Charles at the Marakech film festival in 2008

In stepped Morocco, where an increasing number of UK and US films set in Muslim countries are being shot. Now a new co-production agreement with the UK Film Council could see the kingdom play an even greater role in future homegrown productions.
In support of the deal, which is expected to come into force in the first half of 2009, a raft of British stars including John Hurt, Gurinder Chadha, Charles Dance and Toby Jones are travelling to north Africa this week to attend the Marrakech film festival, which opened last Friday with the African premiere of Barry Levinson's new comedy What Just Happened and runs until Saturday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/

As proof of progress, Morocco and the UK Film Council signed a new co-production agreement to give filmmakers access to support and funding in both Morocco and the UK. Following the waft of a business class ticket and a nice suite, a handful of British talent arrived in support of the agreement, albeit in jeans, for the closing ceremony (Charles Dance, you know who you are). And Christopher Lee, surely older than God by now, poked his nose into a few screenings with his niece, Harriet Walter, while Brian Cox, sporting a tiny pair of shorts and shaved legs, skulked around the Sofitel lobby.
http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/theatrical-reviews/marrakech-film-festival-2189

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Charles at Wah-wah premiere in May 2006

It was a charity premiere for the first Richard Grant movie Wah-Wah....starring Gabriel Byrne and Miranda Richardson



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Charles was Lyle Yates in Undertow in 1996

 Lost in a storm, transient Jack (Lou Diamond Phillips) seeks shelter in a remote woodland cabin and suddenly finds himself held at gunpoint by a deranged mountain man who lives there with his child bride. The storm is but the harbinger of a hurricane and though the reclusive Lyle Yates (Charles Dance) knows it, he is too paranoid to leave and so forces his wife Willie (Mia Sara) and Jack to flee. It's a small cabin and as the storm rages on, tensions mount. Matters reach one of several climaxes when Jack tries to persuade Willie to escape with him. Eventually the situation escalates into deadly violence, meaning that only two will walk away from their lonely shelter.

  

 

  

 

 

  

interview of the director Eric Red

A: Undertow was one of your early scripts.

ER: Yes.

A: And it got made like…pretty later on…I don’t have the date…

ER: It took ten years to get a movie made about three people in a house and a storm.

A: I’ve been following your career since "Cohen and Tate" but after "Bad Moon"" I lost sight of you. "Undertow" and "Vindicator" I know nothing about.

ER: Actually "Undertow" was before "Bad Moon". I made it for Showtime and it was the second highest rated film on Showtime in 1996. It was then released on video.

A: Who stars in it?

ER: Lou Diamond Phillips, Mia Sara and Charles Dance. Charles Dance is a terrific British actor.

A: He played in "Alien 3".

ER: Yeah, and in "Undertow" he plays a psychotic American mountain man. He gives a tour-de-force performance.

A: Is it an action picture?

ER: It has action in it. It’s about a drifter that gets washed off the road during a storm and gets rescued by a backwoods moon shiner and his wife in the moon shiner’s fortress of a house. The three of them get caught together during the terrific storm and the drifter gets involved with the moon shiner who’s quite psychotic and the abused wife. Gradually the drifter and the wife get together which amounts to a tremendous confrontation with the mountain man and his house full of weapons. The last half hour is pretty much straight action.

A: And are you satisfied with the final outcome?

ER: I loved it. I shot it in Lithuania in about 24 days. It was a terrific experience to film. It was critically reviled but was extremely popular. It’s not a critics film. I don’t know if any of my films are "critic films".

  

  

     

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Blog dedicate to underrated British actor Charles Dance

we like his voice, he's in good shape, lot of miss in his filmography....he's  failed to reach his potential.....