Toby Stephens

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Married? Attached?

He and Damian Lewis should totally play brothers and soon. Not only do they both have that incredibly unusual and sexy dark red wine hair, but those deep nose to mouth lines.

Robert Stephens must have been absolutely gorge, because Dame Mags bless her, whilst i think she's cool is not a looker. Reminds me about a quote i once read about Angelina Jolie: [She's] "proof that Jon Voight married up from his aesthetic caste".

[Augustus]

I believe he's married to an actress from New Zealand.

[indygirl]

ridha said:

Robert Stephens must have been absolutely gorge, because Dame Mags bless her, whilst i think she's cool is not a looker. Reminds me about a quote i once read about Angelina Jolie: [She's] "proof that Jon Voight married up from his aesthetic caste".

I always thought Maggie was quite lovely in her younger days. She was very pretty in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

[nadia]

I had no clue who this guy was so I googled him and he. is. pretty. Do me.

According to IMDB, he's married to Anna-Louis Plowman, since September 15, 2001. He also has a brother, Chris Larkin.

[hal9000]

His brother is the guy who accidentally shot Paul Bettany in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. And one of the non-incestuous people in Angels and Insects.

JANE EYRE trailer!
The music and the voiceover is kinda annoying, but so far, I likey. Very passionate acting.

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I think he has only come into his own acting-wise very recently. For a long time, I thought he was over-reliant on his looks and connections and didn't put much more than that into his performances. I was proved wrong (very, very wrong) by his beyond excellent performances in Cambridge Spies and The Queen's Sister. He does have an amazing talent - with the right part - and I am very interested to see what he will do with the part of Rochester.

Also quite attractive. I never saw his turn as Gatsby in that "new" version of The Great Gatsby but I imagine that he was quite good. He does inscrutible but compassionate quite well and I think that has the possibility of making an excellent Gatsby. Still, Mira Sorvino as Daisy just made me recoil in horror and I never saw it. I might have to change that in the near future.

[hal9000]

It is fun thinking of the different interpretations of Rochester. I actually like what they did with this one - thankfully, not too much shouting (Welles), staring (Dalton) and tantrums (Hinds). Toby Stephens's Rochester is brusque, quick tempered and very snarky with a core of diffidence, fragility and sweetness, whilst being a valid interpretation.

Regarding the script, they threw out the dialogue, chopped it up and reassembled it. Some of Bronte's language was there, some of it placed in a different order and a lot of it rewritten. That took a lot of getting used to and quite pissed me off at first, but I liked some of the changes, like geeky botanist Rochester The entire opening from the Reeds' to Lowood was simply awful, but it kicked into gear when Ruth Wilson took over - she did well, as did Toby.

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Totally when the horrid aunt was yelling at her being an 'unnatural child', and young-Jane was staring back, i was thinking 'yeeeeaaah, well... bitch kinda has a point'.

Toby Stephens is my fave Rochester ever. I WISH he had played Darcy in P&P instead of that lizard Colin Firth.