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Old 28-12-2016, 22:56
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Maybe she was born in Billericay. Maybe her mother was bilious throughout pregnancy.
Maybe she looked like a platypus when she was born . . . Maybe the remedial surgery was very expensive . . .
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Old 28-12-2016, 23:57
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Bill (that name still sounds ridiculous!) looks like a CBBC presenter. She should be on kids tv telling pre-teen kids how to send nude photos of each other on phones. Socially responsible stuff like that.

Her face is so CBBC! No-one with such a kids tv face can act seriously, dear. Doctor Who is serious adult drama.

Hee hee.

And how many times is Moffat gonna milk such dialogue as:
"Doctor What?"

"No, it's Who!"

"Doctor Who?"

"No, people call me Doctor Who?! But I'm just the Doctor!"

"Wait a sec. You're just the Doctor? A Doctor of what though?"
Repeat for several episodes.
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Old 29-12-2016, 06:34
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I've seen Len Cariou, Alun Armstrong, Denis Quilley, Michael Ball and Bryn Terfel as Sweeney. IMHO all of them can sing better than Depp and at least three of them are better actors. He is however good looking.

OTW I would rather watch Matt Lucas than Sasha Baron Cohen.
It is all a matter of opinion. Johnny Depp seems to have gone off the boil a bit in the last year or two, but that did not apply when he did Sweeney. He is, actually, quite a good singer (he started out as a musician). His voice, however, would not have been suitable for a stage production (not strong enough). Film, however, is a different medium. A reproduction of the stage version would have looked overblown on screen, where everything is so much more magnified. Tim Burton deliberately reduced the scale of the movie to a more intimate, less theatrical, level, and filled the cast with actors who could also sing, rather than the other way round. This suited Depp and his co-star, Helena Bonham-Carter. I disagree profoundly that at least three of your list are better actors - although I will concede that Alun Armstrong is probably as good.

Anyway, this is off topic. This thread is about an assertion that the next series of Dr. Who will be the least adult yet - an assertion based on the fact that his young, female companion will be called Bill and a brief trailer. Given that trailers are rarely reliable indications of a work's true quality, that seems a curious prediction.
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