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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 24, 2020 13:00:39 GMT
Thought they were a bit too raw at the moment so left them out. I thought it was more because they couldn't have any actors of that age range? Don't need to look 'too far', Stephanie Cole would be prefect |
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Post by theatremadness on Jun 24, 2020 13:15:14 GMT
I thought it was more because they couldn't have any actors of that age range? Don't need to look 'too far', Stephanie Cole would be prefect No, I think talkingheads means actors of that age because of the pandemic we find ourselves in! When these were filmed, I don't think it would have been permitted to have an elderly person come and film in a studio. |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 24, 2020 13:48:16 GMT
Don't need to look 'too far', Stephanie Cole would be prefect No, I think talkingheads means actors of that age because of the pandemic we find ourselves in! When these were filmed, I don't think it would have been permitted to have an elderly person come and film in a studio. See what you mean |
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Post by princeton on Jun 24, 2020 13:55:21 GMT
It's exactly that. Actors of the correct age for the two additional pieces would have been in high risk category when they were filmed. Once there are fewer restrictions perhaps they might think about doing them. I'd love Anne Reid to do Cream Cracker - amazing to think that's she almost ten years older than Thora Hird was when she did the original. Her one-minute piece for the BBC was an hint of what could be.
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Post by craig on Jun 24, 2020 18:32:46 GMT
Watched the first two on BBC1 last night and will watch the rest on iPlayer at my leisure.
Imelda was sensational. She really is becoming an absolute national treasure. She had big shoes to fill, and she managed it.
An Ordinary Woman... WOW. Very disturbing. Such a nuanced, devastating performance from Sarah Lancashire. I was blown away.
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Post by distantcousin on Jun 24, 2020 20:09:32 GMT
It's exactly that. Actors of the correct age for the two additional pieces would have been in high risk category when they were filmed. Once there are fewer restrictions perhaps they might think about doing them. I'd love Anne Reid to do Cream Cracker - amazing to think that's she almost ten years older than Thora Hird was when she did the original. Her one-minute piece for the BBC was an hint of what could be. Yes to Anne! Inspired choice! |
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Post by talkingheads on Jun 24, 2020 20:32:08 GMT
Watched The Shrine, and of the two new ones it's my favourite. Both are wonderful but there's a quietness to the grief in The Shrine that bit by bit unfolds to be absolutely shattering.
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Post by distantcousin on Jun 25, 2020 11:11:25 GMT
I've watched the first 4 today. Harriet Walter also brilliant in Soldiering On, a better production than the original. Jodie Comer not so good in Her Big Chance. Quite flat, I thought. Jodie is definitely underplaying it. And her accent is all over the place |
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Post by talkingheads on Jun 25, 2020 11:19:17 GMT
I've watched the first 4 today. Harriet Walter also brilliant in Soldiering On, a better production than the original. Jodie Comer not so good in Her Big Chance. Quite flat, I thought. Jodie is definitely underplaying it. And her accent is all over the place It highlights the difficulty of remaking the monologues. They were written for a specific speech pattern and rhythm that some of the actors are avoiding because it would be copying the original. But it means that the words don't roll off the tongue as they should. |
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Post by basdfg on Jun 25, 2020 14:18:29 GMT
I wonder if the BBC will pull Maxine Peakes episode from BBC1 after her antisemitic comments.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jun 25, 2020 15:35:32 GMT
I wonder if the BBC will pull Maxine Peakes episode from BBC1 after her antisemitic comments. And all episodes of Dinnerladies will have to be withdrawn |
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Post by lynette on Jun 25, 2020 16:09:04 GMT
It’s gonna be ‘she’s a brilliant actress but’ for a long time...
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Post by talkingheads on Jun 25, 2020 20:57:09 GMT
Watched Hand of God and if anybody is equal to Dame Eileen Atkins it's Dame Kristin Scott Thomas. Her face at the end is a masterclass.
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Post by alicechallice on Jun 25, 2020 22:43:24 GMT
I wonder if the BBC will pull Maxine Peakes episode from BBC1 after her antisemitic comments. She didn't make an antisemitic comment. |
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Post by sf on Jun 25, 2020 23:12:57 GMT
I wonder if the BBC will pull Maxine Peakes episode from BBC1 after her antisemitic comments. She didn't make an antisemitic comment.
Are you absolutely sure of that?
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Post by theatremadness on Jun 25, 2020 23:22:24 GMT
I wonder if the BBC will pull Maxine Peakes episode from BBC1 after her antisemitic comments. She didn't make an antisemitic comment. Apologies for derailing the thread but I have to reply (and I didn't bring it up!). Then why have Amnesty International released a statement that they never reported that kneeling on someone's neck, as in the case of the murder of George Floyd, was taught to the US police by the Israeli police as a result of Maxine Peake's comments. Maxine says she “was inaccurate in my assumption of American Police training & its sources” - so where is your proof please? Legitimate criticism of the Israeli police is not anti-Semitic. Perpetuating conspiracy theories based on anti-Semitic tropes (Jews being accused of secretly orchestrating disasters and starting race-wars) is, surprise surprise, anti-Semitic. |
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Post by alicechallice on Jun 25, 2020 23:47:21 GMT
Listen, apologies to all, I hadn't read much more about it in the last few hours so wasn't aware of the latest developments or Maxine's apology or the fact there was a whole thread on the matter here.
The temptation to respond just caught me while I was trying to wind down after a very stressful day in which I've decided I dislike most people. So, funnily enough I hadn't been anywhere near a website for a while.
No offence intended.
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Post by distantcousin on Jun 26, 2020 19:41:06 GMT
The actor in Playing Sandwiches to me really didn't have a firm enough grasp of the text. It was a mediocre performance
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2020 22:57:42 GMT
Unfortunately, An Ordinary Woman was spoilt for me before i watched it, but the first part of it sounded very much like Patricia Routledge.
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Post by alicechallice on Jun 26, 2020 23:25:05 GMT
Unfortunately, An Ordinary Woman was spoilt for me before i watched it, but the first part of it sounded very much like Patricia Routledge. Patricia Routledge wouldn't waste her breath getting giddy about her 15 year-old son's big knob. She's far too moral for that! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2020 0:34:05 GMT
Unfortunately, An Ordinary Woman was spoilt for me before i watched it, but the first part of it sounded very much like Patricia Routledge. Patricia Routledge wouldn't waste her breath getting giddy about her 15 year-old son's big knob. She's far too moral for that!
You might want to put that in spoilers!
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Post by distantcousin on Jun 27, 2020 18:42:56 GMT
Bloody hell, Martin Freeman gabbled through A Chip In The Sugar like he had a plane to catch later!
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Post by bimse on Jun 28, 2020 7:28:04 GMT
I enjoyed the original series so much, and I’m so familiar with the performances , which is probably why I haven’t taken to this series. Jodie Comer , who I love in Killing Eve , didn’t get the phrasing right at all , not like Julie Walters . As for the new monologues , not a pleasant watch for me despite the finest actors .
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Post by talkingheads on Jun 28, 2020 11:34:07 GMT
Lesley Manville is sensational in Bed Among The Lentils. I didn't think about Naggie Snith's version while I was watching it and it stands on its own.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 28, 2020 12:59:15 GMT
Not entirely related, but this morning I watched BBC's 102 Boulevard Haussmann, a fine screenplay by Alan Bennett about Proust (Alan Bates), his maid Celeste (Janet McTeer) and a rascally violist he falls for (Paul Rhys). It was absolutely lovely - so good in fact that Bennett recycled a lot of lines from it and put them in The History Boys, including that wonderful speech in which Hector tells Posner that reading ideas that you thought were just your own on a book is as if the writer's hand had come out of it to take yours or something on that line.
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