burntcopper: (pout)
burntcopper ([personal profile] burntcopper) wrote2009-02-19 03:19 pm
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important casting notes for Othello

Looking at the pics of Lenny Henry in Othello.

Eleanor : he's not good-looking enough for the role. Too heavy, for a start.
Me : Do you have to be? :thinks: ...Yeah, actually, you're right. maybe it's different on stage?
Eleanor : maybe. Not quite convinced. Especially in that outfit.
Me : It's a good outfit if they were doing it as Idi Amin. Except that would work better for Macbeth or Richard III.
:both of us do the mutter about the Fishburne/Branagh version not being available on dvd, with my added mutterings about not getting to see Chiwetel Ejiofor:

Seriously. Apparently we're hard-wired to think of Othello as really good-looking.

[identity profile] xenaclone.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe I'm weird, but I find Lenny to be sexy [GG]

[identity profile] burntcopper.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
just not in that outfit. makes him look a lot thicker/podgier than he actually is. Seriously. Idi Amin.