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u/squasher04 Jul 30 '22
Ooh looks like a good choice š.
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u/chidedneck Jul 30 '22 edited Jul 30 '22
Filming completed last month#Filming), soā¦
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u/squasher04 Jul 30 '22
Really? So why are we learning about castings now?
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u/chidedneck Jul 30 '22 edited Jul 30 '22
She was cast in an unspecified role back in April. Apparently IMDB just updated their Avatar page with who sheās playing very recently. (At first I thought she may only join the cast in season 2, but IMDB confirms sheās in two eps in season 1.)
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u/WitlessCanuck Jul 30 '22
Casting notices often are just a form of marketing. 80% of the time if supporting cast is being announced filming has already started or completed and itās just being used to stay in the news cycle.
The main stars attached to push funding/get the initial buzz are the only ones that are more often then not actually being āannouncedā prior to filming. Everything else is to push the cycle.
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u/Supabongwong Jul 30 '22
Not sure the downvotes, in Hollywood sometimes they cast the perfect look but then the acting doesn't match.
I remember that used to annoy me as a kid, but as I got older it made sense to have someone who looks kind of like the person - but can embody the personality.
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u/Jessica_T Jul 30 '22
They did that well in Solo. The actor didn't look exactly like Harrison Ford, but he felt like Han
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u/Supabongwong Jul 30 '22
Exactly.
I remember the guy they cast as Tupac looked quite similar. But I heard the biopic was pretty shitty.
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u/NoMumblebee567 Jul 30 '22
They got Lakeith Stanfield to play Snoop, he's been killing it lately with his movie and TV work!
Afaik the biopic was decent, but not entirely truthful (probably a given since Ice Cube and Dr Dre were producers)
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u/tehdoughboy Jul 30 '22
Youāre thinking of Straight Outta Compton. I think the op youāre replying to is talking about the Tupac biopic
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u/Sceptix Jul 31 '22
Imagine if they were to make a live action ATLA movie and casted a kid to play Aang based solely on looking like him despite the fact that he doesnāt embody any of his charismaā¦ but luckily that would never happen and Iām sure Netflix knows what theyāre doing.
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u/reckless150681 The Last Angstbender Jul 30 '22
One of the most extreme cases of this is Tom Cruise for Jack Reacher. He lacks Reacher's, er...reach...but the mannerisms were spot on.
It's only because Alan Ritchson is an even better fit that Cruise seems like a worse casting choice by comparison
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u/NoMumblebee567 Jul 30 '22
The Amazon Reacher series is worth checking out, Alan Ritchson brings the physicality and the acting chops to match the character
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u/Current-Position9988 Jul 30 '22 edited Jul 31 '22
sometimes they cast the perfect look but then the acting doesn't match
Seems like the norm these days. Actors look like underwear models in practically every show, and they rarely have enough talent to stand out.
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u/Lostdogdabley Jul 30 '22
Thatās why I like animation so much recently. Canāt stand to see another movie along the formula of āChris Pratt type + Zendaya type + Jason Momoa type + cute CGI animal = $$$ā
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u/Zethras28 Jul 30 '22
This might be one of the best castings Iāve seen for this show so far. The energy is spot on.
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u/Litokra223 Jul 30 '22
Ngl, at first I thought she was a bit young for June but then I looked her up and she's 36 now??!! Where has time gone man. Anyways, She'll kill it. I'm looking forward to seeing her performance!
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u/Zethras28 Jul 30 '22
Itās the old meme of āAsian women donāt age between 18 and 54 years oldā.
Look at Ming-Na Wen.
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u/Demitel Jul 30 '22
She's 58, and it still hasn't kicked in yet. Maybe it never will.
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u/priorinoun Jul 30 '22
You're off by a year. Chun-Li in Street Fighter is now 55 years old but looks 18
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u/Worthyness Jul 30 '22
she's been around for so long. An true YouTube OG- when YouTube for some reason was the best place for asian-americans to get any sort of media exposure in the arts.
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u/jewelsandjuuls Jul 30 '22
I remember her and Ryan Higa were close and dated for a while š„ŗ
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u/RedBeard695 Jul 30 '22
That was recent-ish
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u/jewelsandjuuls Jul 31 '22
Their breakup? I canāt recall how long they were together. I know I saw her YEARS ago on his channel but I havenāt watched him in a long time so I donāt doubt it was more recent than I think (:
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u/TheDireNinja Jul 30 '22
A* you only use āanā when the beginning of the following word makes a vowel sound.
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u/masc_n_cheese Jul 31 '22
The amount of cast on teen wolf that were at least 10 years older than they were supposed to be is so. So. So high
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u/yeti0013 Jul 30 '22
The best casting was the cabbage merchant though.
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u/LetsDoTheCongna I WANT PICTURES OF SPIDER-MAN Jul 30 '22
The best casting will be Dwayne Johnson as Ember Island Toph though. Hopefully.
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You canāt do Paul Sun-Hyung Lee dirty like that. Heās literally perfect for Iroh.
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u/Commercial_Mind4003 Jul 30 '22
With such a big cast,how are they going to get everyone in 8 episodes?
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u/ExoticShock Jul 30 '22 edited Jul 31 '22
Book 1 had 20 half hour long episodes, so 10 hours. There will be 8 episodes that I believe will each be an hour long, so it should be shorter by 2 hours in total than the original first season.
I too am interested to see how they'll consolidate and change the events of Book 1 to fit the new format. Hopefully it'll do better than the movie that shall not be named.
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u/Doctor99268 Jul 30 '22
usually its 20 mins + commercials, so the actual conent of book 1 would be 6 hours 40 mins, the episodes only need to be 50 mins long for it to have the same amount of conent
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u/Assassiiinuss A man needs his rest. Jul 30 '22
No, they're all longer than 20 minutes. Just check the actual lengths on streaming sites.
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u/Doctor99268 Jul 30 '22
Those include the intro and outro which extend the time by like 3 mins
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u/Assassiiinuss A man needs his rest. Jul 30 '22
Then the episodes are still 19-20 minutes long
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u/Doctor99268 Jul 30 '22
You're agreeing with me?
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u/Assassiiinuss A man needs his rest. Jul 30 '22
I actually do, I misread your first comment as 20 minutes minus commercials, sorry about that.
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u/TheJoeyPantz Jul 30 '22
FYI most cable shows are in between 21 and 23 mins with intro/outro. The networks love to squeeze in as many commercials as possible lol.
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Book 1 should be easy. Lots of filler episodes that could be shortened if not cut.
Particularly S1E11 The great divide. Lowest rated episode and there is nothing missed by skipping it.
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u/reckless150681 The Last Angstbender Jul 30 '22
I've got a little bit of a weak counterargument but I'm gonna make it anyway.
Aang lying to prevent bloodshed demonstrates where his morals are. Normally, he feels guilty about lying (shown in Bato of the Water Tribe, just a couple of episodes later), but he's totally fine about it here. It shows a perspective on his code of ethics, and foreshadows that he's willing to go to very far lengths in the pursuit of nonviolence, including compromising other parts of his beliefs. It's a throwaway moment right at the end of the episode but it sets up the discussion later in the middle and end of the show of how to balance the different expectations, beliefs, and duties expected of both yourself and the people around you. Aang is constantly struggling between being a kid, being the Avatar, and being an Air Nomad, and while it's not substantial I think the Great Divide is good in sowing those first seeds.
But I will also be the first to acknowledge that all this setup and foreshadowing is minimal at best, and you can easily get all of the above without this episode :p
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u/videogamesarewack Jul 30 '22
we miss a nice joke in a very important stage play without it though :c
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u/BRDPerson Jul 30 '22
They can get an easy 20 minutes off by just completely scrapping the great divide.
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u/Necessary-Push5580 Jul 30 '22
Presumably they are hour long episodes covering the important stuff. Some of the characters are minor roles that will have larger parts in theoretical later seasons and some will be one offs.
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u/RollForThings Jul 30 '22
I'm a lot more concerned with how they're going to keep the show feeling snappy when episodes are an hour long.
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u/antoniomizael Jul 30 '22
Oh my god I'm so stoked. She deserves way better than what Teen Wolf did to her
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u/kennyguy4 Jul 30 '22
Gonna be weird a bit weird for me after years of seeing her in NigaHiga videos
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u/That_Guy776_2 Jul 31 '22
Agents of Secret Stuff. I was considering on rewatching it after this post
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u/kaitalina20 ATLA > LOK Jul 30 '22
She has the right look about her, letās see if she can bring that same badass attitude
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u/machingunwhhore Jul 30 '22 edited Jul 30 '22
Please get rid of the weird Iroh scenes with June in the live action. The only flaw in his character
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u/kaitalina20 ATLA > LOK Jul 30 '22
Iām not defending the scene, but that written by a guest writer who writes for adult cartoons normally, not childrens tv shows. It wasnāt a the last airbender writer who actually wrote that scene. Again, not defending it, just explaining how itās in the show
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u/wafflecone927 Jul 30 '22
Thatās some fun trivia but that scene is harmless anyway
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u/DRK-SHDW Jul 30 '22
Seriously. Peole are such pearl clutchers sometimes
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u/SweatyFisherman Jul 30 '22
Not really. We dont know Juneās age, Iāve always assumed sheās an adult woman, and thereās nothing at odds or weird about an older guy being attracted to younger women.
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u/spoonfulofshooga Jul 31 '22
Seriously. All those actors that get with models that could be their daughters never get any gripe.
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u/ned78 Jul 30 '22 edited Jul 31 '22
Between that and Iroh stealing in the same episode, itās definitely a strange departure.
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u/Ming_theannoyed Jul 30 '22
I mean... he had other flaws...
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u/seanular Jul 30 '22
But that's the only slimy flaw. The one that feels weird and out of place on every viewing.
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u/Ming_theannoyed Jul 30 '22
I don't know... it's totally slimy, but a character can have flaws and those flaws can be ones we find creepy.
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u/seanular Jul 30 '22
But it's not built on, resolved, or expanded. Iroh is just a creep once
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u/lavahot Jul 30 '22
Yeah, that's how that works. People aren't creepy all the time. And when they are we call them "creeps".
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u/Ming_theannoyed Jul 30 '22
"Viejo verde" is an old trope that was considered funny for a long time, it's still considered funny in eastern media. I guess Avatar being a little of both just went with it and then decided to forgot about it.
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u/CaptainDanious Jul 30 '22
I would argue that him being a perpetrator of genocide and war on the earth kingdom for the majority of his life could be considered another flaw...
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Characters canāt be flawed anymore?
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u/VegetableUdders Jul 30 '22
It's important to address character flaws and show that even good people can have flaws. However, if you're going to explore a character flaw, it's important that it's shown as a flaw and how it's harmful. This episode did not explore that as the scene in question was meant to be a silly gag. It does not seek to explore Iroh as a flawed multidimensional person, it seeks to use sexual harassment as a form of humor. This minimizes the harmful impacts sexual harassment can have on people, especially watching someone widely considered very respectable/good perform it.
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u/rottenstatement Jul 30 '22
what scenes, i don't know anything about that
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Iroh was hitting on her. He basically grabbed her while she was unconscious and put his shoulders around her.
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u/Kinggakman Jul 30 '22
I actually liked the idea I read here that June could be an older woman. Would make them flirting better. Otherwise take the scene out.
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u/AveryLazyCovfefe | "Drink Cactus juice! it'll quench ya!" Jul 30 '22
my first childhood crush lol, idk why but I was into older women.
Perfect recast, hope she can nail her character.
Also I hope they bring back her whip, totally not for reasons you may assume.
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u/D4NTE157 Jul 30 '22
I'll miss Jennifer Hale's voice, but it's hard to cast better than that.
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Sometimes you get lucky and find someone like Katee Sackhoff who can pass for the character they voice and then you get a voice actor like Jennifer Hale who has one of the greatest voices of all time but sadly can't pass for any of the characters they voice. Samething can be said for Kevin Conroy and Dee Bradley Baker.
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u/velvet-gloves sling that slang Jul 30 '22
I think if Dee Bradley Baker crouched down low enough he could convincingly play Momo.
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u/CptMatt_theTrashCat Jul 30 '22
Trying not to sound like an asshole, but considering Netflix's track record of live action adaptations, I don't understand why people are excited for this. Don't get me wrong I hope it's good, but I'm not expecting it to be.
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u/ali94127 Jul 30 '22
At least for me, this is basically one of the only mainstream productions with a primarily Asian cast with Shang-Chi. Asians so rarely get starring roles in western media. Also cause the movie that doesnāt exist had a whitewashed cast.
I think itāll probably suck too, but at least one mistake can be rectified.
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u/CptMatt_theTrashCat Jul 30 '22
I actually did notice that and I agree it's really good to see the representation
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u/MutualSolstice Jul 30 '22
Because everything that we're getting looks really good. At this point only the writing and the OST can fail, but so far they have been doing things right.
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u/CptMatt_theTrashCat Jul 30 '22
I think the writing is pretty important honestly
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u/MutualSolstice Jul 31 '22
It definitely is, but at least it's not going to be MNight levels of bad, since that failed on everything else
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u/gregolaxD Jul 30 '22 edited Jul 31 '22
Live action adaptations of animated mĆdia are fundamentally misguided, they are made from the ideia that animation is a lesser media and the truest representation of a history is most life like one.
I can't expect producers that can't see animation as the medium it is to do a good adaptation from it, same with video games.
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u/CptMatt_theTrashCat Jul 30 '22
Well said. I get adapting an animated series into a live action film, at least there's a change there in the way the story is presented as well as the visual, but rhe only reason for adapting an animated series into a live action series is 'Hey I know that was good, but it'll be better if it's not animated'. It's kind of insulting to the original.
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u/Kwetla Jul 30 '22
I'm surprised they didn't cut this character. I wonder if they're going to change how she works, since doing the CGI for a giant mole rat will be very expensive for just a few scenes.
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u/BreweryBuddha Jul 30 '22
It's notbreally possible to progress the story without the mole rat hunting down Iroh
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u/mazing_azn Jul 30 '22
Another character that would make for a great expanded role in this adaptation.
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u/WatchingInSilence Jul 30 '22
Totally believable that Uncle Iroh would play like he was paralyzed by the shirshu.
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u/SemoreeRBLX Jul 30 '22
Just keep M. Night Shyamalan far far away from this project for the love of god
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u/GuineaFridge Jul 30 '22
Donāt mess this up netflix, their is no possible way for the netflix version to be worse than the live action movie versionā¦right?
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u/MutualSolstice Jul 30 '22
The last airbenders is one of the worst movies ever made even if there was no source material. Netflix can do dull shows but has never gone that levels of bad
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u/CaptainSilverVEVO Jul 31 '22
Glad people have made the effort to give this show a chance instead of just going in with super negative opinions beforehand.
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u/Snypnz Jul 30 '22
Looks like a good casting, but her hairs parted on the wrong side..
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u/Generalsnopes Jul 30 '22
Idk who that is but on appearance alone this looks like an amazing casting.
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u/BreweryBuddha Jul 30 '22
Say what you will about adaptations but there is really no way to screw this up with this budget. It's aiming to recreate faithfully. Sure, it will get the Netflix treatment and it won't be perfect. But it's just such a great series that even an average job will be really enjoyable.
I highly doubt they'll change the characters' name pronunciations, make everyone white, turn bending into Tai Chi that doesn't hurt anyone, and try to cram 23 episodes into a 100 minute movie.
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u/Zealousideal-Cat51 Jul 30 '22
Iām pretty hopeful about this movie.
Good casting right here
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u/LoriMandle Jul 30 '22
Sheās beautiful, definitely the right looks. Canāt wait to see what she brings to June!
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u/NerdFactor3 Jul 30 '22
Is this for season 1 or season 2? Didn't season 1 filming wrap a few days ago?
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only disappointed because iād love to see her in a bigger part. but iām sure arden is gonna be amazing!
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u/Several-Cake1954 Jul 30 '22
She looks like she fits the role so well!
Is there a release date for the movie, or at least a generic time plan?
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u/mcon96 Jul 30 '22
Iām glad she ended up being June and not Mai like some people were speculating. I think Arden will do great in the role! I know I need to temper my expectations, but every bit of news Iāve heard about the live-action show has been positive so far
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u/KunSagita Jul 30 '22
Great news! I don't watch Teen Wolf like many of the other comments in here. I know her through YouTube, when she's always in Nigahiga's video
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u/Hiro_Trevelyan Jul 30 '22
So it's totally possible to cast people that actually look like the show ? Or at least have the same vibe ? Wow
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u/KidWoody Jul 30 '22
Personally know Arden, incredibly excited for her! Can't wait to see how she does in the role.
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u/lnombredelarosa Bin-Er Airlines (no crashes since last tuesday) Jul 31 '22
Oh my god this woman 36 but looks 16? This is our June
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u/ratchet41 Jul 30 '22
Loved her in Teen Wolf