The Second Coming is just devastating. CE and Lesley Sharp are breathtakingly brilliant, and there are a number of strong supporting actors as well, especially Mark Benton (Clive in "Rose").
Ooo, another of Russell's repeat performers. He was really great in "Rose". He made Clive feel very real.
There's a scene near the end that makes me fight between sobbing my heart out and goggling in wonder at the acting technique.
That sounds wonderful. *looks forward to it*
I'm the sort of person who watched Moulin Rouge for fun. I love a good epic tragedy as much as a happier ending.
I'll admit, Casanova didn't affect me that much, but it's my least favourite thing RTD's done (though I quite liked Murray Gold's score).
I've heard various reports, some glowing and some less so. Right now, I'm torn about what my favorite show of his is. It might still be QaF, the first thing of his that I saw. Vince and Stuart are just... absolutely perfect to me. I love them so much. But I adore Rose and I love the Doctor and I adore their relationship... but it isn't all Russell's. DW might be my favorite if it were just Russell's but it belongs to more people than that. And B&R was just stellar. I really adored the... quiet way that Holly redeemed herself. RTD doesn't make her grovel or break down or anything stupid like that, he just has her do the right thing and then step out of the way so that Bob and Rose can be happy (it's like what Stuart tries to do in QaF is the broken fun-house mirror version of what Holly does here, because Vince isn't in love with Cameron the way that Bob loves Rose, he's in love with Stuart, so Stuart has to push things so hard that they'll break rather than just stop screwing with them).
But Penelope Wilton as Bob's mum is my favourite thing about Bob & Rose - despite how good everybody else is, that's just such a beautifully heartbreaking part.
That was a really fantastic part, yeah. Very well-done. She's a great actor.
Do you want to hear a few other incestuous connections? CE starred in a play that Murray Gold wrote; Carla Henry, who played Donna in QaF, played CE's sister/love interest (yes) in Revengers Tragedy (and, I've heard, was a finalist for Rose in DW); Derek Jacobi and Marc Warren were also in Revengers Tragedy; and CE was the original choice for Stuart in QaF!
Oh, my god.
*attempts to imagine CE as Stuart*
I can't do it. It just... it doesn't work in my head. It's like it actually breaks my brain. And it's not because CE isn't sexy, because he definitely is but... Aidan Gillen was so perfect as Stuart (I love the commentary on one of the episodes, where Russell talks about how they all fell in so much love with him as Stuart and that Aidan gave him so much more depth than they were ever expecting -- I love how much Russell praises the brilliant, brilliant actors that he gets. They deserve every bit of it, too.).
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Date: 2008-06-18 11:43 pm (UTC)Ooo, another of Russell's repeat performers. He was really great in "Rose". He made Clive feel very real.
There's a scene near the end that makes me fight between sobbing my heart out and goggling in wonder at the acting technique.
That sounds wonderful. *looks forward to it*
I'm the sort of person who watched Moulin Rouge for fun. I love a good epic tragedy as much as a happier ending.
I'll admit, Casanova didn't affect me that much, but it's my least favourite thing RTD's done (though I quite liked Murray Gold's score).
I've heard various reports, some glowing and some less so. Right now, I'm torn about what my favorite show of his is. It might still be QaF, the first thing of his that I saw. Vince and Stuart are just... absolutely perfect to me. I love them so much. But I adore Rose and I love the Doctor and I adore their relationship... but it isn't all Russell's. DW might be my favorite if it were just Russell's but it belongs to more people than that. And B&R was just stellar. I really adored the... quiet way that Holly redeemed herself. RTD doesn't make her grovel or break down or anything stupid like that, he just has her do the right thing and then step out of the way so that Bob and Rose can be happy (it's like what Stuart tries to do in QaF is the broken fun-house mirror version of what Holly does here, because Vince isn't in love with Cameron the way that Bob loves Rose, he's in love with Stuart, so Stuart has to push things so hard that they'll break rather than just stop screwing with them).
But Penelope Wilton as Bob's mum is my favourite thing about Bob & Rose - despite how good everybody else is, that's just such a beautifully heartbreaking part.
That was a really fantastic part, yeah. Very well-done. She's a great actor.
Do you want to hear a few other incestuous connections? CE starred in a play that Murray Gold wrote; Carla Henry, who played Donna in QaF, played CE's sister/love interest (yes) in Revengers Tragedy (and, I've heard, was a finalist for Rose in DW); Derek Jacobi and Marc Warren were also in Revengers Tragedy; and CE was the original choice for Stuart in QaF!
Oh, my god.
*attempts to imagine CE as Stuart*
I can't do it. It just... it doesn't work in my head. It's like it actually breaks my brain. And it's not because CE isn't sexy, because he definitely is but... Aidan Gillen was so perfect as Stuart (I love the commentary on one of the episodes, where Russell talks about how they all fell in so much love with him as Stuart and that Aidan gave him so much more depth than they were ever expecting -- I love how much Russell praises the brilliant, brilliant actors that he gets. They deserve every bit of it, too.).