catching up on the first morning of a lovely three-day weekend

[innie_darling]

Hi, everybody!

I'm temping at a place that has blocked access to gmail and many other websites (though not John Finnemore's blog, on which I'm all caught up), so I'm feeling very out of the loop. I've been meaning to make a post in any case, but this will have to be short(ish) because I want to spend today making edits to my casestory fic

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[aelfgyfu_mead]

Lee Pace has been brilliant in the few things in which I've seen him, but I've never seen him live!

[innie_darling]

My top three Lee Pace roles (in no particular order - they're all tied) are Ned the Piemaker in Pushing Daisies, Calpernia in Soldier's Girl, and Roy Walker in The Fall. Have you seen all of those? Tell me what you love him in!

He's super cute onscreen, but live, he's just GORGEOUS. I can totally believe that story that Amy Adams told of having to send him out of the room while she did a scene for Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day because his hotness was distracting her from across the room!

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I haven't seen Soldier's Girl. I first noticed Lee Pace in Wonderfalls, where he was a fairly minor character (Jaye's brother Aaron) but really stood out in my mind for what he did in the scenes he had. (Have you seen that? I loved that show. I was crushed when it was canceled.) Of course we watched Pushing Daisies because of his performance in the earlier Bryan Fuller show, and The Fall and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day because by then we were tremendously impressed with him. (I am blessed with a husband who shares my enthusiasms for certain shows and actors.)

I hadn't heard that Amy Adams had to send him out of a room!

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Oh, and you know Lee Pace has been cast as Elven King Thranduil in The Hobbit, right? (Found a random blog entry about the casting here; there are lots of news items, but they're mostly brief notices with a sentence or two.)

[innie_darling]

I did know that because there are apparently some hardcore LoTR fangirls on my flist! I was going to see the films anyway because of Martin Freeman and Richard Armitage, but now that Lee and Stephen Fry and Benedict Cumberbatch have joined, I might even stand in line for them!

[innie_darling]

I did see him in Wonderfalls, where his character seemed to have a crippling shirt-button allergy. The ep where they chase their maid to Canada, and he's trying to figure out if his sister really can be listening to the cow creamer, is a personal favorite.

The Fall is quite possibly my favorite movie ever.

I think everyone should see Soldier's Girl, but you have to be prepared to sob. He plays a lovely character named Calpernia, a former military man who's living her life as a woman when she falls in love with a young male soldier. He makes a stunning woman - the word "wasp-waisted" could have been coined just for him - and he's so young and soft-faced and vulnerable-looking.

The Amy Adams thing - see here.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Oh, that interview clip is adorable!

Yeah, I'd heard that Soldier's Girl is a multi-hanky movie, and . . . I have enough trouble coping with everyday life (which is funny, because I actually have a really good life). I usually try to avoid movies that I know will make me cry. (Away from Her with Gordon Pinsent left me totally wrecked for most of a day.)