http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2016/07/interview-in-times.html
mercredi 28 septembre 2016
lundi 26 septembre 2016
samedi 24 septembre 2016
Washington Post interview
remember :
http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2016/07/charles-dance-to-be-honored-at-stcs.html
From ‘Coriolanus’ to ‘Game of Thrones,’ Charles Dance is acting royalty
http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2016/07/charles-dance-to-be-honored-at-stcs.html
Charles Dance, best known recently for his role as Tywin Lannister on “Game of Thrones,” will be in town Sunday to accept the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre at the annual Harman Center for the Arts Gala. The honor — and crystal swan of Avon — typically goes to an actor or director with serious theatrical chops, as well as pop culture gravitas.
Recent winners of the Will Award have included “Lion King” director Julie Taymor, “Alien” star John Hurt and “Downton Abbey” actress Elizabeth McGovern. Like those honorees, Dance will be feted with a performance at the theater, followed by dinner at the lavishly decorated National Building Museum.
“I’ll take anything that’s going,” Dance said, cheekily, by phone from his home in London. He’s been quite busy since the demise of the Lord of Casterly Rock at the end of Season 4 of “Game of Thrones.” In the already buzzyworthy drama “Euphoria,” Dance stars opposite Charlotte Rampling, Eva Green and Alicia Vikander. He also recently wrapped “That Good Night,” a drama starring his friend Hurt, and the Puritan period thriller “Fanny Lye Deliver’d.”
“All of those films — with any luck — will be screened at Cannes next year,” Dance said.
Other films from Dance’s recent résumé include the “Ghostbusters” reboot and “The Imitation Game.” There’s no question that Dance, 69, has range. But he was chosen for the Will Award because, in his younger years, he trained and toured with an unparalleled troupe of British actors at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Alongside actors including Patrick Stewart and Judi Dench, Dance took on roles in “Hamlet,” the “Henry” plays, “As You Like It” and “Coriolanus.” Four decades later, the period is looked back on as a sort of golden age of the Royal Shakespeare Company, but Dance says the actors were hardly aware of their potential star power. They were simply repertory actors who worked well together.
“I think all of us thought we were quite capable,” Dance said. “There was much more of a collective attitude. That is, collectively, we thought we were pretty good. It is dangerous as an actor to think that you can be good on your own.”
Dance often understudied the late actor Alan Howard (the voice of Sauron in “Lord of the Rings”), whom he regarded as a mentor.
“He was a phenomenal actor. His voice was an instrument. It was a voice that actually drove some people out of the theater,” Dance said.
“I used to listen to him every night and watch him try different things, like he was saying, ‘Tonight I’m going to change this.’ He spoke verse better than anyone that I know, and he had a phenomenal ability to cram all of his lines in very quickly.”
Dance recalled that once, shortly before departing for a U.S. tour, the Royal Shakespeare Company was performing “Henry VI” but needed to brush up on another tragedy. While onstage, instead of carrying a prayer book, as Shakespeare said the king was, Howard was holding a copy of “Coriolanus.”
Dance hasn’t worked with the RSC since 1989 but says he still relies on his classical training.
“The scripts for ‘Game of Thrones’ are superbly written,” he said. “And we’re usually wearing leather and suits of armor and that sort of thing. Those of us who aren’t taking our clothes off, that is. I felt at home. I felt I was doing Shakespeare.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/from-coriolanus-to-game-of-thrones-charles-dance-is-acting-royalty/2016/09/23
mercredi 14 septembre 2016
Charles (Mr Dance) was at the screening of Hunt for the Wilderpeople
at London's Picturehouse Central, on Tuesday, a movie with Liam Neeson and Sam Neill
lundi 12 septembre 2016
jeudi 8 septembre 2016
mardi 6 septembre 2016
Ah !
.......The multitude of hacks who live in Islington could do the programme; Michael Rosen could dedicate a special poem to the place and local thespian Charles Dance, in one of his perfect suits, could lead guided historical tours around the Islington Squares.
Would you go on a guided tour of the area if it was led by Charles Dance? Are you crazy? Don’t forget, the event has to inspire and engage locals as well as visitors, and we have to have something to look forward to in these uncertain times. I bumped into him the other day at Criterion Auction Rooms and it was a cultural moment, believe you me.
http://www.theresident.co.uk/london-culture-events/rosie-millard-islington-uks-city-culture/
Would you go on a guided tour of the area if it was led by Charles Dance? Are you crazy? Don’t forget, the event has to inspire and engage locals as well as visitors, and we have to have something to look forward to in these uncertain times. I bumped into him the other day at Criterion Auction Rooms and it was a cultural moment, believe you me.
http://www.theresident.co.uk/london-culture-events/rosie-millard-islington-uks-city-culture/
dimanche 4 septembre 2016
Charles and the Chelsea Arts Club
Charles Dance revels in the bohemian ambience of the Chelsea Arts Club, including its occasional excesses
I first came to the Chelsea Arts Club some 30 years ago to be interviewed for a film role. I didn't get the part, but I did successfully apply for membership.
The club is one of the oldest in London and it originally catered, as its name suggests, for practitioners of the fine arts of painting and sculpture and their associated trades. Whether acting fits into the latter category is debatable, but the club does have a smattering of us on its membership list, and I for one am glad of that.
I live in North London, so it is hardly convenient for me, but that aside it offers me freedom from the 'thrusting Young Turks' who now frequent the other clubs that cater almost exclusively for what's loosely described as 'the media'. Here, in the shabby-chic surroundings of the Chelsea Arts Club, quiet conviviality is the overriding feeling – not least in its magnificent dining room. Beautiful paintings, properly lit, hang on its walls and, when our summer permits, tables are also set in the minimally manicured gardens.
While I try to book a table, I have occasionally arrived on the off-chance that a table will be available, and if disappointed have taken a vacant seat at what is known as the Members' Table. This large 'eating board' sits about 12 people and cannot be booked, so dining here can mean that one becomes part of an ad hoc dinner party, or, depending on the temperament of the other diners, one is left respectfully alone. On one occasion I was not left respectfully alone when one of a group of diners at the end of the table introduced himself as I sat down. "Evening! My name's George," he said. "We're all gallery owners here." "Really? Well, my name's Charles," I replied, "and I'm very glad that my agent doesn't take from me the kind of commission that you lot take from painters!" This remark was received rather like a French kiss at a family reunion, with the not unexpected result that I was left to dine alone.
That evening aside, I have enjoyed many evenings there. As well as the comforting surroundings, the food is excellent and – I hesitate
to say – very reasonably priced. You can get a bottle of decent wine there for the price of an orange juice in one of the fashionable Soho clubs.
Of course, being the last bastion of Chelsea bohemians, there is invariably some mischief to be encountered. I recall that the former secretary Dudley was under pressure from local residents to curb the behaviour of certain club members following some high jinks in the garden that had been witnessed from neighbouring houses. Complaints were duly made and he was concerned about the status of the club's licence.
Not long after a difficult meeting on the subject, he came into the club and discovered a couple at the top of the stairs engaged in what might euphemistically be termed 'heavy petting'.
"Ahem!", he coughed. There was no reaction. He tried again, a little louder.
"AHEM!!"
Still no response from the entwined duo. Just as he had cleared his throat to snare their attention for the third time, the man turned around and said: "Fuck off, Dudley! I'm trying to sell a painting."
http://www.bonhams.com/magazine/22314/
I first came to the Chelsea Arts Club some 30 years ago to be interviewed for a film role. I didn't get the part, but I did successfully apply for membership.
The club is one of the oldest in London and it originally catered, as its name suggests, for practitioners of the fine arts of painting and sculpture and their associated trades. Whether acting fits into the latter category is debatable, but the club does have a smattering of us on its membership list, and I for one am glad of that.
I live in North London, so it is hardly convenient for me, but that aside it offers me freedom from the 'thrusting Young Turks' who now frequent the other clubs that cater almost exclusively for what's loosely described as 'the media'. Here, in the shabby-chic surroundings of the Chelsea Arts Club, quiet conviviality is the overriding feeling – not least in its magnificent dining room. Beautiful paintings, properly lit, hang on its walls and, when our summer permits, tables are also set in the minimally manicured gardens.
While I try to book a table, I have occasionally arrived on the off-chance that a table will be available, and if disappointed have taken a vacant seat at what is known as the Members' Table. This large 'eating board' sits about 12 people and cannot be booked, so dining here can mean that one becomes part of an ad hoc dinner party, or, depending on the temperament of the other diners, one is left respectfully alone. On one occasion I was not left respectfully alone when one of a group of diners at the end of the table introduced himself as I sat down. "Evening! My name's George," he said. "We're all gallery owners here." "Really? Well, my name's Charles," I replied, "and I'm very glad that my agent doesn't take from me the kind of commission that you lot take from painters!" This remark was received rather like a French kiss at a family reunion, with the not unexpected result that I was left to dine alone.
That evening aside, I have enjoyed many evenings there. As well as the comforting surroundings, the food is excellent and – I hesitate
to say – very reasonably priced. You can get a bottle of decent wine there for the price of an orange juice in one of the fashionable Soho clubs.
Of course, being the last bastion of Chelsea bohemians, there is invariably some mischief to be encountered. I recall that the former secretary Dudley was under pressure from local residents to curb the behaviour of certain club members following some high jinks in the garden that had been witnessed from neighbouring houses. Complaints were duly made and he was concerned about the status of the club's licence.
Not long after a difficult meeting on the subject, he came into the club and discovered a couple at the top of the stairs engaged in what might euphemistically be termed 'heavy petting'.
"Ahem!", he coughed. There was no reaction. He tried again, a little louder.
"AHEM!!"
Still no response from the entwined duo. Just as he had cleared his throat to snare their attention for the third time, the man turned around and said: "Fuck off, Dudley! I'm trying to sell a painting."
http://www.bonhams.com/magazine/22314/
vendredi 2 septembre 2016
jeudi 1 septembre 2016
Charles will be at the LSF 2016
Writing Period Drama That Both Audiences and Producers WantRoom: Final Draft Marquee
Time: Friday 5:00pm
with John Maclean, William Ivory, and Charles Dance
http://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/whats-on/sessions/writing-period-drama
Time: Friday 5:00pm
with John Maclean, William Ivory, and Charles Dance
http://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/whats-on/sessions/writing-period-drama
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