Cast Board
Welcome to the Cast Board of Scaryfangirl.com, where we
can let down our queues! Here you'll find all sorts of
behind-the-scenes information and playful nonsense related to
Hornblower.
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Bloopers - Every movie's got 'em and all the fangirls
spot 'em.
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Ioan IS Hornblower - A few reasons why THE Male of Wales
is as close as you're gonna get to C.S. Forester's hero walking out of the
book.
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Scaryfangirl Quiz - Are
you a Scaryfangirl? Take this quiz and find out!
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A&E Archive - Miss the
interviews and articles that used to be housed on the now-defunct A&E
Hornblower websites? Here are some of them, rescued from oblivion!
Other Fannish Items of
Interest...
There are all sorts of folks out there generating ways
to procrastinate with Hornblower! Here are a few other activities
to pass the time courtesy of the creative efforts other Hornblower fans!
Many thanks to Ruth (a.k.a. Pronetopanic) for the use
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"You see that, Ioan...? That's
built especially for you. So don't mess it up."
-Andrew Benson to Ioan Gruffudd (according to Ioan in the interview "Horatio on
Horatio") when the Grand Turk (a.k.a. Indefatigable) made her
first appearance on the set of the series.
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"When in doubt, focus on Ioan."
-Andrew Benson, HH producer, 1999
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"It's great...I mean, c'mon... You
can't always do things which are complex and ambiguous and dark and what have
you. Sometimes you've just got to get in your tights and fire your musket..."
- Paul McGann, "High Performance,
Hornblower Uncovered", 2001
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"If the weather changes, if they're
over-running, if an actor is ill...if, if, if...then the schedule will change.
That is when I call Giles [Butler, second assistant director] and say actually
it's all changed and can you get me fifty-two French peasants by the middle of
this afternoon?"-David Mason, first assistant director
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"It's great fun doing all this shooting
and sending people to the guillotine. They let me shoot someone else today--it
wasn't even in the script." -Anthony Sher ("Marquis de
Moncoutant")
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"I had the hunch that B., slightly
dazed (!), had clung on to a bit of drift wood, luckily getting swept up in the
Gulf Stream, and we next find him running a beach bar in the West Indies--where
the final films will be set!!! I put this to the Producer and Director who
suggested that I take a closer look at the splayed figure blasted 20 foot in the
air. Ah, well!" -Jonathan
Coy ("Bracegirdle") on the demise of his character in HH3.
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"...because
of inclement weather and not being able to put out to sea, we all became
excellent croquet players--there was a fine croquet lawn at the hotel--probably
also excellent drinkers; but that's just in keeping with the fine tradition of
the British Navy!"
-Greg Wise ("Cotard")
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"I don't trust these people. I think
they really will shoot me." -Estelle Skornik ("Mariette")
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"After I'd got this job, my mother rang
me to tell me she'd found an old GCSE paper of mine, based on Mr. Midshipman
Hornblower. Apparently I'd written that 'due to my lack of nautical
knowledge I found this book dull and uninteresting.' "
-Robert Lindsay
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"Ioan Gruffudd, a brilliant young Welsh
actor, is playing our hero, I'm playing Major Edrington, an aristocratic
soldier, and Portugal is playing France." - Sam West in
his journal "Postcards from Portugal"
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"On Hornblower, I remember
standing there having orders barked at me and responding to those orders or not
responding to them, and biting my tongue, reacting to things. And
suddenly, when Hornblower becomes captain, there I was on the poop deck, barking
orders at everybody. And it felt sort of uncomfortable--I thought, 'Gosh,
I'm not going to be able to pull this off, I'm not going to be able to be the
leader.' But I found after doing it for a couple of weeks, I thought, 'Oh,
no, I actually quite enjoy this!' " -Ioan Gruffudd, in
"Fantastic 4: The Official Movie Magazine" interview
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