lundi 3 février 2025

February 2025 - news - Charles Dance

Britain's artists, have signed a petition warning the Government against allowing the tech industry to ignore copyright rules when training their A.I. models. cos it would threaten their livelihoods.

The day of the jackal is Peacock's most watched new original drama.

dimanche 1 décembre 2024

December 2024 - news - Charles Dance

Inside Rumours

Cate Blanchett and Charles Dance lead an ensemble cast as the fictional German Chancellor and POTUS in Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin’s political satire, Rumours. They tell Hollywood Authentic about night shoots, AI fears, outlawing pineapples and tall poppy syndrome.
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Delirious is how you might describe the movie itself…
Charles Dance: It’s not a Marvel picture. Guy Maddin really is an arthouse director but this is not purely an arthouse film.
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Are you an eternal optimist like Nikki is?
Charles Dance: I despair with politics, really. The worst thing that happened, of course, was that [Britain] decided to leave the European Union. It was one of the most depressing days in the history of my country. But I didn’t look at this script politically, actually, at all. For me I thought this was a cross between Luis Buñuel and an episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. And I’m a fan of both of those things. It’s why I wanted to do it. 
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Does AI worry you?
Charles Dance: There were so many extraordinary advances in the last hundred years, far more than there’s been in the last thousand years. Suddenly, we as a species, we’ve yet to learn the law of cause and effect. We think, ‘Yes, we can do this. We can do this. We can do this’. Every now and again, somebody says, ‘Yeah, but what if we do?’ You know? I think that question that needs to be asked very, very loudly with AI, because it’s incredibly powerful. 

Charles Dance: Years ago, I voiced a character in a cartoon. There was a comic in England called the Eagle, and one of the strips in it was a space thing. I went in to voice one of these characters. As I was going in, Albert Finney – bless him – was coming out. He saw me, and he said, ‘The writing’s on the wall, kid’. 
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What was il like working with three directors? 
Charles Dance: There’s different kinds of directors who try to put performances in, and there’s directors who try to bring performances out. I prefer to work with the latter, but it depends on how good they are. The film industry is not populated completely with wonderful directors. There are some who don’t know their arse from a hole in the ground, in the same way there are actors who really don’t know what they’re doing. But these three managed to create an environment in which we were encouraged to contribute, which is a very healthy way of working. 
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How did you find your characters, did you base them on anyone?
Charles Dance: We purposely didn’t push it in any direction. I guess if somebody sees a parallel in that with me and Joe Biden, then fine. OK. But that wasn’t in my head at the time.
Mr Dance was at the Emilia Perez receptionat restaurant River Cafe in London. 
A-List stars including Dame Judy Dench, Charles Dance and Sharon Osborne, Joanna Lumley, Ricky Gervais, etc.... appeal to help them get trophy hunting banned in 2025. 
The Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting has launched a Live Aid style push to urge the Labour Government to keep its promise and end the import of gruesome hunt mememtoes. 
Charles Dance : actor | Full Q&A at  The Oxford Union

November 2024 - news - Charles Dance

Mr Hamm was at the Booker Prize 2024 winners... 

Gillian Anderson, Sara Pascoe, Sir Lenny Henry, Ruth Jones and TV historian David Olusoga were at the event.

Q&A in The Guardian

What is your greatest fear?
Never working again. 

What trait do you deplore in yourself?
Pomposity.

What trait you most deplore in others?
Any form of bigotry.

Your most embarrassing moment?
I saw a woman I knew across the room and thought, “Oh she’s having another baby.” I congratulated her and, of course, she wasn’t pregnant.

What is your most treasured possession?
A pair of handmade Spanish boots. They’re 35 years old and still incredible.

Describe yourself in three words
He works hard.

What would your superpower be?
To cure baldness.

What makes you unhappy?
Lack of sleep.

What do you most dislike about your appearance?
Bags under my eyes.

What is your most unappealing habit?
Snoring, I gather!

What was the last lie that you told?
Telling a restaurateur that everything was fine.

What is the worst thing anyone’s said to you?
“You can’t play Maxim de Winter with ginger hair.”

To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why?
My ex-wife, for the way I behaved towards the end of our marriage.

What does love feel like?
Comforting, uplifting, all consuming.

What was the best kiss of your life?
The first.

Have you ever said ‘I love you’ and not meant it?
No.

Which words do you most overuse?
However, ridiculous and darling.

What is the worst job you’ve done?
Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.

If not yourself who would you like to be? Someone better.

When did you last cry, and why?
Frequently, especially now with what’s happening in the Middle East.

When did you last change your mind about something significant?
Often. I’m a Libran.

How often do you have sex?
Two or three times a week.

What’s the closest you’ve come to death?
I’m getting closer all the time.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
To still be working.

What keeps you awake at night?
My rational brain doing battle with my emotional brain.

Would you rather have more sex, money or fame?
A bit more money.

How would you like to be remembered?
As kind.

What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
It’s limited.

What happens when we die?

No idea.

Mr. Dance is Noah Blum
Two couples of friends, Ale and Santi, Natalia and Mario, celebrate their twenty aniversary with a vacation in Samaná. They catch up, party, reconnect… Ale, with the wings that rum gives him and the happiness of being with his friends, decides that the time has come to confess that, the night the four of them met, she cheated to end Santi, who initially flirted with Natalia, while it was Mario who tried to flirt with her.
Mr Dance and actress Yaritza Reyes on the set of Amanece en samana

"Cómo cuando te toca trabajar con Tywin Lannister, digo Charles Dance 🤣 no se preocupen que fue bueno conmigo heheh”
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Like when you have to work with Tywin Lannister, I mean Charles Dance 🤣 don't worry he was good to me heheh”
Mr Dance cast in a Netflix movie :
Ladies first  with Richard E. Grant, Emily Mortimer, Fiona Shaw, Tom Davis, Weruche  Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike.
https://deadline.com/2024