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Fuck Yeah, Alexander Siddig!
(Source: kalinda)
Promotional photo from “Love Life,” coming to the BBC this spring.
“Love Life” is a cast-led ensemble show with real heart that explores five surprising and overlapping love stories set in the same town, each story looking at a different relationship.
Summary for Sid’s episode: Sandra (Jane Horrocks) is facing the fact that her marriage has become stale over the years – when her youngest child leaves home she realizes that her husband have little to say to one another, and besides this, he’s also having an affair. Then she meets someone who couldn’t be more different from her, but somehow makes her feel alive again – can she throw everything up for this younger man?
Cairo Time (2009)
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1992). Made for television film starring Ralph Fiennes and Siddig El Fadil (Alexander Siddig). Terrible caps of my own making, as I only have it on VHS. It’s been out of print on DVD since I’ve had a DVD player.
I love this movie.
Interviewer: Why do you think science fiction is always ahead of the curve, in terms of dealing with things without skin-deep judgments?
Siddig: Yeah. Well, the power of allegory. Abstraction can take the most harrowing, complicated real-life situation and say, “But this is actually just two grapes talking and they’re talking to a weird sunflower. They’ve abstracted the humanity out of it and transplanted it into something else that is much more comfortable. Much easier to cope with and gives the writer enormous freedom. I mean, you can do really dark, full-on stuff and take it so far away, to a spaceship somewhere miles and miles (away) on a funny little planet where the creatures are barely recognizable. That and the fact that they work with massive archetypes that we can’t really work with. Only Batman movies can work with those. The characters in Cairo Time, they’re not massive archetypes. They’re normal people. So yes, (as in Deep Space Nine) you’ve got the strong captain; you’ve got the clever doctor. They all have their adjectives or epithets. THAT’s the power of sci-fi. I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all. I’ll take all of them and, yeah, I think that’s the strength of that genre.
