#SHIRLEY HENDERSON

[savagewildnerness]

I’ve never met Sam, but he did photobomb me once!

I wish I wasn’t such a shy, reserved person, as I adored Sam in this play, but it took ALL of my energy to get myself to get a photo with just the incredible Shirley Henderson (even though I’d seen the play probably 10-15 times at this point. I utterly ADORED it & everyone in it.) I am SO scared of being annoying! You do not understand how much it took for me to build myself up to get a photo & autograph from just the ONE human! Gosh, Shirley was insanely great in this play! Like you couldn’t take your eyes off her magnificence! And the emotion in how she sang: I can feel it just as strongly in my heart right now still.

Anyway, I was too scared & incapable of speaking to everyone/too afraid to be annoying to more than one human! So I didn’t get an autograph or photo with Sam or anyone else in the play.

However, I noticed that there is Sam, in the background here!! Teehee! He was SO un-Lestat back then! But the character he played in this play had a tragedy to him. As did all the characters in the play. It was such a yearning play. Sam played a young man who had so much potential (in life & love), yet squandered it till he was doomed to tragedy… and how realistic is that to reality! I feel (& am) that. Everyone tended towards satisfying, resonant, true, beautiful & sorrowful tragedy & there was never any other conclusion. Gosh, I ADORED it! And THE MUSIC! But music with all the resonance folk who are actors first can give it.

Honestly I would give ANYTHING to experience this play, especially incredible Shirley just one more time. It’s in my top 5 plays ever. It’s an awful photo of me, as even on my 15th watch of the play, I had spent the entire 2-3 hours sobbing! It was SO SAD! I cried just as much every single time I watched it.

Also, LOL - you know you’re short when Shirley Henderson crouches for a photo with you!!! Look at us, like wee gnomes, with normal human-sized Sam in the background! 😂😅😂🤣😭💀

[whatjaswatched]

You’re telling me there’s a BBC period drama television series with Cillian Murphy and Matthew Macfadyen that I’ve never heard of??

I know that the novel this is based on was written by a man, but the screenplay was written by the man who gave us the Colin Firth 1995 Pride and Prejudice, and these characters are being played by men who are literally written for women, so my question is - how did people survive this???

I want to say ‘it’s the sideburns for me’ but I genuinely just am so floored that this exists. There is no time for jokes.

I guess I know what I’m doing this week, then.

[ladysophiebeckett]

Should have said earlier, I'm pregnant. What?! Yes. Oh! That's amazing. However-- Hm? You'll have to look after them because I'm not giving up my career. Yes, fine.

[sconesfortea]

Countdown to the 60th anniversary rewatch | 2.10: Love & Monsters

[avonlea71]

Matthew Macfadyen & Shirley Henderson in The Way We Live Now (2001).

[asgoodeasgold]

Meet the characters & cast of Department Q

Netflix's new Nordic noir crime thriller currently in production.

I have made some cast cards so we can remember who is who.

🔸️Carl Morck, The former top-rated detective - Matthew Goode

🔸️Merrit Linguard, The ruthless prosecutor - Chloe Pirrie

🔸️Akram Salim, The mysterious assistant - Alexej Manvelov

🔸️Dr Rachel Irving, The smart therapist - Kelly Macdonald

🔸️Rose, The troubled rookie - Leah Byrne

🔸️Mark Bonnar as Stephen, Shirley Henderson as Clare Marsh, Jamie Sives as DS Hardy & Kate Dickie as Moira

📷 All photos & text from Netflix, apart from photo of Matthew Goode by Simon Emmett (via matthew-goode.net). Character descriptors my own.

[motionpicturelover]

"ShakespeaRe-Told: The Taming of the Shrew" (2005) - David Richards

Films I've watched in 2024 (39/?)

Full film on Archive.org

[petty-d4bblr]

It's the maniacal laugh for me

[ladyaislinn]

"The Trouble With Jessica" London Premiere

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 02: Rufus Sewell attends the London premiere of "The Trouble With Jessica" at Vue West End on April 02, 2024 in London, England. getty images • video

[autumncottageattic]

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a 2008 romantic comedy film starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams. The screenplay is based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Winifred Watson.

Part II

[matthew-macfadyen-gifs]

The Way We Live Now (2001)

Episode 1

[angelstills]

Okja (2017)

[starxcxboy]

— Marie Antoinette (2006), written and directed by Sofia Coppola.

[helmstone]

Netflix series Department Q enters production

Netflix series Department Q enters production

New Netflix crime drama Department Q has started filming in Edinburgh, and as I covered in my CultBox piece (Department Q cast announced as Netflix series enters production) we also have news on the cast. This is season 1 of what I assume is planned for more — it’s adapted from a set of novels by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen. The core cast (as shown above) are: (top row) Matthew Goode, Chloe…

[addictivecontradiction]

Bridget Jones's diary, 2001

[crushermyheart]

Happy Valley / Series 2 / Episode 6