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Royal Paintbox | Artistry of King Charles III

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Royal Paintbox - From PBS - HRH The Prince of Wales reveals an extraordinary treasure trove of rarely seen art by members of the Royal Family past and present, exploring a colorful palette of intimate family memory and observation.

In Royal Paintbox, the Prince of Wales reveals an extraordinary treasure trove of work by his forebears, many of whom were accomplished amateur artists, and traces his family's love of art through the generations. This story is brought to the screen for the first time by award-winning film-maker Margy Kinmonth.

Set against the spectacular landscapes of the Royal Estates and with contributions from Countess Mountbatten of Burma; professional working artist Sarah Armstrong-Jones, daughter of Princess Margaret, speaking in her first ever interview on film; Royal Academy of Arts Chief Executive and Secretary Charles Saumarez Smith; Royal biographers Lady Antonia Fraser, Marina Warner, Jehanne Wake and Jane Ridley; Royal tour artists Susannah Fiennes and Warwick Fuller and Lady Roberts, Librarian at Royal Collection Trust, Royal Paintbox contains insights into The Prince of Wales's own watercolours, and other works by members of the Royal Family past and present.

Speaking about what inspires him to paint, The Prince of Wales says: "I think, you know, drawing from nature, observing from nature, is absolutely crucial. ’ve obviously been inspired by just looking. It’s usually the light, is what catches my attention. You can look at the same view over and over again and then suddenly one moment, there’s the most magical light.”

The Prince recounts how, as a teenager, the great art which lined the walls of the Royal residences in which he grew up suddenly came alive to him.

“Because when you are small you rush about, you know, pedalling or something up and down the corridors, and you notice nothing. It’s just a background. Suddenly, literally and I must have been 14 or something, suddenly all the pictures on the walls, the furniture, suddenly all came into focus. Do you know what I mean? And they had just been blurred sort of backgrounds which were just there. Then suddenly I started looking.”

The Prince of Wales takes the viewer on a journey into his family archives to reveal works of art by members of the Royal Family - including HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, the prolific work of King George III in and his children in the 18th Century, Prince Louis of Battenberg who it is said could have been a professional artist, as well as Queen Alexandra, King Edward VII, Princess Louise, Prince Rupert of The Rhine, Mary Queen of Scots - and a lino cut of a circus horse done by Her Majesty The Queen as a child.

The audience discovers in the film that Queen Victoria drew and painted thousands of sketches and watercolours during her long period of mourning following the death of her husband Prince Albert.

The film also shows how professional, contemporary artist Sarah Armstrong-Jones, the daughter of Princess Margaret, brings the Royal Paintbox story up to date with the inclusion of her paintings and drawings inspired by landscape, with an exhibition of her work at the Redfern Gallery in London.

She maintains that the family link must have helped her talent develop.

“It must come down, you know, I hope we can pass it down to the next generation.”

As an active Patron of the arts, The Prince of Wales is keen to create a record of his foreign tours that goes beyond photography. For over 25 years, The Prince has invited an artist to join the tour party at his own expense. In Australia, artist Warwick Fuller is seen at work on a new oil painting. Former tour artist Susannah Fiennes provides her perspective on the Prince’s passion for art.

“So much of the time he’s on duty and painting allows him a little time for quiet reflection and also a bit of an investigation of things at a deeper level than his whirlwind existence normally allows.”

The Prince shows a selection of the paintings he has done while abroad, and demonstrates a work-in-progress while explaining the power and appeal painting holds for him.

#museums #british #videos

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4 French Royal Mistresses Who Made Their Mark on History

From Madame de Pompadour to Jeanne du Barry, these women wielded power in pre-Revolutionary France as companion to the king.

— By Erin Blakemore | June 23, 2023

This painting of Louis XV and his last mistress Madame du Barry was finished almost a century after their deaths. Royal mistresses like du Barry had impressive power through their access to the king. PaintingBy Gyula Benczur Via Bridgeman Images

Who’s the most important woman in France? During the French monarchy, it may not have been the queen, but the king’s official mistress—the maîtresse-en-titre.

She often ruled both his heart and his political decisions. As a result, French royal mistresses reached heights of power unknown to most women of their day. Here are the stories of just four of the many mistresses who left their mark in history.

Why Were Mistresses So Powerful?

Many European royals had extramarital affairs, but in France, mistresses enjoyed both royal favor and official recognition. Many queens were foreign-born, and all royal marriages were carefully arranged alliances. This led to everything from distrust to downright animosity between kings and queens, and often kings sought affection and companionship outside royal marriages.

As historian Tracy Adams notes, women at the time were acknowledged as men’s intellectual equals, but couldn’t legally compete with kings for their thrones. Because of this inferiority, they made the best choice for political advisors, Adams says. Most French kings from Charles VI took counsel from their lovers.

French sculptor Jean Goujon made this sculpture of Diana the Huntress with Diane de Poitiers’ likeness. Photograph By Mark Fiennes/Bridgeman Images

Agnés Sorel (1422-1450)

Also known as the “lady of beauty,” Agnés Sorel is often considered the first officially recognized French royal mistress.

Born into minor nobility, she rose to lady-in-waiting to Marie d’Anjou, wife of Charles VII of France. Soon after moving into the queen’s household in 1444, Sorel began an affair with Charles, from whom she received gifts of jewels and fine clothing. Sorel and the king had three daughters who survived infancy; the king recognized all three and gave them dowries when they married.

Sorel is best known for her fashion sense—she was excoriated outside of court for her love of low-cut and even open-fronted dresses and is thought to have inspired at least one iconic “Nursing Madonna” painting—and possibly her untimely death.

A few years after her affair with Charles began, she developed a stomachache and died after great suffering. The cause of her death remained an mystery until 2005, when researchers found traces of mercury poisoning. That mercury might have been a treatment for roundworms, but others suggest she was assassinated, by political enemies or perhaps even Charles VII himself.

Agnès Sorel was interred in the Church of St. Ours, in Loches, France (seen here). Her heart was buried separately more than 200 miles away in the Benedictine Abbey of Jumièges. Photograph By Jean-Guillaume Goursat/Gamma-Rapho Via Getty Images

Diane de Poitiers (1499-1556)

de Poitiers was a young widow when she served in the court of King Francis I, impressing him with her savvy management of her late husband’s estate. Though Francis respected her, she made an even greater impression on his son, Henry. At seven years old, the prince was sent to live in Spain for more than four years as a result of his father’s loss at the Battle of Pavia. When Henry returned, de Poitiers, now in her thirties became the teenager’s lover.

Henry often wore Diane’s colors—black and white, representing both her widowhood and her namesake, the Roman moon goddess—and de Poitiers became his most trusted advisor and companion. Though banished briefly from court (accused of a plot to unseat King Francis), she returned to the court after Francis’s 1547 death.

This painting by Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard shows de Poitiers posing for sculptor Jean Goujon. Photograph Alexandre Evariste Fragonard, Via Fine Art Images/Bridgeman Images

Henry was named King Henry II, and though he had a long marriage to Catherine de’Medici that produced seven surviving children, his relationship with de Poitiers endured for decades. She arranged for the care of his children, looked after the crown jewels of France, and even wrote his letters, which she signed with the combined name “HenriDiane.”

In 1599, Henry was injured in a joust, again wearing black and white. As the king slowly died of sepsis, the queen forbade his mistress from visiting his bedside. After his death, de Poitiers lived in exile. She lived a comfortable life in her grand chateau until her death, possibly from poisoning from a gold concoction designed to maintain her youth.

Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764)

One of the most loved and most powerful royal mistresses was Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour—often known as just “Madame de Pompadour.” She came from a family far removed from royal circles—her father was a government official who fled the country after a corruption scandal, leaving her with her now penniless mother. But after a fortune teller told her she would one day become mistress to a king, she was given a private education befitting the ultimate maîtresse thanks to a friend of her father’s, whom it is speculated was actually her biological father.

Composer Wolfang Amadeus Mozart meets Madame de Pompadour at Versailles in 1763. Painting By Vicente Garcia de Parades, Via Fine Art Images/Bridgeman Images

Known as “Reinette,” or “little queen,” she moved in the world of Paris salons, sharpening her conversational skills and gaining notice for her charm. She married Charles d’Étoilles, a financier, when she was 19. In 1744, she finally made her move, attracting Louis XV’s attention by promenading in a carriage near his hunting grounds. Intrigued and in want of a new mistress, he began meeting with her.

Soon, they took the affair public: At a lavish masked ball in the Hall of Mirrors, the king allowed himself to be seen unmasked, in intimate conversation with his new, still-married mistress. The king gave her the title of Marquise of Pompadour, dispatched her husband with a position as an ambassador at a far-off embassy, and gifted her a room with a secret staircase leading to his bedchamber and a variety of chateaus and royal gifts, including the building now known as the Petit Trianon.

Despite public condemnation of her influence, she encouraged the king’s excesses, promoting his support of the arts, staging private theatricals for his amusement, and even convincing him to support a variety of Enlightenment-era luminaries, including the authors of the first French encyclopedia. Her health was poor, and the king lovingly nursed her on her deathbed, where she died at just 43 years of age.

This bust of de Pompadour was completed in 1751 when she was thirty years old. It was likely meant for her residence château de Bellevue, which was finished the same year. Sculpture By Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Via The Met

Jeanne du Barry (1743-1793)

Louis XV’s next mistress would play a part in both his reign and the downfall of the French Empire. After Pompadour’s death, Louis fell in love with Jeanne Bécu, a prostitute turned high-society courtesan who seduced him with her beauty and her reputed sexual charms despite a 33-year age difference. Refusing to have an official mistress who was not an aristocrat, the king arranged for her to marry Count Guillaume du Barry, then moved her into Versailles.

Louis’s reputed excesses on behalf of his mistress shocked all of France. He gave Madame du Barry magnificent jewels and clothing and refused her nothing, even gifting her a Bengali slave, Zamor, who acted as her personal servant. He also gifted a diamond necklace so massive the country could not afford to pay for it.

News of the necklace and other extravagances continued to rile France even after Louis XV’s death, after which du Barry was banished from court.

Revolutionaries eventually accused Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, of purchasing the necklace from a corrupt cardinal. du Barry was also swept up in the nation’s deadly revolutionary fervor when Zamor, who had endured years of her exploitative treatment, denounced her to revolutionaries for supposedly financially aiding counter-revolutionaries. She was arrested during the Reign of Terror and beheaded in front of a sneering crowd in 1793.

This bust depicts Marie-Jeanne Bécu. During her reign as official royal mistress, many portraits of du Barry were undertaken by leading artists, including French sculptor Augustin Pajou. Sculpture By Augustin Pajou, Mfah

#4 French Royal Mistresses

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~chatsworth on film~

The duchess.

Based on the book by English biographer Amanda Foreman, the 18th century Duchess was played by Keira Knightley, with Ralph Fiennes as the Duke. It also starred Charlotte Rampling. The duchess Georgiana was a source of inspiration in political campaigning, fashion and collecting. She was an early enthusiast of mineral collecting (her collection remains at Chatsworth today). She was also a friend of Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), and as a result promoted French tastes in art, dress and furniture in England. Her son William Cavendish Spencer, became the 6th Duke of Devonshire, and he added vastly to the collection at Chatsworth. His innovative thinking and partnership with Joseph Paxton developed many of Chatsworth's features that we still enjoy today.

Harvard referencing:

BookBrowse (no date) Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman: Summary and reviews, BookBrowse.com. Available at: https://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/742/georgiana-duchess-of-devonshire (Accessed: 19 September 2023).

The Duchess (no date) Chatsworth House. Available at: https://www.chatsworth.org/news-media/chatsworth-on-film/the-duchess/ (Accessed: 19 September 2023).

The Duchess: The true story of Georgiana Spencer, Lady Diana’s ancestor (2023) EnVols. Available at: https://www.en-vols.com/en/inspirations-en/culture-en/the-duchess-movie-anecdotes (Accessed: 19 September 2023).

Duffield, C. (2020) Here’s what you need to know about the real life of Georgiana Spencer, inews.co.uk. Available at: https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/the-duchess-true-story-georgiana-spencer-real-life-keira-knightley-film-552127 (Accessed: 19 September 2023).

Kantrowitz, B. (2008) Once Upon a Time, a Spencer Married Well, Not Wisely, The New York Times. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/movies/moviesspecial/07kant.html (Accessed: 19 September 2023).

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eucanthos · 2 years

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Hans Eworth (Flemish, 1520 - 1574)

Lady Dacre’s (Mary Neville) left hand detail

Mary Nevill or Neville, Baroness Dacre, and her son Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre, 1559. © National Portrait Gallery, London - wiki

Infrared reflectography reveals relatively free underdrawing in several parts of Fiennes' costume, marking out the outline and details of the costume (for example, the fur, jewels, decoration of sleeves, and slashes on Fiennes' doublet) and Fiennes' hands. - National Portrait Gallery

Eworth was an exiled Fleming active in Tudor London in the mid-16th century

#Hans Eworth #painting #Flemish #England #nobility #detail #hand #jewellery #gold

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Me: “Someone unfamiliar with PARF, explain this pic.”

Unfamiliar friend: “Bowl-cut man begrudgingly cuddles cat.”

(Photography by Michael Ulrich.)

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astrognossienne · 2 years

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What celebrities can you think of that have managed to develop their sun or reach its highest potential if that makes sense? Like how you said Betty White is one of the few developed Capricorns, do you think there are others who have done the same with their sign?

aries: lady gaga, kristen stewart, reese witherspoon, jennifer garner, selena, jessica chastain, bette davis, marvin gaye, gregory peck

taurus: malcolm x, audrey hepburn, george clooney, leonardo da vinci, elizabeth II, penelope cruz, cher, william shakespeare, daniel day-lewis, stevie wonder, orson welles, tchaikovsky, socrates, jimmy stewart, laurence olivier

gemini: lauryn hill, lenny kravitz, jfk, marilyn monroe, stevie nicks, johnny depp, prince, paul mccartney, naomi campbell, judy garland, jean-paul sartre, marquis de sade, michael j. fox, anne frank, miles davis, josephine baker

cancer: robin williams, princess diana, meryl streep, diahann carroll, prince william, elon musk, solange, dalai lama, nikola tesla, tom hanks, nelson mandela, angela merkel, mike tyson, alexander the great, frida kahlo, liv tyler, ernest hemingway, anthony bourdain, julius caesar, natalie wood, franz kafka, ringo starr, richard branson, malala yousafzai, debie harry, elizabeth warren, chris cornell, missy elliott, marcel proust, antoine de saint-exupery, cat stevens, helen keller, kawhi leonard, lena horne, michael phelps

leo: jackie kennedy, jennifer lopez, arnold schwarzenegger, robert de niro, coco chanel, kate bush, helen mirren

virgo: michael jackson, keanu reeves, mother theresa, karl lagerfeld, elizabeth I, jeremy irons, ray charles, mary shelley

libra: desmond tutu, rita hayworth, cardi b, brigitte bardot, gwen stefani, catherine deneuve, kim kardashian, oscar wilde, bruce springsteen, christopher reeve

scorpio: lisa bonet, grace kelly, vivien leigh,alain delon, pablo picasso, winona ryder, marie curie, hedy lamarr, rupaul, chloe sevigny, robert f. kennedy, carl sagan, sylvia plath, joni mitchell, anna wintour, albert camus

sagittarius: jimi hendrix, zoe kravitz, brad pitt, bruce lee, tina turner, frank sinatra, ludwig van beethoven, edith piaf, maria callas, jane birkin, adam clayton powell jr, marina abramovic, jane austen, gianni versace

capricorn: david bowie, aaliyah, betty white, dolly parton, mlk, ralph fiennes, michelle obama, francoise hardy, kate moss, sade, marlene dietrich, joan of arc, benjamin franklin

aquarius: abraham lincoln, jennifer aniston, shakira, mozart, oprah, megan thee stallion, paul newman, fdr, thomas edison, virginia woolf, kelly rowland, brandy, michael hutchence, peter gabriel, eddie van halen

pisces: sidney poitier, anais nin, albert einstein, kurt cobain, liz taylor, drew barrymore, juliette binoche, edgar cayce, jon bon jovi, johnny cash, chopin, michelangelo, nina simone, fred rogers, ruth bader ginsburg

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ilikestuff69 · 3 years

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Fancast for Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd played by Ramin Karimloo

Stuff he’s in: Phantom of the Opera, Anastasia, Les Mis

Mrs. Lovett played by Emily Blunt

Stuff she’s in: A Quiet Place, Mary Poppins Returns, Into the Woods

Judge Turpin played by Ralph Fiennes

Stuff he’s in: Harry Potter, James Bond, Schindler’s List

Beadle Bamford played by Andy Serkis

Stuff he’s in: LOTR, The Batman, Black Panther, Planet of the Apes Trilogy

Anthony played by Derek Klena

Stuff he’s in: Anastasia, Dogfight, Wicked, Jagged Little Pill

Johanna played by Saoirse Ronan

Stuff she’s in: Little Women, Lady Bird, Ammonite

Lucy/Beggar Woman played by Rebecca Ferguson

Stuff she’s in: Greatest Showman, Doctor Sleep, Dune

Pirelli played by Taika Waititi

Stuff he’s in: Thor Ragnarok, Jojo Rabbit, Free Guy

#sweeney todd #stephen sondheim #demon barber of fleet street #musicals #broadway #ramin karimloo #emily blunt #ralph fiennes #andy serkis #derek klena #saoirse ronan #rebecca ferguson #taika waititi #anastasia #phantom of the opera

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catherinesboleyn · 4 years

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Catherine of Aragon’s Ladies-In-Waiting/Maids-Of-Honor

Ladies-in-waiting:

Anne Hastings - Daughter of William Hastings and Katherine Neville. Married at 10 years old to 13 year old George Talbot, becoming Countess of Shrewsberry. The two had 11 children.

Mary Say - Daughter of Sir William Say and Elizabeth Fray. Married to Henry Bourchier.

Elizabeth Scrope - daughter of Sir Richard Scrope and Eleanor Washbourne. Married to William Beaumont.

Margaret Scrope - No info.

Elizabeth Stafford - Daughter of Edward Stafford and Eleanor Percy. Her father was executed for treason against Henry VIII. Married to Thomas Howard, making her the Duchess of Norfolk. The two had five children. In 1530, she was caught conveying letters to Catherine of Aragon, and was exiled from court the next year.

Agnes Tylney - Daughter of Hugh Tylney and Eleanor Tailboys. Married to Thomas Howard, making her the Duchess of Norfolk. The two had seven children. She was put in the tower when her step-granddaughter, Katherine Howard, was convicted for treason, but was eventually released.

Maud Green - Daughter of Sir Thomas Green and Jane Fogge. Married to Sir Thomas Parr when she was 16 years old. The two had three children, including Katherine Parr.

Elizabeth Howard - Daughter of Thomas Howard and Elizabeth Tinley. Married to Thomas Boleyn. The two had three children, including Anne Boleyn.

Margaret Pole - Daughter of George Plantagenet and Isabel Neville. Her brother, Edward, was executed in 1499 for treason against Henry VII. Married to Sir Richard Pole, the two had five children. She was executed in 1541 for treason against Henry VIII.

Joan Vaux - Daughter of Sir William Vaux and Katherine Penyston. Married to Sir Richard Guilford, the two had one child. In 1499, she was made Lady Governess to Princess Margaret and Mary. She stood for Henry VIII as a witness that Catherine of Aragon and Arthur, Prince of Wales, had consummated their marriage.

Maids-of-honor:

Dorothy Badby - No info.

Elizabeth (Bessie) Blount - Daughter of Sir John Blount and Catherine Pershall. She was mistress to Henry VIII for about eight years, and bore him an illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy. Married Gilbert Tailboys, then again to Edward Clinton. She gave birth to 7 children in her lifetime.

Gertrude Blount - Daughter of William Blount. Married to Henry Courtenay, the two had two children. She was chosen as godmother at the confirmation of Princess Elizabeth, even though she was a close friend of Catherine of Aragon. In 1538, she was put in the Tower along with her husband and son. Her husband was executed, but her and her son were released.

Anne Boleyn - Daughter of Thomas Boleyn and Elizabeth Howard. Married Henry VIII when his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was annulled. The two had one child, the future Elizabeth I. She was executed on false charges in 1536.

Joan Champernowne - Daughter of Sir Phillip Champernowne and Katherine Carew. Married to Sir Anthony Denny, the two had twelve children.

Elizabeth Darrell - Daughter of Sir Edward Darrell and Alice Flye. She was the mistress of Sir Thomas Wyatt, who she bore three children by. Married to Robert Stroud in her later years.

Bridget Fogge - Daughter of Sir John Fogge and Alice Fogge. Married to Antoneye Lowe, the two had four children.

Margery Horsman - Close friend of Anne Boleyn’s, and was one of those interrogated before Anne’s arrest.

Frideswide Knight - No info.

Mary Norris - Daughter of Thomas Fiennes and Anne Bourchier. Married to Sir Henry Norris, the two had four children. Five years after her death, her husband was executed for being one of the five alleged lovers of Anne Boleyn.

Katherine Payne - No info.

Jane Popyngcort - Taught Princess Margaret and Mary French. Was rumored to be a mistress of Henry VIII.

Maria de Salinas - Daughter of Martín de Salinas and Josefa González. Married to William Willoughby, the two had one child. She was a good friend of Catherine of Aragon’s, but wasn’t allowed to see her after the annulment from Henry VIII.

Jane Seymour - Daughter of Sir John Seymour and Margery Wentworth. Married Henry VIII after the execution of Anne Boleyn, and she bore him one child, a son. She died not long after she gave birth.

Anne Stanhope - Daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope and Elizabeth Bourchier. Married to Sir Edward Seymour, making her the Duchess of Somerset. The two had seven children. She was said to be very snobby, but was highly intelligent.

Lucy Talbot - No info.

Anne Weston - No info.

Mary Zouche - No info.

#catherine of aragon #the tudors #henry viii #history #anne boleyn #jane seymour

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yourdeepestfathoms · 3 years

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Imagine Mary Fiennes (not a Sixtended OC), Mary Tudor's lady-in-waiting, being reincarnated and helping her queen torment Joan

👀👀

Together they put worms in Joan’s food and purposely fuck up her keyboard so she messes up a show and gets yelled at 😌

#ask #six the musical #joan on the keys #mary i of england #mary fiennes #six concept

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venicepearl · 3 years

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Mary Fiennes, Baroness Dacre (1524–1578) was the daughter of George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny by his third wife, Lady Mary Stafford, youngest daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.

#Mary Fiennes #Mary Nevill #XVI century #people #portrait #paintings #art #arte

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Goode Things coming - update

[Updated version of January’s list]

Filming for A Discovery of Witches - filming Season 2 NOW. Expect to see him around Cardiff maybe at a certain spa hotel. ; )

All Souls Con - For All Souls Trilogy fans. 2-3 August 2019, Cardiff, Wales. It would be amazing if Matthew made an appearance again coz he might be still filming there. Keep your fingers and toes crossed!

[Pic from 2017 - but let’s hope we get more this year.]

Official Secrets - premiered at the Sundance film festival on the 28th January and will have a limited release from 23rd August. It stars Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes and Matthew as journalist Peter Beaumont -

No trailer, no new pictures and very few reviews yet BUT we do know that Matthew and Matt Smith will be in the second main storyline of three in the movie. That covers the journalist’s investigation and that they have a bit of a double act going on.

Downton Abbey movie - Matthew returns as Lady Mary’s handsome husband Henry Talbot. Matthew said that he won’t be in it much because he had filming clashes when it was made. Whatever - we will be savouring every morsel of the gorgeous Henry that we get.

Known release dates are shown below from IMDb -

Golf [ugh!] - In January’s list we included these golf tournaments because Matthew usually plays at these if he can. However because the filming schedule for A Discovery of Witches had to be delayed we don’t know if he will have the time to attend. Check back here to see if he’s due to play at these:-

PGA Championships - Wednesday 18th September at Wentworth, Surrey (changed from May).

Matthew normally plays golf in the Dunhill Links Championships at St Andrews in Scotland in October - it looks like it will take place at the end of September this year.

Maybe the British Masters at Walton Heath as well???

We’ll check if he’s due to play and let you know about tickets etc. nearer the time. Even if you are not a golf fan it is the best way to meet Matthew coz you get to follow him around for 4-5 hours, get selfies and see the golf twerk. ; ) [He does a little bum wiggle before he takes some shots and it’s quite.. um.. distracting.]

The Wine Show [TV] - Season 3 - Matthew as a presenter with Matthew Rhys (and possibly James Purefoy) again. They will be based in Portugal and are filming ‘later this year’. Best to follow The Wine Show twitter account for updates. No dates yet for when this will air.

Kingsman - The Great Game- Matthew plays Tristan [thanks to @adow-trash and IMDb for the update]

Release dates so far -

No pictures yet but here is Matthew Goode in a smart suit just to get you interested!

Medieval - Movie - Matthew as King Sigismund of Hungary and Croatia, the brother of Czech King Wenceslaus. He looks very regal and has red/ginger hair for this role. That’s a first. No release date yet.

Four Kids and It - Movie - Matthew plays David. It tells the story of a vacation that doubles as an opportunity for new couple Alice (Paula Patton) and David to introduce their kids to each other — both have two children from previous relationships. Also stars Russell Brand who just happens to be Teresa Palmer’s ex - so that wasn’t awkward at all..... Due for UK release first. No dates available yet.

As ever - if you have additional information please let us know.

@pleasereadmeok/ Britgirl for matthew-goode.net xxx

#matthew goode #a discovery of witches #Official Secrets #downton abbey movie #the wine show #kingsman #the great game #medieval #four kids and it

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round up // MAY 20

When the going gets rough, I find I keep coming back to two kinds of movies: Romantic comedies and action adventures. For whatever reason, those are my comfort food, even if I’m watching someone get their heart broken or fight for their lives.

Hopefully you’re finding small ways to make your days brighter with books, movies, music, and shows that either help you fight or forget some of the darkness around us for a time. These were a few that made my month brighter, including a number of rom coms and action flicks.

May Crowd-Pleasers

SNL at Home

I almost cried for joy when I learned SNL would finish out its season even though it wouldn’t be in Studio 8H—it felt like a glimmer of a lot of joys we’ve lost in the last few months. While the At Home episodes have an odd rhythm compared to the usual broadcast (that live audience makes a difference, especially during “Weekend Update”), I still laughed every week. A few highlights:

“Bailey at the Movies”

“Dreams”

“Grocery Store”

“MasterClass Quarantine Edition” + “Another MasterClass Qurantine Edition”

“RBG Workout”

Watch those skits, then enjoy an infographic-heavy review of the season from Vulture.

Extraction (2020)

Is this a groundbreaking action movie? Heck no, but watching Chris Hemsworth fight to save a kid with a supporting appearance from David Harbour made for a great Sunday evening. Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 6/10

The Wedding Singer (1998)

Somehow I’ve never gotten around to this rom com, perhaps because Adam Sandler’s sense of humor usually isn’t my cup of tea. But here he replaces the gross out jokes with a sweet chemistry with Drew Barrymore. I liked it so much I gave 50 First Dates a shot, but, uh, I only recommend movies I finish. Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 6.5/10

Baby Boom (1987)

Another not-innovative genre entry, but a satisfying one. Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 7/10

Action Movies set in 1700s America: The Last of the Mohicans (1992) + The Patriot (2000)

Sometimes I don’t want a complicated villain—sometimes I just want Jason Isaacs (aka Lucius Malfoy) to be so evil I want Mel Gibson to take him down with a tomahawk. The Last of the Mohicans: Crowd - 8/10 // Critic: 8.5/10 // The Patriot - Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 8.5/10

Taylor Swift City of Lover concert (2020)

I’ve seen Ms. Swift live twice and have loved the stadium tour spectacle. But an intimate show heavy on acoustic performance reminds me how well her songwriting holds up no matter the production

Prop Culture (2020)

I know, I know: Disney+ original series are well executed, long-form advertising. But can you find better-executed advertising than Jason Schwartzman chatting about the Mary Poppins snow globe at a piano with Richard Sherman, the character he played in Saving Mr. Banks? These staged treasure hunts for Disney movie props may be a bit self-important, but they’re also a dose of nostalgia and lessons about the technical side of filmmaking.

This Drake Bell TikTok

If you get this, you get this.

Silverado (1985)

My weird New Year’s resolution? To watch Westerns, a genre I’ve basically skipped until now. Silverado feels like a throwback to classic Westerns with a modern sensibility and more laughs. Plus, baby Kevin Costner and Jeff Goldblum in a fur coat! Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 7.5/10

Chromatica by Lada Gaga (2020)

Turns out I’m not just a fan of the A Star Is Born/duets with Tony Bennet/Joanne Lady Gaga. I’ve always been cooler on her electronic-dance-club Top 40 hits than her recent guitar-and-vocal stylings, but I can’t stop listening to album-long jam sesh. It’s old Gaga meets 2020 beats meets Depeche Mode/Flock of Seagulls/Madonna/New Order of the ‘80s.

The Heat (2013)

Two of my favorite funny ladies teaming up was—not surprisingly—a win. No one delivers a kooky insult like Melissa McCarthy. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 7/10

May Critic Picks

Hail, Caesar! (2016)

Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum, and more try to keep Hollywood and their careers afloat despite a bizarre series of kidnappings, line flubs, and tap dances. Of course the Coen Brothers have a dry, wacky take on the Hollywood studio era. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 9/10

Jane Eyre (2006)

Confession: I have not read Jane Eyre. But my mom did, and since she enjoyed the book so much, I figured a happy medium would be to watch this BBC miniseries with her commentary about what they changed from the Brontë classic.

Daisy Jones & the Six (2019)

The highest compliment I can give a book is staying up way too late to finish it, which is what I did with this buzzy Taylor Jenkins Reid book. It’s a barely-fictional oral history of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll in the ‘70s, and somehow it’s not crass or gratuitous about any of them. Most impressive is that Jenkins Reid keeps her characters well-defined even though it’s not written in a traditional novel format. My favorite parts of this story are the deep dive into the creative process and the exploration of how we remember the past. Here’s hoping the Sam Claflin/Riley Keough-led, Reese Witherspoon-produced, (500) Days of Summer team-written Amazon series can do this book justice—I need this soundtrack!

The Plot Thickens podcast (2020)

A Turner Classic Movies podcast hosted by Ben Mankiewicz about film history is a specific—and predictable—Venn diagram of my interests.

Alfred Hitchcock Double Feature: Psycho (1960) + The Birds (1963)

The story about Psycho goes that my grandmother ran out of the movie theatre screaming during the shower scene. Now that I’ve finally watched it, I know why. This horror drama is still terrifying today even if you know what’s going to happen. Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 10/10

The story about The Birds goes that my mother was terrified as a little girl after walking into a room where it was on TV, and now she still won’t watch it. The Oscar-winning visual effects have aged so much I didn’t find it scary, but I was still sucked in by the eerie plot. That said, I did have a frightening dream last night involving Tippi Hedren, so it may be more effective than I realized. Give me just a sec while I schedule some Hitchcock-focused family therapy. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 9/10

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Spend two hours with the two nicest bank robbers you’ll ever meet! A winsome Paul Newman and a laconic Robert Redford make their escape on the scenic trails of the Southwest, and gosh darn it, if they aren’t just a barrel of fun. I enjoyed this Western so much I recommended it in a piece I wrote for Round Trip, too. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 9/10

Katharine Hepburn Double Feature: Alice Adams (1935) + Woman of the Year (1942)

Saying you love Katharine Hepburn is like saying you love sunshine and flowers—of course you do! In Alice Adams, she’s an optimistic Cinderella with a down-on-their-luck family who falls for a high class fella (Fred MacMurray). In Woman of the Year, she’s a high-brow journalist who falls for sports columnist Spencer Tracy in their first of nine films together. She earned Oscar nominations for both, but I dare you not to fall in love with her after watching just one. Alice Adams - Crowd: 7.5/10 // Critic: 8/10 // Woman of the Year - Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 8.5/10

Also in May…

When you’re not allowed to travel, you get creative! For Round Trip this month, I recommended 13 movies about travel that will make you feel like you took the vacation COVID-19 made you cancel (including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). And if that’s not enough, why don’t you recreate your trip? I turned my apartment into Paris, and here’s why you might want to do the same.

Kyla and I didn’t go far back in time for most of our Gilmore Girls pop culture references on SO IT’S A SHOW? We covered three movies (or two, depending on how you see it) from the 2000s with connections to this year’s Oscars, 8 Mile and then Kill Bill. We also looked into the famous architect Stanford White and a movie he was featured in, 1981’s Ragtime, which had more connections to today’s culture than we expected.

I made another attempt at Jim Jarmusch for ZekeFilm with Broken Flowers. I still don’t get Jim Jarmusch.

My movie count in quarantine is up to 156. You can see them all on Letterboxd.

Photo credits: SNL, Taylor Swift, TikTok, Lady Gaga, Daisy Jones & the Six, The Plot Thickens. All others IMDb.com.

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List Update

Abigail Breslin (child) and Richard Speight Jr as Gabriel (father) - lyah-malek

Ana De Armas and Kim Mingyu - modcrnecho

Ana De Armas as Joi and Chris Evans as Steve Rogers - Anon

Ana De Armas and Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore from Her - Anon

Adelaide Kane and Alex O'Loughlin, married - martyredmotheraesthetics

Adelaide Kane and Alex O'Loughlin, married - hawaiianohana31

Adelaide Kane as Mary (Lyah) and Bradley James as Arthur - lyah-malik

Adelaide Kane and Summer Fontana with Jacob Tremblay - hope-andrea-marhall

Adelaide Kane as a Mikaelson - hope-andrea-marhall

Adelaide Kane and young Christian Coulson as Tom Riddle - Anon

Adelaide Kane as Siobhan Eby and Phoebe Tonkin as Danielle Eby, sisters - Anon

Adelaide Kane and Emilia Clarke - hawaiianohana31

Amber Heard and James McAvoy - Anon

Amber Heard and Luke Evans- Anon

Amanda Seyfried and Sam Heughan - empressofegypt

Anna Diop and Eddie Cibrian - Anon

Barbara Palvin and Hunter Parrish - empressofegypt

Blanca Suárez as Alba Romero (Cable Girls) and Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby (Peaky Blinders) - Anon

Brie Larson and Jake Gyllenhal (not as superheroes) - Anon

Brit Marling and Pablo Schreiber - curlykoalas

Bella Thorne and Scarlett Byrne - Anon

Blake Lively as Leah Bates and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester - katelynw93

Chelsey Reist and Robbie Amell - Anon

Cara Delevinge (long hair) and Matthew Daddario - Anon

Crystal Reed and Luke Grimes - Anon

Crystal Reed and Robbie Kay - Anon

Crystal Reed and Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark as father, daughter - chellp88

Camila Mendes as Veronica Lodge and Benjamin Wadsworth as Marcus Lopez Arguello - multixxfandomxx

Camila Mendes as Veronica Lodge and Tom Holland as Peter Parker - moonieeeeeeee

Candice Patton and Aja Naomi King, couple - Anon

Chloë Grace Moretz and Dylan Minnette - Anon

Chloe Bennet and Mark Rufflo as spouses - Anon

Chandler Riggs as Billy Kaplan/Wiccan and Issac Hempstead as Tommy Shepard/Speed, the sons of Wanda Maximoff. - Anon

Ciara Renée and D. B. Woodside as Amenadiel, estranged father and daughter - Anon

Camilla Luddington and Jay Ryan (Ben Hanscom), married couple (losers don't know they're married) with Bailee Madison as their daughter - Anon

Courtney Eaton (nickname Bambi) and MacGyver team - Anon

Courtney Eaton and Tom Holland - Anon

Danielle Campbell and Dylan Minnette - Anon

Danielle Campbell and Matthew Daddario, couple - vweasley15

Danielle Rose Russell as the daughter of Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas (OUAT) - Anon

Danielle Rose Russell as a SHIELD Agent - Anon

Danielle Rose Russell as the daughter of Chris Pratt and Angela Sarafyan - lxvelikelegends

Danielle Rose Russell and Marvels Cloak and Dagger cast - Anon

Danielle Rose Russell and Isaac Hempstead Wright - Anon

Danielle Rose Russell and The Guardians of the Galaxy - Anon

Danielle Rose Russell and Erika Linder - Anon

Danielle Rose Russell as the daughter of Piper Halliwell and Leo Wyatt - Anon

Danielle Rose Russell and Tom Holland as Peter Parker, happy couple - Anon

Danielle Rose Russell and Tom Holland as Peter Parker, training - Anon

Danielle Rose Russell and Tom Holland - liebleu

Danielle Rose Russell as Hope Mikaelson (Elisabet/Ella Rogers) and Sophie Turner as Jean Grey, Maternal half sisters-- simply-ellas-stuff

Danielle Rose Russell (name Ella Swan) and Alex Meraz as Paul Lahote - Anon

Danielle Rose Russell as Eleanora Mikaelson, Hopes long lost twin - Anon

Danielle Rose Russell and Asa Butterfield - Anon

Danielle Rose Russell, Kristen Stewart and Nina Dobrev as sisters - simply-ellas-stuff

Danielle Rose Russell as Eleanora Eby-Snow and Danielle Panabaker as Caitlin Snow/Killer Frost, half sisters - Anon

Danielle Rose Russell, Crystal Reed and Kaylee Bryant - skylarhalstead

Danielle Rose Russell as Eleanora Mikaelson and Leo Howard as Ethan Mac/Fell as a couple - Anon

Danielle Rose Russell and Lucas Till - liebleu

Danielle Rose Russell and Robert Downey Jr, father and daughter - Anon

Dianna Agron and Avan Jogia - Anon

Dianna Agron and Ben Barnes - Anon

Dove Cameron as Ruby Hale and Tom Holland as Peter Parker - Anon

Dove Cameron and Austin Butler - Anon

Dove Cameron and Anya-Taylor Joy, couple - Anon

David Tennant as Ten and Kilgrave - Anon

Danielle Panabaker and Joseph Morgan - thebigbadwolfswife

Emmy Rossum and Stephen James - littlemisshiddleston

Emmy Rossum as Bilba Baggins (female Bilbo) and Richard Armitage as Thorin - Anon

Emmy Rossum and Matthew Gray Gubler as a couple - Anon

Emilia Clarke as Dany and Luke Goss as Nuada - Anon

Emilia Clarke and Sebastian Stan - strippersoul

Emilia Clarke and Sebastian Stan - Anon

Emilia Clarke and Chris Hemsworth - Anon

Emilia Clarke and Kit Harington, modern, exes but still in love - msadelines

Emeraude Toubia and Margot Robbie as friends/roommates - anewchapterlove

Emeraude Toubia and Jake Gyllenhal - Anon

Emma Watson and Joe Mazzello - Anon

Gender bent - Ellen Hollman (Saxa) as Hercules and either Ben Barnes or Avan Jogia as Meg - Anon

Ellie Bamber and Mark McKenna - Anon

Elizabeth Gillies and Aaron Taylor Johnson - eclisser

Elizabeth Gillies (undercover) and Eric Dane (stalker) - Anon

Elizabeth Gillies and Skeet Ulrich- Anon

Elizabeth Gillies and Tyler Hoechlin - Anon

Elizabeth Gillies (Callie Ross/Gigi Rock) and Sebastian Roche - Anon

Elizabeth Gillies (Not Fallon) and Daniel Craig - Anon

Elizabeth Gillies and Max Irons - Anon

Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner - allyspnsempsd

Emma Roberts and Matthew Noszka as a couple - sonofaphrodite13

Felicity Jones and Jeremy Sumpter (Adult) - justcalldibs

Gabrielle Wilde as Constance and Santiago Cabrera as Aramis - atinkerbellstuff

Gal Gadot and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - Anon

Gal Gadot and Matt Bomer, husband and wife - Anon

Gemma Arterton and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Dracula or modern) - Anon

Gugu Mbathu Raw and Dan Stevens - doctor-master-mister-strange

Halsey and Andre Hamann - happyhostforsymbiotes

Holland Roden and Hunter Parrish - themaravismari

Inbar Lavi and David Castaneda - misscrystal03

Inbar Lavi and Dan Stevens - Anon

Imogen Poots and Jake Gyllenhal - danielcvmbell

Isabela Moner, daughter(Transformers) and Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark (father) - stormifaith-hope

Isabela Moner as a Winchester with dpn cast - Anon

India Eisley as young Lyah and Ian Nelson as young Derek, friends - lyah-malek

Jaimie Alexander and Rosario Dawson married - Anon

Jaimie Alexander as Jane and Norman Reedus as Daryl - Anon

Jenny Boyd (blonde) as the daughter of Tony Stark and Pepper Potts - Anon

Jenny Boyd as Lizzie and Tom Holland as Peter Parker - scrumptiousponyghostpeach

Jenny Boyd (Vikings Quest) and Aaron Jakubenko (Roman Empire or Shannara Chronicles) - elenacarinandherfandoms

Jenna Coleman and Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy (Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows) - Anon

Jenna Coleman and Chris Wood - Anon

Katherine McNamara and Dylan O'Brien - Anon

Kate Beckinsale and Chris Evans - Anon

Kat Denning and Matt Bomer with Colin Ford as their son - Anon

Kat Denning (daughter) and Peter Capaldi (father) - Anon

Kat Denning and Matthew Gray Gubler - Anon

Kristen Stewart (Personal Shopper/Still Alice) and Michael Trevino - Anon

Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan and Kiowa Gordon as Embry Call - Anon

Kaylee Bryant as the daughter of Chris Wood - the-selfless-bash

Kaylee Bryant as Josie, Chris Evans as Steve Rogers her mentor and Tom Holland as Peter Parker, her best friend - Anon

Katie McGrath and Tom Hiddleston (medieval) - lady-crowned-with-stars

Katie McGrath and Grant Gustin with Bruce and Selina from Gotham as their twin children - Anon

Katie McGrath and Michael Fassbender? 1940-50s era - lady-crowned-with-stars

Katie McGrath and Rahul Kohli - tearful goodbye, renewing relationship. Gotye - Hearts a mess... Let me in where only your thoughts had been, let me occupy your mind as you occupy mine. - lady-crowned-with-stars

Kristine Froseth and Benjamin Wadsworth - Anon

Kristine Froseth and Aaron Taylor Johnson as Pietro Maximoff - Anon

Ksenia Solo and Tony Regbo - Anon

Ksenia Solo as Kenzi Malikov and Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg - Anon

Ksenia Solo and Charlie Cox - fishnetsandmagichats

Ksenia Solo as Kenzi Malikov and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester - Anon

Kim Whalen and Simon Pegg as Scotty, father and daughter - Anon

Kiernan Shipka and Hero Fiennes-Tiffen - Anon

Kiko Mizuhara and Bert McCracken - Anon

Letitia Wright as Shuri and Tom Holland as Peter Parker, best friends au - Anon

Lily Collins as Clary Fray and Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy - Anon

Lily Collins and Charles Melton "If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete, and I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for" - meaniebeaniecrackshipper

Lily Collins and Luke Mitchell - Anon

Lily Collins and James and Oliver Phelps - lyah-malek

Lily James and Jessica Chastain - Anon

Lily James and Jessica Chastain - thesound-of-myvoice

Lily James and Jason Momoa as a couple - lyah-malek

Lily Rabe as Misty Day and Chris Wood as Kai Parker - Anon

Lili Reinhart and Daniel Sharman - Anon

Lili Reinhart and Tom Holland - youweremyworstx

Lili Reinhart and Tyler Posey - Anon

Lyndsy Fonseca and Keanu Reeves as John Wick - katrena7

Lyndsy Fonseca and Harry Shum Jr as Magnus Bane - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Emilie Ullerup - lyah-malik

Lyndsy Fonseca and Scott Caan as Danny Williams - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Alex O'Loughlin as Steve Mcgarrett - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Matthew Gray Gubler as Spencer Reid - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Matt Bomer as siblings - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Wilson Bethel - Anon

Lyndsy Fonseca and Robert Downey Jr as siblings - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca (daughter) and Kate Beckinsale as Selene (Mother) - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Lucas Till as Angus MacGyver - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca (daughter) and Tom Ellis as Lucifer (father) - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Dominic Sherwood as siblings - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Gemma Arterton as sisters - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Robert Downey Jr as Tony as siblings (with dialogue) - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Benjamin Stone as Alek Petrov, friends (dialogue)- nanda-kuhner18

Lyndsy Fonseca/India Eisley (Underworld) and Scott Speedman as Michael Corvin x2 - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and person of choice - Lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Tom Holland as Peter Parker (him awkward when meeting her) - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Colin Morgan, modern - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Bradley James, modern Arthur x2 one of Merlin taking her to him - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Tom Holland - Anon

Lyndsy Fonseca and Tyler Hoechlin as Derek Hale - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca and Zoey Deutch as Rose Hathaway (other gifs but dark hair) - lyah-malek

Lyndsy Fonseca as Lyah, Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark and Lexi Rabe as Morgan Stark - lyah-malek

Lucy Boynton and Timothée Chalamet - Anon

Lindsay Morgan and Mark Hamill (young) - Anon

Madelaine Petsch, Vanessa Morgan and Carlson Young (dating Mads but not each other) - Anon

Madelaine Petsch and Michael Clifford with Blue hair - imgettinghighoffhumans

Madelaine Petsch and Bill Skarsgård - bowiesixx

Maisie Williams and Aaron Taylor Johnson as Pietro - strawberrycake-z

Margot Robbie as Annie and Ryan Gosling as K - Anon

Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as a couple - Anon

Margot Robbie and Ryan Reynolds (action star couple) - nixiestyx

Margot Robbie and Jensen Ackles as a couple - markofdean79

Margot Robbie (not Harley) and Jensen Ackles - Anon

Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and Cillian Murphy as Thomas Shelby - Anon

Maisie Richardson Sellers as Charlie and Paul Wesley - wicked-laugh

Maisie Richardson Sellers and Anna Diop as sisters/friends - wicked-laugh

Maisie Richardson Sellers and Jesse Lee Soffer - wicked-laugh

Maisie Richardson Sellers and Joseph Morgan - wicked-laugh

Maya Hawke and Taron Egerton as siblings - vweasley15

Melissa O'Neil as Lucy Chen and Samuel Caleb Hunt as Mouse - Anon

Melisa Asil Pamuk and Joseph Morgan as Klaus Mikaelson - Anon

Matthew Daddario and Jon Kortajarena, romantic - Anon

Naomi Scott as Maddy, Allison Miller as Skye and Landon Liboiron as Josh with The Walking Dead cast - Anon

Natalie Dormer and Richard Armitage - Anon

Natalie Dormer (blonde), Chris Pine (Jim Kirk), Chris Evans and Eric Christian Olsen as siblings, Natalie and Eric as twins - Anon

Natalie Dormer and Emily Deschanel - Anon

Nina Dobrev as Katherine Pierce and Cameron Monaghan as Jerome Valeska - Anon

Olivia Holt and Cameron Dallas - mysoulmundaneblog

Olivia Wilde and Hugh Dancy - Anon

Olivia Wilde and Michael Fassbender, friends with benefits - Anon

Odette Annable and Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes - alexwit1325

Odette Annable and Joseph Morgan as Klaus Mikaelson - alexwit1325

Odeya Rush and Fionn Whitehead - Anon

Phoebe Tonkin and Keanu Reeves as Constantine - katrena7

Phoebe Tonkin and Skeet Ulrich - Anon

Phoebe Tonkin and Matt Smith, flirty - thatandromedatonks

Phoebe Tonkin and Sendhil Ramamurthy, romantic - Anon

Rachel Taylor and Mitchell Hope as mother and son "They're wrong about us, you know, and if they don't learn that soon, they'll be left in the past" - Anon

Rowan Blanchard as Cleo and Benjamin Wadsworth as Marcus - Anon

Sabrina Carpenter and Brenna D'Amico as Jane - Anon

Sabrina Carpenter and Shawn Mendes - niissaa94

Sarah Bolger and Matthew Gray Gubler (parents) Kiana Lede, Jessica Sula, Willa Fitzgerald, Kat Graham, Cailey Fleming, Grace Fulton (Mary Bromfield) Jovan Armand (Pedro Peña) Asher Angel (Billy Batson) Jack Dylan Grazer (Freddy Freeman) Ian Chen (Eugene Choi) Faithe Herman (Darla Dudley) Jackson A. Dunne (Brandon Breyer) and Erin Moriarty (Annie January) (the kids) - beamusoutkids

Sarah Bolger (Agent Carter) and Scott Grimes (Band of Brothers), 1940s - automaticforthepeople

Sarah Bolger and Tom Hardy (Peaky Blinders) - Anon

Santiago Cabrera and Justin Baldoni - Anon

Sasha Pieterse and Rachel Taylor - Anon

Scarlett Johansson (blonde) and Eric Dane - Anon

Scout Taylor Compton and Evan Peters as Kai Anderson - bowiesixx

Skyler Samuels as Chloe King and Benjamin Stone as Alek Petrov, couple - nanda-kuhner18

Shelley Hennig and Richard Armitage - Anon

Shelley Hennig and Joe Keery - Anon

Sophie Turner and Hayden Christensen - feniah-394

Shawn Mendes as a werewolf from TVD - Anon

Sophia Lillis and Finn Wolfhard - Anon

Skyler Samuels and Sebastian Stan - Anon

Taylor Hickson as Petra and Tom Felton - Anon

Taylor Swift and Chris Evans - Anon

Timothée Chalamet and Maxence Danet-Fauvel - coloursofyourmind

Taissa Farmiga and Chris Evans - Anon

Virginia Gardner and Vanessa Hudgens - misscrystal03

Willow Shields and Alex Lawther, friends - Anon

Zoey Deutch (Vampire Academy to now) and Alex Hogh Anderson (Vikings) - untoldgrace

Zendaya and Dan Stevens - Anon

Pairing of my choice x2 - lyah-malek

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Game of Thrones’ Iain Glen on the fiery finale and saying goodbye to Emilia Clarke

Game of Thrones is coming. And as the world’s most popular TV show gears up for its fiery finale, Iain Glen – aka Ser Jorah Mormont – explains what life in Westeros is really like. ‘Tits and dragons’ and all… By Chris Harvey 23 March 2019 Photos by Frank Allias

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[...] One abiding memory of Glen will be from the last season, when Jorah, infected with the slow-creeping but deadly greyscale, bites down on a leather strap as the thick, scaly layer that covers his torso is cut away piece by piece with a scalpel. It may not have been his most nuanced performance but the agony on his face made it impossible to look away. ‘I was pretty spaced out,’ he tells me. The prosthetic took eight hours to apply – it had underlayers that would ooze pus and blood as it was sawn off – so Glen had to be on the filming base at 11pm, have make-up applied all night and then shoot a 12-hour day. ‘After what it required, the acting became quite easy,’ he says. We’re in a photographic studio near the Thames. Glen biked here from his home in south London. ‘I’m addicted to cycling,’ he says. He will even cycle to red-carpet events and park his bike around the corner. ‘I find it a very sterile atmosphere being in the back of a limo… and [cycling] is quicker. I duck and dive, and I’m not somebody who will wait endlessly at a red traffic light. I go up one-way streets the wrong way, too.’ He looks fit and lightly tanned. He was at home in Dulwich, where he lives with his partner, actor Charlotte Emmerson, and their two children, Mary, 11, and Juliet, six, when the scripts for the final season of Game of Thrones landed in September 2017. ‘Security around the series has got more and more fierce,’ he says, ‘to the point where nothing was allowed on printed paper throughout the whole season.’ It could only be accessed online, with extensive security protocols – it wasn’t even allowed on the cast’s own devices. ‘There was a bit of resistance from actors to that,’ he adds, ‘particularly of an older generation.’ He performs a convincing harrumph – ‘“I need to look at my lines, how can I possibly…?”’ When he read the scripts, ‘I felt, “they’ve done it, they’ve pulled it off”,’ he says, ‘that balance of satiating people’s desire for things to be complete, but leaving enough questions in the air for people to try to project forward what world will follow, individually for all the characters and universally for the world that Thrones has occupied.’ Sadness at the end of ‘the best ride in the world’, after almost 10 years of the show, was tangible at the read-through of the series with all of the main cast in Belfast 10 days later. ‘There’s a real sense of loss, it’s like a family… there were lots of tears because it was coming to an end, but real excitement and joy that we were going to shoot it.’ As characters died within the story as they read, it felt to Glen and others as if they were really being lost. ‘We’ve all grown very close to each other.’ The filming would prove to be punishing. An enormous battle scene involving many of the key characters, pitched against the Night King’s invading Army of the Dead, was shot at the set of the fictional castle of Winterfell, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It took 11 weeks of night shoots in sub-freezing temperatures, enduring rain, mud, high winds and ‘sheep s—’. Glen has described it as ‘a real test, really miserable’. [...] Young actors like Kit Harington (Jon Snow) and Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) ‘are made’ by being in the show, Glen says. His storyline has been joined to Clarke’s almost from the start. What was their parting like in real life? ‘We’re friends and we’ll always be friends,’ he says. ‘Emilia went through an extraordinary story arc for herself as a person, and her character. I saw her as a nervous young actress, who had just got this big gig and everyone, [from] directors [down], was saying, “Is this the right actor? Is this how she should look? Does the wig look right?” It’s an incredible amount of pressure and I saw this young girl cope with it incredibly well.’ ‘She did ask for guidance and invariably I was saying, “Just keep doing what you’re doing.” Emilia’s very gifted, she really has no idea how good she is – she remains very vulnerable but it’s not a destructive vulnerability, it keeps her very focused… She’s [also] a very altruistic, warm person, who was the great generator of social life during Thrones. I’ll always keep an eye on what she’s doing and take pride in it.’ In the series, Ser Jorah is in love with Daenerys. Although Clarke’s character was aged up from the books for TV (in George RR Martin’s novels, she is in her early teens) fans have worked out that Daenerys can still only be 16 or 17 at the start of the show (Clarke was 22 at the time of the first season). ‘There was a point when it was definitely unrequited sexual love,’ Glen says, ‘but I think there’s always been a reciprocated love without the physicality.’ Given that Ser Jorah is in his mid-40s in the show and Glen is now 57, is his love for Daenerys age-appropriate? ‘You have to say that there’s a lot in Thrones that’s not “appropriate”,’ he returns, ‘but it feels plausible for a very different period.’ At the end of season one, Daenerys emerged from her husband’s funeral pyre unburnt and naked, with three newly hatched dragons. I wonder how Glen feels about former cast member Ian McShane’s contention that the show is ‘just tits and dragons’? ‘If tits and dragons is a negative, it doesn’t seem to stop it being a massive hit, does it?’ he says. He accepts that ‘there might have been a degree of HBO trying to arrest people’s attention, and you could accuse The Sopranos of doing that as well – there were tits and violence but there was a psychology that was underlying the whole thing.’ He thinks it might have been overstated in the first season of Thrones, in ‘putting everything on the line’ to establish the world, but says he has never felt concern about the many controversial scenes in the show, from sadistic sexual fantasies to rape. ‘At the end of the day, you can choose to watch or not to watch. When I look at history, at things that have taken place in real life that are just awful, I think there is room for dramas that try to depict that, so I’m not into censoring. I never felt things were gratuituous… Violence wise, it’s never bothered me.’ After filming their final scene, each of the main cast members was presented with a drawn storyboard from the making of the show. Glen’s depicted the bloody gladiatorial battle Jorah fought to win back Daenerys’s favour in season five. It was shot in the bullring of Osuna, in Andalusia, southern Spain, and had special memories for him. His family were with him, and the director took his daughter Mary, then seven, into the make-up tent to get blood all over her face ‘so she looked like Daddy’, then had her shout ‘action’ and ‘cut’ for the scene. After the presentation speech by writers David Benioff and DB Weiss, Glen says he was in floods of tears. Glen, who also has a son, Finlay, 22, from his first marriage to actor Susannah Harker, says he adores being a father. ‘I keep producing children… it imbues your life with a great amount of fun and magic and exhaustion. I have to be away working sometimes, and if I could I would have them with me all the time, because being woken up by a child, or having to wake up a child and deal with the minutiae and a lot of the boring crap, just having those eyes looking at you full of discovery... I love it.’ 'I always think it’s a woman’s prerogative,’ he adds, ‘I think my lady is now done on the kids and that’s fine, but I would always have more.’ He breaks off to take a call from her. As a boy himself, growing up in Edinburgh (he has two older brothers, Hamish and Graham) he was equal parts shy and extrovert, he says, and had no sense of danger. He would happily crawl out of a very high window and climb along gutters. His escapades saw him hospitalised a few times. He was adept at pretending to fall over and hurt himself – ‘I could even do it for you now.’ He still has an earring in his left ear, which he pierced himself with a pin, aged 12. ‘Dad refused to take me to the golf club unless I took it out. I thought, “F— it, I’m not going then. No.”’ His investment banker father paid for him to attend the independent Edinburgh Academy, but he had to stay on to try to improve his grades, then got the same ones again. He managed to get into Aberdeen University to study Russian, where he discovered the joy of drama and dropped out to go to Rada. He studied alongside Ralph Fiennes, Jane Horrocks, Imogen Stubbs and Jason Watkins, but still walked away with the top acting prize for his year, the Bancroft Gold Medal, previously won by the likes of Mark Rylance, Fiona Shaw and Kenneth Branagh. Glen built an acclaimed stage career alongside early TV roles, but has always managed to mix blockbuster paydays – for films such as Tomb Raider (2001) and the Resident Evil franchise – with more personal work. As Thrones’ popularity has grown, salaries have risen exponentially, with the top-end cast paid a reported $500,000 per episode (around £380,000). He notes that it’s a flat fee for a season, however many episodes you’re in. Have the rewards felt life-changing? ‘No, not really,’ he says. ‘I’ve always been lucky and busy as an actor.’ Glen experienced the negative side of press attention when his first marriage broke up in the early 2000s. Some of it was ‘intrusive’, he says – questions that related to the fact that he ‘sailed close to another relationship,’ which was [that of] Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. ‘I did a two-handed play with Nicole, which was about a sexual relationship.’ The play was David Hare’s adaption of La Ronde, The Blue Room, which famously featured Kidman’s nude bottom and Glen performing naked cartwheels. It led, perhaps inevitably, to tabloid rumours of an affair between Glen and Kidman, whose marriage ended around the same time. Glen has always denied it, but it ensured that his separation from Harker was played out in public. ‘Compared to what some people have to deal with, it was fine,’ he says. ‘But you have a lot of eyes on you and pressure on you, when you just want to deal with your own private life.’ There’s generally no other downside to fame, he notes (‘My wife says it’s like getting your bottom patted every day’), although he will politely refuse to pose for selfies if he is with his family. Game of Thrones’ vast, global appeal means that he was once even surrounded by fans while visiting a township in South Africa. [...]

#iain glen #iain glen interview #interview #the telegraph #long interview but a great read #some got stuff are #he remains friends with emilia #the storyboard he received was the gladiatorial scene #he was in tears at the presentation speech by david and dan #because he remembers that his family was with him during filming #and that his daughter had cuts from make-up #and she was able to shout Action and Cut for the scene #also this wonderful article could have used a better title lol

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25TH ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS – NOMINEES

FILM

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING

Emily Blunt – Mary Poppins Returns as Mary Poppins

Glenn Close – The Wife as Joan Castleman

Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Queen Anne

Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born as Ally Maine

Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING

Christian Bale – Vice as Dick Cheney

Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born as Jackson Maine

Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury

Viggo Mortensen – Green Book as Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga

John David Washington – BlacKkKlansman as Ron Stallwort

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Amy Adams – Vice as Lynne Cheney

Emily Blunt – A Quiet Place as Evelyn Abbott

Margot Robbie – Mary Queen of Scots as Queen Elizabeth I

Emma Stone – The Favourite as Abigail Hill

Rachel Weisz – The Favourite as Sarah Churchill

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Mahershala Ali – Green Book as Don Shirley

Timothée Chalamet – Beautiful Boy as Nic Sheff

Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman as Flip Zimmerman

Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born as Bobby Maine

Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE

Black Panther

BlacKkKlansman

Bohemian Rhapsody

Crazy Rich Asians

A Star Is Born

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A MOTION PICTURE

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Avengers: Infinity War

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Black Panther

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

TELEVISION

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES

Amy Adams – Sharp Objects as Camille Preaker

Patricia Arquette – Escape at Dannemora as Tilly Mitchell

Patricia Clarkson – Sharp Objects as Adora Crellin

Penélope Cruz – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story as Donatella Versace

Emma Stone – Maniac as Annie Landsberg

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES

Antonio Banderas – Genius: Picasso as Pablo Picasso

Darren Criss – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story as Andrew Cunanan

Hugh Grant – A Very English Scandal as Jeremy Thorpe

Anthony Hopkins – King Lear as Lear

Bill Pullman – The Sinner as Harry Ambrose

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Julia Garner – Ozark as Ruth Langmore

Laura Linney – Ozark as Wendy Byrde

Elisabeth Moss – The Handmaid's Tale as June Osborne / Offred

Sandra Oh – Killing Eve as Eve Polastri

Robin Wright – House of Cards as Claire Underwood

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Jason Bateman – Ozark as Marty Byrde

Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us as Randall Pearson

Joseph Fiennes – The Handmaid's Tale as Commander Fred Waterford

John Krasinski – Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan as Jack Ryan

Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul as Jimmy McGill

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Alex Borstein – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as Susie Myerson

Alison Brie – GLOW as Ruth Wilder

Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as Miriam "Midge" Maisel

Jane Fonda – Grace and Frankie as Grace Hanson

Lily Tomlin – Grace and Frankie as Frankie Bergstein

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Alan Arkin – The Kominsky Method as Norman Newlander

Michael Douglas – The Kominsky Method as Sandy Kominsky

Bill Hader – Barry as Barry Berkman / Barry Block

Tony Shalhoub – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as Abe Weissman

Henry Winkler – Barry as Gene Cousineau

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE IN A DRAMA SERIES

The Americans

Better Call Saul

The Handmaid’s Tale

Ozark

This Is Us

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE IN A COMEDY SERIES

Atlanta

Barry

GLOW

The Kominsky Method

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES

GLOW

Marvel's Daredevil

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

The Walking Dead

Westworld

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