Solana is holding a key range while traders watch for the next clear move. At the same time, derivatives data shows fresh long interest building after the latest drop.
Solana Holds Between $80 and $95 as Higher Time Frame Levels Stay in Focus
Solana remained locked between about $80 and $95 on the three day chart, according to a chart shared by Daan Crypto Trades on X.
At the time of the post, $SOL traded near $82.71 against Tether on Binance. The chart showed price moving sideways after a sharp drop earlier this year, with repeated reactions at support near the low $80s and resistance near $95.
$SOL/$USDT 3D Chart: Source: TradingView,Daan Crypto Trades on X
The broader structure also highlighted a former support zone around $115 to $123 that has turned into resistance. Meanwhile, a lower horizontal level near $67.23 marked the next major support if $SOL loses the current range.
Daan Crypto Trades said Solana was “chopping around between $80-$95 for now” and noted that the asset was “respecting the horizontals pretty well on the higher timeframes.” That suggests the marked levels continue to guide price action.
For now, the chart shows a market without a confirmed directional break. A move above $95 could open the way for a stronger recovery, while a drop below the lower boundary could shift attention to deeper support near $67.23.
Solana Open Interest Rises as Traders Add Long Positions After Drop
Solana showed fresh signs of long positioning after a recent decline, according to a one hour chart shared by CW on X.
The chart showed $SOL trading near $80.68 on Binance perpetuals at the time of the post. Price had fallen sharply toward the $80 level before stabilizing. After that move, the lower panels pointed to a pickup in open interest and net long positions, suggesting traders started adding exposure even as price remained under short term pressure.
$SOL/$USDT Perpetual Contract 1H Chart: Source: TradingView, CW on X
Open interest climbed back above 10 million, while the net positions indicator also turned higher. That combination can signal that more market participants are opening new positions rather than only closing old ones. In this case, the post argued that the added activity has leaned to the long side.
CW wrote that “following the decline, long position buying and OI on $SOL are increasing” and added that “buying pressure is occurring again.” The chart supported that view by showing a rebound in positioning data after the selloff, even though price had not yet broken into a stronger recovery.
Still, the setup does not confirm a trend reversal on its own. Rising open interest with growing longs can support upside momentum, but it can also increase liquidation risk if price fails to hold. For now, the chart points to renewed bullish positioning around the $80 area as traders watch whether buying pressure can push Solana higher.
The real-world asset (RWA) sector is making a staggering evolution in the crypto world. In this respect, tokenization and perpification are fundamentally serving diverse purposes and audiences in the wider financial markets.
Particularly, tokenization brings capital markets to institutional participants, permitting fractional ownership, programmable contracts, and real-time settlement. Contrarily, perpification strengthens retail traders by offering self-custodial and synthetic exposure to conventional assets to democratize access.
Difference Between Tokenization and Perpification in Modern Finance
RWA perpification and tokenization often get debated interchangeably, but the structural benefits and target audiences of both differ significantly. Tokenization takes into account the provision of conventional assets such as fixed-income instruments, commodities, and equities onto the blockchain network while sustaining legal ownership.
The respective procedure provides institutional players with advantages like programmable smart contracts, faster cycles of settlements, and fractional ownership. Nonetheless, it tends to work on permissioned entities that need KYC verification, compliance with local rules, and brokerage relationships. Due to this, retail investors often stay outside these markets.
On the other hand, perpification totally flips his framework. Promoted by innovators such as Ostium and Kaledora, it utilizes futures-first strategies or perpetual swaps for non-crypto-native assets’ provision on-chain. The respective products serve as synthetic products based on their nature, freeing traders from the compulsion of holding the underlying asset. T
his sidesteps custody or legal barriers. Additionally, perpetual contracts, merged with dependable price feeds, enable seamless market creation across pre-IP ventures, commodities, and equities. Retail traders can utilize perpification for directional and intuitive exposure with substantial leverage and permissionless access without any expiry, making perps a leading non-spot primitive within the crypto market.
The Structural Transformation of Blockchain Industry
The rising demand for perpification is more than just an anomaly, indicating a much broader structural shift across the retail market sentiment. Gen Z and Millennial traders are becoming a part of the financial markets while showing no commitment to the previous generations’ buy-and-hold strategy.
Several find conventional wealth-building paths, institutional investment, retirement accounts, or home ownership financially inaccessible. While responding to this, leveraged trading emerges as a reasonable plan for those looking for substantial returns in short timeframes.
This concept, sometimes called “Retail Speculation Supercycle,” has remained effective in reshaping wider derivatives markets. In this respect, the retail speculation surpassed fifty percent of the options volumes in the United States last year. Additionally, Contracts for Difference (CFDs) touched unparalleled highs, with diverse brokers displaying monthly volumes surging above the $1T mark.
Perpetual DEXs on-chain deliver a natural fit in this respect, bringing simplicity in comparison with conventional options. At the same time, they remove apprehensions such as implied volatility, time decay, or expiry dates, apart from offering self-custodial, capital-efficient exposure. Along with that, tokenization enables fractional access to different institutional funds with a 5% per-annum yield. As opposed to this, perpification unlocks possibility for noteworthy wealth creation.
Growing Significance and Adoption of Cutting-Edge RWA Perps On-Chain
Ostium, Hyperliquid, and other such platforms have advanced the RWA perpetual adoption. Specifically, the HIP-3 launch of Hyperliquid in October last year unlocked perpetual futures access for more than one hundred RWA markets operating across equities, pre-IPO firms, FX, indices, and commodities. After launch, HIP-3 markets kept on generating trading volume, surpassing the $130B mark in total. So, as of March this year, the total open interest hit $1.7B while RWA markets contributed more than ninety percent.
The 2nd top RWA perp entity, Ostium, has shown considerable growth, processing nearly $46B in overall volume while taking into account 25,500 traders. Particularly, its 85% to 95% open interest deals with conventional assets like equities, FX, and commodities. The platform even controlled more than 50% of open interest in gold perpetuals on-chain during the past rallies, underscoring significant reliance of mainstream retail and crypto-native traders.
Challenge of RWA Pricing in 24/7 Markets
Irrespective of the swift adoption of the RWA perps, the platforms providing them face a crucial technical issue of pricing conventional assets continuously. So, without a comprehensive 24/7 reference, entities are required to balance capital safety and market availability.
For this purpose, Ostium utilizes a halt-and-freeze model through the Composite Oracle Services of Stork Network. This model delivers tailor-made feeds in the case of each of the asset classes. The framework enables precise pricing and mitigates risks from different futures contract rolls.
Simultaneously, Trade.xyz implements a 2-mode oracle mechanism concerning market closed and open hours. It prioritizes continuous price discovery and availability. Both the respective approaches disclose the trade-offs inherent within the design of RWA perps. Ostium provides more attention to capital protection and predictability, while Trade.xyz stresses market availability.
Risks and Opportunities in 24/7 Regulated Markets
The arrival of 24/7 trading within the conventional finance, led by top exchanges like ICE and NYSE, indicates a wider paradigm shift, impacting RWA perpification. Additionally, consistent access to market enhances oracle quality, improves institutional legitimacy, and shrinks arbitrage costs, bringing market makers to robust on-chain venues.
Moreover, it reduces the differentiation gap for crypto-native entities because regulated markets start providing some advantages formerly exclusive to decentralized perpetual exchanges. While consistent pricing decreases basis risk as well as volatility in the funding rates for trading on-chain, it also offers opportunities for retail-centered companies for innovation.
Features such as higher leverage, deep liquidity, and cross-collateralization may be fundamental for competitive edge. Therefore, RWA perp firms must transform their core infrastructure to compete with or complement conventional derivatives markets.
Road Ahead for RWA Perpification
At the moment, RWA perpification is ready to become the 2nd top export of the crypto sector, coming after perpetual futures. Over the upcoming 3 to 5 years, the respective metrics could enter mainstream adoption, backed by enhanced execution quality and improved oracle infrastructure. The demand is growing to wider audiences interacting in directional trading and macro hedging.
Overall, the real-world asset (RWA) perpification sector’s future depends on infrastructure, user experience, and liquidity. Platforms that offer dependable pricing, intuitive interfaces, and deep liquidity will overwhelm market formation. What started as a workaround for direct exposure to oil, gold, and other conventional assets, is revolutionizing into structural financial infrastructure.
When it comes to retail traders, perpetuals on-chain are not only an alternative, as they often underscore the only option. In the meantime, the wider financial network stands to leverage more inclusive, continuously active, and accessible derivatives markets.
After Zendaya‘s jam-packed 2026 release schedule, you may not hear from the actress for quite a bit.
The Emmy Award winner is slated to front five hefty projects coming out this year. First, she’ll star in The Drama, which premieres April 3, and a little over a week later, the long-awaited third season of Euphoria will debut on April 12. Then, Zendaya will have about three months off before Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey hits theaters on July 17. Two weeks later, the highly anticipated fourth Spider-Man film starring Tom Holland will come out on July 31. And to close out the year, Zendaya will star in the third Dune film, which is slated for a Dec. 18 release.
With so many projects on her plate this year, Zendaya told Fandango she hopes that “people don’t get sick of me,” and that she jokingly plans on going into “hiding for just a little bit” after the films and show have all released.
“I really appreciate everyone who supports any of the movies or supports my career in any kind of way,” she said. “I’m deeply appreciative, and like I said, I just hope you guys don’t get sick of me this year, because, I’ll tell you what, I’m disappearing for a little bit. I’m going to have to go into hiding for just a little bit.”
While Zendaya may plan on stepping away from the spotlight after 2026, she will re-enter the press cycle in the summer of 2027 to promote Shrek 5. The film arrives June 30, and she will voice Shrek’s daughter, Felicia, as mainstays Mike Myers (Shrek), Eddie Murphy (Donkey) and Cameron Diaz (Fiona) return.
Rum has had a splashy role in Johnny Depp’s career.
First, there was the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise — “Why is all the rum gone?!” — and then came the Hunter S. Thompson adaptation The Rum Diary. Depp has now written another chapter, or poured another shot, with the launch of Three Hearts Rum, a premium Caribbean-inspired rum founded in partnership with his longtime friend Bobby DeLeon.
It’s not just another quick hit celebrity spirits brand. Depp and DeLeon have been swirling the idea around for years with the intent of creating something with meaning that honored their bond as well as the heritage of rum from the Caribbean, a place where Depp has spent considerable time across two decades (on his own private island in the Bahamas named Little Hall’s Pond Cay). Their creative process gained traction in the wake of the devastation caused by hurricanes across several Caribbean islands in recent years as they sought ways they might be able to support and spotlight local communities. Depp poured a bit of his heart into the bottle by designing it himself and incorporating symbolism inspired by his tattoos, personal philosophy and the three loves of his life.
Three Hearts Rum, a premium Caribbean-inspired rum founded by Depp and DeLeon.
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The bottle is embossed with the flag of his island, made up of the tattoos on his body like a skull to serve as a reminder to live fully, a lightning bolt to symbolize enduring friendship, the number three to represent new beginnings and three hearts represent the loves of his life. The base of the bottle features the brand’s motto: “No Fear. No Malice. No Envy.” The top of the bottle features a bracelet-style charm.
“Rum holds the history of the islands,” Depp said in a statement. “It’s shaped by the hands of the people who grow the cane, ferment the spirit and age it over time. Bobby and I wanted to create something that honored that tradition and the friendships that inspired it.”
Added DeLeon: “We didn’t want to rush something into the world. This rum represents years of patience and collaboration. Our goal was to create something that respected the heritage of Caribbean rum while sharing the spirit of the friendship that started it.”
Per today’s news, the founders say they intend for Three Hearts Rum to mark the first chapter in what they plan as “a broader exploration of Caribbean rum traditions in the years ahead.” In an interview with Forbes, DeLeon described Three Hearts Rum rum as sticky toffee in flavor with aromas of wood, spices, candied orange and vanilla. It was made in a distillery in the Dominican Republic which aged the liquid in ex-bourbon barrels for five years and re-casked it for two more years in former cognac barrels resulting in a seven-year-aged rum.
See below for bottle details and behind-the-scenes images of Depp’s creative process at work.
Depp with DeLeon
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Depp sketches on a notebook.
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Depp sketches on a bottle.
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Depp sketches three hearts.
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Depp holds a bottle of the finished product, Three Hearts Rum.
Cinematographer Greig Fraser counts “The Batman,” “Dune” and “Rogue One” among his credits. But his latest film, “Project Hail Mary,” is what he calls his “most challenging film I’ve ever done, by far.”
“Project Hail Mary” is based on Andy Weir’s book of the same name and directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Ryan Gosling stars as Ryland Grace, a science teacher and former molecular biologist who is recruited by the government to help save the Earth from dying. Ryland then unwittingly finds himself on an interstellar mission that includes meeting an alien, Rocky.
The film shatters stereotypical visuals of space, veering away from cold and desaturated colors, and using warmer tones such as orange.
In one scene, as Grace walks through the tunnel to first meet Rocky, Fraser explains that the tunnel itself went through an evolution. “We had to discover what this thing was,” he says, referring to xenonite, which is the material the story says it was made from. “The sun has to come through it, but that provided a couple of challenges because this tunnel was 70 feet long.
Speaking with Variety for Inside the Frame via Zoom from London where he’s shooting The Beatles biopic movies with Sam Mendes, Fraser discussed one of his biggest challenges: How was he going to light the tunnel? “In the past, what people have done to move light is they put a light on a frame and moved it over a window or through something, but we had to have the entire tunnel being hit by the sun.”
“The tunnel had a bit of scariness to it at the beginning. It had to feel a little bit like he was going into a well,” he says. Fraser says he took a lot of inspiration from deep-sea submersible footage where they’re in pitch black, and they’re diving into the darkness, lit purely by the lights from the ship or from a headlamp.
The tunnel in “Project Hail Mary”
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Fraser and his team ended up building lighting rigs using old tungsten lights — a lot of them. “We physically couldn’t get enough LEDs to do that. They’re all old school tungsten lights, and we pixel-mapped them, so it meant that the sun can rotate around in any sort of configuration that we want.”
Greig Fraser used tungsten lights on a rig to create a “sun” effect.
As for the multi-colored flare that appears throughout, Fraser reveals, “I found this beautiful filter online, on Amazon. It’s a rainbow filter, and it causes these beautiful rainbow streaks to the highlights, and that became a theme throughout the film.”
Once he had figured out how he would light the sun and the tunnel, Fraser also toyed with the idea of “changing the lenses to squeeze vertically rather than horizontally.” He explains, “What we did is we shot with an Alexa 65, which is already a wide screen sensor, but we squeezed it the other way. We squeezed it so that it went taller, for our film, it seemed perfect, because what it meant is that all the flares went vertically rather than horizontally.”
Everything required a close collaboration with the film’s production designer, Charlie Wood. “We worked closely with Charlie to make sure that the finish on the inside of the tunnel allowed enough light through, but not so much light through that it made it look transparent. It was a really fine balance. We did a lot of testing, because too much black finish means that you don’t see light through it, and not enough black finish means that it looks like plastic.”
Cinematographer Greig Fraser on set.
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As for his camera choice, Fraser knew the film was going to have an Imax release. “We looked very carefully at the options of shooting with an Imax camera and shooting different formats,” he says. His visual references were “films from the ’70s and ‘80s. I kept using ‘Solaris,’ ‘Alien,’ ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ as a visual reference for how the film should look.”
It was agreed that Lord and Miller wanted an analog patina. “I think it comes from us growing up with films like ‘E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial’ and ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind,’ where there is definitely a lack of digital clarity to what the images are with those films. So we needed to do the same thing here, because it just felt more human to be more analog.”
He adds that the Alexa 65 turned out to be the perfect camera because “If we shoot Imax, we’ve got three-minute rolls. It’s loud, which might be OK, and if Ryan’s in a helmet, we might be able to get rid of the sounds, but it won’t give us the film that we’re after if we use those particular devices.”
Once Fraser was set on his camera, there were still challenges to overcome. Rocky could only be front-lit; Rocky couldn’t emanate any light; it all had to come from the sun.
Cinematographer Greig Fraser inside the tunnel.
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“If you talk to any DP, you’ll know that is what we have, we wake up in cold sweats,” he jokes. “Added to that, not only do we light this character with the front light, we light a character with a front light with no face, that looks like a rock, that looks like a spider.”
As adorable as audiences have found Rocky, Fraser had no skin tone or facial personality to work with. He said, “The challenges were compounded. It was front lighting a rock with no face that emoted just through puppetry.” Fraser concludes, “It wasn’t just a challenge. It was a challenge on a challenge, on top of a challenge, under a challenge, through a challenge.”
Claims that Google has cracked Bitcoin’s encryption system have recently caused a stir on social media. However, experts say these claims are untrue and that the content of the scientific study has been distorted.
At the heart of the allegations are findings from Google’s quantum computing research suggesting that the resources needed to break Bitcoin’s secure cryptographic systems have been reduced by 20 times. Comments circulating on social media dramatized this development with statements such as, “Bitcoin can now be broken,” “Google did it but isn’t disclosing details,” and “Crypto has been given until 2029.”
However, cryptocurrency analyst Ahmet Usta, commenting on the issue, stated that these claims are significantly exaggerated. According to Usta, the relevant academic study does indeed indicate a reduction in the computational load required for quantum attacks; however, this does not mean that Bitcoin, in its current state, can be broken.
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Usta added that the research in question mainly revealed theoretical advancements and that some approaches were validated with advanced cryptographic methods such as “Zero-Knowledge Proof,” but this did not directly mean that the Bitcoin network’s security had been compromised.
On the other hand, it is stated that the claims circulating on social media such as “Google is deliberately slowing down research” or “the crypto ecosystem has been given until 2029” are not included in the article. Usta said that the study only contains a technical approach regarding the possibility of not immediately disclosing some findings, and that interpreting this as an “ultimatum” is incorrect.
Experts say that while quantum computers have the potential to have significant long-term effects on cryptography, the Bitcoin network is generally secure at present. However, they point out that wallet addresses created in the early days, and whose public keys are visible on the blockchain, theoretically carry a higher risk.
Bitget Wallet has integrated the $XRP Ledger into its ecosystem, giving its 90 million users access to $XRP transfers, $RLUSD transactions, and cross chain swaps tied to one of crypto’s biggest non custodial wallet platforms.
The move gives XRPL broader retail distribution while positioning Ripple’s dollar backed stablecoin inside a wallet built around payments, not just trading.
The rollout plugs XRPL into Bitget Wallet’s wider Onchain Payments Matrix, which the company describes as infrastructure linking blockchains with bank rails, cards, and merchant payments. Bitget says users will be able to send and receive $XRP and $RLUSD on XRPL, swap XRPL assets across multiple chains, use fiat on and off ramps for $RLUSD, and interact with XRPL based applications directly inside the wallet.
Ripple says $RLUSD is issued natively on both $XRP Ledger and Ethereum, is fully backed by segregated cash and cash equivalent reserves, and is redeemable one to one for US dollars. That structure has made $RLUSD one of the more visible challengers in the regulated dollar stablecoin race, even if it remains far smaller than market leaders.
For XRPL, the Bitget Wallet tie up also adds another retail distribution channel at a time when the network is leaning harder into payments and real world financial use cases. XRPL’s official site pitches the ledger around low cost transfers and payments, while recent Bitget materials have also pointed to XRPL native card based spending as part of that broader push into daily use.
Bitget Wallet framed the integration as part of a larger shift in which crypto wallets become full financial interfaces rather than simple asset storage tools. The company said it will pair the integration with limited time incentives aimed at encouraging $RLUSD usage, liquidity, and activity across XRPL based applications.
Southland Tales, which has long maintained a cult following, is getting a fond tribute as it nears its 20th anniversary.
Lou Taylor Pucci, who has a role in the film, offered his thoughts about the movie during a recent Reddit AMA. Southland Tales marked the second movie for director Richard Kelly — known for feature directorial debut Donnie Darko — while the ensemble cast included Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore and Justin Timberlake.
Pucci noted that Kelly is a “genius in his own way” but that the director seemed to expect it to make a bigger splash at the box office. “I thought Richard knew when he was making it that he was making a B-sci-fi cult classic, but it seems he and his producers didn’t think it’d bomb in the box office,” Pucci said. “They put a lot of [money] into it.”
The actor added, “So for them, it was very sad when it wasn’t well-received. But I think Richard’s view of a fascist America was quite prescient and worth a new viewing, if you all have time.”
While responding to a different question about the film, Pucci explained that the script had evolved significantly from the initial version that he received.
Dwayne Johnson in Southland Tales.
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“The first script I got didn’t have time travel — or two Sean William Scotts,” said Pucci, who is known for features like Evil Dead and for such series as Physical and Daredevil: Born Again. “The third one did. Nobody knew what was going on, but they all trusted Richard because of his success with Donnie Darko. They got The Rock and Sara Michelle Gellar in that movie, and literally all of us, because of [Donnie Darko].”
Southland Tales premiered at Cannes in 2006 before hitting theaters the following year. The dystopian feature is set in Los Angeles and centers on an action film star (Johnson) connecting with an adult actress (Gellar) amid the threat of nuclear attack. After getting booed at Cannes, it collected a mere $375,000 at the global box office.
For a piece timed to the film’s 10th anniversary, Kelly talked to The Hollywood Reporter about the divisive critical response. Southland Tales marked the director’s follow-up to Donnie Darko, the 2001 thriller that helped establish Jake Gyllenhaal’s career and made Kelly an in-demand filmmaker.
“Southland Tales was a really aggressive, provocative film, even for Cannes,” Kelly said. “I think a lot of people were just never going to accept the film for what it was.” The only feature that Kelly has since directed was 2009’s The Box, starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden.
For her part, Gellar told THR in 2023 about Southland Tales, “That movie was just batshit ambitious.” She also pointed out that she “fell asleep twice” during its Cannes premiere.
A theatrical parody of the hit Canadian show will get an Off-Broadway run this May, after eight sold-out concert presentations in March. The show, written by Dylan MarcAurele, follows key plot points in the show, now set to songs like “Big Ass, Cold Heart” and “Shane Hollander Slap That Stick,” with the added character of Susan, who is a “lovable wine mom,” avid fan and somewhat unreliable narrator of the story.
MarcAurele, a musical theater composer who has previously written musical parodies of the M3gan film and episodes of The Real Housewives, as they’ve aired, knew he wanted to turn the television into a musical after only about 20 minutes of watching it.
“It was the bike scene. I just absolutely loved those bikes. I was like, this is iconic. It’s stageable. I loved how their fingers touched on the water bottle,” MarcAurele said.
Per his typical process, he ended up only watching the series once and taking notes. If he watches too many times, “my compass then loses its calibration for what will be funny or emotionally resonant.” he said. Out of this came, Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody, which includes a musicalized bike scene as well as a big opening number with the chorus, “gay hockey players with big butts.”
The character of Susan, played by Ryann Redmond, came out of his desire to speak to the way the show has become increasingly popular among women, as well as the practical need for a narrator with only four cast members. The audience members are also referred to as “Susans.”
“I think that’s a fun central rub, the idea of a lovable wine mom who can take us through the story, and she’s got her Yeti tumbler of Sauvignon Blanc, and she’s maybe in a marriage that isn’t very happy, but that’s why she has this amazing emotional refuge in the show Heated Rivalry,” MarcAurele said. “We are all Susans.”
Due to scheduling demand and a desire to capitalize on the show’s momentum, MarcAurele only had three weeks to write the musical before the March concert presentations. The cast only had a few days of rehearsals. Broadway actor Jay Armstrong Johnson was asked to play Connor Storrie’s character of Ilya Rozanov, who friends have said he bears a resemblance to (“I’m a white guy with high cheekbones and curly hair, so sure, yeah,” he joked). And like Storrie, he had the added challenge of conquering the Russian accent, but on a faster timeline.
“I kind of walked into the rehearsal process thinking like, ‘OK, if my Russian accent is a little bad, then maybe that’ll help with the parody of it all,’” Armstrong said. “And [director] Alan [Kliffer] and Dylan did not believe in that, so I ended up getting a dialect coach to work on the Russian dialect. Most of my rehearsal process was trying to get down this really hard Russian accent, which is way harder than I thought that it would be.”
After the sold-out concert presentations, the musical is now set for a fully staged eight week-run, which will include choreography, starting May 12 at the 6th Floor Theater. Armstrong will reprise his role as Ilya, alongside new cast member Jimin Moon, and returning cast members Redmond, Cherry Torres, and Ryan Duncan. All have Broadway experience.
As the parody goes on to a bigger venue, it’s unclear how much awareness the creators of the television series have of the musical. A press representative for Crave, the original streaming home of the series, did not immediately respond to request for comment.
While his show is a parody, MarcAurele’s musical also does pay homage to some of the emotional resonance he said he found in the series.
“Embarrassing to say, but I really identify with Shane Hollander. He’s this person who tries so hard to be the best hockey player that he can be, the best son that he can be, and you see his journey as a gay person. There’s just so much of it that resonated with me,” he said.
In an eight-to-one decision, the high court ruled against a law banning the discredited practice on free speech grounds.
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The United States Supreme Court has ruled against a law in the state of Colorado that bans the controversial practice of “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ children, a discredited practice that has been linked to serious harm for participants.
Tuesday’s ruling was an eight-to-one decision, with two of the court’s three liberal justices joining its six conservatives in opposing the ban.
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The court majority argued that restricting talk therapy could violate the free speech protections enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
“Once again, because the State has suppressed one side of a debate, while aiding the other, the constitutional issue is straightforward,” Elena Kagan, a left-leaning justice, wrote in a supporting opinion.
About two dozen US states have laws banning conversion therapy, which aims to “convert” the gender identity or sexual orientation of individuals to reflect heterosexual, cisgender norms.
Studies have linked the practice to higher rates of depression and suicidal thoughts for LGBTQ people.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, one of the court’s conservatives, argued that the First Amendment “stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country”.
That, in turn, prevents any state from limiting what a therapist might talk about with a patient, even if that therapist seeks to dissuade a child from their LGBTQ identity.
Only one justice, the left-leaning Ketanji Brown Jackson, cast a dissenting vote in Tuesday’s case.
She argued that the ruling “threatens to impair states’ ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect”, and she highlighted the dangers of conversion therapy to the health of LGBTQ youth.
In the lead-up to Tuesday’s ruling, Christian counsellor Kaley Chiles successfully argued that the Colorado law banned her from offering voluntary, faith-based talk therapy for children. Her case was supported by the administration of President Donald Trump.
Colorado, meanwhile, maintained that, while its law barred any “practice or treatment” to “convert” LGBTQ youth, discussions about religion, gender and sexuality were in general not prohibited.
Talk therapy, it argued, is also different from other forms of speech, as it represents a form of healthcare. Colorado maintained it had the ability to regulate it as a result.
Nobody has been sanctioned under Colorado’s law, which was passed in 2019. Tuesday’s ruling will likely make similar laws more difficult to enforce. LGBTQ advocates slammed the decision as a step backwards.
“This is a dangerous practice that has been condemned by every major medical association in the country,” Polly Crozier, director of family policy at the advocacy group GLAD Law, said in a statement.
“Today’s decision does not change the science, and it does not change the fact that conversion therapists who harm patients will still face legal consequences.”
