{"id":25439,"date":"2017-02-13T14:05:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25439"},"modified":"2017-02-13T15:01:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T20:01:04","slug":"six-degrees-of-jeremy-northam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25439","title":{"rendered":"Six degrees of Jeremy Northam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We're re-watching <i>The Tudors<\/i> (aka. Brit Tits In Dark Bedrooms). The actor who plays Henry VIII, he's that guy from <i>Velvet Goldmine<\/i>. The actor playing Cromwell is that guy who played a nobleman in <em>The White Queen<\/em>. Queen Catherine is the Irish woman from <em>Orphan Black<\/em>. Hey look, the ambassador is Emperor Charles from <em>Vikings<\/em>! There's the king from <em>Reign<\/em>! There's Bash from <em>Reign<\/em>! And <em>that <\/em>guy was on <em>Vampire Diaries<\/em>. There's someone from <em>Game Of Thrones<\/em>. That guy was on <em>Revenge<\/em>! And there's Superman! <\/p>\n<p>What else is on?<br \/>\nA show about a different British royal family: The Crown! Oh look, <em>that<\/em> actor, Jeremy Northam, was Sir Thomas Moore in <em>The Tudors<\/em>. And there's the British guy from <em>Mad Men<\/em> who hung himself. That guy looks like the Nazi, Smith, from <em>The Man In The High Castle<\/em>, but it's not him. But that's definitely John Lithgow. <\/p>\n<p>What about <em>Victoria<\/em>? Ah, there's the guy who actually plays that Nazi from <em>The Man In The High Castle<\/em>. And <em>that <\/em>guy played Edward VIII in <em>The Crown<\/em> - he also played Prince Charles in <i>The Queen<\/i>. There's another guy from <i>The White Queen<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Something not royal? Black Mirror! Well, there's the guy who played Frankenstein&trade; Model 1 in <em>Penny Dreadful<\/em>. And there's that guy who looks like the Nazi, Smith, from <em>The Man In The High Castle<\/em>, again. And there's Anne Neville from <em>The White Queen<\/em> (and 'The Waif' from <em>Game Of Thrones<\/em>). And there's the Irish woman from <em>Boardwalk Empire<\/em>. There's what's her name from <em>Halt And Catch Fire<\/em>. There's young Alan Turing from <em>The Imitation Game<\/em>. There's another <em>Game Of Throes<\/em> person.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of <em>The Man In The High Castle<\/em>: there are <em>three<\/em> people from <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> (all Cylons, no less  - one of whom was on <em>Heroes <\/em>and <em>The Vampire Diaries<\/em>!). And one from <em>Revenge<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It's like there are only 20 actors, and 15 of them have played someone in a British period drama at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We're re-watching The Tudors (aka. Brit Tits In Dark Bedrooms). The actor who plays Henry VIII, he's that guy from Velvet Goldmine. The actor playing Cromwell is that guy who played a nobleman in The White Queen. Queen Catherine is the Irish woman from Orphan Black. Hey look, the ambassador is Emperor Charles from Vikings! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25439"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25446,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25439\/revisions\/25446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}