Who is Hobbs?
Philip Glenister: He’s a warrant officer and a gunner. His rank is kind of in between officer and midshipman, I guess. He’s in control of the gun crew. He’s been serving under Captain Sawyer since he was probably a boy, so he has an incredible loyalty to Sawyer, which causes a lot of friction between himself and Hornblower and Hornblower’s friends. A&E: So he has the most experience with Sawyer’s bravery and his more heroic qualities. How does he communicate that to the crew? PG: By ignoring them, and not doing as they want him to do. (Laughs) He just takes orders from Sawyer. He’s like a sort of butler almost. I think he has a grudging respect for Hornblower. He doesn’t really feel that anybody can live up to what Sawyer achieved. So he sees Hornblower as this young upstart, coming in and actually being really rather good at his job, and he’s a bit taken aback. But he does see Sawyer beginning to lose the reins. It’s time for a younger man to take over, and like Sawyer, he finds that
