Despite being the second choice actor for the casting team, he was hired after their first choice was unimpressive in his auditions.
Some theatrical long-runners end up looking like Dorian Gray's portrait, while the director and the first-choice actors show glossy new faces elsewhere.
Fantasies of a classless and post-racial society of empowered rational-choice actors bloomed as late as 2008, the year of the most devastating economic crisis since the Great Depression.
The deaths of Sybil and Matthew, Mr. Fellowes revealed, were not necessarily his choice — the actors playing those characters decided to leave the show to pursue other opportunities.
And so, as we so often see in other partisan debates, we can expect a systematic bias in word choice by actors on different sides of the debate.
THE German custom, when electing a new president, has been to sprinkle the assembly of politicians that makes the choice with actors, sports stars and writers.
But you were very unhappy with this film - why? LD: The script itself, the choice of actors, set, film crew, none of these things were our decisions.
Even as completely untried first-timers, he and Stephen Merchant somehow managed to persuade the BBC to let them do The Office entirely their own way, with their own choice of actors, their own script, their direction.
He also praised the director, Peter Kosminsky, on his choice of actors, saying: "Myself aside, I feel he has cast Wolf Hall with a superb eye for character and all the nuanced humanity Ms Mantel's masterpieces deserve".
Givenchy remains a popular choice for actors seeking awards season glamour - including Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot, who chose a gown from the label's Haute Couture collection for the 2018 Oscars.
