Just for old-times’ sake, here’s a couple of pictures of David Tennant sitting down – this time, it’s from the first read-through for series two of Broadchurch. He’s got the US remake, Gracepoint, coming up soon, too. I wonder if he’s just going to keep doing the same series, just in different countries from now on?
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Just for old-times’ sake, here’s a couple of pictures of David Tennant sitting down – this time, it’s from the first read-through for series two of Broadchurch. He’s got the US remake, Gracepoint, coming up soon, too. I wonder if he’s just going to keep doing the same series, just in different countries from now on?
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If you’re a modern Christian, you believe (or are at least supposed to believe) that Jesus was both man and God. However, the Bible is a bit sketchy about much to do with the man part of the equation, particularly the 30 or so years before Jesus’s ministry began, favouring instead the God part. Over the years, many writers have accordingly tried to humanise Jesus and to depict the man, rather than God, and just after Easter 1969, for one of the BBC’s Wednesday Plays, Dennis Potter threw his hat into the ring with Son Of Man
In the play, which was directed by regular Potter collaborator Gareth Davies, Potter portrays Jesus (Colin Blakely) as a hearty, fiery, well-meaning carpenter who believes that people should try to love their enemies rather than fight all the time, but who is racked by self doubt as to whether he is the popularly anticipated Messiah. Co-starring Edward Hardwicke as Judas, Brian Blessed as Peter and Robert Hardy as Pontius Pilate, the play eschews everything divine in Jesus’s story, as well as details such as the 30 pieces of silver and Mary Magdalene, in favour of psychological investigation of the characters, starting with Jesus’s struggle with his own divinity in the wilderness up to his crucifixion on Golgotha.
Although shown just after Easter and despite Potter’s long-time bête noir, Mary Whitehouse, accusing him of blasphemy, the play met with little controversy or resistance, perhaps due to its obviously low budget. Indeed, Potter later expressed regret that it was “shot on video in three days in an electronic studio on a set that looks as though it’s trembling and about to fall down”. All the same it’s a powerful piece that was later adapted for the stage at the Roundhouse, London, with Frank Finlay as Jesus and a slightly different, less cruel ending, a mere six months later.
But you can watch the original below.
…they were probably already famous in the UK for one reason or another. You just might have forgotten about them.
Anyway, now’s your chance, thanks to Buzzfeed, to try to work out where you saw various famous British (and Irish) actors who are now/were in Game of Thrones. Some strange choices: obviously Jerome Flynn was big in Soldier Soldier, because it was his singing in that show that enabled him to have a pop career, but they went with one of his pop videos instead (and not even ‘Unchained Melody‘); Julian Glover and Charles Dance have had huge acting careers so Ali G In Da House isn’t what I would have gone for for Dance and Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade offered Glover a much bigger role, at least (although I do love his live performance of Beowulf); Aiden Gillen was obviously hugely famous from Queer As Folk, not Shanghai Knights; and if you’ve seen Elf – which everyone has – that’s not the Peter Dinklage moment you’ll best remember.
But it’s still fun to watch and look back at the shows they did pick. Particularly the one for Rory McCann (the Hound). That, I wasn’t expecting.
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