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samedi 28 mai 2016

Esquire interview

https://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.com

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.

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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dimanche 8 mai 2016

Charles at the Algarve Chefs Week opening in Portugal

http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2016/05/charles-in-cast-of-that-good-night-with.html

"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."
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vendredi 15 janvier 2016

Charles on Audioboom

https://audioboom.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=charles+dance

vendredi 11 décembre 2015

Interview in Variety...for subscriers and others videos interviews

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"Childhood’s End is more relevant now than in the 1950s," says Game of Thrones vet Charles Dance, who plays Karellen, the alien Overlord and self-proclaimed "Supervisor for Earth" who ushers in the new world order. "We human beings in 2015 are really f---ing things up with our wars, our politics and our pollution, and Clarke saw this happening over 60 years ago."

The author also predicted we’d be incapable of solving this hot mess. "Earthlings try to sort things out, but inevitably we make a pig’s ear of it, don’t we?" says Dance. "You can see why we’d be open to some superbeing coming down here to fix all our problems, since we clearly cannot do it ourselves."

So will Karellen’s appearance. During the alien takeover and for many years afterward, the Overlord does not reveal his true physical self in order to prevent world-wide panic. (You’ll understand why when we finally get a look at him at the end of Night 1!) Even Dance was unnerved when he saw himself under all the heavy Karellen prosthetics. "I fell asleep in the makeup chair and woke up four hours later, looked in the mirror and said, ‘My God!’" Dance recalls. "It was genuinely shocking—a brilliant piece of work by some very clever artists."

Inside.tv

"This was written in 1952, talking about a world of economic crises, wars, famine, here we are in 2015 and nothing’s changed," Dance told ComicBook.com during a recent in-person interview. "I thought there was a lot of resonance for us now, which was reason enough to do it."

"Exposition is a killer, it’s deadly. Whenever a television show or a film resorts to exposition, it’s because there are major flaws in the script. This doesn’t resort to exposition."

"I’ve never done anything that involved me being buried in layers of prosthetics," Dance said. "I thought it would be an interesting exercise, and indeed it was, in Melbourne at the hottest time of the year!"

"Karellen’s first appearance is really what I’m most excited for people to see," he said with a knowing grin. After spending most of the episode as a faceless voice, audiences will probably be anxious for it, as well.

http://comicbook.com/2015/12/14/charled-dance-says-childhoods-end-political-themes-just-as-relev/

At Xmas he cooks....give the guy a f...break with Tywin Lannister...he's promoting Childhood's End and Tywin is dead a season ago

listen here :

http://media.waaf.com/a/111629831/charles-dance-12-09-15.htm?

What attracted you to the role of Karellen in “Childhood’s End”?

- It’s a great story, which I was not familiar with. I’ve never been a fan of science fiction, but I certainly knew that Arthur C. Clarke was the godfather of sci-fi. So when I was offered it, I read the book and then the scripts came in and I thought, “These are really good adaptations of a very good story.” To bring humanity to a character that is not human is a pretty nice challenge to have. And I’d never worked with as much prosthetic as I’ve worked with

on this.

What’s the best piece of career advice you’ve been given?

“Know when you’re being bad.” In this business, we’re surrounded by wonderful darlings, and if you can find somebody who you believe in, who has the bravery to say to you, “Listen, that was not very good,” you’re very lucky. There are very few people around who will be able to do that, for fear, rightly, of offending you or upsetting you. Because we’re very fragile creatures, actors. But I think we do need to possess that facility to be objective.

There seems to be more fantasy and sci-fi shows than ever. Why is the genre so popular?

Principally because of the success of “Game of Thrones.” You know what this business is like — something seems to be successful, let’s try to do it again and again. With the advances of CGI and all the really rather clever things we can do, we’ve now given a lie to the phrase “the camera can’t lie.” Of course it can, hugely, tell the most awful porkies.

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/facetime-charles-dance-on-syfys-new-series-childhoods-end-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW3NY5vMfPk#t=17

http://wtnh.com/2015/12/10/childhoods-end-a-science-fiction-novel-brought-to-life/

http://www.fox4now.com/the-morning-blend/charles-dance-mike-vogel-star-in-childhoods-end

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2015/12/10/overnight-america-podcast-december-10th-2015-charles-dance-jake-wengroff/

mardi 24 novembre 2015

And then there were.......

on BBC One on Boxing Day : Saturday Dec 26th at 9 PM

Philip Lombard (Aiden Turner), Thomas Rogers (Noah Taylor), Vera Claythorne (Maeve Dermody), AJ Marston (Douglas Booth), Dr Armstrong (Toby Stephens), Judge Wargrave (Charles Dance), William Blore (Burn Gorman), Emily Brent (Miranda Richardson), General Macarthur (Sam Neill), Ethel Rogers (Anna Maxwell Martin).

.........

A reckless playboy. A decrepit judge. A nervous businessman. An unhinged Harley Street doctor. A God-fearing spinster. A secretive governess. A guilt-ridden general. A remorseless mercenary. Two anxious servants.

Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts – the improbably named Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen – the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilisation.

Very soon, the guests, each struggling with their conscience, will start to die – one by one, according to the rules of the nursery rhyme ‘Ten Little Soldier Boys’ - a rhyme that hangs in every room of the house and ends with the most terrifying words of all: "…and then there none"

http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2015/07/charles-in-cast-of-and-then-there-were.html

jeudi 12 novembre 2015

Charles will be at The National Brain Appeal Carol Concert

The National Brain Appeal Carol Concert
6.30-9pm, Thursday 10 December
St George’s Church, Queen Square, London WC1N

Please join us for our favourite Christmas event. The line-up includes the Mary Ward Singers, the Queen Square Scratch Orchestra and the Julius Singers. Charles Dance is confirmed to do a reading and there will be a drinks reception from 6.30pm – with mince pies!

http://www.nationalbrainappeal.org/christmas-2015/