JEREMY BRETT His beautiful profile. 

You're right. People can contemplate the sea for an eternity; it takes away our sorrows and gives us hope for the best. I can state at Jeremy's images forever and always find something new to discover. There are things in the world that you can admire endlessly... Thanks for your feedback.

What is strange / peculiar is that, if I remember well, he said somewhere that, until the age of 35-36 himself couldn't read anything on his own face. In a way, I agree with him (I didn't remember him at all as Nikolai Rostov or Freddy Eynsford-Hill until I rediscovered him as Sherlock, I must confess - to my confusion), but I find him a quite severe toward himself : even photos on which he could be not much more tha than "a pretty face", manage to raise the viewer's curiosity regarding, at least, the role he embodies, if not also the real person of the interpreter hiden by the make-up and the stage costume. And after all, it's the main one feels entitled to expect from an actor. So, in his case, being (very 😊) good-looking, was not an obstacle that prevented the spectator from guessing an often complex personality beyond the flattering image he reflected : that of the character he played or his own one according to the type of picture. So many young actors disappeared from the screen, replaced by a new pretty boy ! Jeremy never was because his embodiments all along his career were enriched by the rare human depth he was blessed with. It's so much true that he never found a real successor : we can compare contemporary actors with him (I did it about Gaspard Ulliel) but this can be done only under one and particular angle at a time (that's how I understood my comparison with Gaspard Ulliel), and certainly not on a comprehensive point of view for Jeremy's nature was a singular one, a combination of traits that can never be found again.

@@charlottevairet3453 Thank you, dear Charlotte, for you detailed, valuable comment. I have almost nothing to add to what you wrote. In 1959, Jeremy played Hamlet. Playing the famous Danish prince. Brett later said: ' I don't think I was very good at playing Hamlet. I think I was too young philosophically. I was too young intellectually. I was very handsome. I had qualities, but I'd rather see other people version". One of the reasons why Jeremy took on the role of Holmes was that he was worried about being remembered as just another handsome man from a magazine cover. "It will be a great consolation to me when I get older to be able to look back and say, "Oh, well, I did Holmes, and I managed to do it not too badly"(Quote from interview, May 1990) Charm is an innate gift. It is true that man had many qualities, including charm, and we often said that he wax "charming". There are people who can conquer our sensitive hearts forever. The interesting things is why some of them remain forever in our memory, why we find time to continue to talk about them many years after their disappearance. He was a man who loved what he did and it showed. All our attention is focused on this character, who knew how to capture the attention of the audience, making them experience all the emotions during the film or performance.. It's true, Caspard Ulliel was an amazing person and actor. His life was tragically cut short at the very takeoff... No one can ever replace them for us.

@amtRemember Yes, I corrected it.

​​​​@amtRememberTo be sure that this little contribution reaches you as well as our admirably lettered Ksenia (what a poet herself our Ksenia is !)... I've just begun to read "Le voyageur sans bagage" / "Traveller Without Luggage" by Jean Anouilh, that Jeremy played in 1972. A little incident having made me go to the end of the play, the first thing I read was the last line where Gaston - Jeremy says : "Vous direz à Georges Renaud [...] qu'il n'a jamais été qu'un enfant digne de tous les pardons, un enfant qu'il peut aimer sans crainte, maintenant, de jamais rien lire de laid sur son visage d'homme" = word for word : " You will tell Georges Renaud [...] that he [his missing brother = Gaston ? ] was never anything else than a child worthy of all forgiveness, a child he can love now without fear of ever reading anything ugly on his man's face." Strange mise en abyme in a way, when you think of it : it's to Jeremy himself to whom we could apply this very statement. And that's probably one of the reasons why we love him so much : - in a way, perhaps (perhaps☝️: this view might be nothing else than a hackneyed cliché) as an adult he had kept something of the child he had been, which is why one could feel carried towards him by surges of tenderness and a desire to protect him - if he certainly had failings, they were only venial sins : he was not somebody on whose face one could have read hidden pettiness, something opprobrious or disgraceful. 😏 : writing this I'm remembering that he played Dorian Gray and I'm really wondering HOW they managed to gradually transform / degrade the portrait of the perfectly handsome young man of the beginning into the innerly appalling, perverted creature he has become in the end, 🤔🤔🤔... (poor Jeremy who feared to be considered just a pretty face, 😢 ! How mistaken he was ! Thank God !)

​@amtRemember I learnt this from the French website Ksenia refers to because of its forum whose a certain member behaved indelicately with her, 😒, but which is very rich as to the informations it provides about / around our JB. Anouilh wrote the play in 1936. Jeremy embodied the title-role in 1972 as I erot above. Unfortunately I have no further details about the production... Worse : I doubt (and regret more than I can say) that we can find any trace of his performance in it since, as far as I know, none of the plays he played in was filmed. All this so important part of his work is lost to us for ever, I'm afraid, 😭. Er, I don't know if this answers your question ?

This is the music of Secret Garden (from English - "Secret Garden") - an Irish-Norwegian duo performing Celtic and neoclassical music.