![]() ![]() Acquired by Focus Features after a buyers’ screening in September 2022, the film has grossed $32m worldwide at press time. Source: David Benthal / BFA.com / ShutterstockĪs is now clear, Hemingson measured up: The Holdovers, a bittersweet comedy drama starring Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa, has been nominated for five Oscars and seven Baftas, including at both awards for best original screenplay. And then the scariest thing was, I’ve got to measure up to this guy.” Creative success So to get that phonecall out of the blue from a hero, it was like Charlie Bucket getting the golden ticket in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. John Ford made great movies, and Alexander makes great movies, they just happen to be in certain genres. I don’t think he’s a director of comedies any more than John Ford is a director of westerns. “I was always a slobbering fanboy,” he says. It was a while before Hemingson could believe that he wasn’t being pranked. I picked up the phone, and he said, ‘David Hemingson? Alexander Payne.’ I thought it was a buddy of mine fucking with me, because he’d called me up once and said, ‘David Hemingson? Francis Ford Coppola.’” “I’d just got off a 14-hour-flight from Prague, where there was a nine-hour time difference from Los Angeles, so I was dog-tired to the point of delirium. “I was driving back from LAX ,” says Hemingson. ![]() After Mueller gave him the Stonehaven screenplay in 2018, he knew who to call. Payne had been mulling over an idea for a film about an “ocularly challenged, odiferous professor spending Christmas at prep school with some boys”, but he did not feel familiar enough with that rarefied milieu to write the screenplay himself. What he did not know was that “despite his rather beautiful yet scathing takedown”, his agent had passed the Stonehaven script to another of his clients, Niels Mueller, a writer/director who had been at film school with Alexander Payne, director of Election and Sideways. Hemingson went on to develop another series, Whiskey Cavalier for ABC, which began shooting in Prague. “He read it, and said, ‘This is emotional, this is evocative, this is very interesting - and we’ll never be able to sell it to a fucking person. “My agent was renowned as having the best taste and the worst bedside manner in Hollywood,” remembers Hemingson. And so he wrote a pilot script entitled Stonehaven. But he wanted to try something more personal, something that would express his feelings about his parents’ break-up and his time as an awkward scholarship boy at a grand New England prep school. Since quitting his job as an entertainment lawyer, he had created five series, had been the showrunner of seven, and had written scripts for How I Met Your Mother, Black-ish, Family Guy, Bones and too many other series to name. “That is what makes every person really interesting to me because everybody is unique.In 2017, David Hemingson had been a professional television writer for more than 20 years. “I was interested in the tension between masculine and feminine, but also the tension between masculine and feminine within one person,” Demeulemeester told Vogue ahead of a retrospective exhibition of her work in Florence, Italy, last year. Founded in 1985 by Ann Demeulemeester and her husband Patrick Robyn, the brand boasts a long legacy of gender-non-conforming fashion. The comment sections on her Instagram posts often descend into open forums, where users feel entitled (and seemingly compelled) to ask intimate questions about the trans experience or challenge Schafer’s womanhood.įittingly, there is a long lineage of gender-defying sentiments stitched into Schafer’s outfit. ![]() As a trans woman whose ascent to fame was inextricably linked to her gender identity - her big break was playing trans teenager Jules in HBO’s “Euphoria” - Schafer’s body is subjected to constant scrutiny online. These ideas of self-expression, self-love and self-definition took on new meaning when worn by Schafer. Hunter Schafer's barely-there Oscars after party look was more poetic than it first seemed. ![]()
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