are you you or are you me?; a luke and harry treadaway picspam
Okay, so I pretty much talk about all of my obsessions here, but there's one thing that I realised recently that I haven't shared with you. Which is tragic, really. I think I've mentioned them once or twice in passing, but I haven't done a giant picspammy post to get everybody interested, and that's just wrong, so here we go.
These guys are Luke and Harry Treadaway:
They're identical twin actors, 24 and from Devon, and they're really just...amazing. Not only are they gorgeous, not only do they bring the twincest (holding hands against a rainbow background? Really?) but they're just awesomely talented. I saw them in a play the other day and it kind of made me realise JUST how much I love them. Their acting was flawless, and they're just so uninhibited-they don't stay in their comfort zone and they don't want you to either. Their first Real Acting Job was in the film Brothers of the Head, where they played conjoined twins, and after that they seemed to make it their aim to do the WEIRDEST SCRIPTS THEY WERE OFFERED.
The play I saw is probably the weirdest, and it's also the most recent, so I'll leave that til last. We'll start with Brothers of the Head.
The film's basically about these conjoined twins who get turned into a punk band, and it's told as like, a documentary. It's all pretty bizarre and when I first heard about it I was like "...so is that a comedy?" but really, it's not, and once you just accept the weirdness of it all, it's an awesome film.
Here they are as Tom (Harry, left) and Barry (Luke, right). I think they were only like 19 when they got these parts.
Basically Tom is all cool and composed and Barry's the crazier wilder one. They fight a lot during the movie.
They also do this though, and are adorable.
And sleep in the same bed. (...I know it's physically impossible for them NOT to, but, shh.)
And do this.
And this.
Barry nuzzles into Tom's shoulder a lot.
They bathe together. (...Again, obviously.)
And do this, WHICH, IF I RECALL CORRECTLY, was unscripted.
♥
Believe it or not, they're not about to kiss here either. This is like a split second where Tom's turning his head, but...it ends up looking like this, so.
So then they do this photoshoot where they touch each other's nipples.
As brothers do.
...And then make out. For no apparent reason. (Also yeah, that's their weird skin join thing. It's pretty gross, but you get used to it.)
...They really don't hold back.
I just want to talk about this for a moment. This kiss is basically unnecessary. The idea is that they're doing something all wild and crazy and not what the photographer expected. In this video interview (which's awesome, btw) Harry and Luke are asked about it, and they claim not to remember if the kiss was even in the script. Harry says it wasn't really them doing it, it was Tom and Barry, and Luke cuts in to be like, "Well it WAS us, physically doing it." And then he's all awesome and says they weren't like "Oh shit, today we're gonna kiss each other," and that it didn't weird him out.
Straight after they kiss, anyway, they make out with the random twin girls standing by.
This, by the way, is like the only time you'll ever see one of Luke's characters kissing a girl. He's kissed like 23894723 guys, though.
Here he is kissing the band's bassist, Paul.
While Tom, idk, pretends not to notice?
Because they're a band in the movie, they also actually recorded an album and stuff, as The Bang Bang, for the movie's soundtrack. I'm not a big fan of punk music, but there are some acoustic versions of the songs which are great:
Sink or Swim - This is my favourite, Harry wrote it and it's just lovely. It also has Tom and Barry bickering at the beginning, lolol.
My Friend - Tom wrote this for his girlfriend Laura, and then Barry turned it into 'My Friend (You Cunt)' when they actually performed it, because he hated/was jealous of Laura. Classic.
Doola and Dawla - This is probably my second favourite.
And I quite like these too:
2-Way Romeo - This is the one the band like, got famous for (...fictionally).
Sitting in a Car - And this is just here because the lyrics never fail to crack me up. This day's getting longer every turn that we take/there's light shops, lollipops and people eating cakes/the pavement is full of it, it's all going on/but we don't give a shit 'cause...we're sitting in a car. GENIUS, I TELL YOU.
Anyway, here they are at the premiere of the movie:
Luke's biting Harry's finger. Idk why. Also those guys are the directors, they're a gay couple and so sweet.
And here are some random photoshoot pictures:
Harry left, Luke right.
Same again.
And again. Apparently they stand like this a lot.
You know, it's actually totally appropriate to try and lick your brother's face during a photoshoot. That's not weird at all. (Oh hey, Luke left, Harry right.)
Lying around on the floor isn't a weird direction for a photoshoot either.
This confuses the hell out of me, where's Luke's arm? Down the back of Harry's shirt? IDK.
I think Harry has an oral fixation.
Okay, after Brothers of the Head, Luke did this show called The Innocence Project, which I watched like one episode of and it was REALLY BORING, but he wore glasses and looked cute:
And what did Harry do? Well, first he played David Tennant's son in this one-off drama thing called Recovery:
And they seem to have stayed friends (this is fairly recent). The blonde is Harry's girlfriend Polly Stenham, WHO, BTW, wrote the play That Face, which starred Hannah Murray, aka Cassie from Skins! Awesome.
And then he decided that sort of part was boring, so he starred in Meadowlands aka Cape Wrath (I have never known why it had two names) as this autistic teenage boy called Mark, who liked to wear his twin sister's clothes and have sex with middle-aged women. After watching them undress/masturbate through his window. It's true.
Tbh this is the most attractive I've ever found him, pretty sure I have a thing for weird autistic boys.
Voyeurism.
Make-up!
Crossdressing!
The wig sort of ruins it, imo. In this scene, this creepy guy comes in thinking Mark's his twin sister, and then ends up getting all turned on by either the crossdressing or Mark's fear, and tries to rape him. ...It's a fun show.
He has burn scars on his hands from a fire or something so he wears those gloves all the time.
There's also some pretty intense sexual tension between Mark and his Dad, which is incredibly wrong but IT WAS JUST THERE, I COULDN'T HELP BUT SEE IT.
Sex with a woman who's old enough to be his mother. Which must've been the most awkward thing to film EVER.
It's worth watching, though, because somehow he manages to be adorable and hot all at the same time.
And wears briefs.
Luke was maybe trying to one-up him or something, so he got a part in a one-off drama called Clapham Junction, where he played a fourteen year old who seduced this male pedophile who lived across from him, by like, wanking while he watched him through binoculars, or something. IT WAS WEIRD.
He did have binoculars at one point, he doesn't here though.
He actually does a creepily good job of looking fourteen, with like, his body language and stuff.
Aaaand he's naked. I have a lot of respect for him because of this, actually, because actors rarely do full nudity. This is all on Youtube btw, I believe, if you want to watch it.
I didn't mention, also, that at one point the two of them modelled for Vivienne Westwood for no apparent reason, and wore strange clothes like these:
Again...crossdressing.
More photoshoot stuff:
...I don't even know.
Rofl.
Oh, this is from when Harry was in Control, that movie about Joy Division? Which I never saw, I really should.
This is Harry making out with Polly while Matt Smith (yes, the new Doctor!) hangs all over Luke. Because the twins didn't think they'd done enough to suggest that one of them's gay and one's straight.
The article that went along with the two above pictures was pretty awesome, too. They're asked if they learnt anything new about each other from working together, and this exchange happens:
Luke: I gained only more respect and more love for you through doing that.
Harry: Jesus. Right, okay.
Luke: No. Fuck it. Nothing.
Harry: Right. Not really.
Which is pretty epic. Also this:
Luke: My friend just texted me saying, "I'm gonna give you a hot, oil-filled body massage tonight."
Harry: [unimpressed] That's bizarre...
Luke: That's bizarre, isn't it. Sorry.
LOL FOREVER. OH, LUKE.
Just for a mindfuck, here's Harry looking so much like Luke that I'm genuinely suspicious they swapped places for a day while Harry was shooting the short film Love You More:
And Harry looking more like himself again:
OKAY, NOW ABOUT THIS PLAY I MENTIONED. It's weird. It's really fucking weird. Weirder than everything above put together. It's called Over There and it's actually not showing in London anymore but it is in Berlin, or something. It's basically about the Berlin Wall and it stars these two (the only members of the cast) as twin brothers who were separated when they were young and brought up one in the East, one in the West. It's like, about their struggle to reconnect and live together when the wall comes down, but really, it's all this giant, bizarre metaphor. As in, Harry is playing West Germany itself more than he's playing a guy who lives there.
I have to say, watching it was like...the most uncomfortable theatre experience ever. And at the same time, it was AWESOME, and I wish I could go see it again somehow.
At the beginning and end, Luke plays this American waitress who hits on Harry's character Franz. At the end, the two of them go to bed together. Luke fully tucks his cock between his legs to do a nude scene as this woman. THESE GUYS, SERIOUSLY. And then he lies down behind Harry, like pressed up behind him, and they kiss. This fascinates me, because there's really no NEED for a kiss, we've already got the idea that Franz and the waitress are sleeping together. And what's more, the programme for the play includes the whole script, and there is no kiss in the script.
They also...basically wank off right at the front of the stage whilst looking out into the audience. It's pretty funny because Franz is translating the dialogue of the porn they're supposedly watching because it's in English and Karl (Luke) doesn't understand, but OH MY GOD. I was actually blushing so hard at this point. And then straight after this they were like, stroking each other's faces and stuff and it was just like...REALLY?!
They basically spent 90% of the play in their underwear, which was fun. They also talk at the same time as each other a lot of the time, which was so impressive, because it was like EXACTLY THE SAME TIME, as if they just had one voice. Awesome. There was also a bit where they were watching porn or something again and saying, together, "Reckon you could take it twice? Hungry enough? You wet?", etc, and "Open wide the twins are coming inside." And I basically died, while being like, the colour of a tomato.
Okay so then...right. Karl has a breakdown, and covers himself in food. Which was just...well, bizarre. He basically pours apple juice, flour, custard, Nutella, etc, all over himself.
Franz attempts to clean him up, but Karl won't let him.
This doesn't actually happen, this was some picture taken while they were rehearsing or something, but it brings the lols.
So at the end, before it goes to the bit with Luke as the waitress, Franz kills Karl. West kills East, and...eats it. Franz pours ketchup over Karl's body. And then? Then he says "I want you inside me. Swallow you down." BECAUSE HE EATS HIM, BUT HELLO. THAT IS NOT WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE. So he licks the ketchup off. It's so gross, he actually spits it out about three times, he must've be tasting like...the vile combination of all that crap, but Harry's actually licking and sucking at Luke's chest at this point.
So that's the actual play, this is the like, launch night or something:
Idk what's with Luke's t-shirt.
That's the girl who played Harry's twin sister in Meadowlands/Cape Wrath. Felicity something. Jones?
And those are the directors, Mark Ravenhill (also the writer) and Ramin Gray.
I think that's all I have. Luke's also been in this film called Dogging: A Love Story-no really, I'm serious-which hasn't been released yet and may never be, idk, and Harry was in City of Ember recently, which I suppose should've been the first thing I mentioned because that's probably what he's most known for. IDK I HAVEN'T SEEN IT. Luke's done other plays, too. I think occasionally they do normal things (and kids' films, apparently) just for the variety, but really, what they most enjoy is the controversial crazy parts. I sort of wonder, though, you know, what on earth they could possibly do next? EVENTUALLY THEY WILL RUN OUT OF TABOOS.
These guys are Luke and Harry Treadaway:
They're identical twin actors, 24 and from Devon, and they're really just...amazing. Not only are they gorgeous, not only do they bring the twincest (holding hands against a rainbow background? Really?) but they're just awesomely talented. I saw them in a play the other day and it kind of made me realise JUST how much I love them. Their acting was flawless, and they're just so uninhibited-they don't stay in their comfort zone and they don't want you to either. Their first Real Acting Job was in the film Brothers of the Head, where they played conjoined twins, and after that they seemed to make it their aim to do the WEIRDEST SCRIPTS THEY WERE OFFERED.
The play I saw is probably the weirdest, and it's also the most recent, so I'll leave that til last. We'll start with Brothers of the Head.
The film's basically about these conjoined twins who get turned into a punk band, and it's told as like, a documentary. It's all pretty bizarre and when I first heard about it I was like "...so is that a comedy?" but really, it's not, and once you just accept the weirdness of it all, it's an awesome film.
Here they are as Tom (Harry, left) and Barry (Luke, right). I think they were only like 19 when they got these parts.
Basically Tom is all cool and composed and Barry's the crazier wilder one. They fight a lot during the movie.
They also do this though, and are adorable.
And sleep in the same bed. (...I know it's physically impossible for them NOT to, but, shh.)
And do this.
And this.
Barry nuzzles into Tom's shoulder a lot.
They bathe together. (...Again, obviously.)
And do this, WHICH, IF I RECALL CORRECTLY, was unscripted.
♥
Believe it or not, they're not about to kiss here either. This is like a split second where Tom's turning his head, but...it ends up looking like this, so.
So then they do this photoshoot where they touch each other's nipples.
As brothers do.
...And then make out. For no apparent reason. (Also yeah, that's their weird skin join thing. It's pretty gross, but you get used to it.)
...They really don't hold back.
I just want to talk about this for a moment. This kiss is basically unnecessary. The idea is that they're doing something all wild and crazy and not what the photographer expected. In this video interview (which's awesome, btw) Harry and Luke are asked about it, and they claim not to remember if the kiss was even in the script. Harry says it wasn't really them doing it, it was Tom and Barry, and Luke cuts in to be like, "Well it WAS us, physically doing it." And then he's all awesome and says they weren't like "Oh shit, today we're gonna kiss each other," and that it didn't weird him out.
Straight after they kiss, anyway, they make out with the random twin girls standing by.
This, by the way, is like the only time you'll ever see one of Luke's characters kissing a girl. He's kissed like 23894723 guys, though.
Here he is kissing the band's bassist, Paul.
While Tom, idk, pretends not to notice?
Because they're a band in the movie, they also actually recorded an album and stuff, as The Bang Bang, for the movie's soundtrack. I'm not a big fan of punk music, but there are some acoustic versions of the songs which are great:
Sink or Swim - This is my favourite, Harry wrote it and it's just lovely. It also has Tom and Barry bickering at the beginning, lolol.
My Friend - Tom wrote this for his girlfriend Laura, and then Barry turned it into 'My Friend (You Cunt)' when they actually performed it, because he hated/was jealous of Laura. Classic.
Doola and Dawla - This is probably my second favourite.
And I quite like these too:
2-Way Romeo - This is the one the band like, got famous for (...fictionally).
Sitting in a Car - And this is just here because the lyrics never fail to crack me up. This day's getting longer every turn that we take/there's light shops, lollipops and people eating cakes/the pavement is full of it, it's all going on/but we don't give a shit 'cause...we're sitting in a car. GENIUS, I TELL YOU.
Anyway, here they are at the premiere of the movie:
Luke's biting Harry's finger. Idk why. Also those guys are the directors, they're a gay couple and so sweet.
And here are some random photoshoot pictures:
Harry left, Luke right.
Same again.
And again. Apparently they stand like this a lot.
You know, it's actually totally appropriate to try and lick your brother's face during a photoshoot. That's not weird at all. (Oh hey, Luke left, Harry right.)
Lying around on the floor isn't a weird direction for a photoshoot either.
This confuses the hell out of me, where's Luke's arm? Down the back of Harry's shirt? IDK.
I think Harry has an oral fixation.
Okay, after Brothers of the Head, Luke did this show called The Innocence Project, which I watched like one episode of and it was REALLY BORING, but he wore glasses and looked cute:
And what did Harry do? Well, first he played David Tennant's son in this one-off drama thing called Recovery:
And they seem to have stayed friends (this is fairly recent). The blonde is Harry's girlfriend Polly Stenham, WHO, BTW, wrote the play That Face, which starred Hannah Murray, aka Cassie from Skins! Awesome.
And then he decided that sort of part was boring, so he starred in Meadowlands aka Cape Wrath (I have never known why it had two names) as this autistic teenage boy called Mark, who liked to wear his twin sister's clothes and have sex with middle-aged women. After watching them undress/masturbate through his window. It's true.
Tbh this is the most attractive I've ever found him, pretty sure I have a thing for weird autistic boys.
Voyeurism.
Make-up!
Crossdressing!
The wig sort of ruins it, imo. In this scene, this creepy guy comes in thinking Mark's his twin sister, and then ends up getting all turned on by either the crossdressing or Mark's fear, and tries to rape him. ...It's a fun show.
He has burn scars on his hands from a fire or something so he wears those gloves all the time.
There's also some pretty intense sexual tension between Mark and his Dad, which is incredibly wrong but IT WAS JUST THERE, I COULDN'T HELP BUT SEE IT.
Sex with a woman who's old enough to be his mother. Which must've been the most awkward thing to film EVER.
It's worth watching, though, because somehow he manages to be adorable and hot all at the same time.
And wears briefs.
Luke was maybe trying to one-up him or something, so he got a part in a one-off drama called Clapham Junction, where he played a fourteen year old who seduced this male pedophile who lived across from him, by like, wanking while he watched him through binoculars, or something. IT WAS WEIRD.
He did have binoculars at one point, he doesn't here though.
He actually does a creepily good job of looking fourteen, with like, his body language and stuff.
Aaaand he's naked. I have a lot of respect for him because of this, actually, because actors rarely do full nudity. This is all on Youtube btw, I believe, if you want to watch it.
I didn't mention, also, that at one point the two of them modelled for Vivienne Westwood for no apparent reason, and wore strange clothes like these:
Again...crossdressing.
More photoshoot stuff:
...I don't even know.
Rofl.
Oh, this is from when Harry was in Control, that movie about Joy Division? Which I never saw, I really should.
This is Harry making out with Polly while Matt Smith (yes, the new Doctor!) hangs all over Luke. Because the twins didn't think they'd done enough to suggest that one of them's gay and one's straight.
The article that went along with the two above pictures was pretty awesome, too. They're asked if they learnt anything new about each other from working together, and this exchange happens:
Luke: I gained only more respect and more love for you through doing that.
Harry: Jesus. Right, okay.
Luke: No. Fuck it. Nothing.
Harry: Right. Not really.
Which is pretty epic. Also this:
Luke: My friend just texted me saying, "I'm gonna give you a hot, oil-filled body massage tonight."
Harry: [unimpressed] That's bizarre...
Luke: That's bizarre, isn't it. Sorry.
LOL FOREVER. OH, LUKE.
Just for a mindfuck, here's Harry looking so much like Luke that I'm genuinely suspicious they swapped places for a day while Harry was shooting the short film Love You More:
And Harry looking more like himself again:
OKAY, NOW ABOUT THIS PLAY I MENTIONED. It's weird. It's really fucking weird. Weirder than everything above put together. It's called Over There and it's actually not showing in London anymore but it is in Berlin, or something. It's basically about the Berlin Wall and it stars these two (the only members of the cast) as twin brothers who were separated when they were young and brought up one in the East, one in the West. It's like, about their struggle to reconnect and live together when the wall comes down, but really, it's all this giant, bizarre metaphor. As in, Harry is playing West Germany itself more than he's playing a guy who lives there.
I have to say, watching it was like...the most uncomfortable theatre experience ever. And at the same time, it was AWESOME, and I wish I could go see it again somehow.
At the beginning and end, Luke plays this American waitress who hits on Harry's character Franz. At the end, the two of them go to bed together. Luke fully tucks his cock between his legs to do a nude scene as this woman. THESE GUYS, SERIOUSLY. And then he lies down behind Harry, like pressed up behind him, and they kiss. This fascinates me, because there's really no NEED for a kiss, we've already got the idea that Franz and the waitress are sleeping together. And what's more, the programme for the play includes the whole script, and there is no kiss in the script.
They also...basically wank off right at the front of the stage whilst looking out into the audience. It's pretty funny because Franz is translating the dialogue of the porn they're supposedly watching because it's in English and Karl (Luke) doesn't understand, but OH MY GOD. I was actually blushing so hard at this point. And then straight after this they were like, stroking each other's faces and stuff and it was just like...REALLY?!
They basically spent 90% of the play in their underwear, which was fun. They also talk at the same time as each other a lot of the time, which was so impressive, because it was like EXACTLY THE SAME TIME, as if they just had one voice. Awesome. There was also a bit where they were watching porn or something again and saying, together, "Reckon you could take it twice? Hungry enough? You wet?", etc, and "Open wide the twins are coming inside." And I basically died, while being like, the colour of a tomato.
Okay so then...right. Karl has a breakdown, and covers himself in food. Which was just...well, bizarre. He basically pours apple juice, flour, custard, Nutella, etc, all over himself.
Franz attempts to clean him up, but Karl won't let him.
This doesn't actually happen, this was some picture taken while they were rehearsing or something, but it brings the lols.
So at the end, before it goes to the bit with Luke as the waitress, Franz kills Karl. West kills East, and...eats it. Franz pours ketchup over Karl's body. And then? Then he says "I want you inside me. Swallow you down." BECAUSE HE EATS HIM, BUT HELLO. THAT IS NOT WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE. So he licks the ketchup off. It's so gross, he actually spits it out about three times, he must've be tasting like...the vile combination of all that crap, but Harry's actually licking and sucking at Luke's chest at this point.
So that's the actual play, this is the like, launch night or something:
Idk what's with Luke's t-shirt.
That's the girl who played Harry's twin sister in Meadowlands/Cape Wrath. Felicity something. Jones?
And those are the directors, Mark Ravenhill (also the writer) and Ramin Gray.
I think that's all I have. Luke's also been in this film called Dogging: A Love Story-no really, I'm serious-which hasn't been released yet and may never be, idk, and Harry was in City of Ember recently, which I suppose should've been the first thing I mentioned because that's probably what he's most known for. IDK I HAVEN'T SEEN IT. Luke's done other plays, too. I think occasionally they do normal things (and kids' films, apparently) just for the variety, but really, what they most enjoy is the controversial crazy parts. I sort of wonder, though, you know, what on earth they could possibly do next? EVENTUALLY THEY WILL RUN OUT OF TABOOS.