tgi with Jeremy Northam
A half-awake dreamlet: Jeremy Northam, what if he dated me? He’s tall, quite tall. Would I fit under his arm? We might be there, hanging out, but with him a star and me just me, how could we really get to know one another? Maybe, I thought, we’d play a game, but there would have to be a wager, or a penalty to keep it interesting.
Giving or receiving?
What kind of penalty? he’d ask.
I’d give him an inscrutable look: A spanking.
His surprise in return: Giving or receiving?
Me, suppressing a grin: Winner’s choice.
Him: You’re on.
Ha ha ha, which would he choose? As we played the game, there would be the other playfulness of toying with each other, sending conflicting signals about what our preference would be. Ha ha! I wonder if IRL Jeremy Northam is any fun, or just a fairly tedious interview, flippant and narcissistic as most actors are and as he seems on youtube. Yet here is a man, if gossip sites are to be believed, who got into a relationship (or marriage) with a woman fans judged unworthy of him, a woman from Canada who is perported to be a former model/callgirl? If that is not, in fact, true, then he’s 40-whatever and never been married, despite being a movie star and cute, so he must be gay or seriously screwed up.
James McAvoy
Now, James McAvoy, I’d take him in a second except he’s married and probably (to judge by his remarks) devotedly so. He’s closer to M in physique and holding pattern, even in Scottishness, certainly in playfulness. Plus, he’s a way better actor than JN. He’s the real deal. He can show up in any stupid scene or movie and turn it on its head with his performance. This is one reason why I have cast him as the seductive bully in my book.
But JN likes to cook in his Norfolk house. *sigh* It’s possible he’s worthwhile in private. He’s certainly awesome in Emma. (Love the “badly done, Emma” scene! Just needs some domestic discipline to finish it off…) However, I don’t think JN is trying very hard in most of his roles. I wonder what he was like as Daniel Day Lewis’s called-forth understudy in Hamlet. I quite fancy a taller man…
March 14th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Have you seen _Enigma_? It’s an underrated film – although the ending doesn’t really work. But for me Northam steals it completely. It’s like he’s giving the rest of the cast an acting lesson.
March 14th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Yes, in fact the image is from Enigma – lol! I agree about the film’s shortcomings. Nice costumes – I find that period redolent with possibility…
March 14th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Bugger, I thought you might say that, but then he’s in plenty of period stuff so I was hoping I’d get away with it.