Showing posts with label The Hobbit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Hobbit. Show all posts
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October 18, 2015
Richard Armitage:RA Discusses Thorin's Death Scene + All 3 Urban LeedsFF Showings,Sold Out! + Stanley Weber Interview Excerpt + Art Appreciation Monday
French actor Stanley Weber plays a Cistercian monk in one of RA's recent movies titled Pilgrimage. In a recent interview Stanley made following comments:
He plays a monk who travels to an Irish monastery after being sent by the Pope. A group of monks plan to deliver a sacred relic - a stone used to kill St Mathias - to Rome. The journey through Gaelic lands is very dangerous, therefore the monk makes a deal for security with a Norman lord. RA plays the Norman knight Godfrey's son Raymond de Merville. The latter chases the group in order to retrieve the relic. Weber said it starts as a movie about religion and faith and transforms into an adventure.
Nov 8th viewing (shown above) is sold out as well!
Following examples of Thorin fanart are very similar to the real thing above
Above and below Thorin fanart: Found on x-celebril-x.deviantart.com
December 4, 2014
Richard Armitage:New Interview When "will produce movie" First Mentioned + Brazil Soccer Selfie + Yesterday's Twitter Interview Provided by www.richardarmitagenet.com(see link/excerpts) + Paris Hobbit 3 Premiere
Proving boys will be boys:) and that's what we love about them - a recent gift of Brazil soccer shirt turned almost instantly into a selfie posted on Twitter:)
Recent interview excerpt:
Q : Who is your favourite fictional character of all time and why ? #AskThorin
A : Gollum ! One of my teachers imitated him as well as Andy Serkis #Ask
Thorin
*He was also photobombed by Gollum in edition of EW:
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Q : I See Fire or The Last Goodbye ? #AskThorin
A : I see Fire #AskThorin
Off to The Hobbit:Battle of the Five Armies Worldwide Premieres..
Yesterday's Twitter interview:http://www.richardarmitagenet.com/images/articlescans/WarnerBrosFrance-twitterQandA-4Dec14.pdf
Q : Last played song on your iPod ? #AskThorin
A : One moment, I’ll check… “Pompeï” by @bastilledan (Bastille) #AskThorin
Not the same one - it doesn't have a fanvid & this music is powerful:
November 26, 2014
Richard Armitage:Link to Warner Bros BOTFA Countdown Clock + Ireland Radio Interview + New BOTFA Promotion Photos + The Times Interview(excerpt) + Best Leading Actor Award for The Crucible + Hobbit Press Tour Begins..one last time + Happy Thanksgiving USA +RA Nails Thorin Says whatculture.com Website
This is the photo Warner Bros is using as background for the Countdown Clock (link below)Dec 1, London premiere of The Hobbit:Battle of the Five Armies
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At 43, Richard Armitage thinks he’s too old to be a pin-up. Fans who have seen his brooding John Proctor on stage and his handsome Thorin in The Hobbit might disagree, says Ed Potton
What do Adolf Hitler, Alex Salmond, Richard III and Iron Maiden have in common? No, they’re not guests at Piers Morgan’s fantasy dinner party. They are all inspirations for Richard Armitage’s portrayal of Thorin Oakenshield, the exiled dwarf king in Peter Jackson’s blockbusting Hobbit trilogy.
We already knew that Armitage was an intense, visceral actor, with a strong scent of The Method about him, a gutton for authenticity....
...the 43-year-old Armitage is also a practitioner of a technique that you might call “mixtape method acting”. Before he plays a role he compiles a selection of music that helps him get into character. So what was on the Thorin playlist? “Philip Glass, some Iron Maiden, Arvo Pärt, Kings of Leon,” he says. A combination of melancholic, fierce and hairy — sounds about right.
...the 43-year-old Armitage is also a practitioner of a technique that you might call “mixtape method acting”. Before he plays a role he compiles a selection of music that helps him get into character. So what was on the Thorin playlist? “Philip Glass, some Iron Maiden, Arvo Pärt, Kings of Leon,” he says. A combination of melancholic, fierce and hairy — sounds about right.
Armitage is more affable than Oakenshield, less fierce and hairy and, at 6ft 3in, considerably taller. His height, he says, often surprises those expecting someone of dwarven dimensions. Many of the people who saw his much-praised performance in The Crucible “were shocked that I was about a foot taller than the rest of the cast. They thought were going to see a little person toddling around the stage.” roadway World Website - West End Awards:
Best Featured Actress in a New Production of a Play - Samantha Colley - The Crucible
Best Leading Actress in a New Production of a Play - Anna Madeley - The Crucible and Gillian Anderson - A Streetcar Named Desire - The Young Vic http://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/BWWUK-Awards-2014-MISS-SAIGON-Sweeps-The-Board-20141127
Thorin Oakenshield – Richard Armitage
New Line Cinema
Thorin is the most important dwarf character in Middle Earth. Gimli may have been a key member of the fellowship but it is Thorin who leads the quest to reclaim Erebor, a quest that enlists Bilbo Baggins, who in turn discovers the one ring. The rest is history. The film adaptations needed an actor who captures his nobility, commanding presence and arrogance and Richard Armitage certainly met those requirements.
Thorin’s ability to lead the Fellowship, to stand head to head with Elrond and demand the respect of Gandalf is unquestionable. In the films he comes across as a dwarf with the weight of the world on his shoulders; in fact the guilt and despair over the destruction of Erebor is perhaps more keenly felt in Armitage’s Thorin than it is in the books. There is also a dangerous and selfish edge to him too; he carries the arrogance of his forefathers and his obsession to find the Arkenstone and restore his kingdom should make for an interesting final act in next month’s film.
While some of the dwarves remain somewhat forgettable in the large mix of characters, Thorin stands out as the key that holds everything together.
http://whatculture.com/film/11-characters-the-hobbit-trilogy-nailed.php/8http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201412
October 13, 2014
Richard Armitage:Lego Sized Hobbit Movie(apparently dwarves were just not compact enough;) + Sleepwalker's Dr White Takes a Selfie + Costume Designer + Director's (Digital Theatre) Blog (see link) + Screencaps The Crucible, Sleepwalker + Photo of Ahna O'Reilly on Sleepwalker Set + Explains Screening of The Crucible at Theatres in Dec
Affirmative action for females enforced at this blog;D Bada$$ Taureal:
An exciting aspect to following RA interview was the fact the vintage leather chair belonging to set apparently found:
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Along with the above selfie, RA mentioned Sleepwalker's costume designer - Bic Owen of John Varvatos. How's this for strong resemblance to the Scott White look:
BLOG: Read the director of Digial Theatre's concept for The Crucible..
New from The Hobbit BOTFA..2015 Calendar..
Dr Scott White is a very mysterious, elusive man..director not shining much light(literally) on RA's Sleepwalker character..
RA's most recent leading lady, Ahna O'Reilly, on set at 3am for current filming of Sleepwalker movie.. Follow on twitter @ahnaoreilly
Daily dosage of Outlander..
http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?forum=holmes&url=%2Fholmes%2F&path=%2Fholmes%2F&terms=yorkshire&boolean=AND&startnum=1
http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.northumberland/3092/mb.ashx
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3071795&id=I587616185
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
September 30, 2014
Richard Armitage:RA Wins Audible's Voice Crush Competition + New Crucible Pic from Digital Theatre + Time to Vote--See Link + New Interview Courtesy of www.richardarmitagenet.com
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New behind-the-scenes pic of #RichardArmitage in #TheCrucible from @DigitalTheatre email newsletter.
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TIME to VOTE: As of today, RA has 25% for best actor in a play and Yael has 22%, best director:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/vote2014region.cfm
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http://www.richardarmitagenet.com/images/articlescans/IntotheStorm/Episodi-Sept2014.pdf
In addtion to Into the Storm and The Hobbit, Richard Armitage has acted in Captain
America and even in one of the Star Wars films. He is not deliberately looking for effect
movies, though.
- I like to work without visual effects. I like filming where there is a feel of reality. The water
and wind machines in Into the Storm created realism. It fascinated me that the movie dealt
with something as topical but as commonplace as the weather, of which we are constantly
talking about and trying to document. The news on TV about the climate are largely made
up of material that people have filmed with their mobile phones.
He also wanted to distance himself from his previous project.
- I was finishing The Hobbit and looking for the next project. After playing a dwarf I wanted
to have a normal-sized role. After a fantasy, I longed for something more realistic and
closer to today. Warner Bros introduced various movies to me, and this movie was so
different from The Hobbit. That made me decide on this movie, Armitage says.
- I flew to Detroit right away, after finishing with The Hobbit. I had about 12 hours to get
used to being human again.
Putting one's soul into a fantasy creature or into a human demands different kind of
background work.
- In fantasy movies, especially in one like The Hobbit where I play a character that really
doesn't exist, you can only rely on your imagination. Luckily, I was an avid reader as a
child and I have a very vivid imagination. In movies where I play a character in the
contemporary world, like in this movie an American teacher, I look for someone real to use
as a starting point. I was remembering one of my own teachers when I was young and
updating the character to the situation here and now.
One of Armitage's routines is to create a backstory to his characters.
- In the case of Gary Morris, the most important thing was his family history, what had
happened to his family. His wife is dead, which has its effects in the relationships between
the father and the sons. It means it wasn't a heroic backstory. I made him an ordinary man
with a middle-class upbringing. There really isn't anything special about him until the storm
hits his hometown. He takes his responsibilities seriously, which has created distance
between him and his children. When he has to step into the hero's boots, hopefully the
background work makes the action seem believable.
A WET JOB
The storms in the movie were created by computer, but the actors could still experience
the force of tornadoes.
- Every second of filming was wet and windy, it became a real endurance test. But it was
good to do things that way because it really felt like a huge storm was just around the
corner. The filming crew did their utmost to make the takes realistic. They were throwing in
trees from windows and tearing down ceilings above our heads, a crane was dropping
cars in front of me and items around me were yanked up in the air with cables. Steve was
concentrating on real stunts at least as much as on digital effects.
Quale had computer-genarated models of what storms would look like. However, he
wanted the actors to think of the storms as monsters chasing them rather than as realistic tornadoes. At times he intentionally kept the actors a bit in the dark in order for them to be
realistically surprised by a new turn of events when the storm arrived.
While shooting the movie, the actors didn't get the chance to enjoy the impressiveness of
the sound, though.
- We mostly heard the sound of the wind machine, but when the sirens started wailing
there was something in their sound that made your heart beat and set your mood towards
disaster, Armitage says.
For Armitage, the most difficult moment in the shooting wasn't about storms as such.
- Technically and emotionally, the hardest part to shoot was one and the same scene. In
that scene, Gary has to dive in a water pool to save his son. First, I was upside down in a
very narrow space under water. When we tried to revive the boy, we did the scene in real
time. We went over what was done in reviving a person and how long each phase would
take. It felt real and it was a very emotional scene.
SERIOUS BUT FUNNY
Gary Morris is practically the only adult in the movie who behaves correctly.
- I deliberately made him perhaps a little bit boring and serious, and when I was trying to
find out reasons for him to smile, the storm hit. But we did have a lot of fun when we were
shooting, Armitage says.
The actor is obviously not interested in comedy. Even in entertaining movies, such as The
Hobbit and Into the Storm, he is playing the most serious character.
- It's more about what's being offered to me, Armitage defends himself.
I have done a couple of episodes in the famaous British TV series The Vicar of Dibley.
That was fun and new to me. It would be nice to do something more like that.
- Often, when an actor does a role, he is being offered more of the same kind. Although I
haven't done comedy, my friends tell me I'm a really funny guy. But nobody wants to film it!
The Hobbit success hasn't made it any easier.
- You always have to fight for your roles. It's a myth that you could choose your roles after
you've had success. Even the biggest names have to fight for the roles they want. People
are expecting to see something they've seen before, and when I go to auditions, the
directors are surprised to see that I'm almost 6'3'' and not 4'11''. At least at the moment
they are.
However he knows what he would do if he could choose any project.
- Maybe I could try to do some comedy, some romantic comedy perhaps. Something
where I could, in stead of getting wet, stand on a sunny beach in shorts and t-shirt, with a
drink in my hand.
For the time being, Armitage is content with acting. But he has some plans brewing up at
the back of his mind that he would like to produce one day.
- Before that, however, I'll have to make sure that my acting career is going on strong
enough to make it possible to produce other things. Maybe I could include that in my next
Five- or Ten-Year-Plan.
Maybe you could produce your own romantic comedy?
- I'm more likely to be going on slightly gloomier paths, but you never know! Armitage laughs
Becoming Jamie Fraser...
The CW channel's 'Reign' season2 has returned....
Hilarious ep 1 review:
http://www.tv.com/shows/reign-2013/community/post/reign-season-2-episode-1-the-plague-review-141226773934/ Another reign review--EXCERPT:
All in all, Mary 2.0 is a bit of a badass, and the plague gave her so much to work with. In fact, the entire show thrives under the constant threat of horrible death. ..and despite the absence of the wonderful Henry,Reign's evolution feels a lot like Mary's: What started as an innocent show that always had potential has now grown into its own as a sexy, powerful woman. In other words, Henry would now want to have sex with Reign. Have I gone too far?
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