Harry Potter star David Thewlis has amused followers with a very unconventional and pithy New 12 months’s Eve publish.
The acclaimed British actor, 62, well-known for taking part in Remus Lupin within the Potter franchise, is staying booked and busy, not too long ago starring in Avatar: Hearth and Ash, Netflix’s Kaos and Disney Plus’ The Clever Dodger – to call just a few.
Like most of us, he celebrated the tip of 2025 surrounded by family members, though his 362k followers gained’t be getting far more of a glimpse into the festivities.
He posted a picture of himself with 14 of his family and friends all in entrance of a Christmas tree and, notably, with all of their faces blurred out.
‘Spent an exquisite New 12 months’s Eve at an undisclosed location with undisclosed family and friends. Within the identify of privateness I’ve pixelated all their faces and personalities, together with my very own. Glad New 12 months of us,’ he defined in the caption.
It clearly landed as tongue-in-cheek commentary on social media privateness (with some going so far as to attract comparisons to the famously blacked-out photos within the Epstein recordsdata and others to the eerie sci-fi dystopia sequence Black Mirror).
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Followers particularly in contrast it to the episode titled White Christmas, during which individuals are blurred out of actuality.
‘I felt like that Black Mirror episode taking a look at this image haha Glad New 12 months to you and your pixelated family members,’ 13elucky commented.
‘This appears to be like like that episode of Black Mirror,’ TracyAnno agreed.
‘Very humorous and really correct. I by no means get the folks that need their privateness (completely truthful) however are so determined to indicate off to the world they will’t stay with simply not posting mentioned personal second,’ merylm6 mirrored.
‘Everybody appears to be like gorgeous! So many joyful pixels in a single, perhaps two, locations,’ staceystorey joked.
‘I believed one thing was flawed with my eyes for a minute,’ iamcaptainjuggadu mentioned, and sarahvakili agreed that ‘this actually had me’.
Eager-eyed sleuths managed to seek out one other model of the blurred-out snap on Thewlis’ ex-partner’s account, actress Anna Friel, 49. The pair share a daughter, Gracie, and have remained good buddies since their cut up in 2010.
The display and stage star will subsequent return for the second season of Disney’s Clever Dodger, during which he performs Fagin, the famed Oliver Twist character, on this re-imagined sequel story in regards to the titular character all grown up.
He has additionally made his views on the usage of expertise, reminiscent of AI, within the inventive sphere crystal clear.
Discussing director James Cameron’s descision to not use AI whereas creating the most recent Avatar film, he advised Sky Information: ‘I believe there’s one thing intrinsically unhealthy about AI on this trade, within the inventive arts.
‘I believe the minute it begins taking human creativity away, we must always reject it.’
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