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Иван Янковский/Ivan Yankovskiy for "Esquire Russia" magazine (2021)

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RIPLEY (2024)

Episode III: Sommerso

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OFFICIAL ART✨

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“my dreams are not like yours, ser duncan. mine are true,” prince daeron targaryen

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"I have lived. And I have loved. And I can only smile like this because I have lost so much, I've experienced everything. every single thing..."

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EMMA D'ARCY AND OLIVIA COOKE Photographed my Rachell Smith for Entertainment Weekly

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i like that asoiaf fans sometimes tag characters as e.g. ‘queen cersei lannister’ or ‘ser arthur dayne’ you dont need to do that you arent stannis baratheon. sorry king stannis baratheon

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Fashion of the Great Houses of Westeros: House Baratheon of Storm’s End (insp)

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"When Dad's brother disappeared, how old was he?" "Your father was 15."

↬ DARK | S01E02 LÜGEN | Directed by Baran Bo Odar

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Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Yoshi Toranaga in Shōgun ep. 1&2 (2024)

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SHŌGUN Chapter Three: Tomorrow is Tomorrow

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Stannis Baratheon

We are never forgiving and never forgetting this complicated Baratheon's crimes. I went for a very stoic/minimalist sort of look for Stannis. He has to contrast his two energetic, extroverted, unserious brothers. He still needs the gold/yellow, but it's a costume heavy on the deep blacks and almost Quaker-inspired finishing touches.

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Matthew Macfadyen as Edmund Reid RIPPER STREET S03E04

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As we chat, the postman rings the bell, delivering packages. Council tree surgeons are working on the road outside. My son needs water, words of comfort, possibly he just wants another good long look at Capaldi. I’ve never interviewed anyone in my own home before and the limitations of the format are becoming apparent. But Capaldi seems to respond well to the setting and its lack of frills. His adult daughter and her family have been visiting, brand new baby in tow. When I apologise for all the noise and interruptions, Capaldi says it’s nothing compared to a newborn.

He and Collins were young parents themselves when his directing career fell apart. Arriving back in London from the disastrous Manhattan trip, “The initial feeling was shock. Then a pragmatic survival instinct kicked in.” Capaldi rejoined the auditioning circuit. “I was a psychiatrist in Midsomer Murders. I was a beekeeper in Poirot – AN Other Actor. Someone else would have turned down these parts first.” Collins, until that point an actor, too, decided to pivot into development and production, a career move that has worked well for her.

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“This business is full of people who are not the real thing,” he says, “people I perceived to be artists ’cos they had posh accents, but who didn’t have it, they just sounded like they did.” He goes on to tell a tantalising but intentionally vague story about a major star he worked with, someone who revealed themselves through the course of an acting collaboration to be a dud hiding in plain sight. He won’t provide details (“Too easy to figure out. When everyone’s dead I’ll tell you”), but he says the experience changed him professionally, leaving him more aware of his own limitations, but grateful to have a little vinegar and grit in the mix. “There’s a kind of smoothness, a kind of confidence that comes from a good [paid-for] school. That’s what you’re struck by: they seem to know how to move through the world recognising which battle to fight, where to press their attentions. But it can make the acting smooth, which to me is tedious. I like more neurosis. More fear. More trouble, you know?”

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In the new TV show, Criminal Record, he explores a more mortal kind of ageing, life’s third act, its inevitable professional humblings. Capaldi plays a London DCI in his 60s, coming to the end of a career, already moonlighting as a private security contractor, intimidated by the thrust and purpose of a younger colleague at the Met played by Cush Jumbo. As Jumbo’s character grows in confidence, Capaldi’s shrinks. It is a paradox of experience he can relate to. “I find the older I get, the closer I am to who I was,” he says.

I ask him to explain.

“Like I’m returning to… ‘roots’ is the wrong word. I feel more and more like my mother and father, more and more keenly aware of the values they had.” He provides an interesting example, how he has become all thumbs around the act of tipping in restaurants: “I can be in a complete sweat about that.” He can imagine his parents, both dead now, in a similar muddle. “From the background we come from, you can have a bit of anxiety about coming across as grand. So you have to allay that by making sure you are communicating with everybody, all the time.”

Capaldi shakes his head, chuckling softly. He has finished his coffee. He’s about to put on his big coat, say goodbye to my son, and walk back through Whoville to his home and his family. Before he leaves we return to the subject of actors from privileged backgrounds. He says he feels mean, like he took unfair advantage of them in their absence. “It’s not their fault,” he says. “It’s just that there’s less and less of my lot in the arts.” And this concerns him, he continues, because “people of all backgrounds are sophisticated, are interesting, are equally prone to tragedy and joy. Any art that articulates that is a comfort. Art is the ultimate expression of you are not alone, wherever you are, whatever situation you are in. Art is about reaching out. So I think it’s wrong to allow one strata of society to have the most access.”

He nods, feeling he’s expressed himself better. I agree.

The whole interview over at The Guardian.

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LEE PACE in HALT AND CATCH FIRE (2014–2017)

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"900 days. For all the hours we have lost, we must make amends."

RIPPER STREET S04E03