Best Fails of 2011 - Part 2
That one on the bottom right? Happened at my school, next door to my apartment! Hilarious.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heSwlKEh3KU
Best part is the laugh.
I was thinking today (while listening to the audiobook of The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club) that it would really interesting to see Cumberbatch play Lord Peter Wimsey.
I don’t know that this is perfect head casting, but 1) Lord Peter is supposed to have a long, foolish face, but is still devastatingly attractive, which is just what Cumberbatch is (YOUR FACE SHOULDN’T BE SO BEAUTIFUL HOW DOES THIS WORK), and 2) Cumberbatch is a damn fine actor and he would deliver the lines so beautifully and capture the right mannerisms and everything, think.
(these statements are not out of disloyalty to Edward Petherbridge, who I love and adore—he’s a charming man and one of the most elegant yet eccentric looking older men that I’ve ever met, but as much as I enjoy his LPW miniseries it isn’t always 100%)
I generally go with the idea that any casting Peter/Harriet is going to be, at it’s core, unsatisfactory, but having said that: I might be OK with this. I like your style. His proven characterisation of UpperClassTwitOfTheYear would work in his favour, and I have first-hand experience that his stage presence can be EFFING MENACING. I’ll have to peruse those appearances of his where he rocks the blonde. We’ll see how he goes tricked out in WW1 garb in War Horse. (Ditto Hiddles, while we’re at it.). Ahh, head-casting DLS, what a pleasant occupation…
I think it would be fascinating to see what he did with the character—he has the emotional range for it, I think, as well as the face. We went on to establish that Mcfadyen would be a very interesting Bunter, but I completely stalled out when I tried to come up with a good idea for Harriet….
I don’t think any casting could ever be ‘perfect’, except for maybe one person—it will always be best in our heads. I would fall all over myself to see a good stage production of Busman’s Honeymoon, though! And if it had Cumberbatch in it I would probably die of excessive fangirling.
YES YES YES. He would be my choice, no doubt. And for some reason Laura Carmichael popped into my head for Harriet Vane.
Someone please to be making graphics for this casting now?
“It’s like a steampunk Zeppelin crash-landed in a fairy forest.”
This is stunning. There are tons more pictures at the link, and they even list out their music for the ceremony! That’s when I almost lost it. I love how creative they were with every little detail.
your hair always smells like lavender.: Katie McGrath, talking about Lancelot in skin tight boxers.
On that note, which episode was your favorite to film?
Episode nine with Lancelot – the scene where Lancelot is coming out of the — I know you haven’t seen it yet because it starts on January 6th for you guys. It’s this scene where he’s coming out of the water wearing…
(Source: withanaccent.com)
