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Features ONE OF MATTHEW Macfadyen's earliest roles was in a school nativity pageant, when he played Caspar, one of the three kings bearing gold, frankincense, and myrrh. But Firth, the Gen X Darcy to Macfadyen's millennial Darcy, instantly grasped his successor's appeal. Macfadyen brings up the "homoerotic overtones" in Tom's reference to Nero and Sporus, which adds fuel to audience fantasies of a Tom-Greg romance. Within a few years, Macfadyen was starring in the spy series MI-5 (known as Spooks in the U.K.), alongside other promising 20-somethings like Hawes and David Oyelowo. [Extracted from the article] |
