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The movie and television industry may be shut down, but that doesn’t mean its employees have been idle. Crisis, as they say, is the mother of invention, and quarantining has inspired plenty of resourceful, delightful — and non-delightful — content. One of the better ones came in early May, when beloved stunt person Zoë Bell tapped an all-star cast (among them Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, and Cameron Diaz) to do a clever, exciting, hilarious all-woman fight. Now another group has gotten in on the action: the stop-motion wizards at Laika.
In an attempt to stay busy/sane, the quaranting staff of the beloved animation company — of Coraline, The Boxtrolls, and last year’s Oscar-nominated Missing Link — created their own version, with, of course, almost nothing but stop-motion. The premise is the same: One person/thing punches or kicks or in some fashion wallops into the screen, then we cut to someone/something else that feels the blow. They then return the favor to another person/thing, and so on and so forth.
There aren’t any famous faces — beyond, of course, a cameo by one of the Boxtrolls — but who needs celebrities when you’ve got an angry ice cube wielding a cocktail umbrella, sentient sneakers or any angry lemon? It’s only a minute — stop-motion animation is hard and time-consuming! — but perhaps it will inspire you to spend part of your quarantine time watching one of the Laikas. After all, you’re not going to one of the nation’s crowded and virus-ridden beaches any time soon. Right?
You can watch the royal rumble in the video above.
(Via EW)
Like many celebrities, Sharon Stone has been active on social media during quarantine, and she decided to spend her Sunday channeling a hip-hop legend — or so some thought. In a new picture shared on her Twitter page, the actress is shown poolside with her dog and a couple of friends. But it’s what was on her head that caught the attention of social media.
keepin my head together pic.twitter.com/FHV02owDRB
— Sharon Stone (@sharonstone) May 24, 2020
In the image, Stone rocks a silver gladiator helmet — an unusual choice for staying safe while quarantining in the sun. A number of people online thought it looked familiar. Specifically they thought it looked an awful lot like the headgear perennially worn by legendary rapper MF Doom, aka Daniel Dumile — a mask that channels his semi-namesake, Fantastic Four villain Doctor Doom, and which Dumile has long worn in public to obscure his face.
who knew sharon stone was mf doom this entire time? https://t.co/d7cZme4OmX
— ItsTheReal (@itsthereal) May 24, 2020
Not gonna lie, MF Doom is looking fit https://t.co/rHadI3zICo
— dan (@beverage_cart) May 24, 2020
Has anyone seen MF Doom and Sharon Stone in the same room?
https://t.co/qx0W4rkRKH
— Adonis Q. Einstein (@AdonisQEinstein) May 24, 2020
Sharon Stone being MF DOOM this whole time is wild https://t.co/RvD5A9kN3y
— Cameroñ (@kneemund) May 24, 2020
Some even jokingly wondered if the Basic Instinct star was in fact MF Doom himself all along. Brooklyn-based record label Ghostly cracked that he was booking Stone/MF Doom for his nephew’s pool party, while another said Stone being a fan of the onetime KMD member is further evidence that 2020 has been incredibly surreal. Fantastic Four and Capone director Josh Trank even chimed in with a comment, saying, “2020: Sharon Stone dons MF DOOM mask.”
I booked MF Doom for my nephew’s pool party. This is him right? pic.twitter.com/WzMEUhjofg
— Ghostly (@ghostly) May 24, 2020
Sharon Stone is an MF DOOM fan. This year just keeps getting weirder https://t.co/CAxaNywkHD
— Wylin’ Jennings (@sawsegod) May 24, 2020
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