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https://twitter.com/AndyMilonakis/status/610596533009018881
Yesterday on twitter, seems that Alicia is still in Stockolm
Alicia and michael are in this list of 'celebrity couples you didn't know about'
http://www.nylon.com/articles/surprising-celebrity-couples?gid=1&pid=11
btw this is random but i just read comments on some sites and i find it amusing how differently people comment on michael/alicia in mostly-girls forums and mostly-guys forums?
Like, while girls came up with all these intricate conspiracy theories and analysis, guys mostly are just like 'damn fassbender is ****ing that' 'fassbender (and his huge schlong) is dating her what a lucky son of a *****' 'fassbender is banging her i bet she walks funny'![]()
https://twitter.com/AndyMilonakis/status/610596533009018881
Yesterday on twitter, seems that Alicia is still in Stockolm
Alicia and michael are in this list of 'celebrity couples you didn't know about'
http://www.nylon.com/articles/surprising-celebrity-couples?gid=1&pid=11
Are her and Andy Milonakis friends? Because I wonder what he meant by "beta test version of Ava", lol. Like, was he joking about his homie, or was he throwing shade?
I also want to know what Z Film Reviewer meant by "Just say sorry, I have seen how it ended up for others that **** with her." How did it end up? Is she a masterful debater who eviscerates all with her razor-sharp wit, or... something else? I'm so nosy.
I think that's a really obvious reference to her character in Ex Machina killing Oscar Isaac and leaving Gleeson to die. Basically, don't f**k with Ava. And I don't really see any shade in the first comment either. It's just a reference to the actress being the original (or human/non-perfect) version of the robot.
ETA: I actually don't see anything in those tweets to assume that either of these people know her. Even the "we were arguing about humanity" comes across as a joke/reference. I wouldn't assume he actually talked to her.
Well, Andy Milonakis is famous too, so that's why I wondered. I'm not that familiar with his brand of "comedy" though, so maybe. I just know if I was calling someone I didn't know the beta version of anything, especially the beta of the robot they played, it'd probably be shade, so thought I'd ask.
I think that's a really obvious reference to her character in Ex Machina killing Oscar Isaac and leaving Gleeson to die. Basically, don't f**k with Ava. And I don't really see any shade in the first comment either. It's just a reference to the actress being the original (or human/non-perfect) version of the robot.
ETA: I actually don't see anything in those tweets to assume that either of these people know her. Even the "we were arguing about humanity" comes across as a joke/reference. I wouldn't assume he actually talked to her.
Oh, I think calling someone a "beta version" absolutely can be shade. If someone said something like "Alicia Vikander comes across like a beta version of Keira Knightley" then that's really insulting. But in this context, where the guy is comparing her to herself in a movie where there's dialogue talking about multiple versions (Ava 9.0) of her character, it reads just as a reference to me. Like if someone was sitting next to Michael Fassbender in his every day clothes & non-coiffed hair and was a fan of Prometheus and called him the "beta test version of David", I'd never interpret that as shade either, just a geeky joke.
Vikander is having a moment, and the director, making his feature film debut, lucked out with his star. At a recent press event to promote the film, he told me that if he had cast Vikander now, he wouldn’t be able to afford her. The Swedish actress first came on everyone’s radar as Denmark’s queen in “A Royal Affair,” while the sci-fi “Ex Machina” propelled her into the next level. She seems to be everywhere with at least five other films scheduled for release this year. She will soon appear with Eddie Redmayne in Tom Hooper’s highly anticipated film, “The Danish Girl.”
Vikander is dating Michael Fassbender, who she met when they made “The Light Between Oceans,” also scheduled for release this year. The 26-year-old actress was staying at the same hotel where she and the director were promoting the film. Now with her sudden celebrity, paparazzi circled outside the hotel for hours in hopes of getting shots of Vikander and Fassbender leaving together.
Later that evening, at the film’s premiere, the couple attended the after party together, Fassbender’s arm gently wrapped around his girlfriend’s waist. No paparazzi were in sight. Nor did Vikander have an army of stylists hovering nearby. She looked natural with her hair in a loose ponytail and wearing little makeup and spoke to anyone who approached.
You have a wonderful supporting cast, but your star, Alicia Vikander, is basically the whole film. Your timing couldn’t be better. You got her right after “A Royal Affair” and “Anna Karenina” and before “Ex Machina.” She has about five other films coming out this year.
What can I say? It’s her film. We were fated. God smiled on us. Alicia Vikander was free, available, affordable, willing. And it was my first film! What more could a first film director want? And then to have her and then to have Taron Egerton, who’s in “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” also on the rise. And Kit Harington, who’s in “Game of Thrones,” phenomenally successful, but all fresh, all not seen in the cinema world by big English language audiences.
I think Alicia produces a very specific Vera. There’s a sort of gritty determination, powerhouse there. You know she was a ballerina with the Swedish Royal Ballet from the age of nine. Now think of “Black Swan.” There’s a particular kind of girl who has that fortitude to be a dancer. They’re ambitious. They’re also very determined. And they set themselves the highest standards. And that’s what Vera did, and I think Alicia immediately focuses us on those qualities. An actress, what they do is they allow the audience to immediately focus on a particular aspect of that person that the film’s about. Another actress will alter that. It doesn’t mean they won’t do a great role, but you’ll have a different impression of that person. Alicia brings out some of the core qualities of Vera really within the first few seconds of meeting her. You know. You sense because that’s what Alicia’s like.
The scenes where Vera and her brother and Roland and a friend are bathing in the pond are particularly effective because of what happens later to all of them. Were the water scenes as much fun to shoot as to watch?
There was no joking around. That water was eight degrees. And we’re talking February in England. I mean that was a lot of production panic because of my desire to have them in the water. Luckily, we shot that part late because we didn’t want to kill off our actress. But she has no body fat. I mean her body double for the close ups, she could stay in there. But Alicia because she’s so slim, that water went straight to her bones, and so she was in and out. She never complained. Incredible.