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Well, I've run out of time! And there’s only one Geoffrey sketch for me to post on this special day, a sketch of the role I love above all his others, the performance that drove me into a different leg of the trousers of time: it’s Francis Walsingham from Elizabeth (1998), of course! (One of my fellow Rushies, lovely apple4b, referred to me as “walsie girl” back in the day and it stuck - or I adopted it!)
Why is he so hot??? XD Ahem, I mean, my Walsingham sketch!
I still have so much love for this character, for this performance, and I think the thing I love the most is that Geoffrey Rush “got it”, too - he understood and appreciated when someone valued his work and bounced off it. And I can never thank him enough for it. Happy 70th birthday Geoffrey Rush and thank you for giving me Walsingham who has lived rent-free in my head since 2005 and is still proving to be an artistic muse and gives me so much joy. And thank you for being so wonderful to me and so many of your other fans: for signing things off as “Walsie”, for calling me “Spymaster” or “HRH”, for making time for any and all of us when we chased you across country or the world, and for, all-in-all, making me and many others insanely grateful and happy. It is not forgotten.
I managed 13 other sketches overall in the countdown to Geoffrey’s birthday. I may continue to draw more over the course of the next 12 months, too as there are still sooo many amazing roles to sketch! Here's Hans Hubermann from the wonderful "The Book Thief" movie adaptation (who I forgot to post here the other week):
My sketch of Hans. I wimped out on the accordion...
And my other sketches, good and bad, are as:
- Basil from "Eye of the Storm" (2011) and Michael from "Storm Boy" (2018)
- Nigel from "Finding Nemo" (2003)
- Casper from "Candy" (2006)
- Ezylryb from "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" (2010)
- Virgil Oldman from "The Best Offer" (2013)
- Inspector Javert from "Les Miserables" (1998)
- Stephen Price from "House on Haunted Hill" (1999)
- Leon Trotsky from "Frida" (2002)
- The Marquis de Sade from "Quills" (2000)
- Harry Pendel from "The Tailor of Panama" (2001)
- David Helfgott from "Shine" (1996)