Post your questions for Martin Clunes | film

It’s a delight that Martin Clunes is getting so much plaudits for his performance in Wuthering Heights this year, alongside Margot Robbie’s Cathy and Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff. He plays Kathy’s drunken but generous, cruel and funny father in a part that could easily have drifted into the background. But it leaves such an impression that Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian believes it “pretty much influences the entire film.”

It’s not as if Clunes hasn’t graced the Hollywood A-list before. You may remember him as Richard Burbage, opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, and Judi Dench, in the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love — a role that has extra resonance given that his father, Alec Clunes, who died when Clunes was eight, was a distinguished Shakespearean actor. Other roles include 1992’s Carry On Columbus (the last Carry On ever); 1994’s Overlapping (which he also directed), in which he wakes up naked on a remote Scottish island after a stag goes wrong; and 1999’s Hunting Venus, in which he reunites with former on-screen colleague Neil Morrissey, in a new ’80s romantic role, sporting a floppy lock that would put even a flock of seagulls to shame.

Maybe, though, it’s his the next A role that could see him far from being ‘TV’s saddest’ and into Michael Sheen territory, playing the disgraced BBC presenter whose namesake is in Channel 5’s The Fall of Hugh Edwards. Judging from the promotional image, he presents a very convincing Edwards – apart from the ears, perhaps as expected.

Clunes is here this week to answer your questions as he promotes his latest film, the British comedy Mother’s Pride – the story of a failing pub whose fortunes change when it enters the Great British Beer Awards, starring The Inbetweeners’ James Buckley and that guy (Jonno Davies) who played a CGI monkey in the crazy Robbie Williams biopic.

So, what do we ask Clunes? You may remember him as one of those public school rugby lads who drank beer and sang songs from the Harry Enfield TV show (it was Enfield who gave him his big break). Maybe you are a fan of his travel and nature documentaries? Or maybe he feels like an old friend as you scroll through the channels: Have I got news for you on U&Dave; Dropping a Stella or two with Neil Morrissey on “Men Behaving Badly” on U&Gold; Or the sulking and clinically abusive Cornwall halfling as the irascible GP in ITV3’s Doc Martin.

Please post your questions by 6pm on Wednesday 4 March, and we will publish his answers in Film & Music on Friday 13 March.