samedi 28 mai 2016

Esquire interview

ESQ&;A: Charles Dance 'I learned how to skin  a deer. I skinned a deer quite well actually
                                               
.....​Ahead of  his new role as ambassador for T20 cricket at Lords, Esquire met Charles to talk legacies, butchery and whether he's still keeping an eye on Westeros.
Oh - and in case you're wondering, that unmistakable baritone​ is even more wonderful in person.
 
After such a long and varied career. How would you like to be remembered?
I'd like to be described as a safe pair of hands. When people see me come on screen, they think "This scene is going to be ok." But I never want to retire. Someone's got to play the wrinkly old man.
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You seem drawn to villainous characters. Do you ever worry about being typecast?
I think I started off playing romantic characters before being cast as more authorative scary characters. I hope they don't reflect my actual personality, because I'd like to think I'm not like that in real life. But they're a lot of fun to play, so I don't mind.
 
What's the best piece of advice you've ever been given?
It's important to know when you're being bad. So many actors will say, 'Darling that was wonderful!' no matter what you've done. If you can find someone who is objective and brave enough to be critical, and if you trust them, then that is a great thing.

What was the highlight of being on Game of Thrones?
I learned how to skin a deer. I skinned a deer quite well actually. They came to me one day and said "Charles, are you a vegetarian?" I said "No, of course not." So they got this butcher chap to show me how to skin a whole deer and then I did it, and I did it well ...I think. I was hoping for a nice haunch of venison from it, but they didn't even let me keep a hoof!

You're a stylish man. Do you have any rules you stick to?
[Laughing] To be honest with you, I'm quite boring! I'm most comfortable in jeans and a t-shirt, but I am lucky that at 6"3, my frame suits clothes quite well. Suits suit me, if you will. But I only wear them when I have to.

Is there a fashion or trend you see today that you just can't understand?
I think it's a mistake to doggedly follow fashions. I see these suits everywhere that seem too short. The trousers finish inches above the ankle and the jackets pinch in. Call me old fashioned, but I don't think you can beat an English tailored suit. It's timeless.

And which tailor would that be?
They don't need the plug, but I always go to Anderson and Shepherd for an impeccable suit. It's never going to go out of trend.
 
As an adopted Londoner, tell us what your current view on the city is? Has it changed dramatically since you've lived here?
I have a love/hate relationship with London.  I've lived here most of my life. I love the energy, yet it's sometimes unbearably cramped and overcrowded. But you still can't beat a cardiac arrest breakfast in Hampstead Heath, then heading up the hill and enjoying the peace and quiet, and the view.  It's medicinal. I love the duality of it, how there's this frantic pace offset with pockets of tranquility. There's no other city like it.
 
Do you still watch Game of Thrones?
I still love Game of Thrones, I watch every episode. I don't have any special dispensation to what's going to happen, but I promise you: even if the actors know what's going to happen to them, they will never, ever tell. They will take those storylines to their graves.
http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/tv/interviews/a10053/esqa-charles-dance/
Charles Dance was speaking ahead of a busy summer of T20 action at Lord's Cricket Ground. The Home of Cricket will host four NatWest T20 Blast matches on Thursday evenings in June and July. Book tickets from £20 at lords.org/t20#LoveLords​
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mardi 3 mai 2016

May 2016 - news - Charles Dance

Mr Dance in the cast of Fanny Lye deliver'd
Shooting has wrapped on Fanny Lye Deliver’d, a period drama starring Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything), Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) and Freddie Fox (The Riot Club). The cast also includes Tanya Reynolds in her first feature film role and Peter McDonald (The Stag).
Shot over ten weeks on location in Shropshire, England, the film is written and directed by Thomas Clay and produced by Zorana Piggott.....
Set in 1657 on an isolated farm in Shropshire, the story follows Fanny Lye (Peake) as she learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discovers a new world of possibility.
Living a life of puritan stricture with husband John Lye (Dance) and young son Arthur, Fanny Lye’s world is shaken by the unexpected arrival of two strangers in need - a young couple (Fox, Reynolds) closely pursued by a ruthless sheriff (McDonald) and his deputy.no
 http://www.screendaily.com/news/maxine-peake-charles-dance
Mr Dance in the cast of Good night with John Hurt
Dance takes the role of “The Visitor” in the film....
The film, which is shooting for five weeks on the Algarve coast of Portugal, has been adapted from the late N.J. Crisp’s 1996 stage-play of the same name
"Watched filming of That Good Night starring John Hurt and Charles Dance near Loule in Portugal. Beautiful weather. "
https://twitter.com/Silverfox0504?lang=en-gb
Ralph, a once-famous screenwriter and film director, is in his seventies and terminally ill. He has two final missions in life: to be reconciled to his long-abandoned son Michael and secretly, to ensure he is not a burden to his younger devoted wife, Anna, as he goes “into that good night”. But Ralph wrecks all hope of reconciliation when he picks a fight with Michael’s girlfriend, Cassie. Later, alone, Ralph receives the sinister and mysterious “Visitor” whose services he has hired to provide the painless ending to his life. But The Visitor plays a devastating trick.....
Based on the hugely successful stage play by NJ Crisp...
Charles about Coriolanus...BBC Radio 4 
....Charles Dance is the latest Shakespearean to nominate his favourite dramatic character - Coriolanus....
                                         at 00:25mn
or here
 at the Algarve Chefs Week opening in Portugal
"We welcomed the actors John Hurt and Charles Dance, the director Eric Styles and the producers of "That Good Night" at the Algarve Chefs Week opening."
others set pics
Charles Dance (Analysis)
....Charles Dance is most frequently balancing between a lengthy gaze downward and to the side, “zoning out”, and a fixated look on his interlocutor, with occasionally a quick glance upward....
Emilia Clarke took to twitter on Friday to answer questions about her upcoming romance Me Before You...
As all eyes turn toward the 2017 Invictus Games, which will be held in Toronto with The Royal Canadian Legion as a chief sponsor, the results and stories from the 2016 games are pouring in. Game of Thrones star Charles Dance, who played Tywin Lannister on the show, was involved in an effort by ESPN to recap the games and pay tribute to the athletes -
Dance’s narration touched on the main themes of the games. “Unconquered by the consequences of marching into harm’s way, we can still seize the day,” he said. “Side by side with our fellow soldiers whose burdens we feel and grief we share for the fallen we loved and remember. We are all more mind than matter, more substance than form, and life will never leave us with no course through the storm. “We do this by decree of the warrior’s code, to defy the indifferent hand of fate and fight on,” he concluded. “May our hearts never fail to give this command, and may we always rise to obey it.” -
listen here :
It's a wrap: The big moments from the 2016 Invictus Games
"CHARLES DANCE, on set in Portugal. Hair & Photography by       
On the set of Lord cricket ground 
"Spent today making a film with Charles Dance at Lord's Cricket Ground."
"Winter's" is coming to Winterfell to meet "Lord's" Tywin Lannister Games of Thrones actor Charles Dance"
"The legendary Charles Dance OBE was on the other end of my makeup brush today at Lord's cricket ground @homeofcricket 🏏 |Dusk Williams MUA|"
Me before you- on set interview 
#Repost @mrsamclaflin with @repostapp ・・・ 43/50 for mummy and daddy Simply the best on-screen parents a man could ask for. Not only are they bloomin beautiful but both ruddy marvellous. To grow up to have even a hint of their success / talent would be a dream for me. The best role-models. The best pair. The Traynors. "

Actor Kristian Nairn
Q)The cast is quite large. Is there someone on the show you’d most like to work with on the series in the future? (if you had your say)
A)I would have loved to have had the chance to work with Charles Dance (who played Tywinn Lannister). He is one of my favorite actors and it would have been quite something to work with him.
                   actor Iwan Rheon(GoT) 
Anyone you’re gutted died?
A lot. I’d have loved to have done a shoot with Charles Dance. I’ve always been a massive fan, so I was a bit annoyed. It would have been interesting to see Ramsay and Jon Snow meet.
http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/tv/iwan-rheon-on-playinggame-of-thrones-biggest-bastard
actress Emilia Clarke
Despite being part of the same fictional world, Daenerys and Tywin never had a scene together and the paths of the actors who play them have only crossed "once maybe, once or twice during promotional things," Clarke told UPI in New York, while publicizing Me Before You, the project that gave her the opportunity to act opposite Dance.
"Charlie is a dreamy, dreamy man," Clarke continued. "At the end, when he finished filming, he was like, 'Darling, this is brilliant and you're brilliant,' and I was tearing up. I was like, 'Charles Dance just said all these great things.' So, he was just dreamy and charming and un-Tywin-like."

Mr Dance will be guest on Steve Wright 
Thu 2 Jun 2016 : 14:00 - BBC Radio 2 
Steve catches up with Game Of Thrones star Charles Dance and TV presenter Kate Humble.
Director Thea Sharrock /Me before you
How did you come to Janet McTeer and Charles Dance for Will’s parents, Camilla and Steven?
TS: Janet is somebody I’ve admired for many, many years but never worked with. She was my first choice for Will’s Mum, and I knew as soon as I got her I needed to get an actor who could match her – and be tall enough… And I’m really proud of achieving that as Charlie is very tall [laughs]. Charles was fantastic to work with: so precise, utterly charming and incredibly respectful of Janet and what she brought to the part of Camilla.
They were fantastic together. I’m very, very proud of their performances. Both of them have a theatre background, like me, so how we spoke about the characters and scenes came very naturally to all three of us, which really helps when you have so little time relative to theatre.