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Funny the things you can spot when re-watching old shows, things you'd never noticed first time round, or had no reason to notice at the time but which take on a different meaning with hindsight. I put on a random episode of Judge John Deed last night (you know, just for the smiley twinkliness of Martin Shaw), and who should show up in it but Peter Capaldi as a corrupt politician (he’s cornered the market there) and a baby Santiago Cabrera, in almost his first ever role, as a young male prostitute giving evidence against him.



I think I knew, at the back of my head, that they'd both been in the show at some point, but hadn't realised they were in the same episode, facing each other across the courtroom.

I wonder if they remembered each other when they worked together again, years later, as fellow regulars on The Musketeers...

Date: 2017-01-10 12:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thisbluespirit
Haha, nice catch! It's a very incestuous world, acting. Knowing Brit acting they probably not only remembered each other but had also done other TV/theatre/radio together by that point.

Date: 2017-01-10 06:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] llywela13.livejournal.com
LOL possibly - although then again, it's a very brief little scene they share, and Cabrera has worked more in the US than over here, so possibly not! It just struck me as funny to see them together like that, so many years earlier.

Date: 2017-01-10 05:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] solosundance.livejournal.com
Oh, nice! Love the then and now pictures :D

Date: 2017-01-10 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] llywela13.livejournal.com
Hee, actor-spotting is always fun, but all the more so when you spot these little connections. And thanks - I should have dug out better pics of Richelieu and Aramis, really, but just went for a scene where I knew they were looking at each other, for the parallel with the scene in JJD where they are facing each other across the courtroom. Not that you can actually see that they are looking at each other, but I know!

Date: 2017-01-10 10:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catsdownunder.livejournal.com
WOW ... well done. Yes, understand what you are saying ... you discover actors down the track and sometimes that leads to research because you are curious as to what they have done before ... and BAM ... no wonder you looked familiar. This is what happens to me ;)

Date: 2017-01-11 06:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] llywela13.livejournal.com
Hehe, half the shows I watch I sit through going, "I know him, I know her, what's s/he been in???"

But in this case, I knew both Capaldi and Cabrera pretty well from The Musketeers and other shows, so it was more a case of, "Wow, I didn't know they were in this together, look how young they are!!!"

Date: 2017-01-11 08:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catsdownunder.livejournal.com
We pick up a lot of actors who have worked on Midsomer Murders ... thankfully IMDb rescues us when the memory fails.

Date: 2017-01-11 08:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] llywela13.livejournal.com
Midsomer Murders is the ultimate 'hey, it's that guy' show!

Date: 2017-01-11 01:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catsdownunder.livejournal.com
I am going to get out of the loop now ... they are changing the offsider too quickly ... and Lawrie is getting fed up with the amount of people getting killed each episode.

Time for a sea change but nothing around is grabbing my attention.

Date: 2017-01-11 10:26 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Most old programmes are watched with Imdb on the browser for that very reason :) It's quite astonishing sometimes.
Even 'new' (as in just a few years old) progammes can pop up faces which make you look twice and reach for the computer.

Carol

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