WHY THESE ACTORS?

If you're interested in knowing why I choose these particular actors to follow, here's some background information.

I have always liked period dramas, and have seen many British productions on my local PBS, so I have admired the quality of the actors and the movies/series for many years.

When I discovered Pride and Prejudice 2005 with Matthew Macfadyen, I had an epiphany of sorts. I will not say it was love at first sight with Matthew, but he certainly impressed me enough to watch the movie over and over again when they replayed it that particular weekend. He mesmerized me with his performance, I couldn't stop watching it.

Then I decided to look him up online, since I had never seen him before. I found out what his name was and then found a certain website that obsesses over him, which I joined for a period of time, but then discovered it was not my thing, mainly due to the rudeness and immaturity of its members and owners. That is all I will say about that. It was the first and last time I would join any kind of fan site.

I found Mathew extremely interesting as an actor and of course his good looks didn't hurt either. Slowly but surely, I started watching different movies of his and finding that the roles he played where very varied and opposites, from one to the next project. This I found wonderful. Nothing worse than an actor that is stereotyped and plays the same type of roles all the time, in my humble opinion.

Thanks to Matthew, I have discovered all my other favorites and will never look back. I find British actors to be an interesting kind of  'celebrity', they all seem so 'normal' and low key, at least the ones I like do. To me that is paramount, I don't care for diva type of celebrities. Modesty is a requirement in my book and I think all of the actors represented in this blog have that in common, they are very modest people.

Matthew helped me discover Luke Evans, who in my book is the most lovely man (of the famous type) I have had the pleasure to know. Such an unassuming, talented and lovely person. Luke co-stared with Matthew in The Three Musketeers and played Aramis perfectly. I think he is currently one of the industry's brightest stars and will go very far.

I have been very excited to watch Luke on the silver screen in Muskteers, Immortals (with Henry Cavill) and The Raven. I look forward to his upcoming projects, No One Lives (with Derek Magyar and Jake Austin Walker), of course The Hobbit (with Richard Armitage) and the rumored The Fast and The Furious 6 in which he will supposedly play the villain. Luke has a promising career ahead of him.

At some point I will continue to talk to you about the rest of the lovely actors featured in the blog.

For now, good night!