Based on my lunch with one Dame thread.
You can only have lunch with ONE Sir
by Anonymous | reply 129 | August 15, 2022 11:20 PM |
I have it between Sam Neill and Derek Jacobi
by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 11, 2022 11:54 PM |
But half of these old geezers are dead, aren't they?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 11, 2022 11:57 PM |
R3 all are alive and active
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 5 | August 11, 2022 11:59 PM |
Jacobi.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 12, 2022 12:01 AM |
Ben Kingsley think he's Lord Muck. Maggie Smith said so.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 8 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 9 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 10 | August 12, 2022 12:04 AM |
Paul McCartney, not on the list.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 12 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 13 | August 12, 2022 12:05 AM |
Patrick Stewart for his pitbull advocacy.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 15 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 16 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 17 | August 12, 2022 12:11 AM |
Michael Caine is an outspoken Tory. Hard pass.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 19 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 20 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 21 | August 12, 2022 12:16 AM |
Sir Lewis Hamilton.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 12, 2022 12:19 AM |
I would love to have Kenneth Branagh for lunch.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 24 | August 12, 2022 12:19 AM |
R22 above
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 27 | August 12, 2022 12:22 AM |
I’d like to talk to Michael Caine about his two Sleuths.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 29 | August 12, 2022 12:27 AM |
Except, R27, that Neill is from New Zealand.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 31 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 32 | August 12, 2022 12:55 AM |
That was hardly a desperate rush to correct, hunty R32. Calm down.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 12, 2022 1:52 AM |
Oh, okay. Anyway, Sam Neill is British.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 12, 2022 1:55 AM |
I'm so glad.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 36 | August 12, 2022 1:58 AM |
R31, his father was a New Zealander; his mother was British.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 38 | August 12, 2022 2:03 AM |
Poor, triggered R38. Get a hobby, hunty.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 12, 2022 2:08 AM |
You didn't Google and you fucked up, R39 "hunty." It's okay. We forgive you :)
by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 12, 2022 2:10 AM |
You still need a hobby, hunty R40. DL isn't a hobby.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 12, 2022 2:12 AM |
Sam Neill, liquid lunch.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 12, 2022 2:17 AM |
Protein shake.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 12, 2022 2:17 AM |
Isn't there one under 40?
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 12, 2022 2:23 AM |
They're paying right? Free lunch? any of them.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 12, 2022 2:24 AM |
Probably not, R44. Maybe Ms. Wikipedia can tell us.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 47 | August 12, 2022 2:33 AM |
Jacobi is my choice.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 49 | August 12, 2022 2:43 AM |
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz...
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 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.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 12, 2022 2:52 AM |
Damn! OP is thick! There are also hot Sirs among sportsmen too!
by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 12, 2022 3:06 AM |
Michael Caine
by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 12, 2022 3:11 AM |
Maurice Micklewhite, the oldest geezer of them all.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 55 | August 12, 2022 3:21 AM |
Sidney Poitier, but he's dead.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 12, 2022 3:24 AM |
We met McKellen at a party. He was warm, witty and delightful to everyone.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 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.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 59 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 60 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 61 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 62 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 63 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 64 | August 12, 2022 3:53 AM |
R62 Was Pryce in 'Evita'? I forget.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 12, 2022 3:58 AM |
The movie, yes, R65.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 12, 2022 4:02 AM |
I chose Michael Palin. He's highly informed and devoted to education.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 68 | August 12, 2022 4:22 AM |
The late Peter O'Toole was devoted to alcohol.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 12, 2022 4:24 AM |
Albert Finney
by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 71 | August 12, 2022 4:45 AM |
Are they knights? Calling someone “a sir” sounds odd.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | August 12, 2022 4:45 AM |
The ex-PM on the left and the old Cockney geezer on the right.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 74 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 75 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 76 | August 12, 2022 5:08 AM |
Where are the black mens. Why must you cancel my brothers.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | August 12, 2022 5:14 AM |
[quote] JPS
Who? Are you Sarah Jessica Parker?
by Anonymous | reply 78 | August 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.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 80 | August 12, 2022 5:28 AM |
"Michael Palin looks like Crumpled Crepe Paper."
R79, let's see hos YOU look at his age, Mary.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | August 12, 2022 12:08 PM |
"let's see how"
by Anonymous | reply 82 | August 12, 2022 12:08 PM |
R70 wants to lunch with a corpse.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 84 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 85 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 86 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 87 | August 12, 2022 11:11 PM |
They are knights, OP. Not “sirs”. “Sir” is the title bestowed on a knight.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 89 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 90 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 91 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 92 | August 13, 2022 12:45 AM |
[quote] gracious
Englishpeople, in general, are more polite, gracious and tolerant than most other people.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 94 | August 13, 2022 1:29 AM |
Sir Mark Thatcher. But only to demonstrate how corrupt the honours system is.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | August 13, 2022 1:47 AM |
Joanna Lumley is none of the things Miss Nancy R91 is trying to suggest. Best to ignore her.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | August 13, 2022 1:33 PM |
Sir Mix-a-Lot
by Anonymous | reply 97 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 98 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 99 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 100 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 101 | August 14, 2022 12:47 AM |
I picked Ben Kingsley just so I can get an in with his hot son Ferdinand.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | August 14, 2022 12:52 AM |
Ian McKellen. So many great theatre stories.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 104 | August 14, 2022 1:12 AM |
Jacobi and Caine both seem like they'd be game for - and hilarious fun - over a long boozy lunch.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | August 14, 2022 3:54 AM |
R105, R106, R107 Thank You.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | August 14, 2022 3:54 AM |
I'd rather have lunch with Andrew Garfield or Ben Whishaw than any of these "sirs."
by Anonymous | reply 110 | August 14, 2022 3:57 AM |
[quote] I'd rather have lunch with Andrew Garfield …
You can tell him what an 'almodovar' is.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | August 14, 2022 11:18 AM |
Andy Murray
by Anonymous | reply 112 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 113 | August 14, 2022 12:24 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 114 | August 14, 2022 1:02 PM |
^ Derek Jacobi looked like that for a brief moment in 1965.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | August 14, 2022 11:24 PM |
Gosh Ben Kingsley bc I have always had the biggest crush on him
by Anonymous | reply 116 | August 14, 2022 11:28 PM |
Ben Kingsley = Krishna Pandit Bhanji
by Anonymous | reply 117 | August 14, 2022 11:30 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 Anonymous | reply 119 | August 15, 2022 12:22 AM |
[quote] polite and not bitchy at all
The Lipless Branagh is not polite.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | August 15, 2022 12:42 AM |
Sir David Beckham - oh, wait...
by Anonymous | reply 121 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 122 | August 15, 2022 10:19 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 Anonymous | reply 124 | August 15, 2022 11:03 PM |
Michael Caine was always seemed kind. And Patrick fosters pitbulls with his wife. Both class acts.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 126 | August 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.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | August 15, 2022 11:10 PM |
Ben Kingsley is a ridiculous asshole. A knight?
Don’t make me laugh.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 129 | August 15, 2022 11:20 PM |