George Armitage

George Armitage: Husband of Gosha. Not the man she thought he was when she married him. Handsome, selfish, entitled, and cruel.

Though Gosha and George’s marriage is on its last legs at the beginning of Waking the Witch, in my mind, George needed to be someone who could have caught her eye when they were both younger and more interested in showing the world a more acceptable version of themselves. Armie Hammer is the modern version of George, whereas the brothers James and Edward Fox, actors in their prime in the UK in the seventies, are more of the contemporary version of what Gosha, someone desperate to throw off any connection the Old Country and her mother’s magic, would be drawn to like a moth to a flame.