Richard Armitage always has good shoes
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Me + Richard Armitage 
He’s all coordinated too. Wonder if he picked out his outfit (which I suspect) or if he had a stylist…. 🤔
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I don’t think it’s a stylist. Not sure why. Maybe because the fit on the coat is a little awkward. Clearly off the rack w/o alterations …
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And he coordinated well with his co-star. Amaia looked absolutely gorgeous in that off-the-shoulder cashmere jumper and matching boots. So cute when she positioned one foot in front of the other and he jokingly tried to copy the pose. Obviously a warm relationship there. I hate her. 🤣
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It’s hilarious how little attention I pay to his female costars now that I know he’s gay. Nobody left to be jealous of …
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I have always found it somewhat ironic that for a gay man he is cast and plays straight very well….
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That’s why they call it acting. I have never ever found any of his screen kisses unconvincing.
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Not jealous in a sexual way, only of the genuinely friendly relationship they obviously have created.
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Ouch…ouch ….sorry…it took me some time to think it over and decide to write. Sorry too, in advance, for my French-English I hope I won’t express my thoughts too awkwardly. Well, thank you Servetus as usual for your posts. This one just caught me in the chest some time ago because when I read it and realized I had obviously missed some news. I have been “following” Richard’s career for some time now, since I watched him as john “Porta” indeed, and since I’m away from home or even avoid to stay connected to social medias, I missed “the” news (that Richard is eventually “not straight”, a gay or a bi, whatever) that was obviously known to many Armitage army fellows and discovered it through this post.
(happily married for nearly 17 years now) I won’t deny it, my heart sank in the first place, got a pang in the chest reading these few words. And then, I thought “well, he is happy, that’s what all those who care for him want and maybe he’s more in “peace” with himself now that he feels free to say it or openly live this part of himself. And after that moment, I needed to “digest” the news, and try to catch up with what I had obviously missed on wordpress discussions and so ever, not to remain the stupid mired in ignorance fangirl that I’d unvolontarily been for 3 years.
Despite the fact that my favorite RA role is still John Porter (though I know/knew, from what RA pointed in a few interviews, may be the most “not like him” among the characters he played), I have a particular attachment to John Standring and…Ricky Deeming… And when I red this post I must say that … I thought of Ricky Deeming, maybe a bit of sadness, dwelling on the fact that, perhaps, this character precisely might have resonated in him powerfully” too, back then.
TBH, RA’s physical strength, manly physical bearing have always been part of my (our) crush on him, that’s for sure, but the way he subtly conveyed the various nuances of complexity and vulnerability in each of performances, undisclosed emotions with bashfulness, tiny elaborated details, played a large part in this attraction… so I’ve been thinking till then, too, well it is this sensitiveness, his vulnerability that drew (and draws) the tenderness I felt aside the undeniable attraction and admiration for the actor/narrator and all his performances. RA’s kind of brooding, secretive, “man of a few words” performances always knocked me down and maybe this glint of melancholy that I personally like so much, certainly because I feel alike somehow, aside his cheerful nature emphasized this enigmatic (and touching) side of him (or the “him” that I imagined).
I must confess that I did’nt know much of the “RichLee” rumors episode, put them aside back then (burying my head in the sand ? “faisant l’autruche” like we say in France). And I believed he was once happy with Annabel Capper, a touching story moving from friendship to love, from what I imagined of it and I believed he used to be happy with Samantha Colley. I still (weakly ?) believe these were no eyewashes, because I can’t imagine it. So, maybe it was a long journey through life experiences, for him like for anyone else life can be full or surprises and mysteries you keep inside until something or someone reveals them to you. Whatever the journey, happiness, fulfillment eventually occurred and RA is happy, I don’t ask for more in the end. I read this post some time ago now and, since then, I bought The Man from Rome from JB-HIFI and Malice Aforethought (which I haven’t seen yet because I could not lay a hand on a dvd) and I’m looking forward to seeing Damage/Obsession mini tv series and the (hopefully forthcoming) Rowan Jackman -Evans joy Ellis series I would be so glad if RA gets to play in such a series because I must confess I loved the Joy Ellis audiobooks. So…in the end, I see it did not change my “attachment” to him, maybe just a stronger part “tenderness” took hold of me. I guess I was not the only one to experience this and, I’m late to the party, but I just needed to share and whish you all (and Richard) the best for 2023, again.
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I’m sorry it took me so long to answer this: I just want to say that I think you are absolutely not alone in any of this. As I wrote at the time, the evidential basis for RichLee, at least based on what most fans knew, was not great; and who knows what happens in drama school? It’s clear even now that Annabel Capper is a really good friend. (Apart from Samantha Colley — that rumor was created by an Internet bot that predicted who an actor was in a relationship with based on a statistical analysis of how often their names appeared together in a year. I did try to warn people about that one. Oh, and Pace appeared repeatedly at The Crucible and the afterparty, etc.)
I think to some extent one issue with the question of sexual orientation is the way it draws into question our categories of masculinity / femininity. (e.g. Porter who appeared very conventionally masculine.) So if I “like” that character (there’s a lot about my feelings about Porter on this blog, ten years ago) am I confusing heterosexual attraction with an admiration for force, violence, kinetic energy? Is it embarrassing to feel attraction to someone who not only can’t be interested in me because he doesn’t know who I am, but also because he’s not even plausibly interested in women? How much of the fantasy depends on its plausibility in some alternate universe scenario? These are questions I still wonder about all these years later.
I also think that the extent to which he can be a “heartthrob” is a less important professional question for him now. For those of us who have been fans for a long time, the nature of the attraction changes.
But I’m sorry that this was your “signal” — it has come up here before, most notably during the Uncle Vanya interview round — but I can imagine it was a shock to have the experience now.
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Thanks for taking he time to reply my “message” that was like a bottle to the sea, just needed to write it down. Yes I agree as most of the time with your denswe analysis. Human beings complexity is part of their charm and certainly my “crush” itself evolved since the deep tenderness I felt for John Standring. Certainly th fact that “female” fans (though not the only ones from the beginning were a large part of Richard’s fan base may have “pushed” him (or his managers) to dwelve into conventional or concensual patterns (I apologize if it is not the appropriate words) but I jjust hpe it did not make him hurt. And perhaps, he himself evolved throuhout last decade(s) in many ways…anyway what “links” his fans together and us with him for so long is that his physical bearing is and has always been only one of the strings to his bow. Thank you again for your reply, have a nice week and take care of yourself. Carpe diem
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I think if the wishes of female fans had had a huge influence on him, he would have played romantic leads more often. It is surprising, with his looks and the fact of him being one of the first Web 2.0 internet crushes, that in the end he played so few straight male romantic leads. I’m sure if he were asked he would say he wasn’t offered those roles, but it would also be my suspicion that he wasn’t pursuing them.
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Yes, you are certainly right. I thought it was because he so often seemed (or said he was) unconfortable with been an heartthrob, like it was reducing/shrinking the variety of the roles he could aspire for but perhaps it was the real reason. Going back to your analysis of masculinity, just to be withdraw the possible ambiguity of my first reply, when I said that JP was my favorite and yet it is certainly the character RA was the most “different from”, I was not refering to the fact that JP and his masculinity through his toughness were at the antipode to RA now that I heard about his plausible sexial orientation but I was refering to the fact that RA himself said that this character was so “not like him”. You’re absolutly right I felt embarrassed when I read your post, confused, maybe even disappointed I dare say, a bit at a loss too and then images and long time thoughts from when I first saw RA came to my mind. Indeed, the appeal (his particularly strong appeal because he is the strongest crush I ever had on an actor) stemed from this mixture/contrast between his physical strengh, virility/masculinity, power and the vulnerability he was able to convey whatever he characters, hence my special tenderness for JP, john Standring (strong built and yet so heartbreakingly shy), Ricky deeming (rebelious bad guy yet so sensitive and protective to Billy), Guy of course (a cruel henchman yet with a deep rooted though unfair guilt fuelling his hiden self deprication ; RA was the one to show me I could fall for a long-haried man lol, “une gageure”). I did not know about Samantha Colley/RA fake news, well I missed something there too. To put it in a nutshell, your post (your “signal” like you pointed it, and apparently I’m not the only one who is not up to date lol? i had found this early last year https://hollywoodmask.com/entertainment/richard-armitage-gay-married-personal-life.html) made me learn things again about the complexity of “fanitude” and about myself, still and ever. As for you, I hope your job is not too gruelling. Take care, have a nice day. Carpe diem
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I also think that if he had played a really successful romantic lead, his life might not have borne the press scrutiny that might have come with it. (He and the BBC seem to have been completely blindsided by the attention he got after the premiere of N&S). I’m aware of gay rumors in a gossip sheet in conjunction with his appearance in Vicar of Dibley and perhaps they were there before that.
From what I’m able to discern about HollywoodMask.com, it looks like it’s also at least partially machine-written. A lot of time sites like that choose topics based on attracting advertising money, and so they don’t do actual reporting; they only report what they think people will click on (so-called “clickbait”).
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I was’nt aware of this gossip sheet. Well, let it be…Yes you may have a point here again, I thought its was out of shyness and wanting to be liked for his talent and not “only” for his good looks (witch was never the case for most his fans I’d say, not everybody is fond of chiseled features lol) but perhaps it was to get “less attention”, as few “paparazzis” as possible or whatever. As we say in Frane “pour vivre heureux vivons cachés” I suppose for actors this is a difficult thing to do though. As for fans, fantasies are protective versus truths sometimes. It must be hard for celebrities even if I never considered him as one because of his discrecy and fidelit ton independant movies etc, no international stardom to me, except for TH. Well, the most important anyway : I hope your medical issues (if I understood weel the last posts) are getting better. Take care.
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Thanks.
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He’s looking good, along with his shoes.
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He seriously looks pleased with himself!
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The shoes are good! Can’t say I’m a fan of the shirt/blazer/pants color combination. Hoping he goes a little more traditional for the actual premiere.
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Was this not the actual premiere? I haven’t been following it much.
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I think the khaki green and cream colours that RA is wearing are not particularly flattering on him. He has a cool skin tone, not a warm one. I think he looks much better in blues and greys.
The jacket looks a bit tight in the shoulder and sleeve, and the fabric appears too lightweight on him. The outfit as a whole is just a bit ‘off’ on him IMO. Just some sartorial observations!
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I don’t think it’s a great combination period and not under that particular lighting. And I agree (see comment above) that it’s not altered correctly. OTOH he seems happier when he’s not dressed to the nines.
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