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‘julian likes to get his body out a bit. he’s quite sharp, he’s got a lot of points; he did graze me once with his knee.’
So I was watching Call of the Yeti with the commentary the other day, and when Julian makes some wry remark about how he hadn’t considered that the tweed swimming trunks gag meant he’d have to be basically naked in the following scene, Noel laughs and goes, ‘You’d be naked throughout if you could!’
Which makes me think about Julian who just… doesn’t really like clothes. If he can be naked, he is gonna be naked. And that makes me think of when they lived together, Ju just hanging out in pants basically all the time. And Noel laughs at him about it, of course, but at first he’s careful to do so in a way that won’t make it weird. Not for his own sake so much as that he knows it takes a lot for Julian to be that comfortable around someone and doesn’t want to ruin it for him.
… But then later, once they’re both long past being anything other than comfortable together, he just teases. And Julian blinks laconically at him from where he’s lounging on the couch and lifts his cigarette in a kind of wry salute.
(Also imagine the two of them writing, those mad sessions they both talk about where it just ends up being them bouncing around, ad-libbing and improv-ing and batting ideas back and forth and one or the other occasionally diving for a notepad to write something down, half-empty tea cups and beer bottles scattered around and Julian just in his pants, the absurdity of that image.)
(And then imagine them coming up with the idea for Howard and Vince’s satsuma fights, and how very, very little of a stretch that is)
So I was watching Call of the Yeti with the commentary the other day, and when Julian makes some wry remark about how he hadn’t considered that the tweed swimming trunks gag meant he’d have to be basically naked in the following scene, Noel laughs and goes, ‘You’d be naked throughout if you could!’
Which makes me think about Julian who just… doesn’t really like clothes. If he can be naked, he is gonna be naked. And that makes me think of when they lived together, Ju just hanging out in pants basically all the time. And Noel laughs at him about it, of course, but at first he’s careful to do so in a way that won’t make it weird. Not for his own sake so much as that he knows it takes a lot for Julian to be that comfortable around someone and doesn’t want to ruin it for him.
… But then later, once they’re both long past being anything other than comfortable together, he just teases. And Julian blinks laconically at him from where he’s lounging on the couch and lifts his cigarette in a kind of wry salute.
(Also imagine the two of them writing, those mad sessions they both talk about where it just ends up being them bouncing around, ad-libbing and improv-ing and batting ideas back and forth and one or the other occasionally diving for a notepad to write something down, half-empty tea cups and beer bottles scattered around and Julian just in his pants, the absurdity of that image.)
(And then imagine them coming up with the idea for Howard and Vince’s satsuma fights, and how very, very little of a stretch that is)