{"id":41903,"date":"2019-02-22T23:44:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T04:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=41903"},"modified":"2019-02-22T23:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T04:48:04","slug":"flashback-friday-konstantin-and-ossie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/flashback-friday-konstantin-and-ossie\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday: Konstantin and Ossie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you watched <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/2019\/02\/21\/killing-eve-sandra-oh-jodie-comer-season-2-ew-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Killing Eve<\/a><\/em> yet? That&#8217;s the BBC show on Hulu that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2018\/04\/killing-eve-sandra-oh-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sandra Oh<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/tv\/awards\/sandra-oh-wins-2019-golden-globe-for-drama-actress-1203093378\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">been winning awards for recently<\/a>. Oh stars as Eve Polastri, an intelligence officer who becomes obsessed with stopping a sociopathic assassin known as Villanelle (Jodie Comer).<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iDfbCD0FV1k\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I came to the show a little late &#8212; urged on by my designing friend Stacy Lomman and my stepdaughter Isabelle &#8212; and I was instantly obsessed. After I finished season 1, when I reported back to Stacy, she said, &#8220;You know we met <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcamerica.com\/shows\/killing-eve\/cast-crew\/konstantin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Konstantin<\/a>, right?&#8221; OMG! Yes, we did! Before actor Kim Bodnia played Villanelle&#8217;s handler on <em>Eve<\/em>, he was the torturer known only as &#8220;Rosewater&#8221; in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/rosewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014 movie of that name.<\/a> <em>Rosewater<\/em> was based on the real experiences of BBC journalist Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-born Canadian citizen, who returned to Iran and reported on the violent protests that broke out over <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2009\/08\/20\/how-ahmadinejad-stole-an-election-and-how-he-can-fix-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspected election fraud in the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran&#8217;s president<\/a>. As a result of his reports, Bahari was arrested, accused of being a spy, and tortured for 118 days.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee to Protect Journalists &#8212; which works to free imprisoned reporters such as Bahari &#8212; invited people involved with the movie to its <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2009\/08\/20\/how-ahmadinejad-stole-an-election-and-how-he-can-fix-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Press Freedom Awards dinner that year<\/a>. Voil\u00e0! <em>Killing Eve&#8217;s<\/em> Konstantin!<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41904\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/what-wendy-wore-committee-to-protect-journalists-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41904\" class=\"wp-image-41904 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/grouppiccpj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/grouppiccpj.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/grouppiccpj-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: me, journalist Allan Dodds Frank, Stacy, editor Ingrid Abramovitch, and Kim Bodnia\/Konstantin\/Rosewater. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Stacy and I had gone to a <em>Rosewater<\/em> screening a couple of weeks before the dinner, and for some reason, I&#8217;ve never forgotten which vintage Ossie Clark dress I wore that night.<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_41905\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/what-wendy-wore-ossie-clark-at-rosewater-screening\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41905\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ossie-1-resize.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"747\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ossie-1-resize.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ossie-1-resize-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ossie-1-resize-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the &#8220;Rosewater&#8221; screening, with my copy of the book. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the blog, I can always look up what outfit I wore when, and I always DO look them up! The one event\/dress that I don&#8217;t have to double-check is this one. Why did it sear itself into my memory? No idea. But considering I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/throwback-thursday-ossie-clark-in-2005-2011-2019\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ossie Clark this week<\/a>, this makes me feel like &#8220;it&#8217;s allllllllll connected.&#8221; Or maybe that&#8217;s because I just finished the first season of <em>Russian Doll<\/em> on Netflix. I highly recommend that one! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you watched Killing Eve yet? That&#8217;s the BBC show on Hulu that Sandra Oh has been winning awards for recently. Oh stars as Eve Polastri, an intelligence officer who becomes obsessed with stopping a sociopathic assassin known as Villanelle (Jodie Comer). I came to the show a little late &#8212; urged on by my&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/flashback-friday-konstantin-and-ossie\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[726,10,1,48,41,39,129],"tags":[1913,1915,1912,672,1916,1914],"class_list":["post-41903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art-entertainment","category-celebrities","category-uncategorized","category-ossie-clark","category-pictures-of-me","category-tv","category-vintage-designers","tag-jodie-comer","tag-killing-eve","tag-kim-bodnia","tag-ossie-clark","tag-russian-doll","tag-sandra-oh","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41909,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41903\/revisions\/41909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}