Hi everyone!! How about some good news, bullet point style? This is a work week, Narnia's administrators certainly recognize that, so we are going easy on the brain tonight.
• We're going to lead off with Louis, but this won't be the last you'll hear about this one. Our own M&M will expand on this further at a later time, but for now, who doesn't love Louis Tomlinson rising from his judge's chambers and lowering the boom on the rag Mirror?
All kinds of word twisting and spoon feeding going on there in that article. Louis arose and told the Mirror to sit down. This would not have been allowed to happen a year ago, folks, so this is great news!
• We have a selfie from Zayn and it came yesterday, July 23, the 9th anniversary of the "birth and formation" of One Direction. Wonderful to see Zayn on the very special day.
• Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles made their annual appearance with cast mates at the San Diego Comic Con, representing their show Supernatural, which is in its final season of filming. Was anyone really surprised to see Jared's quote about who called this shot?
Goodnight, everyone!! Have some ice cream tomorrow. :-)
pic sources: alinasphotos, giphy, one direction news, futurama our playlist: Candyman - Sammy Davis, Jr. Ice Cream Truck - Eddie Murphy I Want It Now! - from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
A symbol of Hollywood's glitz and glamour, red carpets are usually all about being seen. In addition to dressing up, being interviewed, selling a new project, a fake relationship, and in this particular case a bromance-romance between two male co-stars, each of whom were trying a bit too hard to sell their "love" for each in front of the cameras. The over the top performances from that day, almost like these two had something to hide. Part II - Narnia Said It Would Be So: The Jake Gyllenhaal/Junior "Tom" Holland Romance That's right, hiding something, or more like someone, who was lurking in the shadows, behind the scenes. A certain someone who is supposed to be out of sight, out of mind: Austin Nichols.
Exhibit A, initially the only evidence Austin was at Jake's Spider-man premiere on social media, i.e. Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr:
The caption (in case you can't read it!)? "#austinnichols *hearteyes emoji* June 2019" How generic is that? No idea where he was at, what date the pic was taken, or what he was doing other than walking and carrying his cell phone. Well, after a little sleuthing, guess where Austin was sighted and on what date? That's right. This was Management's fallback position just in case someone observed that Austin couldn't be seen in Jake's vicinity at the Far From Home Los Angeles premiere. Well as we can see, Austin Nichols was indeed very much present at the premiere of Far From Home. Here's a notable clue from a photo recently posted elsewhere just this past Wednesday on July 17th, three weeks later:
Thanks, neighbor! And there's the recognizable Hollywood Walk of Fame sidewalk stars in the photo above. Unless one is an intense student of tile, one would never have guessed that this picture, which was posted first on June 28, two days after the premiere,
was from the famous TCL Chinese Theatre where the Walk of Stars is located. But, do you see any stars here? No, I don't either. But ohhhh, here is the layout on Wire Images which has the pictures showing that this was, in fact, where Austin was photographed that day.
Even though, interestingly enough, no one mentions that he was at the Far From Home premiere at all. How are they labeled? Well, they're in the broad category "Celebrity Sightings in Los Angeles, CA", with Austin's photos sweepingly captioned: "LOS ANGELES, CA - June 26: Austin Nichols is seen on June 26 in Los Angeles, CA".
Now Zimbio does have two of the photos on their website (credit given to the same photographer). But, on Google, the pictures are listed as "Austin Nichols Outside the Spider-Man: Far From Home Premiere, June 27. But, June 27 is incorrect, since the premiere was on the 26th.
The "outside"the Spider-Man Far From Home premiere is also telling. In other words, according to the official records, Austin Nichols is on the outside looking in. But, we here at Narnia beg to differ with Zimbio's version of events. See, we have footage of Austin indeed "outside". Obviously, looking for someone. Here's a screen cap of Austin Nichols asking, "Where's my husband?" to the photographer, who had asked "What's up, man?" ;-)
And, here's the buried video: You have to scroll down several rows to find the video Oh, and let's not forget the "exclusive new footage" from "undercover" Narnia sources, of Austin "outside" holding both hands up as he looked for someone who had eight (8) tickets:
Just kidding! Seriously though, remember, Jakers said there were "a couple of Gyllenhaal's here tonight" after all, a bit of an understatement with the ark-load he and Austin have bred, but he can't give it all away, right? Let's insert the footage of Jake stumbling over his (ne'er more true) words once again,
One more point about how Red Carpets are also used as a canvas to convince the public that someone was
in attendance. Add a flimsy Instagram post to provide personalized corroboration and the visual evidence becomes "irrefutable" even though several posting oddities are hard to explain, like the inconsistency of the named location:
With Cadieu, the public is told that she was at TCL Chinese Theatres, when the actual promoted event was at TCL Chinese Theatre (singular, not plural).
HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It was a star-studded night at the TCL
Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Wednesday as Marvel Studios and Sony
Pictures joined forces for the world premiere of "Spider-Man: Far From
Home."
With Harrison it was an extra "s" and an outdated name which hasn't been used since 2001: Mann's Chinese Theatres
Why not just use TCL Chinese Theatre throughout? An obvious explanation is that PR teams like inconsistency to sow confusion. Especially when it is so easy nowadays to place a pic of someone in a gown or flashy pantsuit in front of a logo display board and say, "See they were there too!" If these shadowy women were truly at the Far From Home premiere, why no pics of either of them with their respective "boyfriend"? Or with one another, since the official narrative is that Cadieu and Harrison are besties? No, it's pretty obvious that the bare minimum was done to "place" these two women at Jake's premiere. While Austin Nichols, the only one of the three whose pictures actually had the correct location of TCL Chinese Theatre throughout, was shoved behind the scenes, apparently trying to hook up with a ticket scalper to get in. LOLLLLL! *wink*
Below is Harrison leaving without an Austin Nichols in sight. How very odd, don't you think? She's all dressed up and escort-less; while Austin is spotted outside casually attired and looking all kinds of relaxed with nothing to prove to anyone.
And then Cadieu - funny how WireIMAGE seemed to get the location right, although still no money shot with her and Jake.
Gee, it looks like all of the accompanying fanfare that came with the Spider-man premiere is a gift that just keeps on giving. The antics in front of the camera hardly comparing to the low-key, behind the scenes arrival of Jake's real husband. Sorry, Tom. Not sorry.
pic sources: Wire Images, Zimbio our playlist: Standing in the Shadows of Love - The Four Tops Save Me - Dave Mason You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - The Beatles
A live look at WME/Endeavor and Jake Gyllenhaal's Public Relations Team after their dastardly doin's of having Austin's July 14 Instagram post altered.
In case you were not aware, after Narnia Dispatches published "The Quietest Clapback" on Sunday, July 14, Austin's Instagram post was changed quite noticeably. Gone was the pointed and personalized "Hey @tomholland2013 can I be Spider Man when I grow up?" and replaced with the generic, "I'm gonna be Spider Man when I grow up" @spidermanmovie @marvelstudios. Here's the original statement, posted on July 11.
And then orders were issued from on high, and an intern took out their correction tape,
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not exactly hearing Sergeant Schultz here, lol.
Perhaps Junior had some kind of objection??? Maybe someone stayed after class to talk to the teacher? Holland??? Narnia will stand behind Austin full stop on this one. He has been censored; put in his place. Imagine those of you, like myself, who are on social media and someone either tells you to change your tweet or Tumblr post, or has access to your account and takes an eraser to your thoughts and expressions. They then take out that Fat Sharpie and scribble words for you. "Here. This is what you really meant to say, isn't it?"
Austin and Jake came to an agreement on their life road a long time ago. But it is times like this that reminds them both of the price that comes from being in the closet and publicly denying that the other exists.
Perhaps Jake needs to look at his life partner and realize that most folks have a threshold level for tolerance of all the nonsense that he pulled with Holland. No matter how scripted, words and actions can have consequences on other people. This goes for any romantic partner of Holland's as well.
Remember that WME/Endeavor also manages Tom Holland (no surprise there), so they have a built-in win-win with this kind of redaction. What they didn't win at was totally erasing the original post. Sorry fellas.
pic sources: giphy, wikipedia our playlist: Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette You Can't Change That - Raydio
When pink elephants in the room are everywhere you turn with one paragraph quote. Jake Gyllenhaal's gift basket for 2019.
On spoiler culture: “There’s a big speech I give in the
movie and as I give this speech, crew members were asking for ear plugs because
they didn’t want to know what was happening. So there’s a kind of devotion to the
MCU and to the world of Marvel that’s kind of unprecedented. When my friends
tell me things about their lives or they ask for my secrecy, I consider it to
be one of the highest honours you could ever have. As long as it’s not hurting
someone, to hold somebody’s secrecy or privacy is a beautiful thing. I like the
idea that, at least for now, I know things that other people would be so deeply
entertained by – and more entertained when they don’t. So I love it. And I love
playing withpeople who want to know.”
- Jake G. in GQ UK edition
Whoaaaa, what's Jake really talking about here? Somehow, Narnia thinks he veered off of that "spoiler culture" road real quick and took the other fork in the road aka real life. We aren't going to elaborate in the post on this one (although I couldn't restrain from some highlighting and bold'ing). We want you, the reader, to read what he said slowly and digest it. This is all kinds of volatile. Baked potatoes don't come any more loaded than this. A bombshell that's going to be missed by many. Some of it may be entrancing. Mysterious. It can also be very annoying in parts, depending on how you look at it. It's also possible...it could also be cautiously optimistic. Notice this was from an interview with the UK edition of GQ. Good night and enjoy your Thursday. :-)
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