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Tansy Gardam

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chaotic foolish. writer, critic and recovering TV producer. host of Going Rogue, a podcast about troubled films and the industry that makes them, if you even care.

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Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 18h

I know we love to say the Masked Singer feels like the TV show in a capitalist dystopia but I feel like it has nothing on Dancing With The Stars.

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 18h

I already say gone as "gawrn" it's honestly not a stretch to be adding random ns.

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 18h

I have been made aware that I mispronounced Bridge to Terabithia in the new episode. However, I am pretending that is just how you say it with my accent.

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 21h

having to upload a headshot for a work pass and very nearly accidentally gave them this

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 1d

6) The film was AP'd by Branagh's former assistant William Moseley. The film also has a cameo by the actor William Moseley, in a scene where Hamish McColl (the writer) also cameos. It took longer than you'd think to confirm that these are different people.

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 1d

5) can't remember if I cut this or not but the props team were at least thinking about designs for sequels, specifically the mind-wipe device, which only really comes into play in the third book.

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Jam Walker @jamwa.bsky.social · 2d

If you're not listening to Going Rogue, you really should be. Incredibly well researched & just brilliantly entertaining.

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 2d

new episode (actually) out now!

this one goes out to all the kids who self identified as "readers" in primary school

open.spotify.com/episode/3CVj...

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 2d

it's real! he is only the voice in the dog's head, the real stars are milo ventimiglia and amanda seyfried. it's based on a book that spent 150+ weeks on the New York Times best seller list.

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 2d

4) Lara McDonnell (Holly) appeared in Branagh's next film Belfast as Cousin Who Wants To Do Crime, and she also did work experience on Death On The Nile

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 2d

3) this is just for kids who grew up in my house in the early 2000s but Miranda Raison, who played Artemis's mother, was Jo from Spooks. Laurence Kinlan, who played Holly's father, was Dan Kelly in the Heath Ledge Ned Kelly. Neither are in the final cut.

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 2d

2) the design for Butler (and by extension Juliet) was inspired by Cheddar Man - in 2018 they'd just done DNA testing on the 10,000 year old human remains and found he had brown skin and blue eyes

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 2d

ok it's time for all the things I had to cut from the Artemis Fowl episode of the pod

1) The same year that he was part of VFX tests for Artemis Fowl (2002), Nonso Anozie played King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company - he holds the Guinness World Record for Youngest Lear at 23.

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 2d

new episode (actually) out now!

this one goes out to all the kids who self identified as "readers" in primary school

open.spotify.com/episode/3CVj...

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 2d

ok this time fr open.spotify.com/episode/3CVj...

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 2d

was checking the levels of the new ep and got worried about a massive blowout but it turns out it was just the biggest foghorn ever.

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 3d

folks I may have girlbossed a little close to the sun on this one and tomorrow may in fact become tomorrow (and creep in this petty pace from day to day)

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Going Rogue Podcast @goingroguepod.bsky.social · 4d

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 5d

new episode tomorrow

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 5d

are the teens doing a running in suits things now.

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 6d

trying to come up with the worst take that I reckon could get traction. currently going with "choir practice insidiously teaches women with deep voices to shrink themselves and internalise a support role to the more femme sopranos. that's what they call it HARMonising."

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 6d

one thing they don't tell you about dyeing your hair pink is you'll forget you've done it and assume you have a normal level of anonymity. thought I was still a redhead and tried to do a sneaky walk around a new set and the floor manager recognised me from one gig 4 years ago.

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 8d

we have reached the all important Charlie Notes stage of the new episode
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Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 8d

the most scared was at 5am on a recorded zoom call and you can see the moment I start wondering if this is how i die.

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 9d

just nearly sent a job application with a link to an 85 minute rough cut of the new episode of going rogue this is the second most scared I have ever been in my life.

Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 9d

incredible