The Mandalorian

So in all of the BABY YODA! of it all, why did nobody advertise that The Mandalorian is about an orphan raised by the Death Watch to be a Space Hospitallar with nesting instincts?  I mean, I think The Child is adorable and all, but... seriously. Y'all should have made this much more clear. 

Whilst the Armitage Army weeps...

There was an interview in the Telegraph today with Richard Armitage where he elliptically confirms that he's gay and then goes on to explain that he had to keep it private while his parents were alive because it would have been a problem for them. 

Speculation has swirled for years about Armitage’s sexuality, so I approach the question cautiously, but… would he like to have a family of his own? ‘I would need to do it in a way which was either through adoption or surrogacy, because of the nature of my relationship,’ he says, with remarkable candour. ‘I’d have to sit down very pragmatically and work it out.’ He is in a relationship, he confirms, ‘a good one’, though he isn’t keen to say more about it. And though I have no wish to press him further on the subject, he returns to it himself, later. 

‘I think the turning point was losing my mum [last year],’ he says. ‘Up until that point, I felt like I mustn’t put a foot wrong, that if I said the wrong thing or revealed too much about my personal life, it could all come crashing down, and it would come down on my parents, and they wouldn’t be proud of me anymore.’ He shrugs. ‘Now that I’m past that I’m actually much more carefree about the choices I make.’

... and that's just very sad. Actors hide their personal lives for many reasons, business or otherwise, but this is a much more dispiriting reason than "I wanted good roles." It's not a unique reason, but in this business, it's certainly rare.