Friday, May 20, 2022

Technically This Post is About Downton Abbey...


I wasn't sure which Downton Abbey actor I would use a photo of to grab your eyeballs with to direct you over to my review of the new Downton Abbey movie which just went up at Pajiba, read it here. Whenever Downton comes up I usually always vacillate between Allen Leech and his bulging trousers and the porcelain-pretty homosexual-footman Rob James-Collier, who once stuck his tongue in Charlie Cox's mouth to my everlasting pleasure. But then I saw the above photo of Hugh Dancy in plaid pants (okay it's houndstooth, whatever, close enough) and it was game set match even though Hugh's only just now become a Downton boy with the new movie, which has him playing a Silent Film Director who comes to Downton and bats his pretty eyelashes at Lady Mary. Doesn't it seem though like Hugh Dancy should have been on Downton Abbey ages and ages ago? How is this just now happening? Anyway the important thing is it happened. Now go read my review. But wait, I have more...
 
... I don't know where the hell my head has been but I had no idea that Hugh was in a TV series with former-Piz Chris Lowell! Did you? There is too much damned TV. The show is called Roar and it is on Apple+ and it's actually an anthology series, so Hugh & Chris are only in one episode (it's the sixth episode). They star in that episode alongside Alison Brie, which is of note because the series is from the creators of GLOW, which of course starred Brie & Lowell previously. (Oh man I miss GLOW so fucking much, you guys.) 

Lowell, a terrific photographer whose work I've posted before here on the site, posted these snaps of Hugh on his own Instagram -- I love the thought of him putting his hand to Hugh's face and turning it into the light just right, don't you? Like that scene in Clueless with Brittany Murphy holding the rose. Well these are the places my brain automatically goes anyway. 

And since we are here and I'm looking at Chris's Instagram and I'm seeing all of the sexy self-portraits that he's posted over the past few months that I have missed, well, that obviously cannot stand. So I'm gonna post those too, right on after the jump... 







1 comment:

Pierce said...

I saw Downton Abbey: A New Era today and will probably see it again next week. It's lovely, and Hugh Dancy's quite good in it. His hair is longer and he flirts with Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary. Still, it's a beautifully crafted addition to the great story of the Crawleys. Oscar nomination for the costumes, too!!