Jonny Lee Miller, formerly Edmund Bertram & Mr Knightley, now Sherlock Holmes
Dear friends and readers,
I find it telling that the role of the latest Sherlock, the icon figure now to be re-characterized to fit with a woman parnter, Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) has gone to Jonny Lee Miller. He often plays sexually ambiguous and distraught men when he’s in modern dramas (Prime Suspect; for example, Trainspotting before that), and (tellingly) he was both Edmund Bertram in Patricia Rozema’s 1999 iconoclastic Mansfield Park, and Mr Knightley in Sandy Welch’s newly thought-out Emma 2009. These are both morally upright men who cling to and teach the young women they have fallen in love with.
The vulnerable Edmund:
It is Fanny who takes him into her kisses
Mr Knightley walking around his property: the male loner who has the bad dreams (not Emma) in this film adaptation:
Who is cast in a part is centrally important to the conception of a film. Just before watching this year’s Woody Allen film, To Rome with Love, I saw Miller doing an interview about the new Sherlock. He is a genuinely intelligent actor (who also provided some insight in an interview on his part in Welch’s film).
A really touching video of him in The Pardoner’s Tale:
The news has made me want to try the new Sherlock as I found the Benedick Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman series genuinely worth watching.
Ellen
Raquel Sallaberry Brião:
I love Jonny Lee Miller in “The Pardoner’s Tale”, BBC, Canterbury Tales.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/canterburytales/
BBC – Drama – Canterbury Tales
http://www.bbc.co.uk
I reply:
I regret to say I’ve not seen that one.