5 pics of the day

Charles at the Craft award in 2006

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Charles was at the 'charitable trading day 2012

The London Stock Exchange Group will today donate a full day’s worth of equity trading fees to charity – a figure it estimates will be in excess of £500,000...
 http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/12050/london_stock_exchange_to_donate_500000_from_charitable_trading_day

Friendship Works were supported at the launch by journalist and news presenter Jon Snow, actor Charles Dance, and actor Tim Pigott-Smith, who is also a patron of the charity.

http://www.friendshipworks.org.uk/news/local-charitys-stock-is-rising.html

Charles about being famous with Got

Charles Dance, an officer of the British Crown in recognition of his work, plays the patriarch of the Lannister, the richest man in the world created by Martin. "For 40 years I'm one of the most  important actors of the country can not stand the false modesty, but only now I'm popular. The other day drinking coffee at Starbucks and a few kids after school stopped to look at me. I angry and shouted: "What look?". Of course, then I realized that I had recognized. I should have smiled, "he says.
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1461080-game-of-thrones-regreso-al-mundo-de-la-fantasia

Excited about a baby at 65 ? ! (article)

Rose Otille was born earlier this month to his sculptress fiancée Eleanor Boorman, who is 26 years his junior, and he admits to having some fears about what the next few months of sleepless nights have in store for him.
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"I know what it involves; it’s exhausting,’ he says. ‘So I’m feeling a mixture of excitement and apprehension about the whole thing. I think it will be quite interesting. With my first two children [Oliver, 37, and Rebecca, 27, from his 33-year marriage to another sculptress, Joanna Haythorn] I’d often only be home briefly in between jobs, but I’ve learnt a little more about life now. I might even have to slow down a bit."
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Tywin seems a classic Charles Dance character – cold-blooded and aristocratic – but beneath the calm exterior he’s ruthless and bloodthirsty. ‘I’m not sure why I get picked for these roles but I think it is kind of the way I’m put together,’ says Charles, clearly relishing indulging his bloodlust in a show he describes as ‘like Lord of the Rings, only with more rumpy pumpy’.
The first series was notorious for its sex scenes as well as its blood and gore, but Charles says he feels there’s something almost Shakespearian about the show’s use of violence.
‘There are classical references and it feels like some of Shakespeare’s history plays,’ he says. ‘It’s rather like the Hammer Horror films; there’s a lot of blood and gore, people get stabbed, have their eyes poked out and get eaten in pies. As humans we seem to have a taste for gore; we seem to love a bit of horror in our lives. We love being frightened as long as at the end of it we know it’s only pretend. We like to see people pretending to kill. It’s odd, that'
Charles says working on such a big production has made him angry about the state of the British television industry. ‘A lot of the stuff coming into this country from America is better than the stuff we’re producing. We underestimate the intelligence of audiences. We think because a few million lap up junk television that’s all people want to see. It maddens me the way the top priority is reality TV.’
Now Game of Thrones has made him famous around the world again, although he admits he worries how long it will last. Last season’s lead character, played by Sean Bean, was beheaded at the end of the series and all the actors know they could be next. ‘I hear from people who’ve read the books – and I haven’t – that my death will be particularly gothic,’ he laughs. ‘Although I’m hoping it won’t happen for a few more years.’http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2122124/Excited-baby-65-Of-course

in 2015 :

What sort of women am I attracted to? Beautiful ones! Of course I am being facetious. I like independence, I like strong women, women who survive and thrive in what is still a male-dominated world in most professions. I think that description fits my ex-wife and my former fiancée, Eleanor [Boorman, with whom he has a daughter, Rose, 3].

Fatherhood is great, and Rose is fantastic. Having her has awakened paternal feelings in me despite the unshakable love I have for my grown-up daughter. Rose is as bright as a button, and despite our age difference I hope I will have a few more years so that I can see her grow from child to adulthood.

I hope that as Rose grows the world will continue to become less biased against women. I think there is a lot more sexual democracy now and less bigotry, which is a good thing.

But I sometimes wish Rose was growing up in a different time. When I was a kid, despite the fact we were all floundering around a bit, there was a kind of freedom in living in a world that wasn't permanently online. I regret the passing of those days of innocence.

http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2015/05/australian-interview-what-i-know-about.html

Charles video interview about Games of thones season 2

Charles Dance speaks about Tywin

Game Of Thrones’ Charles Dance speaks exclusively to SciFiNow about getting to the heart of Tywin Lannister in Season 2 of HBO’s fantasy epic. Introduced in episode seven of GoT Season 1, the powerful Lannister patriarch Tywin stepped in to try and clean up the mess caused by the escalating Stark/Lannister feud. The icy lord of Castery Rock calmly and methodically skinning a deer as he put Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) in his place.

“It took me two days to get the smell of that off my hands actually,” laughed actor Charles Dance at the launch party for the Complete First Season DVD/Blu-ray. “I thought they would have given me a haunch of venison to take home, but they didn’t. It was fun.”

As the war heats up and Tywin settles into the role of commander and power behind the Iron Throne in Season 2, we’ll start to get a better idea of what makes this master manipulator tick.

“You see a little of what’s behind the rather austere exterior, actually,” teases Dance, “that’s he’s not quite the bastard that you think he is.”

With memorable genre roles in Alien3, Last Action Hero and Sky’s recent Terry Pratchett adaptations where he plays the equally patrician, er, Patrician under his belt, Charles Dance shrugs off the suggestion that there’s any pressure in embodying this complex figure.

“There’s no pressure at all, not at all, why should there be pressure?” he says playfully. “I walk on a set and pretend to be somebody else, and hopefully I do it convincingly.

“We seem to be battling weather a lot of the time,” the actor continues, “but we’re going to start earlier this year I think, because last year and the year before, we ran into an awful lot of snow, very cold and wet. There aren’t any huge challenges really, it’s just great fun to do.

Game Of Thrones Season 2 begins April 2 on Sky Atlantic HD.

http://www.scifinow.co.uk/interviews/game-of-thrones-season-2-the-truth-about-tywin-lannister/

But the other one was that fantastic scene where Charles Dance (as Tywin Lannister) guts and flays a stag while he talks with his son. How did Dance react when he found out that was part of the deal?

Benioff: He did not bat an eye.

Weiss: He made it seem as if he had been skinning stags his entire life.

Benioff: I mean we were sitting there watching him do this and it's an incredibly difficult scene not just because it's a long scene and he's got so much dialogue to perform as effortlessly as he does. But continuity-wise, he has to be skinning the same part of the animal at the same moment of the speech each time otherwise we won't be able to cut it together. And he did that and made it look like he had been hunting stags since he was three.

He's just a phenomenal actor and he's one of those people who from the beginning, I think Dan was the first one who said, have you seen, was it Bleak House?

Weiss: Yeah.

Benioff: And said you've gotta check him out, he'd be perfect for Tywin Lannister. And we were both in complete agreement, there was never another choice for that role. He was so completely perfect for it.

And that was a scene - you know it's not a scene in the book but we loved writing it, because first of all, these two actors – you never get to see them together and it felt like a gap that we could fill and have this wonderful scene show a little bit how the son got to be this way and what his relationship with his father was. It let us learn some more about these characters and also introduce this character Tywin Lannister in this really dramatic way.

And across the board with lots of these characters in the books George has the luxury of telling stories about people and telling little pieces of back story and … if we were to do that we would be committing ourselves to all sorts of ungainly flashbacks that work better on page than they do in filmed entertainment so we needed to come up with new ways to introduce these characters in the moment of the story that was actually unfolding before us that served the same function as flashback and back story bits and pieces that George peppers throughout his books.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/the-men-behind-the-thrones-20110714-1helc.html

https://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.com/

Charles posing with the singer of the band of Explodethetv

"My bands so rock and roll even Charles Dance came to see us play!!"

pic of the day : Charles posing