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Jeremy Northam was very sexy in this film

posted 13 years ago by naletof
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Okay, sorry for very subjective topic, but I saw that no one had commented on it here, so I just had to say it...

Anyone else who thought Jeremy Northam was incredibly attractive in this film? I really like him has an actor, and his attractiveness in some roles just makes me swoon. Not when he is cast as a good looking guy on purpose, mind you (like in Emma), or ordinary guy (like in Tristram Shandy) but when it is "just there", like in The Tudors as Thomas More, or in this film, where he is supposed to be a bad guy... and he is very sexy at the same time, but in a sinister way... like when he is suddenly taking his coat off and Anne jumps in the bed. Well, I jumped too, because that was an incredibly erotic moment! Grr!

Okay, so that was my humble (and hormon-fueled) opinion. Anyone agree?

"Do you like me more than you don't like me or do you not like me more than you do?"

[–] agera 13 years ago

I noticed that instantly.

In fact, right up till the end of the movie, I kept waiting for the part when Anne and Balcome would get together. I know she thought he was morally reprehensible but I thought that would just have added a little extra something to their encounter. We don't always admire those whom we desire (and vice versa, of course).

Alas, in this and several other respects, the film was a disappointment.

"The night was sultry."

[–] mattsf 13 years ago

I liked how he pretty much played the exact same character as he did in Enigma - a WW2-era upper-class spook. :P

[–] purple_lemon 12 years ago

It's the whole Hymie the robot from Get Smart combined with Donnie Pfaster the serial killer escalating fetishist from the X-Files vibe he's got going on.

"It is life Jim, but not as we know it"

[–] intofilm 12 years ago

I love him in every role I've ever seen him in. Now that Alan Bates is dead, he is my favorite English actor...well, maybe along with Daniel Day Lewis.

[–] movie80 11 years ago

Somehow I don't particularly like him in this movie.
I like him the most in The Winslow boy.

[–] Pearl24 9 years ago

I didn't like him either. My favourite in the film was Charlie Cox but I was convinced that he was in on the plot with the rest of the family. It was, therefore, a shock to me when Anne found his body.

By the way, I have been looking for other films that Charlie has been in and came across this on Amazon Prime - £2.49 for 48 hours rental!

[–] kaskait 8 years ago

Their dealings with each other did have a lot of sexual tension. But weird sexual tension because you could tell neither of them wanted to feel that way toward the other. It was disgust, reluctance and random desire between them from the get go.

Obviously Balcombe is a man who loves to be in control. Anne made him feel out of control. I bet he was relieved when her friend Hector performed that crazy rant at dinner. It gave him a problem to focus on.

He could have just stopped there with Hector. But NO, he had to go on and include Anne. I mean, come on, who would ever be afraid of Anne except an uptight, repressed individual like Balcombe.

It makes you wonder. How long did he watch Anne sleeping before he decided to tell Walter to take the baby carriage. Was his ultimate goal to isolate Anne then swoop in and keep her for himself?