Pete Postlethwaite RIP
A sad loss and much more versatile than was implied on BBC News 24. Did anyone on here work with him?
A sad loss, indeed - one of my great inspirations, and, I think, a fantastic inspiration to character actors everywhere who, in an age when the industry seems perenially unable to look beyond the employment of pretty (but pretty uninteresting) types, always gave exciting, complex and real performances, made bold acting choices, and crafted memorable parts. He will be sorely missed, and I agree that any suggestion that he lacked versatility has clearly not paid attention to the fact that he could portray a Yorkshire brass band leader and a machiavellian Japanese gangster with equal facility!!
Very sad indeed. I saw him play Prospero at The Royal exchange a few years ago. A great inspiration and huge loss the the acting world.
Yes, I worked with him on the Mel Gibson/Zeffirelli Hamlet. I recall him dressed in full costume as the Player King having a lunchtime pint in the local pub. :) RIP
A superb actor- what a very sad loss. Will never forgot his beautiful performance in "In The Name Of The Father".
As Lee says a wonderful, interesting, complex face to watch on screen and a very fine actor indeed
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Very very sad at his passing. A really fascinating and original screen presence. Always so watchable.
I was with him at the Bristol Old Vic for two years. He was a huge presence not physically (although he was a big man) but he was very much someone who everybody looked to. He wasn't comfortable with the 'Luvie set'. He once came to a very working class Catholic Club in my parents parish and loved meeting everyone and felt at ease. I remember the fabulous times at 'The Blackboy cafe' on Whiteladies Road where us students went and Pete held court there and up the Road in 'The King's Jimmy' (Arms). Then I remember seeing him and Julie Walters in 'Funny Peculiar' and afterwards staying up half the night with them both. Wish I'd seen him more recently - He was a guy we'd all like to be a friend of. My Family is still suffering my version of his jokes.
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