BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister

Subject: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Mar 19 - 07:15 PM

An extra from a series being filmed by the BBC
blabbed to the press ,
the question would be if the extra were truthful.
Or just wishful thinking.

new series called COBRA

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 12 Mar 19 - 07:44 PM

Extras are supposed to be totally discreet about productions, certainly till after release....liable never to get SA work again if found out!

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 12 Mar 19 - 09:45 PM

.. well he's already played Hitler...

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 19 - 11:31 AM

If Robert Carlyle were prime minister,
would he be a remainer
or an exit er?

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 19 - 05:28 PM

The film shoot was in Bolton,
in Victoria Square.

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: Mr Red
Date: 14 Mar 19 - 04:56 AM

A show spokesman said: “We’ll see how a government works under extreme pressure to make difficult decisions quickly.”

Not a soupçon of irony there then!








(Who said the B word?)

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Mar 19 - 12:09 PM

Not I, not I -- there was no B in the word I said.

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Mar 19 - 06:54 PM

The same source [snitch] stated
that in the episode for that particular shoot,
the prime minister was at the bedsides of those
wounded when a plane crashed into their town.
I'm old enough to remember Lockerbie ...

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Mar 19 - 05:29 AM

Not I, not I -- there was no B in the word I said.

er, May (oooer) I remind the honorable member, ummmmmmm:

The film shoot was in Bolton,

Shoot and Bolt - in foot?







I'll get my coat ..................

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Mar 19 - 08:21 PM

Cabinet + Office + Briefing + Room + A = COBRA
the announced title of the eight-part series

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Apr 19 - 12:04 PM

Robert Carlyle interview for Irish News:

"I don't think I'm going to be allowed back into Glasgow"

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 12 Apr 19 - 02:37 PM

He'd look good in the leather trousers, but he lacks those pert mature bosoms and as for the stillettos...I can't see it.

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Apr 19 - 03:05 PM

I thought May wore kitten heels?

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 12 Apr 19 - 05:44 PM

not in my fantasies...

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Apr 19 - 12:00 PM

And Happy Birthday to Robert Carlyle.

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jan 20 - 06:55 PM

The first episode airs this Sunday.

One of the adversaries faced by his prime minister character
is the Home Secretary who is power-hungry and ambitious.

When a natural disaster threatens,
not just the UK but Western Europe as a whole,
said Home Secretary argues with the Prime Minister
about: why give aid to France when we have greater need ourselves?

To which PM 'Robert Sutherland' retorts:
"You voted to leave the EU, Archie,
not the human race!"

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: robomatic
Date: 11 Jan 20 - 12:42 AM

Thanks to you folks I've just noticed the man. I didn't make the connection to "Trainspotting". I'm gonna follow him a lot more carefully now. We discussed his part in the recent BBC rework of "WOTW" (War of the Worlds).

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 11 Jan 20 - 12:51 AM

He was great in ‘The Full Monty’ movie and the ‘Hamish MacBeth’ TV Series. An excellent actor.

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: robomatic
Date: 11 Jan 20 - 12:55 AM

I just now read the part he played in "Yesterday"!! The man was BRILLIANT! Damn I've got a new movie hero!

And he should have been in GOT. With his features and ability I can think of a dozen parts he could've played.

Dragon trainer.
Dragon edible.

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Jan 20 - 03:41 PM

My mistake --
not Sunday, but
next Friday, 17 January.

The cast talk about COBRA

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 12 Jan 20 - 06:48 PM

We finally got round to watching The Legend of Barney Thomson..
For the most part a very fun movie...
I expect there wasn't enough money for reshoots, to sort out the problems,
to make it a really good film...???

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: Allan Conn
Date: 15 Jan 20 - 03:33 AM

I like Robert as an actor but he doesn't seem to have much knowledge about the Scottish Borders where I am from. In the interview with the Irish Times about the not being allowed back into Glasgow joke he says about his character

"He's Scottish, but he's 'rugby player Scottish' if you know what I mean, like a Borders type thing: public school, Oxford-educated – that type of guy"

That type of guy though is not your typical Borders rugby player. We are more similar to south Wales in that rugby here is what we played in all the local schools. It is the working man's game in the Borders. Virtually all the big name players from the Borders I can think of were just folks who went to the local town schools. The Public School posh rugby player stereotype thing was much more a city thing than a Borders thing. In fact up until the 1960s and 1970s we were supposedly way under-represented in the Scotland team despite Hawick and Gala being the two dominant clubs in Scotland. Maybe more than one reason and I don't think the SRU liked the independent streak in Borders rugby with the importance we gave the Borders League and Sevens Circuit - but seemingly the ruling body was dominated by Public School types and didn't want to encourage the Borders oiks too much. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: Allan Conn
Date: 15 Jan 20 - 03:37 AM

Maybe "didn't want to encourage the Borders oiks" is a bit of a bad way to put it - maybe I should have said was pre second half of 20thC the posh Public School SRU tended to favour their own kind when picking players for caps. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jan 20 - 04:03 PM

The premise of this entire suspense-plot is a natural event
which has already occurred once in recorded history,
in the 19th century.

the Carrington event

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 07:11 PM

I don't know what service it is,
but the entire six-episode series can be purchased
to be viewed. Streaming? something like that.

I've already seen a still photo or two from
an episode that has yet to be aired on television.

And in one of them, Carlyle's Prime Minister
has his lips pulled back, his teeth bared,
and a terrifying scowl in forehead and eyes.
Not so far removed from Begbie, after all ...

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Feb 20 - 02:02 PM

The success of this first mini-series
(Episode 5 out of 6 airs tonight)
had resulted in
an order for a second year of this show,
so another six episodes probably to be shot this calendar year.

Sky is the network doing this show,
and Sky is an acquisition of Comcast, I read.
But I can't say who the streaming network is.

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Mar 20 - 10:55 AM

This scene does not feature Robert Carlyle's character,
but it is from "COBRA" and shows
other characters responding to crisis.

actor Richard Dormer in COBRA

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jun 20 - 10:48 AM

And while the second season, already ordered,
is scheduled to be filmed this summer,
the first season
can now be 'streamed' in New Zealand.

robomatic:
in recent interviews,
Carlyle has allowed that he was approached
with a casting offer by Game of Thrones,
but as he was busy in Vancouver
shooting the television series
"Once Upon A Time,"
he had to turn the offer down.

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Nov 20 - 11:18 AM

A second season of COBRA is planned,
but I don't know if a shoot has been organized or started.

The publicity blurbs say that, instead of
solar flares shutting down all the electricity and lights and what have you,
this season a public figure is assassinated and
the perpetrator[s] prove elusive, so it's all very suspenseful.

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: robomatic
Date: 03 Nov 20 - 07:34 PM

The first season of Cobra is being aired on American Public Television in Alaska. I am enjoying it but it isn't as convincing as it could be, spending too much time on the kind of sideplots that don't draw me in. I mean every good thing about Carlyle that I wrote earlier, I'm just not being engrossed in the plot all that much.
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Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Dec 20 - 02:37 PM

The second season of Cobra is being filmed now,
some of it in Liverpool if I read right.

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Apr 21 - 05:20 PM

COBRA Part Deux
is supposed to move on from
last season's sunspots, solar flares, and generators
to some sort of assassination threat.

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Apr 21 - 08:49 PM

If it's the current PM Carlyle is ridiculously miscast.

They should have gone to an animal-actors agency and asked for an incontinent warthog.

Subject: RE: BS: Robert Carlyle plays prime minister
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Oct 21 - 10:40 PM

Becky Gamester-Newton, for BT.com, interviewed actors, writers, and so on regarding Season 2 of COBRA.

What Robert Carlyle had to tell the journalist about
how he studied politicians in real life is of interest. Quoting:

"You don't necessarily go and find a politician and stick that mask on your face to mimic any particular person,
but you can look at a mass of them," said Robert Carlyle.
He added that the late Labour leader John Smith provides inspiration for him, for both the role and in a general sense.
"The one that stood out for me was John Smith, the old Labour leader of the 80s and 90s who passed away.
The best Prime Minister we never had, in my opinion. He was a fantastic man.
I think what Smith had was a real sense of the moral compass.
[COBRA leading character, Prime Minister] Sutherland is what would be described as a kind of two-tier, utilitarian politician,
and I think that's possibly where Smith was as well.
I think that fundamentally he was about what was doing the right thing.
But he was pragmatic at the same time, and I think he understood that.
The problem for the Labour Party back in those days was that it was so different from the Tories at that time.
The Thatcherism of the time was so extreme, and the Labour Party, through Kinnock, was so different.
But Smith was a pragmatic man and he understood that I think,
and he knew that things had to slightly go not too centrist,
but I think he realised that they had to make a few steps that way."

link:
COBRA Season 2: secrets from the set