Well done, Theresa, for volunteering to watch all Lucas' boo-dwarr scenes. It's a dirty job [too true] but someone's got to do it. Perhaps there's a second boo-dwarr scene with sheet-hoicking, but everything I've learnt from actor friends - I move in theatrical circles, darrrling - is that anything that isn't visibly naked is fully clothed and if anything's being fondled under the sheets it's the script editor's teddybear in an uncredited role.
Hmm. Gloves. When Mr Thornton rages off after his passionate and eloquent proposal has been rejected he leaves his gloves on the desk. Margaret then picks them up and gives them a pensive squeeze. There must be other glove moments too.
Other roles? 'Tis difficult. I can think of lots of villains but perhaps it's time for a change. I was wondering about Gatsby - who has a darker or at least hidden side - but is it important for Gatsby to be literally golden, as Robert Redford was?
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the ?creative temperament.?? it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.
Mr Armitage as Gatsby and me some talented actress as Daisy would be rather marvellous, I think. And the clothes!