Richard Armitage's birthday

I'd better not miss it here. Actually I have seen only North and South where he played one of my 3 main literary crushes - John Thornton (the other two being Captain Blood and - no surprize - Fitzwilliam Darcy from Pride and Predjudice) and did it very well. He was perfectly attractive and romantic and what not. When I watched an interview with him afterwards I was very pleasantly impressed at how intelligent he was and how respectfully he treated the novel as the main source for the BBC production and how he read it from cover to cover before starting to work at the role of John Thornton, and how his family was from the same background as John... and the other interviews I read online keep persuading me he's a very intelligent man, not without a sense of humour and treating his job really very thoughtfully. And he's respectful to his fans and sends very friendly messages to the Armitage Army site.

He starred as Claude Monet in the BBC Impressionists and that is something I am yearning to watch because Monet is one of my favourite painters ever and to see him acted by an actor who I really respect and admire is something not to miss... but something to wait apparently because the series has not yet been released here! Then another thing is that I wish there would be another version of a film based on the Captain Blood novel starring Richard. I think he could do perfectly for in the role: he suits very well in looks and is exactly capable of performing Peter Blood, an intelligent doctor who by twists of fate turns into a "noble" cold-blooded and fearless pirate, so sensible and level-headed on one hand, as so passionately in love with Isabella Bishop on the other... That would be perfect. It's a pity there isn't any more Pride and Prejudice version in production. Or they could have cast him as Captain Wentworth. Maybe, they do a new Emma in a couple of years? ;-)

All this thoughts make me want to write to him and ask for a signed card. Which I maybe will do as soon as I figure out how to get an International Reply Coupon for my addressed-back envelope. Well, he's intelligent and clever, and a man should be intelligent and clever first and foremost... sigh...

(Link for Armitage Army hidden in the post title)