Tuppence Middleton

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Mank (2020); Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022); Possessor.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Citizen Kane (1941): 2 lines

  1. lineage (visual influence) · through Mank (2020), which they acted in: Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: David's interview with cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt). Messerschmidt told the interviewer he wanted low, deep-focus photography evoking Citizen Kane, not noir.
    “He's like, no, I want to do it low to the ground, lots of deep focus, evoking citizen Kane.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:13:08 · David Sims (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (subject / source) · through Mank (2020), which they acted in: Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the host's read). Mank is partly inspired by Pauline Kael's essay on who truly authored Citizen Kane.
    “it's in part inspired by that very famous Pauline Kale, story raising Kane, about the true authorship of Citizen Kane”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Jack Fincher: 1 line

  1. lineage (script origin) · through Mank (2020), which they acted in: Jack Fincher ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: Fincher's own account as read from the dossier (outlet not named)). Fincher's father wrote the original Mank script, which David set aside until years later.
    “I'm handed this script that my dad wrote about all powerful directors ruining storytelling”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:48:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Singin' in the Rain (1952): 1 line

  1. theme (plot borrowing) · through Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022), which they acted in: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Downton Abbey: A New Era (the host's read). The Downton film's film-within-a-film plot, with Lady Mary dubbing a silent star, is a pure crib from Singin' in the Rain.
    “it's just pure crib from singing in the rain, but it starts as a silent film and then, you know, they go to see uh, the jazz singer”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:55:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)

The Lost Weekend (1945): 1 line

  1. craft (visual echo) · through Mank (2020), which they acted in: The Lost Weekend ⇒ Mank (the host's read). The election-night drunk sequence in Mank is called self-consciously reminiscent of The Lost Weekend.
    “almost self-consciously reminiscent of the last the lost weekend”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:03:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (3) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (shared actor): Tuppence Middleton → Possessor. Tuppence Middleton was in Possessor and Mank, then Downton Abbey 2.
    “Instead, it's like, she was in possessor and mank.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:17:34 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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