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Apologies for the quality, this was from my IG.

Already shot in Bucharest, where it was really cold.

Matt was really committed and shot from the floor.

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Fun fact ✨: Originally, the poster with the umbrella was supposed to be from the front, but decided on the side profile, so it'll look more menacing 🔪

I will do a film-versus-book side-by-side analysis at a later date.

"[Jenna Ortega] talks to Wonderland about the beauty looks that have made her feel most like herself, her go-to Dior lipstick, the music she'd soundtrack a night out with and more."

- Wonderland

Link to Wonderland article

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Fun facts not in the article ✨:

— Jenna took sewing classes from her long-time tailor, Aunt Funky's Closet.

— Jenna likes to browse vintage furniture stores, but mostly just buys knick-knacks and baubles.

Fun fact ✨: Jenna actually gives (very rare) lip prints but never for public autographs.

Even if this was shot last year, it's the only clip released so far since this specific line belongs to their Fall 2026 collection.

Though sadly, according to my girlfriend, Jenna wasn't at the Rouge Dior event in Shanghai. It was strictly for the Chinese brand ambassadors.

But she said, they're planning something for the official launch in September.

In this teaser, Klara explicitly states, "We come out of the lab with the intelligence of a toddler, and then we learn everything from our humans."

That is not what an AF is in the book. AFs are highly intelligent companions that adapt to their owner's needs.

It's like buying a service dog, and instead of getting a highly intelligent, highly trained dog, you're instead given a puppy picked up off the fucking street that needs to be housebroken and taught not to chew on your furniture.

Klara is a complex character who moves away from an AI's logical mind and embraces human traits like religion, but in the movie, she's now a naive little baby.

And I'm afraid that in the adaptation, she'll be given the solutions to her problems through contrivance rather than using her intelligence to properly solve them.

I guess now I have the context from what Jenna's stuntwoman for the movie talked about and Jenna herself saying she based her performance on her niece, because she is basically, unequivocally, a fucking toddler.

As a cameraman I cringed as the wax and oil from the lipstick and the act of cleaning it itself would damage the lens 😬

"Our Wednesday crew T-shirts, designed by Jenna Ortega herself!"

📸 Celtic Grips

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And I thought the "Hands Not Wands" S2 Make Up Dept crew shirt was hilarious 😂

My girlfriend said that different countries get different bubble cards of Jenna when you purchase the lipstick but we haven't seen any variant, only just that one photo.

I'll edit/update when I find more info.

I saw this still and it immediately made me wonder if the film might be making a pretty major change, especially since we already know that Josie’s father, Paul (Simon Baker), was apparently cut entirely from the adaptation. And that potentially creates a pretty big problem.

I'm not really one of those "it must be 1:1 with the book!", as I love when they make changes in the film adaptations but only if they make it better or explore characterizations that weren't in the original source material.

Paul's not really a major character, but he is a significant part of the later part of the story, and this still made me think on what they would've changed since they cut him.

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⚠️ BOOK SPOILERS BELOW ⚠️

So, in this still, Klara appears to be holding what I assume is a dismantled part of the Cootings Machine. What's interesting, though, is that it looks like the machine is being found in the fields area rather than at the scrapyard like in the book. And in the book, Klara doesn't figure everything out on her own. She gets help from Paul to destroy the Cootings Machine, specifically because of his engineering background. He's also the one who helps extract the PEG Nine from Klara's head so it can be used on the machine.

But if Paul has been completely removed from the movie, how exactly is Klara supposed to know how to do any of this?

One possibility is that she finds the machine already dismantled like what we see on the still. With Klara's observational abilities, maybe she notices that the PEG Nine has leaked onto other parts of the machinery and deduces that it's corrosive, and that similar high-spec machines use the same substance. High-spec machines like, oh, I don't know, an Artificial Friend.

That part, I can maybe buy.

But Klara wouldn't necessarily know what PEG Nine actually is, that she has it inside her, or how to remove it from her own head.

And even if the movie somehow gives her that information, maybe the Manager mentioning it beforehand, she still needs someone with enough technical knowledge to actually extract it without killing her in the process.

Sure, there's Mr. Capaldi. Maybe the technicians at the yard could help.

But would that even make sense for Capaldi and if the technicians are going to take over Paul's role anyway, then why cut Paul entirely?

So yeah, I'm really curious to see how the movie handles this. Maybe there's a major change we're not seeing yet, and everything will make sense in context.

But I really hope they didn't just throw in some bullshit contrivance to solve a plot problem created by cutting Paul.

I think this is where Tara truly finds her courage: not fleeing into distraction, but turning to face it head-on.

>"Come on, motherfuckers!"

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I had the chance to meet Miss Hayden while I was still volunteering with Project Mermaid, but met her in a different org. She was warm, a little goofy, and genuinely passionate about the cause.

But I was still surprised she remembered me when I attended Monstermania, and again when I was an extra in Montreal for Scream 6, but the extras just hung out and talked to Dermot about '90s movies. (Jenna was grumpy that day because it was the last scene of the shoot lmao.)

Not attending Scaradise is still a source of regret for me. I told myself there'd always be next year.

I still can't bring myself to open her book.

Rest in peace, Miss Hayden.

I wonder if he'll attack another cake lmao.

📽️klaraandthesunmovie

Maybe it's just me, but her smile kinda seems like when my autistic ass tries to mimic a person's expression when conversing. Which, with Klara's character, is just that and might not be just me hallucinating

Taste's main inspiration is the 1992 film Death Becomes Her but has nods to other movies, (mostly horror) and Sabrina's previous MV, so I thought I'd edit them all together.

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Fun fact #1✨: Rohan Campbell plays Beloved Boyfriend. He also died in Halloween Ends. That dude can't catch a break.

The gravestone reads May 22, 1998 – August 23, 2024. His death date is the date when the MV was released, but the birthdate isn't clear. A lot of fans speculate it's about Shawn Mendes's birth year, as Beloved Boyfriend was described as "clingy, lots of trauma," and "very insecure, very insecure." with Camila Cabello's release date for B.O.A.T., but it isn't definitive.

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Fun Fact #2 ✨: Death Becomes Her won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects and was the first film to use photo-realistic human skin CGI, which still holds up even today especially from the 90s. I actually covered it in a VFX history class in film school.

In the shovel fight scene, Meryl Streep actually scarred Goldie Hawn's cheek for real during a take, leaving a small scar.

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Fun fact #3 ✨: Jenna Ortega's chainsaw is named Espresso 3000 (or something) from the Esquire interview.

📽️ Sony Pictures

I like that Klara wears normal clothes in the film adaptation instead of sticking to her AF uniform from the book. Seeing Jenna in rustic attire is a breath of fresh air too.

I am curious how the adaptation will change, since Klara >!seems very human now instead of unusually still or awkward at mimicking humans.!<

I have... opinions on the Gold Derby awards but a win's a win.

Travesuras makes macabre handmade dolls that are a mix of Tim Burton and Coraline, and has that stop motion feel.

I was reminded of when I was gonna order a new one because I accidentally broke my Pearl doll and didn't know she made some Jenna dolls.

Her insta

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