#sam hoare

[isabellaofparma]

Miss Scarlet & The Duke | 3.06 - "The Jewel of the North"

[asgoodeasgold]

Stanley's dubious face when his hypocrite of a boss sucks up to Lady Cremone.

My heat skipped a beat when I saw that frame.

📷 BBC Dancing on The Edge (2013) ep4, my edit

[wardrobeoftime]

Outlander + Costumes

Harold “Hal” Grey’s red, golden, white & blue uniform in Season 03, Episode 01 & 04.

// requested by anonymous

[charliethomascoxuniverse]

Cold comfort

By Steve Pratt    28th November 2013   (X)

CHARLIE COX is no stranger to period projects with movies The Merchant Of Venice with Al Pacino, Casanova alongside Heath Ledger, and Stardust opposite Claire Danes, as well as TV series Boardwalk Empire to his name.

The one-off 1970s espionage thriller Legacy might be another period piece, but he is at least moving forward through the decades. “It’s the most modern I have ever done,” he says.

Based on the novel by Alan Judd, the story is set in 1974 in the middle of the Cold War, when Cox’s character, Charles, joins MI6 as a trainee spy. “He has come from the Royal Engineers, which means he would have been posted in Belfast in the mid-1960s, and the back story we have mostly invented is that he was in the bomb disposal unit and probably lost his best friend,” says Cox.

“Because of that, he wanted to become more involved in what is referred to as ‘the front line of the war’, be it the Cold War or Northern Ireland, and saw the move to MI6 as being part of that.”

He is still training when asked to revive his former friendship with Viktor Koslov (Andrew Scott), a Russian diplomat he knew at university, with a view to “turning” him. But Viktor has his own agenda and reveals a shocking truth about Charles’ family that threatens to derail him personally and professionally.

“Andrew Scott happens to be one of my favourite actors of all time,” says Cox of the Olivier Award-winning star, who plays Moriarty in the Sherlock series.

“I had never met him, but we have the same agent, and I got his number and sent a text saying, ‘I really hope we get to work with each other’. Six months later, this came up.”

He knows another of his co-stars, Romola Garai, who plays fellow agent Anna, extremely well because he introduced her to his best friend, Sam Hoare, and the two now have a daughter together.

“Before I found out she was going to be doing it, I got a text from him saying, ‘Buddy, you’re going to be kissing my wife’.” Cox says.

In preparation, Cox watched “a few cool documentaries about the period” and understands the enduring fascination with the Cold War. “The fact that there wasn’t any actual fighting [in the West] is really intriguing,” he says.

“And I know in my life, impending doom is so much worse than something actually happening, because when it does, you can rationalise it in some way and take some action. “But when you are waiting for something that could happen, your mind goes into all the different scenarios, and living with that [creates] a sense of vulnerability.”

He has a small but pivotal role in a movie with the working title Dracula Untold under way. “Yes, more vampires, obviously we are not bored of them yet – or maybe we are,” he says. “I am only doing two scenes, but it is a bit different for me, very evil. He is described as the father of all vampires. Other than that, I am not sure what’s coming up.”

Maybe something contemporary? “Oh yeah,” says Cox. “I’d love to say ‘Mate’ in a movie.”

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[booasaur]

The Capture - 2x02

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Club Zero (2023) Jessica Hausner

January 24th 2024

[brotherhoodoftheblade]

My brain on first finding out what the heck “horse plinko” is:

✨HAL GREY✨

No further comment. 😶😂

[jamesginortonblog]

James Norton with Al Weaver

James and Al worked together in Grantchester (as Sidney and Leonard) for years, and in Life in Squares in 2015 - and they often meet at London events.

Photos: at a party in London, with Sam Hoare, in 2015 (Sam played in Life in Squares too); at the BAFTA TV Awards 2016; the juvenile cast of Life in Squares: Al Weaver (Leonard Woolf), Lydia Leonard (Virginia Woolf), Sam Hoare (Clive Bell), Phoebe Fox (Vanessa Bell), James Norton (Duncan Grant) and  Ben Lloyd-Hughes (David Garnett); the three vicars of Grantchester: Leonard (Al Weaver), Will (Tom Brittney), Sidney (James Norton)