Gary Oldman on Playing Winston Churchill in ‘Darkest Hour’

 

Gary Oldman on Playing Winston Churchill in ‘Darkest Hour’: “You have a responsibility to the family to the people, to the icon, and to the image”

Oldman talks about how he got into character as the former Prime Minister.

By Chris McKittrick

January 31, 2018

On one hand, acting great Gary Oldman is virtually unrecognizable as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. One the other, that’s par for the course for Oldman, who even went as far as being uncredited for his sinister role in 2001’s Hannibal. But Oldman may have undergone his greatest transformation in Darkest Hour. Playlist reports on Oldman’s appearance at the 92nd Street Y’s Reel Pieces when he spoke about how he got into character as the former Prime Minister.

41 million wills available to search online for the first time

Charles Dickens

41 million wills available to search online for the first time

The wills of Charles Dickens, Winston Churchill, Alan Turing and Beatrix Potter are among millions which have been made accessible to the public through a searchable online database.

Published 27 December 2014

From:

Ministry of Justice and Shailesh Vara MP

The government’s archive of 41 million wills dates back to 1858 and will enable people to find out more about their family histories, as well as researching the last wishes of some of the most influential people of the 19th and 20th century.