Charles will be in Speeches that shook the world

on BBC 4 : Wednesday Nov 6 at 21:00 pm
and repeat : Thu 7 Nov : 02:30

Speech-making is the art of persuasion. Well-honed rhetoric appeals not just to the mind, but to the heart and, deeper down, in the guts. Examining the speeches that provoked radical change, surprised pundits or shocked listeners, poet Simon Armitage dissects what makes a perfect speech.
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 Simon discusses the nuts and bolts of speech writing with Vincent Franklin, aka the blue sky thinking guru Stuart Pearson from The Thick of It, and gets tips on powerful delivery from actor Charles Dance.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03f3v3w

 

 

 

 

 

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Charles and Lou Reed

Charles Dance with Michael Colgan, Lou Reed, Helen Morse, Fergus Linehan and Barry McGovern during Beckett readings at NIDA in Sydney for the 2007 Sydney Festival.

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As Duncan

 

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From Sydney Herald Tribune....Patrick promo

'I don't get enough chances to play comedy'
October 19, 2013

The English actor, best known now for his role in Game of Thrones, admits on the set of horror film Patrick that he's actually quite up for a laugh.
Outside, it's a simmering hot summer's day. Inside, in a gloomy hospital building, Charles Dance is having a moment of quiet anger. He's sardonic, dismissive and utterly contemptuous.
He's at Docklands Studio, on the set of a new Australian film, Patrick. Dance plays Dr Roget, the ruthless head of an experimental clinic that's taking all kinds of liberties in the treatment of its patients.
That quiet anger is all for the camera. After his work for the day is finished, he's genial, expansive and full of stories.
Patrick is the first feature from documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley, who wrote and directed Not Quite Hollywood, an exploration of some of the often disreputable or undervalued genre features made in Australia in the 1970s and '80s.

the first film in a range of ways. The original producer, Antony I. Ginnane, is on board in the same role. Aphrodite Kondos, part of the 1978 wardrobe team, is costume designer.

Dance, who plays Tywin Lannister in the hit TV series Game Of Thrones, knew nothing of the original film, unlike his co-star, Rachel Griffiths, who recalls being terrified when she saw it on TV.
Griffiths, who plays Matron Cassidy, the woman who does Dr Roget's bidding, clearly recalls Julia Blake's performance in the first version. ''She brought so much more than was on the page, and she didn't play it as if she was in a horror movie.''
Dance says briskly that he liked Justin King's remake script, he enjoyed meeting Hartley, and the idea of leaving an English winter to shoot during the Australian summer was very appealing.
But it's a genre movie, he says. ''It's not Dostoyevsky or Chekhov, but it's a pretty good script. It's meant to intrigue and frighten people, and at times to make them laugh. There's a black humour to it.''
His character is convinced that the immobile Patrick is the key to groundbreaking medical research, without ever realising what his patient is really capable of, and he's desperate to make quick progress, before his funding runs out.
On set, Dance gives Hartley several options, as he runs through that withering putdown of the new nurse at the clinic.
''We don't have the budget or time to go with many takes,'' Dance says later, ''but I'll try to do something different every time, if I can.''

Dance's films have included Plenty, directed by Fred Schepisi, in which he starred opposite Meryl Streep, and Alien 3. He's been in Gosford Park and the 2005 TV adaptation of Bleak House and has played Ian Fleming, Eistenstein and D.W. Griffith.

His approach to choosing roles has taken him to some interesting locations. ''If you took a map of the world, and stuck a flag in all the places I've been, there'd be a lot of flags,'' he says.
In the 1990s, he spent four months living on an icebreaker in the Bering Sea for a film called Kabloonak, in which he played the documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty, preparing to shoot Nanook Of The North.
''We ran out of winter in Russia,'' he says, ''so we picked it up in Arctic Canada a year later. And in between, I did a film with Arnold Schwarzenegger (Last Action Hero), and a low-budget British film with Stephen Poliakoff (Century).''

In between shooting for Game Of Thrones from May to October, he's open to all kinds of possibilities.
''These days I tend to get offered quite austere, Machiavellian characters, but every now and again something comes along and you think, 'Ah, yes, a leap of faith'
He gets out his iPhone and shows me a picture of his character, Floyd, in a short-lived TV comedy show called Common Ground.
As Floyd, a former rock'n'roll tour manager who has grown old disgracefully, he wears a black singlet and has tattoos.
''I don't get enough chances to play comedy,'' he says, a little wistfully.

In any case, he loves to work. There are things he can talk about, but others he prefers not to go public with. ''I'd love it if somebody had the nerve to remake Death In Venice'', and soon. ''He's a character I'd love to play, before I get too old.''
There's a literary classic he's particularly keen to adapt, but he doesn't want to go public about it, in case someone else gets the idea.
He's directed one feature, Ladies In Lavender (2004), starring Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, for which he also wrote the screenplay.
He tends to read fiction, he says, ''with one eye on it as a film''. He has a few directing projects and options in the air, some he has initiated and others that have been sent to him.
His character's relationship with Matron Cassidy in Patrick changes in the remake, thanks to the urging of co-star Griffiths. When she read the script, Griffiths wasn't keen on the idea of the nurse as ''the unnoticed devotee, burning underneath with love''.
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after it's about Rachel Griffiths
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/i-dont-get-enough-chances-to-play-comedy-20131017-2voaw.htm

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A pic for today

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At the premiere of Saving Mr. Banks

                                                       at the May Fair Hotel.
"More than 100 guests, including stars, publicists and even representatives from Buckingham Palace joined HFPA members at the association’s first London party and get-together at the May Fair Hotel.
Steve Coogan, Charles Dance, Ruth Wilson, Eddie Redmayne and many other movie and television stars mingled with the guests and the 30 HFPA members who were in London to attend the premiere of Saving Mr. Banks "
from : http://www.goldenglobes.org/2013/10/stars-come-out-for-hfpas-london-party/

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3 pics of the conf of Patrick

 

 

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A video from the Sitges festival

Reportatge de la presentació de 'Juego de Tronos'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lspvdxnEFZA

 

 

 

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Charles has posed for Scifiworld at Sitges festival

 

 

from : http://www.scifiworld.es/index.php/especial-sitges-2013/dia-3-13-de-octubre-de-2013
(please credited them)

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From Patrick pc

 

 

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Marina and her friend from Russia

just quote your source, the name of the blog is : http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/ and my name is Isobel
I can't believe how you come, take pics, repost them, and say it's" your search" on your butler thing and elsewhere...waouh !....well bad faith....hand in the jar of ham...

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Articles from Spain

 -You now combines film and television regularly. I Are the processes are very different?
Charles Dance: "I work for you places"
Now known as the bad Tywin of 'Game of Thrones', but the English actor with a long career. In Sitges attended a ceremony in the TV series, presented Patrick 'and picked up a Time Machine.

You now combines film and television regularly. In what environment you feel most comfortable? Are the processes are very different?
No, there is very little difference in reality. Just like working. Simple as that.
The series often-changing firm for another episode. A Game of Thrones, for example, you found conductors with different opinions about his character?
No, everything is scheduled very early on. The directors are U.S. producers of high quality, with very clear ideas and expeditious who know how to work against the clock.
His struggles with verbal-Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) are the most loved by fans of the series.
-Peter is the most fantastic guy and a wonderful actor. And very sweet. I spend a lot of time apologizing to me because I treat like crap. I say horrible things. Actually we are good friends.
-He said Peter, after each shot ferli strokes her shoulder to see that all is well, they are still friends.
- You've (Riu.) This is totally true.
- His interactions with Arya (Maisie Williams) are also memorable.
Oh, my God. Maisie is amazing. The first time we shot together, she was 13, and had the knowledge and the ways of someone 10 years older. It is extraordinary and very nice. An actress of 13 years can be like a pain in the ass, but she is fantastic, a wonderful girl.

- Which reminds his film Gerardo Herrero, turn to paradise?

-I work for different reasons. I do often travel to places that I know of, and that movie was to film in Puerto Rico, where he had never been. My honest opinion: it was better on paper than on screen.

Also rolled-Alien 3, David Fincher debut.

Fincher, a director was incredibly applied. He came to the set every day at 8 am ready to work with all the millimeter. His leadership skills impressed. I saw it and said, "This guy will go far." And look where it is, of course.

http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/noticias/festival-cinema-sitges-2013/charles-dance

 

 From 20 minutes

Charles Dance has granted an interview in 20 minutes in playing her participation in Game of Thrones. Como Lanniester, ...... As Lanniester, acknowledges that his clothing · is a little uncomfortable, armor, boots, if it's hot. "Regarding the impact of the series says that" reaching the end of the first season, we had a good feeling, "although qualifies "but never to the level that has come."
About that George RR Marti continue publishing novels, adds that "I imagine we will continue writing while shooting the series." . And precisely that is aware of the issues that dominate in fiction: "It seems that today there is a special predilection for seeing violence and explicit sex pictures" qualifies

...Charles Dance was completely overwhelmed by the reception amid shouts and applause of their seguidoers.  "I felt like a real rock and roll star," said before the warm welcome example of the enormous and unexpected massive success of the production.

 In addition to highlighting the great cast of actors, mentioned the consistency of his character as a reason that prompted him to embark on the ambitious television project. "The quality of the script motivated me to say yes".  "Lannister is not as bad as you think: it's worse."

 

Charles Dance recounted some anecdotes during filming, one of which for example had to skin a deer. Although the interpreter as acknowledged only remember living good experiences in their participation in the series. Besides " Game of Thrones "Dance presented the remake" Patrick "Mark Hartley, at a gala where the Sitges Film Festival has awarded the Time Machine to his career.

About the series he likes Charles Dance is emphatic: "I saw the first season of 'Homeland' and loved it, but also extraordinary 'The Wire (The Wire).

 

About the future of Game of Thrones, regrets not saying anything: "By contract I have forbidden to reveal anything. Great surprises, there will be new characters, others disappear."  And remember that the fourth season "will be better than the third, in the same way that the third was the second best."

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1946288/0/charles-dance/juego-tronos/sitges-2013/

 

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Charles was at The Baccardi vip room (Sitges festival)

Many familiar faces from the film industry is fantasy and horror DQN cites these days in the VIP room of BACARDI under the International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, that last Friday celebrated the opening day of its 46th edition.
Highlighted the presence of Elijah Wood....The VIP room also received a visit from Terry Gilliam.... the legendary Charles Dance, visited Sunday afternoon BACARDÍ vip room.
They all signed the poster of the festival and provided with the cocktail "A BACARDÍ for Rosemary, that Javier of the wheels, leader in the field of mixology worldwide, exclusively made in tribute to the star of the film by Roman Polanski "Devil Seed", film that inspired the festival poster.
http://barnafotopress.com/tag/charles-dance/

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Video of the Q & A at the Sitges festival

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XGLs7ed3u-I

 

 

 

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Pic of the day : Tywin

                                        from : http://instagram.com/p/fdOi9CQdtJ/#

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Charles at the Sitges festival

http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2013/10/time-machin-award.html 

from : http://instagram.com/p/fZqGvvI0fh/#

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by eldesatre : http://instagram.com/p/fai5TXEIM2/#

2 vidéos :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK6JZiFFZto
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