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| | Hilary Swank on her twins, Aya and Ohm, 'the sleepless nights are hard' | | Added 70 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Hilary Swank and Philip Schneider welcomed their twins, Aya and Ohm, in early April 2023. She announced her pregnancy while doing press for Hulu?s Alaska Daily, which side note I liked and am bummed it was not only canceled but that the remaining episodes after their mid-season break were put behind a paywall. I want to know what happened! Anyway, Hilary had wanted to be a mom for a long time and after years of suffering from ovarian cysts, she was thrilled to finally be able to conceive at 48. The twins are nine-months-old now and Hilary is fully in the thick of it. In fact, she?s currently having twice the fun with sleepless nights.
Hilary Swank is reflecting on the challenges and rewards of being a mom of twins! In April 2023, Swank and her husband Philip Schneider welcomed twins, daughter Aya and son Ohm. Nights are admittedly hard with twins, but Swank also knows there will be a time when shell look back at this period with a different perspective.
?I think that being a mother of twins, I never have had a singleton, so I dont know what thats like, she explained. But I know that the sleepless nights are hard and when you have one that might sleep through the night, the other ones not, so its kind of this trade-off every night.
?But I know this is also a season, and it too will pass, and I try and remind myself that theres going to be a day when Im like, ?Oh, Id love to wake up right now and just hold you.? So just trying and hold on to that.?
Shes already looking forward to the next challenge: when the twins are more mobile.
?Well, theyre only crawling, so its not like were out of control or anything,? she tells PEOPLE.
During an appearance on Today on Monday ahead of the premiere, the new mom revealed the special meaning behind her babies? names.
Aya was a Syrian refugee we met in Lebanon. So she was just this courageous, brave young girl full of life going through a really difficult time. My husband and I were like, she?s so beautiful, what a great name, she shared.
As for son Ohm, Swank said, Ohm is considered the first universal sound and unites all people, and that sounds very fitting.
[From People]
Hilary, girl, I feel you. Those sleepless nights, especially when you aren?t used to them, are brutal. I feel like I aged years during those years that my kids were under two-years-old. Those cuddles and snuggles and morning smiles make it all worth it, though. I?ve never had twins, but went through a period of time when both of my boys, who are almost four years apart, woke up throughout the night. Power to all of you moms of multiples out there! I can?t imagine what it?s like doing those overnights with twin infants, especially if both want to be fed by mom at the same time. Mobile babies (toddlers) on the other hand, now that?s a whole different beast and set of worries! I wish Hilary all of the best when they get to that stage.
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| | Jennifer Lopez's 'This Is Me' Now: A Love Story' was a very bad miscalculation | | Added 70 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Over the weekend, I watched Jennifer Lopez?s musical ?film,? This Is Me? Now: A Love Story. She self-financed the hour-long movie for $20 million and she really did not need to do any of that. Like, it should have been just a series of music videos released on her YouTube page. She could have even turned it into a few ?short films? like Taylor Swift did with ?All Too Well.? The problem is that? the music wasn?t actually very good. You could argue that the ?story? of the film was kind of camp and hilariously stupid, but the whole point of the film was that it was supposed to be a companion piece to this new album and the album is?not good. The music was so bad, you guys. Even then, I would consider J.Lo to be a great dancer who can ?perform? her music well, but none of the choreography was working either. All of this is being reflected in the numbers:
Jennifer Lopez has made a big deal about investing her own money in her new project. JLo says she put $20 million into ?This is Me?Now,? the title of her new album, and the video that goes with it on Amazon Prime.
The project unfurled on Thursday night. There are no numbers yet, but there?s some indication of a soft launch. The album went to number 1 upon release, but now it?s number 4 on iTunes. What goes down on pop charts doesn?t usually come back up.
The album has also not birthed any hot tracks. The lead single, ?Can?t Get Enough,? is at number 76. There are no other tracks from the album on the top 100. A good indicator of an album?s strength is it immediately dispersing tracks throughout the top 100. It seems like the fans could indeed get enough.
As for the video, ?The Greatest Love Story Never Told? doesn?t hit Amazon Prime until February 27th ? next Sunday. By that time, the album and the single may not be in a position to help it.
[From Showbiz411]
I?m actually going to watch the documentary because I want to see how cringe it is and how much Ben Affleck appears in it. I?m also interested in seeing how thoroughly J.Lo documented the fact that everyone in her life told her to just skip the musical film. I kind of think she should have skipped the album too, but whatever. Again, I love Jennifer Lopez and I?m still really sad and outraged that she didn?t win an Oscar for Hustlers. She has every right to do whatever she wants, but oh my god, was this whole three-part album/film/documentary thing a huge miscalculation. Still, I think it was like an itch she had to scratch she wasn?t going to let it go until she figured out a way to do it.
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| | Hilary Swank on having twins: 'the sleepless nights are hard' | | Added 70 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Hilary Swank and Philip Schneider welcomed their twins, Aya and Ohm, in early April 2023. She announced her pregnancy while doing press for Hulu?s Alaska Daily, which side note I liked and am bummed it was not only canceled but that the remaining episodes after their mid-season break were put behind a paywall. I want to know what happened! Anyway, Hilary had wanted to be a mom for a long time and after years of suffering from ovarian cysts, she was thrilled to finally be able to conceive at 48. The twins are nine-months-old now and Hilary is fully in the thick of it. In fact, she?s currently having twice the fun with sleepless nights.
Hilary Swank is reflecting on the challenges and rewards of being a mom of twins! In April 2023, Swank and her husband Philip Schneider welcomed twins, daughter Aya and son Ohm. Nights are admittedly hard with twins, but Swank also knows there will be a time when shell look back at this period with a different perspective.
?I think that being a mother of twins, I never have had a singleton, so I dont know what thats like, she explained. But I know that the sleepless nights are hard and when you have one that might sleep through the night, the other ones not, so its kind of this trade-off every night.
?But I know this is also a season, and it too will pass, and I try and remind myself that theres going to be a day when Im like, ?Oh, Id love to wake up right now and just hold you.? So just trying and hold on to that.?
Shes already looking forward to the next challenge: when the twins are more mobile.
?Well, theyre only crawling, so its not like were out of control or anything,? she tells PEOPLE.
During an appearance on Today on Monday ahead of the premiere, the new mom revealed the special meaning behind her babies? names.
Aya was a Syrian refugee we met in Lebanon. So she was just this courageous, brave young girl full of life going through a really difficult time. My husband and I were like, she?s so beautiful, what a great name, she shared.
As for son Ohm, Swank said, Ohm is considered the first universal sound and unites all people, and that sounds very fitting.
[From People]
Hilary, girl, I feel you. Those sleepless nights, especially when you aren?t used to them, are brutal. I feel like I aged years during those years that my kids were under two-years-old. Those cuddles and snuggles and morning smiles make it all worth it, though. I?ve never had twins, but went through a period of time when both of my boys, who are almost four years apart, woke up throughout the night. Power to all of you moms of multiples out there! I can?t imagine what it?s like doing those overnights with twin infants, especially if both want to be fed by mom at the same time. Mobile babies (toddlers) on the other hand, now that?s a whole different beast and set of worries! I wish Hilary all of the best when they get to that stage.
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| | Jodie Foster: a lion picked me up in his mouth on set when I was nine | | Added 71 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I know that when celebrities appear on talk shows there?s usually a discussion before taping where the guest and host loosely work out the story theyre going to tell. I?m starting to wonder, though, if Irish talk show host Graham Norton specifically asks his guests if they have a good animal story to share. Just last December Jamie Dornan appeared on The Graham Norton Show and talked about kissing a horse despite knowing he was madly allergic. My world has not been the same ever since. Now we have an entry from Jodie Foster. Appearing on the show to promote Nyad and True Detective, Jodie pulled her anecdote from the 1970s vaults, when she was nine years old and filming Napoleon and Samantha. After ?cut? was called on a take, her scene partner, a lion, picked little Jodie up in his mouth and toted her around for a bit until a trainer intervened. The crew meanwhile, had run for the hills with equipment in tow. Holy crap.
During a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show, the actress, 61, revealed to the titular host and his other celebrity guests, which included Olivia Colman, that she experienced the terrifying moment while on the set of the 1972 film Napoleon and Samantha.
In the film, Foster was 9 years old when she starred alongside a young Michael Douglas and Johnny Whitaker. She and Whitaker played kids who go on a journey with their pet lion rather than saying goodbye to it.
Foster recalled three lions being on set: the main lion, a stunt lion and a stand-in lion, the latter of which was the one she had the incident with.
?We finished a take and I was going up the hill and all I remember is I remember seeing his mane come around and then he picked me up sideways, shook me in his mouth and turned me around,? Foster said.
The True Detective: Night Country star continued: ?Every single person on the crew was running in the opposite direction and I?m like sideways watching everybody ? and they took their equipment, too.?
The Silence of the Lambs star retold the event with amusement in her voice, but other guests on stage ? Colman, comedian Wanda Sykes, and Scottish host Lorraine Kelly ? looked on in shock.
?I?m watching everybody leave going, ?What?s happening,?? Foster said, adding that she remembers thinking it was an earthquake because she was shaking.
?The trainer said, ?Drop it? and because the lion was so well-trained, he opened his mouth and dropped me down and I went running,? she said.
But the lion ?came after? Foster, she said, noting he ?put one paw on me and then just waited like ?I go her,?? she said with a laugh.
[From People]
I know it?s not really the point of this story, but I love that there are two child actors involved, but it?s Michael Douglas who?s described as ?young.? Funny! As for the working lions, if you watch the video clip Jodie actually explains the different functions each one played. The ?main? lion was their regular scene partner, because he was very old and no longer in possession of his teeth. The ?stunt? lion was used for roaring and growling shots, presumably close ups that were filmed away from the children. Then the ?stand-in? lion was employed when the ?main? lion could not be persuaded to move. At all. Which is how Mr. Stand-In got called in for this shot. And boy did he milk his moment! Talk about scene stealing, he tried to run off with the star! I hope it was more Jodie?s clothing that the lion grabbed with his mouth rather than her body, and I also hope there really wasn?t that much of a delay until the trainer told him to ?drop it!? Thank goodness Jodie was OK and is now here to tell this story. But that last bit where the lion lays his paw on Jodie and boasts, ?don?t worry, I?ve got her!? ? no offense to the feline, but that move was total canine good-boy energy.
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| | America Ferrera embarrassed her husband by crying when she met Leonardo DiCaprio | | Added 71 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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America Ferrera is having a great year. Her powerful speech in Barbie earned its place in cinematic history as a major cultural moment and she was just nominated for her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. I?m a huge fan of America, so I?m thrilled that she?s getting the recognition she deserves. (I know I say this often but if you?re looking for a new sitcom to binge, go watch Superstore!)
Last week, America appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers to talk about the movie, her Oscar nomination, and her different experiences at Oscar events. At one point, she shared that she met Martin Scorsese at an Oscar event and was starstruck saying hi to him, prompting Seth to ask her if that happens often. America responded by telling a story about the time she met Leonardo DiCaprio and cried.
Appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Friday, the 39-year-old Barbie star explained that being starstruck will sneak up on you at industry events, before she detailed one celebrity encounter in particular that left her weeping.
As she explained, it usually happens when she meets someone she had a childhood connection to, such as when she met DiCaprio, now 49, at the 2007 Screen Actors Guild Awards, where she won an award for her performance in Ugly Betty.
I watched Titanic in the movie theaters seven times. [I was] 13, 14 [years old], prime time to be in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, right? OK, so first time I went to the SAG Awards, and I had won for Ugly Betty, I had been onstage and the whole thing, she recalled. I was feeling kind of like, I belong here, this is cool.
At the awards show, she ended up saying hello to DiCaprio. And I promptly departed [from] him, went around the corner and just started weeping, Ferrera said.
And my husband, then-boyfriend, was with me and he was like, I am so embarrassed right now.
Ferreras spouse, Ryan Piers Williams, whom she wed in 2011, then encouraged Ferrera to stop crying.
I hope Leonardo DiCaprio never sees this, Ferrera told Meyers, who joked that he probably wont.?
[From People]
That is SO funny. I?ve been trying to think of which celebrity I?d be so starstruck that I?d cry if I met them and I don?t know! Honestly, I think it would be Judy Blume. There are celebrities that I?ve admired or would love to meet, but Judy?s books meant so much to me when I was growing up that I could see myself becoming emotional if I ever met her. I would also love to sit in on a Fiona Apple recording session and see how her genius works. Oh, and Gillian Anderson would definitely inspire a lot of feels. I wouldn?t have cried meeting Leo, though. I was more of a Devon Sawa girl growing up. Those five minutes he?s on screen during Casper
You can watch America?s entire segment with Seth below. They tell more funny stories, including Seth joking about which famous person he met that made him cry (at least, I think he was joking!) and which Full House star she was thrilled to have met. She also talks about meeting Tom Hanks and trying to hold it together as he said nice things to her. It?s a fun interview and she comes across as a really nice, down-to-earth person.
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| | Kristen Stewart wore Chanel in Berlin & spoke about the future of LGBTQ films | | Added 71 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Kristen Stewart was in Germany for the Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival) over the weekend. She?s promoting Love Lies Bleeding, and she wore Chanel to the premiere (and I think that?s a Chanel outfit at the photocall too). I?m fine with all of this except her hair her hair is getting worse and worse every time I see her. In general though, the premiere look was very buttoned-up for Kristen, especially given that she recently covered Rolling Stone in a jock strap. The RS cover was ?risque,? according to the Hollywood Reporter, although I must have missed the outrage about it. Were people actually in their feelings about it? Anyway, Kristen talked about the RS cover and more during her Berlinale press conference:
Kristen Stewart has defended her risque? photo shoot for the March Rolling Stone magazine cover that went viral and divided audiences on social media platforms.
?The existence of a female body thrusting any type of sexuality at you that?s not designed for exclusively straight males is something people are not super comfy with and so I?m really happy with it,? Stewart told a press conference on Sunday at the Berlin Film Festival for her latest movie, Love Lies Bleeding.
Stewart, who is bisexual, said she enjoyed breaking with traditional stereotypes about what it means to be feminine. ?It?s okay to take different pictures and mix them up in a way that people aren?t used to and want to go and that?s okay, too,? she added. Stewart insisted the androgynous images taken by Collier Schorr for Rolling Stone should not be that big of a deal. ?In fact, it?s pervasive and it?s everywhere and it?s being denied and it?s crazy that there aren?t
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| | Rooney Mara is expecting her second child with Joaquin Phoenix | | Added 72 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Guess who?s knocked up again?? Rooney Mara appeared at the Berlin Film Festival to promote her latest film, La Cocina, and she revealed her bump at the premiere. Rooney is still with Joaquin Phoenix and they might even be married (he?s referred to Rooney as his wife in a couple of interviews). They welcomed their son River in 2020, which surprised me because I thought that was just last year or something. But no, they have a three-and-a-half year old running around the house and now a second one on the way. By the way, Rooney?s maternity sack dress is amazing. I love maternity sack dresses, they always look so comfortable.
As for her film, La Cocina is based on Arnold Wesker?s play The Kitchen. The film is directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios and Variety called it ?an anti-food-p-rn movie.? Alonso said: ?I wanted to show the other side of the food industry where expediency is more important than the quality of the food. It?s a metaphor for corporate capitalism.? At Rooney?s festival press conference, she spoke about how she chooses projects nowadays, which is to choose by directors only.
I used to sort of worry about Rooney & Joaquin?s relationship and wonder if they drove each other crazy with their weirdness and idiosyncrasies but over the course of their eight-year-long relationship, I think Rooney has stabilized him completely. They live quietly in the Hollywood Hills, they make vegan food together, they watch Netflix and mind their business. And now they?ll soon have two kids!
Photos courtesy of Cover Images and Avalon Red.
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| | Margot Robbie did Barbiecore at the BAFTAs in a custom Armani: cute or blah? | | Added 72 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Margot Robbie went with Barbiecore for her BAFTA look, doing a black-and-pink custom Armani Priv gown with black gloves. People are really doing gloves a lot these days and you can tell the ladies are out of practice. No, honestly, Margot?s gloves look fine and I think Margot assumes that we want or expect her to wear Barbiecore throughout the entire awards season. Maybe that?s true? I don?t know. But it?s going to be quite an adjustment once this whole ride is over!
If Claire Foy is going to do one thing in this world, it?s wear something fringed. She has been wearing fringed ensembles for MONTHS. I guess it?s a minor trend, but also: she?s seeking it out. It?s pretty easy to avoid wearing this much fringe. This dress is also Armani Priv it would be lovely without the boob fringe, I?m sure.
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| | Zendaya wore two Mugler looks to the London 'Dune 2' premiere: robot diva' | | Added 75 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are photos from the huge Dune 2 premiere in London last night. The whole cast turned out from the look of it, including ?surprise? cast member Anya Taylor Joy. There were rumors that Anya turned up at some point but her appearance at the premiere ended up confirming it. She dressed in her best sandworm chic, aka get-thee-to-a-nunnery Dior.
No one was paying attention to poor Anya though, not when Zendaya came to play. Zendaya did two different looks for the red carpet, first showing up in a robot ensemble. This is Mugler and yes, her ass cheeks were out when she turned around. It?s a lot of look, as Tim Gunn likes to say. It would feel more on-theme if Zendaya was playing a robot or someone robotic, but her character is a flesh-and-blood Dune resident (don?t ask me, I?m no expert). After the robot ensemble, she switched into a slinky black Mugler dress.
Zendaya?s sartorial shenanigans also overshadowed Florence Pugh, who I would argue was the actual best-dressed person there. Miss Flo wore this stunning Valentino with a hooded cowl neckline. I love it, I love everything about it it feels Dune-y and futuristic but it?s still just a beautiful dress, appropriate for a red/sand carpet. The color is gorgeous.
Other notable fashion moments: Timothee Chalamet wore Haider Ackermann. It?s meh, which is disappointing. His style had been so great at all of the photocalls, it makes me wonder if he or his stylist mixed up the looks and Timmy was supposed to wear this to the Paris photocall or something. Lea Seydoux wore a very boring Louis Vuitton, and Rebecca Ferguson wore an optical illusion (??) Fendi dress.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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| | Maisie Williams' preparation to play Catherine Dior sounds awful | | Added 76 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Did you know that Christian Dior had a baby sister who was a part of an underground group of the French Resistance during World War II? I didn?t! Her name was Catherine, she was the muse for her brother?s iconic Miss Dior perfume, and her full story was recounted in Justine Picardie?s novel Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture, which has just been adapted into a 10-part series on Apple TV+. Renamed The New Look, Maisie Williams plays Miss Catherine Dior with Ben Mendelsohn as Christian Dior, Juliette Binoche as CoCo Chanel, and Glenn Close and John Malkovich rounding out the cast. Harper?s Bazaar UK got author Justine Picardie to interview Maisie ? the two never met during filming in 2022 ? about the punishing, very unglamorous task of depicting Catherine?s story on screen:
Again, the art of casting: At 26, Williams is the same age as Catherine Dior when she was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo in July 1944. Catherine had joined the Resistance three years earlier, and risked her life on a daily basis as a key member of a covert network called F2, which gathered intelligence for the Allies. Williams chooses her words with care when she speaks, in a way that I imagine Catherine would have done; and like Catherine, she is thoughtful, giving the impression of being wise for her years. (Nina Gold, the casting director for Game of Thrones, described Williams as an ?old soul? at the age of 12, when filming began on the series.)
On filming concentration camp scenes: ?It was very relentless,? she says; ?the process of doing take after take, it really breaks down your character in a way. It?s not for everyone, but for me, I like to get lost in a role, and keep on pushing until we complete a scene.?
This sounds very Joan of Arc: Even when Williams is almost wordless on screen ? and Catherine?s silence was integral to her courage, given that she refused to give the names of her comrades in the Resistance to the Gestapo, thereby saving their lives ? her presence is powerful, and propels the narrative onwards. And the physicality of Williams? performance is startling: her head was shaved, to mirror Catherine?s brutalising arrival at Ravensbrck, where the women underwent a dehumanising process that turned them into nameless numbers in the Nazi death camps. Williams also lost 12 kilograms [26.5 pounds], in order to realistically portray Catherine?s emaciated appearance when she returned to Paris at the end of the war, close to death, ravaged by pain and haunted by the suffering of the camps.
Her weight loss regimen was insane: This regime was carefully overseen by medical professionals, with regular blood tests and measurements of her heart rate; yet it sounds gruelling. ?I was eating very little, meditating all the time, burning candles and incense in my apartment.? Much of the weight loss, she says, came from sweating out fluid just before filming ? in the same way the boxers and jockeys reach their target weights for the day of a fight or race. ?I had to be up at 4am to start sweating. The night before, at about 7 or 8pm I was allowed to have something salty and dehydrating ? some smoked salmon and a tiny glass of wine. Then I had a boiling-hot bath with lots of salts in it. And I sort of levitated to bed and slept for maybe three hours, and woke up and had a handful of nuts. I wouldn?t be able to sleep through the night at this point. I kept waking up and feeling like a marble inside a bottle, rattling around??
What got her through the intensity: ?There was a lot of feeling restricted, almost like sleep paralysis, dreams of being trapped and attacked, and horrible visions of men in uniform.? At the same time, she adds, she understood the importance of maintaining her belief in the more positive aspects of the story. After all, Catherine Dior made a new life for herself as a rose-grower in Provence, drawing solace from the natural world, while her brother created a legacy of enduring beauty. ?Every day of filming was a reminder that we were portraying a story of the horrors that humans are capable of inflicting on one another, but also the magic and the hope and the love? Ultimately, we wanted to make a show that was uplifting.?
[From Harpers Bazaar UK]
There?s a lot more covered in the full article, which was a very compelling read. In these excerpts on her acting preparation, I feel like Maisie gives pragmatic answers without dwelling on the torture of it all, as some actors are wont to do (I leave you to fill in those blanks). Maybe it?s a British quality, but she seems just to list the facts of what she did ? and quite eloquently, that line about being ?a marble inside a bottle, rattling around,? lingered with me ? yet without adding too much commentary on the cost of it. That being said, this was a severe physical transformation. 26.5 pounds may not sound like much, but Maisie is tiny! She can?t do something like this for every project, not to mention the weight loss components will get harder with age (I speak from experience). But what a fantastic role to land and redefine herself with post Game of Thrones. I?ll be tuning in. And not for nothing, I?m very curious to see how the dynamic is depicted between the siblings.
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