NETFLIX'S FOOL ME ONCE
ADS MICHELLE KEEGAN AS LEAD
And she will not be alone in the cast which will also include Richard Armitage, Emmett J. Scanlan, Joanna Lumley. Adapted from Harlan Coben's novel, the eight part series follows Maya Stern who is trying to come to terms with the brutal murder of her husband, Joe. But when Maya installs a nanny-cam to keep an eye on her young daughter, she is shocked to see a man 
she recognises in her house. Her husband, who she thought was dead…
Detective Sergeant Sami Kierce leads the homicide investigation into Joe’s death while grappling with secrets of his own. Meanwhile, Maya’s niece and nephew, Abby and Daniel, are trying to find the truth about their mother’s murder, several months earlier. Are the two cases connected?
she recognises in her house. Her husband, who she thought was dead…
Detective Sergeant Sami Kierce leads the homicide investigation into Joe’s death while grappling with secrets of his own. Meanwhile, Maya’s niece and nephew, Abby and Daniel, are trying to find the truth about their mother’s murder, several months earlier. Are the two cases connected? MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS
TO LEAD LE FAUX SOIR MOVIE
While you are enjoying his Django series which launched last week, Matthias Schoenaerts has just scored a lead role in LE FAUX SOIR WW2 movie drama according to Screen Daily! Set in 1943, it tells the story of when
the Belgian resistance secretly produced a spoof version of the country’s leading newspaper, Le Soir, which had become a propaganda tool of the occupying Nazi forces. He will play Belgian resistance hero in the movie directed by Michael R. Roskam.
the Belgian resistance secretly produced a spoof version of the country’s leading newspaper, Le Soir, which had become a propaganda tool of the occupying Nazi forces. He will play Belgian resistance hero in the movie directed by Michael R. Roskam. PARIS INTERZONE SERIES
POST WW2 PARIS SET SERIES
Speaking of WW2, the producers of Liaison series with Vincent Cassel and Eva Green, have set their next project: they will adapt James Campbell's
novel PARIS INTERZONE into mini TV series. As Variety reports, the ambitious series, which William Boyd is writing and is being co-produced by Ian Benson, will shed light on a counterintelligence program that was launched by the CIA and operated by a secret unit within the American embassy in Paris. Their mission was to infiltrate the literary cafes of the Left Bank in Paris and spy on expat American artists and authors. At that time in the U.S., under the McCarthy era, many authors, especially black and gay ones, were oppressed and jailed. The series will be a modern, glamorous noir thriller laced with a love triangle between a French editor and two American characters.
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| The book will be adapted into series |
So Mathias keeps busy. No sign of Django on our shores. CIA spieson the Left Bank? That sounds fascinating.
ReplyDeleteDjango will air on HBO over there, not sure when exactly, probably soon.
DeleteFeel Me Once sounds a good one to me. I bet the husband wasn't really dead...
ReplyDeleteProbably got fed up with her LOL
DeleteI'm curious about Fool Me Once.
ReplyDeleteShould be suspenseful.
DeleteImagine thinking your husband is dead and he's been sneaking into your house the whole time. Sounds like a shady character.
ReplyDeleteI do love mini series, so I'm most looking forward to Paris Interzone.
He must have had good reason to play dead.
DeleteLooks like Michelle Keegan might have escaped the 'curse of Coronation Street'. Some actors who have been famous in the British soap haven't always carried on their success once they left the series. That said, Suranne Jones and Joanne Froggett were both on 'Corrie' and went on to do other things. However there have been some famous actors who've done guest spots on 'Corrie' - for example Ian McKellan played a 'creative writing' teacher who was something of a con artist in the early-ish 2000s.
ReplyDeleteKeegan is very pretty and her hot husband helps her stay in media constantly with his delicious shirtless pics, so that is a plus for her too. It helps a lot when you are interesting to the media. Plus, Brits have always been in shortage with talented young actresses. They have the mature ones and tons of talented boys, but we so rarely get nice talented girls from UK, so broadcasters are probably hungry for the types like Keegan, pretty and able to hold people's attention.
DeleteWe have a few decent young actresses here in (hopefully not perfidious) Albion, Dezmond. You may of course have a different opinion but I liked Maisie Williams and Bella Ramsey from GoT though they might not be conventionally cutesie. I also like Anya Chalotra (she had a small part in an adaptation of an Agatha Christie story where I liked her so I'm not just thinking of 'The Witcher'). The 'mature' ones were 'girls' once, Dezzy. I'm old enough to remember people raving about a young actress in The National Youth Theatre who was originally thinking of keeping her drama as a hobby. What was her name? Oh yes, Helen Mirren.
DeleteI suppose a factor is that there are several young wannabe actresses who leave drama school annually. Because drama is such a competitive field not everybody is going to make a name for themselves.
DeleteYes, sad to say we won't agree on the names you listed :) Maisie and Bella are painfully atrocious with their amateurish approach and absolute lack of screen presence and any expression. Chalotra would be the worst of the worst in my opinion, I think that with her utter lack of acting chops, her deeply unintelligent massacre of the role she was given she pretty much single handedly destroyed any chance for Witcher to be likeable or even remotely good. The scenes with her totally lost and confused in front of the camera as an absolute unprofessional are a testimony to how these days you get roles without any acting talent. There is nobody among the youngsters who could reach the thespian grandeur of Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Imelda Staunton, Keeley Hawes etc. Even when somebody appears with looks and talent, for example Laura Haddock, or with talent and depth, for example Jessie Buckley, they don't get lead roles which end up in the hands of talentless and bland faces.
DeleteHelen Mirren is for me, a whole story in itself. I never considered her overly great, she has just always been someone who knows how to handle media for her own good. As a girl she was more known for her tendency to act naked than for masterful performances. She will certainly never be great as Judie, Imelda, Maggie, or Julie Walters, and often gives very mediocre and uninspired roles, like in Catherine the Great, but she has a certain charisma that people like. Due to her constantly 'dead face' I'm struggling to name one legendary role of hers, but let us say she was great in THE QUEEN but mostly due to the queen being cold and inexpressive herself, so Mirren just acted the way she is herself.
I guess it's different strokes for different folks. People have praised A Chalotra's live theatre work. I may have a slight bias towards Anya because she comes from a part of Britain that is not a million miles away from where I was born though not exactly the same place.
DeleteJessie Buckley was the runner-up in a competition Andrew Lloyd-Webber held looking for a leading lady. She gets character actor type work but maybe not so much leading lady work. She's from the Irish Republic though so not UK. Another person who did well - though didn't actually win - in the ALW singathon competition was Samantha Barks - but you probably don't like her either. I liked Helen Mirren's turn as Elizabeth I on TV (I also liked Anne-Marie Duff as Elizabeth). I wasn't that taken with Cate Blanchett though many people find her Elizabeth I one of the best interpretations of that character.
Ones to watch (and this is just my tuppence worth) might be Ria Zmitrovicw and Liv Hill who were in the 2017 drama Three Girls as two troubled sisters. It was the conventionally pretty Molly Windsor who won the BAFTA in 2018.
DeleteBuckley had a lead in Lady in White but that was such an atrociously boring series that they probably thought she isn't star material, which she isn't indeed, but she sure does have talent.
DeleteI'm not familiar with Matthias S's work though I know that some people had fun trying to decide what his nationality was when he played Farmer Oak in a film version of Far From the Madding Crowd a few years ago. At least in that film the lady who played Bathsheba either had dark hair (or had darkened her hair). The 1967/8 FFTMC fil was decent but I'd read the book and whenever Julie Christie came on I was thinking like "Bathsheba's not supposed to be blonde" and "Would it have killed her to wear a dark wig?". For the record I actually like Julie Christie but she's just not how as a book reader I envisaged Bathsheba.
ReplyDeleteHe was amazing in Madding Crowd, utterly charismatic. Carry Mulligan, on the other hand, wasn't overly great, she does not have the looks of a leading star, but she was tolerable and the film was OK in the end. Certainly better her than the atrocious Mia Wasikowska or Keira Knightley.
DeleteI don't think I've seen Mia Wotsername in anything so can't judge her. I liked Keira Knightley in Bend It Like Beckham though she wasn't my idea of Lizzie Bennett. To be fair to KK I've come across people who thought she was a great Lizzie.
DeleteWasikowska is the same type as Mulligan and Knightley, slightly unattractive, a bit harsh and clumsy, but for some reason she gets roles. I think she was Alice in Wonderland in Burton's movie. She also played Madam Bovary.and Jane Eyre.
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