Abby actress Kaitlyn Dever protected by extra security while filming The Last of Us season two
Abby actress Kaitlyn Dever protected by extra security while filming The Last of Us season two
Kaitlyn Dever, the actress portraying Abby Anderson in the second season of HBO's The Last of Us adaptation, required extra security during filming.
I wonder what the psychology is behind this. I'm sure most of us don't understand and can't sympathize with someone who gets so caught up in a fictional character, that you go harass the actor, or worse? I just don't get it. I think that guy who played goffrey on game of thrones had problems too.
It just doesn't make sense to me. Is it as simple as lack of intelligence? How can some people not separate fiction from reality? Not to mention all the celebrity worship nonsense.
Critical thinking is a skill and the longer you don’t practice a skill the worse you're going to become.
The actor that played Joffrey is a wonderful, sweet young man, and a really great actor. I've watched him in interviews and he seems so nice and even a little bit shy about the attention. And I still can't see his face and not want to wring his neck. I know intellectually that he is a completely separate and even great person. But my lizard brain still still triggers the "kill it with fire" response to seeing him. Obviously I know better than to listen to my lizard brain, but there are plenty of people who absolutely cannot control their's. Honestly, in a weird way, it's a complement to his acting ability.
Laura Bailey is super sweet too - she even cried for Ashley Johnson during the recording of the death scene. Those people not just threatened her life, but even that of her newly born son.
And yes, Joffrey is one of the most hateable characters out there for sure (and an actually evil one, unlike Abby). I cheered when he died, wishing that it would've been more prolonged and painful. I never felt an ill will towards the actor though.
Just go and rewatch Batman Begins. Maybe his role as the kid who spots Batman from his porch and gets given one of his gadgets can soften the reflex...
He played that role so fucking damn good, its not often that I get such a visceral reaction from an actor, bug god damn I despised every atom of Joffrey, also similar respect to the dude who played little finger, both showed a masterclass in being an utterly hated character.
Gamergate. Where an anthropomorphic slug named Steve Bannon encouraged and incited the worst instincts in teenage boys (and male adults with the emotional intelligence of a teenage boy) to bully women. Namely, the ones who wouldn't fuck them and made fun of vidya gamez.
Most people are stupid. All teenage boys are stupid. And stupid is easy to manipulate.
It’s because some people don’t have much going for them in their lives. So they consume media to fill their time and they do it so much that it becomes an important part of their lives. It basically forms their personality. So when the media they love “betrays” them because the message doesn’t align with their own views or the media is just plain bad or whatever they feel attacked at the core level. Mix that with some mental issues and you get people who feel they have to take measures in real life to defend themselves against those “attacks”.
It’s not that different from football hooligans.
In those groups there is so much self hatred that gets pushed out on the world in order to not face their own feelings. I remember a coworker i was talking with in a group and mentioned without a second thought that another coworker (another dude) new haircut looked good on them and he kind of locked up. he Started saying "he was im not gay. so he couldn't even think like that."
now remember we are talking about a haircut and this guy starts freaking out like we are talking his package. If you are that insecure in your sexual preferences. That talking about someones haircut is the same as thinking about them in a sexual way. So something is definitely being repressed. I think most healthy people one day ask themselves "Am i gay?" then answer yes or no and moved on with their day.
I always assume these are those Very Online™ people. Who spend most of their lives in a bedroom, not interacting with the real world.
For these people it’s all about the “culture war”, and for them, for whatever reason, Abby from TLou2 is a part of that.
It's because Abby kills someone these incels idolized as well as the online rants way back then that she was forced into the game's plot as some sort of "woke" movement. Their reasoning was that it was unrealistic how strong she was (i.e. blah blah blah, "muscular women during the apocalypse being unrealistic due to limited resources" blah blah more idiotic arguments). I can't even remember all the other stupid shit they said. The controversy over that game was so obnoxious. The bottom line is that it was a pretty good game and incels need therapy.
Before the game came out we had two major leaks. The first one was that Joel gets killed, and that Abby is the one who does it. The second one was that it features a trans character. Abby being a muscle mommy made those people assume that Abby must be the trans character. So from their perspective, a trans character murders their beloved (and definitely no closeted gay feelings attached) daddy Joel. This fabricated & deluded image became their perfect scapegoat for their fake outrage.
The sad part with Jack Gleeson (Game of thrones guy), I've seen interviews with him about his love of theater and why he was going back from film/TV acting, and he seems like such a nice guy. Really a shame the fanbase reacted so poorly to his amazing portrayal of a terrible person.
I mostly just can't believe people are still mad about that.
I guess the people who hated Part 2 because they didn't like the story have just let it go by now; how empty is your soul that you're STILL mad that Abby looks a bit masculine?
What is the psychological phenomenon called when people can't separate reality from fiction? Seems more specific and applies to a wider crowd than just, say, schizophrenia.
Also did any of these motherfuckers ever watch or read Harry Potter? Lord Voldemort was actually evil but nobody wanted to kill Ralph Fiennes.