expo63:‘With his clean-limbed elegance and slightly vulnerable gaze, Wilby has the quality of a flaw
expo63:‘With his clean-limbed elegance and slightly vulnerable gaze, Wilby has the quality of a flawed golden boy, and according to James Ivory he is “the perfect Maurice: he suggests an English Everyman. I chose him for his extraordinary look of purity”. … Wilby has manic energy, playing the piano in a romantic way between takes, chain-smoking, and driving his Fiat like a madman.’– Harpers & Queen, Jan 1987, reporting from the Maurice set with profiles of the film’s three unknown new starsA very special 60th birthday appreciation post: Happy Birthday to James Wilby (b. 19 Feb 1958), James Ivory’s ‘perfect Maurice’ in Maurice (1987) -- source link
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