Claire Stevens
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Whereas I think the biggest like storytelling phenomenons of our time, if you look at adolescence, for example, I think a huge part of that was that
several of those actors, one, they seem like real people, and two, they were relative unknown.
I think that's true.
And she's unique in that I reckon there's a bit of a cyclical nature to this.
And listening to, I've
And I think she talks about this, that one of the reasons for the believability of girls and one of the reasons it probably did so well is because it was a relatively unknown cast and you believed that that was Adam and that was Hannah because you didn't know who they were.
As her brand increased, I think probably as a writer, she became, a writer and a performer, she probably became a bit more self-aware about what she was representing and what she wanted to represent.
And you're overthinking.
And I'm watching Euphoria at the moment.
And watching Jacob, I'm like, I guarantee that Jacob Elordi has sat down with Sam Levinson and said,
I can't have my character be a dick.
I can't have my character be who he was in previous seasons because that won't work for my personal brand.
And now the story is bizarre and makes absolutely no sense.
And there is something about Zendaya where in her roles she's very kind of stripped back.
Like she doesn't even look like her really.
I don't think her character's a train wreck.
I don't think she wants to be there.
I don't think any of them want to be there.
But I do think I look at the story and I'm like, they 100% rewrote this for Jacob Elordi's personal brand.
I always look at my bed, and this has been since I was 16 and went to IKEA for the first time to get my own set of bed sheets.