The Little Fires Everywhere star tells The Hollywood Reporter that she wants to live “fully as an act of resistance”; Brosnahan intends to improve text messaging; and Gabrielle Union talks about the vision panels her family is doing to welcome 2021.
Gabrielle Union: “I stopped making resolutions, but I started making vision panels. My whole family does them now, on New Year’s Day. We define intentions for the year, our hopes, dreams and intentions. Some people pray for them. Some people meditate on them. Some people just look at them with love. Then we put them in our rooms or wherever we can see them every day. I keep mine in my bathroom. that I moved in the previous year happened in the current year. “
David Mandel, showrunner (Veep): “My New Year’s resolution is to try to make 2021 as good as it was 2020. Fingers crossed!”
Devon sawa: “I just want to plant my feet on Earth in 2021 and pray that it will be better than 2020. I hope that we will return to a political scenario where it is boring to hear what the President is doing most of the time.”
Kevin Bacon: “I’m kind of a New Year’s resolution rascal. I’m more of an everyday guy. I want to make sure I’m going to read a chapter of this book today and then I can get through it. But if I take the new year’s resolution that I will read 30 books, I will never make it. “
Hans Zimmer, composer: “We [composers] I didn’t even know there was a blockade because all we do is sit at home and write songs. Okay, this is not true. I got COVID, got sick like a dog and I really tell everyone, put on your masks, wash your fingers and don’t come near me. I don’t want people to look at 2021, because why would a date change make a difference? The only thing that will make a difference is that people will really take things seriously, learn something and take responsibility not just for their own lives, but for everyone. Because if there’s anything we learn, it’s that we can infect anyone with something very, very bad. I am not necessarily talking about a virus. I may be talking about thoughts. I could be talking about all kinds of things. So my resolution is to be aware of it, to be aware of each other. And so that we all do our duties as humans here. “
Kerry Washington: “One thing I really want to be sure to do in 2021 is to practice joy. I like to really see joy and live fully as an act of resistance and strength because I realized in the last month or how little I have been breathing for four years, how much I have been holding, the terror that is embedded in me and is not, there is no magic wand waved, there is still a lot of work to do, but I will be able to sustain this work if I am practicing joy. “
Amy Ziering, documentary filmmaker (In the registry): “Practice anti-racism, make sure that the crack in the universe doesn’t go away, which you’ll be tempted to do when things get back to normal, but actively encourage everyone I know with privileges to actively participate in being part of the solution instead of the problem. “
Stacy Abrams, producer (All In: The struggle for democracy): “Mine is easy: Win these two run-off elections to the US Senate on January 5.”
Rachel Brosnahan: “I resolve to respond to text messages in a more timely manner. I make this resolution every year, but I have to keep doing this to keep working on it. I’m feeling bad and getting worse with age.”
Bess Kalb, screenwriter (Amazon Annually): “The resolution I have is when I can leave the house again to really take advantage of it. Because I know my tendency is just to stay where I am. So I decide to get out of quarantine even when the world opens.”
Rob Freeman, entertainment lawyer, Proskauer: “I would normally say to spend more time with my family, but due to the pandemic and my work at home, resulting in me being with them almost 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, they may want to let me think otherwise! “
Elizabeth McNamara, entertainment attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine: “Better Zoom lighting!”
Janie Bryant, costume designer (Deadwood: The Movie, Mad Men): “Something I started doing a few months ago in a practical way are my meditations, every day, of gratitude. This was caused by COVID, and I decided that I will spend 10 to 20 minutes every morning just being grateful and thinking in all the things I’m so thankful for. It kind of spread in my New Year’s resolutions. It’s amazing how this simple practice can totally change your life, your attitude, how you view life, how you approach people, how it makes you feel. Honey, you have to practice it every day. “
Gabriel Yared, songwriter (Life ahead): “Always be as grateful to music as I have been until now. Music came to me in a family where there was no artist. And I know I was born for that. Music gave me a lot. I just want to be grateful and give it back -over there. “