The story is a bit loopy – orgies involving schoolgirls and high-ranking politicians, a Pygmalion-style bet, sisters who turn out to be mothers, suicides that turn out to be murders, all bathed in Puccini. Post-Morse has been pretty much bled dry with Lewis, so now we're going back to before, and a young detective on his first posting in Oxford in the mid-60s. The prequel is the new sequel, have you noticed? There have been loads recently – for Only Fools and Horses, All Creatures Great and Small, and … well, loads of other things. Robert Louis Stevenson, Captain Flint, Davy Jones, will be turning in their graves/lockers. They've changed it, not just unnecessarily but unquestionably for the worse, and that's a travesty. Not just a couple of Hollywood stars then, but a sugary soppy Hollywood ending too. In the book, he escapes, with a sack of coins, worth three or four hundred guineas – of course he does, he's a frigging pirate. They're saying: yeah, so it's what's driven us across the Atlantic, driven us to kill and to risk being killed, for page after page (and for nearly four hours of television), and suddenly we're not interested because, you know what, it's more bother than it's worth, and suddenly we're all better, non-materialistic people … No, I'm sorry, that's ridiculous. And, apart from Squire Trelawney, who goes down with it, the others – including Silver – let him do it. But then, at the end, Jim suddenly has a moral epiphany, realises that treasure isn't such a good thing after all, and throws it all over the side of the Hispaniola. Apart from the clunky cutting from the Caribbean to what Jim's mum and Mrs Silver are up to back in England, this is pretty faithful to the original. It's not as if this is a totally new and original take on RLS, such as, say, Steven Moffat on Sir ACD (though that's an idea, Treasure Island but with modern Somali pirates, I like that). But what they've done to the end really does. No, of course the colour of the parrot doesn't really matter. Bad casting – it's all about the look and the name over how suited to the part they are. And that could well be because scarlet macaws aren't known for mimicry or their ability to talk. And the macaw? It's hard to say – he doesn't say anything, not even "pieces of eight". Wood as Ben Gunn? Too hobbity for a rough sailor. The sudden gift of common sense, suddenly given to all the world.īuy the paperback version of Lost Christmas by David Logan, published by Quercus at the Guardian bookshop.I'm not sure about Izzard as LJS – he's very watchable but simply too nice. If there was a little Christmas magic in the world, what would your Christmas wish be? What would you have for Christmas dinner? Are you a traditional turkey man or do you go out of your way to avoid it? We used to write a list of what things we would like for Christmas and then the list would go into the living room fire and burn up and magically go off to Father Christmas. Trading Places, It's a Wonderful Life and Lost Christmasĭo you have any Izzard-family Christmas traditions? I already lost my mother, so nothing really compares. What is your Mutt? In other words, is there anything that you couldn't bear to lose and would do everything in your power to get back? Nelson Mandela - he had showed what a great politician can do. Which person, living or dead, do you most admire and why? Having just played Long John Silver in Treasure Island and Anthony in Lost Christmas, I feel I am now being offered the roles I wanted to play when I started wanting to act – which was when I was seven. But I like playing physical roles with characters who have depths that you can explore. I don't have dream parts because I don't want to be disappointed if I don't ever get to play them. He would just keep on going, affecting all the other characters in the film, until he felt he had finished his work.ĭo you have a dream part that you have yet to play? With Anthony I left my internal engine running on him but left him open – so he had a wistfulness but also a drive. This combination made him quite a joy to play.Įxplain how you became Anthony, what's your process? How do you get into his mindset?įor me to become a character, I have to bolt on the intrinsic parts of a new character on to the chassis of my own character. I also decided that he had all the knowledge in the universe at his disposal, but he didn't quite know how to control it or when that information would appear in his brain. I realised that as Anthony had no memory he also had no fear – which made him very ethereal to inhabit. What was it about the character of Anthony that attracted you to the part?
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