Berlin Station co-star, Richard Jenkins, carries mens' shoes in series scene..
NEWS Berlin Station:
NEWS: Lucas North/Spooks mentioned in Princeton, NJ, USA newspaper:
New RA Voiceover - "For the first time evah..search Sky Q"
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Showing posts with label Lucas Videos. Show all posts
March 29, 2016
RichardArmitage: New Voiceover + On Location April in Spain(see link) + Princeton,NJ Newspaper Highlights Lucas North/Spooks(see link) + Final 25 Days of Berlin Station Have Begun
June 26, 2015
Richard Armitage: Wharton Quoted as Saying of Mr Royall "he's the book" + Received Saturn Award 2015
QUOTE: The Divided Conflict
of Edith Wharton's Summer
by CAROL WERSHOVEN -- WHEN Bernard Berenson complimented Edith Wharton on her latest
novel, Summer, and expressed admiration for its predominant male
character, Lawyer Royall, Wharton replied, "of course he's the book."l
Wharton's statement has been largely ignored by critics who view the book
as Charity Royall's story, and who classify Lawyer Royall as an old windbag,
a pompous drunkard, or worse. 2 The popular interpretation ignores not only
Royall's central position in the plot, but Royall's central role in the novel's subtle
and unfolding themes. For Summer is not just Wharton's variation on the
old seduced-and-abandoned theme; it is a story of two protagonists, both of
whom must come to terms with their destructive illusions in order to lead adult
lives.
The ability to "look life in the face, "3 to confront reality without flinching
or evasion, was, for Wharton, an essential quality in mature conduct. She
repeatedly traced the conflicts of characters faced with the choice of escape
through evasion or a more painful but adult recognition of things as they are.
In the majority of her novels, Wharton chronicles this conflict through the use
of an outsider heroine, one who exposes the reality ofsituation and selfin confrontation
with a weak male. This male figure, unable to face the truths the
heroine reveals, rejects her. Such is the pattern of Ellen Olenska and Newland
Archer in The Age of Innocence, of Lily Bart and Selden in The House of
Mirth, as well as of Wharton's lesser known novels. 4 What is unusual about
Summer is, as Wharton herself noted, that a man, Royall, is at the center of
the book, that the conflict between suffocating illusions and painful but
liberating reality is not expressed through Wharton's customary plot structure.
Thanks to www.richardarmitagecentral.com for making available a translation of a Polish interview with RA. He was asked about playing Francis Dolarhyde on 'Hannibal' Following is a quote from that interview(see link below)
"I think in fact 'Red Dragon' is a tragic love story....I've never played such a character and I will not ever again"
Following from fan Abby - adorable! Do a search to learn origins of the flowered crown meme...
See Poldark, ep 2 on PBS this Sunday...
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlmahs/index.htm
September 1, 2014
Richard Armitage: Taste of RA's Preferred Listening--American Composer David Darling + September = Fall back, Spring forward
During today's Old Vic Conversation with RA, he said he listens to American composer and cellist David Darling when preparing for Proctor performance:
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RA said to his Twitter followers "you take my breath away"
'Autumn' by Winslow Homer
November 22, 2012
Photos:Thorin's Stylish Return to Middle Earth;D + RAcycled Leather?(See poll & pics) + New THE HOBBIT VidBlog:#9 from Director Peter Jackson + Thorin the Point Man(my view;) on Air NZ Hobbit Aircraft + New Photo from Spanish Mag(see link to interview translation) + New Richard Armitage, The Hobbit Interview
A new photo taken at NZ airport yesterday, triggered the thought of the possibility of some recycled former chaRActer wardrobe items? e.g. the leather jacket--might it be one of the following looking even better than in past production?;D
What's your opinion?(see poll)
Lucas North posing as courier in Spooks8..
John Porter's leather jacket in Strike Back:
Biker Ricky Deeming:
The Photo:
Is below the same denim shirt as above? (See poll)
Excerpt from yet another interview. Translation provided at
www.richrdarmitageonline.com website:
QUESTION: What did you do during the casting process to impress Peter Jackson..in getting the role of Thorin Oakenshield?
REPLY:..The scene I had to play had been specially written for the casting. It was extremely
well crafted since it showed different aspects of Thorin's
qualities to explain what the story would be like. I had the chance to spend about two hours
with Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens to perform the whole scene for the first
time after which I did it a second time when they gave me some new information. As it turns
out, the day we met I'd finished shooting a show and had hurt my back pretty badly during a
stunt that very morning! Since the bruising was extremely painful I had had to take a strong
dose of pills to put up with it and be able to attend the audition. In retrospect, I tell myself
that the way I had to deal with my pain that day brought me closer to Thorin, who had to
internalise very painful aspects of his life. Things went really well with Peter, Fran and
Philippa in that little room that day. They liked what I did and they chose me, which was a
real surprise..never expected to be picked to play a warrior dwarf!
[laughs.]
What are Thorin's defects and qualities? And what's his relationship like with his nephews
Fili and Kili and with the rest of the Dwarves and Bilbo?
Thorin is a truly interesting character. When he's introduced in the film, we learn he's
carrying a very heavy burden on his shoulders. He's Prince of the Kingdom of Durin and must
avenge the disappearance and death of his grandfather and his father, the King. His mission
is to recover his kingdom. He has got very little time to accomplish this huge task and this
great responsibility rests only on his shoulders. If he fails and dies, his family's entire royal
bloodline will be dispossessed forever and disappear with him. The vital importance of his
mission and the tension it creates in him has repercussions with his relationship with the
other characters. When Gandalf asks him to let Bilbo join the team he's gathered, Thorin's
furious because he thinks the Hobbit will be the weakest link of the group and will put
everyone at risk. If Bilbo is a source of anxiety, irritation and animosity at the beginning of
the journey, the rapport between Thorin and him will evolve in a positive way over the
three films until they get to trust and respect each other. As regards his personal story,
Thorin became Thorin Oakenshield after fighting bravely by his late uncle's side. After their
father's death, Thorin's nephews Kili and Fili have grown very attached to him and,
therefore, Thorin has become their paternal role model. Likewise, Thorin's very fond of Kili
and Fili. He knows they've never been to the mountains, that they've never fought against a
dragon or seen their homeland after Durin's people were chased away, but he's indulgent
with them. The way his nephews view the unfolding of the journey is very optimistic and
innocent. Thorin will therefore protect them during this quest and watch over them to makesure their integration to the group of warriors is a smooth one and that they can help
recover that which is theirs: their family's kingdom.
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QUESTION:Considering your character has also got a kingdom to recover, could it be said Thorin is
“the Aragorn of the dwarf people” in The Hobbit?
REPLY: There is indeed this similarity between both characters, but Thorin is a lot tougher than
Aragorn. He's cantankerous and often cross... I found this characteristic interesting and, at
the beginning, it was a bit hard for me to determine where it sprang from. I'd say this surly
and aggressive side is something all the warrior dwarves share, but Thorin, on top of that,
can't stand the thought that he's been stripped of his kingdom in such a violent way. In
addition, he's suffered the loss of his rank in the dwarf society, going from the privileged
status of a royal family member to that of a wandering warrior. He's ashamed of such a
decline... He believes that if he confides in anyone, he'll be robbed. That's why he refuses to
reveal to anyone the details of his quest and never shows them the itinerary he's drawn on
his map. At first, Thorin also displays rather nasty behaviour.
..Armitage, who is doing the interview while in New York at the height of Hurricane Sandy – "I haven't got any power or water but I've got a phone line" – is best known to Kiwis for his risk-taking heroic roles in television's Spooks and Strike Back. He's done a small number of movies, including a part in Captain America: The First Avenger.
Armitage first heard about The Hobbit after Sir Peter Jackson contacted the actor's agent. Jackson asked if Armitage could read for the part of Thorin. "I thought, first of all, I'm six foot two [1.8 metres] and Thorin's an old guy. Maybe they want me to read it for a general audition.
"But then when I read what they'd done with the audition speech I realised that they were looking for something quite different. They needed someone who could play a warrior, who could play a young Thorin and old Thorin and also to bring the idea of somebody who could return to his full potential to become a king. That's when I sat down with Peter and we talked through the journey and the arc of the character – and then they offered it to me. I had to pick myself up off the floor."
Sir Guy shares some Thorin character qualities - they both felt their families received unjust treatment with loss of ancestral lands. Both are growling machines extraordinaire. The actor playing Thorin mentioned in the past that Sir Guy felt himself "quite majestic" and of course, Thorin is King under the Mountain.
Today's high budget films need every type of excitement they can possibly attract in order to warrant their high production costs and render profit. Therefore without further ado;D..
January 21, 2012
Richard Armitage on List of Top 10 Actors w/Smoothest Voices(see link) + Commenters Speculate re Panther, Tiger or Domestic Cat? + RA Youtube Channel(link below) + A Tail of Two Movies - Is it a CATastrophe?(see vid) + Richard Armitage: Interview Guy 2
EXCERPT: 9. Richard Armitage
I first had the pleasure of enjoying Armitage’s magnetic performance in BBC’s North & South (see the proposal scene below). As if his dark looks weren’t swoon-worthy enough, he’s got such a deep, breathy voice to match. No wonder he’s made voice-over work his second career, lending that golden pipes of his to narrating documentaries, audiobooks, and various radio work. I LOVE The Hobbit trailer largely because Armitage gets to sing as Thorin… I sure hope he gets a ton of lines in the movie as well.
http://flixchatter.net/2012/01/22/top-ten-favorite-actors-with-the-smoothest-voice/
Youtube has collected the over 3600 Richard Armitage videos and assigned them a channel:
2012 Oscar Nominations announced:
Indulge me--following is my huge contribution to the over 3600 RA fanvids on youtube *snort, chuckle* ;)
January 6, 2012
Vespe Tweet:"Wicked & Dark Humor" + Is It a Meal Fit for a Hobbit or Dwarfen King?(see link) + UK's Guardian Newspaper Speculates About Ending to THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN
Read tweets from bottom: EricVespeEric Vespe @
@merilyn066 They both do. Absolutely. And your boy does, too, btw. 7 Jan
@merilyn066Merilyn
@EricVespe PJ must have a wicked & dark sense of humour!
7 Jan
EricVespeEric Vespe
Before winning the Oscar for Into the West, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson wrote this song (and it's even better): http://tinyurl.com/7fabll3
Thanks for the Alert, Musa: RA’s agent returned from her holiday in NZ and describes some of her experiences including having him as a tour guide on The Hobbit set....not that we're turning green with envy:)
http://joannascarrattuabrands.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/back-from-new-zealand/
SAW IT on TWITTER:
Following restaurant review is of interest to The Hobbit devotees. The main course is Beef Wellington but that fact doesn't signal it's location is in NZ - rather it's in California. Reading the menu descriptions has caused me to ponder whether Bilbo or Thorin would feel more at home partaking of a 7-course dinner at The Hobbit:
Hobbit forming: will Peter Jackson give Tolkien's story a new ending?
The dark arts of film demanded Jackson ham up the love story in LOTR, but bringing the Necromancer – later Sauron – into The Hobbit's denouement could break the story's spell altogether
Fans of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy who have also read the original JRR Tolkien books will no doubt remember the uncomfortable moment in The Return of the King when Hugo Weaving's Elrond rocks up rather randomly at Dunharrow and starts spouting nonsense about Arwen's fate being tied inextricably to the fate of the ring. It wasn't in the book, and it wouldn't have been in the movie had Jackson and his team not been determined to give the romance between Aragorn and his elven belle more screen time in line with Hollywood convention.
Never mind, most of us thought, forgiving a film-making team that had pulled off a minor miracle in bringing Tolkien's fantasy work to the big screen at all, and managed to do so with great care and brio. I wonder if we'll be so generous if new rumours that Jackson is planning to change the end of The Hobbit turn out to have any basis in fact.
Empire online spoke recently to Benedict Cumberbatch, the Sherlock star suspected of possessing his own magic ring that requires all major Hollywood directors to cast him in their latest productions. As well as voicing the dragon Smaug and the Necromancer (who morphs into evil eye Sauron for the Lord of the Rings) in Jackson's two-part take on The Hobbit, the British actor is also in line for a turn as the major villain in JJ Abrams's Star Trek II and is currently starring as Major Stewart in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-tipped War Horse. If you don't want to know anything about his Hobbity ventures before December 2013, when second instalment There and Back Again hits cinemas, TURN AWAY NOW.
"I'm playing Smaug through motion-capture and voicing the Necromancer, which is a character in the Five Legions War or something which I'm meant to understand," Cumberbatch told Empire. "He's not actually in the original Hobbit. It's something [Peter Jackson]'s taken from Lord of the Rings that he wants to put in there."
Hang on a minute. The Necromancer at the Battle of Five Armies (which is surely what Cumberbatch is referring to here)? Tolkienistas will know that the aforementioned conflict, a five-way rumpus involving dwarves, elves, goblins, wargs and men for the treasures of Erebor, marks the denouement of The Hobbit. There is little indication in the book that it has anything much to do with Sauron, who has recently been kicked out of Mirkwood by the White Council in events we hear about from Gandalf in retrospect. The idea that the Necromancer turns up to lead a battalion of (presumably) goblins seems to come from way out of left field. It's a bit like remaking the original Star Wars trilogy and inserting the ewoks in the first movie (OK, perhaps not quite that bad).
Could Cumberbatch have got it wrong? He does seem a little confused about his Tolkien terminology, so we can only hope that befuddlement is to blame here. With so many different roles to play in 2012 and beyond, who can blame him for getting a little mixed up?
Jackson has already shown a propensity towards presenting The Hobbit in a form which allows it to segue comfortably into the Lord of the Rings, and there's not much wrong with that. After all, Tolkien himself revised his earlier book after delving into deeper, darker territory in its three-part sequel. Few have complained that Galadriel, Saruman and even Legolas are due to appear in The Hobbit, since the book's background events offer Jackson some licence to include them, but allowing the Necromancer to play a major role in the film project's finale seems to me a step too far.
The Hobbit's major villain is Smaug, and nothing should be allowed to undermine that. The mean old worm may be an evil brute with a heart of frozen, inky darkness, but he is unconnected to Sauron and the dark lord's more ambitious machinations. Most would be happy to see the new films prefigure the rise of evil in Middle Earth, but few would expect to see the later books' villain promoted to a major antagonist before his time. By all means let's see the Necromancer get kicked out of Mirkwood, but please keep him well clear of the Lonely Mountain. Mordor is, after all, rather a long way south.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2012/jan/06/the-hobbit-peter-jackson-ending
Correct answer to recent poll question "which one is not RAspeak?":
11% answered correctly that "Leather love" is not a generally accepted RA fan terminology rather the most often used term is 'glove love'.
Meanings of the other mentioned RAspeak abbreviations etc are..
TDHCMO = tall dark handsome cotton mill owner
6 Little words refers to specific words used in a 'Between the Sheets' scene
TOC = Tongue of Concentration
October 30, 2011
Embedded Reporter Eric Tweets First Story(see below link) + RACentral Focuses on Ricky Deeming Role + RAppy HALLOWEEN - The Challenge of Finding Spooky RA Pix *few & far between* :)
Man of the feet and roving reporter for The Hobbit on location,
Eric Vespe, has posted following pic of the view from his home in NZ
http://yfrog.com/esk3qmrj
Tweet by: Eric Vespe
Leaving for the next location. Not sure what my internet situation will be for the next week, but life finds a way. :) 29 Oct
UPDATE: Eric's first report from The Hobbit on location at Hobbiton
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/51787
RA Central focuses on the Ricky Deeming role...
http://richardarmitagecentral.co.uk/RichardArmitageCentral/Career%20George%20Gently.html
Evil drug dealer John Mulligan...
Hope the nice bedtime storyman kept bad dreams at bay for our nightmare prone fav spy
Oh well, apparently time to get up anyway...
Don't all halloweeners want candy as their treat...
New Chris Evans movie..RA introduced me..had never heard of Chris before Capt America. This one looks hilarious...great rom-com premise...
It's an RA maze...everywhere I turn leads back to a connection of some sort. Co-star of the above Chris Evans film tries to snag Martin Freeman's character by feigning a British accent *chuckles* which morphs into Liza Doolittle later in the evening - she starts quoting My Fair Lady song lyrics...
The Red Priestess, from GRR Martin's Game of Thrones, would enjoy staying at...
http://www.borthwickcastle.com/bedchambers.html
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