Charles was at the 70th anniversary of VJ Day

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"By the old Moulmein Pagoda, looking lazy at the sea; On the road to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay, With our sick beneath the awnings when we went to Mandalay! O the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!

 

a video

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 Charles Dance, who  read Kipling's Mandalay, said of the experience:

"It was rather nerve-wracking. I think I'd rather do ten first nights in a row. It's extraordinary because I life pretending to do daring things, or nasty things, but you know I pretend. That's my job and this is remembering the people who don't pretend, they do it for real.

"And standing next to people like Lord Slim who is an extraordinary man, and I mean, all of these people are, and it's a tiny little thing for people like me to be able to come along and contribute to this. But I tell you, it's nerve-wracking."

"Even though I was quite a way away I could actually see people mouthing the words. It's astonishing.

"It's not just being among friends, you stand here on an occasion like this and you think, Christ, it's part of history, it's just amazing.

"I was, before doing this, just reading through it myself in one of the offices here and I was shown Wellington's desk, where he sat and plotted the path to Waterloo. There it is, still in use. It's just astonishing."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11804202/Britain-remembers-VJ-Day-70-years

 

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Matthew Graham about Charles (Mr Dance)

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"To those people who have read the book and enjoyed the book, loved the book, I assure them that Karellen is Karellen," Graham said. "He is the Karellen of the book. He has not been taken figuratively or metaphorically in any way. It would be crazy to deviate from what Arthur C. Clarke had envisioned. And actually, having seen Karellen on screen a lot in the last few months, it's lost none of its iconic power as an image. 

It wasn't really about casting a Brit. It was about casting Charles Dance."

"I mean, it's quite something to be fixed by Charles's stare like that," Graham continued, "and his voice. You needed somebody who felt like a global voice, a strong intergalactic leader, but somebody who was also a philosopher, who was also a teacher, who was also a friend, had passion but was very stern in the consistency of his plan. And there really aren't many actors who could convey all of that, and Charles is at a point in his career where he could, and more so."

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/08/13/childhoods-end-why-game-of-thrones-charles-dance-had-to-play-karellen

tsss !

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Undertow (1996) is on Youtube

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After his car breaks down, Jack seeks shelter, lost in a thunderstorm in a remote shack in the woods. He finds himself held at gunpoint by a deranged mountain man who lives there with his ..

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Charles (Mr Dance)will be in the jury of London Spanish Film Festival 2015

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24 - 30 sept 2015

Once again and for the 11th year, the London Spanish Film Festival returns with a selection of some of the best recent films from Spain including feature films as well as documentaries and shorts. This year some of the feature films will be in competition and the winner will be decided by a Jury. We feel very honoured that the following Arts, Letters and Film professionals have accepted to be part of our Jury: Art Curator Andrew Dempsey, Vanity Fair's journalist Bridget Arsenault, Frank Mannion and actors Nickolas Grace and Charles Dance.

.....As usual, the Festival will take place at Ciné Lumière in South Kensington but this year we are also going to be at the recently opened Regent Streer Cinema, a cinema full of history at the very heart of London.

http://www.londonspanishfilmfestival.com/index.html

Tssss ! Despite the falling snow poster

 

Charles will be at the 70th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day

The Queen and members of The Royal Family will attend a series of events on Saturday 15 August ....

The event at Horse Guards will begin in spectacular style with a flypast of four historic aircraft, a Spitfire....The event will also include a drumhead service and wreath-laying ceremony, special readings, and hymns sung by the Gwalia Male Voice Choir and the London Welsh Male Voice Choir.

A highlight of the event will be famed actor Charles Dance reading the poem ‘The Road to Mandalay’ by Rudyard Kipling. The poem was famously set to music and was a favourite marching tune for many in the 14th Army in Burma, commanded by Field Marshal Lord Slim during the campaign.

  

Speaking of his role at the event, Charles Dance said:
It is an absolute honour to be involved in the national commemorative events for the 70th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day. I would encourage everyone to attend the parade on Whitehall to show their gratitude to this extraordinary generation of individuals.
When the Second World War ended in Europe in May 1945 British and Commonwealth military personnel and civilians in the Far East were still at war, still on the frontline and still in prisoner of war camps. VJ Day 70 on 15 August presents an opportunity for us to publicly recognise the sacrifices of the veterans, internees and their descendants, and the conditions they endured during the dark years of the Second World War.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/get-involved-in-vj-day-70