Downton Abbey - John Bates/Brendan Coyle # 4: "When I do a thing, I like to have a good reason for doing it" - Page 3

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 06-07-2014, 03:57 AM

With Colin Morgan after "Mojo" last February 2014.

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***dancing in the rain*** · 06-14-2014, 01:31 PM

Aw looks like he's enjoying himself

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 06-16-2014, 02:29 AM

I'm glad Brendan was able to do some theater in-between S4 and S5.

I wish I was able to go and see his play though.

Wes&FredFan · 06-19-2014, 10:55 PM

Wish I could've seen it too. That would be great.

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 06-20-2014, 12:10 AM

Brendan is M.I.A. lately and I haven't seen him in some of the cast events at all.

"Made a new friend in the pub! He liked my moustache apparently!"

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 06-28-2014, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Downton Abbey star Brendan Coyle is swapping the hallowed halls of the Crawley's palatial manor house for London and the grubby world of organised crime.

The 50-year-old actor has been cast in Spotless, a new 10-part drama from French channel Canal Plus, which starts filming in London next month.

Coyle will join Silk actress Miranda Raison, Marc-Andre Grondin and Denis Menochet in the "irreverent, dark, funny, sexy and dangerous" drama, which will follows brothers Jean and Martin as they become entangled in the "deadly dynamics of organised crime."

There are no details as of yet on what part Coyle will play in the drama. But if the role is a criminal one, chances are it won't be too much of a stretch for Coyle. Mr Bates, his character in Downton Abbey, has revealed his darker side in recent seasons, spending a spell in prison, forging signatures, pick-pocketing and potentially murdering a man by pushing him under a London bus...

Brendan Coyle and Miranda Raison cast in crime drama Spotless

***dancing in the rain*** · 07-05-2014, 08:54 AM

That sounds interesting! Thanks for the news.

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 07-06-2014, 02:39 AM

Once D.A. is over, I'd like to see Brendan do some comedy roles in a modern world setting.

***dancing in the rain*** · 07-08-2014, 08:41 AM

The picture with the moustache tells me he'd do great with that

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 07-08-2014, 09:14 PM

Haha, yes! I'd love to see Brendan do more comedies in the future.

Brendan's upcoming film, Noble, will be out September 19!

A Noble tale gets ready for the big screen - Independent.ie

***dancing in the rain*** · 07-24-2014, 06:00 AM

I'd love that too

There will probably be a premiere the cast attends right?

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 07-24-2014, 11:55 PM

I hope so. By September the cast will be done shooting for S5 so they're free to do other things.

So I recently just found out that Michelle Fairley played Hermione's mother in DH1.

She and Brendan both look young here.

The Weir (1997)

***dancing in the rain*** · 07-29-2014, 02:34 PM

Oh cool, interesting find! He does look quite young there.

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 07-29-2014, 11:01 PM

Brendan loves doing theater.

Brendan Coyle filming as John Bates in the Masterpiece PBS special 'The Manners of Downton Abbey' airing this January before the US Downton Abbey season 5 premiere. (x)


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