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notinlestradesdivision:

sebcarring:

Russell Tovey: Was he tanned up, or was he tanned anyway?
Mark Gatiss: He’d just come back from Guadeloupe….
Russell: Death in Paradise, wasn’t it?
Mark: Yep. And it was impossible to ignore!
Sue Vertue: So we said “write it in!”
Russell: Oh, okay. So you actually wrote it in because of the tan?
Mark: And I tried to make it canonical, because he is all brown as a nut. Which is what Mike Stamford says about Watson…. But he looks great, doesn’t he?

(Hounds of Baskerville DVD Commentary on the rather wonderful Tanned!Rupert)

And dishy as hell.

OH MARK

HE DOES LOOK GREAT. YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY IT EVERY SCENE

Yes you do