USA's "Brave New World" Series Casts Jessica Brown-Findlay, Ehrenreich, & Harry Lloyd

[zodgory]

Downton Abbey alum Jessica Brown-Findlay joins Alden Ehrenreich and Harry Lloyd in USA's Brave New World https://t.co/Sq6swotbhZ
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) May 30, 2019
In this adaptation of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel, Jessica Brown-Findlay is Lenina Crowne, Harry Lloyd is Bernard Max, and Alden Ehrenreich is John the Savage

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[su_metal]

Alden Ehrenreich is John the Savage

LOLWHAT?!

He's supposed to be this gorgeous Adonis if I recall correctly.

[itscomicrelief]

It's because Miles Teller and Ansel Elgort weren't available duh

[su_metal]

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[iznanassi]

lmao

[greenfairy_87]

So here for Harry and Jessica starring in the inspiration for so many Muse songs

[surprisesidney]

I started reading BNW for a sci-fi lit class once but it was sooooo boring. It's tiny and I couldn't even get through it.

[zodgory]

I zipped through it in high school and sort of adore it, but I think a lot of it was shock that we were allowed to read a book like that in my fundamentalist Christian high school.

[freeze_i_say]

UM HOW DID THEY DEAL WITH THE LAST CHAPTER I CANT EVEN IMAGINE

[zodgory]

Lol, I can't remember the last chapter besides the self-flagellation. I was more scandalized by the children having orgies in the opening (or maybe my Puritanical brain was adding things).

We didn't really discuss it. Our teacher gave us a list of eight books, and we had to pick two to write about. It did lead to some fun impromptu book club type of discussion since other people would ask who read what and talk about how weird certain plots were or boring etc etc. Except for those who just did sparknotes of course.

I chose it and Things Fall Apart (which did way more to fuck up my worldview given that our damn school had a missionary week) because I'd already read all the other stuff on the list

[vulcan_rhapsody]

I hope they majorly adapt BNW, some things didn't age well

[su_metal]

i mean, it's from 1932! sexually progressive but the racism was tiresome.

[foxtree]

I haven't seen Harry in much but I'll always be impressed with the work he did as Viserys. He took a fairly throwaway character and made him so tragic.

[zodgory]

His final scene really gets to me because he really nailed that whole thing about his final smile before getting molten gold poured on him, lol.

Found the line (!): Viserys smiled and lowered his sword. That was the saddest thing, the thing that tore at her afterward … the way he smiled.

And a gifset, lol

[insecuredesign]

He nailed that scene. He and Emilia sold Viserys and Daenerys’s relationship and dynamic.

[greenfairy_87]

Harry elevated the book material and IMO everything would have been so much more interesting if he stayed on for just a bit longer considering how long Joffrey/Ramsay were on. Idk, maybe I'm just thirsty since he looks exactly like a OC I made in college for a vampire romance, lol