The boys are going to Comic-Con!

The search for Richard Armitage is well and truly over!

The One Ring has confirmed that our precious will take part in the Hobbit panel at Comic-Con in San Diego on the 14th of July. Joining him will be Martin Freedman, Andy Serkis, Sir Ian McKeller, Philippa Boyens,  and Sir PJ himself.

Is it just me, or does this seem like quite the honour?

I don’t want to read into this too much, but if three actors are chosen to represent the film, and it’s Sir Ian, Freedman and Armitage, that’s quite a distinguished group of actors, right?

This is how I think it all came about:

RA: Alright there, Sir PJ?

PJ: Yeah, good. You?

RA: Not bad, thanks.

PJ: So, a bunch of us are going over to San Diego for the weekend in July. Wanna come?

RA: Sure, yeah, nothing planned apart from tearing down ivy at my house in London. Who’s going?

PJ: Ya know, Gandalf, Smeagol, Bilbo, some other guys.  We’ll kick back a few Buds, have a laugh, give a few interviews. It’ll be cool. You interested?

RA  (scratches beard): Yeah, cool. Can I travel with my sword?

PJ: Should be OK. Let me get my assistant to make a few calls, I guess we could book the seat next to you on the plane…

RA: First class though, right? Me and my sword, we only travel first class!

PJ: Sure, I’ll see what I can do… Don’t worry, Sir Ian travelled with that Gandalf staff for years after we shot LOTR…

My only regret?

I didn’t hear the name ‘Aidan Turner’ thrown into the mix.

I think I’m just too eye-candy greedy, though…

 

Richard, The Bearded Boy Wonder

I don’t usually post on very current RA news.

I think I’m too busy hopping to other blogs to see their reactions and thoughts.

I also like to schedule posts, just in case life and other cataclysms pop up, so by the time I go over a new topic, it’s not that new anymore.

The latest proof that Richard Armitage is actually out there somewhere coincided with a post I had been planning to write anyway, so what better incentive than these pictures:

The quality isn’t the best.

 I cropped the images to protect the lovely person who was kind enough to post them.

 If you’d like to learn more, you can find all the info on RANet.

There’s no two ways about it!

The beard seems to be here to stay!

It makes me wonder, though, if they attach a fake beard, wouldn’t it be better to have a clean-shaven face, so the glue sticks better?

I have to admit, I have yet to experience a faux beard situation, so I just don’t know.

Maybe it’s a weave 😉

So, every time he has to go in the water, he says: You better not mess up my weave and get it wet!

Just days before these pictures emerged, the topic of RA’s baby face had been making the rounds.

I can’t lie, I was hoping to see the back of it (do not confuse this with me wishing he’d have a hairy back…).

 

My comment to this confession from RAConfessions was:

I’m glad we’ve had the chance to see him in his bearded glory, it cuts down all the ‘I wonder what he’d look like with a beard’ chit-chat. We’ve seen him. Now it needs to go!

It’s not that it hasn’t been fun!

Check out these images from RichardArmitagesBeard (no joke!).

We’ve had different versions the beard / stubble:

My favorite look? Lucas stubble.

That’s the look I hope to see at ComicCon 😉

I hope you have a wonderful morning!

Here’s a nice cup of Bearded RA to start you off right 🙂

Dear Mr. Armitage, a quiet word, sir…

Let’s analyze the images below:

Stand in the background much, Mr. Armitage?

And I don’t want to hear about you being the tallest guy and how the photographer always sticks you in the back!

You are an actor, a bloody good one at that!

You are a tall sexy drink of water, but you have the skills to back it up.

The only conclusion that comes to mind is, if you weren’t creating the background, with trees, walls and buildings, you’d outshine the rest of the people in the picture.

You wouldn’t do it out of vanity or false pride.

You’d do it because you have that ‘it’ factor that makes you stand out on a crowded room, melting everyone away.

It shouldn’t feel like a curse, especially not for an actor on the brink of a huge career.

Why is it that in the past couple of years you have become so bashful?

You’ve earned the right to be in the spotlight, and you’ve done it the hard way!

Step by step, with crap roles that (thankfully) got better with time.

I can’t imagine what people who get paid to take care of your career /  PR are thinking.

Is there some kind of game plan?

Do they realise that by shielding you, they are in fact letting the chance of a lifetime pass you by?

How is it that they let other Hobbit actors benefit from the buzz, while you stay in the shadows.

Will you once again be creating the background for other actors during the Hobbit promotion?

I think, dearest Mr. Armitage, that it’s time to take a long hard look at what the goal is, where you’re heading and how to get there.

I could live with an explosion of RA love, I wouldn’t mind sharing you with newly enlightened Armitage fans.

I’d hate to think of you as someone who didn’t take advantage of a huge opportunity, even if it meant we could keep our little community intact!

I know other RA fans have voiced their concern, courtesy of RAConfessions.

 

EDIT:

It seems others have been pondering this issue, fresh from  RAConfessions.