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For Ladies (Ha) Only

posted 7 years ago by hilaryjrp
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A big draw for the fair (ha) sex with The Hollow Crown was, I think, all the lovely gentlemen to look at. There were lots of good-looking young actors and lots of good-looking mature actors.

Patrick Stewart leads by a parsec  for me in the mature category, but he has an unfair advantage because he incarnates the word gentleman in real life. This is not to say the other mature actors don't rival him; I'm just unfamiliar with them. Hugh Bonneville is second. Adrian Dunbar is third and would have tied Bonneville if Plantagenet stayed as virtuous as Bonneville. (And Plantagenet's final scene was too horrific to watch with the volume turned up.)

Ben Miles falls in some group in-between, maybe with Cumberbatch. But Ben Miles definitely wins the in-between heartthrob award.

Kyle Soller in the young category has no competition.

[–] supergran 7 years ago

Hi Hilary. 

This will do my street-cred no good at all but, if we're talking eye-candy, you can do no better than Tom Hiddleston (that voice!) and James Purefoy.

Ben Whishaw has an ethereality about him which is rather attractive.

I have a HUGE soft spot for Alun Armstrong who is sublime in everything he does. And I'm quite a fan of his son Joe, after chatting with him outside a stage door last year.

Kyle Soller was a revelation!

If there aren't any skeletons in a man's closet, there's probably a Bertha in his attic.

[–] hilaryjrp 7 years ago

Yo Supergran. 

Say it ain't so, SG, say it ain't so. I see Tom Hiddleston, think of a certain American singer whom cursed folly and youth led him to, and--he didn't make my cut. I'd forgotten James Purefoy, who does belong with the In-Between contenders .

Ben Whishaw's a blithe spirit, porcelain or other-worldly.

Funny you mention Alun Armstrong, who reminds me of an older Roger Allam. My secret infatuation is Anton Lesser, who's just plain sexy and would have made the best Richard III of any of the cast of hundreds. If Sophie Okenedo could play Henry's Missus, then Lesser could have played Richard.

One thing for sure about The Hollow Crown: It's rainin' men!

[–] tomcervo 7 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTYsiwxmTcA
First thing I saw him in, 35 years ago.

[–] hilaryjrp 7 years ago

Whoa, are you a Shakespeare scholar? See, I was right, calling him handsome.

Sincere debt of gratitude to you for Daily Motion's Richard III. (I thought Daily Motion was an exercise app; oui, je n'etais pas au courant, pas du tout).

[–] tomcervo 7 years ago

Troilus and Cressida is also well worth looking up. I became an instant fan of the two leads when I first saw it.