by admin | Dec 15, 2014 | current-work
The first episode of Intruders, is chilling, eerie and unsettling. Most of all, I didn’t much notice your American accent. That’s the litmus test. I didn’t want people watching me and thinking, “Is John Simm doing a good job as an ex-LAPD cop...
by admin | Dec 15, 2014 | current-work
He’s the cheeky demagogue who’s stoking the new anti-politics mood. And now he’s found God. Esquire Weekly goes head to head with the comedian who wants to change everything Russell Brand, with his Made In America teeth and staggering charisma, is an unlikely...
by admin | Oct 31, 2014 | current-work
October 31 2014: The Mr Turner actor reveals what it was like to play the ‘difficult’ Turner and how his wife helped him beat cancer Hanging in the National Portrait Gallery is a painting of Timothy Spall. His hands are thrust deep in his pockets. He is...
by admin | Sep 14, 2014 | current-work
September 14 2014: Four years after their last outing, comedy’s oddest couple are back – as stars of an exhibition featuring photos taken by Dave Brown, better known as Bollo the gorilla… In the four years since the Mighty Boosh performed...
by admin | Apr 26, 2014 | current-work
One of the most versatile actors of his generation, Rafe Spall discusses the pros and cons of his father Timothy being a national treasure, and claims that failing his drama GCSE was just a bump in the road I grew up in a big house in Honor Oak Park in south-east...
by admin | Apr 26, 2014 | current-work
Whether he’s in the Scottish play or zombie-slaying, David Morrissey says, timing and rhythm are crucial to holding together the entire production For an actor, timing and rhythm are all about the writing. With Shakespeare it’s about iambic pentameter; we...
by admin | Apr 26, 2014 | current-work
Despite enjoying filming the new Richard Curtis movie in Cornwall, Bill Nighy feels more at home at a London café. But wouldn’t he be suave and relaxed anywhere? Sitting with Bill Nighy for a few hours on the pavement outside an Italian deli in Notting...
by admin | Apr 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Sometimes Ralph Fiennes finds it hard to let go. He loved playing Charles Dickens so much in The Invisible Woman that he was reluctant to shave his beard off at the end. ‘I kept telling myself we might have to reshoot some scenes. I lived with this beard for...
by admin | Apr 26, 2014 | current-work
When Martin Freeman was shooting The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in New Zealand, his assistant Seamus decorated his Winnebago with record sleeves from the Sixties and Seventies. And when he wasn’t being Bilbo Baggins, Freeman would pop along to Slow Boat...
by admin | Apr 26, 2014 | current-work
Often when a director asks an actor if he or she can ride bareback, ski down black runs or jump out of planes without a parachute, they nod enthusiastically and panic later. When Lara Pulver was asked if she’d be happy to scuba-dive in a bikini alongside Dominic...
