Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
+33
CloveGlee
ColferGirl
zuppid
Sani
indiaskye
sjonnepon
M&M
coxfire
Piciollina
Adamina
bayth
msjoanlucette
ChrisColferFan1
MissSoniaPP
tamara04
Ranwing
ladydianab
valkeakuulas
sheny
tanita_mors
BlueJazz
dap1217
sahhar
fantastica
Divalicious
Delight
Jellyrolls
arina
brisallie
Glorfindel
Ireth
Kurt Hummel
ColferInspired
37 posters
Page 22 of 40
Page 22 of 40 • 1 ... 12 ... 21, 22, 23 ... 31 ... 40
fantastica- Inner Grandma
- Posts : 9676
Join date : 2012-02-19
Location : USA, East Coast
Real Name : the original Kim
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
You can read here about the book he was talking about.ladydianab wrote:That is so awesome. Brings a real connection between Chris and the fans. Wonder what is in it, it would be fun to look at it! Hope he has a large house for all the gifts that he receives.
arina- Bruce
- Posts : 1817
Join date : 2012-02-24
Location : Czech Republic
Real Name : Lenka
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
Glorfindel wrote:Yes, you have to be in the USA to be able to rent it. However, there are ways to get it from iTunes anyway.coxfire wrote:Do you have to be in the US to buy it? I couldn't on amazon and my Itunes doesn't seem to find the movie, only the poscasts...
Here's a link that explains it:
how to set up......
If you have any questions, PM me, although I'm no expert in this. @IndiaSkye helped me.
Thanks, i'll try (I'm at work right now, taking a minibreak...), I'll tell you what!
coxfire- Porcelain
- Posts : 641
Join date : 2012-09-18
Real Name : Mel
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
First I've to say that I'm glad lots of people is supporting Chris. I think his movie is gonna be a success, well already is but is gonna be more!.
So, is the movie still available to rent?
So, is the movie still available to rent?
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
Struck by Lightning is available on Itunes and Amazon.
I keep running into people who want a free download link. I hope they never find one.
I keep running into people who want a free download link. I hope they never find one.
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
CloveGlee wrote:I keep running into people who want a free download link. I hope they never find one.
On of the tumblr boards that I follow had a posting that seems to be getting reblogged a bit, asking everyone not to download or post illegal copies of the movie. The real CC fans want this film to be as profitable as possible so that not only will it get a wider theatrical release, but will help Chris get future projects financed. I really hope that people pay attention because I know how much profit can be lost due to illegal downloads. I know that a lot of fans really want to see this film and might be used to getting things for free, but it's really important for us to show our support for Chris with our wallets.
Ranwing- Inner Grandma
- Posts : 3529
Join date : 2012-07-18
Location : Levittown, NY
Real Name : Wendy
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
You know, I am conflicted about that, I want the movie to be as profitable as possible of course but also really want to see it. It's not about the money, I want to buy a dvd and I would totally pay for renting of the film if it was accessible in my country, but it isn't... I've been waiting for the movie year and half as well and If there won't be any other way to see it for me, I will have to wait at least another half a year until DVD comes out and that's depressing. Like I said for me selfish fan it's complicated...I want the link to see it and also don't want the movie to lose money because of illegal downloading and I know these two things contradict each other.
arina- Bruce
- Posts : 1817
Join date : 2012-02-24
Location : Czech Republic
Real Name : Lenka
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
Chris' answer is too cute. He comes in at 26 seconds...
bayth- Bruce
- Posts : 1114
Join date : 2012-03-17
Location : Oregon
Real Name : Beth
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
All I want for Christmas is the books I ordered a month ago to come already. They were supposed to be here on December 17th.
But yeah Chris is the cutest.
But yeah Chris is the cutest.
sheny- Bruce
- Posts : 2881
Join date : 2012-05-09
arina- Bruce
- Posts : 1817
Join date : 2012-02-24
Location : Czech Republic
Real Name : Lenka
Glorfindel- Inner Grandma
- Posts : 8707
Join date : 2012-02-19
Location : the Netherlands
Real Name : Marie
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
arina wrote:You know, I am conflicted about that, I want the movie to be as profitable as possible of course but also really want to see it. It's not about the money, I want to buy a dvd and I would totally pay for renting of the film if it was accessible in my country, but it isn't... I've been waiting for the movie year and half as well and If there won't be any other way to see it for me, I will have to wait at least another half a year until DVD comes out and that's depressing. Like I said for me selfish fan it's complicated...I want the link to see it and also don't want the movie to lose money because of illegal downloading and I know these two things contradict each other.
I have the same feelings girl. You know I've decided that probably is better for me to buy the movie when is available on amazon or any other trustful site. Because I'm not even sure if the movie gonna be in latin american theaters
sheny wrote:All I want for Christmas is the books I ordered a month ago to come already. They were supposed to be here on December 17th.
But yeah Chris is the cutest.
What if the books arrive on Dec 24th? It won't be an amazing present!
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
brisallie wrote:arina wrote:You know, I am conflicted about that, I want the movie to be as profitable as possible of course but also really want to see it. It's not about the money, I want to buy a dvd and I would totally pay for renting of the film if it was accessible in my country, but it isn't... I've been waiting for the movie year and half as well and If there won't be any other way to see it for me, I will have to wait at least another half a year until DVD comes out and that's depressing. Like I said for me selfish fan it's complicated...I want the link to see it and also don't want the movie to lose money because of illegal downloading and I know these two things contradict each other.
I have the same feelings girl. You know I've decided that probably is better for me to buy the movie when is available on amazon or any other trustful site. Because I'm not even sure if the movie gonna be in latin american theaterssheny wrote:All I want for Christmas is the books I ordered a month ago to come already. They were supposed to be here on December 17th.
But yeah Chris is the cutest.
What if the books arrive on Dec 24th? It won't be an amazing present!
I hope so I can't watch the movie so the book will be a nice Christmas gift.
sheny- Bruce
- Posts : 2881
Join date : 2012-05-09
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
NYTIMES.COMSOMETIMES being famous is like attending your own funeral.
Chris Colfer learned as much at the ripe age of 18, when he was cast as the plucky gay countertenor Kurt Hummel on “Glee.” Armed with a golden voice and an uncanny ability to cry on cue (his secret: think of eye injuries), Mr. Colfer became a poster boy for bullying issues and the show’s breakout star.
But back in his hometown, Clovis, Calif., things got weird.
“People that I went to school with almost acted as if I had died,” Mr. Colfer, now 22, said in a recent interview at the Trump SoHo hotel. Classmates who once treated him like toxic waste were now bragging on Facebook that they had been best of friends. “I thought, Wow, this must be what someone feels like at their eulogy.”
That old Tom Sawyer fantasy is the basis of “Struck by Lightning,” a film that Mr. Colfer wrote and stars in. After having its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, it was released on video on demand last week and opens in theaters Jan. 11.
Mr. Colfer plays Carson Phillips, a high-school outcast who, in the hope of getting into Northwestern University, blackmails classmates into contributing to his literary magazine. The film is told in flashback: in the first scene, Carson is, indeed, struck by lightning and dies.
Mr. Colfer conceived the story when he was 16, well before landing on TV. He first performed it in high school, as a monologue for his speech and debate team.
But the movie isn’t just deferred juvenilia. It’s part of Mr. Colfer’s bid to become a multi-platform showbiz hyphenate. In 2011, he signed a two-book deal with Little, Brown. The first book, “The Land of Stories,” which came out this summer, is a young-adult adventure novel that upends classic fairy tales, in the manner of Gregory Maguire. (He’s at work on a sequel.) He also published a companion book to “Struck by Lightning,” written as Carson’s journal.
Mr. Colfer’s literary ambitions, coupled with his piccolo-voiced demeanor, underscore how unconventional his stardom is. Playing a flamboyantly gay TV character means that Mr. Colfer has faced a nagging interest in his own sexuality, as well as questions about his long-term casting potential.
But on this front, too, he has broken ground. Though Mr. Colfer is reticent about his personal life, he has never denied being gay. In an Entertainment Weekly cover article this summer, “The New Art of Coming Out,” the writer Mark Harris contrasted Mr. Colfer with slightly older gay celebrities like Neil Patrick Harris and Zachary Quinto, whose coming-out stories, while tellingly understated, were still news.
“There are more and more actors like Chris Colfer, whose transformation from an unknown 19-year-old to a TV star in 2009 was accomplished without any ‘coming out’ moment at all,” Mr. Harris wrote. “He was simply out, and therefore didn’t have to manage or strategize any revelation once he became famous.”
“I kind of love it,” Mr. Colfer said, after being read the passage. “I really hope that one day it won’t be a thing, and we’ll get past this ridiculous — this really complex line between reality and fiction that always gets blurred. It’s crazy that people don’t let actors work because they’re gay.”
“He didn’t have to do a press conference,” said Jane Lynch, the openly lesbian actress who plays the arch-villainess Sue Sylvester on “Glee.” “It’s implied. And I think that says something about the culture we’re in.”
STILL, it’s possible to see Mr. Colfer’s diversity of creative outlets as a kind of insurance policy. By writing his own material, he can circumvent casting directors and define his screen persona for himself.
In some cases, that means leaving things vague. His “Struck by Lightning” character is conspicuously asexual. “I wanted everyone to universally be able to be inspired by this character, so I didn’t address it,” he explained. (In the book version, the subject is acknowledged, if inconclusively: Carson confesses to having a crush on Rachel Maddow.)
To make the film, Mr. Colfer assembled a team of seasoned collaborators, including the director Brian Dannelly (“Saved!”) and Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”), who plays his father’s fiancée. In a casting coup, he got Allison Janney (“The West Wing”) to play his depressed single mother, having envisioned the part for her when he was in high school.
“I was very flattered by it,” Ms. Janney said. “I’ve always wanted to be somebody’s muse.”
While not strictly autobiographical, the story stems from Mr. Colfer’s fraught upbringing. When he was 7, his younger sister was found to have severe epilepsy. “She’d have these horrid, horrid epileptic fits in the middle of the night,” he recalled. Mr. Colfer, who craved attention, was now deprived of it. Family friends would inquire about his sister’s condition: “It was always, ‘So when you grow up, are you going to come up with a cure for your sister?’ I would say, ‘Nope, I’m going to be an actor!’ ”
He came to see the unbalanced family dynamic as “an evil curse.” Retreating into his imagination, he began writing fairy tales, which formed the basis of “The Land of Stories.”
“It’s all related to childhood traumas,” he said with a laugh.
Things got worse — as they often do — in middle school. Mr. Colfer transformed from a skinny sixth grader into a pudgy seventh grader whose voice hadn’t dropped. (It still hasn’t, essentially.) Bullies vandalized his locker and defaced his gym clothes. He kept his travails mostly hidden. “I always assumed that my parents were busy with my sister,” he said. “They didn’t need any woes from me. So I never told them. I’ve still never told them the extent of what I experienced.”
But he did confide in his grandmother. She alerted his parents, who pulled him from school and put him in a home-schooling program for a year and a half.
In the meantime, he kept writing. “Words were the only way I could get people to listen to me without them wondering what was wrong with my voice,” he said.
In ninth grade, he transferred to Clovis East High School, which had a strong performing-arts program but also a strict conservative philosophy, fostered by its founding superintendent, Floyd Buchanan, known as Doc. Dr. Buchanan enforced an ironclad dress code: no facial piercings, no pro sports jerseys, and boys’ hair couldn’t reach their collars.
“Chris was right on the edge of those traditional views,” said Mikendra McCoy, who was Mr. Colfer’s coach on the speech and debate team. In an incident that later inspired a subplot on “Glee,” his classmates blocked him from singing “Defying Gravity,” a female duet from “Wicked,” in the talent show. His senior year, he wrote a gender-bending parody of “Sweeney Todd,” called “Shirley Todd.”
“The district wasn’t too excited about that,” Ms. McCoy said.
Nevertheless, Mr. Colfer acted in community theater productions and became president of the school writers’ club. Not that there was much competition. At the homecoming parade — this became a scene in “Struck by Lightning” — he and the club’s sole other member piloted a two-person float atop his father’s pickup truck. “When we came around the corner, the crowd went dead silent,” he recalled. “They felt so sorry for us.”
At the same time, he became a speech and debate champion, with Ms. McCoy as his mentor. (She has a cameo in the film as Carson’s science teacher.) Her most enduring maxim, which could double as Kurt Hummel’s, was: “As long as you truly own who you are, no one can ever use you against you.”
The lesson held true when Mr. Colfer was cast in “Glee” in 2009. He originally auditioned for Artie, the paraplegic. But the series’ creator, Ryan Murphy, conceived the role of Kurt — a bully-dodging show queen who gives killer makeovers — especially for him. At first, Mr. Colfer was hesitant about playing a gay character on national TV. “I was very nervous about people in my hometown,” he said, recalling how he had seen local church groups campaigning for Proposition 22, a same-sex marriage ban.
He was also skittish about being typecast. “The first thing that was ever written about me was that I was fantastic in ‘Glee,’ but it would be the last and only thing I ever did,” he said.
At first, a part of him believed that. But as the show caught on, the character deepened. In the second season, Mr. Murphy introduced a love interest, Blaine Anderson, played by Darren Criss. Kurt and Blaine’s tumultuous relationship became one of the show’s most nuanced — and pioneering — story lines. Last season, they lost their virginity to each other, in a barrier-breaking sex scene that Mr. Colfer compared to Maude’s abortion.
“When this show comes to an end, that’ll be one of the biggest things that stands out,” he predicted. He credited Mr. Murphy for not relegating Kurt to sassy-sidekick status or painting him as a victim, like many of his TV predecessors. (Ricky from “My So-Called Life” comes to mind.)
MUCH to the contrary, this season Kurt has graduated from high school and is pursuing his dreams in New York City. Freshly pompadoured, he shares an improbably large Bushwick, Brooklyn, apartment with Rachel (Lea Michele) and interns for a Vogue editor played by Sarah Jessica Parker, in a story line even more fantastical than Ms. Parker’s previous series. (The Thanksgiving episode had them dancing around to “Let’s Have a Kiki” with drag queens.)
The show’s recent New York focus has meant shooting on location in Bryant Park and other high-traffic spots, which has drawn gawking crowds. One of the stranger aspects of Mr. Colfer’s career is his relationship with his young fans, who mob him everywhere he goes. Not long ago, when he tried going to a public movie theater, the resulting hysteria left him with bruises.
None of this is unusual for a tween idol, of course. But Mr. Colfer’s sexuality makes the situation curious. Surely, Kurt has served as a role model for countless gay teenagers. But the vast majority of his admirers, he said, are girls, who shower him with photo albums and even erotic fan fiction (“more than most of my male co-stars”). Tumblr is rife with fan pages dedicated to Kurt and Blaine (a k a Klaine), much like the ones you would find for Bella and Edward of “Twilight.”
Certainly, the phenomenon speaks to the ubiquity of gay characters in popular culture, and suggests that Mr. Colfer’s future as a crossover star is bright. But unlike, say, Robert Pattinson or Zac Efron, he is hardly a typical fantasy boyfriend, since he offers his female fans no logical hope of consummation.
What’s in it for them?
“The new generation doesn’t see people in black and white anymore,” he said. “These girls identify with Kurt, because Kurt had something different about him. Who doesn’t have that?”
He added, with a shrug: “I don’t know too much about the female brain.”
sheny- Bruce
- Posts : 2881
Join date : 2012-05-09
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
sheny wrote:NYTIMES.COMSOMETIMES being famous is like attending your own funeral.
Chris Colfer learned as much at the ripe age of 18, when he was cast as the plucky gay countertenor Kurt Hummel on “Glee.” Armed with a golden voice and an uncanny ability to cry on cue (his secret: think of eye injuries), Mr. Colfer became a poster boy for bullying issues and the show’s breakout star.
But back in his hometown, Clovis, Calif., things got weird.
“People that I went to school with almost acted as if I had died,” Mr. Colfer, now 22, said in a recent interview at the Trump SoHo hotel. Classmates who once treated him like toxic waste were now bragging on Facebook that they had been best of friends. “I thought, Wow, this must be what someone feels like at their eulogy.”
That old Tom Sawyer fantasy is the basis of “Struck by Lightning,” a film that Mr. Colfer wrote and stars in. After having its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, it was released on video on demand last week and opens in theaters Jan. 11.
Mr. Colfer plays Carson Phillips, a high-school outcast who, in the hope of getting into Northwestern University, blackmails classmates into contributing to his literary magazine. The film is told in flashback: in the first scene, Carson is, indeed, struck by lightning and dies.
Mr. Colfer conceived the story when he was 16, well before landing on TV. He first performed it in high school, as a monologue for his speech and debate team.
But the movie isn’t just deferred juvenilia. It’s part of Mr. Colfer’s bid to become a multi-platform showbiz hyphenate. In 2011, he signed a two-book deal with Little, Brown. The first book, “The Land of Stories,” which came out this summer, is a young-adult adventure novel that upends classic fairy tales, in the manner of Gregory Maguire. (He’s at work on a sequel.) He also published a companion book to “Struck by Lightning,” written as Carson’s journal.
Mr. Colfer’s literary ambitions, coupled with his piccolo-voiced demeanor, underscore how unconventional his stardom is. Playing a flamboyantly gay TV character means that Mr. Colfer has faced a nagging interest in his own sexuality, as well as questions about his long-term casting potential.
But on this front, too, he has broken ground. Though Mr. Colfer is reticent about his personal life, he has never denied being gay. In an Entertainment Weekly cover article this summer, “The New Art of Coming Out,” the writer Mark Harris contrasted Mr. Colfer with slightly older gay celebrities like Neil Patrick Harris and Zachary Quinto, whose coming-out stories, while tellingly understated, were still news.
“There are more and more actors like Chris Colfer, whose transformation from an unknown 19-year-old to a TV star in 2009 was accomplished without any ‘coming out’ moment at all,” Mr. Harris wrote. “He was simply out, and therefore didn’t have to manage or strategize any revelation once he became famous.”
“I kind of love it,” Mr. Colfer said, after being read the passage. “I really hope that one day it won’t be a thing, and we’ll get past this ridiculous — this really complex line between reality and fiction that always gets blurred. It’s crazy that people don’t let actors work because they’re gay.”
“He didn’t have to do a press conference,” said Jane Lynch, the openly lesbian actress who plays the arch-villainess Sue Sylvester on “Glee.” “It’s implied. And I think that says something about the culture we’re in.”
STILL, it’s possible to see Mr. Colfer’s diversity of creative outlets as a kind of insurance policy. By writing his own material, he can circumvent casting directors and define his screen persona for himself.
In some cases, that means leaving things vague. His “Struck by Lightning” character is conspicuously asexual. “I wanted everyone to universally be able to be inspired by this character, so I didn’t address it,” he explained. (In the book version, the subject is acknowledged, if inconclusively: Carson confesses to having a crush on Rachel Maddow.)
To make the film, Mr. Colfer assembled a team of seasoned collaborators, including the director Brian Dannelly (“Saved!”) and Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”), who plays his father’s fiancée. In a casting coup, he got Allison Janney (“The West Wing”) to play his depressed single mother, having envisioned the part for her when he was in high school.
“I was very flattered by it,” Ms. Janney said. “I’ve always wanted to be somebody’s muse.”
While not strictly autobiographical, the story stems from Mr. Colfer’s fraught upbringing. When he was 7, his younger sister was found to have severe epilepsy. “She’d have these horrid, horrid epileptic fits in the middle of the night,” he recalled. Mr. Colfer, who craved attention, was now deprived of it. Family friends would inquire about his sister’s condition: “It was always, ‘So when you grow up, are you going to come up with a cure for your sister?’ I would say, ‘Nope, I’m going to be an actor!’ ”
He came to see the unbalanced family dynamic as “an evil curse.” Retreating into his imagination, he began writing fairy tales, which formed the basis of “The Land of Stories.”
“It’s all related to childhood traumas,” he said with a laugh.
Things got worse — as they often do — in middle school. Mr. Colfer transformed from a skinny sixth grader into a pudgy seventh grader whose voice hadn’t dropped. (It still hasn’t, essentially.) Bullies vandalized his locker and defaced his gym clothes. He kept his travails mostly hidden. “I always assumed that my parents were busy with my sister,” he said. “They didn’t need any woes from me. So I never told them. I’ve still never told them the extent of what I experienced.”
But he did confide in his grandmother. She alerted his parents, who pulled him from school and put him in a home-schooling program for a year and a half.
In the meantime, he kept writing. “Words were the only way I could get people to listen to me without them wondering what was wrong with my voice,” he said.
In ninth grade, he transferred to Clovis East High School, which had a strong performing-arts program but also a strict conservative philosophy, fostered by its founding superintendent, Floyd Buchanan, known as Doc. Dr. Buchanan enforced an ironclad dress code: no facial piercings, no pro sports jerseys, and boys’ hair couldn’t reach their collars.
“Chris was right on the edge of those traditional views,” said Mikendra McCoy, who was Mr. Colfer’s coach on the speech and debate team. In an incident that later inspired a subplot on “Glee,” his classmates blocked him from singing “Defying Gravity,” a female duet from “Wicked,” in the talent show. His senior year, he wrote a gender-bending parody of “Sweeney Todd,” called “Shirley Todd.”
“The district wasn’t too excited about that,” Ms. McCoy said.
Nevertheless, Mr. Colfer acted in community theater productions and became president of the school writers’ club. Not that there was much competition. At the homecoming parade — this became a scene in “Struck by Lightning” — he and the club’s sole other member piloted a two-person float atop his father’s pickup truck. “When we came around the corner, the crowd went dead silent,” he recalled. “They felt so sorry for us.”
At the same time, he became a speech and debate champion, with Ms. McCoy as his mentor. (She has a cameo in the film as Carson’s science teacher.) Her most enduring maxim, which could double as Kurt Hummel’s, was: “As long as you truly own who you are, no one can ever use you against you.”
The lesson held true when Mr. Colfer was cast in “Glee” in 2009. He originally auditioned for Artie, the paraplegic. But the series’ creator, Ryan Murphy, conceived the role of Kurt — a bully-dodging show queen who gives killer makeovers — especially for him. At first, Mr. Colfer was hesitant about playing a gay character on national TV. “I was very nervous about people in my hometown,” he said, recalling how he had seen local church groups campaigning for Proposition 22, a same-sex marriage ban.
He was also skittish about being typecast. “The first thing that was ever written about me was that I was fantastic in ‘Glee,’ but it would be the last and only thing I ever did,” he said.
At first, a part of him believed that. But as the show caught on, the character deepened. In the second season, Mr. Murphy introduced a love interest, Blaine Anderson, played by Darren Criss. Kurt and Blaine’s tumultuous relationship became one of the show’s most nuanced — and pioneering — story lines. Last season, they lost their virginity to each other, in a barrier-breaking sex scene that Mr. Colfer compared to Maude’s abortion.
“When this show comes to an end, that’ll be one of the biggest things that stands out,” he predicted. He credited Mr. Murphy for not relegating Kurt to sassy-sidekick status or painting him as a victim, like many of his TV predecessors. (Ricky from “My So-Called Life” comes to mind.)
MUCH to the contrary, this season Kurt has graduated from high school and is pursuing his dreams in New York City. Freshly pompadoured, he shares an improbably large Bushwick, Brooklyn, apartment with Rachel (Lea Michele) and interns for a Vogue editor played by Sarah Jessica Parker, in a story line even more fantastical than Ms. Parker’s previous series. (The Thanksgiving episode had them dancing around to “Let’s Have a Kiki” with drag queens.)
The show’s recent New York focus has meant shooting on location in Bryant Park and other high-traffic spots, which has drawn gawking crowds. One of the stranger aspects of Mr. Colfer’s career is his relationship with his young fans, who mob him everywhere he goes. Not long ago, when he tried going to a public movie theater, the resulting hysteria left him with bruises.
None of this is unusual for a tween idol, of course. But Mr. Colfer’s sexuality makes the situation curious. Surely, Kurt has served as a role model for countless gay teenagers. But the vast majority of his admirers, he said, are girls, who shower him with photo albums and even erotic fan fiction (“more than most of my male co-stars”). Tumblr is rife with fan pages dedicated to Kurt and Blaine (a k a Klaine), much like the ones you would find for Bella and Edward of “Twilight.”
Certainly, the phenomenon speaks to the ubiquity of gay characters in popular culture, and suggests that Mr. Colfer’s future as a crossover star is bright. But unlike, say, Robert Pattinson or Zac Efron, he is hardly a typical fantasy boyfriend, since he offers his female fans no logical hope of consummation.
What’s in it for them?
“The new generation doesn’t see people in black and white anymore,” he said. “These girls identify with Kurt, because Kurt had something different about him. Who doesn’t have that?”
He added, with a shrug: “I don’t know too much about the female brain.”
I love this interview.
I love it they have put him the category of Zac Efron and Robert Pattinson.
But Chris is more than a tween or a teen idol.
This had some new information, and I loved Chris's honesty once again.
Parts of it was sad, that Chris felt excluded by his family because of his sisters epilepsy, that that is all people cared about. At least he is mature enough to not have ended up bitter, because we know how much he loves his sister.
ColferInspired- Inner Grandma
- Posts : 8798
Join date : 2012-02-20
Location : Australia
Real Name : Liz
ColferInspired- Inner Grandma
- Posts : 8798
Join date : 2012-02-20
Location : Australia
Real Name : Liz
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
Thanks for posting the interview Sheny . It has interesting facts about Chris and this line makes me laugh
I'd like to answer him that question, but each female brain is different. Overall I can say that Chris attraction is how Kurt and himself have inspired people, in addition he's a talented boy and being shallow, he's good looking.
And being put in the same category of Zac Efron and Robert Pattinson. I'm not sure about Robert, but I think Zac is also a boy who has a promise future and will be more than a tween/teen idol.
“I don’t know too much about the female brain.”
I'd like to answer him that question, but each female brain is different. Overall I can say that Chris attraction is how Kurt and himself have inspired people, in addition he's a talented boy and being shallow, he's good looking.
And being put in the same category of Zac Efron and Robert Pattinson. I'm not sure about Robert, but I think Zac is also a boy who has a promise future and will be more than a tween/teen idol.
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
I love that picture. Good choice for your twitter, Chris!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
I'd say that it's the exact opposite: his female characters in TLoS and SBL are the most complex and compelling.“I don’t know too much about the female brain.”
Glorfindel- Inner Grandma
- Posts : 8707
Join date : 2012-02-19
Location : the Netherlands
Real Name : Marie
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
Glorfindel wrote:I love that picture. Good choice for your twitter, Chris!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------I'd say that it's the exact opposite: his female characters in TLoS and SBL are the most complex and compelling.“I don’t know too much about the female brain.”
I think he means as he is gay, why would they be fangirling over him. He probably finds that still a bit weird. Plus he would have never had that back in Clovis, so I can understand if it is still strange to him, and why he says he doesn't know too much about the female brain in that aspect.
ColferInspired- Inner Grandma
- Posts : 8798
Join date : 2012-02-20
Location : Australia
Real Name : Liz
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
After seeing this Chris would look sexy with facial hair. But that is just my opinion. Though I know he doesn't like it, so we probably won't see it.
fuckyeahblainedevonanderson.tumblr.com →
fuckyeahblainedevonanderson.tumblr.com →
ColferInspired- Inner Grandma
- Posts : 8798
Join date : 2012-02-20
Location : Australia
Real Name : Liz
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
oh my god that photoshop job was superb! and although I hate men w/ facial hair he looks quite good, w/ only half of hte face. maybe because the facial hair is so neat I quite like it. what I can't stand is when guys grow scrubby beard, like they lived in the woods and havn't shaved or washed in 10 month. not everyone can grow such neat beard though. some people will always look like they just walked out of a jungle.
fantastica- Inner Grandma
- Posts : 9676
Join date : 2012-02-19
Location : USA, East Coast
Real Name : the original Kim
arina- Bruce
- Posts : 1817
Join date : 2012-02-24
Location : Czech Republic
Real Name : Lenka
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
I just realised with the earlier interview when they compared Chris to Robert Pattinson, then Klaine to Edward and Bella fandom, they are saying that Kurt is Edward and Blaine is Bella.
ColferInspired- Inner Grandma
- Posts : 8798
Join date : 2012-02-20
Location : Australia
Real Name : Liz
Re: Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 4
ColferInspired wrote:After seeing this Chris would look sexy with facial hair. But that is just my opinion. Though I know he doesn't like it, so we probably won't see it.
fuckyeahblainedevonanderson.tumblr.com →
Wow that photoshop is well done. For a second I thought it was real,but is impossible because I know Chris doesn't have a beard. The only thing is that he looks older.
arina- Bruce
- Posts : 1817
Join date : 2012-02-24
Location : Czech Republic
Real Name : Lenka
Page 22 of 40 • 1 ... 12 ... 21, 22, 23 ... 31 ... 40
Similar topics
» Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 8
» Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 1
» Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 3
» Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 9
» Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 7
» Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 1
» Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 3
» Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 9
» Chris Colfer Appreciation Thread!--part 7
Page 22 of 40
Permissions in this forum:
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
|
|