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The results of a casting forum: Joffrey de Peyrac
An overview of all previous candidates for Joffrey de Peyrac according to www.angelique.international
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Joffrey de Peyrac in the work by Anne Golon
(p. 145) It was the first time that Angélique had heard mention of the Golden Voice of the Kingdom. "He is the greatest singer in Toulouse," they explained to her. "Since the great minstrels of the Middle Ages, the Languedoc has known none like him. You will hear him, Madame; you'll find you can't help succumbing to his spell."(p. 147) A tall, loose-limbed, swaying figure appeared, dressed in crimon velvet and leaning on an ebony cane. As the limping figure approached, one could distinguish, framed by an abundant black wig, a face as displeasing to the eye as was his gait. Two deep scars ran from his temple to his left cheek and across one half closed eyelid. The lips were strong and clean-shaven, which was not the fashion and added to the strangeness of this weird scarecrow. (p. 150 - 151) "I have no pipe and I do not také snuff. I smoke the rolled leaf as I saw certain savages of America do. No one can accuse me of a musketeer's coarseness or a Court fop's affectation..." (p. 151 - 152) ...and as his abundant black locks touched Angélique's hand, she shrank back. She noticed at that moment that her husband was not wearing a wig, but that his great shock of hair was natural. (p. 157) Angélique felt herself bent backward by a strength she had not suspected in this tall gaunt man. (p. 158) ...she had to admit that the man attracted people, with his sparkling talk and playful, curious disposition. (...) Not a day passed, however, without her finding in her room a present... (p. 160) His gallantry was spontaneous, gay, elegant, and the ladies strove to provoke it with obvious enjoyment. (p. 163) "I have some measuring instruments, but I use my laboratory principally for chemical research on metals such as gold and silver." (...) "And note what Master André le Chapelain says at the head of his manuscript The Art of Love: 'To occupy yourself with love, you must have no worries about material subsistence.' " (p. 164) "I miss distractions, and you are distraction and variety personified." (...) Joffrey de Peyrac was attractive for women. Angélique could not deny it, and that which had been a cause of amazement to her during the first days, was becoming more understandable. Certain troubled expressions, certain flutterings among her pretty women friends as the faltering step of the limping nobleman could be heard approaching in the corridors, had not escaped her. (...) He knew how to talk to women. He found caustic and gentle words, knew how to address a lady in a way that made her feel that she had been singled out among all the others. (p. 177) "He is even said to be a great scientist." (p. 178) "He bought back the lot and, ever since, his fortune has grown constantly. He happens, moreover, to be a nobleman who is never seen at Court, he even makes a show of keeping away from it and he is not in receipt of any royal pension." (p. 181) 'He has the most wonderful hair in the world,' thought Angélique. (p. 231) It seemes to her that, had he been handsom and invulnerable, she would not have loved him nearly so passionately. GOLON, Sergeanne. Angélique, the Marquise of the Angels. London: Pan Major, 1961. (p. 193) At the foot of the platform, where he had come on silent feet, stood a massive form, black from head to foot. GOLON, Sergeanne. Angélique and the Sultan. London: Pan Books, 1963. (p. 358) She had forgotten how tall he was. (...) She had forgotten how strongly built he was. (...) He looked to her as if he had been hewn out of a kind of black rock; he was all angles, with his square shoulders, his waist drawn in by a broad leather and steel belt, from which hung the holster of two elaborately worked pistols, and his long, taut thigh-muscles standing out beneath his close-fitting leather breeches. GOLON, Sergeanne. Angélique in Revolt. London: Pan Books, 1966. |
Joffrey de Peyrac in the work by Anne Golon
(p. 78 - 79) His black and piercing eyes, peering at her from beneath his bushy eyebrows, were the same eyes she had seen earlier through the slits in his mask. His features seemed chiselled and hard, and his left cheek still bore the marks of old scarring. These scars were only slightly disfiguring and made him impressive rather than frightening. (...) This beloved face, which had lived for so long in her heart, had eventually grown dim and vanished, for she had never owned a picture of him to remind her of what he had looked like. Now the position was reversed: his features were being reformed before her very eyes with hallucinating precision. Ther was his noble and delicate nose, his heavy moking lips, there were the bones of his cheeks and his jaw, standing out clearly beneath that mat skin seen so often on the men of Aquitane, and there were the familiar disfiguring scars where once, long ago, she used sometimes to run her finger. (...) "No, no, you are not... him. He had hair... yes, he had an enormus head of black hair framing his face." "My hair? I had that cumbersome mop cut off a long time ago. It isn't fashionable for pirates to wear their hair like that!" "But he... he was lame," she cried. "Hair can be cut off, and a face can be masked, but you can't make a short leg grow any longer."(p. 80 - 82) A figure dressed in red velvet crowned with a thick black hed of hair was standing at the end of a long banquet table; his teeth were revealed in a dazzling smile while (…) A mocking smile played about his lips, and straightaway she recognized him. (…) His features had hardened and become sharper, as well as having grown more regular, for his scars had faded, and his whole face bore that look of maturity which a man acquires in the prime of life. This was indeed the face of Joffrey de Peyrac. (p. 83) This time it was his smile that cut short what she was saying. It was a smile that revealed a row of still splendid shining teeth. It was certainly the smile of the last of the troubadours, but a veil of melancholy and disenchantment hung over it. "Fifteen years, Madame! Just consider it." (p. 97) She had been only seventeen when they were married. (p. 165) When he had decided to marry, back in Toulouse, he had been already thirty and somewhat blasé about women. GOLON, Sergeanne. Angélique in Love. London: Pan Books, 1969. (p. 33) He had removed his feathered hat and his thick hair glistened in the sun with a metallic sheen. Steely lights shone on his tight curled, typically Gascon hair, still almost jet black although beginning to shine with silver at the temples. His southern ancestry, with its admixture of Spanish and Saracen blood, made his face look as dark and sun-baked as that of the Redskin he was addressing. There was a paler area over his cheekbones left by the mask he sometimes wore. His bushy eyebrows had an easy graciousness above his magnificent eyes, but his profile was still sharp, broken by the sinuous curve of his lips, which stood out provokingly aggressive and sensual. His lips were strong and wide, like fine silk but scarcely tinged with pink beside the tanned skin of his face. They trembled, they tightened, or parted over his shining teeth. They seemed to lead their own life in his extraordinary face in which every element seemed to contribute to the total aristocratic impression. He had the wast strongly-lined forehead of the man of intelligence, the delicately arched browline of the man of birth, and there was fire of spirit in the depths of his dark eyes. His nose and chin were strong and rugged, those of a conqueror, a man from the mountains, accustomed to hold his head high, to watch the eagle in his soaring; and between them lay that slightly Moorish mouth, imperious, demanding so it seemed, even when silent and impassive, the mouth of the man of this earth, a sign of materiality amidst the sublimated features, which enhanced its ambivalent and disquieting strength. It was such a mouth that the sculptors of ancient times gave to the images of their gods, without realizing that their chisels were thus expressing all the lust for life and pleasure of those early Mediterranean civilizations. GOLON, Sergeanne. The Countess Angélique. Ontario: Pan Books, 1968. |
The proposed faces for Joffrey de Peyrac |
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Joffrey de Peyrac• David Copperfieldborn 1956-09-16, Metuchen, New Jersey, USA height: 1.83 m Magic of David Copperfield (illusionist David Copperfield) • Sami Frey born 1937-10-13, Paris, France height: 1.78 m Angélique and the King, 1966 (Bachtiari Bej); Les Mariés de l’an II, 1971 (Marquis de Geron) • Nicolas Cage born 1964-01-07, Long Beach, California, USA height: 1.83 m The Rock, 1996 (Dr. Stanley Goodspeed); City of Angels, 1998 (Seth) • Josef Vojtek born 1965-06-21, Teplice, Czechoslovakia height: 1.86 m Jak se krotí krokodýli, 2006 (Koudelka Dali), Musical Angelika, 2007 (Joffrey de Peyrac) • Patrick Dempsey born 1966-01-13, Lewiston, Maine, USA height: 1.79 m Grey’s Anatomy, 2005 (Dr. Derek Shepherd) • Viggo Mortensen born 1958-10-20, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA height: 1.80 m The Lord of the Rings, 2002 (Aragorn) • Robert Downey Jr. born 1965-04-04, New York City, New York, USA height: 1.73 m Ally McBeal, 1997 (Larry Paul); Chaplin, 1992 (Chaplin) • Timothy Daly born 1956-03-01, New York City, New York, USA height: 1.85 m Private Practice, 2007 (Dr. Pete Wilder) • Eric Bana born 1968-08-09, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia height: 1.89 m Munich, 2005 (Avner); Black Hawk Down, 2001 (Hoot) • Adrian Pasdar born 1967-04-30, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA height: 1.78 m Carlito's Way, 1993 (Frankie Taglialucci) • Jeffrey Dean Morgan born 1966-04-22, Seattle, Washington, USA height: 1.88 m Grey’s Anatomy, 2005 (Denny Duquette); P.S. I love you, 2007 (William 'Billy' Gallagher) • John Malkovich born 1953-12-09, Christopher, Illinois, USA height: 1.85 m Dangerous Liaisons, 1988 (Valmont); Les Miserables, 2000 (Javert) • Jeremy Irons born 1948-09-19, Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK height: 1.87 m Lolita, 1997 (Humbert Humbert); The Merchant of Venice, 2004 (Antonio) • Daniel Day-Lewis born 1957-04-29, Greenwich, London, England, UK height: 1.87 m The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1988 (Tomas); Gangs of New York, 2002 (Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting) • Laurence Olivier born 1907-05-22, Dorking, Surrey, England, UK; died 1989-07-11, Steyning, West Sussex, England, UK height: 1.78 m The Hamilton Woman, 1941 (Lord Horatio Nelson); Nicholas and Alexandra, 1971 (Count Witte) • George Clooney born 1961-05-06, Lexington, Kentucky, USA height: 1.82 m ER, 1994 (Dr. Doug Ross); Ocean's Twelve, 2001 (Danny Ocean) • Daniele Liotti born 1971, Rome, Lazio, Italy height: 1.88 m Juana la Loca, 2001 (Felipe); Doctor Zhivago, 2002 (Misha Gordon) • Goran Visjnic born 1972-09-09, Sibenik, Croatia, Yugoslavia height: 1.93 m ER, 1994 (Dr. Luka Kovac); Spartacus, 2004 (Spartacus) • Clive Owen born 1964-10-03, Keresley, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK height: 1.89 m Closer, 2004 (Larry); Sin City, 2005 (Dwight) • Lorenzo Lamas born 1958-01-20, Los Angeles, California, USA height: 1.88 m TV series Renegade, 1992-1997 (Vince Black); TV series Air America, 1998-1999 (Rio Arnett) • Adrian Paul born 1959-05-29, London, England, United Kingdom height: 1.83 m TV series Highlander, 1992-1998 (Duncan 'Mac); Storm Watch, 2002 (Seville) • Javier Bardem born 1969-03-01, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain height: 1.83 m Before Night Falls, 2000 (Reinaldo Arenas); Goya's Ghosts, 2006 (Lorenzo) • Mark Umbers born 1973-06-17, Harrogate, England, UK height: 1.88 m TV series Midsomer Murders, 2004-2008 (Harry Fitzroy) • Michael T. Weiss born 1962-02-02, Chicago, Illinois, USA height: 1.91 m TV series The Pretender, 1996-2000 (Jarod); TV series The Legend of Tarzan, 2001-2003 (Tarzan) • Gerard Butler born 1969-11-13, Glasgow, Scotland height: 1.88 m Phantom of the Opera, 2004 (Phantom); I love you, 2007 (Gerry) • Daniel Hůlka born 1968-06-01, Prague, Czechoslovakia height: 1.98 m Musical Dracula, 1996 (Dracula); Z pekla štěstí, 1999 (Brambas) |
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