Peter Firth #3

[A Cousin]

Silktie Wrote:I wonder if they'll stay true to the clothes of the period or whether it will be tweaked slightly? I was a little alarmed to learn that the nuns of that time didn't wear underwear underneath their habits...

Yeah, well, you know, who's lookin'? Sure is going to make taking Miranda Richardson seriously difficult, though. She's playing an Abbess, correct?

loladom Wrote:I'll try to check it out online. Interestingly, the review on IMBD is really scathing of PF, singling him out for direct criticism. I suspect the writer may well have been more angry at the portrayal of Sir Fred in the movie rather than PF's abilities as he claims to know Sir Fred personally. Perhaps the poster doesn't feel it's a fair representation of him, which would be the writer's fault rather than PF.

I can see where this criticism is coming from. Sir Fred is a bit demonized and side-lined in the programme. I am not a personal friend of Sir Fred's , but I did a little bit (a very little bit) of personal research about him after watching Hawking. As expected, his contributions to cosmology are intriguing and thought-provoking and ground-breaking and all those other things that cosmologists get to spend their careers thinking about. But TV is TV. They needed conflict and there it was.

That said, I agree, for the reason you mention above, this does not diminish PF's performance of it. He goes at it with his usual dedication and conviction - all barrels firing. His job is not to judge the script he is given. His job is to act it.