Posted by James Gibbon on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Fw-SHADO-DOES-STRAKER-HAVE-TO-BE-AMERICAN-ACTOR-tp1514093p1514135.html

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:49:11 -0000
"Lightcudder" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> He's british, but you can't have everything. Take a look and tell me
> what you think?
> Sean Bean and Richard Armitage, ....winning combination eh girls?


Ah yes. A versatile actor - played the bloke who marries the Vicar of Dibley,
and a top MI5 operative in 'Spooks'. I believe he's been in some BBC period
dramas as well, but I avoid them like notifiable diseases.

Actually I always thought there was something a bit unnatural about his
performances in Spooks. He seemed a bit detached, somehow. Not quite
convincing. A bit wooden, if I'm brutally honest.

I think his predecessor as the male lead in Spooks, Rupert Penry-Jones, would
carry off the Straker role better.

But if the film does get made I suspect we'll see the Straker part delegated
to a much less prominent role than that of Foster.

James