Scott One More Time

One of yesterday's highlights -- I almost said "few" highlights but let's be retrospectively generous -- was Interview Magazine's new photoshoot and interview with the "Hot Priest" himself Andrew Scott, which was conducted by his good pal and fellow out homosexualist Ben Whishaw. So many great things all smashed together at once there! See my post about that here. Well today one more photo from that shoot's made itself known, that photo above, and it's good enough to warrant an update all on it's lonesome. His face is very much my mood today and I appreciate it (almost as much as I appreciate his arms).

Ben Aldridge Five Times

Congrats to Fleabag actor Ben Aldridge for coming out last year and also for now getting an award for it -- I didn't get any awards when I came out! I demand retroactive decoratory compensation! Or at least a sexy mustache and a magazine cover, that is surely not too much to ask. These are for Attitude magazine (via) where they gave him their "TV Award" whatever that is, but good for him -- this reminds me of an old tweet of mine:

I love Phoebe Waller-Bridge's love for hot somewhat identical gay dudes pic.twitter.com/yiQHRs77aT

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 5, 2021

There's no facetiousness in that tweet -- I really do love that about our Phoebs. I don't know that any single person has done so much for casting openly gay men as hetero love interests. For real. I mean it. You know I mean it because I also tweeted that once on its own.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge has done more in the past 5 years to prove that openly gay men can play thoroughly convincing heterosexual love interests than all of Hollywood in the past 120 pic.twitter.com/Nuux8qp6TB

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) June 29, 2020

I apparently am obsessed. I'm either obsessed or I spend too much time on Twitter, although why I present these options as mutually exclusive I ain't a clue. Insert "Why not both" meme here, but I will refrain from embedding a third tweet. Just picture it. With your mind! Aaaanyway I just got out of my final NYFF press screening this morning and am, to be honest, entirely burned out, but you could probably tell that by all of the gibberish I have so far served. Y'all just enjoy these photos after the jump while I get some caffeine and try to pull myself together...

Pics of the Day

I'll admit upfront I am doing this post more out of a sense of obligation than I am with much enthusiasm, as I remain unsold on everything Harry Styles -- I am sorry, I know that is blaspheming to some of you, but I don't get it. Admittedly I haven't tried too hard to get it -- I did watch the video with Phoebe Waller-Bridge -- but things I am open to getting usually find their way to me and at this point... anyway. If it doesn't happen with My Policeman, his upcoming gay movie -- these photos here are of him and his romantic co-star David Dawson (via) -- then it probably really will never. Because I love gay! I love short shorts! I love young British men hanging on each other and I like "realistic gay sex scenes." This is it, Harry Styles! Do or die, baby! 

The World's Gone Mads

You have probably already read this by now but in case you get all of your news from this here website... oh my god, don't. Don't do that. I can only imagine. Picture it, it's like The Truman Show, only with a child raised from birth to death with MNPP as their source of information. That'd be a horny, dumb baby, my god. Anyway! Mads! He just got cast in the fifth Indiana Jones movie. No word of course on his role, but everybody's naturally assuming he'll be the villain because, you know, his face and his entire career or whatever. But I think we could possibly be jumping to conclusions. Maybe they will surprise us. But if he is the villain I don't see any reason to be annoyed about it -- being a villain has bought Mads a lot of expensive haircuts over the years. (His hair always looks so expensive, doesn't it?) Really I'm just hoping he uses his star-power to force a fourth season of Hannibal into production. Do whatever ya gotta do, Mr. Mikkelsen!

Mads Mikkelsen is part of the Star Wars, Marvel, James Bond, Harry Potter, and Indiana Jones universes now. He is Hannibal Lecter, he's fought the Musketeers, and he's clashed with the f'ing Titans. ALL HAIL KING MADS pic.twitter.com/uFPTIpJQRE

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 15, 2021

The Temple of Phoebe

Today's all about good vibes going out to women we adore, it seems -- I just wished Kristen Stewart (here) and Elle Fanning (here) happy birthdays on Twitter, and now comes word that the great Phoebe Waller-Bridge has just landed the biggest role of her career (yes, bigger than writing the new Bond script): she's going to play the female lead in the fifth Indiana Jones movie. Will this movie be better than the last one? I don't know. Harrison Ford's back of course but Steven Spielberg isn't directing -- it's James Mangold, who, well I know a lot of you are but I'm not at all a fan of. But honestly whether the movie's "good" or not doesn't matter at this point, because even the shittier shit elements become iconic -- "nuke the fridge" anybody? I even consider Cate's Evil Russian Bob iconic...

... and no, I will not be taking questions. Anyway time-wise this one will be in the 1960s won't it? Will they go to Cuba? Hiring Phoebe makes me think the series will go right at the James Bond thing head-on -- ye olde archeologist Indiana being a relic of the past, with "Super Spies" being the hip cool cats of the mod future. God I've half written this thing already, haven't I?

Good Morning, World

No, after three weeks of saying I am not watching Bridgerton I have not started watching Bridgerton. I just already knew of this scene's existence thanks to other folks and what with my Jonathan Bailey Crush developing (multiplying wildly, really) all on its lonesome it was beginning to seem silly, not sharing this, waiting for the day I might watch Bridgerton which is never going to come. But! To put some "but" in a post that's really, when it comes down to it, just about a "butt" -- I did watch Phoebe Waller-Bridge's 2016 pre-Fleabag series Crashing finally last night! 

Ashamed it took me the introduction of a hot new homosexual into my life to finally watch CRASHING when my beloved Phoebe's been there this whole time but holy hell do I already love this show just two episodes in pic.twitter.com/5zWmAJ07iM

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 13, 2021

Yes the entire damn thing! It's only six half-hour-long episodes, don't look at me that way. And it being only six episodes is literally the only bad thing about the show -- you very much want sixty more by the time it ends. I guess that's Phoebe's thing? Leave 'em wanting more? (More. More. So much more they're considering forming an angry mob. Hey Phoebe! I hope you're working over quarantine and not just taking dance classes with Harry Styles!) Anyway Crashing is on Netflix and you need to watch it, if you haven't yet. Jonathan Bailey is on it and is, surprise surprise, incredibly sexy, playing a wily cocktease with homoerotic under... over... everywhere-tones. We'll probably gif some of his scenes on that show at some point, but until then back to Bridgerton. Hit the jump for gifs (not to mention that butt I was talking about)...

Quote of the Day

"... I’m a Halloween person, which is odd to me because I’m terrified of scary things. I can’t watch scary movies or even a scary movie trailer. But I love the aesthetic of Halloween more than most holidays. We’re not talking about Christmas, of course—let’s put Christmas aside. Anything that gets Halloweenified in orange and black, or has an occasional bat or ghost or monster, really does it for me. But just to be clear, I’m not interested in terror. I’m interested in a delightful monster or witch. I don’t care for jump scares. Don’t scare me or I will definitely punch you in the face."

Blessings unto us all, I needed some smiles this Friday and Interview Magazine has gifted us with one of their "25 Questions" features with Maya Rudolph! They work like this: 25 of Maya's famous pals asked her a question or two, and she answered them! It's not a terribly hard-to-grasp feature. Anyway the above quote comes in response to a question from author Sarah Cooper; other people doing the asking include half of the SNL casts over the years, Amy Sedaris, Paul Reubens, Natasha Lyonne, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Carol fuckin' Burnett -- endless proof that Maya is indeed that cool. And you'll definitely want to look for the Prince story.  

Andrew Scott Four Times

I can't read the new chat with Andrew at The Times because it's pay-walled but these are in honor of his new role on the second season of His Dark Materials, playing Colonel John Parry, aka the father of Will, the main character in the second book The Subtle Knife. The new season just premiered in the UK and premieres here in the US on the 16th on HBO. (Sidenote: did y'all know there was a new mini-book out from HDM author Philip Pullman? It's called Serpentine and you can pick it up here. I haven't read it yet but I haven't finished the last HDM book yet -- I kinda trailed off in the middle of it and need to pick it back up.) Anyway here's the trailer for the new season of the show:

Pic of the Day

There's a new book of photography coming out in November called Time to Act: An Intimate Photographic Portrait of Actors Backstage from photographer Simon Annand, who photographed a bunch of actors in London's West End, including, most notably, our boy Jake with his pup Atticus seen above. I haven't seen Atticus in so long, I missed him! Anyway I assume this was for Sunday in the Park With George, given the beard? Anyway also featured in the book are portraits of Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom (fingers crossed he's naked), Anthony Hopkins, and Judi Dench among others, and the foreward is written by Blanchett. And there's a terrific shot of Phoebe Waller-Bridge on the cover that it took my like three minutes to figure out who the hell it was. (click image to embiggen)

Andrew Scott One Time

Andrew Scott Seven Times

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Who do you think will be our first openly gay actor to win a Best Actor statue? For a long time I thought it would be Ben Whishaw, and I still do, but I think Andrew Scott has been sneaking up behind dear Ben as of late... and yes, I know what I did there, and you're welcome. But we all know that winning an Oscar is usually mostly about the people who vote falling in love with that person they're voting for; the performance matters, sure, but the love thing, that's paramount. And everybody loves Andrew Scott now thanks to Fleabag. Yes, some of us, the wise ones, have been on-board for much longer. But everybody's there now. So if he gets the right role? Something bigger and meatier than the teeny thing Sam Mendes threw at him in 1917? (Oh I am doing it again!) Forget about it. Until then let's hit the jump for more of this brand new photo-shoot...

The Pleasure Dom

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If you need something to look forward to -- and who the living fuck doesn't need that right now -- I tell you that in just three days Run, the new HBO series from producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her right-hand woman Vicky Jones (they've worked together on basically everything) and starring Domhnall Gleeson here and the great Merritt Wever, will premiere! I shared the trailer back in January, approximately 9000 years ago -- it looks like an absolute blast.

THE ONLY THING KEEPING ME GOING IS RUN PREMIERES IN THREE DAYS https://t.co/ge6zPG8vwV

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 9, 2020

Anyway since that shit's clearly massaging the needy wanting happy spots in our brain tissue this afternoon I figured we'd keep the pleasure rolling with a lil' Domhnall quiz, as we do enjoy this particular ginger...

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In Bruges 2: The Rebrugening

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Ooh, I do love an excuse to re-watch In Bruges! Love that movie so very much. That said I do have to admit I'm still trying to gauge how excited I can allow myself to be about a new Martin McDonagh movie -- the news of which I'll get to in just a second -- after I really did not like his last one, the Oscar-nominated Three Billboards yadda yadda, at all. And I don't want to hear that it was that year's endless and brutal Awards Season campaigning that turned me on that movie -- I was real excited about seeing it and saw it real early and immediately hated it. I didn't need all the think-pieces picking it apart. I felt it in my gut from frame one. 

Anyway, that news. McDonagh is re-teaming with In Bruges' two leading men, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, for his next film. We don't have a lot of info, we don't even have a title yet, but we do have this:

"Film is set on a remote Irish isle and they will play two lifelong friends who find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship with alarming consequences for both of them. has a budget close to $20 million and will shoot this summer."

McDonagh's play The Hangmen is about to open on Broadway with Dan Stevens in the lead; I had considered looking for cheap tickets to that but now maybe I'll wait, store up good feelings, and spend them on this new movie instead. I'll just go google pictures of him with his girlfriend, one Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and get happy...