In the last few years, I haven't really kept up with the recent (or not so recent) work of various actors I proclaim to like. It takes time to watch movies and TV series and most of the time, it feels like I'm not in the right mindset to sit down and commit to watching a given movie or series that some actor has been in.
The most recent thing I watched starring an actor I like was "Memory," for Peter Sarsgaard. It is actually a significant time and effort commitment to try and watch all or most of a given actor's (or director's) filmography, and I have to say I've not accomplished that goal for any actor or director.
Yes, I'm slacking on my duties as a so-called fan of these actors. Because I was impressed with Robert Pattinson's performance in Mickey 17, I might try and take a look at his past work to see if anything looks interesting enough to watch.
Anyways, in my recent review of Mickey 17, I mentioned some actors I think might have been better to cast in the role of the primary villain, the spaceship's commander. One of them was Peter Sarsgaard, and another was James D'Arcy, a British actor who is probably (?) lesser known than Peter Sarsgaard. It's been awhile since I've watched anything with him in it, but I seem to have the recollection that he tends to play characters that are a bit cold and icy, or at least that's what's most memorable to me.
Interestingly, I just found out that James D'Arcy had some smaller role in the major film "Oppenheimer."* He's had a small role in some Marvel stuff too, but I don't care about superhero garbage. I think he plays someone's assistant, or something.
Anyways, I wanted to see what he has been in over the last few years that I haven't been keeping up with that, so I was going to look at a fan website (jamesdarcy.net) I remembered looking at in the olden days. Unfortunately, it appears that fan website no longer exists, and the Facebook page for it has not been updated since spring of 2022. There are some archives of the site on the Wayback Machine, showing the site itself was last updated in 2020 and went down sometime between 2022 and 2023.
I have no idea what happened there and why the site ceased to exist. It's disappointing to me, so this blog may have to also take up the mantle of a part-time unofficial James D'Arcy fan site too. I hope Peter Sarsgaard doesn't get jealous (I'm being sarcastic. No one even reads my blog, much less these actors. It's okay though, I still like them. I think it might be kind of embarrassing for them to read it, in any case).
It also made me think of Kaitlyn Tiffany's now-defunct Jake Gyllenhaal newsletter, which was titled "Our Bodies Are Controlled by the Moon," which apparently was drawn from something Jake Gyllenhaal had said. It was published via Tinyletter and I thought maybe the archives would still be up even though she stopped writing it some years back, but Tinyletter shut down too, so no dice there.
A belated goodbye to these figments of the old internet...
* He posts sporadically on Instagram. Back when Oppenheimer was going to premiere, he posted an image of the poster with the caption "I can't believe they forgot to put my name at the top. In theatres 7/21/23. Or 21/7/23 if you like your dates the right way round." My impression from interviews and such is that James D'Arcy has a dry sense of humor. Maybe because he's British?
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