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Cover story: When in Rome... She's played them all: from the icy Marquise in 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' to droid TC-14 in 'Star Wars'. And here she comes as Julius Caesar's lover in the epic new BBC drama 'Rome'. So why, as

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20051023
Author:Kevin Jackson

Word from deep inside the camp of Rome, the whoppingly expensive 12-part co-production between HBO and BBC Drama, is that the series was at one time pitched to the money guys as an irresistible blend of two contrasting house styles: the grittiness, amoral sprezzatura and unflinching violence of The Sopranos, plus the conspicuous literacy, gravitas and high-megaton classiness of I, Claudius. (Indeed, further rumours have it that the project began its meandering, several-year route to the small screen with the idea for a fairly straight remake of the old BBC series.) This was always a dangerous ...

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