not needing much persuading

[calimac]

As someone who rarely hears about things I might want to watch on tv, and who inevitably forgets to watch them unless reminded, I'm writing this as much for myself as for readers who share two of my interests: The new Jane Austen adaptations are coming to US tv on "Masterpiece Theatre" starting tonight, and the first one is Persuasion.

I hadn't known the casting, so I was pleased to see that Anne's father ("Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character," says Austen: "vanity of person and of situation.") is being played by Tony Head. (And that sound is the other shoe dropping: I did say two interests.) Alice Krige as Lady Russell may also be known to some sf viewers.

I know it'll be imperfect, and if you go to IMDB user comments you can read Brits creebing about it, so my advice is: don't. See it yourself first.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I hve no idea who the actors are, but if I can stay up that late, I plan to watch.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Tony Head = Giles, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Alice Krige = Borg Queen in Star Trek films. Also Lady Jessica in one of the Dune adaptations. I haven't seen any of this.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

That would be zero for three for me. The spouse would know two, though he never liked Buffy.

Well, hopefully I can keep my eyes pried open to see 'em tonight.

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

Head was previously known to U.S. audiences for a series of coffee commercials, of all things.

Krige I most remember from her having played Bathsheba in an otherwise awful 1985 film, "King David," which starred Richard Gere. I realize that the use of the terms "awful film" and "Richard Gere" in the same sentence constitutes a tautology.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I know Krige only from many, many years ago when she sang Yum-Yum in "Chariots of Fire".

[lynn-maudlin.livejournal.com]

Alice Krige was also the actress love interest of the Jewish runner Harold Abrahams in Chariots of Fire - she has an interesting face and something intriguing about her manner of speaking; very watchable.

[lynn-maudlin.livejournal.com]

Funny, I responded to your first response to Sherwood but it appeared *here*, following a response I had yet to read! ach weel, the world conspires to make me look more hamm-fisted than I actually am!