[LMB] Casting Ivan

Carol Cooper carolcooper at shaw.ca
Mon Oct 2 23:25:08 BST 2006


>Elizabeth Holden wrote

>--- Eric Oppen <technomad at intergate.com> wrote:

>> I always picture Ivan as very like Hugh Laurie,  the guy who played 
>> "George" (Prince Regent and later Lieutenant the Honorable) in the 
>> last two seasons of _Blackadder._

>That's not at all how I picture Ivan... I think of someone more like John
>Barrowman, rather slick and pretty.
>namaste,
>Elizabeth

That's true if you visualize him as he is now, playing House - but if you
think of him as he was in Blackadder or as he was in Jeeves and Wooster,
then I think he'd be perfect.  Ivan is sort of a Bertie Wooster with brains,
and Laurie didn't always look so weathered.
Carol





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