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help I cannot get this casting of Niall Lynch out of my head - I know the general trend is to find some model looking guy with artisanal stubble and a smirky face but my brain has landed in a slightly different direction. I present film director & critic Mark Cousins:

Working-class Catholic Belfast background, raised during The Troubles, voice still has that lilt 

Dark curly hair/stubble/tattoos/general rad dad chic

Also a sensible age to fit

He’s got an all encompassing lust for life and when he talks about his work and how he’s travelled all over the world - he basically sounds like he’s dreamed it all into reality for himself somehow idk man he’s lived his life as a grand and radical adventure and gives off a trc-Lynchian aura

Like just think of him talking about cinema as him talking about dreams - in the line of that Jean Leirens quote “[Cinema creates] a vacuum, which dreams readily fill” - just look at him go 1 + 2 + 3

Sorry but I don’t know how to unsee this and I needed to share. 

Tbh he seems like the absolute opposite of Niall’s problematic streak and 1100% does not seem like he would ever dream himself a romantic partner reliant on his personhood to exist - so apologies @ Mark Cousins but I have aligned you with the hot mess that is Niall Lynch in my mind and now it will never truly leave me, even though I think he’s a massive asshole & find Cousins to be a very Good person. 

(ps here’s a short article he wrote for the guardian about Belfast/representations of Northern Ireland/The Troubles in cinema if you’re in any way interested)