the oscars drew 18.7 million viewers last night, up 12% from last year. in case you WEREN'T one of those 18.7 million people watching, here are the night's biggest moments, broken down 🧵:
thrilled to share that i'm now leading social
@Variety
, where i'll be overseeing the publishing/rollout of breaking news, cover stories, franchises such as “Actors on Actors,” and much more to our cross-platform audience of over 12 million followers 💌
talked to
#BEEFNetflix
creator lee sung jin about a lot of super fun things, incl. race, religion, fire and steven yeun singing the chris tomlin version of "amazing grace." snippets threaded 🥩🥩
to nobody's surprise, "everything everywhere all at once" star ke huy quan won best supporting actor, the second asian actor in history to do so. watch his speech below:
behind the scenes of the
@variety
studio at sundance, where stars like pedro pascal, lucy liu + many more posed for 📸nicol biesek today
〰️ video by me for variety's tiktok
on the first night of taylor swift's eras tour, i posted 38 videos of the show on
@variety
's tiktok account (s/o
@ElliseShafer
for sending them to me!). 7 days later, those videos have racked up nearly 32 million views, averaging about 840,000 views per video 🧵
Michelle Yeoh accepts her
#Oscar
for Best Actress: "For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities. This is proof that dreams do come true."
i drank coffee and talked shop w emma chamberlain, whose significance as a generational icon stems from the dexterity through which she’s able to shine in different spaces: she’s an entertainer, an entrepreneur & a tastemaker
best lead actor winner brendan fraser took home a statuette for his role in "the whale." he got emotional during his acceptance speech, which you can watch below:
jamie lee curtis, activia icon, won best supporting actress for her role in eeaao. the daughter of two oscar-nominated actors, curtis proclaimed on stage: "i know it looks like i'm standing up here by myself, but i am not, i am hundreds of people."
for my first byline
@variety
, i interviewed the inimitable
@embeihold
of "numb little bug" fame 🐛 (here's a photo of me interviewing her in my college dorm for my youtube channel in 2019 lmao)
i interviewed “beef” stars ali wong, steven yeun, young mazino & joseph lee for
@variety
.
we talked about, among many things, one of ali’s many spicy scenes & steven’s smoking habit (“i don’t condone,” he says).
read it here:
scoop 🍨: lee sung jin, creator and showrunner of netflix's “beef,” is joining marvel's upcoming “thunderbolts” as the new writer. lee is stepping in for eric pearson, who was the first announced writer on the project.
read more here:
I talked to Randall Park about his feature directorial debut
#Shortcomings
, which stars
#UmbrellaAcademy
's Justin Min as a self-absorbed Bay Area cinephile whose pretensions do little to mask his underlying insecurities:
Watch out, agents: Your assistants might be making memes about you.
Here's my story on
@AsstvsAgents
, the Instagram meme page followed by every assistant in Hollywood:
a few months ago i reported & wrote this feature for
@CTmagazine
about indie faith-based music artists using platforms like tiktok to circumvent the traditional processes of the industry while maintaining creative autonomy. it came out today; read it here:
.
@jazzt
and I talked to the cast of Adele Lim's
#JoyRide
, which includes Stephanie Hsu, Ashley Park, Sherry Cola and Sabrina Wu 💙 Read our story here:
#TheWhiteLotus
is set up for an explosive Season 2 finale, where there are many loose ends to tie up. What will happen to Tanya? Did Cameron sleep with Harper? Is Lucia actually in danger? Who dies?! Here are our best White Lotus theories:
during the show, fx dropped a teaser trailer for the second season of "the bear," announcing that it will premiere in june:
disney also released a new "little mermaid" trailer starring halle bailey as ariel:
Chatted with Markiplier this morning right before the announcement of his Spotify podcast partnership. I asked him about his secret to longevity in the ever-evolving digital landscape and whether he'll be in the "Five Nights at Freddy's" movie:
how everyone expected my asian parents to react when i told them i wanted to be a lit major:
asdfhjskfj;:/Nbb!!!! doctor!! engineer!!! disgrace to family!
how my parents actually reacted:
that's fine you can just marry a doctor
last week i chatted with 3 spotify execs who played key roles in putting together the company's first ai dj. read my story on how it all came together here:
3 major stories from today's disney call:
- disney+ drops 2.4 million subscribers
- dana walden/alan bergman to lead newly created entertainment business unit
- disney to lay off ~7k employees
3 stories from
@variety
today:
– wbd sues paramount over ‘south park’ licensing deal
– jonas brothers 🤝 broadway
– from
@ZSharf
– incredible true story of the ❄️🐻
i talked to noah centineo about his netflix show "the recruit" (which is NOT, strictly speaking, a spy show). he also told me that he's currently reading hanya yanagihara's "a little life."
exclusive: karl jacobs is set to make his debut as a featured creator
@VidCon
this year & will record a live episode of his podcast "banter." he'll also be hosting a m&g! details here:
are u ACTUALLY practicing "self love" or are u just succumbing to modern day societal pressures that have brainwashed u into thinking certain things or practices are gonna make u happier
i used to be ehhh about the whole 280 characters thing but then i realized it gives
@mstiefvater
the freedom to type out bigger n better tweets so now i 100% support
the first question i always ask myself before i tweet something from the variety account is "would propagating this piece of information in the public sphere actively contribute to the construction of a healthy and flourishing society?"
if the answer is yes, then i tweet.
coachella day 2
have existential crisis during "vroom vroom" ✅
develop such bad blisters that i cant walk ✅
walk in socks only across festival grounds bc of said blisters ✅
cram undisclosed # of ppl into my car so that they don't have to pay $400 for car service ✅
3 stories from
@Variety
today ❤️
- from
@KateAurthur
: penn badgley on his discomfort w filming sex scenes in
#you
- ted lasso s3 has a premiere date
- n.k. jemisin’s ‘the city we became’ has been acquired
my grandfather escaped from north korea then immigrated to the united states so that i could post tiktoks of the dont worry darling press tour for a living
season 2 of "the sex lives of college girls" premieres on hbo max today! i talked to reneé rapp, alyah chanelle scott, amrit kaur and pauline chalamet about what sort of chaos we can expect from their characters:
work until you no longer have to introduce yourself on your twitter bio & can instead put a semi-ironic catchphrase that only an exclusive few understand but it doesn't matter anyway bc ur verified
would like to commend
@d_l_mayfield
for creating this excellent tiktok that popped up in my for you page yesterday (it has also, apparently, gone viral)
3 stories from
@Variety
today:
-
@marcmalkin
special: exclusive interview with THE batgirl leslie grace
- super bowl ratings = very big
- barney got a dinoplasty
vv pleased to announce that ive joined the social team
@Variety
!! 😈😈 (mostly just here to try to sneak some lea michele memes into the content calendar)
my children will not be allowed to create social media accounts until they are at LEAST sixteen years of age, mostly bc no child should have to bear the burden of carrying a username like "ponygirl2029" into adulthood
nobody:
homeschool mom on instagram: *posts picture of coffee mug purchased on etsy accompanied by a 2000-word caption about why classical education is the best way to educate your child*