Jim Broadbent
Physique: Average Build
Height: 6’ 2" (1.88 m)
James Broadbent (born 24 May 1949-) is an English actor. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1972, he came to prominence as a character actor for his many roles in film and television. He's received various accolades including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award. Notable film roles include Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Topsy-Turvy (1999), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Gangs of New York (2002), Another Year (2010), The Iron Lady (2011), Le Week-End (2013), and Brooklyn (2015).
Broadbent is kinda cute in glass, in a nerdy old dad kinda way, in something, but didn't blow me away. Later I saw him in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and thought Wow! And he has managed to become more and more adorable with each passing year.
Broadbent is married to costume designer-turned-artist and he is stepfather to her two grown-up sons. He is an atheist and is fond of wood carving. That last part is good to know as I've got a piece of wood I'd gladly let him handle. Hint. Hint. Its my penis.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Hot Fuzz (2007)
The Gathering Storm (2002)
Iris (2001)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
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Jim Broadbent
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Jim and Jim Carter. A nice English Daddy sandwich. Yes please.
But I feel like I'm missing something.
Imelda Staunton? Perfect.
What? Still BI. And want her to wear her Dolores Umbridge dress. Or dressed as Queen Elizabeth II. What? Let me have my fantasies.
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I read Hot Fuzz not as copaganda but as a rather overt condemnation of the vigilante cop trope and the very messed up damage people can inflict on an entire community when given unlimited authority.
The whole "break a bunch of laws for the greater good" thing is explicitly stabbed at, mocked and ultimately condemned as the central villains are revealed to have the pettiest motives for murdering random people.
The police chief was like Dirty Harry on steroids with a bloody cult on his side that needn't be held accountable for anything.
The main character Nicholas Angel grew up feeling lied to about people's supposed noble intentions, and lies were what kept true justice at bay in Sandford until an abused, neglected son decided to hold his dad accountable regardless of the consequences for himself.
Parental abuse, country bigotry, purposeful deceit and misdirection by authority figures, blind hatred and the impulses that followed.
These are not subtly hinted at, these are front and centre in Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz.
To think it was a film from 2007, too.
Also David Bradley was funny as hell.
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Watching Inkheart. It's been years. I forgot Helen Mirren was in it
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Director Nicholas Hytner and writer Alan Bennett are collaborating again, with The Lady in the Van, The History Boys and The Madness of King George duo set to team on The Choral, which will star Ralph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent and Simon Russell Beale. Production begins in May in Yorkshire.
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Strange to me how one of my favorite Dalek color schemes only exists within The Curse of Fatal Death
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This striped waistcoat was first spotted on Jim Broadbent as Mr.Worrall in the 1994 film Princess Caraboo. The following year it was worn by Christopher Benjamin as Sir William Lucas in Pride and Prejudice. In 2003 it was spotted in Looking for Victoria when it was worn by an uncredited actor as George IV. From there it went on to be worn twice by Rupert Vansittart - first in 2013 in Austenland as Mr. Wattlesbrook, and later as Charles Lawton in a 2022 as episode of Gentleman Jack entitled I'm Not the Other Woman, She Is.
Costume Credit: Shrewsbury Lasses, Alana
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That´s also my fav genre😊 Keep your superheroes and give me more Calendar Girls, Marigold Hotels etc 💜
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