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kitt66 replied to your post “Can finally say that I got to look after Peter Capaldi for the week on...”

Congratulations on keeping your secret - sounds like a fun weekend, if a little stressful at times.

Thanks! I’ve been dying to say something to you all for ages. It was never stressful just a tiny moment of panic haha

marvella15

replied to your post “Can finally say that I got to look after Peter Capaldi for the week on...”

Omg you are the coolest! I love when you share these things with us. Peter sounds like such a dear.

Ha! If my friends saw someone had described me as cool they’d be crying (I’m a gigantic nerd!) Peter is exactly that, a complete cutie.

branbran91

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oh wow how did you managed to get a runner job on class? If you dont mind me asking :D

Of course I don’t mind you asking! I’ve been a runner for a year now working on different shows and the two floor runners on Class are my mates. They needed someone to cover for a day and they recommended me and got me in. I got on really well with the crew and must have done a good job because it spiralled from there and I was in basically everyday until the end.

It may reflect my lack of imagination but it never occurred to me that Danny might be meeting a watery end when I saw the film so am happy to ignore book Danny’s fate.

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I think that's part of the reason I found it so shocking. I'd never even had the slightest inkling of a thought that Danny going into the sea was supposed to be anything more than what we saw on the screen.

Of course, the way the scene is shot for the film is different from the book anyway since you can see they are still very close to the shore and they make sure we see Marina is also right there, so it’s not like Danny is calling out to the vast empty ocean.

What I think is really the most interesting thing about the novelization is it shows how Bill Forsyth’s original screenplay was so incredibly downbeat.  It’s like the Hollywood guys says Hey, Bill, love the story, love the characters, let’s just change everything about them. 

Which normally I would complain about, but in this case I think the Hollywood tendency toward the feel good ending was the right decision.  And since Bill Forsyth was still the director and still very much in control of how it was made, it’s still his picture even if it wasn’t quite what he originally wrote -- by which I mean pretty much it’s the complete opposite, but in a really good way.

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kitt66 replied to your photoset :

So you have the film version of Danny where the...

Interesting - is book Danny clearly meant to be older than screen Danny?

In the book, he's 28. And Peter was what 23? when the film was made which on the one hand isn't that many years (and also doesn't have to mean screen Danny was Peter's same age), but there are other indications about book Danny being more mature.

For example, book Danny is described as always being immaculately dressed in smart suits and Italian leather shoes which is not exactly how I would describe screen Danny who --as I've often said -- looks like he was dressed by his mum in his dad's old suits.

The immaculately dressed thing does appear rather obliquely in the film where Happer just arriving in Ferness mistakes Danny for Mac. In the film it doesn't make much sense because he's met Mac and Danny doesn't look anything like him like AT ALL, but in the book it's explained that Happer isn't going by the face, he's going by the suit and he confuses them because Danny is wearing a smart executive suit (which he totally isn't in the film) and Mac looks like he's been sleeping rough on the beach for the last week and couldn't possibly be an employee of Knox Oil and Gas sent to negotiate a major land purchase.

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kitt66 replied to your photoset:Yay!  I found the other bit of footage from The...

Seemingly this and The Hour mark the only roles where Peter’s hair could be deemed to be completely under control

And yet we know it is all just an illusion since ungelled of course it looked like THIS

(from The Ladykillers opening night video)

ETA: because how can I possibly resist

(From BBC Breakfast some considerable time later in the run of the play and boy can you see the physical difference)

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kitt66 replied to your post:kitt66 replied to your post: PETER IN HIS GLASSES...

Yes, how else could he have spent a rare morning off than hanging around watching people blow up daleks.

More added to his scrapbook collection. He is 12

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kitt66 replied to your post: PETER IN HIS GLASSES ON DOCTOR WHO EXT...

With his coat and scalf too - racing around getting photos of daleks on his phone. Lovely.

Can you imagine.

It was a freezing cold day in January in an aircraft hanger in Cardiff, but he still turned up early to watch.

He literally CANNOT HELP HIMSELF!

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kitt66 replied to your video:All the long-awaited (at least by me) Larry...

Oh Larry - well it is closure and possibly more than poor old Cardinal C is going to get.

I thought the Chandler stuff was surprisingly comprehensive all things told, and answered most of the unresolved Larry/Elly questions. I did find Elly's total lack of concern over Larry's sudden and at that point completely unexplained disappearance (where he left everything including his keys behind) just a bit odd -- that is, unless we are to understand he did that kind of thing all the time which, who knows, could well be the answer.

Frankly, I will be disappointed if we don't find out that the Cardinal decided there was no point in living if he couldn't put people on the rack. That's all he ever wanted, but no one would let him do it, so why go on?

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kitt66 replied to your post: All the lonely people, where do they a...

Poor Elaine never had much to do in this show but I have to say I like this scene a lot -for reasons

Yes, reasons.  I'm pretty sure I know what you mean. 

I'm sure I never watched Psychos until I started the filmography, but I seem to remember the show got pretty good reviews, except that the title caused a lot of controversy and was probably the reason Channel 4 didn't renew it. Which is a real shame because the world could use more of  Mark Collins -- and seriously, could his name possibly be a coincidence considering the circumstances -- and his gravity defying hair.