Tom Bateman! This British cutie has been in some reeeeeally bad frock flicks (Da Vinci’s Demons) but also some decent ones (the Branagh Poirot films). He’ll co-star in the upcoming Funny Woman, about a female comedian in 1960s England, so I thought we should look at what he’s done so far.
Giuliano Medici in Da Vinci’s Demons (2013-14)
Leonardo da Vinci and others in a whole lot of bullshit costumes. Never seen it, never will!
Florizel in Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter’s Tale (2015)
A broadcast version of the Shakespeare play.
Robert Jekyll in Jekyll and Hyde (2015)
I am sadly uninterested, even if Bateman is cute!
Bouc in Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
His role felt minor, as the guy who invites Poirot to the trip, but he looks good!
Rawdon Crawley in Vanity Fair (2018)
He’s no James Purefoy, but Bateman did an admirable turn as the rakish Rawdon.
John Beecham in Beecham House (2019)
He’s a mysterious Englishman living in 1790s India.
Bouc in Death on the Nile (2022)
Another more minor role, but he wears pink!
Clive Richardson in Funny Woman (2023)
I’ll be interested to watch this, but more for the female comedian than for him!
What’s your take on Tom Bateman?
Funny Woman is wonderful. The clothes are to die for. I’ve watched it three times
That 1st shirt is clearly a Versace shirt from the ‘80s.
Almost as ridiculous as Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot mustache.
Yes, this actor is handsome. Re Da Vinci’s Demons: I saw the first episode as some kind of gratis preview and….there are NO words!! That said, I did want to watch more to be able know with total confidence whether it was craptastic or just crap. But, I couldn’t be bothered to find out.
Given how immensely handsome the man is, I’m quite astonished that I look forward to seeing him become a fixture in costume dramas: if he’s never cast as Doctor Watson at some point I shall be very, very disappointed (Yes, that’s right, I feel a proper Doctor Watson should be the classically-handsome adventure hero type while Holmes works best as a weirdly-charming eccentric genius with a Big Nose, Fear Me if you dare!).
Also, he’s married to MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS costar Ms. Daisy Ridley, so one can only hope they get a chance to play mystery-solving spouses at some point (Perhaps Dame Agatha’s very own TOMMY & TUPPENCE?).
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Oh, and FUNNY GIRL is a treasure: that is all.
Just re- watched Bateman as Claudio, on YouTube, in a British theater production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ next to David Tennant & Catherine Tate. He’s really cute in that.
He reminds me of an AI man somehow…but he did pretty well in Vanity Fair….