Jackson quote: "No one in NZ will go hungry again" :D
Where are Daniel's blue shoes to coordinate with blue jacket&jeans?;)
If I didn't know better would suspect the above photo is spy Daniel Miller. We know it is not, but following is RA apparently with German officials involved with that government's partial funding of upcoming thriller Berlin Station. Might RA's topcoat be part of his Daniel Miller wardrobe. Looks similar to a coat worn by MI5's Lucas North.
Will Edith Wharton's Summer adaptation be next? Imagine following video with this Mr Royall..
QUOTE: The Divided Conflict
of Edith Wharton's Summer
by CAROL WERSHOVEN -- WHEN Bernard Berenson complimented Edith Wharton on her latest
novel, Summer, and expressed admiration for its predominant male
character, Lawyer Royall, Wharton replied, "of course he's the book."l
Wharton's statement has been largely ignored by critics who view the book
as Charity Royall's story, and who classify Lawyer Royall as an old windbag,
a pompous drunkard, or worse. 2 The popular interpretation ignores not only
Royall's central position in the plot, but Royall's central role in the novel's subtle
and unfolding themes. For Summer is not just Wharton's variation on the
old seduced-and-abandoned theme; it is a story of two protagonists, both of
whom must come to terms with their destructive illusions in order to lead adult
lives.
The ability to "look life in the face, "3 to confront reality without flinching
or evasion, was, for Wharton, an essential quality in mature conduct. She
repeatedly traced the conflicts of characters faced with the choice of escape
through evasion or a more painful but adult recognition of things as they are.
In the majority of her novels, Wharton chronicles this conflict through the use
of an outsider heroine, one who exposes the reality ofsituation and selfin confrontation
with a weak male. This male figure, unable to face the truths the
heroine reveals, rejects her. Such is the pattern of Ellen Olenska and Newland
Archer in The Age of Innocence, of Lily Bart and Selden in The House of
Mirth, as well as of Wharton's lesser known novels. 4 What is unusual about
Summer is, as Wharton herself noted, that a man, Royall, is at the center of
the book, that the conflict between suffocating illusions and painful but
liberating reality is not expressed through Wharton's customary plot structure.
Richard won the above Saturn Award as the best supporting actor in a fantasy film' He played Thorin Oakenshield in the 3 Hobbit films. Following is not his Thorin attire rather it's a fan's dream costume for him...
Thanks to www.richardarmitagecentral.com for making available a translation of a Polish interview with RA. He was asked about playing Francis Dolarhyde on 'Hannibal' Following is a quote from that interview(see link below)
"I think in fact 'Red Dragon' is a tragic love story....I've never played such a character and I will not ever again"
Watchers on the Wall speculation about Euron Greyjoy casting:
Richard Armitage – Co-starring in Hannibal -- unlikely to happen as well. He’s booked only for a six-episode arc as the Tooth Fairy this season on that show (a book-length villain), which could hint at another season for him if Hannibal is renewed. If we’re wrong though, I’d be okay with that because Armitage is a hell of an actor and would knock Euron out of the park.
