Sebastian Flyte

...independence. Whishaw has the cheekbones and rock-star hips to be expected from someone who played Bob Dylan in I'm Not There (2007) and Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited (2008). He handles the verse he delivers with understated flair,...

In this article: Jane Campion, Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, John Keats, Abbie Cornish, Oscar, Charles Armitage Brown, and Kerry Fox

But the film came towards the end of a string of projects, including the film version of Brideshead Revisited (in which he played Sebastian Flyte) and the harrowing TV prison drama, Criminal Justice, which left him feeling "really spent".

In this article: Ben Whishaw, John Keats, Bright Star, Hamlet, Royal Court Theatre, Primo Levi, Brideshead Revisited, and Trevor Nunn

Filmed walking up the red carpet at the Munich premiere of Perfume he looked almost comically ill at ease. Ben as the fabulously dissolute Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited, above with Hayley Atwell as Julia (left) and Matthew Goode as...

In this article: Ben Whishaw, Hamlet, Bright Star, John Keats, Dustin Hoffman, Trevor Nunn, Oscar, Charles Armitage Brown, and John Gielgud

...the novel's atmospheric exploration of love, lust, religion, and sin. The novel traces Ryder's days at Oxford, where he meets the eccentric Sebastian Flyte and his teddy bear Aloysius. The two become fast friends and more than friends.

In this article: Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Charles Ryder, First World War, World War II, and Waiting for Godot

...think a grown man had been so overwhelmed he needed a childhood security blanket. The explanation that he was actually channelling the camp Sebastian Flyte character from Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited wasn't much better. "What a...

In this article: John-Paul Langbroek, Anna Bligh, Queensland, Women's Weekly, Mango, Brideshead Revisited, and Evelyn Waugh

We are promised new revelations as to Waugh's sexual friendships with young men at Oxford, particularly one of the putative models for Sebastian Flyte: Hugh Lygon. He exhibited the requisite childlike grace and beauty, took rooms with...

In this article: Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Oxford, and Christopher Sykes

...inhabitants: Lord Beauchamp, hounded into exile on account of his sexuality, and his son, Hugh, also gay and alcoholic, and model for Sebastian Flyte. Despite such blighted lives, we insist on seeing the myth of Brideshead as somehow...

In this article: Brideshead, Evelyn Waugh, Cecil Beaton, Silver, Harold Acton, Charles Sturridge, Southampton, and Brian Howard

...Hugh's death at the age of 31, Waugh returned to the time in which he was most happy. He refashioned alcoholic Hugh as the alcoholic Sebastian Flyte; Lord Beauchamp, Hugh's father, as Lord Marchmain; Hugh's elder brother, Elmley, as Bridey;...

In this article: Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, and Oxford

...of his homosexuality when he left university. She also claims that Waugh drew inspiration from two of his male companions for Lord Sebastian Flyte, his most famous literary creation. The biography, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh And The Secrets...

In this article: Evelyn Waugh, Oxford, Brideshead Revisited, and Lord Sebastian Flyte

...family Brideshead Revisited must surely rank as one of the best-loved novels of the 20th century. Aloysius the teddy bear, Sebastian Flyte being sick through Charles Ryder's window, Anthony Blanche declaiming TS Eliot through a...

In this article: Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Harold Acton, and TS Eliot