Series 10 Casting Discussion

[binkie]

(28-11-2010 02:31 PM)Nitrus Wrote:  What do people think about the HomeSec returning? William Towers I think his name was?

I really like the slightly spiky relationship between Harry and this Home Secretary. I like the fact of Towers' innate sense of entitlement (this might be a coalition government, but he is an old school Tory for sure) and his evident perception of Harry as someone who is useful in an unenviable job, but who is otherwise of little interest. Harry is a sort of pre-political, or apolitical, animal. This cannot help Towers advance his own career and is therefore irrelevant. I enjoyed the slightly sinister undercurrent of Towers telling Harry that he would be on his side in the course of an enquiry because I got the impression that what he really meant was that he didn't want to have to go through all the administrative hoopla of finding a replacement. Better the devil you know, etc.

Simon Russell Beale also played the character of Kenneth Widmerpool in the Ch4 production of A Dance to the Music of Time. I find it quite fitting that he should now find himself in the role of a Home Secretary with similarly questionable personal motivation in a political setting. I would definitely like to see more of him and more of william Towers. Perhaps he is the George Smiley figure setting Harry up to take the fall in season 10?