Mind fart
So while we're at it I loved the mind boggling piece of casting that is Gary Oldman in Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkhaban and it set me too thinking about other opportunities to stretch our more intense acting friends: oh yes, panto
You could have John Malkovitch in Dick Whittington. The Wooster group in Snow white and the seven dwarves(who's Snow white going to be?) and Chris Ecclestone as a panto dame in something, Cinderella surely.
Actually that last is fast becoming a redundant point as I hear La Ecclestone is soon to be performing as Doctor Who. The poor Doctor hasn't had it so good really. His lsat few TV incarnations served mainly as evidence of the lack of good old fashioned character actors and his most recent movie outing was essentially an opportunity for US/Canadian bean-counters to demonstrate their fundamental failure to 'get it'.
Doctor Who isn't Captain America or Superman or the Incredible yadda yadda. He is English amaturism gone mad. He is The Pimpernel, Sherlock Holmes, Robinson Crusoe (okay Scottish), Phileas Fogg (a French invention. See? Even the French understand us better) and probably James Bond rolled into one. I should probably include Adam Adamant and Peter Wyngard's Jason King character here but unfortunately am too young to have seen them.
So will Ecclestone get with the program and out act the special effects that the american backers will almost certainly insist upon? I think I've just talked myself round.
