Happy New Year, dear Turds!
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I got back from holidays last week and went straight to the hospital with a massive pulmonary infection; still recovering, but thankfully there are enough guilty pleasures to watch in the meantime.
So I just finished the new Harlan Coben series on Netflix (Fool Me Once), and it made me think of Ioan a lot. As others have mentioned, he could have had a smashing career in the UK with this type of production - just look at Richard Armitage. He has top billing (together with Michelle Keegan) even though he appears only in a few scenes. He may not be Laurence Olivier, but he does a decent job, is recognizable and has steady work, not to mention an estimated net worth of $25M. Yo could have easily played in that same league for years.
Maybe I‘m reading too much into it, but I‘ve always been under the impression that Yo seems more at ease, more natural, in UK productions (funnily enough, I think the same about Tom Hiddleston (whom I luuuurve
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) - I had the good fortune to see him live as Hamlet a few years ago, and he was magnificent).
I hope Yo considers shifting his professional focus to the UK a little more in the future, rather than aiming for the likes of Bad Boys 4; I‘d much rather see him as the lead in a good miniseries than as a supporting actor in some lame 3rd sequel of a shopworn action franchise… MOO.