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maybe maca smoked some weed before filming the scenes where her pupils were dilated ?? no but i wonder if there’s a way you can ‘make’ them dilate? if so, maca is even more talented than we thought!!
Lol, anon. Hmmmm. https://lifehacker.com/dilate-or-shrink-your-pupils-on-command-5072854 Hmmmmmmmm.
But would she bother to do that? I’d think it were more likely it was related to her contacts or something. This is turning out to be quite the mystery. Well, with this fandom, I’m sure someone will ask her sooner or later.
To that anon asking about the dilation on pupils… i think it has more to do with their sensitivity towards light (it happens to all of us) but it is more noticible in people with light eyes (maca, alycia etc)
Yeah, but Eliza Taylor has very light eyes too and I don’t think it was noticed in her in the same way? Maca in particular looks practically belladonnaed, we get closeups of Val looking at Juls so frequently and her pupils are blown the heck out. You can barely see the blue for the black.
Lol, now I’m curious. I mean, I noticed it before (how could I not, several anons did send asks about it) but now I’m curious as to the how. There doesn’t seem to be a lack of light in either situation either.
hey can you make a power hour voting where we only vote for barbara? apparently both girls are winning but maca is at about 90% while barbara was at around 45% and the person in second place was at 43%. maca has secured the win so we can relax with her category but barbara really needs all the votes she can get
Hmm, yeah, I heard about that. I’m not sure we can trust any numbers coming out, though, and I’d hate to suggest leaving aside either, they’re both so close it can’t take that long to vote for both. But I do get the reasoning, we did clearly see during the Instagram voting how much more competition Barbara had.
It’s up to everyone else, if they want to concentrate on Barbara for a while, it might help push her up and get a safety buffer. Or just vote more for both.
Hi! First I absolutely love ur blog and I wanted to thank you for sharing ur thoughts & content! Looking at ur amazing juliantina gifs made me wonder abt acting and I dunno if u can answer it & if u cant its okay! How can some actors/actresses emulate involuntary reflex like the dilatation of pupils with such accuracy? I remember being so perplexed when I saw Lexa’s actress doing it- he pupils were so dilated when she looked at Clarke. Same for maca. She can even make herself look flushed. HOW
Thank you!
Um, hmm, definitely noticed that, especially for Maca. I dunno, I think that’s just them? If you see Maca in interviews with other people, the same thing happens. Maybe they’re just that sensitive to light? Or they get super into the character…? It’s an interesting question but I have no idea, sorry.
Hey! Tomorrow’s the last day to vote on insta for the awards Revistaeresmx and we’re losing by like 30k votes, can we get our girls the win for Best Kiss? ??
Looks like 43k difference now. Again, instructions to vote are to go here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BusT4SyFd3Q/
Follow that account and then basically just keep spamming #VotoPorBárbaraYMacarena in the comments.
You can also vote here: https://www.eres.com.mx/premios
But I think for the time being people are concentrating on the TVyNovelas awards? After the voting’s closed, everyone will probably pivot over and try to make up the difference. Honestly, that it’s as close as it is is pretty impressive.
I also heard/read somewhere (can’t remember lol) that they filmed the finale first apparently which is also why it might be like that. I guess they could’ve re-shot it after they found out how big Julianita became but ??♀️
Hmmm. Maybe that could be it, but then what made them go, okay, let’s keep on including a kiss here, and one here, and a more daring one here? But it does make sense, that might be it. Or a combination of things. Regardless, they owe us one!
sshepardcommander replied to your post “exactly! exactly, even if it was a soft, slow, short thing, something…”
I assumed the same, it wasn’t written for the finale bc the finale is written to be seen by Everyone and they were more conservative about what they showed and focused on val telling the world to do the most relatable and digestible positive gay they could. also probably why chino apologizes and says how wrong he was to threaten them in the finale
A Mexican friend just messaged me about the Sunday theory going OF COURSE and so I just wanted to share what might actually be a possible reason. They made it into a milder PSA version with the big coming out and Chino accepting and a confirmed happy ending years in the future, Juls getting everything she wanted.
IF that is the reason, that kind of…resolves that for me. I don’t love it, at all, but I can understand THAT, when before it seemed a completely arbitrary reason to exclude them. Though still of course no explanation for why no actual reunion scene. 😡
exactly! exactly, even if it was a soft, slow, short thing, something Val does just to wipe that expression off Juls face, it lasts all about 3 seconds, and when Juliana raises her hand and her palm right there, her thumb behind Val’s neck, Val pulls back and is like “no no, this is important. Listen to me …” and then proceed with telling her why she cant do this because of her family and what not. JUST THE SMALLEST AND SOFTEST BUT MOST MEANINGFUL KISS ugh
Yes! I think what felt so unnatural about the finale was that we were so used to how organic their scenes were and how naturally they flowed and yes, often they had kisses to build to an interruption, that’s just a hidden love trope, but they still worked so well. That kitchen scene needed one in the very way they wrote and acted and directed it. This is not us reading into it, it’s their lack.
And as you said, it could have worked in that moment and made it even more poignant, that for all the love and want and yearning, they still couldn’t be together.
And another anon:
I wish we had gotten a full body shot of that counter scene. The body language of both of them, but esp juls when shes turned and pinned to the counter. Just the way her upper body/shoulder area slouches down, ugh, I’m a sucker for facial expressions and body language and while we got to see the former I wish we got to see the latter. They really do have a lot of chemistry it’s actually kind of ridiculous. The way they look at each other and the way their bodies react to each other is special.
For real, it’d have been great to get a few wider shots. I loved the intimacy and framing but if they were going to offer us that positioning, they may as well have shown us the whole thing. Maybe that would have been too risque? You wouldn’t think people who’d shown kisses would balk at that but, actually, the next anon offers an interesting theory about the finale.
And another anon:
It’s been almost a week and I’m just still in awe (in a bad way) that they didn’t resolve allllll of the shit Juliantina have gone thru with a kiss at the end. Like!!!! Y’all made us watch sergio!!!! I am beyond grateful that Juliantina lived and ended up together and were happily living their best lives but I don’t understand the lack of the last kiss. There were at least two good scenes that needed it and it would’ve been a couple more seconds of screentime at most. (½)
I gotta conclude that they didn’t wanna include Blatant Gay Content in the finale Bc it aired on a Sunday and they thought there’d be more families or ppl in general watching. Which is a bummer if that’s the reason. Esp after the long sex scene Lucia/Jacobo got. Granted, Lucia died so I’m much more content w Juliantinas plot but their final arc needed a kiss dammit! Lol thankfully their chemistry is so good it’s almost like they kissed anyways (2/2)
That’s……possible? I mean, everyone’s been racking their brains trying to understand why the absence then, of all episodes, when they showed some already and this was the big sendoff. They didn’t even tape anything so can’t blame the censors, it couldn’t have been a matter of screentime, it’d have cost a few seconds, the actors were shown to be willing (and quite good at it >_>) so then? We’ve been asking ourselves what was different about the finale and that’s as good an answer as anything, I guess? I dunno. It would be pretty sad if they deliberately toned things down because it was a big, more widely seen event.
I think Juls only calls Val ‘Valentina’ to her face when she’s kind of annoyed, like when Val came to the house before the breakup and Juls was calling after her as they were walking to the SUV but Val kept ignoring her, so then she used her full name. It’s like when Juls is annoyed with her mom and she called her Lupe. It’s so cute, the way Barbara brought Juliana to life was so perfect.
Heh, yeah, she does do that with both Val and her mom. Annoyance or urgency. Same with Val, frustration or emergency, “Juliana!”
I love every diminutive and intonation, there’s always a reason for every usage and emphasis.