existingcharactersdiehorribly: bhc89:foyernormanchapel:Words cannot express how much I love Gide
existingcharactersdiehorribly: bhc89: foyernormanchapel: Words cannot express how much I love Gideon in Antipasto. He may be limbless and cornered but he owns Hannibal every second. Hannibal is visibly discomfited when Abel refuses to be cowed (”you still have to eat” -desperate, much?) and later when Abel defiantly taps his utensils Hannibal recoils as if scalded; he’s not so much miffed as pained. And to Abel’s incisive “why do you think I’m allowing this?” Hannibal can only dumbly repeat the same words, because as he well knows, it’s Gideon who’s humouring him, who’s indulging a pathetic man staging a grim mockery of a dinner party because he can’t stand being alone. It’s a far cry from Hannibal in Aperitif, when we first saw him eating his secretary’s offals, basking solo in his superiority. Now, with Will having slashed his defences and taken ransom his heart, he’s reduced to slogging through joyless meals with Gideon who hurls truth at every chance. Gideon went down triumphantly, and I hope he scraped deep enough welts in Hannibal’s heart to bring the arrogant bastard down a peg or two. Abel made sure he wasn’t going down easy At RDC2, Eddie Izzard shared that the fork clanking was unscripted. He just did it in the moment. Only in the one take. And Mads gave him a look of WTF ARE YOU DOING. And he was delighted they used that one take. Because, as he told us, when he first started doing drama, he felt he wasn’t very good in his early roles, because he didn’t have any instincts yet for drama, unlike those he’d developed for comedy. And this was a moment where he followed his instinct, to do the thing with the fork, and it was the right instinct for the character and the moment and they even used it in the final cut, and he could feel he had found his instinct for drama, too. -- source link