PSA (with not-so-secret ulterior motives)

[rose_griffes]

My favorite BBC mini-series/short season show is now available to watch on hulu.com! So everyone should watch the six episodes of Ultraviolet and enjoy the pining and repressed feelings and vampires and pseudo-science and... stuff! Good stuff! Actiony stuff! The first episode starts here.

And then you should write me Angie/Vaughan fic. Hey, Vaughan is played by Idris Elba. (See userpic.) What more do you need to know?!

Oh, and Jack Davenport is in it, too. And the woman who played Jane Bennett in the Collin Firth version of Pride & Prejudice. Also, this is Stephen Moyer's vampire debut. He was in this more than ten years before his role in True Blood.

Okay, enough rambling about that.

Comments

[chaila43.livejournal.com]

Well, hello there, drug-dealing boyfriend o'mine!

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm sorry but I believe you have to share the package :P

[chaila43.livejournal.com]

I am okay with this! I think there is, er, enough of him to go around? :)

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

He takes an Xtra Large :D (At least that's what he told Donette :D)

(I saw him at a "Wire" related event and like many actors he's smaller than he looks onscreen - I mean, he's really tall, but quite slender. Dominic West was super-charming but even more monkey-like in person, though.)

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

*gasps* Vaughan would never deal drugs! ;-)

Idris gets to keep his British accent for Ultraviolet. I believe he plays an American in The Wire, right?

[chaila43.livejournal.com]

But Stringer was a *classy* drug-dealer. Sometimes. And very American indeed!

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

And then you should write me Angie/Vaughan fic.

I second this demand!!!

P.S. Have you ever seen "Sometimes in April" which was Raoul Peck's fine (and harrowing) drama about the Rwandan genocide? (I think it was much better than "Hotel Rwanda" but never got as much press.) Idris was magnificent in that.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

I second this demand!!!
I have never found any! :( I do have a page or two of notes for one somewhere, but then I got distracted by other things. Maybe I need to rewatch and write FOR THE GOOD OF ALL FANS EVERYWHERE!

Hah.

Oh, and nope, never saw Sometimes in April but now it's in my netflix queue, so thanks!

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Well, you would certainly have an audience of at least one excited Angie/Vaughn 'shipper. (And it is all about me after all :P) I will have to watch it again too and see if I can respond reciprocally fic-wise, maybe.

As for "Sometimes in April" it's truly a harrowing story; there's no happy ending/warm fuzzy feeling, etc., which is why I could only watch it the one time, but it was heartbreaking and wonderful and it was clear that Idris is just a wonderful actor. ALSO, his series "Luther" will be airing on BBC-America this fall, so we have that to look forward to as well.