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[altariel]

Watching and reading R.F. Delderfield's To Serve Them All My Days sent me looking for clips from Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy (it makes sense), and lo - look who's playing Nanki-Poo (tall guy on the right wearing white and standing next to Shirley Henderson):

It's Kevin McKidd! Kevin bloody McKidd! And this makes me think that if Kevin McKidd is that tall, Ray Stevenson must be bloody massive. Because, you know, Vorenus is the small tense one, not the huge cheerful brutish one...

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[angevin2.livejournal.com]

I am such a dork that whenever I see Kevin McKidd in anything I think of him as Nanki-Poo in Topsy-Turvy! (Or Hotspur in the Fiona Shaw Richard II.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'd seen Topsy-Turvy years ago, but it wasn't till Rome (which I adore) that Kevin McKidd really popped up on my radar. So this was a treat.

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

So which character is expectant Beth? I don't remember, but I found that really difficult to believe - at that time and in a boys' school?
But, of course,Delderfield's own school was very ahead of its time.
I love that book!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Beth is played by Belinda Lang; she's rather lovely in the part. Davy is played by John Duttine. It's a great adaptation (early Andrew Davies); plays fast and loose with key characters (very Andrew Davies!). I just read the book for the first time: couldn't put it down.

Beth plays Yum-Yum: I suppose it explains the hasty marriage to Nanki-Poo!

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

Yum-Yum, of course - thank you.
I loved the book long before I saw the TV version- so any messing about didn't really impinge - it's the book that sticks with me!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

So glad you enjoyed both TV and book versions! I haven't seen the TV version since it was first broadcast and I've very little recall of what was changed between them. I do remember the car crash, and Julia in bed, and Boyer and Dobson trying it on in the first class. The book is one of my periodic re-reads.

Kevin McKidd doesn't ping my radar but I watched the clip for Shirley Henderson anyway, and because of To Serve Them All My Days.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I can bring the DVDs this weekend if you're interested in seeing it again.

Kevin McKidd is one of the leads in Rome: the one on the right in this icon.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

I should probably not have more things to be distracted by at the moment, but thank you for the offer.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Good plan. I can send them up as a reward when the dissertation is in the bag ;-)

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I think he was Vronsky last time round.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

In "World of Wonders," during Paul's period in Rep, he indignantly protests that, if anything, he is taller than the lead actor whom he so resembles. The stage manager tells him that if he knows what's good for him, he'll be shorter and STAY shorter. The actor-manager's elderly wife also manages to become a lovely ingenue when she steps on stage.

In other words, it's Theatrical Magic and not mundane tape measures that make the Smaller Man.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yes, a great surprise to see Michael Keating tower over Paul Darrow (well, he had a couple of inches on him).

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Mind you, even if Vila had been played by Jared Padelecki, fandom would *still* have seen Avon as taller than he was.

[manna]

The IMDB claims that Kevin McKidd is 6' 1/2" (aww, bless that half inch) and Ray Stevenson is 6' 4", so the answer seems to be that Ray Stevenson is indeed bloody massive.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Of course, everyone is bloody massive from my perspective.