#toby jones

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The Mist (2007) dir. Frank Darabont

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Behind the Scenes of The Hack

Excerpt from the Press Pack interview with executive producer Patrick Spence:

David Tennant is world class at breathing life into invented characters. But he's also incredible at portraying real life people. He did it in Des and Litvinenko and now he's done it with Nick Davies. Marina Litvinenko will tell you that watching David Tennant was a strange experience. Because she felt she was watching her husband. He brought him to life so well. And I think David has done the same with Nick Davies. There are people who have worked closely with Nick who have said that David brought to life every part of Nick Davies on screen in a way that you fell as if the two just merge. Yet he's giving a performance. He's playing a role, but he's inhabited him. Nick himself will say he is very happy with David's portrayal of him. Without it being a mimic of him.

With thanks to director Lewis Arnold and photographer Robert Viglasky

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I love how much we know about the finale. We know about Jesus, we know about depressed Crowley, we know about the book of life, we know about the Metatron being evil and about Michael going rogue. Hell, we're even fairly certain we know how it's going to end.

And yet we have no clue who this guy is

To tell yall the truth, my heebies are totally jeebied...

Many people have been saying it's Satan/Lucifer, to which I say why not. Toby Jones is generally known for playing sinister, evil characters. I think a lot of you will recognise the Dream Lord from Doctor who, Culverton Smith (the cereal killer) from Sherlock or Doctor Arnim Zola from the MCU, just to name a few.

So I think we can all agree that his appearance in the Good Omens trailer means nothing good for our beloved idiots.

I've seen people ask questions and give potential answers, so here are a few theories compiled:

1) It's Satan/Lucifer

Like I said - why not. Although Satan was a character in season 1, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, but I would understand if he was not available to play in Good Omens 3 (as a sherlockian, I would have died).

Personally, I am not discarding that theory. It's the final episode. They can go full mental. They are having Jesus, why not have the Devil too?

2) This is a continuation of the 1941 flashback

It doesn't explain who exactly this is, but I also think it's a plausible explanation.

I mean, Aziraphale asked him if he needed help, as if he still owned and worked in the bookshop. I'm pretty sure we will not see bookseller Aziraphale in the final arc itself, since he will probably have bigger problems to deal with and only 90 minutes to do it... So it might just turn out to be a flashback.

And with Toby Jones playing a nazi scientist in Marvel, this theory looks all the more probable.

3) He is connected to the gangsters kidnapping Crowley in the "Absolutely feral" still

I can't really find anything that would prove that theory, except that Toby Jones could definitely slay playing a mafia boss (but that may be because the man has literally never played a good character in his life).

So maybe he is tied to Hell. Maybe he is tied to the mafia. Maybe the mafia is tied to Hell and he isn't. In any case, we still have no idea who he is and what role exactly he will play in the story.

One thing is for certain - this guy's appearance was completely unprecedented and we might not even find out the truth until the finale comes out. For now we are left with the mystery of the Dream Lord Doctor Culverton Arnim Zola Smith...

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I have no idea where this is coming from suddenly, but this is a fucking nice surprise!

The trailer for Flavia just dropped. The movie has been confirmed to arrive on Sky Cinema on Saturday 4 April.

Thanks to @loveasmartarse for pointing me towards it!

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A Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey Easter Egg? (The Toby Jones/Doctor Who Question)

I'm starting to think the overload of Doctor Who references in Good Omens are more than cute Easter Eggs dedicated to the 10th/14th Doctor. As if the 1965 Doctor Who Annual, the fez in Mutt's magic shop, and the presence of the 5th Doctor himself weren't already enough (Peter Davison, who is also David Tennant's father-in-law!), now there's Toby Jones too!

(There are actually more references for the dedicated Whovian -- here's a fun ariticle about them! Plus, Rachel Talalay directed many of the best Twelfth Doctor episodes!)

Toby Jones, who played a mysterious unexpected visitor in Series 5 of Doctor Who, seems to be reprising an aspect of that mystery for us in GO3. He's briefly seen in the trailer, where it seems that Aziraphale initially thought a wayward customer had entered after-hours.

But an extraordinary actor like Toby Jones would only be brought in to play a highly significant role. His expression in the trailer is enigmatic, serious. On some level, it makes me think of Cassandra, a prophet(ess) weighed down with sorrow by the burden of future knowledge.

He's crossed paths with David Tennant elsewhere too, but his appearance in Doctor Who was during the Matt Smith era. Toby Jones starred as the Dream Lord in the episode "Amy's Choice," which first aired on May 15, 2010. He played a psychic manifestation of the Eleventh Doctor's dark side, come to life in real and perilous form.

In that episode, the Dream Lord plays on the Doctor's fears and guilt about the intense risk his companions take by traveling with him. In both distant and recent past, some have come to harm, several have died. The two companions who are with him now, fiancès Amy and Rory, are very dear to the Doctor, and he worries that he'll cause their destruction.

So the Dream Lord creates a dream reality. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory are forced to shift between these two very different but equally dangerous realities. Either will lead to their deaths unless they can choose which one is real, and which is the dream.

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Fezes are fun. And COOL. The grinding of the Tardis brakes is so familiar I practically cheer when I hear it at Arnold's Music Shop.

But a former Dream Lord in the bookshop? I'm not sure what to make of that, but it seems impressively significant to me... Especially when GO3 has shown us some definitely Reality-Shifting, Surreal images of Whickber Street and it's occupants, and a Crowley we never thought we'd see at such rock-bottom despair.

So make of what you will -- I hand this one over to our fandom's time theorists and reality-checkers and space-time Whovians and Book of Life investigators!

(My apologies if this info isn't new! My mind was racing on so many GO ideas I was a bit slow to get this one out!)

**Bonus link to Tennant and Davison having Timey Wimey fun together in Time Crash, a mini-sode for Children in Need, here!

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To Our Wibbly Wobbly World! 🥂✨

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Stills and promo photos of The Hack, 24th September on ITV

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CHRISTOPHER AND HIS KIND (2011) dir. Geoffrey Sax In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He work as an English teacher and his housemates include bewigged old queen Gerald Hamilton and would-be actress Jean Ross, who sings tunelessly in a seedy cabaret club. They and others he meets get put into his stories. After a fling with sexy rent boy Caspar, he falls for street sweeper Heinz and pays his sickly mother's medical bills--to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt. (link in title)

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“David is a terrifying actor, he’s a machine. It appears so effortless what he is doing” - Toby Jones on working with David