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deciulla

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fairweathermyth

Michael's last words to Sam + Michael's first question about Sam upon his return (and honestly.... is Sam okay?)

BLACK DOVES 1.01 To Love Then + 1.03 The Coming Night

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obgynekenobi

Everything he does is perfection. Black Doves was incredible. Can't wait for more.

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leoholzer

Black Doves 1.02 /A Little Black Dove/

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After all these years, I finally saw him 🥹

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iceforcutie

#ben whishaw #freddie lyon #the hour

iceforcutie

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profqlasses

happy 41st birthday, ben whishaw! — b. 14 october 1980

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faerieoftara

HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY TO MY DARLING BEN WHISHAW!!!

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doubleohseven

Ben Whishaw for 1883 Magazine Risqué Issue

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The dramedy is based on a best-selling memoir by Adam Kay, who is also adapting the book.

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unabellaavventura

Ben Whishaw as Uriah Heep

“Socks knocked off.” - Simon Blackwell (Screenplay)

“The cast is the film’s collective ace — just some among notable turns, the slither of Uriah Heep provided by Ben Whishaw…” - FT

“Each thrillingly brought to screen by the film’s cast, Ben Whishaw plays the manipulative Uriah Heep as a gremlin in a bowl cut…” - The Independent

“From the utterly inspired cast, Hugh Laurie as the perennially baffled Mr Dick, and Ben Whishaw, immensely entertaining as Uriah Heep…” .. The Times

“Meanwhile, Gwendoline Christie and Ben Whishaw are truly wicked as Jane Murdstone and Uriah Heep, at their most menacing when they’re at their most restrained. It might just put you off your marmalade sandwiches.” - Stylist

#Ben Whishaw #uriah heep #the personal history of david copperfield

olmcation

“‘He skitters boyishly off into the afternoon, waving brightly. I realise too late I forgot to sniff him to find out if he has a personal odour.’ ‘He has wiry features as though he had been put on the rack and pulled gently for a few minutes.’ ‘Whishaw looks coyly at his ravioli.’ ‘…the slight, floppy-maned, somewhat effete boy-whippet…’ ‘He has a very low hairline which his thick brown hair erupts from, first going one way, then another, and then back again, with the overall effect looking weirdly like an enormous Mr Whippy ice cream.’”

— Modern journalism, driven to hitherto unseen poetic heights by the task of describing Ben Whishaw.

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Other noteworthy additions: “It’s like a mop and sex had a baby, and it grew up, and that’s Ben Whishaw.” “…known for roles as pained waifs (Perfume), sensitive waifs (Bright Star), or pained waifs who happen to be particularly sensitive (Brideshead Revisited).” “…a small woodland animal.”

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“When I ask for his reaction to the fact that some critics have called him “the next Olivier”, he squirms and pulls his polo neck right up over his head.”

“‘I feel it’s only fair that you should choose which animal.’ ’I’d like to be a badger. They’re small and quite timid, but also a powerful force when they need to be.’”

“He once, I was delighted to read, had 13 cats.”

It just goes on and on.

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“Ask Ben Whishaw about acting and he twists in his chair, pushes his hair into various shapes, and, avoiding all eye contact, mutters…”

“On screen, he tends to use those huge, vulnerable eyes to portray defenceless characters…”

“As a child, he loved Marlon Brando and Jimmy Stewart, and was good at art. He had an Athena poster of the lost city of Atlantis on his wall and kept a collection of trinkets. ‘I used to collect knick-knacks like wizards, trolls and little buddhas and arrange them like precious things on a shelf. Why am I telling you this? It was an odd thing to do. I don’t know what became of them.’ He looks at the floor, embarrassed.”

“…there is nothing – or next to nothing – coming out of his mouth. While it’s not unusual to meet monosyllabic actors, Whishaw barely makes it into the mono league.”

“Certainly, it’s true that with his huge brown eyes and his startled air, he can give a convincing impression of a two-legged deer caught in the headlights. But just how vulnerable is Whishaw off-screen, I wonder? ‘Ahh…’ he says, and looks away. There’s a long pause, during which his forehead becomes bisected by a deep frown. Some further ah-ing follows.”

“And in between he emits one of the creepiest high-pitched giggles I’ve ever heard.”

“He has a charmingly bashful smile. But it’s also a smile to shelter behind. A smile to turn on the world if you want people to like you, while simultaneously keeping them at bay.”

“As if scanning for predators, his eager eyes dart around the room surveying the crowd as he breaks a banana into pieces and pops it into his mouth. He fidgets and squirms in his seat as if flea-infested, his oversize sweater almost drowning his wiry frame in wool. He is not typical leading-man material.”

“And with that, Ben Whishaw walks off through the throng in the bar and is gone. If, that is, he was ever here in the first place.”

“Waiflike and awkward in person, Ben Whishaw is nonetheless one of our most electrifying young actors. But good luck getting him to admit it.”

“It’s odd thinking of Whishaw bulking up because his feral fragility — along with his amazing eyes — are partly what make him such a joy to watch.”

We get it, you’re all in love with him.

deciulla

Quite a collection of “journalists’”quotes

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