tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post9406125396038698..comments2024-03-28T15:43:10.488-04:00Comments on my new plaid pants: Johnny Flynn Nine TimesJason Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254334131909339157noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-30905418672184008762020-01-24T12:49:38.331-05:002020-01-24T12:49:38.331-05:00I really admire Andrew Scott's work, but, at 4...I really admire Andrew Scott's work, but, at 44, isn't he a little too old to play Ripley? I've always thought of Ripley as being in his late 20s. (And, of course, nobody can play Ripley as well as Sigourney Weaver, but she's too old as well.)<br /><br />First saw Johnny Flynn in a 2006 time travel movie called "Crusade in Jeans", in which he's a teenage football (ie soccer) player who sneaks into a time machine so he can go back and replay a match that his team lost. His plan does awry, and he winds up centuries earlier than he expected.<br /><br />More recently, he starred in a British series comedy series originally called "Scrotal Recall", about a man who is diagnosed with chlamydia who has to contact all his previous sex partners. You can watch it on Netflix, under its new name, "Lovesick".<br /><br />Just noticed that Flynn himself is now 37, so the whole Ripley/Greenleaf relationship is going to be unlike the one in the book and 1999 film.<br /><br />PS If you haven't seen it, check out "Purple Noon" a 1960 French version of TTMR with Alain Delon killing it as Tom Ripley.<br /><br />PPS Johnny Flynn scars are the result of a childhood mauling by a dog.Bill Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14090695771392453047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-24076075134389992072020-01-24T12:42:16.168-05:002020-01-24T12:42:16.168-05:00I've seen him play menacing and charismatic,bo...I've seen him play menacing and charismatic,both in film ("Beast," with Jessie Buckley) and on stage ("True West," with Kit Harington). He's not as conventional a choice as, say, a Douglas Booth or ... actually, Armie Hammer. But he could definitely pull it off.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05281727200554480875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-73157896154018542202020-01-23T21:58:18.050-05:002020-01-23T21:58:18.050-05:00I saw him on Lovesick, a british sitcon on netflix...I saw him on Lovesick, a british sitcon on netflix, and he is as sexy as a dumb rockAnhonymusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-5698436578891798922020-01-23T21:24:16.202-05:002020-01-23T21:24:16.202-05:00He did a lot of comedic British stuff (and quite a...He did a lot of comedic British stuff (and quite alright, actually), but had a big leading role in Crusade (or Crusade in Jeans). That is the film version of a classic Dutch (it was an international co-production so not so Dutch as a film) children's book from the seventies or eighties about a teenager accidentally time traveling (in a machine his mom Emily Watson built) to the crusade era and becoming a misplaced messiah-like figure as he stood out so much with his 20th century ideas and individual drive. It was an excellent film for kids (and nostalgia driven audience) and he was terrific as a the starring lead. And for any Dutch once kid like me a classic character perfectly well realized on screen.<br />So I love him, and handsome as he was then and stil is he seems a quite exciting pick for such a prominent role.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-39126818303514532812020-01-23T20:14:11.754-05:002020-01-23T20:14:11.754-05:00he was the lovesick dobbin in the recent mini-seri...he was the lovesick dobbin in the recent mini-series 'vanity fair', which didn't require a lot of him other than mopily longing for that idiot amelia sedley [but he looked good doing it]<br /><br />apparently he was mesmerising in the london & off-broadway productions of 'hangmen' but he's obviously too busy to go to broadway with it [dan stevens is taking over]par3182https://www.blogger.com/profile/03647653154201086767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-59601609748088837562020-01-23T19:49:51.079-05:002020-01-23T19:49:51.079-05:00I hope you're feeling better.I hope you're feeling better.Jeff Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06243942754278085336noreply@blogger.com