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Jennifer McShane

@jennymcshane.bsky.social
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📍Irish in London ✏️Writer & Editor for hire 👩🏻‍💻Culture, disability, books, lifestyle 🍿Always at the movies (or watching Twin Peaks) linktr.ee/Jenny_McShane

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National Screening Service @nsshse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Journalist @jennymcshane.bsky.social speaks to fellow disabled women about their experiences with gynaecological health; and to #CervicalCheck's Dr Rachael Comer about the education and training we provide to sample takers to support women who #choosescreening. 🔗 www.image.ie/self/when-it...
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When it comes to gynaecological health, there’s no such thing as normal | IMAGE.ie
After struggling with painful gynaecological appointments for years, Jennifer McShane speaks to fellow disabled women...
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branassance.bsky.social @branassance.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Saying goodbye to The Tempest fam. It's been an honour and a pleasure to see you on stage 🌩️🐝🌬️🌊
The Tempest cast curtain call
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𝙲𝙰𝙿𝙴 𝙲𝙾𝙳 𝙿𝙾𝚂𝚃𝙰𝙰𝙷 @capecodpostaah.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
No one does Shakespeare better than Branagh.
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branassance.bsky.social @branassance.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This is simply gorgeous www.instagram.com/p/DYzu9J8Cls...
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thersc on Instagram: "‘The isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.’ ✨The Tempest is now playing in the Royal Shak…"
‘The isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.’ ✨The Tempest is now playing in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until 20 June🎟️ Check our website regularly for any returnsCast: David Bark-Jones, Kenneth Branagh, @dbrockis, @hals_brown, @keircharles, @childsplay56, @stuartedgar_, @sylviaamber, @tallulahhamiltonbarr, Guy Henry, Paul Jesson, Mark Meadows, Amara Okereke, @razak02, @henrypettigrew, @rubystokess, @fredwoodleyevans, and @ashleyzhangazhaCreatives:Director: Richard EyreSet Designer: Bob CrowleyCostume Designer: @f.dimouLighting Designer: @ihughComposers: Akintayo Akinbode and Stephen WarbeckSound Designer: @nicolatchangVideo Designer: @akhila_krishnan_designMovement and Intimacy Director: @annielunnette Illusions: @theatreillusion Casting Director: Charlotte Sutton CDGMusic Director: Joseph RobertsVoice: Patsy RodenburgAssociate Director: @dadiowAssociate Set Designer: @roscoombes Musicians: Joseph Roberts on Guitar/Guembri, Kadialy Kouyaté on Kora, Sidiki Dembélé on Djembe/Kamale Ngoni, and Solá Akingbolá on Percussion📸 Kenneth Branagh as Prospero in The Tempest📸 Amara Okereke as Ariel in The Tempest.📸 Mark Meadows as Antonio, David Bark-Jones as Alonso, Amara Okereke as Ariel, Paul Jesson as Gonzalo and Henry Pettigrew as Sebastian, & Amber Sylvia Edwards as Spirit, Fred Woodley Evans as Ferdinand, Ruby Stokes as Miranda and Razak Osman as Spirit in The Tempest.📸 Keir Charles as Trinculo and Guy Henry as Stephano in The Tempest.📸 Fred Woodley Evans as Ferdinand and Ruby Stokes as Miranda in The Tempest.📸 Amber Sylvia Edwards as Venus in The Tempest.📸 Keir Charles as Trinculo, & Guy Henry as Stephano in The Tempest.📸 Amara Okereke as Ariel and Kenneth Branagh as Prospero in The Tempest. 📸 Fred Woodley Evans as Ferdinand in The Tempest. 📸 Fred Woodley Evans as Ferdinand and Ruby Stokes as Miranda, & Kenneth Branagh as Prospero in The Tempest.📸 Ashley Zhangazha as Caliban in The Tempest. 📸 Mark Meadows as Antonio in The Tempest.📸 Kenneth Branagh as Prospero in The Tempest.Photos by Johan Persson#RoyalShakespeareCompany #Shakespeare #StratfordUponAvon
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branassance.bsky.social @branassance.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
KEN BACK TO THE RSC TO DO PROSPERO AND CHEKOV!!!!! variety.com/2025/theater...
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Helen Hunt, Kenneth Branagh Lead Star-Studded Royal Shakespeare Company 2026 Season
Helen Hunt and Kenneth Branagh to headline Royal Shakespeare Company's star-studded 2026 season.
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branassance.bsky.social @branassance.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Mood
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LFFstubs @lffstubs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Quick thread on “how to LFF”. Firstly, buy a BFI membership, no booking fees and priority for LFF. Discounts on up to 4 tickets per screening during the year. £39 a year, includes 2 free tickets for regular screenings at the Southbank.
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branassance.bsky.social @branassance.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
THEY LOOK AMAZING 😍😍😍
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KWallander @kennethwallander.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
MerylvStreep and Kenneth Branagh wonderful people shooting a movie 😍
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/08/2025
On the subject of Much Ado About Nothing, I did recently(ish) write an essay about it and why it's one of my favorite films to watch: whatever.scalzi.com/2023/12/07/t...
The cast of Much Ado, being ridiculously gorgeous.
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branassance.bsky.social @branassance.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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KWallander @kennethwallander.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I love the creative process of this masterpiece and the genius of Kenneth Branagh 😍👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXR2...
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Making of Hamlet - Cinematography - Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Kate Winslet,
YouTube video by Luminous Studios
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TPUK Events (formerly Twin Peaks UK Festival) @tpukevents.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This Sept 27/28 in a secret London location: the world's biggest celebration of the life and work of David Lynch, with very special guests, screenings, live music and performance, immersive experiences, cosplay, and so much more. Tickets on sale now: www.gatheringoftheangels.com
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🚨 PSA: Anyone looking to purchase Wheelchair or Ambulant Access tickets for #Beyonce’s London dates in June, tickets are available since 12pm today in the first presale and will be in at least 3x more presales until General Release this Friday. No code needed! Please DM if I can help you! 🚨♿️
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
When did you first discover David Lynch? I remember it so vividly. I started Twin Peaks in my twenties. I was unsure. The music, the love of coffee and pie? It was weird. Then the subtitles came on screen in The Red Room. Did I do that? I then realised they were meant to be there. And I was hooked.
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It's The Big Iron, Charlie Brown @big-iron.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.
David Lynch in sunglasses saying "i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects"
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish
excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time. 
     When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work.
     If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
My heart 💔
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I’d like everyone to remember that David Lynch put his head on the top of a warm car and had a vision for The Red Room. The man captured dreams and nightmares from his head, and allowed us, the viewers, to see what we made of them ourselves. There is none like him.
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
You either ‘got’ David Lynch or you didn’t. One look into the Red Room and I got him. And then I watched everything to the point of obsession. He changed it all. He changed how I saw the world. Today is the saddest of days. His loss is monumental. I am brokenhearted. RIP, we were lucky to have him💔
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This is a beautiful tribute.
kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met.
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone.
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.
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Old Hollywood @theoldhollywood.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
RIP David Lynch, 1946-2025
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
If anyone needs me I’ll be having a tearful drink and binging Twin Peaks until further notice 😭
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Black Lodge Cult @blacklodgecult.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
DAVID LYNCH has passed away. We have lost one of the greatest directors in history, a superlative artist. A unique and timeless cultural figure. Forever in our memory, forever in our hearts. Long live The Greatest.
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Jacqueline Codiga (DJ horse jeans) @horsejeans.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I am grateful for all the ways his art helped me live.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
RIP to the king
Four panels of David Lynch (older white man with sticky-uppy white hair wearing a rumpled white shirt and dark suit jacket):

1. Serious face. “As soon as you finish a film”

2. Similar serious face “people want you to talk about it”

3. Scrunched-up amused face

4. Slight smile “and it’s, um, the film is the talking”
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
lynch had a genuinely radical genius for empathy, a word that’s been made nearly hollow by its popular usage, which meant that to look straight at what he made was at once nigh-on unbearable and bizarrely life-affirming; watching his movies was like feeling a gone-numb limb come back alive
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
You either ‘got’ David Lynch or you didn’t. One look into the Red Room and I got him. And then I watched everything to the point of obsession. He changed it all. He changed how I saw the world. Today is the saddest of days. His loss is monumental. I am brokenhearted. RIP, we were lucky to have him💔
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emi 🌷🌹🍉 @emilomatosis.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
has anyone posted this about this year already? or the whole decade actually
film director David Lynch on a film set speaking through a megaphone, saying "okay, let's try that again, but this time good"
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Chris Panatier @scribeofhades.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I am Nosferatu (the entire film) until further notice.
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I guess I missed the part where leaving a bad review after a god awful service while booking a trip with TUI and then waiting almost a month for them to contact me, must mean I’ve “calmed down” about the situation says an ill-trained rep. Eh, what?! I was always calm, TUI service is just woeful.
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I remember during the press tour for It Ends With Us almost EVERY article I read was tarnishing Lively with Him unscathed. I was suspicious. Now look at those receipts! Yes, It was very inappropriate a film about domestic abuse was marketed like a Barbie movie but that isn’t on Lively either, btw.
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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Well this is horrifying. The wave of stories over the summer about Blake Lively being a horrible person were deliberately engineered. After Blake Lively alleged sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us, Justin Baldoni hired Johnny Depp's PR person to smear her.
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Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After ‘It Ends With Us’
Private messages detail an alleged campaign to smear Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”
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Douglas Hardy 🏳️‍🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
A Christmas movie… A 1995 Britcom, In the Bleak Midwinter, released in the US as A Midwinter's Tale, directed by Kenneth Branagh, with Joan Collins, Julia Sawalha, & Jennifer Saunders. Out of work actors try to raise money to save a local church, by performing Hamlet on Christmas Eve! #TCMParty
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Fare thee well, King. I’m so sad King Lear has reached its end but so lucky I got to experience Kenneth Branagh and casts’ storm of Shakespeare (no one does it quite like he) on stage in London and NYC over the last year. What shall I look forward to now?! 💔
The stage of King Lear by Kenneth Branagh and RADA cast at The Shed, New York in November 2024.Kenneth Branagh as King Lear in ‘King Lear’ with cast during the encore of the production at The Shed in New York in November 2024.Kenneth Branagh as King Lear in ‘King Lear’ with cast during the encore of the production at The Shed in New York in November 2024.Kenneth Branagh as King Lear in ‘King Lear’ with cast during the encore of the production at the Wyndham Theatre in November 2023.
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branassance.bsky.social @branassance.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Off-topic: the season to roast "Love Actually" for how badly it has aged has begun! 😂 If you want a cool Xmas movie, do yourself a favour and watch "In the Bleak Midwinter" instead.
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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Now online for your perusal – all the ballots from our best films of 2024 poll 394 films, voted for by 118 contributors: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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The best films of 2024 – all the votes
Individual ballots for the best films of 2024 by 118 of our contributors
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
And sorry guys, the sustainability/interiors experts must be UK-based for this one! #journorequest
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🚨#Journorequest 🚨I'm looking for experts to chat with me for a feature for Country Living magazine on 'Sustainable New Year resolutions you can start right at home.' I'm looking to do around 7 of them and my deadline is Monday, December 16th at the latest (1/3)
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
64 Candles 🎂 today for the creative polymath & force of nature - KENNETH BRANAGH
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Me again! I'm working on a feature for House Beautiful on homeowner 'Renovation Regrets' but from the POV of Interior Designers. So, interior designers, what are the most common design issues you're called in to fix? Please email: jenmcs1987@gmail[dot]com with your top 2/3 ✨ #journorequests
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RTÉ @rte.ie · 05/12/2024
The 23 Best Toy Show Moments Ever! www.rte.ie/entertainmen... #LateLateToyShow
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The 23 Best Toy Show Moments Ever!
It's almost time for this year's Late Late Toy Show and to celebrate we have rounded up our favourite moments from over the decades. See if you agree!
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I feel gut-wrenchingly homesick every year this is on and I’m away 😓 #LateLateToyShow
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Twisteddoodles @twisteddoodles.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Mother duck #latelatetoyshow
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
No one else can do soul destroying vocals quite like Billie Eilish (the backing vocals!!!! 🥹).
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Billie Eilish - WILDFLOWER (Isolated Vocals)
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Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Christmas with The Addams Family 🖤
A cartoon of The Addams Family from The New Yorker. Morticia Addams carefully decorates a dead Christmas tree while her children, Wednesday and Pugsley Addams watch.
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Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I’m back on @Salon talking about the discourse around Nessarose and how, in Part One of the Wicked movie at least, I was happy. #filmsky www.salon.com/2024/12/05/w...
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Is Nessarose a huge win for "Wicked"? It's complicated
Marissa Bode's casting is groundbreaking and deserving of celebration. The role itself, however, comes with caveats
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