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#if i hadn't seen her name in the opening credits then i sincerely don't think I'd have recognised Rosemary in her first appearance in this
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Rosemary Leach as Queen Victoria gradually comes to trust and then depend on her prime minister, in Disraeli (ATV, 1978)
#fave spotting
#rosemary leach
#disraeli: portrait of a romantic
#disraeli
#the power game
#character actors
#classic tv
#atv
#1978
#if i hadn't seen her name in the opening credits then i sincerely don't think I'd have recognised Rosemary in her first appearance in this
#series (not pictured); she is introduced at the very end of the second episode‚ as Disraeli finally enters government
#and she looks so severe and so.. idk! i was quite taken aback. plus that wig..
#she's very good tho‚ playing Victoria across a more than 20 year period
#at first i thought the series had presented a rather dim version of Victoria‚ easily impressed by the flatteries Disraeli lays on
#with a trowel‚ and more or less manipulated into supporting his policies. actually there's a little more nuance there (but nothing quite as
#well developed as Granada's 1964 Victoria Regina; i feel like that spoiled me for Vic portrayals bc it's so courageously interrogational of
#her character and personality and politics; then again this series is about Disraeli and Queenie is a small support so perhaps it's to be
#expected). what was i saying? oh yeh‚ so Rosemary does suggest some depth where the script allows; the thawing towards Dizzy
#and subsequent befriending‚ her command that he sit in her presence bc of his gout but despite protocol‚ her exceedingly low
#opinion of Gladstone. it's Victoria as perhaps we know her in popular culture for the most part but with at least a little sparkle around
#the edges and the kind of solid fleshing out a good actor can do with even a fairly broadly written part
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