Queen Elizabeth feeling melancholy after her Council didn’t support her marriage with Duke of Alençon and Anjou in a  way she had hoped.

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In conversation with... @IanMcKellen and Waris Hussein on A Touch of Love BFI #Cinema #BFI #InConversation

https://stratford-upon-avon-theatre.blogspot.com/2018/06/in-conversation-with-ianmckellen-and.html

At BFI Southbank, London, 11 Feb 2018. Full video here: https://www.bfi.org.uk/waris-hussein-ian-mckellen-touch-of-love

Whishaw, so good in “London Spy,” hits new notes here, alternately demanding his truth be told regardless of the consequence and, later, relishing those consequences. It’s moving to watch him demand his dignity in court and delicious to watch him strutting out, boasting “I was rude, I was vile, I was queer, I was myself.”

What “A Very English Scandal” knows is that the future belongs to people like him, those unafraid to speak back to power and to marshal the media in so doing. Thorpe’s reticence is very English; so too is Scott’s mastery of an ascendant tabloid culture. Better still for viewers is the Englishness of the series, which, in keeping with the brevity of many U.K. series, takes a mere three installments to elegantly make its points. Three hours is enough time for two great actors to craft performances whose collision—and an enmity that comes to look a bit like love—is some of the more edifying fun around.