This week Luke Reynolds took over our Twitter as a part of our weekly Thursday Twitter Takeover. He is an educator and the author of the YA series Fantastic Failures. His new book is Even More Fantastic Failures: True Stories of People Who Changed the World by Falling Down First. See highlights from the takeover below.
As a high schooler, Ryan Coogler (director of BLACK PANTHER) originally had professional football as his life goal. As a college freshman, he struggled to keep up with football and academics and became overwhelmed. A creative writing class opened a new door. #YAauthortakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) January 7, 2021
While at the USC film school, director Ryan Coogler lived out of his car for a semester to help makes ends meet. #YAauthortakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) January 7, 2021
"What I hope, for this industry, is that we're transitioning from it even being a question that movies made by people of color or minorities are a risk." –Ryan Coogler #YAauthortakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) January 7, 2021
"I didn't go to school for two years, but when I started learning photography it ended the emptiness in my life–it helped me express myself and show people how I live." -Mohammad Al Jounde, in EVEN MORE FANTASTIC FAILURES. #YAauthortakeover @SimonKIDS https://t.co/JIXUAL2W0d
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) January 7, 2021
"You can't control the success of a thing. You can't say, 'I'm going to go write an award-winning musical.' That's not how it works. You know, your goal is just to make something that feels as true to what you set out to do as possible." –@Lin_Manuel https://t.co/JIXUAL2W0d
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) January 7, 2021
As a representative who fought enormous odds to get elected from MA, @AyannaPressley says: "The people closest to the pain should be closest to the power." #YAauthortakeover @beyondwordspub @SimonKIDS
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) January 7, 2021
Powerful words from @carvenslissaint on his journey towards eventually starring in HAMILTON: "Voice and speech teachers told me, 'We're afraid you'll never be able to work in the American theater because of your speech, because you do that rap thing.'" #YAauthortakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) January 7, 2021
Good thing @carvenslissaint didn't listen to those teachers telling him to change! Instead, he followed his passion and his heart. #YAauthortakeover @simonkids @beyondwordspub https://t.co/JIXUAL2W0d
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) January 7, 2021
Film director Kathryn Bigelow was the first–and still ONLY–woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director (in 2008). #MakeChange #YAauthortakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) January 7, 2021
"In the forty years from 1939 to 1979, 7,332 full-length movies were created in Hollywood. Of these, want to guess how many were directed by women? Fourteen." THIS NEEDS TO CHANGE! (info from https://t.co/JIXUAL2W0d @SimonKIDS @beyondwordspub @reynoldslukew #YAauthortakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) January 7, 2021
