British actor says he agrees with Stephen Fry's open letter to David Cameron and the International Olympic Committee
Actor Rupert Everett has joined Stephen Fry in urging the prime minister, David Cameron, to orchestrate a boycott of the Sochi Winter Olympics in protest at Russian anti-gay laws banning the "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations".
Everett said he agreed "absolutely" with an open letter from the broadcaster and writer urging Britain to boycott the Winter Olympics.
"It feels terrible to have to observe all this stuff going on," said Everett. "If you are gay in Russia you don't know anything about anything. You have no idea Aids exists because there's no information. You live very secretly. If anyone finds out you are gay you are liable to be beaten up, or killed, or forced to commit suicide."
Everett was speaking at the Edinburgh international book festival about his memoir, in...
Actor Rupert Everett has joined Stephen Fry in urging the prime minister, David Cameron, to orchestrate a boycott of the Sochi Winter Olympics in protest at Russian anti-gay laws banning the "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations".
Everett said he agreed "absolutely" with an open letter from the broadcaster and writer urging Britain to boycott the Winter Olympics.
"It feels terrible to have to observe all this stuff going on," said Everett. "If you are gay in Russia you don't know anything about anything. You have no idea Aids exists because there's no information. You live very secretly. If anyone finds out you are gay you are liable to be beaten up, or killed, or forced to commit suicide."
Everett was speaking at the Edinburgh international book festival about his memoir, in...
- 8/19/2013
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
I've found myself extremely distracted this morning. The cause: this gorgeous sizzle reel put together by BBC for their upcoming drama offerings, which include Accused, Aurelio Zen, Christopher and His Kind, The Crimson Petal and the White, Doctor Who Christmas Special, The First Men in the Moon, Hattie, Lip Service, The Nativity, Outcasts, The Shadow Line, Silk, Single Father, The Song of Lunch, South Riding, Toast, Upstairs Downstairs, When Harvey Met Bob, and Women in Love. (Whew.) Look for cameos from Matt Smith, David Tennant, and Christopher Eccleston, which must be the first time the three most recent actors playing the Doctor have appeared in anything together. Even if it is just a sizzle reel. You can view Auntie Beeb's slick and provocative reel below. Just be forewarned: you'll probably want to watch it again and again. Meanwhile, the Beeb also announced upcoming dramas from Sam Mendes, Jane Campion, and Sir David Hare.
- 10/1/2010
- by Jace
- Televisionary
Roman Polanski's The Ghost is the latest in a very long line of fictionalised Tonys. What does this obsession say about us?
The Ghost's Adam Lang is at least the 20th version of Tony Blair to hit the big and small screen. The stage has also given life to a troupe of Tonys – many fathered by David Hare – and there's a legion of literary equivalents, most memorably Sue Townsend's transvestite Tony. He must be the most fictionalised prime minister in British history. I don't know what the collective noun for Tony Blairs might be – an Iraq? a grin? – but we clearly need one.
Some of these screen versions are Actual Tonys and appear in the kind of dramas that claim to be based on fact but admit that some things have been made up. They are often played by Michael Sheen, who is set to do his...
The Ghost's Adam Lang is at least the 20th version of Tony Blair to hit the big and small screen. The stage has also given life to a troupe of Tonys – many fathered by David Hare – and there's a legion of literary equivalents, most memorably Sue Townsend's transvestite Tony. He must be the most fictionalised prime minister in British history. I don't know what the collective noun for Tony Blairs might be – an Iraq? a grin? – but we clearly need one.
Some of these screen versions are Actual Tonys and appear in the kind of dramas that claim to be based on fact but admit that some things have been made up. They are often played by Michael Sheen, who is set to do his...
- 4/16/2010
- by Steven Fielding
- The Guardian - Film News
A starring role opposite Morgan Freeman is a deserved Hollywood break for British actor Adjoa Andoh. She talks to Kate Kellaway
The audition for Nelson Mandela's chief of staff in Clint Eastwood's new film Invictus was down to three actors – two South Africans and a British Ghanaian – Adjoa Andoh. When she got the call – "Mr Eastwood wants you" – she danced for joy round her living room in south London. Andoh could not be more deserving of this breakthrough into Hollywood. She is one of our most talented yet unsung black actors. She was Condoleezza Rice in David Hare's Stuff Happens at the National Theatre. She's had lead roles at the Almeida and the Royal Court. She's even been in Doctor Who…
In Invictus she is wonderful opposite Morgan Freeman's Nelson Mandela. The film's opening is timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Mandela's release.
The audition for Nelson Mandela's chief of staff in Clint Eastwood's new film Invictus was down to three actors – two South Africans and a British Ghanaian – Adjoa Andoh. When she got the call – "Mr Eastwood wants you" – she danced for joy round her living room in south London. Andoh could not be more deserving of this breakthrough into Hollywood. She is one of our most talented yet unsung black actors. She was Condoleezza Rice in David Hare's Stuff Happens at the National Theatre. She's had lead roles at the Almeida and the Royal Court. She's even been in Doctor Who…
In Invictus she is wonderful opposite Morgan Freeman's Nelson Mandela. The film's opening is timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Mandela's release.
- 1/24/2010
- by Kate Kellaway
- The Guardian - Film News
I know, I know, you've hardly woken up after the King's Speech and you're still recovering from the Doctor Who Christmas Special (Florence Welch – the best doctor ever). But let's do a bit of time-travelling of our own, back across the past decade in the arts, way back to Copenhagen at the end of 2009. Remember the climate-change conference? If it yielded little else, at least it gave us David Hare's The Green Machine. His one-man, real-time, tour-de-force staging of the final 36 hours of the conference, playing 14 heads of state (with his quiff as his only prop), was performed once only, thank God, and has gone down in theatrical legend. Were you one of the seven people said to have stayed awake until the word-for-word recreation of the 4.30am treaty ratification? Bravo!
- 12/27/2009
- The Independent - Film
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