Though both Redford and Streep had allegedly jumped at the chance of working together, their initial meeting was described as ‘unpromisingly polite, reserved and formal’. So it remained up until the first day of shooting when Michael Kitchen, cast as Finch Hatton’s safari partner, Berkeley Cole, broke the ice by explaining how he’d smuggled a package of 150 pairs of fifteen-dollar latex ears into Kenya to avoid its complex customs regulations. The ears were fitted daily to the extras playing the tribesmen as modern Kenyans no longer pierce and stretch their lobes as they did in 1914. ‘Ears?’ said Redford. ‘I thought you were bringing in the football.’ The next day he turned up with a football. When he started kicking it around between takes, Streep hitched up her period clothes and joined in. The show was on the road.
My mom is anxious by her nature. She's a sympathy crier. To survive the workplace she would imagine herself as Inspector Christopher Foyle before she had to go into a meeting or a tough interaction. This is a kind of acting that is superior to any kind of theatre, film, or television acting.
We very nearly missed out on one of the most iconic actors playing a role in Fleabag.
'We very nearly missed out on one of the most iconic actors playing a role in Fleabag.
Andrew Scott arguably stole the show as the "hot priest" in the smash-hit series, but he very nearly missed out on the role.
A former BBC executive has spilled the beans, confirming that Scott came close to being dropped from the show.
The Phoebe Waller-Bridge project aired in 2016 and 2019 to rave reviews and critical acclaim.
Andrew Scott joined the show in the second series, and despite never finding out his name, viewers soon dubbed him the "hot priest".
He won many awards for the role, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award.
This success very nearly didn't happen, as executives were demanding to have somebody else in the role.
This is despite his success in roles such as Foyle’s War, Sherlock, The Hour and The Town.
The former BBC Director of Comedy Shane Allen said the first season of Fleabag was BBC-funded.
However, the second was co-financed by Amazon, and that's where it went wrong.
He says "a whole raft of US male execs turned up to the read-through and – bear in mind this was a piece exploring self-destructive feminism – proceeded to tear the show apart and demand Andrew Scott was recast with only four days until the shoot started".
Disaster was narrowly avoided when show writer and creator Phoebe talked them into sticking with her first choice of Andrew.
"Anyone less effervescently charming and smart than Phoebe would have buckled" said Shane.
Scott told People magazine that he loves the affection and attention he receives thanks to his Fleabag role.
"I think it’s great," he said. "It hasn’t prevented me from spreading my wings and it was such a wonderful character and there’s much worse things to be called in life."
I'm gonna stick Foyle's War in their face next time I hear someone talking about media going woke
Because here's a 2002 series talking about refugees, gay people in the military, people killing their partners in abusive relationships, abuse under the cover of official secrets, disabled veteran experiences, fathers' power over adult, working daughters, communism, and SO MUCH MORE.
Media hasn't gone woke. Woke media just caught up to ya.
'Foyle's War' – solving murders on the World War II homefront on Acorn TV
Foyle’s War (2002-2015) chronicles World War II in England from the homefront perspective of Detective Chief Inspector Foyle (Michael Kitchen). A World War I veteran who, he is told he is too old serve and is coaxed into serving the civilian needs of his country as a Detective Chief Inspector solving domestic murders in rural towns of the southern coast of England.
Created by novelist Anthony…
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