Christmas fanvid created a few yrs ago by bccmee..
RA's new Twitter header is from a 2012 photoshoot..
Long, thoughtful Christmas message this year. Couple excerpts:
So let's celebrate what we have. Let's be thankful for our humanity and our ability to empathize and help those in need. Doesn't have to be money, it can be your time, it can literally be just a helping hand.
By Jillian Dale..."Season 1 of Berlin Station culminates with theBerlin Station crew piecing together evidence that will illuminate Langley’s role in the Iosava rendition. Meanwhile, Hector takes a new approach to atoning for bad behavior. As the episode draws to a close, the truth comes into focus and the Shaw mantle is passed. StarsRichard Armitage, Richard Jenkins, Michelle Forbes, Rhys Ifans, Leland Orser and Tamlyn Tomita. Directed by Joshua Marston. (TV-MA) Airdate: Sunday, December 18 at 9pm/8C onEPIX."
Richard comments from TV Tango interview:"Richard Armitrage: It was the thing that initially attracted me to this script and to this story. With this character in particular, I really felt like we were going to explore a human being who had flaws, and we were taking him into an environment where he was going to be challenged and stretched in a kind of post-technology society whereby the security services can't rely on those things anymore and they have to answer the game and face their opponent as human beings and seeing how those flaws affect what it is they do. So it was far less action-based and much more an intellectual game, which really fascinated me."
RA quote from following interview:"I feel Dolarhyde is somebody that is tethered by his past. It’s like he’s trying to tread his path which is tied to his past, but it’s also shaping the way that his life is. His past is so damaged. It’s like a hair follicle. The reason hair goes curly is because the follicle is deformed. It’s exactly what Dolarhyde is going through. His world is emerging as something grotesque. What he doesn’t realize is he becomes a bargaining tool between Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter. In a simplistic way, the theme rumbling under the story is that Will Graham is trying to save him and Lecter is trying to draw him over the edge and to let him really embrace the darkness. Becoming the Dragon is something that Hannibal is drawing out of him. He wants to see this magnificent evolution, whereas Will Graham is trying to put it all back in this box. Of course, Dolarhyde doesn’t really know that."
Dolarhyde's tattoo is a kind of clothing to him, Armitage continues.
How much of the sexual aspect of Dolarhyde makes it onto the screen, given they're on NBC? "There's something about Dolarhyde which has a kind of innocence to him, which sounds odd considering how complicated and dark his world is, but it was always fluctuating between an innocent, childlike mind and a very complicated man. So I spent half this series semi-naked..."