Post your questions for John Hannah
Source: www.theguardian.com ·
Section: entertainment-sports ·
Bias: Center-Left
· Published: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:00:19 GMT
Your mum’s favourite star of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sliding Doors, Spartacus and a new GoPro-filmed thriller is ready to answer your quetionsHe’s your mum’s favourite, after playing the jolly nice man who is jolly nice to Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors, and the jolly nice man who delivers the heartbreaking WH Auden eulogy for his partner in Four Weddings and a Funeral. But there is far more to John Hannah than a Scottish accent, magnificent eyebrows and an unrivalled ability to look soulfully concerned. In The Mummy films, he played treasure-hunting comic relief Jonathan Carnahan. In 2002’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, he took on both halves of Robert Louis Stevenson’s character. He played a psychopathic killer in Truth or Dare, and appeared opposite Denzel Washington in The Hurricane.On TV, he has been a transhumanist scientist in Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD; a gruff but compassionate emergency medicine chief in Transplant; and a gladiator school owner in the blood-soaked, boobs-and-sandals epic Spartacus – which might have given your mum a shock if she was expecting more Mr Nice Guy. He was also the scientist at the beginning of The Last of Us who warned everyone that a fungi could destroy humanity – so don’t blame him, he did try. Continue reading...
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