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dimanche 4 janvier 2015

Charles was at a BAFTA Special Screening....and

of Big Eyes of Tim Burton hosted by Harvey Weinstein at Soho Hotel...

Oh my God : a new scarf !

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Charles and Freddie Fox(brother of Emilia) were together in Vier Frauen and Cressida Boans was in the cast of Trinity

http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2015/01/charles-was-at-bafta-special-screening.html

2 pics from Dave Barker's blog

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samedi 3 janvier 2015

Interview in Variety : Charles Dance Looks Back at His Showbiz Start

January 2, 2015

Awards season contender “The Imitation Game"is the latest opportunity for esteemed stage, TV and film thesp Charles Dance to make malevolence look utterly polished and tasteful. The Brit made his proper stage debut 40 years ago with the Royal Shakesoeare Company, after sharing music-hall stages with several English vaudeville greats.

In 1976, you were touring America with the Royal Shakespeare Company and went on for Alan Howard in Brooklyn.

I was doing supporting roles in productions such as “Henry IV” and “Henry V” and Ben Kingsley’s “Hamlet” and was the understudy for Alan. I got the call at 4 in the afternoon that Alan had taken ill and I’d be performing (in “Henry V”) in his place. It scared the shit out of me.

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How’d that turn out?

I got into the “Once more unto the breach” speech — the one everyone knows — and I went stone dead in the middle of it. My mouth went dry, no saliva, only air and adrenaline. All of the actors around me were trying to help, whispering lines at me and they were all the wrong lines! Eventually I found my way back.

When we asked you about your first time in Variety, you thought we meant the variety shows you once worked on.

In the early 1970s, before the RSC, I had worked in variety, which was our word for vaudeville or music hall.

Sounds colorful.

We did “Toad of Toad Hall” and I played Badger. And I worked with one of the foremost male impersonators of all time, Hetty King, who was about 89. There was Fred Emney, who had a monocle and cigar, and Sandy Powell, who did a drunk ventriloquist act and the dummy’s limbs would fall off. And Leslie Sarony, who sang risque songs and played the ukulele.

And this prepared you for “Henry V”?

No, but I learned a lot at RSC from Ben Kingsley and especially Alan Howard. He had a way of speaking blank verse that really shined a light on every word. He treated each soliloquy as if it were an operatic aria. He had an extraordinary voice and he knew how to push it.

This sounds like that great training we always hear is in the background of great British actors.

It was a great time because — let’s face it — we all deal with the reality of many not so great scripts today. And that was when I learned to love Shakespeare, the greatest writer of all time. I had just begun to see the light of his work. I was on that train and it was taking me along and I had a great seat.

http://variety.com/2015/film/awards/charles-dance-looks-back-at-his-showbiz-start-1201391210/

12 Awesome 2014 Performances In Otherwise Awful Movies

The Movie: Despite plenty of potential, the first film in the new Universal Monsters franchise gets the series off to a limp start, with the talented Luke Evans being forced through the motions in a dull mess of lame action and incoherent plotting.

The Performance: Charles Dance plays the Master Vampire, the one who turns Vlad (Evans) into a vampire in the first place. Kitted out in heavy make-up and spending the majority of his screen time mugging from a dark, dirty cave, he hams it up for the cheap seats and the results are easily the movie’s most entertaining moments.

Dance’s role is pretty much solely just to spout exposition and explain the plot, but he totally looks the part, and was surely a much better choice for the role than Charlie Cox, who is 36 years his junior and originally filmed the scenes before being replaced with Dance.

Dance also gets one hilariously memorable scene at the end of the movie, set in the present day, where he stalks Vlad and declares, “Let the games begin.” Dance’s delicious delivery of every syllable of dialogue makes the movie much more tolerable.

http://whatculture.com/film/12-awesome-2014-performances-otherwise-awful-movies.php/3

lundi 29 décembre 2014

About Finisterre....and a vid' : leaving the Bifa

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"It's been one hell of a year! Over the next few days we'll be taking a look back at 2014 starting today with this beauty.
Charles Dance is not a name synonymous with surfing, let alone cold water surfing, but when one of our finest films to date was just about finished, it was missing something. As many of you know, we are 20 strong, we do not have deep pockets, or an arsenal of resources, but w...e have belief – a deep belief in what we’re doing and the direction we want to take it. We didn’t think in a million years that Charles Dance, Ernest Capbert our brand director, Chris McClean our film director and a handful of talented others would be in the Red Bull studios, putting together a voice over that would pull at all our heart strings.
Mr. Dance, you’ve left us with an evening we’ll never forget."

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CHARLES DANCE on Mercurial Talent and Alien 3 Impression @ BIFA awards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo7UV0a9YMQ

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jeudi 11 décembre 2014

Charles and Diane Rigg...and 2 pics

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"A Christmas Memory in full candlelit flow @KingsCollegeLon w/ the exquisite Diana Rigg & Charles Dance #LoveLondon "

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'Despite the Falling Snow' had a very small sneak preview screening last night in Soho. There's still some post production work to come but Rebecca Ferguson took time out from the Mission Impossible 5 shoot to come and see herself as Katya ...and Lauren, and Charles Dance and Anthony Head also came along. Here we all are with Exec Producers, and a few younger cast including Ariella Tchenguiz Imerman and a couple of Sarif-Kattan boys who took cameo roles. Growing up fast! Screening went well - I was never so glad to hear an audience crying at the end "
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"Bumped into #CharlesDance whilst in London. Not knowing who he was! Until one of the #Paparazzi kindly told me #Charles #Dance #London #LDN #GameOfThrones #TheImitationGame #MJM #MarkJamesMedia"
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vendredi 21 novembre 2014

Charles and Diana Rigg on stage...for a reading

For two magical evenings LIFT invites you to join stars of stage and screen for a candlelit reading of A Christmas Memory, Truman Capote’s heart-warming story set in 1930s America. An evocative tale of humanity and ritual, loss and recollection, A Christmas Memory is an enduring gift from a literary powerhouse.

On Wednesday 10th December LIFT will bring together Screen Actors Guild Award-winner and BAFTA & Emmy nominee Charles Dance (The Imitation Game, Gosford Park, Game of Thrones) with multi award-winning actress Dame Diana Rigg.

Tickets are strictly limited for this one-off event and include an opportunity to enjoy a glass of mulled wine with the performers after the reading. Each performer has generously given their time and all proceeds will support LIFT and its work in bringing bold international theatre to London.