Rupert Graves: 'Genuinely, it helps in this business being called Rupert'

Katz 09/15/19

Costume dramas cast him as a floppy-fringed dreamboat – even though he wasn’t actually posh. Now Rupert Graves is playing a rapping Roman in the latest Horrible Histories romp

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Some people would be positively thrilled at the prospect of a naked Rupert Graves: his devoted fans, the GravesDiggers , for example, or Mark Gatiss, screenwriter and star of Sherlock , in which Graves plays Inspector Lestrade. “I’ve had a crush on Rupert Graves since I was 14,” Gatiss itted in 2014, then added: “Who hasn’t?”

Me: Be still, my Mystrader heart XD