'Champagne Taste On A Beer Budget': Christian Brassington's Vile Rev. Osborne Whitworth

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🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of Season Four of *Poldark.

In lemon silks and too-tight breeches, the Reverend Osborne Whitworth is the gaudiest member of Poldark’s core cast. With extravagant tastes and a limited budget, the Reverend turns to darker quarters to fulfill his incessant appetites. Actor Christian Brassington, who put on more than 35 pounds to play the hefty Ossie, used careful voicework to find his place in the character — along with a diet of more than 3,500 calories per day. Hear the true story behind one of Poldark’s most reprehensible characters here.

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0:29.7	Podcast. podcast. The Reverend Osborne Whitworth is the lowest of the low in Cornwall, brutally
0:45.6	assaulting his wife Morwena and pushing to commit her to an insane asylum
0:49.4	when she refuses his advances.
0:51.4	Overly, I've noted a mark deterioration in her behavior.
0:55.3	Periods of profound melancholy, suffers increasingly from the most alarming delusions, and continues to refuse me my conjugal rides, all of
1:07.5	which leads me to conclude that she's beyond help and would be better off in an
1:10.4	institution. But this week on Poldark, Reverend Whitworth finally gets his just
1:15.3	desserts from the most unlikely of sources. Arthur, the cuckled husband of his sister-in-law
1:20.9	Rowella, frightens Ozzy's horse and ends up sending him to an early grave.
1:26.0	Reverend Whitworth. What do you want?
1:30.0	This is what I want. You.
1:40.0	Christian Brasington truly went all in to play the awful Ozzy, gaining weight and growing
1:44.8	out his hair to illustrate the vile reverence over-fed image of depraved nobility.
1:49.6	I think his appetite is endless, he can never really be satisfied.
1:53.2	He has gone through his entire life expecting everything to happen for him the moment that he clicks
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