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Jilly Cooper

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chocolateandcoffee · 03/05/2012 20:43

Should have name changed for this but I'm to lazy, oh the shame Grin

After seeing Mrscampbellblacks nick name on the s&b threads. It reminded me how much I enjoyed her books. Can anyone remember what sequence they follow before I pounce on the second hand book shops.

Was it polo, riders, jump.

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Get0rfMoiLand · 04/05/2012 20:31

That bloke who played Lucius Malfoy!

letseatgrandma · 04/05/2012 20:31

Yes-he can do arrogant and smirky, but still isn't very good looking!

fussbucket · 04/05/2012 20:30

go back and look at mycat's link, he's got the right arrogant smirky look!

BerryLellow · 04/05/2012 20:29

Cumberbatch is just not hot

Get0rfMoiLand · 04/05/2012 20:25

Cumberbatch is NOT GOOD LOOKING at all enough for RCB

ReactionaryFish · 04/05/2012 20:25

Ok I didn't want to say this but I have to be blunt: Cumberbatch mings.
minging is surely a total disqualification from playing R C-B. If there's one thing R C-B does not do, it's ming.

SleepyFergus · 04/05/2012 20:24

Live and lived = love and loved!

fussbucket · 04/05/2012 20:23

His character in Warhorse was upper class and thick!

mycatsaysach · 04/05/2012 20:22

he's a good actor fish - he could play not cerebal and go blond

SleepyFergus · 04/05/2012 20:22

Another Jilly fan here! Polo is my favourite - Luke and Perdita!!! So lived that live story. Yes they did marry and have little Eddie!!

As for who could play RCB - reckon Jonathan Rhys Meters or Henry Cavill (my absolute lust magnet) could play him. JRM has the arrogance, perhaps Henry would be too nice and he's all mine anyway, I wish

I'm just about to start maternity leave myself so may need to download them all for the kindle and start from the delicious beginning that is Riders....

ReactionaryFish · 04/05/2012 20:21

NOT CUMBERBATCH he looks weird and too clever. R C-B is not cerebral. That's the last thing he is.

letseatgrandma · 04/05/2012 20:19

I don't think Cumberbatch is blond or good looking enough.

Janey was fab too-you'd need someone good to play her.

BerryLellow · 04/05/2012 20:19

Did Lizzie Vereker go off with Freddie?

fussbucket · 04/05/2012 20:19

Ooo Fish, that photo's convinced me!

Who shall we cast for Taggie?

ReactionaryFish · 04/05/2012 20:19

Penry-Jones not handsome enough and too middle class.

BerryLellow · 04/05/2012 20:18

Definitely not Cumberbatch, nonono

Dominic West maybe not RCB, but he should definitely get a part

fussbucket · 04/05/2012 20:18

We seem to be stuck on Ruperts here. I think Rupert Penry-Jones could still just about do it, he did bastard vair well in Silk last year.

ReactionaryFish · 04/05/2012 20:18

No I can see Rupe being played with a undercurrent of repressed homosexual desire - animal, vegetable, mineral, he's so randy he'll shag anything

letseatgrandma · 04/05/2012 20:16

Hmmm, I can't think who is handsome enough to play R-CB! Someone a bit posh, obviously. Rupert Penry-Jones style, but he's a bit old.

fussbucket · 04/05/2012 20:15

The trouble with Rupert Everett is that we all know he's gay, even tho' he's a damn good actor, and RCB is so very very not homosexual.

fussbucket · 04/05/2012 20:14

Class is unnervingly accurate even 40 years on. GetOrf, there are definitely some RCBs here (N Wilts), maybe they've all migrated 50 miles down the M4?

hermionestranger · 04/05/2012 20:14

Luke not like.

hermionestranger · 04/05/2012 20:13

Didn't like marry Perdita? They had little Eddie who was good at skiing.

ReactionaryFish · 04/05/2012 20:12

If Rupert Everett was 10 years younger and shaved that bloody beard off he could do it ... I know not blond, but definitely posh and arrogantly handsome