mardi 7 juin 2016
Charles was at the " A midsummer night's dream " press night
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...starring Freddie Fox at Southwark Playhouse on June 6....
lundi 6 juin 2016
Actress Josephine Gillan (GoT)about Mr Dance
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"Game Of Thrones saved me from a life of prostitution, and has made me a much stronger person," she says.
"I was working as a whore and at the same time making X-rated movies,......
Between scenes, slaves and brothel girls mix with lords and ladies.
Josephine says: "I remember one day a few of us girls from the brothel scenes had afternoon tea with Charles Dance - who played Lord Tywin Lannister - and he was so flirtatious. With so many people working together so closely you can imagine that there have been a few affairs, but I haven't had one!
dimanche 5 juin 2016
Charles Dance takes a look back at some of his biggest roles - LATimes interview
We’ve asked some actors to look at their own IMDB page and comment on some of their best known roles.
Charles Dance is best known for playing menacing villains, but the British actor, who has been working for more than 40 years, has quite an eclectic filmography. Dance considers himself open to any sort of role, which has sometimes resulted in unusual career choices.
“I do have fun with most of the things I do purely because I just like working,” the 69-year-old actor says. “Perhaps I’ve not been as choosy as I could be. Unless something is really dreadful or the money is appalling or the people I’m likely to be working with are generally considered to be not very pleasant I just keep working.”
Here, Dance details some of the biggest – and most unusual – entries on his acting résumé.
“Me Before You” Role: Steven Traynor (2016)
“It was directed by Thea Sharrock, who is a rather wonderful theater director and who I have not had the pleasure of working with. She asked me to do it. My contribution to it is really just a cameo role. But also I knew Emilia [Clarke] from “Game of Thrones,” although we never actually had any scenes together – our plotlines never coincided – but she’s a really talented girl. I thought, all things being considered, why not?”
“Game of Thrones” Role: Tywin Lannister (2011-2015)
“When you’re in this business it kind of swings in roundabouts and ups and downs. You can be up one minute, flavor of the month one month and then nobody knows what’s going on the next. That’s just the way the career of a working actor goes. When this came along the quality of the scripts was so good and I had a feeling in my bones it would it be successful. I feel fortunate to have been part of it. Really great story lines. I thought it was a suitably ignominious death for Tywin because nice is not a word you could apply to him.”
“Dracula Untold” Role: Master Vampire (2014)
“When you’re covered in that kind of makeup you can kind of get away with murder, really. I hadn’t done anything like that before. Although it’s just a couple of long scenes in the middle of the film and one right at the end I thought, ‘I can have enormous fun with this and go wildly over the top.’ Which I proceeded to do. I think the expression is ‘Chewing up the scenery.’ I loved it. I had a ball – apart from the fact that it took about 2 ½ hours to put the makeup on every morning and another hour to get it off at night and I had to eat through a straw for the rest of the day.”
“Your Highness” Role: King Tallious (2011)
“I don’t very often get asked to participate in many comedies. And I just thought it would be fun to be part of it. But between you and me I didn’t think it was a very good film. I had a reasonable time doing it.”
“Scoop” Role: Mr. Malcolm (2006)
“[I did this] purely because it was a Woody Allen film. But as I’m sure many other people have told or you’ve read, it’s a very odd experience working with Woody, unless you’re actually fronting one of his films. I provided my own clothes. I went in for a day and Woody hardly said two words to me. I did the job, took the minimum amount of money and left.”
“Ali G Indahouse” Role: David Carlton (2002)
“Michael Gambon and I were doing ‘Gosford Park’ with Robert Altman. Michael came in one day and said, ‘Here, I’ve got this Ali G script’ and I said, ‘Yes so have I.’ He said, ‘Are you going to do it?’ I said, ‘I’ll do it if you do it.’ So we both agreed that we would do it and we had some fun making it. I mean, Sacha Baron Cohen is a very clever guy, but in my opinion I think he tends to play to what is called the lowest common denominator, and the degree of humor in the film was pretty basic. But it was the kind of thing I hadn’t done before. And I think it is the only time I have ever – and will ever – be seen wearing a red rubber leather micro skirt, thigh-high leather boots, a leopard skin crop top and drop earrings.”
“Alien 3” Role: Clemens (1992)
“I’d heard about David Fincher. Word was he was what’s called a ‘coming man.’ And indeed he was. David’s a terrific director and I liked the Aliens films. This script was rather different from the ones that had gone before. Initially Sigourney [Weaver]’s character was a kind of supporting role, which was not a good move considering Sigourney really is the franchise. So what appeared on the screen was quite different from what had been on the page. But to be the only character Ripley had any kind of relationship with was a nice prospect.”
“The Golden Child” Role: Sardo Numspa (1986)
“I thought I’d quite like to do a film with Eddie Murphy because he makes me laugh. The character was villainous, but he was a comic villain as far as I was concerned, and I hadn’t done a film like that before. I don’t think as an actor you should back off from any experience, so I thought, ‘OK, we’ll try this.’ And I did it, and I know that it's played over and over again and a lot of devotees of that kind of thing say it’s their favorite film. It was fun. I enjoyed doing it.”
“For Your Eyes Only” Role: Claus (1981)
“That was my first big film, really, and to be part of the whole Bond thing was quite exciting. Roger Moore, who was the Bond in that, was an absolute gentleman. I was only playing third villain from the left, as it were, and I had one line, if I remember right, which was, ‘Get in,’ which initially the director wanted to cut. Roger, bless him, said, ‘Oh, no, you can’t cut this line. It’s very important for Charles to say this line in this film. It’s just before he gets killed.’ So he said, ‘Alright, Charles you hang on to the line.’ It was great to be part of a big machine like that, and it was a real eye-opener because I’d done very little film up until that point.”
vendredi 3 juin 2016
Daily Express interview
However, as season six has now proven, even 50 stab wounds to the chest doesn’t mark the end for its heroes or villains, and Charles Dance has admitted that there’s every chance he could be brought back to the HBO drama to fight another day.
“I'm not surprised by anything in Game of Thrones,” he said exclusively to Express.co.uk. “Anything is possible.”
But if there is a revival for the ruthless Warden of the West, he insisted: “I know nothing about it and neither does anybody else. If they do, they don't tell you.” .....
"Well I knew it was coming," he said. "Even without reading the books, which I didn't do because they're too thick - I don't like reading books that thick. It was actually just that somebody stopped me in the street and told me. I thought, ‘He’d better have a super ignoramus end,’ which he did. So I knew I had it coming.”
But with a career spanning over five decades, and boasting some of the most monumental moments in both film and television, Charles shouldn't be too worried.
“There are ups and downs in this business,” he admitted. “But I've been very lucky. I've hardly been out of work. You go through periods when you’re the flavour of the month and then maybe you’re not, but I just like working.
"But I mean with Game of Thrones, because of its huge success, it's pushed me up a bit. How long it will stay like that? I don't know. I'm sure there will be another television series and then someone else will be up there. That's the way it goes. There's been nothing like it in my lifetime, it's raised the level.”
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As for what’s next, despite starring in two of the biggest blockbusters of the summer – the all-female reboot of Ghostbusters and the fifth instalment of vampire franchise Underworld – Charles looks ahead refreshingly nonchalant.
“I just want to keep working. I don't have a kind of cardinal ambition. If I did I'd probably have moved to America after White Mischief or Plenty or something, but I didn't. I'm just not sufficient streetwise or ambitious enough.
“Now, the age I am, I'm playing grandparents but I'm sitting in a makeup room with 21, 22 year-olds and boy are they more streetwise than I ever was. They come out of a successful television series and bang! They're on a plane out to America where they join an army of equally ambitious people driving for position, and there's a factory making them and then they're spat out."
Charles is currently championing his secondary love after acting, sport. In 2015, he gave the England team a rousing speech ahead of the World Cup, and in April he recited an essay in front of millions at the 2016 Invictus Games. Now he’s turning his attention to cricket for this summer’s T20 tournament, held at the iconic London Ground, Lords.
Of his new campaign, in which he hopes to discourage people from holding onto their misconceptions of the sport, he explained: “It's for the benefit of people who don’t know very much about Lords other than its one for cricket. It’s an opportunity to talk about this place, which is more than just a venue for cricket, it’s got an extraordinary history.
“This T20 tournament, there’s a lot of traditionalists in cricket who think it’s not on at all - it’s like wearing anything other than white for cricket - and I just think it will open people’s eyes a bit and make them realise its actually quite exciting, and it's a fantastic game.”
jeudi 2 juin 2016
mercredi 1 juin 2016
Video : Tour of Lord's cricket ground
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"The mockumentary-style feature shows a different side of Lord’s with Dance introducing some of the iconic sites on offer at the ‘Cathedral of Cricket’ as it prepares to host four of Middlesex’s NatWest T20 Blast fixtures in June and July.
From the Long Room, to the Lord’s outfield and a picturesque picnic, Dance’s traditional tour is interrupted by a series of disturbances as staff and players attempt to adapt their pre-match routines to facilitate the shorter form of the game.
“If today has taught me anything,” said Dance, “it’s that Lord’s is a ground with a sense of humour and Thursday nights will no doubt see a side of Lord’s that people have never seen before.”
lundi 30 mai 2016
Director Thea Sharrock(Me before you) about Mr Dance
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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.
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