tim roth <3 gary oldman

[cimorene]

okay, so gary oldman and tim roth


, so clearly tim roth should play remus! wouldn't that be great? i mean. love... love! it's perfect.

meanwhile someone slash them for me. cause there they were in rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, having chemistry; and it was so poignant and sad and sweet, and now this, and they're tangled up in my mind.

p.s. do click the cut; the images are too cute for words. AHAHAH an 'explanation'

eta: omg, they've starred together before! and then at imdb.

eta: ahaha, he once starred opposite dougray scott--my pick for remus to star opposite rufus sewell!

eta:

Interestingly, on this side of the pond Roth formed an equally faithful alliance with Gary Oldman, a star with whom he shares more than a passing comparison. Both actors were raised in South London; both made a name for themselves essaying working-class, unstable men (and made their reputation playing punks); and both have excited critics on the other side of the Atlantic with flawless American accents.

They first met 11 years ago while working on Meantime. "Here was this quiet, laid-back, long-haired geezer," recalls Roth, and "after a few weeks of top-secret isolated improvization, in storms this loony skinhead drinking a pint of milk." An on-set improvization saw Oldman hurl the milk bottle at Roth, who threw it back and put Oldman into hospital. To hear Roth tell it, Gary "was really proud of the scar he got, said it suited him really nicely."

Later, the duelling duo took the title roles in the film version of Tom Stoppard's acclaimed stage play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead -- and acted co-star Richard Dreyfuss off the screen. Today, Roth is proud of his mate's success, but points out that he, Roth, made the cover of Sight and Sound first. And, he philosophizes, "I like Gary being up there. The more parts he turns down, the more are likely to come my way." -james cameron-wilson here

Comments

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

SO ADORABLE. XD
they need to be slashed. in a cute way.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

if you write one for me i'll write one for you.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

er, um.

oooh, maybe after i watch rosencrantz and giuldenstern are dead. until then, i have the excuse of saying i haven't seen either of them in a year. ^_^

[dexwebster]

Also, I think Tim Roth was considered for Snape in the HP movies. That would've been interesting.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

hee. okay.

just a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle ficlet, if that makes you feel better! then we would both have motivation to write them and when we were done there'd be a few hundred words of oldman/roth slash in the universe. which would automatically make the universe a more beautiful place, n'est c'pas?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

what someone, maybe girlcakes, said was that he was the producer's first choice for snape and wasn't interested. wax_jism tells me he chose planet of the apes over hp so perhaps it wasn't an actual anti-hp feeling. which is heartening, or would be, i mean, because casting him as remus is what they REALLY should have done, and i'm sure pota was done by them. ::sigh::

[dexwebster]

I think I heard that about Planet of the Apes, too.

And if they'd gone a just bit younger (gone with the age in the books, really), I always thought David Wenham would've been a good Remus.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

agreed. i'll put it in my "to write" notebook for consideration. :D

(hey, i seem to remember a bath-tub scene. ahem.)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i've never thought about him. my and wax_jism's pic when we were writing s/r was dougray scott.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

yep. only rosencrantz (gary) is in it, though. and he hides and guildenstern (tim) comes looking for him.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

oooh. yay for the joys of creative writing, hmm?
the more i recall (which is very little, actually), the more potential i see there is. at least for something short. i wonder if i can do cute/sweet? i don't think i have before, heh.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

hey, i don't care. besides, with a few hundred words only you leave it much open to interpretation!

but yes, there really are. the actors first met in 1983 (i think. uh. yeah. 83) where they co-starred in a tv movie called meantime, in which gary played a skinhead who tim started hanging out with. the movie's about tim's parents' 'increasing concern for him' as he falls under gary's influence. then in 1990, rosencrantz & guildenstern are dead; then in, oh, 1993 or so, gary oldman said in an interview, when asked who he found attractive, tim (among other people, i believe). and tim apparently saw because he was photographed with G.O. I THINK YOU'RE SEXY on his face--i don't have that photo. then gary's photo came next, then tim's GARY OLDMAN LET'S DO IT. when asked why they communicated by writing on body parts gary told someone that that was 'the most convenient way' for them to communicate.

there's this great bit in r&g, the movie, where rosencrantz reaches out and polishes an apple he's about to eat on guildenstern's chest. guildenstern (tim)'s little FACE! oh, MAN, to have the dvd and screencapping software.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

that is the best story ever. GARY OLDMAN LET'S DO IT. i mean, that's romance. :D

i like how they always got their own names confused.... i never ended up knowing who was who, though i had a vague idea. so rosencrantz is gary oldman and guildenstern is tim roth. okay. i actually ended up getting the play out at the library today, i couldn't resist. i probably SHOULD resist reading it, at least for tonight, but i can't wait.

if you find caps, you should definetely post them. they are too cute.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i've found like, two. >.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

that's just shameful....

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i know.

if wax gets her brother to order it for her (play.com wouldn't let me do it because my billing address is in america...wtf? it's a credit card! is not visa international?) she will make caps for us.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

awesome! :) i haven't had the chance to get to the video store but even if i could find it, i wouldn't be able to make caps.... and caps are good.

who is wax? i think you've mentioned her before but i don't know.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

wax_jism. she lives in finland. she is my better half.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

oooh! i've heard of her. i read this one story by her, a faculty slash. i think i sent her a comment raving about it but i didn't hear back. i love that story, heh.

sooo finland, eh? that's awesome. i'm part finnish. awesome culture which i don't know nearly enough about.

how did you two meet?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

she never answers fb, and especially not for void. she holds the opinion that there's nothing good to say to it. you know, false modesty vs. bragging vs.... it makes her uncomfortable.

she's not actually finnish--she's part of the two percent swedish-speaking minority.

and we met about two years ago cause i was a fan of hers and she was a fan of mine so we started im'ing. actually she im'd me first.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

ah, i see. well that's understandable. it's too bad she never finished the story though...

that's pretty cool! oh and you are applying to go to a university there, eh? that must be really exciting.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

the thing is she still plans to finish it, but she's realllllllllllly slow. after a two-year break, the pressure kinda goes up to a fever-pitch.

yes, i'm applying to abo akademi, which is in the city where her brother lives and about 45 minutes from where she lives right now. of course she'd have to move if i got in. we'd get an apartment in the city.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

well if she's planning on it, that's good enough for me. i'm patient.... or at least, i tell myself i am.

that's really awesome. i hope you get in! when do you find out?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

mmmmmarch maybe?

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

a month! eep. good luck!