To the Anon who asked about any new Colin projects…
Apparently when my mobile glitched during an attempted response yesterday, the Internet ate your question. In any event, let me attempt to paraphrase your question here (and then answer it).
The question as I recall asked if I knew of any new Colin projects, and then went on to comment that he appeared to be tired and thin and that it appeared that he was taking on less projects.
As I read it, the question seemed to insinuate that Colin was taking less projects because he was in some way unwell.
First, I honestly don’t know where the OP has gotten the idea that Colin looked tired and thin. I was in London for the entire last two weeks of the All My Sons run and saw Colin several times. He did not look abnormally thin or tired. In fact, I was pleased to see that he appeared quite healthy at the end of the run considering the fact that I’d seen him in the middle of the Translations run last year and Colin had looked pretty thin then (although even then, his energy level appeared quite normal). Much thinner last year, in fact, than he was this time around.
Photos of Colin can be quite deceiving. Sometimes they make him look bulkier than he is, and other times, they exaggerate his naturally thin build.
In the many times I saw him in those two weeks, Colin never appeared to be any more tired than I would expect an actor performing eight shows a week to look. Again, he seemed to be quite well, especially when you consider that he worked 6 day weeks & performed 8 shows a week for 8 weeks–and the performances he had to give would have been incredibly emotionally draining.
As of the writing of this post, I am not aware of any new Colin projects. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any.
And as for the insinuation that Colin is taking on less projects: I think there are several factors in play.
First, we simply don’t know how many projects Colin might have been attached to that never panned out (and therefore it looks like he wasn’t working). For example, there was a project he’d been announced as attached to (the feature film The Scavengers for those of you playing the home game) that was never made. We just don’t know how many more projects that Colin might have set time aside for that didn’t pan out. This might be especially so, considering his mention of how the best scripts he’s ever read just aren’t getting made.
Second, as much as I hate the Colin Drought phases, I’m actually glad to see that Colin is working a mere mortal kind of schedule these days, versus the frankly superhuman one he had going for a couple of years (I’m looking at you 2013-2015). Nine or ten projects a year is an insane amount of work and perhaps he got wise that pacing oneself is not necessarily a bad thing.
Still, it’s not exactly like he’s been resting on his laurels in the past couple of years, either.
In 2016, he went right from filming The Fall, to Humans Series 2, to a press junket for The Living and the Dead, to The Happy Prince.
In 2017, Colin did The Coming of the Martians & Keeping in Touch audio projects before doing the play Gloria, and then went right into filming Benjamin. In fact, Benjamin started filming before the run of Gloria was even over! And then he started filming Humans Series 3.
In 2018, he did a press junket for The Happy Prince at Sundance Festival while still filming Humans for the 1st 2 months of the year. Then he went right into taping The Merchant of Venice audio play and then straight into rehearsals for Translations, which ran from May until August. Then he recorded voiceover for The Chronicles of Mourne, the documentary series about Northern Ireland. Then he recorded the as yet unaired podcast called Passenger List. Then he did promotion for the release of the films Benjamin and Waiting for You. Then he recorded the audio play Norse Mythology and the audio book The Worldship Humility!
So far in 2019, Colin recorded the audio play A Border Fantasy and rehearsed and performed a leading role in the play All My Sons.
I would call that a pretty full dance card, even if it means that he’s done a bit less television and film than in previous years.
It can be frustrating for fans, especially for a fan outside of the UK, when Colin does work that isn’t easily accessible outside of the UK. Therefore, it might feel like he’s working less than he really is.
Lastly, Colin has made comments in more than one recent interview that he has an active interest in writing and/or directing projects. It’s quite possible that he is focusing some of his time and energy on developing some of those ideas.
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