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In the interest of procrastination, here is a picspam of two wonderfully talented actors.

In my mental casting of Laurie R. King's The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Stephen Dillane (John Adams, The Hours) is Holmes and rising star Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, In Treatment) is Mary Russell. kismeteve and I have considered just making the film ourselves, ( Read more... )

This week, Matthew McNulty breezed into Lark Rise and Candleford as the whimsically named Fisher Bloom, an itinerant clockmaker who has been commissioned to create the centrepiece for the town square. McNulty can also be seen in the (soon-to-be released?) Salvador Dali biopic Little Ashes, in which he plays Luis Buñuel opposite Robert Pattison's ( Read more... )

My list of fantastic British character actors who have yet to be cast in a Harry Potter film starts off like this: Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox, Stephen Dillane...

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I'm not going to comment on all the things that the Emmys have gotten it WRONG YET AGAIN and concentrate instead on the fact that:

STEPHEN DILLANE IS A NOMINEE FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR!!!

So are his John Adams co-stars Tom Wilkinson and David Morse (in the same category), and Paul Giamatti (for best actor in a miniseries/movie ( Read more... )

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Jefferson/Hamilton picspam for floweringjudas, so_spiffed, and everyone who is a fan of HBO's John Adams, Stephen Dillane, or Rufus Sewell.

All screencaps are from John Adams Part 5. Download the whole batch (nearly 200) - here.

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