In my book Love: a Discovery in Comics (just out in stores!) I explore the Seven Year Itch, together with a therapist, who convinces me that what I need is to look about me for a new Love of my Life…
My favorite actor is Robert Carlyle – on whom I have a Celebrity Crush. Check this drawer of almost all of his movies I collected:
The picture of him that I used in the book is his incarnation as Dr. Nicholas Rush in Stargate Universe – where he is a tormented brilliant scientist:
I guess I have a thing for tormented brilliant scientists. Now that I think about it, Yiri is a tormented brilliant scientist in his own right – only a lot less moody than Dr. Rush, and not located at the other end of the universe, which is convenient.
The thing I like most about Robert Carlyle as an actor is his versatility. Look at all these different roles he has played!
From psycho Begbie in Trainspotting (1996)…
…and again in the sequel T2 Trainspotting in 2017…
…to the grieving & dancing widower in the very romantic Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (2005)…
… to shady dealmaker Rumplestiltskin in the TV-series Once Upon A Time (2011-2017), which earned him wider fame and a whole new fandom…
… to the awkward barber in The Legend of Barney Thomson, his film directing debut in 2015…
…and British Prime Minister in the upcoming TV-film COBRA:
EDIT: AND, this just in, he played a 78-year old John Lennon in the movie Yesterday that was released this week! Uncredited, but it’s unmistakably him:
…and that’s just a small selection of the many roles he’s played in his 30-year career!
In my book, I have him turn up at the dating agency:
And we go on a date!!!
What happens next…?
Find out by reading my book!
