Originally Posted by Hermoine:
“If only he'd really tried! He was born to be a star, that man. That face and that personality! He didn't try at all and yet, just by delivering an extension of himself he created two of TV's most endearing and memorable characters and overshadowed the entire cast in his first big part. Think what he could have done if he'd really bothered. He was so incredibly beautiful and yet really manly! How often do we get that combination these days? ”
I know what you mean Hermoine, but I suspect that the secret to the greatness of those charactors was the very attitude he had, it most likely wouldn't have worked in either case if he had had the passion of, for example, Daniel Day Lewis.