Charles Dance

He was also sexy as hell as Julian Glover's German henchman in For Your Eyes Only opposite Roger Moore.

He IS Charles Dance!

[quote] The Jewel in the Crown

Also starring Eric Porter.

R3 and Peggy Ashcroft

I think the first time I consciously saw him was in The Golden Child. I rewatched it a couple of weeks ago and it held up quite well. He's a wonderful villain.

Puke.

Loved him in White Mischief.

I always felt he should've played Magneto in the X-Men movies than Ian McKellen.

A tremendous talent and a delight to work with.

He is really tall, like 6'4 or 6'5

Wasn't he in that B.A.P.S. movie that Halli Berry starred in?

I truly would listen to this man read a phone book. Fabulous voice, wonderful presence. Love him.

Hot as pies.

[quote]Puke.

Ditto.

I was just going to bring up Tracey Ullman and Meryl Streep. That’s the consensus on who the person is who the two of them couldn’t stand working with. Tracey is a sweetheart and cuts people a lot of slack. If she says he was a nightmare, he was a nightmare.

When he talks ruefully about cheating on his ex-wife it sounds very practiced.

The first time I really noticed him was in Alien3. Great presence and calm intensity, great voice.

Chomped by an alien, shot by a crossbow wielding dwarf on the toilet, he has some creative deaths under his belt

R15 When did they both say he was terrible to work with? I always heard/thought he was a professional, like most British men of his pedigree and how he carries himself.

He seems to die in a lot of projects. Must have a Sean Bean thing going.

Good choices

He was great as Justice Wargrave in And Then There Were None (2016).

The rest of the cast list included Maeve Dermody, Aidan Turner, Burn Gorman, Toby Stephens, Miranda Richardson, Noah Taylor, Douglas Booth, Anna Maxwell Martin, and Sam Neill as General McArthur

Does anyone else love Desert Island Discs?

I was going to ask what his body was like, but not now…

Great body even today, but especially when he was younger. He's really gorgeous in "White Mischief."

I think he's from a working-class background, which is surprising given how often he's been typecast as an aristocrat.

Didn’t Meryl hate him on “Plenty”? I recall the only thing he said was “we got along when our characters got along.”

He jumped off the screen for me in Alien 3, too, R17. I’m sorry to hear he’s been considered a jerk.

I love one exchange he has with his wife as they’re going down to dinner in Gosford Park.

Wife: “It’ll be a relief to me to talk to someone who isn’t deaf in one ear.”

Him: “Excuse me?”

I loved him in Game of Thrones. I forgot he was in Alien 3.

He should have been cast as Prince Philip in the last two seasons of The Crown.

He directed Judi and Maggie in Ladies in Lavender.

They should have saved him to play Philip in the last two seasons of The Crown, instead of casting him as Mountbatten.

He would have been great as both

I can't believe he played Stan in Childhood's End

*Satan

Sorry, I posted before finishing my thought. That show felt like a fever dream, but in a good way.

Guy Perron was a great Bond audition.

Bond needs to carry himself credibly in a white suit snarking at an arms dealer as he is in a fist fight with a hired thug.

Dance's performance as Perron was charismatic, likeable and debonair, with an pragmatic edge underneath.

I especially liked his sarcasm at Merrick being consistently promoted.

That cynicism was pure Bond.

He was also very good looking. He and Greta Scacchi were one of the sexiest on-screen couples of the '80s. No way they weren't fucking during "White Mischief".

They made a Childhood's End adaptation? Is it any good?

Oh Meryl did not like him? Who fucking cares. Charles is touchable.

He looks like one of the aristocracy.

Criminy! Is DL crawling with pedos?

I loved him in Last Action Hero. He was the only saving grace in that one.

[quote] I’m sorry to hear he’s been considered a jerk.

He's a typical luvvy.

An open letter by over 2,000 celebrities criticised Israel but failed to condemn Hamas

The letter, signed by celebrities such as Steve Coogan, Tilda Swinton and Charles Dance, accuses the Government of “not only tolerating war crimes but aiding and abetting them”.

In particular the letter condemns Israel’s actions in retaliation against terrorist group Hamas, opening with: “We are witnessing a crime and a catastrophe. Israel has reduced much of Gaza to rubble, and cut off the supply of water, power, food and medicine to 2.3 million Palestinians.”

He was also The Phantom

Arrogant ass.

Sexy af.

Meryl expected to have an on-set affair with him and he demurred. That is why she found him “difficult”

Bullshit, R43. It was Tracey Ullman who made a thinly veiled reference to him at Meryl’s AFI Tribute. Meryl’s never commented on him as a professional or otherwise.

Starting with Guy Perron….was not interested in Game of Thrones until I heard he and Diana Rigg were in it. The pros showing the pretty people how it’s done.

He reminds me of Ryan Corr, just a little.

You're right R44. It might be impossible, however, to say she "never" commented on him. She let her mask slip a bit when she laughed and nodded vigorously when TU talks about how there's always that one actor on every set who no one likes.

Why does Meryl have to fuck all of her leading men?

De Niro, Grant, Nicholson, Irons, Redford (?), Brandauer, Kline, Quaid, Eastwood, Brosnan, Russell, Scheider, Begley, Bacon, DiCaprio, Neeson, Firth, Skarsgård, Hurt, Cooper, Pacino/Kirk/Wilson, Hanks, Washington, Tucci, Cruise, Chalamet, McGregor, Garcia. I mean, not exactly starving for choice.

[quote] De Niro, Grant, Nicholson, Irons, Redford (?), Brandauer, Kline, Quaid, Eastwood, Brosnan, Russell, Scheider, Begley, Bacon, DiCaprio, Neeson, Firth, Skarsgård, Hurt, Cooper, Pacino/Kirk/Wilson, Hanks, Washington, Tucci, Cruise, Chalamet, McGregor, Garcia.

Meryl's an amateur.

Joan was fucking Ty and much younger Ty

[quote]He directed Judi and Maggie in Ladies in Lavender.

There was a story on Popbitch that he was fucking Judi around that time. She would have been in her mid 60s and her husband Michael Williams had died recently.

Not long after that he dated Sophia Myles when she was in her early 20s and he was mid 50s.

He was beautiful in "The Jewel in the Crown."

He was excellent as the lawyer Tulkinghorn in the BBC's adaptation of Bleak House, orchestrating Honoria Dedlock's downfall.

And he got to bang Ripley (one of the most bangin' heroines in film history) in Alien 3.

He had a small role in late 90s Brit rom com What Rats Won't Do, from the writer of Stop! My Mom Will Shoot! and Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde.

Dance appears in his underwear at 1.34 and clearly had a personal trainer for the shoot but be careful, he'll have your eye out.

[quote]He's a typical luvvy. An open letter by over 2,000 celebrities criticised Israel but failed to condemn Hamas. The letter, signed by celebrities such as Steve Coogan, Tilda Swinton and Charles Dance, accuses the Government of “not only tolerating war crimes but aiding and abetting them”.

I had the misfortune to see an Artists Against Israel video where Dance and his friends were acting out South Africa's Iran funded submission to the International Court of Justice. Imagine a bunch of am dram enthusiasts high on cocaine and you get the vibe. Lena Headley or whatever her name is from Game Of Thrones read it like she was auditioning for Sarah Tobias in The Accused.

R52 They met on the set of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, the 2001 miniseries, not the film.

Dance was Uncle Ralph and Sophie Myles was Kate.

He was 55 and she was 19.

He played a hit and run killer in a Tales of the Unexpected.

He was also in China Moon, a knock off of Body Heat. Dance played the rich husband. Ed Harris is the fool cop, Benicio del Toro is his partner, and Madeleine Stowe is the vixen.

I have a China Moon rental coming. I can just feel it!

[quote] He's a typical luvvy. An open letter by over 2,000 celebrities criticised Israel but failed to condemn Hamas

How dare he not have the exact political opinions as you do!

There's only ONE opinion to have on this matter, which is yours, and it completely overrides any other discussion of any celebrity!

I do not find your bringing this up over and over again tedious or obsessive at all.

Who was Brit psycho hottie in Jewel in the Crown? It wasn’t Dance.

[quote]Why does Meryl have to fuck all of her leading men?

Because...

R62: Tim Piggott-Smith played Sgt./Capt./Major Ronald Merrick.

He said that Meryl was under a lot of pressure when they filmed "Plenty", that a lot of attention was given to how well her movies fared at the box office. He also said they got along when their characters did, and not so much when the characters didn't. He maybe pulled some method shit on set. Who knows. I doubt she hated him but it seems he didn't endear himself to the cast, who all had good things to say about working with La Streep.

R21 I came to post that, I thought he was wonderful in And Then There Were None, which was a terrific adaptation. The Phelps adaptations decreased in quality thereafter

Apparently, he's a nasty piece of work - and not in the good way.

[quote] He also said they got along when their characters did, and not so much when the characters didn't. He maybe pulled some method shit on set.

Dance seems too old school to be into Method Acting. I bet his opinion of it isn't that much different than Laurence Olivier's and Brian Cox's.

R67, the Method is frequently a catch-all term used for any type of psychological approach to performance and does not necessarily mean a strict adherence to Stanislavky's approach. Things such as feeling closer to an actor you are supposed to be friends/lovers with onset and being distanced from those you are not frequently occur without any deliberate premeditation or as part of a larger system of acting technique, but can be referred to as 'method' in a casual way because they move offstage, so to speak. Whatever Dance, Olivier or Cox's view of the "Method" may be does not preclude them from consciously or unconsciouly practicing psychological performance techniques.

R64 nobody ever described Tim Pigott-Smith as a hottie, even Mrs Pigott-Smith (should such a person exist)