![]() ![]() ![]() "It was one of the talking ones – not that there's many of those." "I'm not sure what the first scene that we filmed together was, but it wasn't one of the raunchy ones," McLeod said. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we knowĭespite the pressure to play the couple's predominantly sexual relationship, the actors were able to create a relaxed and comfortable camaraderie. Once Tom is forced out of the only home he ever knows and lands in London, he falls into the clutches of Lady Bellaston ( "Ted Lasso" costar Hannah Waddingham), a wealthy older woman who likes her men young and lively. It doesn't hurt that Tom is irresistible to the ladies. While his heart is taken with the neighboring squire's daughter Sophie Western (Sophia Wilde), his loins are less discriminating. The tale of the 18th-century foundling who grows up to be very popular with the ladies may have topped 1,000 pages in its original form, but McLeod found this four-episode adaptation "energetic and fast-paced." ![]() It's not unusual, so to speak, for the young actor not to know that this "Tom Jones" is based on the randy, rollicking 1749 novel by Henry Fielding, but after reading early scripts, McLeod was sold. ![]() "And I was like, that's not going to work." "When I got the audition for it, I thought it was for the singer Tom Jones," McLeod told reporters at the Television Critics Association press conference in January. Solly McLeod thought he'd get rejected for his first leading role when he was initially called to read for "Tom Jones." ![]()
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