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London Spy: Ben Whishaw, dreamy lover/genius Ed Holcroft and sage Jim Broadbent
Aloysius J. Gleek:
THEMANFROM_BEDFORDSHIRE_BEN WHISHAW
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(When asked about his twin brother James, Whishaw tells me he “does something with finance but he’s on his own journey which I can’t go into”.)
Wonderland, May 16th 2013: Flashback Friday: Ben Whishaw – words by Matt Mueller
http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2013/05/flashback-friday-ben-whishaw/
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--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on February 06, 2016, 11:38:36 pm ---London Spy
Episode 1
"Lullaby"
"JOE" (ALEX): I work for an investment bank. It's their apartment. Security is a concern.
There's a terrace... If you want to smoke, I mean. I'm going to take a shower.
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Uhm...do you think?? :o ::)
Aloysius J. Gleek:
THECRUCIBLEINTERVIEWBEN WHISHAW
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/theaterreviews/ci_29698670/classic-stage-role-comes-calling-and-actor-ben
A classic stage role comes calling
and actor
Ben Whishaw
answers — again
by Mark Kennedy
The Associated Press
03/29/2016 10:33:04 AM EDT
Ben Whishaw, considered one of the best stage actors of his generation, is making his Broadway
debut in The Crucible, Arthur Miller's classic tale about the Salem witch trials.
(Joel Ryan — the associated press)
NEW YORK — British actor Ben Whishaw has found himself to be a magnet for important roles. They even come back every few years.
He did his first Hamlet at 16 as a schoolboy and then again at age 23 to critical acclaim in London. He played John Proctor from The Crucible at 15 — and now it has come calling again.
Whishaw, considered one of the best stage actors of his generation, is making his Broadway debut in Arthur Miller's classic tale about the Salem witch trials. He's 20 years older and sees the work differently.
"What has occurred to me is that I didn't understand the play very much," he said in his cramped dressing room in the Walter Kerr Theatre, where he makes a cup of tea.
"It's a masterpiece so you can understand one element of it but not another. So I think I understood one element of it as a 15-year-old and now as a 35-year-old you see things very differently. It's way more complicated than I remember it."
Whishaw joins an impressive cast that features Saoirse Ronan, Sophie Okonedo, Ciaran Hinds, Tavi Gevinson and Jim Norton. Dutch visionary Ivo van Hove, known for stripping down a work to its essence and using minimal props, is directing the revival, which officially opens Thursday after final previews tonight and Wednesday afternoon and evening. It is scheduled to run through July 17.
Gevinson, who plays Mary Warren, said cast members have been challenged to rethink the Miller play and have leaned on Whishaw. "I couldn't be working with an actor more attentive or thoughtful," she said.
Miller wrote the play during the witch-hunting McCarthy era, but set it during the Salem witch trials of 17th-century Massachusetts. It's about mass hysteria that begins when the daughter of the local minister falls mysteriously ill. The cause, rumor says, is witchcraft. And before the gossip has run its course, just about everyone in town is tainted.
Whishaw said that as a 15-year-old, he was absorbed by the witches and the bullying. As a 35-year-old, he's exploring the gray among the black and white. "We want to explore the mush that we all live in. John Proctor is good and bad and everything else."
It's been a busy 2½ years for Whishaw. He's starred in In the Heart of the Sea as Herman Melville, the latest 007 film Spectre as the gadget whiz Q, and had smaller parts in the films The Danish Girl and Suffragette. He even voiced Paddington Bear on film.
Whishaw's star began to rise after he was picked to play the melancholy Danish prince in Trevor Nunn's production of Hamlet at the Old Vic, just six months out of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Critics said his performance deserved to be put alongside Hamlets by Sir Laurence Olivier and Mark Rylance.
"I'm not being modest or downplaying it, but it was a lot to do with luck. I was in the right place at the right time," Whishaw said. "It's a very big thing to undertake when you're 23. I didn't really know what I was doing but it was a wonderful time."
He grew up north of London with a twin brother and parents unconnected to show business. A trip to the London Palladium to see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was his first taste of theater. He left forever changed.
"It's everything: It's the theater itself that you're in. It's the orchestra and the colors and the smell of the place," he said. "It's so unguarded, naked, real, isn't it? That's the thing that's magical."
Ben Whishaw, now appearing in
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Wednesday, 30 March 2016 http://awards.bafta.org/award/2016/television
Award Nominations
Television in 2016
Television | Leading Actor in 2016
Nominees
Idris Elba
Luther
Mark Rylance
Wolf Hall
Stephen Graham
This Is England '90
Ben Whishaw
London Spy
Television | Mini Series in 2016
Nominees
This Is England ’90
Shane Meadows, Mark Herbert, Jack Thorne, Rebekah Wray-Rogers
Doctor Foster
Mike Bartlett, Tom Vaughan, Roanna Benn, Jude Liknaitzky
The Enfield Haunting
Production Team
London Spy
Juliette Howell, Tom Rob Smith, Guy Heeley, Jakob Verbruggen
The British Academy Television Awards rewards the very best in Television broadcast on British screens during the preceding year.
The Awards in 2016 will take place on Sunday 8 May at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Public tickets for the event will go on sale at 10am on Wednesday 17 February 2016
http://www.bafta.org/television/awards/television-awards-information
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/royal-festival-hall
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visitor-info/directions-and-opening-times
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/british-academy-television-awa-96585?dt=2016-05-08
Aloysius J. Gleek:
8) 8) 8)
Obviously, congratulations to:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on March 30, 2016, 06:54:56 am ---Wednesday, 30 March 2016 http://awards.bafta.org/award/2016/television
Award Nominations
Television in 2016
Television | Leading Actor in 2016
Nominees
Ben Whishaw
London Spy
Television | Mini Series in 2016
Nominees
London Spy
Juliette Howell, Tom Rob Smith, Guy Heeley, Jakob Verbruggen
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HOWEVER--
Nothing for Jim Broadbent or Charlotte Rampling? For shame! >:(
Oh well, be pleased and grateful also for:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on March 22, 2016, 08:16:47 pm ---Tuesday, 22 March 2016 http://awards.bafta.org/award/2016/tvcraft
Award Nominations
Television Craft in 2016
Television Craft | Director - Fiction in 2016
Nominees
Jakob Verbruggen
London Spy
Television Craft | Photography And Lighting - Fiction in 2016
Nominees
London Spy
Laurie Rose
Television Craft | Sound - Fiction in 2016
Nominees
London Spy
Scott Jones Robert Brazier Joseph Stracey Ian Voigt
Television Craft | Editing - Fiction in 2016
Nominees
London Spy
Victoria Boydell
The British Academy Television Awards rewards the very best in Television broadcast on British screens during the preceding year.
The Awards in 2016 will take place on Sunday 8 May at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Public tickets for the event will go on sale at 10am on Wednesday 17 February 2016
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Aloysius J. Gleek:
TOMROBSMITH<3!BENWHISHAW@TWITTER!
03-30-2016
https://twitter.com/tomrobsmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
LAURIEROSE<3!JAKOBVERBRUGGEN@TWITTER!
03-29-2016
https://twitter.com/Laurie_Rose
GUYHEELEY<3!BENWHISHAW_AND_EVERYONE_@TWITTER!
03-30-2016
https://twitter.com/guyheeley
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on March 21, 2016, 09:31:53 pm ---LONDONSPYINTERVIEW_JIM BROADBENT
http://filmreviewonline.com/2015/11/03/london-spy-official-interview-with-jim-broadbent/
What was it about London Spy that attracted you?
Getting the script was a treat. I’d read Tom Rob Smith’s writing before, so I knew I was in for a good thriller, and that’s absolutely proved to be true. It’s a really good read so I leapt through the five episodes very quickly. I love a good strong thriller myself so it was great to be part of that.
Also, Jakob [Verbruggen] is a very engaging director who is very communicative and clearly has a great relationship with the director of photography [Laurie Rose] and they have a good positive approach, which affected the whole production.
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