vendredi 27 juin 2014

Charles is shooting Deadline Gallipoli in Adelaide

HE died an ignominious death as Tywin Lannister in a recent episode of Foxtel’s most popular network series, Game of Thrones, but actor Charles Dance has surfaced in Adelaide, ready to wage a different kind of battle.
Here to play British commander-in-chief Sir Ian Hamilton in Deadline Gallipoli the famous British actor is unfazed by the success of the television series in which he died a sweetly vengeful death at the hands of his wrongly accused dwarf son.
“It comes in waves,” he says in his rich baritone voice. “In 1982 I did something called The Jewel in the Crown which was pretty successful, and that was a break for me. You have peaks and shallows and this is a peak, most definitely. It’s become a global phenomenon and I’m very glad to be part of it.”
In the Foxtel miniseries about Gallipoli war correspondents filming this week at Adelaide Studios, Dance will play the flawed British commander who proved ill-suited for a debilitating campaign on foreign soil.
In the series co-produced by nad starring Sam Worthington — Dance plays the general blamed for the massive loss of life on the Turkish peninsula.
I’m playing the schmuck who carried the can for it,” says Dance.
He will be in Adelaide until mid-July and remembers the city from a visit more than a decade ago when he starred in the South Australian produced Black and White, a film about the trial of a young Aboriginal man accused of murder, Maxwell Stuart.
It was about four or five weeks and we were living down at Glenelg,” he says. “I was brought up by the sea in England, in the south-west of Devon. The sea is very important to me.”

mercredi 25 juin 2014

Trailer for The Great fire and a pic from the past

 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX2-ZouP0Qw&feature=youtu.be
remember :
http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2014/05/a-teaser-for-great-fire.html
http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2014/04/charles-on-set-of-great-fire.html
http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2014/04/charles-on-set-of-great-fire.html
3°)an award for Father's day
"Father's day, the all-star drama about a support group for men with prostate cancer, has just received a Bronze in the Cannes Lion awards. It is further recognition for Prostate Cancer UK’s film, which has this year been trailed to audiences in Everyman cinémas.....
The Cannes Lions Awards 2014 honours excellence and creativity in global communications. It attracted over 35,000 entries from around the world, pitting Father's day against an international field of big hitters in the brand and entertainment category"
http://prostatecanceruk.org/news/2014/6/fathers-day-film-scoops-award-at-cannes

mardi 24 juin 2014

For today...June 24

1°) Charles Celebrity School Report : auction :
"With this beautifully handwritten and unique mock school report, Charles recalls his time at Widey Technical School for Boys in Crownhill, Devon"
2°) trailer of Dracula
"In Dracula Untold, prince Vlad Tepes is forced to make a deal with the devil played by Charles Dance  to save his wife and child from the clutches of an evil Sultan (Dominic Cooper)."
                     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4l8epUrNI
Opening on October 17th, Dracula untold stars  Luke Evans, Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Samantha Barks, Art Parkinson

lundi 23 juin 2014

A pic from Imitation of game

 "These exclusive stills from the new issue of Empire (on sale June 26) show Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, a mathematician who turned wartime code-breaker and brought his skills to bear cracking the German Enigma code. Alongside him (left) is Charles Dance as Commander Alastair Denniston, a fellow decrypter, who helped Turing spearhead Britain’s efforts to break the Nazi code. Lurking, fittingly, in the shadows is Mark Strong who plays legendary MI6/SIS head Stewart Menzies"

jeudi 19 juin 2014

For today...

Google translate
"Charles Dance as King enjoys
A large throne, chandeliers and candlesticks, dozens of extras with beautiful costumes, the ancient Abbey of Middelburg is as alive again. For the recording of historical adventure film Michiel de Ruyter, the complex is transformed into the court of King Charles II. The British king is played by Charles Dance. Between takes he sits outside in the evening sun. "The location is fantastic."
It's a busy day on the set. In a suit and a wig with long curls on the terrace of the abbey he talks about his first impressions: "I ​​had a little time to look around, but I've realized that the place is amazing. I have only once been to the Netherlands in Amsterdam in 1976"
Despite the fact that he arrived at the shooting recently, Dance already feels in his element. The actor explained that in this he was particularly helped director Roel Reine.
"There are directors dictators who give strict orders, I talked with them a bit. Roel is not. He gives you to understand that you are making a contribution to the filming process, encourages improvisation where possible and open to suggestions. I have very good experience. "
Dance basically tells about how effectively they are working on the set: "We have time to do a lot in a short time, and everything goes smoothly. Roel is gorgeous, it acts as a director and as an operator and with all handles flawlessly. And he is well versed technically. "
During his more than forty-year career in the movies Dance participated in various film projects. A recent example - the series "Game of Thrones." On the background of the film's budget, "Michael de Ruyter" seems to be quite small.
"The main difference I noticed is that fewer and fewer people who shoot a lot of work. This is typical of European cinema. "Game of Thrones" a global phenomenon, made ​​with high financial costs. And not for nothing that you can see on the screen. There everything was built like a military operation. In this film, the budget, of course, a lot less, but the project is quite ambitious. Take a look at this place. In "Game of Thrones is completely built from scratch, but here it's different.
from : Etynyae.tumblr
1°)Retrospective release date : 14 July
 2°) from an interview with Lena Headey
The finale was huge for your character. We see her finally confess to Tywin that she’s in love with her brother, Jaime, and that his legacy is screwed.
I’ve known Charles [Dance] for a long, long time, and he’s pretty formidable. He’s a pussycat off-screen, but he’s ferocious as Tywin. There’s always that strange feeling when you know someone and you’ve spent a lot of time together, and a part of you is thinking, “Shit, this is it. It’s the last time I’m going to get to look in your eyes and do what we do.” It’s kind of weird. But I love that Cersei has that moment of, “Oh, fuck it. My kid’s fucking dead and you’re a shit, so I’m going to tell you how it is.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/17/game-of-thrones-lena-headey-on-cersei-lannister-s-future-and-that-controversial-rape-scene.html
"...and then while we were eating a Scandinavian cinnamon bun, suddenly Anushka met Charles Dance from Game of Thrones"
http://instagram.com/p/pbwm4wnexn/
4°)National Post_  
This past Sunday was not a happy father’s day for Tywin Lannister.  Soon after discovering his royal legacy was an incestuous sham, the patriarch of Westeros’ debt-paying family was literally caught with his pants down and killed by his condemned son as he sat upon a lesser iron throne. According to seasoned British actor Charles Dance, who played the Machiavellian Lannister, his character had it coming. “He behaves so appallingly that you can’t help but laugh at it,” Dance snickered during a recent interview on Game of Thrones’ Belfast set. “There’s nothing much to admire about him but he’s a great character to play.” Below the 67-year-old Officer of the British Empire talks to National Post’s Jonathan Dekel about the pleasures of acting villainous and repeatedly apologizing to Peter Dinklage. 
 
Game of Thrones is a show dominated by amoral sociopaths but Tywin Lannister managed to be be the most cunning and ruthless of them all. Do you think he saw himself as a bad man?
A I don’t think he views himself as a villain. Although this world we inhabit is a mythical world, it’s based on some reality. It’s feudal and medieval, and if you’re in a position of power in a feudal society you do everything you can to maintain that position. If that means chopping somebody’s head off then you do it. He’s convinced of his rightness and he believes in the supremacy of the Lannisters. That’s where he comes from basically — he thinks in terms of honour but it’s not the type of honour you and I would recognize.
If you think of how life was in medieval England it’s not that dissimilar. People have talked about life in the Seven Kingdoms being not unlike the War of the Roses. That’s true.

 
Q Did you base your portrayal on any historical characters?
No. I based the character on the script. [Showrunners] David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] are understandably quite precious about their scripts because they write really, really well. A lot of the time as actors we’re working on something that is not quite as good and we have to expend a lot of energy trying to make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear. With this we don’t have to do that.
 
Watching your scenes opposite Peter Dinklage was like viewing an acting masterclass.
A It’s a pity the person that I treat so appallingly most of the time I’m so very fond of. He’s a terrific guy, he’s wonderful to work with. He’s a fantastic actor. I love him dearly. I had to apologize after every scene that we’d play. I’d say, “I’m so sorry Peter,” because I treat him like sh-t.
 
Q How much freedom did you have to develop those scenes?
A Even though we’re being quite accurate with the lines there’s a dozen ways that you can say a line and with each successive take I think both of us try to fine tune it a bit. It’s a bit like playing ball: you throw the ball to somebody and they catch it and throw it back, they don’t drop it. That’s what working with Peter is like. It’s an absolute joy. I’m so fond of him.
 
The reaction videos to The Red Wedding episode were extraordinary. As you were not in the episode I imagine you experienced it like the rest of us. Can you recall your reaction?
A I was in shock. I mean, Christ almighty, it was amazing. And it was all my fault!
 
Q Fans have reportedly been quite mean to Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Lannister) when they meet him in real life. Have you had any similar experiences?
A No, no grief from fans. More shock. I enjoy dressing down Joffrey. But if you’ve met Jack you’ll know he’s nothing like Joffrey. He’s heavily involved in studying ancient Hebrew.
 

lundi 16 juin 2014

Charles's school report will be on sale June 24

remember  : 
http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2014/05/celebrity-school-reports-online-auction.html

"With this beautifully handwritten and unique mock school report, Charles recalls his time at Widey Technical School for Boys in Crownhill, Devon"                         http://www.cecilysfund.org/index.php/auction

GoT : se4 ep10 : Tywin's death

all Tywin scenes in season 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_5dMPsL3ag
"Super fun. Filthy and flirtatious. Unshockable.... (He could be) intimidating and without thought you raise your game around Charles."
Lena Headey
"Luckily for us, Charles Dance is still with us, hale and hearty. He is a lovely human being, an absolute pleasure to work with and spend time with. We hope to do a great deal of both in the future".
"To see Tyrion’s entire, troubled relationship with his father distilled into three minutes, that’s a lot of weight to put on two actors. It was our good fortune that the two actors in question were Peter and Charles, who are both power-lifters in this category."
Benioff and Weiss
Dance is one of several actors on the show who read only the scripts, not George R.R. Martin’s novels. He says he only learned his character’s fate last season. “Someone in the street came up and said, ‘You got this great death scene,’” Dance recalls. “And I said, ‘Have I? What was the manner of my death?’ And then he told me, and I said, ‘Oh, right!’ So then I went into a bookshop and a grabbed a book and I said, ‘Oh, I see.’ It’s quite spectacular.”
“[Tywin is] a hypocrite as well, I’m afraid,” Dance sighed. “He’s a ‘do what I say, not what I do."
As far as Tywin is concerned, [Tyrion] is the one area he’s failed in because in 15th, 16th century in Europe, any imperfection — whether it’s dwarfism, blindness, a child born unperfected — ideally, you smother them, get rid of them, put them in a bucket or anything,” said the actor. “He let Tyrion live, to his astonishment, and Tyrion is the brightest of his three children, the wittiest, and the cleverest. Those are the qualities that he would admire if he weren’t a dwarf, but the fact that he’s a dwarf is a continual reminder of his failure. So as long as he’s alive he’s going to treat him like sh– –it’s horrible.”
I’m not one of these actors that tries to find the good in a character,” Dance added. “If a character is a sh–, he’s a sh–, and you play him full on as a sh– – don’t try and make him nice, you play him full on.”
As for his absence next season, Dance had one hope for his character: “I just hope I get a state funeral afterwards as well. They should start season 5 with a great f–k-off funeral for Tywin.”
Reactions about Tywin death :

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau :
Tywin is undoubtedly a big deal to the continuing drama...“For me, it’s just a huge loss because… he’s been such a formidable presence, both as the character, Tywin Lannister, whose just such an amazing character, and then, of course, what Charles brings ever since he had his first scene, I think, in Episode 7 of Season 1.... “He has really anchored the power of the Lannisters, so it is a huge loss for the show, but also, it clearly changes the whole dynamic in this world.
“Up until the last [episode], the Lannisters have definitely been the most powerful, and with him gone, and all the other stuff that happens in Episode 10, who knows what’s going to happen next. But I’m going to miss Charles for sure, ‘cause I just think that, you know, you don’t get any finer actors than him.”
He was just amazing to work with. Also… without any lines, you got a feeling that clearly, this was something Tywin had planned. He was expecting Jaime to just show up,” Nikolaj told Access of the Tywin/Jaime moment earlier in Season 4. “But also, just what I loved, in all the seasons, is that even though he’s such a stern and hard man, I still got the feeling that… as much as he disliked his other son, he had hopes and… he at least wanted Jaime to do well, to kind of step up in his world, to take on his mantle. So there was some kind of love there in a very weird way.”
“He’s a lot of fun. He has a very, very dry sense of humor, but he’s a lot of fun,”... “He just has an exquisite sense of humor.”
Sophie Turner
That was sad because Charles is such a valued cast member and he’s a really funny, great guy,”
“I haven’t had that many scenes with Charles, but he’s really funny,” she added. “I remember the first time I met him, and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, it’s Charles Dance.’ And he walks in the room and he’s like, ‘Hi, I’m Charlie. Nice to meet you,’” ....He’s really, really nice.”
 Gwendoline Christie
"...the exits of Sibel Kekilli's Shae and Charles’ Tywin, are just a reminder that no one is safe in “Game of Thrones".....and Charles is another icon and I am so sorry to be saying goodbye to those two, but it’s just all part of the wonderful world of ‘Game of Thrones,’” Gwendoline said. “Don’t’ get too close to anyone.”
http://www.accesshollywood.com/game-of-thrones-stars-react-to-huge-character-exit-in-season-4-

samedi 14 juin 2014

Charles in the cast of the miniserie Deadline Gallipoli

Charles Dance will be Hamilton, the Commander of the Gallipoli campaign
"The four-hour TV miniseries co-produced by Worthington, tells the story of the Gallipoli campaign through the eyes of Australian war correspondents Charles Bean (Joel Jackson) and Keith Murdoch (Ewen Leslie), photographer Philip Schuler (Sam Worthington) and Britain’s Ellis Ashmead Bartlett (Hugh Dancy). Charles Dance arrives next week to play the British General Sir Ian Hamilton who heads the British command at Gallipoli. Worthington is not expected in Adelaide until the following week."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/deadline-gallipoli-miniseries-starts-shooting
the pitch : "Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the ANZACS in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding disaster. From encampment in Cairo to Anzac Cove to the evacuation, this is the story of journalists who will not accept that truth be the first casualty. This is the story of the men who will not shut up."
Deadline Gallipoli will air on Foxtel’s  channel in 2015 to coincide with the World War I Centenary commémorations

vendredi 13 juin 2014

Tssssssss ! and pics of Retrospective by Joseph Seresin

1°) a selfie with Sophietjefie
"Yes i did it, a #selfie with the lovely #Charlesdance on set of #michielderuyter "
http://instagram.com/p/pGff3qMGZ9/# 
2°)remember about Retrpective a short movie :
pics by Joseph Seresin : pleeeeeaaaase credit him :
 
 
 
all images copyright Joseph Seresin, use without permission
from his website:   http://www.josephseresin.com/#1 
Charles Dance as Jonathan Hoyle, a war photographer accosted in London just before a retrospective of his life’s work. Whether he survives the night will depend on what exactly he witnessed through his camera’s unflinching eye.