llywela: (Judge)
llywela ([personal profile] llywela) wrote2017-01-10 11:56 am

hey, it's that guy!

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...

[identity profile] llywela13.livejournal.com 2017-01-11 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
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!!!"

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

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

[identity profile] catsdownunder.livejournal.com 2017-01-11 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
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.