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You can only have lunch with ONE Sir

Based on my lunch with one Dame thread.

by Anonymousreply 129August 15, 2022 11:20 PM

I have it between Sam Neill and Derek Jacobi

by Anonymousreply 1August 11, 2022 11:54 PM

The Dame thread

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by Anonymousreply 2August 11, 2022 11:54 PM

But half of these old geezers are dead, aren't they?

by Anonymousreply 3August 11, 2022 11:57 PM

R3 all are alive and active

by Anonymousreply 4August 11, 2022 11:59 PM

Michael Caine tells wonderful stories and I adore him. Too bad he is nearing 90. Sir Ian Mc Kellen seems like he would smell bad and try to grope me at lunch.

by Anonymousreply 5August 11, 2022 11:59 PM

Jacobi.

by Anonymousreply 6August 12, 2022 12:01 AM

Ben Kingsley think he's Lord Muck. Maggie Smith said so.

by Anonymousreply 7August 12, 2022 12:02 AM

Ben Kingsley just because I love him so much. This is a difficult category to choose from. Michael Caine can be a rascal I'm certain..

by Anonymousreply 8August 12, 2022 12:02 AM

Sam Neill. It would probably be more likely to be a beer than a lunch. If it has to be a meal, then brunch with Dames Ian and Derek.

by Anonymousreply 9August 12, 2022 12:03 AM

It's between Stewart and McKellen for me, with a slight preference for McKellen. He just seems like he'd be the most entertaining dinner companion.

by Anonymousreply 10August 12, 2022 12:04 AM

Paul McCartney, not on the list.

by Anonymousreply 11August 12, 2022 12:05 AM

I would choose Branagh so I could poison him and never have to sit through another one of his miserable, narcissistic projects.

by Anonymousreply 12August 12, 2022 12:05 AM

I think lunch with Jacobi would be classy and elegant.

Branagh would be fun but a little pretentious.

You won't know what you'd get with Michael Caine

Sam Neill would discuss serious topics over beers and burgers

Jonathan Pryce would talk about abstract topics

Ben Kingsley would be more serious than Neill

Patrick Stewart would laugh with you

You can people watch with McKellen- and discuss the hot young boys

Anthony Hopkins would rather listen to you

Michael Palin would be aloof

by Anonymousreply 13August 12, 2022 12:05 AM

Patrick Stewart for his pitbull advocacy.

by Anonymousreply 14August 12, 2022 12:06 AM

All you people seem to be confusing these ANCIENT thespians from roles they played 30 years ago when they recited witty lines written by professional scriptwriters.

They are but shadows of all that past.

by Anonymousreply 15August 12, 2022 12:07 AM

Sir Patrick Stewart is old as hell but he's still got plenty of personality - just watch any recent interview for the unfortunately not great "Picard" series.

by Anonymousreply 16August 12, 2022 12:08 AM

I voted for McKellen because I couldn't resist selecting that bitchy old queen, but Michael Caine would be my second choice. He's that rare person who is outspoken yet gracious at the same time; he's usually blunt but rarely rude, and that generally makes for great company.

by Anonymousreply 17August 12, 2022 12:11 AM

Michael Caine is an outspoken Tory. Hard pass.

by Anonymousreply 18August 12, 2022 12:13 AM

Not so Michael Caine to all reports is absolutely charming. If you were to lunch with him he would entertain you.

by Anonymousreply 19August 12, 2022 12:14 AM

I seem to recall that The Fountainhead is Michael Caine's favourite book (he may even have a daughter named after the protagonist). Anyway, that colours how I see him.

by Anonymousreply 20August 12, 2022 12:16 AM

Michael Caine (ie Morris Micklewhite) is a grumpy old man who'd insist YOU pay for the meal.

That old man would do ANYTHING for a sheckel.

by Anonymousreply 21August 12, 2022 12:16 AM

Sir Lewis Hamilton.

by Anonymousreply 22August 12, 2022 12:19 AM

I would love to have Kenneth Branagh for lunch.

by Anonymousreply 23August 12, 2022 12:19 AM

Sam Neill is a Virtue-Signalling armchair-socialist in his old days.

But he still takes the money doing advertisements for the Fox TV station.

by Anonymousreply 24August 12, 2022 12:19 AM

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by Anonymousreply 25August 12, 2022 12:21 AM

R22 above

by Anonymousreply 26August 12, 2022 12:22 AM

TIL Sam Neill is actually Sir Nigel John Dermot Neill KNZM OBE, so he's much more British than I formerly assumed.

by Anonymousreply 27August 12, 2022 12:22 AM

I’d like to talk to Michael Caine about his two Sleuths.

by Anonymousreply 28August 12, 2022 12:23 AM

R12, I was just about to say I'd like to talk to Derek Jacobi (as a real actor) about what it was like to act alongside Kenneth Branagh as he turned Hamlet into a monument to his own ego.

by Anonymousreply 29August 12, 2022 12:27 AM

Except, R27, that Neill is from New Zealand.

by Anonymousreply 30August 12, 2022 12:49 AM

R30 were you not aware that NZ only gained its independence from the British Empire the year Sir Sam was born and that he is of full British descent?

by Anonymousreply 31August 12, 2022 12:51 AM

Sam Neill was born in the UK to British parents, and only moved to NZ as a 7-year-old.

A quick Google search before desperately rushing to correct people on the Internet is always wise.

by Anonymousreply 32August 12, 2022 12:55 AM

That was hardly a desperate rush to correct, hunty R32. Calm down.

by Anonymousreply 33August 12, 2022 1:52 AM

Oh, okay. Anyway, Sam Neill is British.

by Anonymousreply 34August 12, 2022 1:55 AM

I'm so glad.

by Anonymousreply 35August 12, 2022 1:56 AM

Wikipedia:

"When knighthoods were returned to the New Zealand royal honours system in 2009, those with DCNZM or higher honours were given the option of converting them into knighthoods. Neill chose not to do this, saying the title of Sir was "just far too grand, by far". However, in June 2022, he accepted redesignation as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, granting him the title Sir."

by Anonymousreply 36August 12, 2022 1:58 AM

R31, his father was a New Zealander; his mother was British.

by Anonymousreply 37August 12, 2022 2:00 AM

From Wikipedia:

[quote] Born in Omagh, Northern Ireland, Neill moved to Christchurch, New Zealand, with his family in 1954... Neill was born on 14 September 1947 in Omagh, Northern Ireland, to Priscilla Beatrice (née Ingham) and Dermot Neill. His father, an army officer, was a third-generation New Zealander, while his mother was English.[4] His great-grandfather Percy Neill left Belfast, in Ireland, for New Zealand in 1860.

His father was 100% British descent and living in the UK at the time of Neill's birth, to an English mother, in the UK. Don't act like R30 knew all of this when they WELL ACTUALLY'ed about him "being a New Zealander."

by Anonymousreply 38August 12, 2022 2:03 AM

Poor, triggered R38. Get a hobby, hunty.

by Anonymousreply 39August 12, 2022 2:08 AM

You didn't Google and you fucked up, R39 "hunty." It's okay. We forgive you :)

by Anonymousreply 40August 12, 2022 2:10 AM

You still need a hobby, hunty R40. DL isn't a hobby.

by Anonymousreply 41August 12, 2022 2:12 AM

Sam Neill, liquid lunch.

by Anonymousreply 42August 12, 2022 2:17 AM

Protein shake.

by Anonymousreply 43August 12, 2022 2:17 AM

Isn't there one under 40?

by Anonymousreply 44August 12, 2022 2:23 AM

They're paying right? Free lunch? any of them.

by Anonymousreply 45August 12, 2022 2:24 AM

Probably not, R44. Maybe Ms. Wikipedia can tell us.

by Anonymousreply 46August 12, 2022 2:25 AM

Tough choice, but I'd go with Jacobi - I'd be very boring but ego stroke him about how much I love I Claudius.

by Anonymousreply 47August 12, 2022 2:33 AM

Jacobi is my choice.

by Anonymousreply 48August 12, 2022 2:35 AM

R31 NZ didn't "gain independence" from the British Empire.

The British Empire changed its name to the British Commonwealth. And NZ is still in it.

by Anonymousreply 49August 12, 2022 2:43 AM

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz...

by Anonymousreply 50August 12, 2022 2:46 AM

[quote] I'd be very boring but ego stroke him about how much I love I Claudius.

Jacobi's version may have been in color but the Laughton version had more light and more shade.

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by Anonymousreply 51August 12, 2022 2:52 AM

Damn! OP is thick! There are also hot Sirs among sportsmen too!

by Anonymousreply 52August 12, 2022 3:06 AM

Michael Caine

by Anonymousreply 53August 12, 2022 3:11 AM

Maurice Micklewhite, the oldest geezer of them all.

by Anonymousreply 54August 12, 2022 3:17 AM

I'd ask Derek Jacobi why he refuses to use the Jewish pronunciation of his name.

'Jack-a-bee' instead of 'Ja-Cobey'

by Anonymousreply 55August 12, 2022 3:21 AM

Sidney Poitier, but he's dead.

by Anonymousreply 56August 12, 2022 3:24 AM

We met McKellen at a party. He was warm, witty and delightful to everyone.

by Anonymousreply 57August 12, 2022 3:30 AM

[quote] I'd go with Jacobi

You can ask about those days when he was an ingenue and had to provide sex appeal.

Sixty years ago.

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by Anonymousreply 58August 12, 2022 3:30 AM

[quote] He was warm, witty and delightful to everyone.

Did he caress your bottom as he swanned around and worked the room?

by Anonymousreply 59August 12, 2022 3:35 AM

Sir Jacobi for the win. I Claudius, Cadfael, The Master(Dr. Who), Vicious, Last Tango in Halifax. What delicious gossip he would have.

by Anonymousreply 60August 12, 2022 3:35 AM

Derek Jacobi. WELL....... "At 18 he won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge, where he read history at St John's College and earned his degree. Younger members of the university at the time included Ian McKellen (who had a crush on him—"a passion that was undeclared and unrequited", as McKellen relates it)"

by Anonymousreply 61August 12, 2022 3:38 AM

No love at all for Jonathon Pryce.

He's been hovering around for five decades and America has ignored him

He refuses to be a diva.

by Anonymousreply 62August 12, 2022 3:40 AM

I like Jonathan Pryce, R62. He just wouldnt be my first choice. But I would have lunch with him--especially if he was paying.

by Anonymousreply 63August 12, 2022 3:52 AM

R58 Derek Jacobi specialises in playing passive characters.

He never got top-billed roles until he was well after his ingenue days.

by Anonymousreply 64August 12, 2022 3:53 AM

R62 Was Pryce in 'Evita'? I forget.

by Anonymousreply 65August 12, 2022 3:58 AM

The movie, yes, R65.

by Anonymousreply 66August 12, 2022 4:02 AM

I chose Michael Palin. He's highly informed and devoted to education.

by Anonymousreply 67August 12, 2022 4:09 AM

R67 How devoted is Palin to "education"?

Does he work 20 hours a week on education or donate thousands of pounds of money weekly to education?

Or does he get his agents to tell people that he's 'devoted to education'.

by Anonymousreply 68August 12, 2022 4:22 AM

The late Peter O'Toole was devoted to alcohol.

by Anonymousreply 69August 12, 2022 4:24 AM

Albert Finney

by Anonymousreply 70August 12, 2022 4:38 AM

R68, clearly you've never watched him.

All of the Pythons loaded down their comedy with abstruse bits of history and sociology. But Palin has led out beyond the rest, offering a series of informative documentaries on travel, history, and art.

by Anonymousreply 71August 12, 2022 4:45 AM

Are they knights? Calling someone “a sir” sounds odd.

by Anonymousreply 72August 12, 2022 4:45 AM

The ex-PM on the left and the old Cockney geezer on the right.

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by Anonymousreply 73August 12, 2022 4:57 AM

Either Hopkins or Kingsley. Even though I know from experience that the most consummate, fascinating actors are boring out of character. It's that ability to lose themselves in the characters they play enabling them to bring that character to life that is their most fascinating aspect.

by Anonymousreply 74August 12, 2022 5:03 AM

We don't know half of these Limeys.

We only know those one who appeared in OUR films. And those ones which appeared in OUR films were OK if they played servants and butlers.

by Anonymousreply 75August 12, 2022 5:05 AM

[quote] I'd ask Derek Jacobi why he refuses to use the Jewish pronunciation of his name. 'Jack-a-bee' instead of 'Ja-Cobey'

One, he's not Jewish. Two, the "Jewish pronunciation of his name" would be "YAH-coh-vi".

by Anonymousreply 76August 12, 2022 5:08 AM

Where are the black mens. Why must you cancel my brothers.

by Anonymousreply 77August 12, 2022 5:14 AM

[quote] JPS

Who? Are you Sarah Jessica Parker?

by Anonymousreply 78August 12, 2022 5:16 AM

Why isn't Trevor Howard in this list?

Michael Palin was really cute when he looked like Trevor Howard. Now, Michael Palin looks like Crumpled Crepe Paper.

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by Anonymousreply 79August 12, 2022 5:21 AM

I'm a huge Star Trek nerd, so of course it would be Patrick Stewart, though he would probably hate me afterward. Though, I've seen a clip of him on a talk show that Reba was also on and he totally fangirled so we could bond over that.

Backup would be Derek Jacobi, he has had a wonderfully varied career but I will always remember that his Cadfael was the first of many British dramas I have watched.

by Anonymousreply 80August 12, 2022 5:28 AM

"Michael Palin looks like Crumpled Crepe Paper."

R79, let's see hos YOU look at his age, Mary.

by Anonymousreply 81August 12, 2022 12:08 PM

"let's see how"

by Anonymousreply 82August 12, 2022 12:08 PM

R70 wants to lunch with a corpse.

by Anonymousreply 83August 12, 2022 12:09 PM

R78, please don't disrespect me. You've disrespected not only myself but Halle, Gabrielle, Angela, Dorothy Dandridge, Diahann Carroll, any black actress who has ever appeared on screen even as an extra, period. I'm the one and only--Tupac's first true love and the lady who wears the pants behind the biggest actor on the planet.

by Anonymousreply 84August 12, 2022 6:39 PM

R22 Ditto. Formula 1 fan here, so he'd Sir Lewis Hamilton would be my choice as well.

(Although, I'd also wait for Thomas Daley OBE to be elevated.)

by Anonymousreply 85August 12, 2022 8:34 PM

Sir Les Patterson. Though maybe just a meetup for a chat. Looking at those teeth would put my appetite off at lunch.

by Anonymousreply 86August 12, 2022 8:53 PM

[quote] Looking at those teeth would put my appetite off at lunch.

Looking at Branagh's lipless mouth would put me off.

by Anonymousreply 87August 12, 2022 11:11 PM

They are knights, OP. Not “sirs”. “Sir” is the title bestowed on a knight.

by Anonymousreply 88August 13, 2022 12:29 AM

Jacobi and McKellen had a serious lapse in judgement in appearing in that tacky, witless, ugly, unfunny show called Vicious'.

by Anonymousreply 89August 13, 2022 12:32 AM

Michael Palin, but only if we could go on travels after the meal and be accompanied by Dame Joanna Lumley. I loved watching their travel shows and could listen to them talk all day.

by Anonymousreply 90August 13, 2022 12:37 AM

Do you have a view on Joanna Lumley's views on the economy, the working class and her idolatry towards the late Baroness Thatcher?

by Anonymousreply 91August 13, 2022 12:42 AM

Palin and I worked on putting a travel project together but the timing wasn't right. He was very gracious through the discussions, though.

by Anonymousreply 92August 13, 2022 12:45 AM

[quote] gracious

Englishpeople, in general, are more polite, gracious and tolerant than most other people.

by Anonymousreply 93August 13, 2022 1:14 AM

My dad was a big Monty Python fan and Palin was his favorite of the troupe. Because of this he watched his travel shows also.

Didn’t know if Lumley’s political stuff. I just loved her travel shows and, of course, Patsy Stone.

by Anonymousreply 94August 13, 2022 1:29 AM

Sir Mark Thatcher. But only to demonstrate how corrupt the honours system is.

by Anonymousreply 95August 13, 2022 1:47 AM

Joanna Lumley is none of the things Miss Nancy R91 is trying to suggest. Best to ignore her.

by Anonymousreply 96August 13, 2022 1:33 PM

Sir Mix-a-Lot

by Anonymousreply 97August 13, 2022 2:42 PM

Michael Palin because he’s great at talking with strangers and he seems very kind and interested in everyone but himself.

by Anonymousreply 98August 13, 2022 2:56 PM

Joanna Lumley is a monarchist and was one of the few non-royals invited to Prince Charles' wedding.

[quote] Lots of people love [The Crown TV Soap] and lots of people know it's mostly made up, but lots of people don't know it's made up which is awful."

She's a monarchist and is keen to be seen as a charity queen so therefore REFUSES to mention her politics

[quote] I’ve never said how I vote because I think one of the things you mustn’t do is that if people do like you, they might go, ‘Oh, we’ll do what so-and-so does’.

by Anonymousreply 99August 14, 2022 12:16 AM

Sir Palin. He used to host a travel show. He made a real effort to talk with the people he met during his travels. He would make people feel at ease by making a few lighthearted jokes. Sir Palin visited a tea farm in Asia. The workers who picked the tea leaves in broiling hot sun were Asian women. He pretended to fall in the leaves during a demonstration making the workers laugh.

by Anonymousreply 100August 14, 2022 12:30 AM

Derek Jacobi!

For years, I have wanted to confront him about how he can be so supremely good in absolutely every role (I, Claudius, Cadfael, Frasier, Last Tango in Halifax, etc) EXCEPT for his performance as Macbeth which I was taken to see on a school trip when we were studying the play. The whole production was awful, but the big stinker was the fact that he was just far too old for the role. Lady Macbeth could have been his daughter, and she was really the only performer who seemed to have a grip on her role.

by Anonymousreply 101August 14, 2022 12:47 AM

I picked Ben Kingsley just so I can get an in with his hot son Ferdinand.

by Anonymousreply 102August 14, 2022 12:52 AM

Ian McKellen. So many great theatre stories.

by Anonymousreply 103August 14, 2022 1:07 AM

[quote] Sir Palin. He used to host a travel show.

We could have a group date with Sir Palin.

And there'd be Sir Jacobi and Sir MacKellen tittering away saying how much they fancy Sir Palin.

by Anonymousreply 104August 14, 2022 1:12 AM

R80

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by Anonymousreply 105August 14, 2022 3:46 AM

R80

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by Anonymousreply 106August 14, 2022 3:49 AM

R80

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by Anonymousreply 107August 14, 2022 3:49 AM

Jacobi and Caine both seem like they'd be game for - and hilarious fun - over a long boozy lunch.

by Anonymousreply 108August 14, 2022 3:54 AM

R105, R106, R107 Thank You.

by Anonymousreply 109August 14, 2022 3:54 AM

I'd rather have lunch with Andrew Garfield or Ben Whishaw than any of these "sirs."

by Anonymousreply 110August 14, 2022 3:57 AM

[quote] I'd rather have lunch with Andrew Garfield …

You can tell him what an 'almodovar' is.

by Anonymousreply 111August 14, 2022 11:18 AM

Andy Murray

by Anonymousreply 112August 14, 2022 11:36 AM

The remaining Barclay brother. Billionaire secretive twins living on their own private island together. Bond villains brought to life.

by Anonymousreply 113August 14, 2022 12:24 PM

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by Anonymousreply 114August 14, 2022 1:02 PM

^ Derek Jacobi looked like that for a brief moment in 1965.

by Anonymousreply 115August 14, 2022 11:24 PM

Gosh Ben Kingsley bc I have always had the biggest crush on him

by Anonymousreply 116August 14, 2022 11:28 PM

Ben Kingsley = Krishna Pandit Bhanji

by Anonymousreply 117August 14, 2022 11:30 PM

What about me, bitches?

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by Anonymousreply 118August 14, 2022 11:55 PM

Oh you!

You're as bitchy as Ben Kingsley/Krishna Pandit Bhanji!

All the other dames in the OP's list are polite and not bitchy at all.

by Anonymousreply 119August 15, 2022 12:22 AM

[quote] polite and not bitchy at all

The Lipless Branagh is not polite.

by Anonymousreply 120August 15, 2022 12:42 AM

Sir David Beckham - oh, wait...

by Anonymousreply 121August 15, 2022 1:19 AM

Palin!!! I LOVE this travel shows, I love travel, and I've always found him to be oddly attractive! Seriously, I do like a man with a bulging passport and big brown puppy eyes, no matter what age he is, bring him the fuck on.

by Anonymousreply 122August 15, 2022 10:19 PM

So sexy.

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by Anonymousreply 123August 15, 2022 10:36 PM

[quote] Sir Ian Mc Kellen

Also known as 'Loose Lips'.

He inadvertently outs American closeted performers because he's a naive English geriatric who doesn't appreciate that America is still encumbered by Puritanism and that the US Entertainment industry is more than a little homophobic.

by Anonymousreply 124August 15, 2022 11:03 PM

Michael Caine was always seemed kind. And Patrick fosters pitbulls with his wife. Both class acts.

by Anonymousreply 125August 15, 2022 11:05 PM

Kenneth can afford a nice restaurant and I wouldn't have to talk much with him, so I can enjoy my food.

by Anonymousreply 126August 15, 2022 11:10 PM

[quote] Jacobi and McKellen

McKellen's career has been extended by all his publicity-chasing with 'the gays' but (as far as I know) Jacobi hasn't done that.

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by Anonymousreply 127August 15, 2022 11:10 PM

Ben Kingsley is a ridiculous asshole. A knight?

Don’t make me laugh.

by Anonymousreply 128August 15, 2022 11:12 PM

R128 That's the impression I got from Maggie Smith's last TV appearance.

She muttered an almost inaudible aside about 'Sir King Bensley'.

by Anonymousreply 129August 15, 2022 11:20 PM
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