Richard Armitage tangentially related
Current projects:
- (Wolverine): Per an interview with writer Brian Percy, news that we’ll hear more of Armitage in the final episode on Monday.
- (Berlin Station): Viacom (parent company of Paramount, which produces the series) sued in a sexual harassment complaint against its executives.
- (Ocean’s 8): There is a lot of publicity this week surrounding Sandra Bullock, and I am not going to cover it all, but there were a number of pieces in InStyle and also coverage of her convicted stalker, who killed himself this week. Awkwafina is described as a breakout star due to her prticipation in this film and Crazy Rich Asians. Helena Bonham Carter has been cast as Princess Margaret in The Crown. Rihanna plans a reggae album. And so on. OK, except this. Honestly, friends don’t pressure their friends to drink.
- (Wolverine): The podcast, previously added to Vulture’s “year’s best podcasts list so far,” stays on for a second month.
- (Castlevania): Makes a list of best of its genre on Netflix.
Past projects:
- (Romeo & Juliet): Hewson’s revised novel, Juliet and Romeo, gets a blurb from one of my goto crime writing blogs, as does “the talented Richard Armitage.” The item, to be released May 17, will have a foreword or afterword or something by Armitage.
- (LOTR/Hobbit): When Miramax was involved, Harvey Weinstein almost fired Jackson, Walsh and Boyens from the project. Quentin Tarantino was the proposed alternative.
Collateral attractions / degrees of separation:
- (Urban & the Shed Crew): Anna Friel asserts that it’s more difficult for actors from the north of England to be hired.
- (The Hobbit): Emotional interview with Lee Pace about his role in Angels in America.
Things we’ve talked about:
Me + Richard Armitage 
Oh what a great interview with Lee Pace! (I could “cheat” on Richard with him!) I’ve actually never seen him in anything except the The Hobbit movies and Guardians.
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I couldn’t, but I get the appeal, even if it doesn’t push my buttons in particular. People are always telling to watch the one where he plays a trans soldier, and Pushing Daisies (have not seen either) but the first season of Halt & Catch Fire is definitely worth it. He’s talented.
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Just his personality coming through in this interview got to me. I’ve looked for Halt and Catch Fire, but I don’t think it’s anywhere I can catch it for free.
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I think AMC is keeping pretty close control of it — but if you ever get a chance the first season is really good, very controlled, tight writing. I saw all of 1, 3 and 4 and I think of those 1 was the best. I’ve seen pieces of 2 and liked what I saw. For my tastes the show ended much more emotionally than I would have preferred.
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Did they take it off Canadian Netflix?
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Oh wow… you’re right! It’s there! I could have sworn I searched there. But yup. All 4 seasons are there. Thanks.
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Not a problem. You can also detour into Pilgrimage, freshly added. Sadly, North and South has left. 😕
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Pilgrimage has made it on? Yeah I had heard N&S was going away so I did buy it. I wouldn’t have discovered RA if not for N&S being on Netflix, though. Still no Brain on Fire, even though it was bought by Netflix.
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That does make no sense to me.
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lee pace was in the kids movie Marmaduke
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There you go!
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Never saw that one. I just realized he was in one of the Twilight movies too.
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indeed, he was, and I saw that movie, and I didn’t remember him at all. So. (?).
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I didn’t either. A small part I think.
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Good interview with Lee Pace. He struck me as a sweetheart but a bit of a “flakey” actor nonetheless. He spoke early on (a bit unprompted I thought) about a relationship where you love someone but cannot remain with them… I think he may have been referring to his split with RA….a bitter break-up?
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There’s been a lot of speculation about who he was speaking of (if anyone, or people in plural). Impossible to say.
It’s interesting watching him morph from his publicity for TH, to HACF, to this. In every case he’s seemed a bit like the character he was playing. So I wonder if the current iteration isn’t somewhat influenced by AiA.
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Posters on DL have made some disparaging comments about LP’s acting ability, that he is really portraying bits of himself through his roles!
I do think RA has taken on some of the characteristics of his roles: I thought he appeared more ‘bolshy’, a bit abrupt in interviews when he was playing alpha male John Procter.
It all leads me to wonder what lies at the core of these actors? (Possibly not a lot…..)
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I think it’s inevitable that an actor would do that, just in terms of believability. It’s not possible to become an entirely different person. I don’t think the correspondence is one to one, though.
I sometimes think (after years of observing Armitage’s public traces) that he has an unusually flexible sense of self. Although it’s becoming harder and harder to differentiate between what he really believes and what is sales, not least because he so much talks himself into roles. In any case his sense of self is more flexible than mine! Also I remember that quote from about a decade ago where he said that you give yourself to a job and then afterwards you have to figure out who you are again.
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