McDiarmid also played Henry Fielding (humorist and founder of The Bow Street Runners, the pre-Scotland Yard London police force) in the Channel 4 series CITY OF VICE, which had an...interesting way of presenting 18th Century London:

I thought it was 1. : )

Always weird to see McDiarmid playing sympathetic or relatively normal people. He was really good in an episode of MI-5/Spooks as a mild-mannered mathematician who gets drafted into intelligence work against his will (the agency had subsidized his university fees decades earlier) and gradually realizes that he enjoys…

I walked right into that one.

It seems understandable to me why celebrities in general wouldn’t want to weigh in on controversies that don’t affect them directly. 

No, ‘bullshit’ is too many letters

The first revived model of the Mustang looked good as did the Camaro. Then they both gilded the lily.

They could just not do business there, considering the atrocities that China commits on a regular basis.

Daniel Craig IS Henry The VIII IN: The Fish Wife.

They’ve done so much shit I forgot about the Hong Kong thing. Thanks for the reminder. 

“As individuals, we care about treating everyone around us with respect and dignity.”

On your mark. Get set. WAAAAAAAA!

Friendship ended with Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tarts

“Oh, my God, that’s disgusting! Tifa Lockhart hentai porn? Where? Where did he post those?”

spoken like a man who’s never had one ounce of sex.

we should also ask ourselves, “If I were in the same position, would I be able to say no to her?”

People laugh about that, but there was the time he covered himself with bones strapped to his costume with mummy wrappings to fight ghosts. And it worked.

Couch.

I also thought of this as soon as I heard about the Fresh Prince reboot although I imagined it as more of a horror series with Urkel serving as the tragic villain. Being rebuffed in his amorous and social pursuits turns Steve inward, desperate to fix those parts of himself he sees as holding him back.