Julian Rhind-Tutt (Dr 'Mac' Macartney in comedy TV series Green Wing), currently to be seen opposite Tom Hollander in Joe Penhall's dynamic play Landscape With Weapon at the National Theatre, who will play Monks in the BBC's adaptation of Oliver Twist. John Sessions and Morven Christie will also star in it. Recently, I mentioned Timothy Spall would play Fagin with Tom Hardy as Bill Sikes. The drama, which begins filming next week, will run on BBC TV over Christmas.

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What a lovely Christmas present!!

indeed! :D
can't wait!

Oooooh, yay! :thumbsup

Look :high

yaaaaay can't wait :excited

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1065309/

Michelle is in this too! :D

http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/all-sta...f-oliver-twist/

"a woman with a penchant for hats" lol

Definitely one to watch, this.

Rob Brydon, Gregor Fisher, Edward Fox, Tom Hardy, Sarah Lancashire, Sophie Okonedo, Julian Rhind-Tutt, John Sessions and Timothy Spall star in the BBC adaptation of Oliver Twist.

*cough*

topics merged :high

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:faintz ohhh look he's got candles coming out of his head :)

:lol: IMO's wonderful caption capabilities showing through nicely there. B)

This looks gooooooood and even I agree with the :wub: s over that pic. *fans self*

I notice Michelle Gomez is in this as well! :) :) :) She plays the undertaker's wife, who has a penchant for hats. B)

it's starting on the 18th of december and ends on the 21st apparantly :)

Ooh! I love Oliver Twist...and all those people in the adaptation. I am in anticipation of the 18th december!

Jrt really suits the whole Victorian look i think

He does, doesn't he? :wub: :wub: :wub: It prompts me to use one of my current fave quotes (a Borat one): "Very nice; how much?" ;) ;) :lol: God, you know what it's like when you can't stop saying something? For some reason, I just haven't been able to stop using that quote about twenty times a day recently! :rolleyes:

ooooh he does :wub: can't wait for it to be on! :D

haha that was the same when i first saw borat, i couldn't stop saying that or going round saying high five! :lol:

:lol: Yeah, Borat quotes completely STICK! "High five!!" ;)

I saw the trailer for this last night!!!!!!!!! :high I think Julian was in it for a total of one second and only part of his face, at that. :( :( I'll pay more attention if I see it again, though.

Is that Anna Masey - she gets in everything :D

And it's definately JRT's chin area we get a flash of in the trailer :high

Click HERE for the web site. You can play the trailer, it's not working for me at the moment :(

but it starts on the 18th :yeeay

YAY! Not too long! :yeeay

It's hardly worth posting this it's so small :lol:

:( i saw that pic and i was trying to find a bigger version but no :( couldnt find one

Still worthy of a :dribble , I think.

This is on every night from Tuesday through to Saturday :high

one review, doesnt really say much and doesnt mention JRT


Set The Video: Oliver Twist, BBC One, Tuesday December 18th, 8pm

We've all read about it, we've all seen the trailers... doesn't it look ace?! Just look at Timothy Small as Fagin... a great actor who seriously looks the part. Brilliant stuff.

Not much to say about this one, apart from... Dickens. Christmas. Please sir, can I have some more. Sophie Okonedo. Tom Hardy looking mad. Timothy Spall. Christmas. Dickens. Dickens. Christmas. Top hats for goalposts. Dickens. Christmas. Outstanding. If this five-part serialisation (adapted by Sarah Phelps of EastEnders fame) is half as good as the last BBC mainstream adaptation of Dickens (yup, Bleak House) we're on for a serious televisual treat. Not just worth setting the video for, but staying in, taking the phone off the hook and not answering the door when the carol singers come. Bring. It. On.

but have found a nice interview with him about it:




COMEDY STAR IS SET FOR A SHARP ADAPTATION OF DICKENS' CLASSIC

09:30 - 15 December 2007



Julian Rhind-Tutt, best known for his role in surreal comedy Green Wing - and the subsequent series of Barclaycard adverts with his co-star Stephen Mangan - is looking forward to playing the baddie in BBC1's new adaptation of Oliver Twist. Here, he speaks about his career to date and the challenges of his latest role, Mr Monks.

Oliver Twist has been adapted for stage and screen more than 50 times. So why, you may ask, has the BBC decided to revisit the Dickens story again? Is there anything new they can draw from the yarn?

These were questions one of the stars of the five-part drama, Julian Rhind-Tutt, also asked before he decided to take on the role of Mr Monks.



"I wasn't turned off by it, but I was slightly sceptical," the 39-year-old admits. "You never know if anything is going to be any good but that's particularly true of period dramas because there has been a real glut of them recently, of varying qualities. I am old, jaded, cynical and bitter, so I was thinking, is this going to be any good?"

Luckily, he was very pleasantly surprised by the script, which has been penned by former EastEnders writer Sarah Phelps. Like the hugely successful Bleak House, the story has been split into bite-size chunks for its latest retelling.

"I think she's managed to extract the tightest, sharpest, fastest-moving screen adaptation," Julian says. "What you get is an original sense of the melodrama. You get the story in episodes, like a soap, with cliff-hangers and a very taught script."

The former Green Wing actor plays Mr Monks, who was a peripheral character in the book but whose role is magnified in this dramatisation.

"He's the grandson of Mr Brownlow and it's in his interests to see the demise of Oliver Twist because his inheritance will be threatened," Julian explains. "If Oliver comes back to the big house, Mr Monks will have to split his inheritance with him, so it's fair to say he doesn't want him around."

While probably not as evil as Bill Sikes, Mr Monks is certainly what Julian describes as "a rotter".

"It was brilliant," he says of playing such a nasty piece of work. "I've not really done that before, so I practised my evil looks in the mirror!"

There are some lighter moments that involve Mr Monks too, because, as with all Dickensian baddies, he is often the source of some black humour.

"The dark, evil characters often believe that they are in the right," says Julian. "So if they do happen to have quirky elements then that's probably a good thing, rather than just trying to play some abstract notion of evil."

When Julian turned up to the BBC's wardrobe department, he was pleasantly surprised to see what he would be wearing.

"I was thinking I'd get stuck in some rubbish ex-Dickens frock coat, because the costume departments in these type of things are often done over. But wardrobe did a remarkable job - I've got a full length leather coat with a fur collar - a proper baddie's coat!"

It was also discussed whether the actor should dye his trademark strawberry blonde hair black for the role, he reveals, but they decided against it.

"A few years ago I could have played Oliver myself, but having got over the fact I was robbed of the part by some pesky 10-year-old, I was thinking that what's quite interesting is maybe this guy is a little bit like Oliver - he could have turned out like Oliver.

"Mr Monks is like a diseased angel. He could have been a wonderful, loving grandchild, but it all got twisted in his head."

For many, it will be a surprise to see Julian in a serious drama. Although he has appeared in films including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and more recently Stardust, it's his role in the surreal medical comedy Green Wing that most people know him for. In it, he starred as effortlessly cool surgeon Mac and the part made him a bit of an unlikely sex symbol. However, he insists he's a serious actor by nature.

"I'm not really a comedian, I just happened to be in a couple of things that had some funny lines that I said," he says, smiling. "But you can get quite easily steered into one area, not pigeonholed but people assume you only work in one genre."

As for the future, Julian says he hasn't got anything in the pipeline at the moment, apart from the possibility of some more of those Barclaycard adverts he and Green Wing co-star Stephen Magnan appear in.

"We might do more," he says. "I hope so. Then I can buy another Porsche."

Thanks, Chapman! Woooo! :high

The first review is certainly promising, isn't it? so fingers crossed.

The interview's great too. I definitely think this is going to be well worth watching but I bet I won't catch all the eps. :( Good to hear JRT has a reasonable-sized part (oo-er!) in this adaptation.

YAY!!!! I really hope there will be more to come.

I can't wait for Tuesday evening :high

but nothing in the pipeline :cry

oh bum just realised I'm out tuesday then away thursday and friday and out saturday - fingers crossed it will be on demand

that was so good!
loved it, but JRT scares me when he is slightly the bad person
suddenly dawned on me that to understand the story better, it would be a good idea to read the book, but nevermind, i just ended up going to my brother - theres the hero. well actually he's evil, oh maybe he's not,
then at the end when we finally heard him speak, my brother turned to me and just said: he's definatly evil now!

MG still managed to be completly stupid, and her accent :blink:
was sehr amusing, especially her look when the hat got crushed

i shall be addicted to this for the next week then :D

Ohhh errr "I want him dead" :o nasty nasty Mr Monks - but who cares he's gorgeous even when evil and birthmarked :wub:

I loved MG's hair - not sure about her accent and she was a bit difficult to understand :unsure:

And just for once Oliver isn't blonde and blue-eyed :)

he is still very cute though
though not JRT/oli chris cute, just a kind of, how could they do that to you cute!

Lots more Julian tonight :high

Nooo we've got to wait til March for the DVD :( I WANT HIM DEAD I knew there was a reason I was taping it :)

yes I knew if I googled for long enough I'd find a new photo eventually :)

all of the episodes so far are now on youtube!
which is good, as i am going to miss tonights!

oh my goodness. i am loving this!!!
i feel rather obsessed by spotting him as soon as i saw his hands appear on screen :lol:
and the costumes :wub: and the evil looks! GAAH!!
He plays the part so well *swoons*
and i squeed rather alot with that scene with Rose, even though he was rather evil :lol:
the slouching against the door, GAAH just bascially everything in that scene made me swoon :lol:
i certainly wouldn't have minded being the girl playing Rose then :rude