ISLE OF ISLAY, Scotland (27 Apr 2009) — Poor British actor Martin Clunes: not only did he have to scuba dive for a new TV series, he almost died after he panicked underwater. Clunes, an experienced scuba diver, made no bones about how pissed off he was after being rescued while scuba diving off the Isle of Islay. "I will never dive in British waters again," Clunes sputtered emphatically at the surface as he visibly struggled to regain his composure and method actor's edge. "It was (just) ghastly, it was one of the worst moments of my life (really)." Then, in a moment that film students will argue about for decades to come, Clunes suddenly arched his eyebrows and resumed the nuanced professorial tone that has earned him critical acclaim from Spokane to Manchester. Delivering an understated yet terrifyingly diabolical line reminiscent of Sir Lawrence Olivier as Sherlock Holmes' arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty, in The Seven-Percent Solution, Clunes whispered hauntingly: "I knew I had to try to breathe." "Normally..." "But I was panicking." "And all I wanted to do..." "Was cry." | | "All I wanted to do was cry," lamented British actor Martin Clunes (bottom of photo) after a near-fatal scuba diving accident off the Isle of Islay.
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