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Vogue
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
A Cheers to Seema, And Just Like That's Certifiable Diva
In the first episode this season, we meet Seema again as she is trying to keep the romance alive with her boyfriend Ravi, who is off in Egypt making a film. (A Marvel movie director? Love that for her.) She decks herself out in full-on lingerie for their Zoom date, only for Ravi's assistant to keep her waiting for hours, to no avail. (Hate that for her.) She then falls sleep with a lit cigarette, lighting her bed (and some of her hair) on fire. Dramatic? Yes, but she essentially represents all the hoops many of us jump through for undeserving men. My queen, we see you and empathize with you! When Ravi finally gets into town, he then promises to take Seema out to lunch at Jean-Georges to make up for it—only to bring her along on a location-scouting trip that eats up their entire day. Fed up, she proceeds to swiftly dump him (in a fabulous white fringed dress, no less). As she should. She deserved that bougie martini lunch! We love to see a diva who knows her worth. If AJLT fans are still mourning the loss of the über-confident Samantha, Seema is here to fill that void: She is not to be messed with.
New York Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
At Tribeca Festival, ‘The Scout' Spotlights a Typically Low-Profile Role
It's often said that the city a movie is set in is like a character in the story — think New York in Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver,' or Hong Kong in Wong Kar Wai's 'In the Mood for Love.' But it takes a location scout to find the ordinary streets and houses that create a complete, lived-in picture of that place. This largely invisible but important role in moviemaking provides the lead character of 'The Scout,' which premieres Thursday at the Tribeca Festival. Paula González-Nasser wrote and directed 'The Scout' after toiling as a location scout for around six years. The filmmaker, who grew up in Colombia and Miami, got into the business after moving to New York in 2016, when a scout left the show where she was a locations production assistant. What followed were busy stints on the shows 'High Maintenance,' 'Search Party,' 'Broad City,' and films like 'Never Rarely Sometimes Always' — driving around, knocking on doors, and leaving fliers in neighborhoods in search of the perfect locations for scenes. She started keeping a diary of her appointments, if only to preserve more of the memories of all that she saw. When the idea struck her to tell a story about her job through a movie, she knew she didn't want to show the hustle-and-bustle on set that meta movies about filmmaking often focus their energies on. 'You never see the boring, drab, behind-the-scenes part of making a movie,' González-Nasser said during an interview in a cafe in Crown Heights, a Brooklyn neighborhood where she had scouted locations for the HBO series 'High Maintenance.' 'But,' she continued, 'I also wanted to show a character in a job that was blending the personal and professional and pulling her in many different directions.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
