mardi 3 mai 2016

May 2016 - news - Charles Dance

Mr Dance in the cast of Fanny Lye deliver'd
Shooting has wrapped on Fanny Lye Deliver’d, a period drama starring Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything), Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) and Freddie Fox (The Riot Club). The cast also includes Tanya Reynolds in her first feature film role and Peter McDonald (The Stag).
Shot over ten weeks on location in Shropshire, England, the film is written and directed by Thomas Clay and produced by Zorana Piggott.....
Set in 1657 on an isolated farm in Shropshire, the story follows Fanny Lye (Peake) as she learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discovers a new world of possibility.
Living a life of puritan stricture with husband John Lye (Dance) and young son Arthur, Fanny Lye’s world is shaken by the unexpected arrival of two strangers in need - a young couple (Fox, Reynolds) closely pursued by a ruthless sheriff (McDonald) and his deputy.no
 http://www.screendaily.com/news/maxine-peake-charles-dance
Mr Dance in the cast of Good night with John Hurt
Dance takes the role of “The Visitor” in the film....
The film, which is shooting for five weeks on the Algarve coast of Portugal, has been adapted from the late N.J. Crisp’s 1996 stage-play of the same name
"Watched filming of That Good Night starring John Hurt and Charles Dance near Loule in Portugal. Beautiful weather. "
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Ralph, a once-famous screenwriter and film director, is in his seventies and terminally ill. He has two final missions in life: to be reconciled to his long-abandoned son Michael and secretly, to ensure he is not a burden to his younger devoted wife, Anna, as he goes “into that good night”. But Ralph wrecks all hope of reconciliation when he picks a fight with Michael’s girlfriend, Cassie. Later, alone, Ralph receives the sinister and mysterious “Visitor” whose services he has hired to provide the painless ending to his life. But The Visitor plays a devastating trick.....
Based on the hugely successful stage play by NJ Crisp...
Charles about Coriolanus...BBC Radio 4 
....Charles Dance is the latest Shakespearean to nominate his favourite dramatic character - Coriolanus....
                                         at 00:25mn
or here
 at the Algarve Chefs Week opening in Portugal
"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."
others set pics
Charles Dance (Analysis)
....Charles Dance is most frequently balancing between a lengthy gaze downward and to the side, “zoning out”, and a fixated look on his interlocutor, with occasionally a quick glance upward....
Emilia Clarke took to twitter on Friday to answer questions about her upcoming romance Me Before You...
As all eyes turn toward the 2017 Invictus Games, which will be held in Toronto with The Royal Canadian Legion as a chief sponsor, the results and stories from the 2016 games are pouring in. Game of Thrones star Charles Dance, who played Tywin Lannister on the show, was involved in an effort by ESPN to recap the games and pay tribute to the athletes -
Dance’s narration touched on the main themes of the games. “Unconquered by the consequences of marching into harm’s way, we can still seize the day,” he said. “Side by side with our fellow soldiers whose burdens we feel and grief we share for the fallen we loved and remember. We are all more mind than matter, more substance than form, and life will never leave us with no course through the storm. “We do this by decree of the warrior’s code, to defy the indifferent hand of fate and fight on,” he concluded. “May our hearts never fail to give this command, and may we always rise to obey it.” -
listen here :
It's a wrap: The big moments from the 2016 Invictus Games
"CHARLES DANCE, on set in Portugal. Hair & Photography by       
On the set of Lord cricket ground 
"Spent today making a film with Charles Dance at Lord's Cricket Ground."
"Winter's" is coming to Winterfell to meet "Lord's" Tywin Lannister Games of Thrones actor Charles Dance"
"The legendary Charles Dance OBE was on the other end of my makeup brush today at Lord's cricket ground @homeofcricket đŸ |Dusk Williams MUA|"
Me before you- on set interview 
#Repost @mrsamclaflin with @repostapp ・・・ 43/50 for mummy and daddy Simply the best on-screen parents a man could ask for. Not only are they bloomin beautiful but both ruddy marvellous. To grow up to have even a hint of their success / talent would be a dream for me. The best role-models. The best pair. The Traynors. "

Actor Kristian Nairn
Q)The cast is quite large. Is there someone on the show you’d most like to work with on the series in the future? (if you had your say)
A)I would have loved to have had the chance to work with Charles Dance (who played Tywinn Lannister). He is one of my favorite actors and it would have been quite something to work with him.
                   actor Iwan Rheon(GoT) 
Anyone you’re gutted died?
A lot. I’d have loved to have done a shoot with Charles Dance. I’ve always been a massive fan, so I was a bit annoyed. It would have been interesting to see Ramsay and Jon Snow meet.
http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/tv/iwan-rheon-on-playinggame-of-thrones-biggest-bastard
actress Emilia Clarke
Despite being part of the same fictional world, Daenerys and Tywin never had a scene together and the paths of the actors who play them have only crossed "once maybe, once or twice during promotional things," Clarke told UPI in New York, while publicizing Me Before You, the project that gave her the opportunity to act opposite Dance.
"Charlie is a dreamy, dreamy man," Clarke continued. "At the end, when he finished filming, he was like, 'Darling, this is brilliant and you're brilliant,' and I was tearing up. I was like, 'Charles Dance just said all these great things.' So, he was just dreamy and charming and un-Tywin-like."

Mr Dance will be guest on Steve Wright 
Thu 2 Jun 2016 : 14:00 - BBC Radio 2 
Steve catches up with Game Of Thrones star Charles Dance and TV presenter Kate Humble.
Director Thea Sharrock /Me before you
How did you come to Janet McTeer and Charles Dance for Will’s parents, Camilla and Steven?
TS: Janet is somebody I’ve admired for many, many years but never worked with. She was my first choice for Will’s Mum, and I knew as soon as I got her I needed to get an actor who could match her – and be tall enough… And I’m really proud of achieving that as Charlie is very tall [laughs]. Charles was fantastic to work with: so precise, utterly charming and incredibly respectful of Janet and what she brought to the part of Camilla.
They were fantastic together. I’m very, very proud of their performances. Both of them have a theatre background, like me, so how we spoke about the characters and scenes came very naturally to all three of us, which really helps when you have so little time relative to theatre.

samedi 30 avril 2016

Charles voiced the Ormeley Dinner Film

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Every two years a very special dinner is held in central London, the Ormeley Dinner brings together the great and the good – and the financially committed to conservation – to raise funds for some of the world’s most innovative environmental and conservation organisations. The centre piece of the night is a scene setting video and then an auction, which can raise over £1m. Halo Films was asked to produce the film for 2015.
Working with such footage was a privilege and editor, Laurie Goodwin had the chance to craft a powerful film.  To increase the impact we had footage of Prince Charles to use and Charles Dance provided the commentary.
 
Watch it here
http://halofilms.co.uk/portfolio/the-ormeley-dinner-film/

Trailer 2 : Me before you

Me Before You - Official Trailer 2

mardi 19 avril 2016

Video...Charles was at the Opening Gala of Advertising Week Europe 2016

                            
Game of Thrones Tywin Lannister aka Charles Dance at Ad Week UK  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlExOwW1ZfE

Charles attends a Q&A...at Southwark Cathedral in London
 
"Just seen Charles Dance talking at the ad week launch. He's impressed with his demise."
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samedi 16 avril 2016

Bad reviews for Despite the falling snow

"...directed by Sharim Sharif and adapted by the director from her own 2004 novel. It features laborious acting and directing, and a screenplay whose revelations are uninteresting, even were they not guessable long in advance.
Whatever potential subtlety and complexity we are promised does not materialise — only hammy airport-bestseller histrionics, and the whole movie sometimes seems submerged in a kind of cold-tea sepia look, appropriate to its historical background. "
The Guardian
"...an old-fashioned, espionage-tinged romance that might be more at home on ITV3 than the big screen.
Empireonline
"... Sarif’s very mawkish and novelettish melodrama...For all its invocations of Russian history, this is a glorified telenovela at heart.
The Independant
".... It’s told in two distinct timelines, both of which mirror one another in a rather clunky manner. One is a rather shallow portrait of the ‘50s Cold War era – marred by dodgy CGI snow, obvious green-screen and unconvincing sets - while the ‘90s segment plays out at-best like a mediocre late afternoon TV drama.
The National
"....It’s all so brightly lit, and presented in an amateur way – with stilted dialogue, and such clumsy staging. The poor supporting cast do not help matters, turning would could be a great film, into a pastiche of an 80s soap opera – and let’s face it, nobody wants that
Heyuguy
"... And yet, and yet. It just doesn’t work. Dance is typically great and so is Ferguson, but they’re surrounded by cringe-worthy performances.

Thetimes.uk
"... And clocking in at a lean 93 minutes, there’s simply not enough time for ‘Despite the Falling Snow’ to become the poignant love story it wants to be.
Time Out
 
"...As much of a misfire as Criminal is, it’s preferable to Despite the Falling Snow (*), a dreary, incompetently plotted and flatly directed
Scotsman