Richard Griffiths

What follows is invariably something involving car chases, serial killers, or tawdry romances.

I have all Richard Griffiths' film performances on my hard drive.

I can speak the entire script of The History Boys.

I occasionally abandon all other human activity to watch Derek Granger's Brideshead revisited yet again, partly because I regard it even in war as the greatest novelist who ever lived.

yep where he exiles johnny depp to uh to sleepy hollow um oh someone i think there's someone else in that scene too i'm blanking on on who it is no

richard richard griffiths we already talked about him

uh sorry richard griffith oh yes he's great too he's he's one of the magistrate i think or something like that um yeah there's oh e mcdermott's in that fucking emperor palpatine of all people yeah there's just like there's some really good like character and uh lady van tassel the stepmother is played by miranda richardson's a fucking delight like it's just like a really smartly picked movie as far as the actors that you get and everything like that like it's um It's well-acted, it's well-designed, as we're saying.

It's a decent enough mystery, but the whole thing is just like, hey, Johnny Depp's new to town, he's meeting a bunch of kooky characters.

I mean, when I was doing...

Equus with Richard Griffiths.

Basically every scene in Equus starts the same.

Every scene started some variation of, hi, how are you? Good afternoon.

Paramount, here we come.

Who else is in it? Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Richard Griffiths.

He's Mr. Dursley.

Mr. Dursley off Harry Potter.

Yeah, Paul McGann.

Why do I doubt myself? And Richard Griffiths, who's also really good.

Yeah, no, great movie.

Everybody should see it if you haven't.

is directed by Tim Burton, and it stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, and also just like a... cast of faces that you have seen in other movies.

So Michael Gambon and Richard Griffiths are in this movie.

They are from the Harry Potter films.

And then in McDermott, Darth Sidious, the emperor in star Wars himself is one of the other side characters.

the closed captions on.

So I noticed the name of one of the, I noticed the name of the magistrate who is played by the, the guy from Harry Potter, Richard Griffiths.

And I noticed his name was magistrate Phillips and it was spelled in like not the regular Phillips way.

And how you go to get to Sleepy Hollow is you take the Metro North up to Phillips Manor.

Yeah.

I mean, who am I missing?

Richard Griffiths.

Yeah.

I mean there's a really grit and It's a very passionate play, but it's a very angry play There's not there's a little bit of comedy right at the beginning and Coriolanus Literally in that first scene walks in and just steps on it and shows you that you're in for a very dark experience But I think a very meaningful one and I you know I've heard I heard the the guffaws or the gasps that I enjoy this so I took a little a few notes and Briefly, getting into why this resonated so much with me, I was in the History Boys.

Richard Griffith's character has this quote that one of the great things about literature, about arts, is the idea of someone reaching out across time and the distance and grasping hold of you and realizing that you share something that you thought was unique to you.

When I was a kid, I was, as a younger child, I was like a teacher's pet kid.

I followed the rules.