Tonight at 9.00 p.m local time, episode 1 of STRIKE BACK will be aired in Italy on FX, a satellite channel (Sky Italia) . We Italian fans of Richard Armitage are glad and proud of course, but we all agree that dubbing his velvet voice with an ordinary one spoils the result, deminishes his great performance. Nothing against Giorgio Borghetti, only his voice doesn't fit the idea of John Porter we all have in mind. John Porter is Richard Armitage, body and ... voice!
A second reason of disappointment is that at FX, they decided to publicize the British series Strike Back focusing on the presence of Andrew Lincoln in it, as if he was the protagonist. Look at the official page they prepared on their site!
MA SI PUO'!!! I mean, IS IT POSSIBLE??? I usually forget my English when I get angry. To put ONLY a pic of Hugh Collinson there when the protagonist of the whole series is a JOHN PORTER? We know they did it because Lincoln is more popular than RA in Italy, thanks to his role in Love Actually and his latest series Walking the Dead. But that is simply not fair.
I can't translate all the comments in the page, but among the furious disappointed readers who left one, there's also a Mary and a Margherita (Margaret) I know very well...a very close acquaintance of mine.
I can't translate all the comments in the page, but among the furious disappointed readers who left one, there's also a Mary and a Margherita (Margaret) I know very well...a very close acquaintance of mine.
Still making up my mind whether to turn the TV on FX or not tonight ... My DVD with the original audio is much better. Fingers crossed for Richard and Strike Back on Italian screens, anyway! I hope they will get good reviews.
WE ALL TRUST YOU, JOHN!
WATCH THE ITALIAN TRAILER. WARNING: VOICE ALERT!!!
HEINZ KRUGER READS ... THE HOBBIT !
Today, back from work , I had a very pleasant surprise. In my awful withdrawal syndrome, this long article
( HERE, HERE & HERE) about Captain American The First Avenger (coming out July 2011) with a big still of Richard as Heinz Kruger is like fresh water in the desert. Even more, I liked the comment describing Richard reading The Hobbit in his trailer while shooting Captain America. It was two months before his being in the cast as Thorin Oakenshield was officially announced by Peter Jackson!
( HERE, HERE & HERE) about Captain American The First Avenger (coming out July 2011) with a big still of Richard as Heinz Kruger is like fresh water in the desert. Even more, I liked the comment describing Richard reading The Hobbit in his trailer while shooting Captain America. It was two months before his being in the cast as Thorin Oakenshield was officially announced by Peter Jackson!
I can just imagine what a volcano Richard can be. I have wondered many times and must do it again: "Does he ever actually relax and have a rest"?
Look at that picture above. The last role I'd see Richard in was ... a bloody Nazi. But there he is. And I bet he will be convincing. A bloody convincing wicked Nazi.
THE ROVER DELAYED
What will Richard be reading now, under a tree down in New Zealand, getting used to wearing a long beard in the heat? Something all about love ? The Rover, of course. But I'm sure he's already thinking of something else...
By the way, no summer trip to England to see The Rover it seems! The project had to be delayed. Have you read?
English Touring Theatre via www.RichardArmitageNet.com : "The Rover is still in play, but it’s unlikely to be this year. We are still keen to do it but there are lots of t’s to cross and I’s to dot before it’s definite. We do know that there’s a real appetite for it if a certain Mr Armitage is involved, but he’s going to be in NZ filming The Hobbit for the next while so we’ll have to wait and see for now…"
Thank you Ali for posting this. I knew New Zealand was too far and The Hobbit too huge a task to find proper time for a theatrical tour all over England ... but I'm pretty sad, pretty disappointed. I really hoped to see Richard on stage by the end of the year! But that will be some other time soon. Fingers crossed. Delayed gratification always takes greater joy, do you not agree?
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