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Things Richard Armitage (News, Photos, etc) - Part Two


RA CAST IN OCEAN'S EIGHT

I forgot to check the RA board this morning. I have just seen this which probably explains him pulling out of Miles.

http://deadline.com/2017/01/richard-armitage-oceans-eight-warner-bros-village-roadshow-anne-hathaway-cate-blanchett-sandra-bullock-steven-soderberg-gary-ross-1201888082/

It might only be a small role, but it can't hurt his career being cast in a film with all these A-listers.

This article is speculating on his role. One possibility is henchman to Damian Lewis who is the main villain. That sounds like a good bet to me. 

http://screenrant.com/oceans-8-cast-richard-armitage/


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Oh wow! This is exciting news Laura! 

Even though, I don't have much hopes for this movie, good on RA for securing a role in it. 

Thanks Laura. 👍

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Good for him! 

Not so good for me, as I am not a big fan of either the Ocean's franchise or the 'female leads reboost' fad, which just seems like another incredibly lazy attempt at making money without being creative. I hope they come up with a good script. 

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Not so good for me, as I am not a big fan of either the Ocean's franchise or the 'female leads reboost' fad, which just seems like another incredibly lazy attempt at making money without being creative.


I've only seen the first one, which I enjoyed. I hadn't realised it was a female led film until I saw the article below which describes it as a 'female-driven sidequel.' Maybe he well get to do a scene with his big crush Cate Blanchett this time. This article also talks about a possible Summer 2018 release.

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/01/18/hannibals-richard-armitage-joins-the-oceans-eight-cast

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I've only seen the first one, which I enjoyed.


The problem with the Ocean's franchise is that the general plot is even more predictable than with other franchises. That doesn't mean the movie's got to be bad, but it takes some very creative writing to make a predictable plot interesting. Hope they can pull it off. 

Cate Blanchett would be my top girl crush too. 😀

He may be a weird dresser with worrisome musical predilections - but at least he's got taste in women. 

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Cate Blanchett would be my top girl crush too. 😀


She has got more beautiful as she ages as well.

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RA has been pretty quiet on Twitter lately. He hasn't even tweeted about Ocean's Eight yet. He finally tweeted this yesterday. He was out showing his support in NYC. Good for him.

https://twitter.com/RCArmitage/status/822961319934627841

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Nice!

Though obviously Trump is now validated because Madonna doesn't like him.  That's the wonderful thing aobut people - they never stop surprising you. #facepalm

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Not new, but only just surfaced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ8GyV1GCOE

It will be interesting to see if RA is in Series 2. A poster on the RA board seems to think he was disappointed with the role of Daniel in the end. Mind you, they are not going off anything, except the fact he didn't congratulate when S2 was announced, that he skipped some live tweeting and changed his SM cover photos quickly. Although, as someone else pointed out, Leland Orser changed his SM covers quickly as well.

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That's why I don't frequent the Armitage forum much - there is so much guesswork going on, that just can't be healthy. Also some of it seemed rather disrespectful to me - a bit like the verabl equivalent of going through people's garbage. Knowing me and my big mouth, if I spent any length of time there I might end up throwing hissy fits.

I like that Video - and he's right 'The Lives of Others' is a great film. 

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That's why I don't frequent the Armitage forum much - there is so much guesswork going on, that just can't be healthy.


As far as I can see, there is no evidence he was disappointed with BS. This poster is a bit of a know it all. I'm sort of hoping that he does do Season 2 just to prove her wrong. 

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Thanks for the video Laura.

It will be interesting to see if RA is in Series 2. A poster on the RA board seems to think he was disappointed with the role of Daniel in the end.
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As far as I can see, there is no evidence he was disappointed with BS.
BS seemed like it had a good premise for a show. But I haven't been interested in the show beyond that and especially once I heard that EPIX picked it up. Never even heard of that channel before!  If he can't land network TV then perhaps a better cable show like FX or Showtime or AMC. A part in some other crime drama like "Fargo" perhaps after that "Hannibal" run would have been awesome. We'll have to wait and see what else is going to come down the pipeline. Sigh.
That's why I don't frequent the Armitage forum much - there is so much guesswork going on, that just can't be healthy. Also some of it seemed rather disrespectful to me - a bit like the verabl equivalent of going through people's garbage. Knowing me and my big mouth, if I spent any length of time there I might end up throwing hissy fits.
Same here! That's exactly why I stopped going there Merej and another forum which was created during the big troll invasion. I loved going during that period to show my support and stand up to the bullies. But like you said, I felt too weird to be a part of the guessing game, psychoanalyzing his every move based on every morsel of information that comes out. Much too invasive for my taste. I like celebs and fan culture but from a distance. Too close and you go mental!  And it is because of his fans that I don't even care to follow him on Twitter (not that I'm on Twitter a lot or follow a lot of celebs). I'll drop in on the RA board once in a while to answer a query, but that's it.

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@ Laura

This poster is a bit of a know it all. I'm sort of hoping that he does do Season 2 just to prove her wrong.


 Naughty you!


@ lois
I like celebs and fan culture but from a distance. Too close and you go mental!


Not to mention those (usually self-styled) celebs whose constant media presence has become invasive of our private (mental) space. The kardashianisation of society....when you end up knowing too much about people you didn't want to know anything about in the first place. 

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It opens on 22nd February.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQJ40faBnjQ

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Goodie! Hope we get to see it here. 

I notice he's got a new photo on his imdb page - very nice indeed. You girls might not have noticed it yet, but he really is rather good looking.

Trust me, I'm an artist - I got an eye for it. 


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I notice he's got a new photo on his imdb page - very nice indeed.


It was rather spooky. Someone posted on the RA Board that it was time his photo was updated and then a day later it was. A different one first and then the day after it changed again to that one.

You girls might not have noticed it yet, but he really is rather good looking.


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It was rather spooky. Someone posted on the RA Board that it was time his photo was updated and then a day later it was. A different one first and then the day after it changed again to that one.


Woah - have people asked for something else yet? 

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Woah - have people asked for something else yet? 


I'm not sure who makes the decision or if particular preferences were listened to. At first the picture was changed to this one and someone did comment that IMDb usually use head shots, so that could be why it was changed. 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035514/resumephotos?v=me8029817212

I actually said I would prefer one without a beard, but the beardy guy is still there this morning. 

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And rightly so - this one is rather stunning. 

From a merely technical point of view. 

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And rightly so - this one is rather stunning. 


It is a stunning picture and he wears the beard well. Are you a beard fan? I prefer the stubble myself. 

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I forgot to say earlier. Someone on the RA board said it was too bad he didn't just go totally rogue photo-wise like this actor. 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318543/?ref_=nv_sr_1

We don't all look like that in Lancashire. 

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It is a stunning picture and he wears the beard well. Are you a beard fan? I prefer the stubble myself


It all depends on the face attached to the beard. 😀 I really like the short hair + beard style for him though.

I am not too fussy though and will take stuble if I have to ... actually one of my favourite looks of his beard-growth-wise is the one in the 'stabbing Marian' scene.

I forgot to say earlier. Someone on the RA board said it was too bad he didn't just go totally rogue photo-wise like this actor.


That's...different. I liked Gilgun in Ripper Street. Not so much in Being Human, his character there was supposed to be funny but in reality was just obnoxious (and replaced one of my favourite characters )

We don't all look like that in Lancashire


You forget that I was there last summer.  

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I am not too fussy though and will take stuble if I have to ... actually one of my favourite looks of his beard-growth-wise is the one in the 'stabbing Marian' scene.


I think mine is probably the John Mulligan look.

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/ee/28/fe/ee28fee19981f57fe8fdca0343db4e70.jpg

I liked Gilgun in Ripper Street.


I'd forgotten he was in Ripper Street. I remember him from the soap Emmerdale I loved his character in that.

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think mine is probably the John Mulligan look.

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/ee/28/fe/ee28fee19981f57fe8fdca0343db4e70.jpg




Wouldn't dump that down the sink either. 

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Wouldn't dump that down the sink either. 


Even though he was a very bad boy in this. 


You forget that I was there last summer.  


I did forget for a moment. So you know how all the men wear flat caps and own whippet dogs. 

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I did forget for a moment. So you know how all the men wear flat caps and own whippet dogs.


That's exactly the impression I got. 

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Yay - that one had completely dropped off my radar. 

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I'm not sure I fancy Sleepwalker or Brain On Fire that much but I will watch eventually for RA's sake and it is good to finally be hearing stuff about them. Still no Urban though and that is one I really want to see. 

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Nice look!  And how lucky for him, it's not cats this time. 

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Very nice look indeed. 



I'm not sure I fancy Sleepwalker or Brain On Fire that much but I will watch eventually for RA's sake and it is good to finally be hearing stuff about them. Still no Urban though and that is one I really want to see.


Me too - give us Urban - NOW! 


During my last excursion into the wild and bizarre world of the Armitage forum  I noticed the link to an interview with the director of Sleepwalker, which I found rather interesting
http://www.independent.com/news/2017/jan/26/emsleepwalker-em/

in particular this passage:

There is a condition we looked at. It’s very rare. The subject does not know whether they are dreaming or not. Most people dream lucidly and are aware they are dreaming. For the rare few that don’t, it can be torturous. You are caught in the same cycle going over and over again. The brain has no way of knowing what is and is not real. It can be agony.


If this is what they are talking about:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolinekee/sleep-paralysis-is-scary-af?utm_term=.gsnJNWgDy#.kxbAzR5Oo

then it is far more common than they think - I have had bouts of it when I was in my early 20s - only very rarely since then, and only when I take a nap during the day lying on my back - and I know a couple of people who had the same, includng my sister (there might be a genetic disposition). The problem is that most people don't know what's happening to them and really don't want to talk about it because you don't go around telling people that you might just be losing your mind.  The first time I came across an explanation for what was happening to me was in a program about alien abduction btw., and I have since looked differently at people who claim they have been abducted by aliens: The fact is, with sleep paralysis, what you dream doesn't just feel real (and very, very scary), and then you wake up and realize you've had a vivid dream. Because our entire concept of 'real' depends on what our brain accepts as such, when you wake up from a sleep paralysis state, you still remember everything that happened as real, no matter how bizarre it was. 

It's scary as hell, in particular since in instances when your brain starts to suspect that you might after all be dreaming, you dream that you 'wake up' - but end up in another sleep paralysis state that the brain again considers an awake state, again unable to move and halucinating about scary things. After I found an explanation for what was going on, I also had sleep paralysis dreams in which I would finally realize that I was in a sleep paralysis state and that nothing I heard or saw was real - but I'd still be unable to make my body wake up, i.e. move a muscle or stop the hallucinations. It's not very amusing, but it certainly is interesting.

There are hints that Edgar Alan Poe and HP Lovecraft suffered from the same affliction (if you want to call it that, it isn't really harmful, just...odd), which might have influenced some of their scary stories about nightmares being real and people being burried alive while awake but unable to move.


Summary: Brain in being utterly stupid shocker. 

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Me too - give us Urban - NOW! 
YES!!!


I have had bouts of it when I was in my early 20s...
That condition sounds truly terrifying, Merej.  Glad for you that these days you are far less afflicted. 

Though I think that, on a small scale, many people have isolated experiences... It certainly happens a lot with younger children that they can't distinguish between dreams and reality (don't know about the 'paralysed' part though), or fever dreams tend to go in that direction... And I remember a couple of instances from my late teens when what must have been dreams registered with me as actual memories, and I kept telling them to other people as something that really had happened to me, only to be proved wrong on the spot--and there I stood as a liar! 

The brain certainly works in mysterious ways! 

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Though I think that, on a small scale, many people have isolated experiences... It certainly happens a lot with younger children that they can't distinguish between dreams and reality (don't know about the 'paralysed' part though), or fever dreams tend to go in that direction... And I remember a couple of instances from my late teens when what must have been dreams registered with me as actual memories, and I kept telling them to other people as something that really had happened to me, only to be proved wrong on the spot--and there I stood as a liar!



That happened to me as well on several occasions. 

I remember one time in particular*, where a dream was so firmly stored away as a memory that even once I had convinced myself logically that what I remembered just could not ever have happend and hence must have been a dream, I still just couldn't accept it as that. It was like the discrepancy you experience when looking at an optical illusion - one part of your brain knows that what you see is not what's there, but it keeps being shouted down by that other part which insists that everything is exactly as you see it - or, with regard to false memories - as you remember it. It made me physically dizzy. Took about two weeks for my brain to retrieve that 'memory' from its memory folder and store it away correctly in the dream section - which says a lot about how stubborn it is when it comes to it's own sloppiness.

Brains - can't trust them, and no matter what Hannibal says, they don't really taste that nice either. 


*at least I think I remember it - might just have been a dream 😀


ETA: If the story of Sleepwalker is actually linked to sleep paralasys, then that would be kind of ironic, since sleepwalking is the exact opposite to sleep paralysis: A state in which the body is awake, able to move about, and take in sensory perceptions, while the brain insists that everything that is going on is just a dream...which is also a bit daft in particular when what is going on could be you walking down the street stark nakid.

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RA with James Corden.

http://www.justjared.com/photo-gallery/3851861/james-corden-films-oceans-eight-cameo-nyc-04/
Oooh! Fantastic! Thanks for these Laura. 👍 Must be nice to film in your hometown. I think it might be a smallish part though, eh. Either way, nice to see him in a "big" movie again. And with WB still. 👏

If this is what they are talking about:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolinekee/sleep-paralysis-is-scary-af?utm_term=.gsnJNWgDy#.kxbAzR5Oo

then it is far more common than they think -

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ETA: If the story of Sleepwalker is actually linked to sleep paralasys, then that would be kind of ironic, since sleepwalking is the exact opposite to sleep paralysis:
Which is why Merej, I think the "Sleepwalker" director is about a continuous state of False awakening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_awakening which seems verrrryyy scary indeed. 

I have had bouts of it when I was in my early 20s - only very rarely since then, ... The problem is that most people don't know what's happening to them and really don't want to talk about it because you don't go around telling people that you might just be losing your mind.
I'm actually glad you brought this up and I don't feel so alone now. 

I too experienced my first episode in my late teens/early 20's - last year of school/beginning of uni. And have experienced it but rarely since then; still it does happen. 

For me, the first time it happened, I thought I was being "possessed" by a ghost.  
I feel a presence because of this tingling sensation I get and then this pressure envelopes me feet to head and sorta sits on my chest and I can't move! I'm frozen in place. I try to scream, but I can't. I try to move, but I can't. But I'm awake; my eyes definitely feel like they are open.

And then it goes away in a few seconds which feel more like minutes really.

I told a friend once, a neurologist, and he didn't say anything(!) to reassure or advice and I came away feeling like an idiot. I think he thought I was nuts or being a drama queen or something. I hadn't told anyone else up until that point, not even my family (they still don't know); wasn't inclined inclined to tell anyone else, until now. 

So I looked it up soon after and found that it has been documented and has been so for ages! What a relief it was to read that! And there are two types; either before you fall asleep or after you wake up. I definitely had/have the one when I'm trying to fall asleep.

But, that tingling sensation....that's when I know it is going to happen.  I feel it coming on and I'm quite helpless then.

And that pressure/frozen feeling...that's the scariest; because I can't move!

They say it happens when you're sleep deprived/tired. It might be so but I haven't paid attention to it like that. But yes, usually when I'm on my back because those tingles start from the feet up like as if you are pulling the sheet over someone.

After I found an explanation for what was going on, I also had sleep paralysis dreams in which I would finally realize that I was in a sleep paralysis state and that nothing I heard or saw was real - but I'd still be unable to make my body wake up, i.e. move a muscle or stop the hallucinations. It's not very amusing, but it certainly is interesting.
Wow. That is scary/interesting. I think you might have the hypnopompic version Merej and maybe with a false awakening too  (while I have the hypnagogic one): http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/sleep-paralysis#1

Took about two weeks for my brain to retrieve that 'memory' from its memory folder and store it away correctly in the dream section - which says a lot about how stubborn it is when it comes to it's own sloppiness.
 Only your brain Merej could have managed to do that!  My brain ain't as high-functioning! 

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I'm actually glad you brought this up and I don't feel so alone now


You are very welcome.  I posted about this on two more boards in the last couple of years, and every time there was somebody who'd say exactly that. It really should be better known because the thing itself is scary enough without people worrying that they lose their mind, or not dare talk about it lest others might think them loonies...and it is really not that uncommon. When I mentioned it to my sister (after I had found out what it was), it turned out that she also had had it for years and had never dared to speak about it.

Another thing that seems rather more common than you'd expect is people hearing voices in their head (not me, thankfully). Again that's something the afflicted usually don't dare to talk about for fear of being labled loonies, so the only cases that become known are usually those where people really do something mental because of their voices, which then reinforces the prejudice. In reality it seems that most cases are completley harmless and quite often an attempt of the mind/soul to heal itself from a traumatic experience.

and then this pressure envelopes me feet to head and sorta sits on my chest and I can't move! I'm frozen in place. I try to scream, but I can't. I try to move, but I can't. But I'm awake; my eyes definitely feel like they are open.


Thank goodness I don't have the 'pressure on the chest' feeling much - for me it's mostly a sinister presence in the room or outside the window shouting at me, and I can't move or answer back, which is scary enough.

Wow. That is scary/interesting. I think you might have the hypnopompic version Merej and maybe with a false awakening too (while I have the hypnagogic one): http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/sleep-paralysis#1


I thought the false awakening was just a normal part of it - but yay, two for the price of one! 😀 And yup, I only ever get the hypnopompic variety. Great word that, btw - sounds so pompous. 

Hypnagoic doesn't sound like fun either - at least I don't realize how I am slipping into it.  Do you wake up from it or does your brain switch over at one point and let you slip into an actual sleep/dream state?

I wasn't inclined to tell anyone else, until now


Only your brain Merej could have managed to do that! My brain ain't as high-functioning!


My brain's an idiot - but I still wouldn't want to go without. 😆


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OMG! merej and Lois! How absolutely terrifying for you. I can't even begin to imagine what you go through.  I have nightmares sometimes, of course, but most nights I can't even remember my dreams.

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It's ok for me, I haven't had it in a long time now. 

It certainly drives home the notion what a fragile concept 'reality' actually is.

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Nice, I like Delpy, and Daniel Brühl seems to get around quite a bit - good for him.

'Toxic marriage' - sounds promissing. 😀


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This time for 'David Copperfield.'

https://twitter.com/taviagilbert/status/829359833887432705

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Well deserved, I am sure! 

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So he is doing Season 2. The 'know it all' from the RA Board was wrong. 

https://twitter.com/RCArmitage/status/829431783389274115

https://twitter.com/RCArmitage/status/829475828937404417

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Hope we get to see Pilgrimage here too! 

So he is doing Season 2. The 'know it all' from the RA Board was wrong.


I like it when you're feisty!  

He seems rather busy atm, doesn't he? 

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So he is doing Season 2. The 'know it all' from the RA Board was wrong. 

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I like it when you're feisty!  
 Me too! Yeah, it is one thing to speculate but she's so sure about it, eh. What is she saying now Laura, given that he just confirmed he's in season 2 of BS?

I was just over at the "Me + Richard Armitage" site (given that I had just mentioned her and wanted to see what she was upto)...they are all excited about the Delpy project.

I'm guessing the Ocean's 8 was a cameo then, if he's done filming for that is off to Berlin already.

ETA: Sorry but Laura, did you talk about how RA was a University Challenge question some time this past week. He was a "starter" (for 10 ) question...did you see it? https://meandrichard.wordpress.com/2017/02/06/text-of-richard-armitage-question-on-university-challenge/ and https://meandrichard.wordpress.com/2017/02/06/uk-fans-gets-to-use-their-richard-armitage-knowledge/

Oh and P.S: Severtus too saw "Lion" and loved it apparently.

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What is she saying now Laura, given that he just confirmed he's in season 2 of BS?


She just posted his tweet which confirmed he was in it. But she is now saying it is too early to discuss if he will be killed in it or not. 

ETA: Sorry but Laura, did you talk about how RA was a University Challenge question some time this past week. He was a "starter" (for 10  ) question...did you see it?


I did, when someone mentioned it on C19. Lol! I didn't see it though. My sister used to like watching University Challenge. It's a bit too difficult for me. Apparently he was once a question on another quite high brow quiz show Mastermind as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGIV978rEo0

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My sister used to like watching University Challenge. It's a bit too difficult for me.


Not anymore obviously. 😀

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Not anymore obviously. 😀


Well, I have surprised myself by knowing the odd answer. I do so wish I had seen this episode though lol!

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She just posted his tweet which confirmed he was in it.


Been there, been naughty (though in a different thread). Somebody please stop me. 

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Couldn't resist taking a peek...

Merej!  

Somebody please stop me. 
Nevah!

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Thanks for all the news.👍

Lol, how did someone get a photo of him with Corden on set. Ha. 📷 Richard looks good...of course!

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Somebody please stop me. 


Like Birds says - Nevah! 

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Laura , is Berlin S on in your country, are you watching it?

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Laura , is Berlin S on in your country, are you watching it?


No, it's not on over here. I did manage to see it though. A kind poster from the RA board sent me the episodes but asked me not to share elsewhere.

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Here is a clip of that question on University Challenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt5q37036yM

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Ms. Goddard there is definitely out of her depth. 

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I think the guy who got the answer is a Tolkien geek as he got it when Thorin was mentioned. lol!

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Yup, plus he looks like a guy who can speak five different dwarvish dialects. 

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Yup, plus he looks like a guy who can speak five different dwarvish dialects. 
 Tru dat!

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