When Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were filming Cleopatra, Elizabeth actually got pneumonia and had to have a tracheotomy - an operation which caused her to have a scar by her shoulder blade.
In this scene, not only does Dominic West play on the fact that Richard Burton used to memorize his own lines and everybody else’s, but Helena Bonham Carter echos this moment of their past just slightly by touching her shoulder. (source helenalittlepigcarter)
Husband and I were discussing casting for the next season of The Crown and I mentioned that Dominic West is handsome and Prince Charles is … not, and it blew his mind.
Him: “Dominic West, like McNulty from The Wire?”
Me: “Yes! Maybe his forehead’s a little big, but I’d consider him pretty classically attractive.”
Him: “But I thought that was the joke with McNulty … that he still pulled even though he wasn’t hot.”
It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers’ families.
Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person. As the strike drags on, the two groups discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all.
