Though it's his only scene, it's a movie worth watching anyway -- a fun sword-and-sorcery story with a script and cast capable of making the tropes fresh and the sidekicks likeable instead of annoying.
Cool. I have seen none of the recent Mummy films; the first one looked so terrible at the time that I gave it a miss and that apathy has persisted even after years of recommendations to the contrary (and the development of a bizarre, at-a-distance attachment to John Hannah's Jonathan Carnahan from seeing him quoted in gifsets on Tumblr. I may well decide to see it for him, because that is how character actors and movies and I work). I have seen both the 1932 Mummy with Boris Karloff and the 1959 remake-of-sequels with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, of course.
I remember liking Newman Noggs, but I never realized I was watching Edward Petherbridge. He's remarkably chameleon-like for someone with that distinctive a face.
Yes! His face is very distinctive and so, honestly, are his height and his build, but he can wrap his voice and his body language around a character and that makes all the difference: Newman Noggs doesn't sound like Peter Wimsey doesn't sound like Sir Matthew Fell, or move like any of them. (Petherbridge did train as a mime. I love being able to see that sort of thing.) He turned up last month in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015) and I was so happy he was still working. Nothing better happen to him any time soon.
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Cool. I have seen none of the recent Mummy films; the first one looked so terrible at the time that I gave it a miss and that apathy has persisted even after years of recommendations to the contrary (and the development of a bizarre, at-a-distance attachment to John Hannah's Jonathan Carnahan from seeing him quoted in gifsets on Tumblr. I may well decide to see it for him, because that is how character actors and movies and I work). I have seen both the 1932 Mummy with Boris Karloff and the 1959 remake-of-sequels with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, of course.
I remember liking Newman Noggs, but I never realized I was watching Edward Petherbridge. He's remarkably chameleon-like for someone with that distinctive a face.
Yes! His face is very distinctive and so, honestly, are his height and his build, but he can wrap his voice and his body language around a character and that makes all the difference: Newman Noggs doesn't sound like Peter Wimsey doesn't sound like Sir Matthew Fell, or move like any of them. (Petherbridge did train as a mime. I love being able to see that sort of thing.) He turned up last month in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015) and I was so happy he was still working. Nothing better happen to him any time soon.