Derek Jacobi was excellent in Last Tango In Halifax (BBC One, Tuesday, 9pm) but as with all well-known actors, you can sometimes see their most famous role squirming and wriggling just below the skin, like the alien in John Hurt's stomach, ready to break through at any moment.
Derek Jacobi was excellent in Last Tango In Halifax (BBC One, Tuesday, 9pm) but as with all well-known actors, you can sometimes see their most famous role squirming and wriggling just below the skin, like the alien in John Hurt's stomach, ready to break through at any moment.
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Mark Smith
In Sir Derek's case, the breakthrough happened about half way into Last Tango's first episode when Alan Buttershaw, his character, started stuttering. "Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-hallo," he said, and there he was, after all these years: Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-That-And-The-Other, known to his friends as Claudius the Stammerer or Clau-Clau-Claudius.
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