mardi 22 août 2017

That good night trailer

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Charles voice over Age of Empires IV

Microsoft is teaming up with Dawn of War developer Relic Entertainment to create the first PC entry in the Age of Empires series in 12 years. Called Age of Empires IV, the game is looking to reinvent the modern real-time strategy title and will be joined by remasters of its predecessors, with both II and III set to receive brand-new overhauls.
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Pulling in Charles Dance to provide the voice-over to the epic-sounding trailer was a smart move on Microsoft’s part, but many will now turn to Relic Entertainment to see what it can do.
 
Age of Empires IV Announcement Trailer

samedi 19 août 2017

Charles to Join CSO on European Tour

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Charles Dance, OBE, will join Louis Langrée and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on their 2017 European tour. The 'Game of Thrones' actor will lend his talents to narrating Copland's extraordinary orchestral work 'Lincoln Portrait'.
"I am thrilled to be performing this historic work with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as part of their European tour. Past performances of the work have included speakers of high esteem, and I am delighted to be joining that list. I look forward to performing with the CSO as they make their debut performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, BBC Proms and San Sebastian's Musical Fortnight festival," Dance said.
British actor Charles Dance will perform alongside the orchestra at their Edinburgh, London and San Sebastian tour dates, reading the coveted role of narrator.
 
American composer Aaron Copland was commissioned to produce a work in celebration of an 'emineNT American', choosing former president Abraham Lincoln as his subject. Using fragments of Lincoln's speeches and letters, including the famous Gettysburg Address, Copland created a dramatic piece of orchestral music that has stood the test of time.
In 1942, at the height of World War Two, the CSO premiered the musical tribute, and have performed the work with guest narrators throughout the last century.
Visitors to Scotland's Edinburgh International Festival can hear the premiere of this piece with Charles Dance on 25th August at Usher Hall in the city's West End.
The CSO will make its BBC Proms debut on 27th August in the historic Royal Albert Hall.
In total, eleven concerts in six countries will be held, including performances in Utrecht, Antwerp, Eindhoven, Santander and San Sebastian and Paris.
Founded in 1895, the CSO is the sixth oldest orchestra in the United States, and the first to be broadcast to a national radio audience in 1921. Boasting a rich musical history with close ties to local communities in the state of Ohio, the CSO has been a fixture in the classical music scene in Cincinnati for well over a century.
 
25th August 2017
Edinburgh International Festival, Usher Hall, EN
 BERNSTEIN Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront
 COPLAND Lincoln Portrait (Charles Dance, Narrator)
 BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
 
27th August 2017
 BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London, EN
 BERNSTEIN Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront
 COPLAND Lincoln Portrait (Charles Dance, Narrator)
 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
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vendredi 30 juin 2017

Mr Dance in 2001

"Years ago, I saw two of the Game of Thrones cast members perform in plays in London, and I met them at the stage door with my camera.
In early 2001, I saw Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister in GofT) in Long Day’s Journey Into Night. The other cast members were Paul Rudd, Paul Nicholls, and Jessica Lange. My seat was right up close to the stage, which normally is too close but was just right for this one. Lange didn’t come out to meet anybody afterward, but the three men did. This was before gathering at the stage door after a show was popular in the West End, so there were only a few of us waiting. This was also before digital cameras, so I didn’t realize that my photo of Rudd caught him with his eyes shut.  He was very friendly, and Charles Dance was very gracious."
 

jeudi 29 juin 2017

Interview about Who Do You Think You Are?’

Charles Dance reveals all about delving into his family tree to find out about the father he never really knew
Here, the 70-year-old tells TV Times all about his emotional journey…
Your story was incredibly moving, what was the experience like for you?
“It’s not like most episodes where you have startling revelations about how people are related to William the Conqueror. This was about filling in huge gaps in my knowledge about my parentage because I want my children [Oliver, 42, and Rebecca, 35, with ex-wife Joanna Haythorn and Rose, five, with ex-Partner Eleanor Boorman] to be better informed than I was. It turned into an adventure for me; there were so many revelations.”

 What did you know about your father, Walter?
“Nothing at all. My mother talked about him, but never in detail, she referred to him as ‘WD’ and said that he was in late middle age when he died, but I found out that he actually didn’t have me until he was 72 and the photo that I assumed was of him going off to the First World War was in fact the Boer War!”

You also learned that you had two half-sisters, as Walter had two daughters Norah and Mary with his first wife, but Mary died aged five after being hit by scaffolding. Was that tough to deal with?
“Finding out about Mary was awful, especially as I then had to go and stand outside the house in West London where it happened. That was a difficult day because I’ve a daughter that age and for a parent to suffer that kind of loss must have been terrible. Then I discovered that Norah lived into her 90s in South Africa before dying in 1993. We had no knowledge of each other, but it would’ve been nice to have met her.”


Do you feel closer to your father now?
“Yes, especially because Noneen also photocopied Norah’s autobiography for me. In that, she talked about Dad’s Roman nose and mine you could arguably describe as Roman… It’s prominent anyway! Noneen also gave me a gold medal that Dad got for elocution. He used to recite monologues like The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck and that ties in with my acting. There were all kinds of connections that rang a bell; it was revealing.”

You find out more about your mother’s side too. Did you know much about her background?
“I remember her telling me that her father went to war in 1914 and came back in 1920 after spending two years shacked up with a mademoiselle from Armentieres! But she worked most of her life and didn’t have an easy life, so if she’d known what I found out, it might have made her more contented.”
 
You say in the show that you are not aristocratic at all. Why are you often cast that way?
“Because I speak reasonably well and because of the way my face is put together! When I did Gosford Park I said to the director Robert Altman, ‘I should be downstairs not upstairs’ and he said, ‘Not with that face Charles!’ I’d like to play downstairs and there was a time I was a romantic lead, but time takes its toll and somebody thought I was more suited to playing villains. But I’m managing to get away from that.”

How did you feel about turning 70 last year?
“It is a milestone. I was in Botswana on the day doing some press and I had a couple of days safari so on the morning of my 70th birthday these ladies came with cake and champagne at breakfast and danced around singing Happy Birthday while elephants and giraffes were looking on. That was quite something.”
What’s next for you?
“I’ve recently had rather too much fun doing [BBC1’s forthcoming period drama] The Woman in White, where I looked like a cross between Quentin Crisp and my mother in a curly wig! I’m just about to do Godzilla: King of Monsters, which is different. I’d also like to direct another film. I just love the variety, I’m perhaps not as choosy as I might have been, but I just want to keep working. Actors don’t retire because there would be nobody to play old wrinkly people; we have to keep going as long as we can.”