She just has spent two weeks in Costa Rica, anon. Not that I think she doesn’t deserve all the vacations she wants, but this time, I don’t think that’s what she does. Besides, you don’t go on vacation, and then take a break from them to see how the poor refugees live and then have a meal on the island before going back to your fancy hotel with your new boyfriend. I don’t know why she didn’t tweet anything, this is very weird, everything about it is very weird, but if this picture is legit, I think they both were there to help this charity, because PM’s wife is involved in it for a very long time, and helps a lot refugees in Greece, and that’s all. They’re not vacationing.
I was silent because I wanted to make some research before I’d post about it, and also because I didn’t want a new storm and breakdown in the fandom. But now that many of you know, and the picture is getting out there, i might as well jump in, hoping to smooth the anxiety of some.
They’re not vacationing in Greece, for what we know. They did some charity thing there. It happens that PM’s wife is in Greece too, and she and her family are deeply involved with this charity. A few people with her name even liked that Facebook post. (That Im not going to post, by the way, first of all because I don’t want that charity organization to be harassed, and also because this is a PM free blog, remember?)
So knowing that, I don’t see how Gillian/girlfriend would fit in.
It’s not like we had a sighting of them at the beach or having a meal or whatever. It’s always the same, they’re doing public things, business things, and she looks like she’d rather be anywhere else, as usual. Also, she’s not wearing her bracelet. It could mean something. Or not.
So now, we all have the same informations, it doesn’t change anything for me, it doesn’t hange my position on what I think about their relationship, and it doesn’t change what i think about Gillovny.
If you’re looking for the picture, I’m sure someone will post it eventually, and if not, it’s a group picture with 6 or 7 people and PM and Gillian not touching each other, and one of the woman on it was in London at her Wow event with PM too.
I wish they aired on the same channel, so they could make a crosspromo like NBC did for Aquarius and Crisis, but this time with David as Denise and Gillian as Bowie. Can you imagine the possibilities?
It’s even more true with the latest ones. The one they did at the TCA, especially after seeing the little bts video of it where you can see them take a picture for themselves on Gillian’s phone (who does that during a photoshoot?!) and her keeping her hand inside his jacket while no one is shooting them… And no need to mention the Mark Mann photoshoot. I’d kill to see a video of this one!
What was your feeling the first time you saw yourself as David Bowie?
The weird thing was that I was wearing a flowery dress that day in the makeup trailer. The first pictures I took of myself in the mirror…the hairpiece was already on, and my response to the makeup guy was like, “Oh, my god, it’s getting close, but I still have this flowery dress on!” The juxtaposition was just a bit disturbing. (Laughs.) There was something about it that was just weird. And then I ended up having some time in my trailer while they were shooting another scene. Time was counting down, and I can’t remember if I was out of the dress yet, but as I was continuing to work, I looked up from the chair and caught myself in the mirror and I had a really strange reaction. I think it’s probably the first time in my life I’ve been dressed as a man, so to speak. It was more to do with that than seeing something that resembled another human being I was familiar with. It was more about gender. All of a sudden, I just did this photo spread — just on my phone, I haven’t sent them to anybody — but I started staring at myself in the mirror and taking pictures of the person I was seeing. It wasn’t necessarily Bowie, but it did not even feel like it was me. I was so focused on this person in the mirror who was not me. It was a very, very curious experiment. It was fascinating. (x)
Finding ways to show Media’s persona while also highlighting the person she is embodying has been a difficult challenge for the series, but Anderson’s impressive performances made it possible, according to co-showrunner Michael Green. Green said that, early on, they talked a lot about how to make her performances both an impression of the celebrity and an embodiment of Media.
“[Anderson] really hit on this idea of how to hybridize the two,” Green said. “That [Media] was using the impression only as a way to make part of her point. When she’s David Bowie, it’s done in a completely different way, and when she’s Marilyn, it’s almost mockingly. She really weaponizes her alterations and vocal quality to make herself as irresistible as possible to the person she is trying to sell. And she is always trying to sell.” (X)
“I didn’t know all that much about Marilyn as much as we all know what’s in the greater consciousness: the key pieces of her death and her struggle and her marriage and all that,” Anderson tells EW. “And actually, I was surprised at how easy I found it to immerse myself in that and how much fun it was. She was definitely the one I had the most fun doing, just because there’s an imminent joy to her. There is also with Judy [Garland], but there’s something so delightful and delicious about Marilyn that was a lot of fun to jump into. And there’s a mechanism that we used to get her floating — I was on this robotic contraption that had been built with fans in it so that my skirt was constantly moving, even though they were going to recreate and enhance some of that in CGI. So for the majority of that scene, it was me being driven around via remote control with fans blasting vertically up my dress.” Anderson laughs: “So, that was fun.”
American Gods behind the scenes photo of Gillian Anderson (Media) as Marilyn Monroe from tonight’s episode “Lemon Scented You.” Photo from Bryan Fuller’s Twitter during the live tweet.
Just Holding Hands 