John Simm - The Locksmith - a picspam, part three

[qthewetsprocket]

yeah, yeah, i know...finally. here at last is the third and final installment; i hope it was worth the wait. (here's part one and part two, just in case you missed them) i will warn you, though - i've done my best to funny it up, i really have; but it's still depressing as all holy befuggery. you have been warned. oh, and certain bits are probably

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[snowgrouse]

UNF!

I thought it was insect repellant, that spray? Can't be 100%, but didn't she say something about it working on him the way it works on insects, fucking up his throat somehow so it'd lock up and he'd choke to death... still, fucking unpleasant. That was hard to watch, yeah. But the pretty definitely made up for it.

[qthewetsprocket]

hrm...you could be right, there. they were pretty vague about what that spray stuff actually was, but since she found it with a load of other cleaning products, i went with cleaning spray...plus, i have it rattling around in my brain that all propellants work in a similar way, ie oxygen deprivation, which is why some people use cleaning spray to get high (thus her saying it would be a very unusual 'treat' for him).

anyway, the insect spray would make better thematic sense, though, ie, alice exterminating what she saw as a piece of vermin. so i may change it. and yeah, i very rarely worry after actors in dangerous scenes, since they're usually babied to death otherwise...but that was definitely some kind of propellant spray very close to his mouth and throat. i don't care if it was just cooking spray, that can still be very dangerous. *bites lip*

[snowgrouse]

Yeah, fuck. I hope it was just a harmless water spray or SOMETHING. Because, damn it. All the torture combined with Simm The Method Man certainly made me worry a bit (knowing all those times he's injured himself while filming). The man is hardcore.

[qthewetsprocket]

the second gagging scene was another one that briefly took me out of the story over worry for the actor - if the cloth had gone in too far, he really could have choked on it, and you can actually hear him give a little cough to clear his windpipe after roland puts it in.

*didn't know about him hurting himself in other productions, but isn't a bit surprised - shakes head* actors and their machismo, eh?

[snowgrouse]

Dunno if it's just him being insanely absorbed in his roles, but yeah, angry young man trying to prove himself probably has something to do with it. He knackered his knee when doing those awful, laughable stunts in Chiller (so much that he says he can't play footie any more) and he broke a few ribs and got a high fever when doing Raskolnikov. He thought he was going to have a heart attack and die. But in the end, he said the high fever and cold sweat helped him get into the role even more. The man's hopeless:).

[qthewetsprocket]

my guess is that especially in places like the north of england, acting is still looked on as something of a sissy profession...so possibly one's sense of manliness would need to reassert itself by doing idiotically risky things to prove one's true butchness? anyway, it's a trait i've noticed in a lot of actors, and one that's both exasperating and oddly endearing in about equal measure.

*still really misses leeds, even with some of its badly outdated provincial attitudes*

btw, he can't play footie anymore? aw, that sucks...although he seemed to manage alright in that life on mars episode with sam's dad, no?