mardi 10 avril 2018

April 2018 - Charles Dance - news

http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2018/03/march-2018-charles-dance-news.html

 
actress Olivia Vinall
The Woman in White was filmed in various National Trust properties in Northern Ireland. Of Charles Dance, who plays Laura’s uncle, she says, ‘He was lovely but he’s so tall! When he unfurls himself from his chair, he has this really commanding presence.’ Jessie Buckley is now a firm friend......
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-5559565/Actress-Olivia-Vinall-set-beguile-TV
Charles by photographer Tricia Yourkevich  
 as Frederick Fairlie in The Woman in White
Ep 1/5 - Sunday 22 April - 9.00pm-10.00pm - BBC ONE
 
 First published in 1859, The Woman in White tells the story of two half-sisters, Laura Fairlie and Marian Halcombe who, along with their drawing teacher, are pulled into a deadly plot involving a mentally disabled woman — the woman in white.
And, while definitely a detective story, it is also a treatise on the appalling way married women were treated in the 19th century when it came to their rights, or lack thereof. Particularly when they were wealthy, and their finances were involved.
The novel itself is considered to be the first real detective story, with many twists and turns, authentic police work and a shocking ending.
The Woman in White: Trailer - BBC One   
 

vendredi 30 mars 2018

March 2018 - Charles Dance - news

http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2018/03/february-2018-charles-dance-news.html
Wheatley could attend the event because he has already delivered a first cut of Colin You Anus, his mysterious new project which rapidly went into an under-the-radar production earlier this year.
Full details are still being kept under wraps, but the prolific director reveals that the edit has progressed swiftly and that the team have already hosted an early screening of the film.
“We’ve had a cast and friends screening, we’re going through the motions of that and seeing what the reactions are,” says Wheatley. “We’re just getting on with it really.”
The director denies that the project was a particularly remarkable turnaround, insisting that the schedule mirrored his debut feature Down Terrace and some of his TV work. “You don’t shoot much so there’s not much to cut, it’s only in film that it becomes an epic marathon of editing.”
Starring Neil Maskell, Joe Cole, Charles Dance, Hayley Squires, and Sam Riley, the production had an 11-day shoot on the Isle of Portland on the southwest coast of England in January this year. It was produced through Wheatley’s company Rook Films with his producing collaborator Andy Starke and went straight into the editing suit after wrap.
from move Euphoria
in the 80ties
 
 
from a review  of That Good Night
The most immersive scenes are those between Hurt and Charles Dance, the latter playing a Bergmanesque doctor (referred to only as “The Visitor” in the end credits). Dance obviously owns the role, and the writing shines in their scenes together – unfolding like the dark dialogues between Death and Antonious in The Seventh Seal. There’s an alluring sense of mystery shrouding The Visitor and we’re never sure who he is, where he’s come from, or even whether he’s real or not. He’s just there to advise.
Some of the other performances aren’t especially inspiring..........
That Good Night has some charm sticking to the story and its characters, but floats through a lukewarm experience. It’s like watching a high-brow soap opera. It falls into the classic anti-cinematic traps laid by countless other theatre-to-film adaptations that have nothing new to state. Careless direction and clunky writing don’t help either.
 

vendredi 9 mars 2018

February 2018 - Charles Dance - news

...... young things from the world of British cinema flocked to Bourdon House in Mayfair for the annual Dylan Jones X Alfred Dunhill pre-BAFTA dinner. A glittering affair hosted by Jones and Dunhill CEO Andrew Maag, those in attendance included Charles Dance, Mark Strong, Taron Egerton and Matt Smith, and between them they proved that the black tie dress code has never been easier to master with style.
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/

....Charles Dance was so impressed with former Royal Engineer Bomb Disposal expert Matt Weston who lost three limbs on an operation in Helmand, that he acted in his first short film ' For Love of Words' which will be shown at the November exhibition and attended by Dance himself."
 Art in the Aftermath opens at La Galleria on Pallmall on November 4, 2018 and will run until November 18.
 

January 2018 - Charles Dance - News

 
The Big Fat Quiz Of Everything - 2018 Special CC
 
The HBO fantasy series serves as the inspiration for a set of 15 new first class stamps to “mark the significant British contribution to the production” of the award-winning drama.
According to Royal Mail, “the stamps depict photographic representations of central characters from across all seven seasons in the Game of Thrones series. Each stamp is centred on an individual character and features a montage of images from the series. The result is a set of ten bespoke images that embody the crux of each character’s story.”
                         
actor Stephen Mangan
Based on a web series starring Lisa Kudrow that later moved to Showtime, it stars Mangan as an online psychiatrist. Since most of the action consists of Skype conversations, without lengthy camera set-ups and lighting changes, he was able to indulge his passion for improvisation, and also invite a roster of impressive co-stars to take part. “Richard E Grant plays my therapist. He’s in every episode but we shot all his scenes in one morning. My parents are Charles Dance and Celia Imrie, my sister is Jessica Hynes, Katharine Parkinson is my wife…”
David Tennant, Jessica Hynes and Charles Dance have joined the cast of Stephen Mangan’s new therapy comedy Hang Ups.
 
Mr Dance described how he worked in an early expresso bar in the South West, went to art school, and worked as stagehand and dresser. He combined working as a labourer with learning Shakespeare as he was completing acting training.
“I was sat there on a building site with the complete works of Shakespeare, and people would say “what are you reading Charlie” and I would say just a book,” he said.
His said he landed his first role in a Welsh regional theatre through “supreme confidence and arrogance” after seeing an advert in the Stage newspaper. Actors need a “hide like a rhino”, he told the audience.
Professor Janice Kay CBE, Provost at the University of Exeter, who hosted the event, said:
We were delighted that Charles Dance, one of the cherished cast-list of British actors, was able to join us for our inaugural event which was fully booked in less than 24 hours. His candid comments on 35 years in the performing arts held his audience captivated and provided invaluable insight for students and academics alike’.
  
 
The actors Derek Jacobi, Maureen Lipman, Charles Dance and Pearl Mackie gave readings at the service
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Seven decades after the BBC journalist Richard Dimbleby’s haunting dispatch from Bergen-Belsen, his words held undiminished horror as they were played at a London service to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Hundreds of survivors of the Holocaust and subsequent genocides, and their relatives, gathered to pay tribute to the millions who died. The broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby said his father’s report was the first most people knew of the Holocaust.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/tributes-paid-victims-holocaust-memorial-day
Highlights from the UK Commemorative Ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day 2018  

Charles Dance, Hayley Squires, Sam Riley, Neil Maskell and Joe Cole are among the cast of Ben Wheatley’s latest project, purportedly titled Colin You Anus, which wrapped an 11-day shoot on Sunday (Jan 11).
The film is being made through Wheatley’s company Rook Films with his producing collaborator Andy Starke. Following wrap, the project has moved straight into the editing suite.
The team are keeping plot details under wraps while they process the material following the rapid shoot.
https://www.screendaily.com/news/charles-dance-hayley-squires-sam-riley-wrap-mystery-ben-wheat