Peter Firth #3

[A Cousin]

(26-10-2011 05:36 AM)loladom Wrote:  I agree with all you say and more besides, I don't understand why he hasn't been nominated thus far? (Would Kudos have to pay him more if he'd won the BAFTA previously????)

I must confess to fearing that the length and quality of his portrayal of Harry Pearce may have shot him in the foot, certainly in the UK. Where does he go from here? Peter himself has said that he has to be careful with that.

He very well may have been nominated but didn't make it past the initial voting stages to the short list of nominees released to the public. As I understand it, the actor (or the producer) submits one episode as a representative of their work. 10.6 is that episode if there ever was one! But Spooks has been such an ensemble piece that I suppose it is possible that there wasn't one episode that worked as a good nomination for him? Or he didn't want to submit something for himself.

Kudo's would only have had to paid him more for winning a BAFTA if he got that negotiated into his contract for the following series. It's a two-way street. Salary isn't the only negotiating tool in the box, either.

I wouldn't worry too much about the role of Harry pidgeon holing him career-wise. My take is that it is a damn good role by which to be defined. Even without a BAFTA, he is better off having done it than he was prior to the beginning of Spooks. He's already better off than 90% of the actors out there trying to get a job. He'll be fine....