Swedes love a statesman, but they want a prime minister who gets his hands dirty.

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Unlike Rikyu, though, Koetsu got his hands dirty, shaping the clay, carving it with knife and spatula.

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Indeed the obvious omission from his curriculum vitae is time spent getting his hands dirty at the laboratory bench.

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Rahul Gandhi, tipped as the future prime minister, still refuses to join the government and get his hands dirty.

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In Romania's Transylvania he's about to get his hands dirty and experience for himself, the pride and joy of actually building something.

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And it means being the humble, emotionally intelligent leader who is not afraid to get her or his hands dirty in the trenches.

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Mr Powell has also got his hands dirty in combat.

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Tywin is a smart, cruel, great strategist, knows almost everything, can manipulate people like no other, can see the bigger picture, yet is still willing to get his hands dirty.

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Fans of interior monologue will have a blast, and the grandeur of the conception is undeniable, but so is the sense of a filmmaker reluctant to get his hands dirty and shying away from the grit of everyday life the jobs the adults do, for instance, is never spelled out.

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To make this venture a success, Huizenga may need to start getting his hands a little dirty again.

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