Dancy-ness
Well, I'm just going to jot down some of my favorite tidbits about Hugh Dancy, for future personal reference or such, so feel free to disregard, but if your really bored and have no social life, you can keep on reading...maybe....if your really, really bored...like I'm talkin bashing your head agaisnt the wall bored...i warn ya...its really not interesting!
Anyway, to the point...all quotes are from the man himself, and all can be found via hughdancy.info...ze BEST site for anything Hugh:
"There was this girl who played Miranda in 'The Tempest'. She was about four years older than me and I made the most amateur pass possible. I'd probably had about half a can of cider, and somehow I managed to get her to sit on a staircase with me. As she talked, I leaned over very slowly, without looking at her, and glued my lips to her neck, where they stayed, glued, for about ten seconds. Clearly nothing was happening so I moved away very slowly and we carried on talking. I wonder what she's doing now."
"Great guys to go to the pub with. And you can really work up a thirst, riding all day. I'd barely ridden before - and by that I mean not much rather than without any clothes on. God it hurt; eventually I was so bruised I went sort of numb."
'I think my greatest claim to fame so far,' the actor Hugh Dancy announces happily, 'is that I have been on the cover of not one, but two Penguin Classics.' The handsome 28-year-old grins proudly at the mere thought. 'Now that's kind of cool, isn't it?'
He has many a tale of Guiness-induced hilarity. One tale after the other tumbles out in breathtakingly quick succession. One minute he is expalaining the weekly stag party invasion with deadpan humour: 'There they are on a Friday night, full of bravado in their comedy hats, and you just now that in 36 hours' time they will be covered in each other's vomit.' The next minute he is enthusiastically acting out a late-night game of Truth or Dare in which he managed to persuade a worse-for-wear Stellan Skarsgard (a happily married father of six) to declare his undying love to the baffled barmaid.
'Ah, it was fun,' he sighs, slumping himself back into the seat, exhausted by his own laughter.
Another particularly vivid memory is of going to see ET for the first time. 'It felt like magic. I didn't just feel like I was in a cinema. I felt like I was somehow in the film. I was crying and wailing and smashing my fists on the side of the seats. I have a nasty feeling I really embarrassed myself in front of my school-friend whom my mum had invited along!'
'Do you know something?' he asks chirpily, and for a minute it looks as if he is about to take the light-relief, self-deprecating joke option. 'War broke out in the Congo the other day and most of the broadsheets didn't even mention it.'
Just as suddenly as he can turn from an interviewee into a politics lecturer, Dancy can rescue the situation from intensity. 'Oh, please let's talk about something frivolous,' he groans, and tells a very long, very funny story about the jealous husband of one of his co-stars threatening to kill him.
"And most importantly, the man can belly-dance. It's a skill he culled on holiday-at age five- and yes, he'll give an impromptu performance by request."
" I'm not a politician but I'd probably cross the floor continually like Winston Churchill. I'm not drawn to any of the major political parties. I'd probably get embroiled in some type of sex scandal which would mark me out for a succesfull career."
"My hangover was almost medical but, to my horror, Cuadri announced over dinner that he didn't trust anyone who didn't drink. I reached for the wine with shaking hands. When I began to pour it back-handed, Cuadri nearly had a heart attack - he said that was how the Romans tipped poison into a glass."
"Back in London, I took a taxi home from Paddington. The cabbie offered me tickets to the London Eye which he'd bought in order to propose to an American girl who'd then dumped him. I didn't accept."
Anyway, to the point...all quotes are from the man himself, and all can be found via hughdancy.info...ze BEST site for anything Hugh:
"There was this girl who played Miranda in 'The Tempest'. She was about four years older than me and I made the most amateur pass possible. I'd probably had about half a can of cider, and somehow I managed to get her to sit on a staircase with me. As she talked, I leaned over very slowly, without looking at her, and glued my lips to her neck, where they stayed, glued, for about ten seconds. Clearly nothing was happening so I moved away very slowly and we carried on talking. I wonder what she's doing now."
"Great guys to go to the pub with. And you can really work up a thirst, riding all day. I'd barely ridden before - and by that I mean not much rather than without any clothes on. God it hurt; eventually I was so bruised I went sort of numb."
'I think my greatest claim to fame so far,' the actor Hugh Dancy announces happily, 'is that I have been on the cover of not one, but two Penguin Classics.' The handsome 28-year-old grins proudly at the mere thought. 'Now that's kind of cool, isn't it?'
He has many a tale of Guiness-induced hilarity. One tale after the other tumbles out in breathtakingly quick succession. One minute he is expalaining the weekly stag party invasion with deadpan humour: 'There they are on a Friday night, full of bravado in their comedy hats, and you just now that in 36 hours' time they will be covered in each other's vomit.' The next minute he is enthusiastically acting out a late-night game of Truth or Dare in which he managed to persuade a worse-for-wear Stellan Skarsgard (a happily married father of six) to declare his undying love to the baffled barmaid.
'Ah, it was fun,' he sighs, slumping himself back into the seat, exhausted by his own laughter.
Another particularly vivid memory is of going to see ET for the first time. 'It felt like magic. I didn't just feel like I was in a cinema. I felt like I was somehow in the film. I was crying and wailing and smashing my fists on the side of the seats. I have a nasty feeling I really embarrassed myself in front of my school-friend whom my mum had invited along!'
'Do you know something?' he asks chirpily, and for a minute it looks as if he is about to take the light-relief, self-deprecating joke option. 'War broke out in the Congo the other day and most of the broadsheets didn't even mention it.'
Just as suddenly as he can turn from an interviewee into a politics lecturer, Dancy can rescue the situation from intensity. 'Oh, please let's talk about something frivolous,' he groans, and tells a very long, very funny story about the jealous husband of one of his co-stars threatening to kill him.
"And most importantly, the man can belly-dance. It's a skill he culled on holiday-at age five- and yes, he'll give an impromptu performance by request."
" I'm not a politician but I'd probably cross the floor continually like Winston Churchill. I'm not drawn to any of the major political parties. I'd probably get embroiled in some type of sex scandal which would mark me out for a succesfull career."
"My hangover was almost medical but, to my horror, Cuadri announced over dinner that he didn't trust anyone who didn't drink. I reached for the wine with shaking hands. When I began to pour it back-handed, Cuadri nearly had a heart attack - he said that was how the Romans tipped poison into a glass."
"Back in London, I took a taxi home from Paddington. The cabbie offered me tickets to the London Eye which he'd bought in order to propose to an American girl who'd then dumped him. I didn't accept."