in the interest of feeding my developing celebrity crush on Paul McGann, what other movies of his do you recommend?
These are personal preferences but:
Sweet Revenge, a two-part drama in which Paul plays a university professor who arranges paybacks in his spare time (Part One) (Part Two)
Perplexed Music is a short film written and directed by Paul’s brother Mark and also features his younger son, Sonny. Paul plays a widower coming to terms with his loss.
I’ve always been fond of short-lived series Fish, where Paul is an employment lawyer struggling to cope with raising his son on his own after his wife goes off to ‘find herself’.
Give Us A Break, a very early role, a comedy drama series co-starring with Robert Lindsay. Here he’s the younger brother of ducker and diver Lindsay’s girlfriend, who turns out to be good at snooker, something Lindsay decides to try and make use of. Probably the most Scouse you’ll hear Paul on screen!
Paper Mask Hospital porter wants to be a doctor. It does not go well.
Luther Not to everyone’s taste and some episodes are rather unpleasant (3 and 5 of the first series) but I want to take Mark North home.
Withnail and I, of course; every Paul fan needs to see it at least once! (No active link for this one that I can find right now)
If you fancy a documentary, Victorian Sensations: Decadence and Degeneration is a strange but compelling watch, and one that Paul presents rather than just narrates.
And here he is talking about Hornblower
@prydon made a filmography masterlist (from which some of these links have been gratefully taken) which is well worth a look. His CV tends to range through Great, Good, WTF did I just watch? and Oh, dear God, why?! but I can also recommend Our Mutual Friend, Forgotten and Poirot: Sad Cypress. I know other people would say you should definitely see The Monocled Mutineer and The Hanging Gale (the latter stars all four McGann brothers) but I personally found those two too depressing to watch more than once. Horses for courses.
Whatever you choose, enjoy! 😀
