Alas, Poor Jack

Let's all feel bad for British actor Jack Davenport, who's getting bad parts in American films.

True, he was in Pirates of the Caribbean, but he played the uptight, by the books British captain who you know Keira Knightly is going to dump for Legolas.. er, Orlando Bloom. Not only was his best scene trimmed to a deleted scene, but he's not even getting an action figure out of it.

Now, he's going to be in Wedding Date, a shameless movie about a girl who hires a man to pose as her boyfriend and they fall in love... Yes, yes we've all seen this plot dozens of times. Jack plays a character called Edward Fletcher-Wooten, that just proves to you that Hollywood writers have never actually met a Brit. If God is mercifully, it is a short part where Jack can slink out of the movie with some dignity.

I just hope that Coupling lasts a long, long time so that he doesn't have to rely on Hollywood to support his career.