Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited - interview screencaps

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Dan Stevens - Film - Hilde

Dan makes his feature film debut in Hilde, a biopic about the German singer Hildegard Knef starring Heike Makatsch. Dan plays David Cameron, her second husband. Filming began in June.
The film is based on Knef's autobiography The Gift Horse (Der geschenkte Gaul) which was published in 1970.

• Filming photos [link]
  
  
• IMDB page [link]


• Articles 1|2|3|4|5


• Photocall pictures 1|2|3|4|5|6


• Studio Babelsberg [link]

Tags: Dan Stevens, Hilde, Hildgard Knef, Heike Makatsch, David Cameron, The Gift Horse, Der geschenkte Gaul, 1970

Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited

• Interviews 1 (alternate link here)|2
  
  
• Quotes from reviews:
  
  afrotoronto.com
  "...very well performed from the likes of Goode, Atwell and Thompson..."
  
  Leonard Link
  "...I was much taken with Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder, Ben Whishaw as Sebastian Flyte, and Hayley Atwell as Sebastian's sister, Julia..."
  
  
• This is what Hayley has said about the rumours that Miramax had asked her to lose weight for the film (from philly.com):
  
  

  All's well that's Atwell
  
  British actress Hayley Atwell stopped in Philadelphia to talk with Daily News movie critic Gary Thompson about "Brideshead Revisited" (opening today) and to talk down rumors that Miramax asked her to lose weight for the role.
  
  "That was a misquote," said the actress, of reports that co-star Emma Thompson threatened to quit if producers stuck to a demand that Hayley trim a few pounds.
  
  Thompson's close inspection of Atwell's curves indicated no need to lose weight, a fact confirmed by the dozens of heads that turned to watch the shapely star traverse the Swann Lounge at the Four Seasons Hotel.
  
  Atwell, who debuted in Woody Allen's "Cassandra's Dream," said the weight-loss stories probably grew out of on-set efforts to help her fit into the period garb necessary to play Julia Flyte in "Brideshead," set in the 1930s and '40s.
  
  "They had to tape my boobs down," she said. "That was the look back then. Very long lines, slim profiles. The reason women used cigarette holders was to elongate their arms. That was the look we were going for."
  
  Allen, needless to say, placed no such restrictions on Atwell, cast in "Dream" as the object of desire who moves Ewan McGregor to murder. The role was a big break for the stage-trained Atwell (to be seen in the upcoming "The Duchess"), although the audition process was brutal.
  
  "Coming from a theater background, I like to do as much preparation for a role as possible, so you can be as relaxed and as confident as you can be, knowing you have stuff to draw from. I show up at the audition, along with every bloody actress in London, and they gave us nothing. No name, no synopsis, just five lines of dialogue. It was horrendous. I came away thinking, if this is what Hollywood is like, I'm going back to theater. I don't even smoke, but I went out and bought a pack of cigarettes straight away," Atwell said.
  
  She was stunned when her agent called a few weeks later, saying Allen wanted to meet her in New York.
  
  "I flew over, spoke with him for half an hour, and got the part."
  
  A decision seconded by the Swann lounge.

Tags: Hayley Atwell, Brideshead Revisited, film, movie, adaptation, Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Emma Thompson, Charles Ryder, Sebastian Flyte, Julia Flyte

Hayley Atwell, Ruth Wilson - Television - The Prisoner

Press release from ITV:

"...New cast members of The Prisoner include: Ruth Wilson (Jane Eyre, Capturing Mary) in the role of Number 313; Hayley Atwell (Brideshead Revisited, Mansfield Park) as Number 41-5...Ruth Wilson is a BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated actress better known for her portrayal of Jane Eyre; she also starred in [sic] Stephan Poliakoff's Capturing Mary and A Real Summer.

Hayley Atwell is soon to appear as Julia Flyte in the forthcoming movie remake of Brideshead Revisited; her previous work includes the television adaptations of The Ruby in the Smoke and The Line of Beauty, as well as Mansfield Park for ITV..."

Tags: Hayley Atwell, Ruth Wilson, The Prisoner, Jane Eyre, Capturing Mary, Brideshead Revisited, Mansfield Park, A Real Summer, Stephen Poliakoff, Julia Flyte, ITV, TV, television, remake

Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited

• Interviews 1|2|3|4
  
  
• Quotes from reviews:
  
  hollywood.com
  "...Atwell is a real find who fully explores the confused but captivated journey Julia must take..."
  
  sfstation.com
  "...Brideshead Revisited also has the benefit of an engaging, talented cast led by Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell.."



• The UK trailer can be viewed at the Telegraph [link]

Tags: Brideshead Revisited, Hayley Atwell, Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode, film, movie, adaptation

Hayley Atwell. Film - Brideshead Revisited, Film - Cassandra's Dream

While doing promotion for Brideshead Revisited Hayley and Matthew have been asked about what it was like to work with Woody Allen. Matthew was in Match Point, and Hayley was in Cassandra's Dream. Here are some quotes from them:

"He spoke to her a lot more than he did to me... I wasn't as central to the story as much as Hayley was, and he likes ladies, also..." - re. his and Hayley Atwell's experiences working with Woody Allen

"...With Woody it's just 'Say your lines and fuck off' - but he says it kindly..."

Tags: Brideshead Revisited, Hayley Atwell, Matthew Goode, Woody Allen, Match Point, Cassandra's Dream

Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited - pictures

[updated 19 March 2011]

Official website

Interview screencaps
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FoxNY interview
See it here.

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collider.com clips
See them here. Hayley is in clips 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8.

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Hayley Atwell - Film - The Duchess - trailer

A new trailer has been released, it can be viewed at Yahoo [link].

Screencaps

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Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited

• Interview from metronews.ca [link]
  
  
• Quotes from reviews:
  
  The Seattle Times
  "...the young cast is attractive and magnetic (particularly Atwell's often acidic Julia)..."
  
  New York Times
  "...Ms. Atwell, by far the best thing about the film, manages to endow Julia, always the most enigmatic figure in the story, with a credible sense of internal conflict..."
  
  The Detroit News
  "...Atwell (Cassandra's Dream) is one of the most intriguing young actresses around..."
  
  The Star Ledger
  "...Hayley Atwell, flirty and bobbed, has a lovely presence as Julia..."


Chicago Tribune
"...Thompson, Goode and Atwell make for fine screen company..."

collider.com
"...The performances are top-tier all around, with special attention paid to Thompson's sublimely icy matriarchal veneer and Atwell's stunning metamorphosis into the picture's forbidden fruit..."


• An excerpts from an interview with Matthew Goode:
  

  For love interest Julia Flyte, he said rising star Hayley Atwell ("Cassandra's Dream") "literally knocked my . . . socks off" at the audition: "In the scene, she's meant to smash Charles about the face a few times. I was expecting her to stop, but she went straight into it and started slapping me. I was like, 'Oh, my God! They should really give her the part. She's the best!' "




• A nice article about a preview screening in Philadelphia which Hayley attended [link]

Tags: Hayley Atwell, Brideshead Revisited, film, movie, adaptation, Julia, Julia Flyte, Matthew Goode

Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited

• A quote from a review:
  amNY
  "...Hayley Atwell brings just the right mix of sensuality and guilt to Julia Flyte..."
  
  
• Interviews 1|2|3|4
  

More about The Cinema Society screening

• Excerpts from articles about the after party:
  

  "...We checked out around midnight and happened to ride the teeny-tiny, crowded, and rather warm elevator down to the lobby with Hayley Atwell, the stunning young actress who plays Julia Flyte in the movie. The lone lady in our group chatted her up briefly about her sparkly shoes (which were gorgeous) and she was perfectly charming..."

  
  
  

  "'...The day that I got there [Castle Howard], I realized, oh, this is how rich we are,' said Hayley Atwell, who plays seductress Julia Flyte in the Julian Jarrold-directed film. 'You inhabit the space a lot easier than if you were in the studio. You have a sense of entitelment, like it's the place you grew up in, which is very different from my own...'"

  
  
  

  "...Hayley Atwell revealed that she donned an 'itchy bob' wig for the role. Also, Spanx. 'They were so restricting, and poor Julia is such a restricted character that it actually gave me a lot more to work with,' she insisted—surely one of the most high-brow justifications ever given for covert curve control. But not a bad one, come to think of it."




• Pictures 1|2|3


• Hayley wore a Maria Grachvogel dress at the screening [link]

Tags: Hayley Atwell, Brideshead Revisited, film, movie, adaptation, Julia Flyte, Cinema Society, party, Castle Howard, Julian Jarrold, Maria Grachvogel, dress

Samuel West - Equity

Sam has been elected to Equity's ruling council. Results are here.

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Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited

• An interview from MyFox New York [link]
  
  
• A short featurette from Monsters and Critics [link]
  
  
• Pictures from a screening of the film that was hosted by The Cinema Society 1|2|3|4|5|6
  

Tags: Hayley Atwell, Brideshead Revisited, film, movie, interview, featurette, pictures, The Cinema Society, New York

Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited

• Interview from the New York Daily News [link]


• 7 clips from the film are at collider.com [link]


• Excerpts from a short article about the film:
  

  "...Atwell, who got her start in film with director Woody Allen’s 2007 flick Cassandra’s Dream thoroughly enjoyed working with Academy-Award winning actress Emma Thompson. 'She's incredibly empowering and inspiring to be around,' she said.
  
  Atwell and Goode did not have any excuses for fellow Brit Amy Winehouse though... 'For people to look at her and judge her... ultimately she is an addict. She needs help,' Atwell told the Herald.
  
  'It's an alternative for the summer. We had a great time making it,' Atwell said of the film."

Tags: Hayley Atwell, Brideshead Revisited, Cassandra's Dream, Woody Allen, Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Amy Winehouse

Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited

• An interview with Matthew Goode and Hayley from boston.com [link]


• Slideshow from the New York Times. Hayley is in pictures 1 and 7 [link]


• Article about the film from the New York Times [link]

Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited

• A quote from a review:
  Newsweek
  "...Atwell is a wonderfully sensual and sharp-edged Julia, torn between her love for Charles and her religious beliefs..."


• Interview with Hayley from Dark Horizons [link]


• Pictures from a press conference held at the Four Seasons Hotel, Beverly Hills 14 July [link]

Tags: Brideshead Revisited, film, movie, Matthew Goode, Hayley Atwell, Julia, Charles

Hayley Atwell - Film - Cassandra's Dream - screencaps

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Hayley Atwell - Television - The Prisoner

From Dark Horizon's interview with Hayley:

"...Atwell: It's The Prisoner television series with Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel.

Question: Okay. Now, is this based on the original?

Atwell: Yes. It's a weird sci-fi - half of it will be based in New York, though, and the other half in this village.

Question: Is it a series, or a mini-series?

Atwell: It's a six-parter, so I don't know what they'll be doing afterwards. Because I didn't know how the original works. But - yeah. It's six parts, with ITV, but I think also America. It's being sold to a channel.

Question: And whom do you play in it?

Atwell: I play a girl called Lucy, who is the prisoner's kind of love interest, but you realize very quickly that nothing is what it seems, and she's actually working for a corporation that is responsible for this so-called village, where people are leaving their names and identity, and being called by their numbers. And then you also see Lucy in the village, and she's someone with a number this time, and she's also blind. And it's a bit of a mystery as to who she is. It's ambiguous. But it makes for exciting television..."

Tags: Hayley Atwell, Ian McKellen, Jim Caviezel, Ruth Wilson, Toby Jones, Lennie James, Mark Addy, The Prisoner, Namibia, Cape Town, ITV, TV, television

Samuel West - Theatre - The Family Reunion

From whatsonstage.com:

Samuel West (pictured) and Penelope Wilton will return to the Donmar Warehouse later this year to star in Jeremy Herrin’s revival of TS Eliot’s rarely seen 1939 verse drama The Family Reunion (See News, 18 Apr 2008). The centrepiece of the Donmar’s upcoming festival celebrating the work of the 20th-century writer, the new production runs at the Donmar’s Covent Garden home from 25 November 2008 (previews from 20 November) to 10 January 2009.

After eight years absence, Harry (West) returns to the ancestral home to celebrate his mother's birthday. Tormented by a dark secret, he confides in Aunt Agatha (Wilton) only to discover that the family too have its own hidden demons...

Herrin commented: 'It’s a play for really intelligent actors. The material is very rich and intellectually demanding but also very satisfying - the actors have to have a hunger for that.' West and Wilton, said Herrin, are 'two of the smartest actors around'...

Tags: Samuel West, Sam West, Penelope Wilton, Donmar Warehouse, Jeremy Herrin, TS Eliot, The Family Reunion, Covent Garden, theatre, theater, Harry, Aunt Agatha, Agatha

Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited

• Brideshead Revisited will open the Locarno Film Festival on 6 August [link]


• Matthew Goode and Hayley were at an advance screening, where there was a Q&A [link].

Hopefully more screenings reports will be in the blogosphere over the next week or so - Miramax has been putting on advance screenings in selected cities.


• A short article from WENN:
  

  Emma Thompson prepared for her role as a matriarch in forthcoming film Brideshead Revisited by cooking "family" meals for her co-stars.
  
  The actress plays Lady Marchmain in the new film version of the novel, and became a "mother" for the film's other actors by inviting them to her London home for dinner.
  
  Hayley Atwell, who plays Thompson's daughter Julia, says, "She would have us round to her house and we'd stand in the kitchen as she prepared these delicious Sunday roasts. It was her way of getting us all to bond as a family for the film."

  
  Speaking of food, isn't it an outrage that Miramax asked Hayley to lose weight for the film?! Emma Thompson found out and threatened to quit the film, thus saving Hayley from becoming a skinny creature. (Emma Thompson ftmfw y/y?) I think this story was initially reported in The First Post [link].



• An interview from That Indie Film Show:
  

I made some screenshots of Hayley from the film's official site [link], they should be up in a few days.

Tags: Brideshead Revisited, Locarno Film Festival, film, movie, Matthew Goode, Hayley Atwell, Emma Thompson, Lady Marchmain, Miramax

Hayley Atwell - Film - The Duchess - poster

Click the picture above to view the film's poster at comingsoon.net

Tags: Hayley Atwell, The Duchess, film, movie, poster

Dan Stevens - Theatre - Hay Fever

Reviews

BBC
"...There is some superb deadpan support from Peter Bowles as Judith's husband and Dan Stevens and Kim Medcalf as their two children..."

The Times
"Judi Dench is divine as the self-dramatising centre of Noël Coward’s narcissistic comedy, in which the aptly named Bliss family prove that hell is one’s own people. It doesn’t really matter that Dench plays an actress of a certain age, nor that Peter Bowles, as her husband, is a mediocre novelist, but their professions bring out the worst in them and their children, admirably played by Kim Medcalf and Dan Stevens..."

Links

Charles Edwards - Theatre - 2006 - Hay Fever [link]
The Theatrical Guild - Hay Fever fundraiser [link]

Tags: Hay Fever, Noel Coward, Haymarket, theatre, Charles Edwards, Judi Dench, Dan Stevens, Kim Medcalf, Peter Bowles, Belinda Lang, William Chubb, Olivia Darnley, Peter Hall

Dan Stevens - Theatre - The Romans in Britain

[updated 18 March 2011]

Reviews

musicomh
"...The [play's infamous rape] scene is still shocking, less in the nudity and more in the nonchalance of the Roman officers, as what they see as an antidote for boredom destroys the life of a young Druid (a superb Dan Stevens)..."

The Stage
"...An outstanding cast include’s [sic] Tom Mannion's cool, commanding Julius Caesar, Dan Stevens as the defiled young priest..."

Links

Sheffield Theatres press release [link]
Samuel West - Theatre - The Romans in Britain [link]

Dan Stevens - Theatre - Much Ado About Nothing

[updated 18 March 2011]

Reviews

The Times
"...for once Claudio isn’t a shallow, vindictive prig but, as played by Dan Stevens, a callow young man in genuine pain at what he regards as an abominable betrayal..."

Financial Times (p. 14, 8 July 2005, Alastair Macaulay)
"...in the perfect tone with which the near-tragic romance of Hero and Claudio is played by Olivia Darnley and Dan Stevens..."

Related link
Charles Edwards – Theatre – 2005 - Private Lives/Much Ado About Nothing

Hayley Atwell, Ruth Wilson - Television - Prisoner

From the MTV movies blog:
EXCLUSIVE: Hayley Atwell Takes Number, Joins ‘Prisoner’ Remake

Tags: Hayley Atwell, Ian McKellen, Jim Caviezel, Ruth Wilson, Toby Jones, Lennie James, Mark Addy, The Prisoner, Namibia, Cape Town, ITV, TV, television

Dan Stevens - Theatre - As You Like It

[updated 18 March 2011]


In 2005, Dan received an Ian Charleson award nomination for his portrayal of Orlando in this production.

Reviews

Curtain Up
"...[Rebecca Hall] has a natural immediacy and range that bring her character to vibrant life. It's a rare quality.
Hall is well matched by Dan Stevens whose initial rage mellows endearingly into that of a love-struck lad who writes terrible poems. Who but a poet as sure of himself as Shakespeare would have the guts to stick really bad poems in the middle of his plays?
Orlando is written as a perfectly normal kid who is late for dates and stubbornly obsessed in his passion for a girl he's seen once. Stevens captures all those qualities..."

New York Times
"...spare a few plaudits for a recent graduate of Cambridge University named Dan Stevens, who plays Rosalind's gawky, moony suitor, Orlando. Mr. Stevens tempers his teen-idol good looks with a vibrant, appropriately Shakespearean sense of how love makes fools of even the heartiest young men..."

Daily Trojan
"...Dan Stevens is delightful as the impassioned lover Orlando..."

Hollywood Reporter (10 February 2005, Ed Kaufman)
"...a fine performance by Dan Stevens..."

Variety
"...In a breezily confident professional debut, Dan Stevens' Orlando is a sweet, swooning lad whose callowness is offset by surprising strength both of physique and of character..."

Telegraph
"...Dan Stevens as an exceptionally likeable Orlando..."

LA Times
"...Stevens starts strong and grows stronger, able to be rebellious and likable, sappy and attractive at the same time..."

Interview

LA Times [link]

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Press release

Television - The Prisoner

From the Daily Mail:

"Watch out for ...
Hayley Atwell, who has been rehearsing in London with Ian McKellen, Jim Caviezel, Ruth Wilson, Toby Jones, Lennie James and Mark Addy for the new-look series of cult drama The Prisoner. Next month they all head to Namibia and Cape Town to film the six-part series for ITV. Before filming, though, Hayley will travel across the pond for the U.S. premiere of the big screen version of Brideshead Revisited, which also stars Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode and Emma Thompson..."

Tags: Hayley Atwell, Ian McKellen, Jim Caviezel, Ruth Wilson, Toby Jones, Lennie James, Mark Addy, The Prisoner, Namibia, Cape Town, ITV, TV, television

Hayley Atwell - Film - The Duchess - Toronto film festival

From Variety:

"...on the Gala red carpet are Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes for The Duchess, a Paramount Vantage biopic about Lady Georgiana Spencer, directed by Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy). Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell and Charlotte Rampling also star..."

And from the festival's official site:

The Duchess Saul Dibb, United Kingdom
International Premiere
Long before the concept existed, the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley), was the original “It Girl” -- ravishing, glamorous and adored by an entire country. Determined to be a player in the wider affairs of the world, she helped usher in sweeping changes to England as a leader of the forward-thinking Whig Party. But even as her power and popularity grew, she was haunted by the fact that the only man in England she seemingly could not seduce was her very own husband, the Duke (Ralph Fiennes). Directed by Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy, The Line of Beauty), The Duchess is the story of an extraordinary woman who rose to fame by staying true to her passions in a world of protocol, gossip and social rules – and paid the price. Academy Award™ nominees Knightley and Fiennes head an international cast that also includes Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell and Charlotte Rampling. Based on the award-winning biography Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman, The Duchess is written by Dibb, Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen. The Duchess is a Paramount Vantage presentation.

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Hayley Atwell - Film - How About You

From today's Sydney Morning Herald 'Metro' liftout:


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Samuel West - Theatre - Waste

From the Almeida press release:

Samuel West will direct Harley Granville Barker’s Waste, which runs at the Almeida from 25 September – 15 November 2008, with press night on 2 October. Designs are by Peter McKintosh with lighting by Guy Hoare and sound by John Leonard.

The cast includes Nancy Carroll (Amy O’Connell), Richard Cordery (Russell Blackborough), Patrick Drury (Justin O’Connell), Peter Eyre (Lord Charles Cantilupe), Will Keen (Henry Trebell), Helen Lindsay (Countess Mortimer/Bertha), Hugh Ross (Cyril Horsham) and Michael Thomas (George Farrant). Final casting will be announced shortly.

Radical politician Henry Trebell sees his personal and political lives collide. An affair with a married woman threatens Trebell’s power and passionate ideals; her insistence on a woman's right to choose brings private scandal into the public spotlight. Controversially banned by the Lord Chamberlain on its release, Waste is a rich portrait of early 20th Century society with strong resonances and relevance for today...

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Hayley Atwell - Audio - The Doomwood Curse

From bigfinish.com:

Doctor Who - The Doomwood Curse
CAST
Colin Baker (The Doctor), India Fisher (Charlotte Pollard), Nicky Henson (Dick Turpin), Jonathan Firth (John), Hayley Atwell (Eleanor), Trevor Cooper (Sir Ralph), Geraldine Newman (Lady Sybil), Daisy Douglas (Susan), Suzie Chard (Molly)

SYNOPSIS
Curses and tombs, revenge from beyond the grave - and Dick Turpin!

England, 1738. On the trail of a lost book, the Doctor and Charley arrive at the beautiful country estate of Sir Ralph and Lady Sybil. But all is far from idyllic. There’s a murderer on the loose, and the nearby woods are the haunt of the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin.

And that’s not all. Something else has journeyed here. Something that could destroy the very fabric of reality. The Doctor and Charley have just forty-eight hours to solve the mystery before the whole world succumbs to The Doomwood Curse.

Links
Big Finish [link]
Whotopia [link]