Colin Firth as Mr Darcy

[Thurlow]

I haven't watched this in years.

Good lord. Has there ever been a better - or fitter - bit of casting than this?

Much as I love Richard Armitage in North and South...

Darcy's hair alone has me going weak at the knees though the wine may have something to do with that too

Am I allowed to flail and squeal on a mumsnet AIBU thread?
It's the eyes, they are mesmerising.

Oh sweet Jesus - the eyes, they look right through your soul

The eyes coupled with his beautiful voice, fatal combination. I'm coming over all unnecessary here, will have to go and artfully drape myself on a chaise longue and fan myself.

Emotions, yes, the voice has to be lovely. Realised recently all my favourite actors/actresses have presence somehow and lovely voices.

Plus even when Darcy and Thornton look wistful it is still smouldering somehow. Sadly I can't show you as my photo allowance is not back yet

Spooky I think we may need the recruiting forms out

SlightlyJadedJack I am forever in your debt for that photo popping up as I returned to this thread.

You're welcome.

The toddler has just spent 45 mins lying on me watching Mr Thornton propose.

I have also taught her the phrase "handsome man" which she can now say on seeing Richard Armitage, David Tennant and the Musketeers.

Am very proud of my parenting

Excellent parenting, Thurlow, although I worry a little at your teaching a susceptible young mind that DT is handsome. I think he looks like a rodent.

Hold on Thurlow, I approve of your choices but what about Darcy? MaudantWit DT is luffly, although perhaps a little rough around the edges now. Trying to think who else merits the handsome man tag.

I am impressed she sat for 45 mins, obv RA charms any age

Is there an RA klaxon that I have missed? I love how a Darcy thread has moved on, as long as you agree with the handsomeness that is a CF Darcy

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any discussion of male actors in period dramas will end up as a discussion of nothing more than Richard Armitage's finer points

I'd teach her to say it about Darcy but CA doesn't do it for me in anything but P&P.

My proudest moment as a parent was when she was helping me to tidy up, picked up The Musketeers DVD box, and took it over to DP - "look, Daddy, it's handsome men!"

Thurlow

You are teaching your daughter well.

I know what you mean about CF, he is edible as Darcy but not so much in other things, although still a fan of his acting. Just show DD him as Darcy for the 'handsome man' quote, bless her . Am loving her comment to your DH, she has good taste early .

DP, sorry

Thurlow, Queen, Ehric, Floop, Dilys, someone else.....I applaud you! Try as I might I can't engage dh in a properly meaningful conversation about how amazing and perfect and funny and hot and brooding Toby Stephens is as Rochester. He's watched it with me a couple of times but he just doesn't get it And yes, his Jane is brilliant too. I don't want to derail but if any of you Toby fanciers still around which part do you love best? I like it when he suggests pilot would have been a better correspondent than Jane but that's not the most swoonsome bit. Perked up now with these thoughts, thanks all.

I need to rewatch. I do like the bit when he's taunting jane with Blanche Ingram. He's a horrible cunt really but a sexy one.

I have had a crush on mr Darcy since reading the books as a teen, and Colin firth was excellent:) slightly worrying that my all time life crush is a fictional character though! Apart from James blunt.

But, my best friend ( male) knows of my crush and always writes and talks to me in mr Darcy way of speaking:)

Didn't Colin and Jennifer have a rl affair though? Which must have helped the lustful looks during filming:)

And bridget jones was based on p&p. so Colin firth was a masterpiece of casting, along with Hugh grant as the naughty wickham/ Daniel

Ok, so I've got over my excitement a little and now read the whole thread. Yes, emotions and Thurlow the bed post wedding scene is scrum. It's all the unsaid stuff in everyday situations that gets my pulse racing. Brilliant.
And thanks to whoever pointed out Toby is in tenant of wildfell....I'm going to look it up immediately but I do think nothing is going to top my Mr Rochester.
I'm off to Google Richard Armitage too. No idea.

Can you imagine how fraught with sexual tension life must have been in those days? Nowadays we have multiple outlets for perving socially acceptable appreciation of handsome men/slebs. There was no MN or HEAT or People magazine in those days...no embarrassment of BBC period dramas to lust over. High stakes, people .

Oh god, I know. And because your 'pool' was so small, unless you lived in a big city, you'd get scammed into thinking really average looking fellas were complete babes when they weren't at all.

Oh, Eco the proposal scene in the TS version, under the tree, where Jane still thinks she's being sent to Ireland and she's crying because she admits that she loves him and thinks she has no chance because she's "poor, plain, obscure and little" and he tells her that he could never love Blanche and that he wants Jane to be his life companion .

He's a horrible cunt really but a sexy one

YY, exactly. Life would certainly not be boring with Mr Rochester...

Just finished N&S. Forgotten so many of the good bits. Especially that bit at the train station where she is trying to explain her business proposal and the way she goes "you could give me a much better rate of... argh... business..." when she realises the way he is looking at her. Because it's the sort of look that could strip knickers off a nun.

Haven't seen the Toby Stephens Jane Eyre for a while. Sadly DP finishes his night shifts tonight. I really want to watch JE again now!

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