No, not more pictures of Scarlett Johannsen (pity that), but a couple of actors in apparently new and exciting roles involving archaeology:
'Whoever would have thought that archives could be sexy?'
You might think that Tony Robinson, normally to be found scrutinising a dirty brown object that might be a shard of Roman pottery or a dried-out slug, would find the precise world of the National Archives rather dull.
The actor, unearthed first as Baldrick in Blackadder, but now best-known for popularising archaeology on programmes such as Time Team, seems to be more at home in the speculative habitat of the dig rather than the exact and certificated world of censuses and marriage registers.
Next, we have Peter Weller (Robocop!) who is apparently something of an expert on Roman archaeology:
just finished watching Engineering an Empire and it was fantastic.
As I was watching it a dude appeared on screen talking about the Romans, as you would expect, but it was Peter Weller. I thought to myself, it couldn't be the same Peter Weller that was Robocop, could it?
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Then I thought, why the hell should I listen to Robocop tell me about the Roman Empire? Turns out that he has a Masters degree in Roman and Renaissance art and he is working on his PhD. He knows what he's talking about it seems.
I saw the same thing. The subtitle during Weller's speaking parts was 'Syracuse University' (see here). This rocks:
"It's a classics course posing as a film course," he says. "Eighty kids signed up thinking they'd get an easy A from RoboCop. When they saw the reader was 450 pages, including Homer and Suetonius, a quarter of the class dropped out. Those that stayed had a blast reading a portion of the reader, taking a quiz to be sure they'd read it."
It struck me because just the day before I'd watched a bit of Leviathan, a perfectly forgetful ripoff movie of Alien.