You've obviously not seen him in the right dramas ... although he was hardly shouty as 'John Smith' in the Dr Who episode 'Family of Blood'? Indeed the thing I liked about his doctor is that he could go from hyperbolic/shouty ... to incredibly quiet and intense
Things where you can see him not being shouty:
He wasn't shouty in ... Casanova? Or as the sweet gentle driving instructor he played in a drama last(?) year, written by Jessica Hynes (Jessica is 'Daisy' in Spaced and was Joan in Family of Blood) or the physicist and Quaker, Eddington in 'Einstein and Eddington' (ANDY SERKIS as Einstein - how did you miss that, Ms Fellow-Geek?) Or as the male half of the romance in the 'Chatterley Affair' (it was a TV drama about the trial of the prosecution of the book)
but then I predicted that he would be Dr Who before they leaked that he was ... (I also said they ought to cast Chris Ecclestone too - sadly, I didn't predict Matt Smith or I'd be setting up in business as a fortune teller - but I did see him in Ruby in the Smoke and thought he was very good ... unfortunately I'd not seen Skins) and I just couldn't get the tickets for Hamlet although another Dr Who fan I know said that she went - I just wasn't feeling well yesterday ...so didn't see it. I'll buy the DVD though
Oddly - I've *never* seen a 'properly' period version of Shakespeare - apart from the history plays - even the Kenneth Branagh version of Much Ado About Nothing is a sort of fantasy version of vaguely historical clothing - not 'real' period dress of any kind (and the music is equally historically schizoid ...) I've seen Shakespeare set in sort of 1930s fictional fascist state version of A Merchant of Venice and the Samuel West as Hamlet that I saw at the RSC was also ... sort of modern dress - although so thematically stylised that it didn't look so much modern as 'not-period'. even the history plays are anachronistic - because that was quite the style then - look at religious paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries - all the soldiers are wearing 16th/17th century armour, not Roman armour....
But I know what you mean - although the Baz Luhrmann Romeo and Juliet is the only version where I've ever not wanted to slap the hero and heroine, I certainly giggled when the gun had 'Longsword' on it as a brand name ... but that's taking 'modern' to ridiculous levels ... most 'modern dress' versions I've seen haven't been going for major verisimilitude
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Things where you can see him not being shouty:
He wasn't shouty in ...
Casanova?
Or as the sweet gentle driving instructor he played in a drama last(?) year, written by Jessica Hynes (Jessica is 'Daisy' in Spaced and was Joan in Family of Blood)
or the physicist and Quaker, Eddington in 'Einstein and Eddington' (ANDY SERKIS as Einstein - how did you miss that, Ms Fellow-Geek?)
Or as the male half of the romance in the 'Chatterley Affair' (it was a TV drama about the trial of the prosecution of the book)
but then I predicted that he would be Dr Who before they leaked that he was ... (I also said they ought to cast Chris Ecclestone too - sadly, I didn't predict Matt Smith or I'd be setting up in business as a fortune teller - but I did see him in Ruby in the Smoke and thought he was very good ... unfortunately I'd not seen Skins) and I just couldn't get the tickets for Hamlet although another Dr Who fan I know said that she went - I just wasn't feeling well yesterday ...so didn't see it. I'll buy the DVD though
Oddly - I've *never* seen a 'properly' period version of Shakespeare - apart from the history plays - even the Kenneth Branagh version of Much Ado About Nothing is a sort of fantasy version of vaguely historical clothing - not 'real' period dress of any kind (and the music is equally historically schizoid ...) I've seen Shakespeare set in sort of 1930s fictional fascist state version of A Merchant of Venice and the Samuel West as Hamlet that I saw at the RSC was also ... sort of modern dress - although so thematically stylised that it didn't look so much modern as 'not-period'. even the history plays are
anachronistic - because that was quite the style then - look at religious paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries - all the soldiers are wearing 16th/17th century armour, not Roman armour....
But I know what you mean - although the Baz Luhrmann Romeo and Juliet is the only version where I've ever not wanted to slap the hero and heroine, I certainly giggled when the gun had 'Longsword' on it as a brand name ... but that's taking 'modern' to ridiculous levels ... most 'modern dress' versions I've seen haven't been going for major verisimilitude