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Post by Hannah Lee on May 9, 2020 21:41:51 GMT
He was the one people were talking about. He still wasn't a familiar name for general audiences but he had a cult series on PBS and just two major hits in West End. I feel for the actress, tho. BC was doing great anyway but it was a huge opportunity for her and the others. Still, it's not fair to blame him for a very personal decision about his own career. The other decision of not wanting to transfer the play without him was taken by others. I imagine it would be a great moment when he finally debuts in Broadway. Hopefully with a new play!
I was looking at BC's Wikipedia page the other day, and they have an audio clip sample of his voice.
In the clip they picked, he happened to talk about how he went straight from After the Dance to training in horseback riding for Warhorse. He mentions he was at the party after the last performance of After the Dance til after midnight and then got picked up by a car an hour later to go to the training location and started equestrian training the very next day. So if that's the case and if he was faced with the choice of continuing in the play on to Broadway or doing a film with Steven Spielberg, I can see why he would have chosen the film. Even if it wound up that his part was small, at that stage in his career 10 years ago, working with Spielberg would be a huge thing for an actor, not just for the experience but for the chance to make connections in the industry. And like you said, he had no control over the decision not to transfer the production without him.
It will be great to see someday when he does finally debut in Broadway.
It will be a great thing, beforehand, when it's safe to go to the theater and Broadway is able to reopen.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 10, 2020 1:16:49 GMT
Also it's interesting that he got all those roles before Sherlock. I remember Spielberg saying he hired him because he knew his work but he hadn't watched Sherlock yet. After all, Sherlock was released around the time he was doing After the Dance run. That's the same case with TTSS, he had the role before Sherlock. He was also attached to Frankenstein and Tom Stoppard was trying to convince HBO that the semi-unknown actor was perfect for the lead in his Parade's End adaptation. They weren't convinced until after Sherlock but at least he was the choice of the artist not the businessmen!
Even his roles in August:Osage County and 12 Years a Slave were product of him going to casting calls in Hollywood, according to interviews with their respective directors. Both claimed at the time not having watched Sherlock.
Sherlock was undoubtedly huge for him but he was actually catching the attention of a lot of important people at that point of his career without the help of it.
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Post by queenzod on May 10, 2020 2:15:53 GMT
Yeah, he would have been huge without Sherlock. He’s a brilliant actor with tons of star power and charisma. But Sherlock helped fast track his career. 😍
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Post by MagdaFR on May 10, 2020 15:08:59 GMT
I never understood what really happened with After the Dance.
Did he finish the initial expected run at the National Theatre or not?
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Post by sgev1977 on May 10, 2020 16:49:37 GMT
Yes, he did! Then the show went and won all the Olivers, except for BC who wasn't even nominated! I kind of remember he presenting an award with Johnny Lee Miller so by then he was doing/promoting Frankenstein (he wasn't there the next year when it was him who won all the awards. He was working in Hollywood so other people received his awards in his representation).
The "conflict" was when they tried to move the show to Broadway. I'm not sure was what the tentative date for the run. Obviously the discussions weren't public but I imagine it was around the time he was shooting Into Darkness, The Fifth Estate, August or 12 Years a Slave. I don't think it clashed with War Horse because he filmed that earlier.
He did a lot of things in a very short period. Something he still does!
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Post by MagdaFR on May 10, 2020 17:31:17 GMT
I thought he had abandoned the play by the way he talked about it and thought it was strange. He didn't change Hamlet because of Doctor Strange.
So, it was not that terrible.
I look up the dates and after After the Dance he went to film War Horse and then he had TTSS.
After that he was on Frankestein, I think.
And then lots of other things.
"He did a lot of things in a very short period. Something he still does! " Indeed.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 10, 2020 18:18:55 GMT
I think he would be in legal troubles if he does something like that! It was more about deciding not to accept the job in America and the bosses deciding that they don't want to continue the project without him.
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Post by mllemass on Jun 24, 2020 15:53:16 GMT
The NTL YouTube channel has posted the trailers for productions they’ve already shown. There’s no mention that they’ll be streaming them again, though.
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Post by mllemass on Jun 26, 2020 15:52:30 GMT
It’s NTL’s birthday. The video includes clips of Frankenstein and Hamlet.
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Post by mllemass on Oct 4, 2020 15:19:16 GMT
They’ve started putting Halloween-themed shows on tv, and I’m just watching Young Frankenstein. I haven’t seen it in years, and I forgot how incredibly silly and funny it is. There was one scene in particular that caught my attention. When Frederick Frankenstein discovers his grandfather Victor’s hidden secret library, he finds a book called “‘How I did it’ by Frankenstein”. This is the same scene from The Empty Hearse, when Sherlock takes Molly along to solve crimes with him. They are called to investigate the room with the skeleton and find the book “‘How I did it’ by Jack the Ripper”.
I don’t remember reading about that scene before. So now I wonder if we’re supposed to think that Anderson copied it because he’s a fan of Young Frankenstein, or it’s just something Mofftiss included as a funny reference to the movie.
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