Zawe Ashton

[besleybean]

I have only just discovered that Hiddle's fiancee plays Donovan, in this episode.

[Carol the Dabbler]

She was the proto-Donovan in the unaired pilot?

Interesting.  All I knew was, that was a different actress.

 

[besleybean]

That's what made it click with me...

only knowing that it was a different  actress.

[Hikari]

22 hours ago, besleybean said:

I have only just discovered that Hiddle's fiancee plays Donovan, in this episode.

Tom is engaged?  Congrats to the couple.  I had rather assumed that Hiddles batted for the other team, owing to being a 41 year old bachelor with no long-lasting relationships with women, at least which have been publicly announced.  I do not count the baffling interlude with Taylor Swift several years ago which featured 4-6 weeks of staged displays of PDA for cameras before abruptly ending.  It's been speculated for yonks that Tay-Tay also bats for the other team and the two were providing beard deniability for each other and clicks for their mutual upcoming career projects.

Zawe is a beautiful woman; after her brief stint as Donovan in the unaired pilot (speaking most of the same lines which Vinette Robinson would reprise in the official first episode) she next appeared opposite Jason Isaacs as sassy PA Deborah in Case Histories.  It wasn't a huge role but it was recurring over 2 seasons (6 episodes) and on balance had much more screen time than Donovan.  Her commitment to Case Histories probably made her unavailable when Sherlock went back into production.  Also in the cast was Amanda Abbington, playing this show's version of Lestrade . . or possibly John.  Anybody out there who hasn't seen it yet, I recommend it.  Jackson Brodie has a very Sherlock-y vibe at times and features another brunet lead with arresting blue eyes who is very dishy.  If anyone didn't know that Lucius Malfoy has black hair in real life . . he does.

An unrelated but still fascinating factoid:  Tom Hiddleston was classmates with Prince William at Eton, so the two are of an age.  No doubts whatsoever about William's team. 

 

[besleybean]

I saw Tom and Zawe on the London stage together, for Betrayal.

The chemistry between them was quite apparent.

 

Oh and you did know that Tom wasn't gay, becaue Mark Gatiss had already said so!

[Hikari]

On 7/17/2023 at 2:19 PM, besleybean said:

I saw Tom and Zawe on the London stage together, for Betrayal.

The chemistry between them was quite apparent.

 

Oh and you did know that Tom wasn't gay, becaue Mark Gatiss had already said so!

I guess that makes it definitive then!  One wonders if TH confided this personally to MG?  All the best to cover and perhaps in due course they will present the world with a HiddleBaby.  It’s going to be a good looking child I’m pretty sure.

[besleybean]

Well he's been pushing it out in the pram.

[Hikari]

20 hours ago, besleybean said:

Well he's been pushing it out in the pram.

 ???

Are you saying there is already a HiddleBaby??!  I have not been following HiddleNews lately.  I know he was touted as the next James Bond after his work in the Night Manager.  Tom Is insanely talented and incredibly bright, too.  Indeed, one might say that a career in the Marvel universe isa waste of a double-First degree in Classics from Cambridge.  There’s hardly an impression that he cannot do. I recommend everybody check out his turn as Prince Hal/Henry V in The Hollow Crown to see what Tom is capable of.  Loki wastes him, really.  I’m rather surprised that he’s into women.  
Zawe is a catch!  In recent years I have had my wonderments about which team our Bendi is on.  Some of his recent choices are definitely Pride Nation approved.  Interesting times we live in.

 

[besleybean]

Sexuality is very fluid, but often seems different to the desire to nest!

Neither Ben nor Tom are homophobes and  both support gay rights.

Two of Benedict's best friends are gay.

But he is clearly besotted with his wife and they have three sons.

Mark Gatiss previously stated that Hiddles was not gay.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Fortunately a person doesn't have to be gay in order to supports gay rights or have gay friends.  It'd be a sad world indeed if everyone was either gay or a homophobe!

 

[Hikari]

I just find it interesting that Mark Gatiss is the spokesman for Tom Hiddleston’s preferences in that area.  Did the two have a meeting about it? Why is Mark announcing something that should come from Tom himself, if it has to come from anywhere?  It seems presumptuous to declare something like that on another man’s behalf, doesn’t it?   I haven’t been privy to this interview but perhaps that comment was meant in a humorous sort of way.  Because being asked to comment about someone else’s love life who isn’t like, a best mate or family would be awkward.

Well, Zawe seems a much better partner for Tom than Taylor Swift ever did, so I am glad they got together.  When you find the right person, everything clicks.  Tom seemed headed for confirmed bachelor territory or else he has an exceptional knack for privacy because he’d never been linked with anyone apart from the Swiftie Summer Tour several years back.

 

 

 

[besleybean]

It was a joke on old Twitter.

Mark and Tom were in Corolanius together.

A fan girl asked if they came out after the show.

Mark replied:

I am already out and Tom isn't gay.