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Feb 1, 2017 · Tom Hollander Is the Perfect Sixth Man on ‘Taboo’. Even those of us pitching lean-tos on Taboo Island know that Taboo is a one-man show. Tom Hardy created the FX miniseries with his dad, Chips ...
- What’s It About?
- How Season One Ends
- The Sinking of The Influence/Cornwallis
Taboo’s first season centred around Hardy’s character James Keziah Delaney, a mysterious man with one foot in the spirit world and the other in the murky puddle of international arms dealing and espionage. James is a Byronic composite of 19th century literary characters – as dangerous as Magwitch, as exotic as Heathcliff, as clever as Sherlock Holm...
By the finale, James had managed all three and more, and was on a ship sailing for Portugal with a rag-tag crew of ‘Pilgrims’ and 70 barrels of gunpowder. He’d learned that his father had been poisoned, but in an act of mercy by loyal manservant Brace (David Hayman) who’d wanted to save the sinning man’s Christian soul. James had also not only expo...
A young James Delaney enlisted with the East India Company in 1798, and was soon selected by EIC chairman Stuart Strange to work on his illicit side-line. (Strange saidhe chose boys “who had the shadow of death on them” for the task as he thought they’d be less likely to return to England and reveal his secret). For personal profit and against comp...
Sep 13, 2017 · Tom Hollander’s rakish chemist Cholmondeley (pictured) was on the America-bound boat, but he looked in a bad way, his face and body a charred mess from the explosion. If there is another series ...
- Ben Dowell
Feb 22, 2017 · Tom Hollander as Cholmondeley, putting on the smarmy charm. Screenshot via FX Networks. And now behold my victory dance because I was so, so right about Brace. Of course he killed old man Delaney ...
- Alanna Martinez
Played by Oona Chaplin. Zilpha is Horace Delaney's child by his second marriage and James Delaney's younger half-sister. Married to Thorne Geary. A devout Christian.
Aug 4, 2017 · Speaking of the gunpowder, the man James hired to help him make it (Cholmondeley) will be a familiar face to many viewers – veteran character actor Tom Hollander, known for his roles in Rev, The ...
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Sep 13, 2017 · Even Cholmondeley (Tom Hollander) began to despair at James’ powers of prediction, wondering aloud how on Earth he knew the chemist would be sleeping at a random house when he gave Robert (Louis ...
