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   Chris Armstrong (rhodium103@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 01:28:24 JST Chris Armstrong

   Look, all I'm saying that if I was the casting director for a Black Mirror episode that required an ersatz influencer as a secondary character who accidentally achieves fame and then gets horrifyingly but hilariously manipulated into ending the world via corporate puppeteers...

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     Chris Armstrong (rhodium103@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 01:28:24 JST Chris Armstrong

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     ...and I needed to cast someone who looked unnervingly believable in the role as a man who was outwardly cheery but a hollow dead husk inside, yet ultimately bore no resemblance to an actual real person who you could imagine meeting in our reality as it exists...

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     Chris Armstrong (rhodium103@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 01:28:29 JST Chris Armstrong

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     ...and I saw this face in a catalogue of potential actors, I wouldn't even bother to hold auditions.

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     Chris Armstrong (rhodium103@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 01:28:30 JST Chris Armstrong

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     ...and all else I had to go on was a handwritten note, hastily scribbled in red biro in the margin of the script at 2 AM from a coked-up Charlie Brooker himself, which simply said "punchable"...