If you're a fan of the BBC series
Being Human (and if not, you should be), it might come as a surprise to you that Mitchell was in the DS film. But what's that you say, you didn't catch Aidan Turner in the film. Well, that's because he wasn't in it. I'm not speaking of him - I'm speaking of the original actor who played Mitchell (who, for the uninitiated, just happens to be a vampire) - the actor who played him in the pilot: Guy Flanagan, who wasn't available due to other commitments by the time the pilot finally went to series so Aidan Turner took over the role.
But let's backtrack to the other day to see how all this relates to the official US Web site for the film. As I said, the new opening page has links to various store Web sites where the Blu-ray can be pre-ordered. I checked out all of them just to make sure none of them were offering anything like exclusive bundled discs (sadly, none seem to be), and when I checked out Target's Web site, I noticed that apparently they list the names of practically every actor in the film. Imagine my surprise when I scanned the list and saw the name Guy Flanagan. Immediately I questioned in my mind if it could be the same Guy Flanagan who was in the
Being Human pilot, and then it hit me: he played one of the hippies. And I've posted screen caps of him right here on the forum. But not until I saw his name on the Target Web site did I put it together that he was the bearded hippie. And then I began to wonder how it was that we could have missed his casting. But I checked through the film's topics and no one ever reported it. So apparently his name wasn't added to the IMDb cast listings until long after the film opened because some of us were still checking the list even after the film opened. But his name is indeed there now. And the credit is also listed on his own IMDb page.
And so, thanks to the fact that the
Being Human pilot was so popular after it originally aired on BBC Three back in 2008 that it was made available for download (I posted about this back in '08 and recommended that people check it out), that I made a DVD for myself from the video, and I now have that DVD back in my possession, here are a couple screen caps from it along with two of the screen caps I'd posted from the DS film of the only scene featuring Guy Flanagan that's currently available to us:
I also love this particular scene in the pilot:
Does it in any way remind anyone of a certain other vampire who went outside during the day wearing a hat and sunglasses and gloves and carrying an umbrella (well, the umbrella was sometimes carried
for him in the film). (And the other actor in that particular cap is Russell Tovey, one of only two of the original actors to go from the pilot to the series.)
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