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* AuthorsSavingThrow: A preemptive one by Graves, who emphasizes in the preface to ''Claudius the God'' that the libels expressed against Christianity are based on the negative rumors of the time, noting that Herod Agrippa and Claudius are {{Unreliable Narrator}}s with their own biases and their statement should not be taken as factual.

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* AuthorsSavingThrow: A preemptive one by Graves, who emphasizes in the preface to ''Claudius the God'' that the libels expressed against Christianity are based on the negative rumors of the time, noting that Herod Agrippa and Claudius are {{Unreliable Narrator}}s Expositor}}s with their own biases and their statement statements should not be taken as factual.
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* {{Corpsing}}: When filming the scene where Caligula asks Claudius if he's mad - by this point so obviously off his rocker that it's almost impossible for Claudius to lie - neither Jacobi or Hurt could keep straight faces. They only managed one take where they didn't both burst out laughing, and this is the take that ended up in the show. Even then, when the camera focuses on Jacobi his eyes are crinkled with trying not to giggle.

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* {{Corpsing}}: When filming the scene where Caligula asks Claudius if he's mad - by this point so obviously off his rocker that it's almost impossible for Claudius to lie - neither Jacobi or Hurt could keep straight faces. They [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHkjIaoE1ds John Hurt later admitted that the two of them only managed one take where they didn't both burst out laughing, laughing]], and this is the take that ended up in the show. Even then, when the camera focuses on Jacobi his eyes are crinkled with trying not to giggle.
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* Corpsing: When filming the scene where Caligula asks Claudius if he's mad - by this point so obviously off his rocker that it's almost impossible for Claudius to lie - neither Jacobi or Hurt could keep straight faces. They only managed one take where they didn't both burst out laughing, and this is the take that ended up in the show. Even then, when the camera focuses on Jacobi his eyes are crinkled with trying not to giggle.

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* Corpsing: {{Corpsing}}: When filming the scene where Caligula asks Claudius if he's mad - by this point so obviously off his rocker that it's almost impossible for Claudius to lie - neither Jacobi or Hurt could keep straight faces. They only managed one take where they didn't both burst out laughing, and this is the take that ended up in the show. Even then, when the camera focuses on Jacobi his eyes are crinkled with trying not to giggle.
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* Corpsing: When filming the scene where Caligula asks Claudius if he's mad - by this point so obviously off his rocker that it's almost impossible for Claudius to lie - neither Jacobi or Hurt could keep straight faces. They only managed one take where they didn't both burst out laughing, and this is the take that ended up in the show. Even then, when the camera focuses on Jacobi his eyes are crinkled with trying not to giggle.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: A preemptive one by Graves, who emphasizes in the preface to ''Claudius the God'' that the libels expressed against Christianity are based on the negative rumors of the time, noting that Herod Agrippa and Claudius are {{Unreliable Narrator}}s with their own biases and their statement should not be taken as factual.
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--> And then, Laughton addresses the Senate... and soars. In one scene he becomes every belittled, misjudged man who ever stood up and said, this is not who I am. At last it is possible to understand why Laughton placed such significance on the interior. He was acting the other takes, and they were good; in this one, he is being, and it is art. -- Self-Styled Siren, "Charles Laughton: Actor as Artist", Feb. 8, 2015.

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--> ---> And then, Laughton addresses the Senate... and soars. In one scene he becomes every belittled, misjudged man who ever stood up and said, this is not who I am. At last it is possible to understand why Laughton placed such significance on the interior. He was acting the other takes, and they were good; in this one, he is being, and it is art. -- Self-Styled Siren, "Charles Laughton: Actor as Artist", Feb. 8, 2015.

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* UnderageCasting: Creator/JohnRhysDavies looks his age at 32 years old while playing Macro, who lived to be fifty-eight.

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* UnderageCasting: UnderageCasting:
** Siân Phillips (Livia) was two years younger than George Baker, who played her elder son Tiberius, and ten years older than Ian Oglivy, who played her younger son Drusus.
** Margaret Tyzack (Antonia) was only seven years older than Derek Jacobi, who played her son Claudius.
** Creator/BrianBlessed (Augustus) was only two years older than Frances White, who played his daughter Julia.
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Creator/JohnRhysDavies looks his age at 32 years old while playing Macro, who lived to be fifty-eight.
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** Creator/PatrickStewart not only has hair, but plays the opposite of Picard or Professor X, as Sejanus is a TheChessmaster who manipulates everyone, is coldly brutal and has some kinky fantasies with Livilla.

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** Creator/PatrickStewart not only has hair, hair[[note]] although it's actually a wig, since Stewart lost his hair in his early twenties[[/note]], but plays the opposite of Picard or Professor X, as Sejanus is a TheChessmaster who manipulates everyone, is coldly brutal and has some kinky fantasies with Livilla.

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* CreatorCouple:
** Moira Redmond (Domitia) was the ex-wife of the director Herbert Wise.
** Fiona Walker (Agrippina) was the ex-wife of Herbert Wise.
** Barbara Young (Agrippinilla) was the wife of the writer Jack Pulman.



* RealLifeRelative:
** Moira Redmond (Domitia) was the ex-wife of the director Herbert Wise.
** Fiona Walker (Agrippina) was the ex-wife of Herbert Wise.
** Barbara Young (Agrippinilla) was the wife of the writer Jack Pulman.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Augustus Caesar was slender and sickly throughout his life on the shorter side, while Brian Blessed is a large, burly man with a booming voice, though his performance is widely praised.

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* AbilityOverAppearance: Augustus Caesar was slender and sickly throughout his life and on the shorter side, while Brian Blessed is a large, burly man with a booming voice, though his performance is widely praised.
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* FanNickname: ''I, Clavdivs'' (achieved by pronouncing the Roman U's as V's; later home-video reissues do away with the Roman styling).
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** Siân Phillips, aged 43, played Livia from the age of 34 to her death at 86.

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** Siân Phillips, Creator/SianPhillips, aged 43, played Livia from the age of 34 to her death at 86.
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** Creator/HelenMirren turned down the role of Drusilla. Ironically, she would later star in ''Film/{{Caligula}}'', which funnily enough, also featured Siân Phillips' then-husband Creator/PeterOToole.

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** Creator/HelenMirren turned down the role of Julia Drusilla. Ironically, she would later star in ''Film/{{Caligula}}'', which funnily enough, also featured Siân Phillips' then-husband Creator/PeterOToole.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Augustus Caesar was slender and sickly throughout his life on the shorter side, while Brian Blessed is a large, burly man with a booming voice, though his performance is widely praised.
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* IAmNotSpock: Creator/DerekJacobi had people shout "Hail Cesar" at him in supermakets.

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* IAmNotSpock: Creator/DerekJacobi had people shout "Hail Cesar" at him in supermakets.supermarkets.
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* DirectLineToTheAuthor: the novels' premise is that the two books were Claudius' long-lost autobiography, which Graves had discovered ("nineteen hundred years or near", as declared in the Sybil's prophecy to Claudius) and translated into English.

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* DirectLineToTheAuthor: the novels' premise is that the two books were Claudius' long-lost autobiography, which Graves had discovered ("nineteen hundred years or near", as declared in the Sybil's prophecy to Claudius) and translated into English. This is used as a FramingDevice in the television series, with the bulk of the scenes being the history as Claudius is writing it down.

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