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.

 

Joel Kinnaman on Playing a “Broken Down” Character on ‘In Treatment’

Joel Kinnaman reveals that the part was pitched to him as Aduba's "boy toy" and what appealed to him about the role and working with Aduba.

By Chris McKittrick / Actors On Acting / November 10, 2021

“I liked playing a guy who’s a little broken down and not necessarily an alpha male…. Being an actor and not being entirely successful is a tough thing to deal with.” – Joel Kinnaman on His ‘In Treatment’ Character

 

Dakota Fanning in Netfix’s, The Perfect Couple

Dakota Fanning on Outgrowing the ‘Child Actor’ Label and Finding Freedom on Set

Fanning also reflects on her two-decade career, and the surprising insights she gained from directing her first short 

By Chris McKittrick / Actors On Acting / November 18, 2024 Because Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated actress Dakota Fanning has appeared in films for over 20 years, it’s easy to forget that she is only 30 years old. Her career has had incredible breadth in those years, from Steven Spielberg-directed blockbusters (War of the Worlds) to animation (Coraline) to the Twilight film series, Tarantino movies (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) and ythe Netflix hit, The Perfect Couple. Having developed all that experience at such a young age puts Fanning in a rare class. Speaking about her career with IndieWire, Fanning reflected on being labeled a “child actor,” being present on a film set without distractions, and what she learned from directing a short film (something that she doubts that she will do again).

Emil Cioran, Eugène Ionesco and Mircea Eliade (from left to right), in Place Furstenberg, Paris, in 1977.LOUIS MONIER (GAMMA-

When intellectuals cheer on fascism

Many thinkers supported fascist regimes in the 1930s, a precedent that is very disturbing today

Guillermo Altares

27 December 2024

A famous photograph taken by Louis Monier in 1977 in one of the most beautiful squares in the Latin Quarter in Paris shows three great intellectuals of the 20th century whose influence continues to this day: the philosopher Emil Cioran, the historian of religions and novelist Mircea Eliade, and the playwright Eugène Ionesco. The first two had a very dark secret to hide: their sympathy for Romanian fascism in the 1930s and 1940s, their antisemitism, and their intellectual support for a regime responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Jews. The third, the inventor of the theater of the absurd, of Jewish origin, survived the war and spent the rest of his life in France. They were very good friends in their youth, but their relationship was forever affected by Cioran and Eliade’s past.

 

Journalist Jon Lee Anderson at Madrid’s Hotel Hospes Puerta de Acalá in November.ÁLVARO GARCÍA

Jon Lee Anderson, journalist: ‘I can’t rule out a civil war in the United States’

‘The New Yorker’ reporter is publishing a Spanish-language compilation of his articles. After abandoning X, he says, ‘Social media is a toxic swamp’

Guillermo Altares

Madrid, 27 December 2024

Jon Lee Anderson, reporter for The New Yorker, author of numerous books, biographer of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, speaks a Spanish as entertaining as it is colorful. He’s one of the journalists who best knows Latin America and maintains ties, both familiar and sentimental, with Granada, Spain, where he lived for many years. His history of coming and going across the Atlantic and the Andes has left its mark on the way he speaks the language, with a blend of sayings and accents from many countries.

 

Daniel Craig in 'Queer.'

Daniel Craig: “I wouldn’t have been able to star in ‘Queer’ during the years I was playing James Bond”

The English actor is nominated for a Golden Globe for his role as a heroin-addicted writer in Luca Guadagnino’s new film and is tipped to work again with the Italian director

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Daniel Craig, 56, has never shied away from exploring the raw passion of the characters he portrays. In Love is the Devil (1998), he played a petty thief who becomes the lover of painter Francis Bacon. On stage at the National Theatre, he embodied the young Republican and Mormon lawyer Joe Pitt in Tony Kushner’s legendary Angels in America, capturing the character’s repression and fervent passion in his exchanges with Jewish civil servant Louis Ironson, as the play delved into the fears and desires of the gay community during the AIDS crisis.

Michael SOWA III

 

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The accountable leader from Golda to Bibi

ON APRIL 1, 2024 BY MARTIN KRAMER

During these days in April, fifty years ago, Israel was engulfed in turmoil.

 

Israel must never stand alone

ON MAY 16, 2024 BY MARTIN KRAMER

Israeli politicians often assert that Israel can and will “defend itself by itself,” a longstanding formula dating back decades. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeated it often. But he’s added an amplification: Israel will do so “even if we must stand alone.”

 

Bibi’s evolving Hamas story

ON AUGUST 11, 2024 BY MARTIN KRAMER

Last November, I asked this question: why didn’t Benjamin Netanyahu keep his 2009 campaign promise to topple Hamas? I found at least part of the answer in his 2022 memoir, Bibi: My Story.

The Emissary by Ray Bradbury

 

The Emissary
by Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury / El emisario

    Martin knew it was autumn again, for Dog ran into the house bringing wind and frost and a smell of apples turned to cider under trees. In dark clock-springs of hair, Dog fetched goldenrod, dust of farewell-summer, acornhusk, hair of squirrel, feather of departed robin, sawdust from fresh-cut cordwood, and leaves like charcoals shaken from a blaze of maple trees. Dog jumped. Showers of brittle fern, blackberry vine, marsh-grass sprang over the bed where Martin shouted. No doubt, no doubt of it at all, this incredible beast was October!

The Lake by Ray Bradbury

The Lake
by Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury / El lago

    The wave shut me off from the world, from the birds in the sky, the children on the beach, my mother on the shore. There was a moment of green silence. Then the wave gave me back to the sky, the sand, the children yelling. I came out of the lake and the world was waiting for me, having hardly moved since I went away.

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

The Veldt

by Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury / La pradera

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    ‘George, I wish you’d look at the nursery.’
    ‘What’s wrong with it?’
    ‘I don’t know.’
    ‘Well, then.’
    ‘I just want you to look at it, is all, or call a psychologist in to look at it.’
    ‘What would a psychologist want with a nursery?’
    ‘You know very well what he’d want.’ His wife paused in the middle of the kitchen and watched the stove busy humming to itself, making supper for four.
    ‘It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was.’
    ‘All right, let’s have a look.’

The Long Rain by Ray Bradbury

 

  

The Long Rain

by Ray Bradbury 

Ray Bradbury / La lluvia

The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains. It came by the pound and the ton, it hacked at the jungle and cut the trees like scissors and shaved the grass and tunneled the soil and molted the bushes. It shrank men’s hands into the hands of wrinkled apes; it rained a solid glassy rain, and it never stopped.

Kaleidoscope by Ray Bradbury

 

Kaleidoscope

by Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury / Calidoscopio

    The first concussion cut the rocket up the side with a giant can opener. The men were thrown into space like a dozen wriggling silverfish. They were scattered into a dark sea; and the ship, in a million pieces, went on, a meteor swarm seeking a lost sun.

The End of the Beginning by Ray Bradbury

 

The End of the Beginning

by Ray Bradbury

    He stopped the lawn mower in the middle of the yard, because he felt that the sun at just that moment had gone down and the stars come out. The fresh-cut grass that had showered his face and body died softly away. Yes, the stars were there, faint at first, but brightening in the clear desert sky. He heard the porch screen door tap shut and felt his wife watching him as he watched the night.

‘A spy in the land of the privileged / Why Eve Babitz’s cult Hollywood memoir still matters 50 years on

Eve Babitz

‘A spy in the land of the privileged’: why Eve Babitz’s cult Hollywood memoir still matters 50 years on

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In 70s LA, Eve Babitz partied with everyone from Salvador Dali to Jim Morrison, but she was also a trailblazing writer. As a new generation discover her work, her sister and agent celebrate her originality, ambition and lust for life

Kat Lister

Saturday 10 August 2024

In the mid-50s, when Eve Babitz was 13 years old, she asked her mother, Mae, if she would buy her a leopardskin rug. “A real one, you know?” Babitz’s sister, Mirandi, reminisces on a video call from her home in Los Angeles – laughing at her elder sibling’s spunky request. Their mother said no. But she cushioned the blow by offering to get her a leopard print swimsuit instead. “There’s a picture of her wearing it reading Elinor Glyn,” Mirandi continues. “I mean, there you go,” she chuckles. “That’s what she gravitated to.”

‘She won’t disappear’: Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyers on what she will do next

The 72-year-old is relieved but takes ‘no satisfaction’ in seeing other families broken up, lawyer 

Kim Willsher in Avignon

Sat 21 Dec 2024 17.32 

It took just over four years, and 67 days in court, but Gisèle Pelicot is said to feel “relieved and appeased” about the judges’ decision to convict all the men accused of raping or sexually assaulting her while she was drugged and unconscious.