Post your questions for Martin Clunes | Film
It’s pleasant that Martin Clunes has received so many plaudits for his efficiency on this 12 months’s Wuthering Heights, alongside Margot Robbie’s Cathy and Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff. He performs Cathy’s drunk however beneficiant, merciless but humorous father in a component that might simply have drifted into the background. But he makes such an impression that the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw reckons he “pretty much fucking the whole film”.
It’s not as if Clunes hasn’t brushed shoulders with the Hollywood A-list earlier than. You may keep in mind him as Richard Burbage, reverse Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes and Judi Dench, in 1998’s Shakespeare in Love – a job with added resonance on condition that his father, Alec Clunes, who died when Clunes was eight, was a distinguished Shakespearean actor. Other roles embrace 1992’s Carry On Columbus (the final ever Carry On); 1994’s Staggered (which he additionally directed), wherein he wakes up bare on a distant Scottish island after a stag do gone fallacious; and 1999’s Hunting Venus, the place he reunites along with his former on-screen flatmate Neil Morrissey, as a washed-up 80s New Romantic, sporting a flopped quiff that places even A Flock of Seagulls to disgrace.
Perhaps, although, it is his subsequent position that may additional set him apart from being “television’s most affable grump” and into Michael Sheen territory, as he performs the eponymous disgraced BBC presenter in Channel 5’s The Downfall of Huw Edwards. Going from the promo piche makes for a particularly convincing Edwards – aside from, maybe predictably, the ears.
Clunes is right here this week to take your questions as he promotes his newest movie, the British comedy Mother’s Pride – a story of a failing pub whose fortunes change when it enters the Great British Beer awards, starring James Buckley from The Inbetweeners and that bloke (Jonno Davies) who performed the CGI monkey in that bonkers Robbie Williams biopic.
So, what to ask Clunes? Maybe you keep in mind him as one of many beer-downing, song-singing public-school rugby boys from Harry Enfield’s Television Program (it was Enfield who gave him his large break). Perhaps you are a fan of his journey and nature documentaries? Or perhaps he simply looks like an previous buddy whilst you doomscroll by way of the channels: Have I Got News For You on U&Dave; downing a Stella or two with Neil Morrissey in Men Behaving Badly on U&Gold; or scowling and clinically offending half of Cornwall because the tetchy GP in Doc Martin on ITV3.
Please publish your questions by 6pm this Wednesday, 4 March, and we’ll publish your solutions in Film & Music on Friday 13 March.
