Not Only a Likeness ; a Typical Welshman Playing a Typical Englishman? Rhys I Fans Pulled It Off Perfectly in His Portrayal of Peter Cook for a New Tv Movie, As Graham Keal Discovers
Daily Post › December 17, 2004
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IT'S a sunny spring Sunday in poshest Hampstead and an unshaven Peter Cook is walking back to his bijou cottage from the paper shop, fag in hand, with that kind of loping shuffle he acquired in his later years. The odd thing is Peter died in 1995, and this was happening just months ago.
Underneath "Peter's" prosthetic neck, fake stubble and grey wig lies Rhys Ifans, who doesn't so much portray one of England's greatest and most wayward comic talents as inhabit him.See the full content of this document
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Not Only a Likeness ; a Typical Welshman Playing a Typical Englishman? Rhys I Fans Pulled It Off Perfectly in His Portrayal of Peter Cook for a New Tv Movie, As Graham Keal Discovers
Ifans stars opposite Irish actor Aidan McArdle - an equally remarkable Dudley Moore double - in Channel 4's fabulously funny, occasionally filthy and ultimately moving Christmas offering Not Only But Always.
This feature-length film charts the ris...See the full content of this document
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