I thought it would be fun to keep up with the various actors.

America gets Christopher Eccleston He has joined the cast of Heroes!! I'm so damn happy. You think they can get him to say "Rose and Fantastic"? This is one of the better shows to come to american TV and people are actually watching it so this is awesome for me. I LOVE this dude.

Will he keep his Mancunian accent?

Maybe people will actually believe it's a real accent is he does! (Apparently some Americans think it's a false one and he's not very good at it )

His accent is not real? What is with you Brits using "other" accents all the time I thought he used that same accent during interviews, no? I'll have to watch the confidentials I have on the DVDs. I haven't had a chance yet.

I don't know how he'll speak in Heroes? I know his power, I'll spoiler font it in case people don't want to be slightly spoiled. He can make himself invisible

No, his accent is real. But apparently some Americans think it isn't and have been complaining that he's not very good at the Northern accent

Really enjoying CE in Heroes! I about cried when in the first ep he said "Fantastic" He does scruffy very well.

So, did anybody go see "The Seeker: The Dark is Rising" this weekend? I first saw the trailer for it a couple of months ago in theaters, and at first, I figured I'd never see whatever this movie would turn out to be, because the trailer started out so cheesy and silly-looking (with the voiceover guy actually saying, "Will thought he was just an ordinary kid -- but he's about to find out ..." -- which, as South Park proved, is *the* corniest trailer-line you can possibly come up with ).

Then it's about halfway through, and this long-haired, black-robed guy comes riding up on a horse, and he pulls down the cloth covering his face, and I get one good look at his vividly-piercing blue eyes before he says, "You and all your kind will be destroyed ..."

My mum recognizes Christopher Eccleston too, and she's turning to me to grin, but I'm _way_ beyond just flashing a grin. "IT'S THE *DOCTOR*!" I half-yell, half-hiss, in the middle of the crowded theater, causing my mother to mutter something about not getting us thrown out of the theater. "It's the _Doctor_, Mom! WE HAVE TO GO *SEE* THAT!"

I don't remember what film we were seeing -- probably Harry Potter 5 (which was _lovely_), but I do know that I spent the rest of the movie, not to mention the week, occasionally bursting out with, "... the DOCTOR is in that movie!" So I have to go see it, and am planning to go this weekend. I read the book and quite liked it, but I am prepared for this to be an astonishingly different sort of story than the book, simply because I think they uber-"modernized" it (not to mention making the main character American instead of British ) ... and critics have racked it across the coals ... but if it's even passable entertainment, I'll be happy with it. Because I'll get to see the _Doctor_ on the big screen!

... anybody viewed it yet? Is it so awful that I should at least brace myself for disappointment? (I'm not expecting miracles, but something even vaguely entertaining to watch would be nice ...)

Was Doctor Who the first thing you'd seen Christopher Eccleston in? Or has he just become so much the Doctor to you that you now associate him with the role first and foremost? Just curious, because of your reasons for wanting to see the film above being because "the Docotr" is in it, not because CE is in it

I used to think my being used to seeing CE in other roles prior to Doctor Who was a reason why it took me a while to warm to him as the Doctor (not a long while, but it took a while to adjust) - but I'm not so sure now, as I was also used to seeing Tennant in other things, yet liked him instantly as the Doctor.
Off Topic for this tread, I know, but the thought just popped into my head

Doctor Who was indeed the first film or show that I've ever seen Christopher Eccleston in -- which was nice, for me, because I could instantly and completely accept him as the Doctor, as I had no other frame of reference for him. (For that matter, I also had no frame of reference for the character of the Doctor, either, because the new series is the first I've ever seen of the show.) And I'm enough of a dork that my primary reaction to him is always going to be, "Look, it's the DOCTOR!" instead of (much more logically and less insanely, alas), "Look, it's Christoper Eccleston, the guy who _played_ the Doctor!"

On the other hand, I had seen David Tennant in something else, and, while it was a small role, it was such a major blip on my Personal Fandom screen that it was quite weird to watch him as the Doctor at first -- and that would be his role of Barty Crouch, Jr., in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." As I said, it was a fairly small role (he has maybe half a dozen scenes, if that, and probably the same number of lines) -- but I am a major Harry Potter fan, so even the smallest role in one of the Potter films is going to cement an actor into that character for me.

At least ... theoretically speaking. One of the most entertaining things to happen to me, at least in _regards_ to my entertainment (*waves at magratpudifoot*), was having the Doctor gradually and inexorably replace himself as the "Default Character Setting" whenever I encounter David Tennant. Now, at first, when I first watched the end shot of "The Parting of the Ways" and then "The Christmas Invasion," it wasn't just the fact that Christoper Eccleston was no longer the Doctor that I had to get used to. My brain kept going, "_Barty Crouch_ is the Doctor, and that is flipping *weird*!" "Christmas Invasion" is such a wholly fabulous episode, however, that, as weird and surreal as I found it to be to have Barty Crouch suddenly be the Doctor, I was quickly falling in love with this new regeneration (particularly when he quoted "The Lion King") ... and it wasn't long before Tennant _became_ the Doctor for me, just as entirely (if in a different manner, and for slightly different reasons) as Eccleston was _also_ "the Doctor" for me. (And still is.)

Of course, now I have the opposite problem. Every time I watch "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," I go off into hysterics with every Barty Crouch, Jr. scene (much to the confusion of the non-Doctor-fans friends that I'm often watching with): "Hee *hee*, the Doctor is doing the _Dark Mark_ now, ha ha!" ...

I had never seen CE in anything before DW. Now I've seen him in a couple of things.

I've now seen Ten in loads of things also. Honestly, it improves his DW performance when you've seen him in other things. Alas, on the Harry Potter thing. I let someone borrow my HP DVD and they never returned so i have only vague memories of that.

Just saw Christopher Eccleston in "Jude" a few weeks ago, and enjoyed it immensely -- Kate Winslet was in it too, so it was two of my favorite actors, and you can't beat that. (Even if the film itself was a bit ... dark. Thomas Hardy was one VERY offbeat guy. ;-) )

Best of all, there's a tiny little scene in a pub, and Jude -- Christopher Eccleston -- is sitting there with some mates, and they're talking about reciting a Latin prayer, and somebody walks by the table, and the Somebody turns around with a grin and starts speaking... and it's DAVID TENNANT.

I said -- well, never mind exactly what I said, but it was a surprised (if very excitedly amazed) sort of word ;-) -- and then watched in a kind of delirium as Doctors Nine and Ten shared a scene for just a minute or two. It was _lovely_. Totally made up for the scene towards the end of the film wherein Jude and Kate Winslet's characters come back to their rented room to find Jude's son and their other two children all killed in the bedroom. STRANGE, strange man, Thomas Hardy. Good, I think, but strange.

Vinity -- I'm fairly frothing to see David Tennant in some other stuff. Have any recommendations?

Hey, sorry to be late getting back here. We went away for the holiday

For Ten, of course, Casanova was great fun, as was Blackpoole He does creepy VERY well in Secret Smile. And of course Harry Potter. I saw a couple of short pieces he did as a youngster on You Tube, one was Taking over the Asylum and the other was some blind date thing I don't remember the name. Oh and something where he is in drag

I've just ordered "Casanova" from one of the county libraries through our system at work (was much easier to get past the Heath Ledger version to the one I wanted than I thought it would be), and am now eagerly awaiting its arrival. I'll let you know when I've seen it!

I want rather desperately to see "Blackpool" -- it sounds un*bear*ably cool -- but from what I can tell, it hasn't been released to American DVD yet. I live in the wrong blasted country, I tell you! ;-) Looks like it's finally about time to save up for a universal-region-playing DVD player ...