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Question Tuesday with Miles and the Colonel: Manolo!

2019-06-18 · collab / interview · John, Charlie Plummer, Denny Love · 3:57 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Books & writing · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: recurring series, guest or collab, self promotion

On Question Tuesday John puts questions to Charlie Plummer and Denny Love, who play Miles and the Colonel in Hulu's Looking for Alaska series: reading the book, their characters, a chosen name (Manolo), favorite scene, the meaning of life and songs; the show comes out October 18.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Introductions of the two actors; what John is like in real life

  • ★★ a guest: A guest says John is way funnier than people think, has more 'drip' than you'd expect, knows all the new music and is very hip. (playful) — 00:00:00 · John Green

00:00:43 — Reading the book and auditioning for Miles and the Colonel

  • ★★ Charlie Plummer read the book at 15 and for the first time passionately wanted to be part of something and play a specific character; now he is living that. — 00:00:43 · Looking for Alaska (novel)
  • ★★ Denny Love had not read the book before he got the audition; he read it in less than a day and knew the story was special. — 00:00:43 · Looking for Alaska (novel)

00:01:12 — The Colonel's monologue, the characters, chosen names (Manolo), John's thing with Keanu

  • ★★ Denny Love: John says Denny Love memorized one of the Colonel's monologues from the book when he auditioned (the scene was just shot); Denny says it was so beautiful and wrenching that he had to have performed it even if he never got to play the Colonel. — 00:01:12
  • ★★ Denny Love says what he likes most about the Colonel is his huge heart: he cares so much about people, the school and the world, which viewers will see in the show. — 00:01:12
  • ★ Charlie Plummer says he can relate to too many of Miles's traits to pick one. — 00:01:12
  • ★★ Denny Love: Asked what name he would pick the way Alaska picks hers, Denny Love chooses Manolo, his name in Spanish class, which he thinks means the romantic one; Charlie was Pierre in French. (playful) — 00:01:12

00:02:29 — John's age, last words, the barn scene, the meaning of life, Looking for Alaska songs

  • ★★ a guest: A guest's favorite scene in the book is the barn scene, where you get to know everybody: confiding your truths to close people is hard because you must trust them not to judge. — 00:02:52 · Looking for Alaska (novel)
  • ★★ a guest: Asked the meaning of life, one guest says nobody knows, but thinks it is to learn. — 00:02:52 · meaning of life
  • ★★ a guest: The other guest says the meaning of life is love. — 00:03:20 · meaning of life
  • ★ Charlie Plummer picks Bon Iver's '29 #Strafford APTS' as the song that captures the atmosphere of Looking for Alaska. — 00:03:20 · Looking for Alaska (novel)
  • ★ John's pick: his Looking for Alaska song is 'Love Love Love' by the Mountain Goats; Charlie Plummer says it is on his playlist too. — 00:03:20 · Looking for Alaska (novel)

00:03:41 — Release date: October 18 on Hulu, eight episodes at once; sign-off

  • ★★★ a guest: The Looking for Alaska show comes out on Hulu on October 18: eight episodes, all released at once and bingeable. — 00:03:41 · Looking for Alaska (novel)

In the description and comments

Humor (significant)

  • Charlie says he was Pierre in French class — 00:02:01

    “Charlie Pierre that's so basic”

  • Denny tells Charlie, who has no chosen name, what to call himself — 00:02:01

    “CP you don't got a name Manolo Junior”

  • Told Keanu is like Jesus to him, John corrects that Jesus is like Jesus to him — 00:02:29

    “He's more like John the Baptist.”

  • Asked to guess John's age and to aim low, a guest says 38 — 00:02:29

    “Yeah, you didn't aim that low.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: Charlie Plummer · Denny Love · Looking for Alaska (miniseries)

Also: People: Keanu Reeves

Works: 29 #Strafford APTS · Looking for Alaska (novel) · Love Love Love

Organizations: Hulu

Concepts: meaning of life

Characters: Alaska Young · Chip Martin · Miles Halter

Myths: Jesus · John the Baptist

Only in the description or credits: Bon Iver · Brotherhood 2.0 · Megan Griffiths · Question Tuesday · The Mountain Goats

Also centred on Charlie Plummer: Going Home with Alaska and Miles

Also centred on Looking for Alaska (miniseries): Looking for Alaska Movie (BUT BETTER) and YouTuber Things · The Looking for Alaska Thing · Going Home with Alaska and Miles · Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) · I'm Having a Lot of Feelings

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