What's up with the odd choices for male romantic leads coming out of British TV these days? First Dominic Cooper as Willoughby in ITV's Sense & Sensibility, now Eddie Redmayne as Angel Clare?!?
What's next, Ricky Gervais as Heathcliffe?
I realize that this is incredibly shallow, but can't a gal get some eye candy along with her literary masterpieces? Jeesh . . .
A lot of people think Eddie Redmaybe is eye-candy, love....
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I watched Gemma Arterton in Lost in Austen, so it was nice to see some of her other work. I'm not sold on Eddie Redmayne as Angel, but I really will have to see other adaptations to do a fair comparison. As for your comment about odd choices for romantic leads, where is Richard Armitage when you need him? (I loved him in North and South).
Update: I've now seen two adaptations of TotD, and I liked the Angel Clare from the 1998 movie better than ER. Between the two adaptations, I liked the Tess/Angel pairing in the 1998 movie, and preferred the Tess/Alec from this mini. Next, the Natassia Kinski movie...
Yeah Angel was pretty ugly to me in this and very boy like. I liked Alec much more. He was more manly.
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Redmayne is gorgeous. What are you talking about?
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Dominic Cooper may not be the right "type" for a Willoughby character, he is, however a handsome lad. Eddie Redmayne is hideous. It would've been a better casting choice had Dominic Cooper been cast as Marius in Les Miserables lieu of
Redmayne.
a woman´s reply: dominic cooper is one among many; eddie redmayne is interesting. handsome in a very own way, charismatic and extraordinary talented for acting (he´s a master of looks (i mean the eyes expressions) and the tiny gestures/mimics), and gives profundity to his figures; i´ve seen nearly every film, saw him as a villaine as well (glorious 39, like minds) and even "his" villains kept kind of vulnerablity.
for his charisma + talent (and kindness as a person after all i know) i would adore him even if he would look like ... like ... (headscratch) not to hurt anybody real for his face/body: i say quasimodo.
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I have nothing against Eddie bit he was really miscast as Marius.
shareAs long as we are being entirely shallow here, I'd like to mention that Dominic Cooper, for me, is eye candy. Like a 100 Grand bar. Delicious.
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Eddie Red maybe and Dominic Cooper are both attractive in their own way and doing well for themselves now, but, Hans Mathewson was more attractive and Alec surprisingly had more chemistry with Tess. I'm surprised he hasn't done more work
Now Richard Armitage is your perfect leading man
Yeah the chemistry was nice, if only he had not raped her, but it was in the plot.
shareI totally agree! Eddie Redmayne is an awful choice, I have to say.
shareHaven't read the book, so I can't compare the Angel in the book with Eddie.
But, for the movie, I think he was perfect. He looks young, sweet, innocent, naive really.
Someone who is ethereal--his name, Angel. Clare. Really? Can you get more ethereal than that? Not necessarily beautiful as in movie star looks, but oddly beautiful.
I personally find him quite good-looking, and hypnotizing and think of him as eye candy. With a whole lot of talent to back up the cuteness.
One of the things I love most about British film and tv is the fact you lads go for talent above all and then looks. Not every woman is gorgeous, not every man is handsome, there is a lot of in betweens. Your films and television show this, which is much more realistic to the insipid beautiful faces of most Hollywood actors/actresses of today.
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