When in Rome, try not to write fanfic!

So you know how I was saying that playing John Cavendish in the RPG had helped me to get a firmer grip on what his character was like?  I thought it would also help if I found him a face :)  So I hunted around for an actor who looked how I imagined John to look, and came up with Simon Woods - the fellow in the icon - who played Mr.Bingley in the 2005 film of Pride and Prejudice.  John is blond rather than ginger, and his eyes are grey rather than that slightly alarming shade of blue,  but otherwise this is a close match.

Naturally I wanted to make icons!  But the amount of material in P&P where the man is not grinning like an idiot is very limited, (and what was with that?  Did they deliberately set out to make Bingley look like a right pratt, so that Darcy would look better?  I did find it difficult to imagine why a sensible girl like Jane Bennett would fall for such a gurning loon.  But probably the least I say about the 2005 P&P the better.  That's a subject for another rant!)

So anyway, I thought I'd check out what else Simon Woods had been in, to try and find some better pictures.  It turned out that he'd been in 'Rome',

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