Richard Armitage tangentially related

Current projects (?):

• (Berlin Station): feature article on one of the stuntmen.
• (Berlin Station): Subway signs in Berlin.
• (The Lodge): Film is listed in a Top 100 anticipated indie film survey; can’t appear in 2018 except at a film festival.

Degrees of Separation / collateral attractions:

• (LAMDA): An interesting radio interview with David Oyelowo in which he discusses inter alia the pressure to abandon accents at LAMDA and his attitudes toward acting, along with the question of how one turns English mixed race kids into American black kids, and a review of his new film.
• (The Hobbit): Lee Pace comes out as queer.
• (The Hobbit): Mostly a profile of Nathan Lane, but some discussion from Lee Pace of his role in Angels in America.
• (Old Vic): Interview with Kristin Scott Thomas, who had the dressing room after Richard Armitage, in which she comments on the physicality of Elektra.

Things we’ve talked about:

• (Romance novels): an author who always injects a bit of politics into hers. These sounded interesting to me; I’ve put them in my library queue.
• (Criticism being too negative): on the necessity of critical book reviews.
• (Social media): on the undesirability of retweets on Twitter.
• (Fanfic): A literary fanfiction of The Shining.

Fandom:

• How one becomes a Jane Austen superfan.

Industry issues:

• (Attracting attention to one’s work): I wonder if Richard Armitage did this.

~ by Servetus on March 11, 2018.