Well to stage a Star vehicle you gotta have a star.

I know!

Nothing you’ve typed contradicts the point I raised though, which was that without diversity, without a chance to shine in the UK, they wouldn’t even be in the US, hence a certain tension about the veracity of opportunity and diversity, but thank you anyway. None of them would have their American careers without their…

Well there’s a contradiction here because Harewood, Oyelowo, Jean-Baptiste, etc. (it’s a very very long list), all became visible through their, often substantial, work in the UK, and return there when the US TV and movie offers dry up. Idris got a role like that (do you think he’d bother with Luther if he were still…

The UK is small. They produce a limited slate of TV drama. There is a very low glass ceiling. All British Actors have to get out to get on, that’s why so many of them are in US TV shows, whatever their ethnicities. Black actors are not exempt from that problem and the diversity issue belies the very visible and wide…

But you’re here right? Just be crazier than them.

If they don’t move their stuff when politely asked, I have picked up people’s bags and put them in their laps as I sit down.

I will walk on the feet of people who do that because I’m coming by and they need to move; I can do entitled too.

Am I the only one who sits down, taps their legs out of the way with my own and says I’m sorry you’re going to have to make room because I’m sitting here?

I know. I stopped, I looked, and then I thought well if they don’t care then why should I? It’s not as though it’s anything of any import and maybe her first language isn’t English. Onwards.

It takes time. It’s very boring. But it can be done. I did. My best to you.

He made that film with his, oh what’s it called? Acting! Wonderful acting.

Am I alone in having mine taken out with just a couple of injections as pain relief? It was fine. Really.

This will not go down well in the Carpathians.

Shhh! As long as they’re distracted with this crap they’ll be too busy to hunt us with Tigers.

Agree; Yacht pyjamas without a Yacht implies a certain sunny optimism.

It’s all too Demise of Isadora Duncan for me.

Only as coats.

As another movie states - we had faces then! Cabaret is so of its time it’s timeless. Fosse was a genius, Liza was a genius, Kander & Ebb’s score was a work of… and Marisa was really very good.

That was her tribute to the French Foreign Legion, she had something for all the regiments.