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Sean Bean

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RachelTopliss · 20/07/2023 08:00

One trick pony. AIBU?

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Laiste · 20/07/2023 11:26

@WestwardHo1 The bast'ad clip is so funny 😂 Haven't seen it for ages. I think there's one around where half way through they loose the rest of the sentence and just cut in him simply saying the word bast'ad bast'ad bast'ad in all his different outfits and it's relentless and hilarious 😂

I notice it's mostly Sharpe bast'ad ing away. God he was lovely wasn't he! 😍

KatherineSwynford1403 · 20/07/2023 11:08

Lagershandy · 20/07/2023 09:52

I have that clip I my YouTube favourites. That eyebrow lift😍

Mind you, I am a Sheffield lass so just a bit biased!

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Owl or Blade?

Mrsjayy · 20/07/2023 11:05

AgnesX · 20/07/2023 10:58

He's not done Sharpe kind of stuff for donkey's.... (cor 🥴)

Can you remember him being lady Chatterley lover I blush thinking about it 😳

AutumnCrow · 20/07/2023 11:04

So he has been Shaun Bean but prefers to be seen as being Sean Bean?

ErrolTheDragon · 20/07/2023 11:01

A while ago, we watched a nice little series of 'Yorkshire wildlife through the seasons', narrated by SB. At various points in the autumn episode, when animals were preparing for the cold or migrating or whatever, if it had been anyone else they surely would have said "Winter is coming"... somehow they managed not to.

AgnesX · 20/07/2023 10:58

He's not done Sharpe kind of stuff for donkey's.... (cor 🥴)

Imsureitsprobablymebut · 20/07/2023 10:56

Is that you Colin ?

Grendalsmum · 20/07/2023 10:50

DS and his mates have a Sean Bean Says Bastard drinking game - Sharpe boxset and everyone slams when they hear the magic word ... Very messy indeed.

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 20/07/2023 10:43

But nobody says Bastard with more feeling, or in more varied ways

AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes · 20/07/2023 10:35

Lagershandy · 20/07/2023 09:52

I have that clip I my YouTube favourites. That eyebrow lift😍

Mind you, I am a Sheffield lass so just a bit biased!

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Hi would you mind linking this please? I tried to look it on YouTube and couldn't find it!

MrsSkylerWhite · 20/07/2023 10:34

You are presumably a polymath, OP?

trulyunruly01 · 20/07/2023 10:32

I didn't like that recent BBC drama Marriage but his acting in that, a far cry from his usual type, was not at all bad.
I agree about Daniel Craig - I was knee deep in nappies and baby sick when OFITN came out so just recently watched it (quiet night shifts). I was quite taken aback by his acting.

KvotheTheBloodless · 20/07/2023 10:26

He's a splendid actor, but he needs to sort his name pronunciation out. It's either 'Seen Been' or 'Shorn Born', he can't have it both ways.

justteanbiscuits · 20/07/2023 10:22

I so would

WestwardHo1 · 20/07/2023 10:19

RachelTopliss · 20/07/2023 08:00

One trick pony. AIBU?

I don't think so. The character he plays in The Martian is kind and thoughtful. He seems like a lovely uncle in it.

EleanorRavenclaw · 20/07/2023 10:18

Sean Bean was tremendous in that series where he played a transvestite and Stephen Graham was his boyfriend. It seems to have been forgotten about. I also liked him in the drama about a priest. Also recently he showed vulnerability and sensitivity in Marriage with Nicola Walker. He is very varied and a very clever actor. He doesn’t always play tough guy roles. The only thing I’ve not seen him do is comedy although I could be wrong.

Catspyjamas17 · 20/07/2023 10:15

I didn't think much of Daniel Craig until I saw him in Our Friends in the North, he was brilliant in that. In so many other films you could replace him with a cardboard cutout, for me.

Tom Cruise is one who is Tom Cruise in everything.

Though to be fair, so was Cary Grant. But Cary Grant was amazing, so that's ok. 😍

Catspyjamas17 · 20/07/2023 10:13

Not at all, I think he has really developed as an actor over time and is pretty good.

ErrolTheDragon · 20/07/2023 10:09

Had anyone mentioned Michael Caine? He always seems much the same in everything, but I can't think of a film of his that wasn't good. We recently saw one set in America - there was a brief reference to the 'brain drain' which solved his being unmistakably English nicely.

ErrolTheDragon · 20/07/2023 10:06

FanFanFanFanYam · 20/07/2023 09:44

I love Harrison Ford but do think he’s very similar in everything - he does it really well though.

Why would anyone want Harrison Ford to be anyone other than Harrison Ford?Confused

icebearforpresident · 20/07/2023 10:02

I haven’t watched a lot of things he has been in but I do love that in The Martian he’s playing a Nasa flight director and absolutely no one bats an eyelid that a guy from Yorkshire is in that position. Is his American accent that bad?

Lagershandy · 20/07/2023 09:52

ThelmaBorden · 20/07/2023 09:10

my all time favourite fwiw was the brief glimpse of him in M&S Christmas commercial amongst a host of celebrities Men bearing gifts total yum

I have that clip I my YouTube favourites. That eyebrow lift😍

Mind you, I am a Sheffield lass so just a bit biased!

Mrsjayy · 20/07/2023 09:46

gazpachosoupday · 20/07/2023 09:28

This is why I like Sean Connery, no matter what nationality he was, always sounded Scottish

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My favourite Sean character was his the scot/Russian in hunt for Red October beats his .Scots/irish/American in the untouchables.

FanFanFanFanYam · 20/07/2023 09:44

I love Harrison Ford but do think he’s very similar in everything - he does it really well though.