Austria (and some period drama rambles):

[konstantya]

No, you will not be getting any fucking pasta.

I've recently had a hankering for period dramas, and since I've never actually seen a version of Nicholas Nickleby, I used the power of netflix to get a hold of the 2001 miniseries/tv-film.  (I understand a lot of people have issues with the 2002 film, not only because they had to condense/take out so many things, but because it has such a happy-Hollywood tone to it, and while I hear the '82 miniseries is actually the best/most-accurate adaptation, it's not only a bit harder to come by, but I wasn't quite ready for an 8-hour slog through what isn't so much a movie so much as a theater production that was put to film; the 2001 version seemed like a good compromise.)

James D'Arcy, who plays the titular Nicholas, wears period clothing so well (in the 2003 Napoleonic War-era sausage-fest Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, he rocks a pony-tail and a naval uniform, and he's one of the very few good things about the 2007 version of Mansfield Park, where he plays a delightfully soused Tom Bertram), and he's got that tall, thin, academic quality to him, and then the way his hair is styled--well, something about him just screamed AUSTRIA to me, and I couldn't help but photoshop a pair of derpy glasses on him (and a mole, and an ahoge), just to see.  But really, he's got that vaguely delicate, but not altogether un-masculine, quality to his features--enough so that Prussia would make fun of him for looking like a priss, but not so much that he actually looks like a girl.

And omg, you should see his HAAANDS, nng.

Comments

AAH!

[(Anonymous)]

OHMYWORD. You;re so right. James D'Arcy is PERFECT.

I would have thought he was too narrow...and I've never seen him with Austria hair before...but WOW. Holy pianoforte, he looks fine.

(...even with the little fake ahoge...:-) ohgravy I sound like one of those fans who say words like "neko" and "kawaii"...*drags dignity away slowly*)

I now want a Hetalia live-action reeeallly bad. Thanks so much, Konstantya...:-P

P.S.: This is ReflectedGrace, btw. :-)

(Reposted to fix spelling, XP)

[konstantya.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd seem him before, in the other movies I mentioned, but it wasn't until I saw him with the hair and nice period suits (as opposed to a Royal Navy uniform and debauched half-dress XD) that it jumped out at me.

I now want a Hetalia live-action reeeallly bad.

Haha, it's too bad he has a massively British accent. (Well, and that he's now getting into his late 30s. Not that that's OMG SO OLD, but I always pictured Austria as looking in his mid-to-late 20s, judging by the given "ages" of France, Spain, etc.)

Derp derp, *rambles* XP