Actor Pohwasogeuro. Their group has been together for going on ten years, not counting side projects he has been a part of with other artists, one including an album with band-mate G-Dragon Kwon Ji Yong. It wasn't until Why you ask? Because his nickname is TOP so I have to put him at the top of the list. See what I did there? This list isn't in any order anyway, but I really do love this man.
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Given just how divisive the DCEU has proven to be, it may have come as a bit of a surprise then that yesterday's bombshell rumor would be something pretty much every comic book fan can get behind: a Nightwing solo film is reportedly on the way. Casting a note-perfect Grayson will be key, and so we thought we'd lend a helping hand. One of the first questions asked when it comes to casting the former Robin will be just how old the character should be. With Ben Affleck's Batman -- and yes, he's still attached to play the Dark Knight -- in his mids at this point in his crimefighting career, it would make the most sense to bring in a Dick Grayson that appears to be in his lates to earlys. In that regard, year-old Dylan O'Brien may be a bit on the young side, but it's hard to deny that the hyper-talented up and comer would be a fine choice for the role. Moving from one end of the age spectrum to the other, year-old Joseph Gordon-Levitt would definitely be one of the older candidates Warner Bros. Then again, there's a reason why he's been a fan-favorite to play Dick Grayson for so long: he might just be perfect for the role.
As Teenage Dick, an adaptation of the Shakespeare play, opens at the Donmar he tells Natasha Tripney about how the play explores the cost of being a disabled person in a very ableist society. Australian actor Monks is playing the title role of the young, disabled Richard Gloucester, intent on being elected senior class president at all costs. Monks always wanted to be a performer. His mother, the casting director Annie Murtagh-Monks, had also been an actor. When she was seven months pregnant, she performed a show called From Here to Maternity. So, Monks jokes, he made his debut in utero. Even though his mother gave up performing when he was two, he was familiar with actors and their world. That is until the age of 11, when he became disabled as a result of a spinal cord tumour. As a level-headed year-old, he decided that acting was no longer a feasible career path.
L ike its title character, Teenage Dick is sneaky. What begins as a gleeful, knowing reboot of Richard III in an all-American high school, gradually skews darker. Richard, a disabled year-old, connives against the school jock to become senior-year president — but like his Shakespearean predecessor his rise is also a fall. Many of us are shadowed by our unhappy teenaged selves. Daniel Monks, taking the title role in the British premiere, also carries his adolescent self with him. Experiencing so much shame for anything that makes you perceived as different — I totally identify with a lot of the friction and pain in the play.
