Oh heavens, this is PERFECT. Amazing noir-themed 2007 photoshoot by national treasure Annie Liebovitz for Vanity Fair, and featuring a whole slew of my favorite actors. Talk about writing prompts. (I’m shipping the Angelica Huston & Sharon Stone characters).
A few more images here.
i boner
Brilliant.
everyone shut up and look at this
Dame Judi Dench and Helen Mirren? DAMN.
Quota (he’s the photographer), but also just an awesome thing in general.
Whoops, sorry, I appear to have died from overexposure to badassery upon viewing these pictures.
While the first picture is awesome, Dench and Mirren weren’t actually photographed together - it’s a composite image. Hence Dench’s eyeline not actually making sense given Mirren’s position. I wish they were photographed together; I’m sure they would have played off each other far better.
RDJ joking around on the set of The Avengers
“Saving the world is serious business for a superhero. But when Robert Downey Jr. starts a battle scene on the set of The Avengers, he doesn’t exactly have on an Iron Man face.
Just before cameras roll, the smiling actor whispers up a competition with his co-stars — Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris Evans (Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) and Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow). Whoever gives the most distracting off-camera look to Tom Hiddleston (enemy Loki) wins.
‘For an entire take, they are all giving these seductive, come-on faces,’ Hiddleston says. ‘I had to fight to keep a straight face.’
‘We look at him (Downey) as our quarterback,’ Evans says. ‘He’s always smiling. And that’s infectious.’
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Whedon gets his silence and his scene, which allows Downey to get to the urgent matter of asking Hiddleston to judge his contest.
‘It was a photo finish between Downey and Scarlett,’ Hiddleston says with a laugh. ‘They were giving some serious come-ons.”
(Source: USA Today)