Reuniting with his «Pride & Prejudice» director Joe Wright in an entirely different kind of role, Macfadyen is something of a revelation; buried underneath a
walrus moustache, he's a boisterous, vibrant man of
enormous appetites, and Macfadyen positively relishes the chance to seize a man with so much carpe diem (particularly when put in contrast with the brooding, repressed Mr. Darcy).