Monday, January 22, 2007
toby stephens
Three cheers! There's another stunning British actor on the scene, one who's been around a few years to those in the theater know but emerging as a big deal only now to the rest of us. Stunning, by the way, in both senses of the word. He's Rochester in last evening's and next Sunday's Masterpiece Theatre's Jane Eyre and was the villain in Die Another Day (Daniel Craig's James Bond film). He's handsome as can be but without much smolder, so his is an unusually not-unpleasant Rochester although I must admit I quite like his portrayal. (Freud would be relieved to know that one Bronte's symbols are intact - dark and white horses, fire, flowing water, etc., etc.) There's a YouTube interview with him from the BBC's morning programme and a fan site of course, though not a particularly fawning one, which is nice. A few years ago when younger than 35, he made a huge stir in Hamlet in London; as the son of Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, perhaps his talent is genetic.
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