Armitage, changing

On the interview, h/t RichardArmitageNet.com News for today. Sketchy screencaps from that interview in this post are mine.

This morning when I woke up, to my usual morning Richard Armitage fantasies, I was thinking, I want to get out of bed, and I don’t want to get out of bed. I want to know what’s happened since last night and I don’t want to know. I want things to change and don’t want them to change.

I’d been thinking the last few days that innerly, I’ve been saying a big Shehecheyanu — thanking G-d for having allowed us to reach this season — for quite some time, at least a week or two — and I had imagined that Richard Armitage had been thinking equivalent thoughts of some sort. Can’t believe we made it this far — after his statement in his Christmas message of 2010: “2010 has been a challenge and next 365 days look like another ‘mountain’ to climb.”

He climbed it. But he — and we — never rest, I suppose.

So it came just right that in this interview today, Mr. Armitage noted that his life had already changed — and would have, even if there hadn’t been a movie at the end of the experience — even simply because he came to New Zealand.

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen an Armitage this relaxed and confident and above all mature in a video interview. Definite Armitage equilibrium here, but unhurried, calm, expressive, as opposed to tense, frenzied, self-calming. So yes, Mr. Armitage, you have changed.

You’ve definitely climbed the mountain, Mr. Armitage, though there may be more of it, and indeed, more mountains to climb. But thank you for reminding us that the journey is also the life-changing event, not simply the arrival. Not least, because as his version of Monet noted repeatedly in The Impressionists, at numerous points in the story, nothing stays the same. Everything is different from every perspective, every second.

And we have changed, too, I think, watching you.

In honor of this development, instead of Shehecheyanu, a song by a band that Armitage has stated repeatedly that he enjoys:

Still, panta rhei notwithstanding, I think we’ll see evidence in the future many things we have loved are still there, if modified.

Not much longer now.

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If you’re getting excited about tonight, please consider a giftbomb as a message of congratulations to Mr. Armitage on his achievement. More information here. Richard Armitage’s JustGiving pages here. Thanks to all those who have already given!

~ by Servetus on November 27, 2012.