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She lit up the screen as Little Dorrit – now Foy is taking on the role of a tabloid editor.
by Alice Jones
For a British actress, tying the ribbons on a period drama bonnet for the first time is an important rite of passage. For Claire Foy, though, the occasion was particularly memorable. In 2008, aged just 24, she landed the lead role in Andrew Davies’ 14-part adaptation of Little Dorrit, having previously appeared only in the pilot of Being Human and in a single episode of Doctors. All of a sudden, she was being directed by her teen idol. “I’ve seen Pride and Prejudice about 4,000 times. I’m not joking: I know every single line. I used to go round to my Aunty Cath’s house and we’d all sit under the duvet and spend all day watching the whole thing. I was obsessed,” she says. “So when I first saw my bonnet, I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’” Continue…
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December 29, 2011 by Anna • "Hacks", "Upstairs, Downstairs", "Wreckers", Articles
Trailer For Channel 4′s New Phone Hacking Satire
“The ginger prince must have been up to something!”
Actually not all that much, so why not insert a nice topical joke about that fancy dress swastika scandal… from seven years ago.
Channel 4 have released a clip from their new phone hacking satire show Hacks, based on the recent controversy surrounding the News of the World phone hacking scandal. The show is set in the offices of tabloid magazine The Sunday Comet and features a cast including Claire Foy, Nigel Planer, Phil Davis, Alexander Armstrong, Gordon Kennedy, Russ Abbott and Celia Imrie.
Hacks airs on New Years Day at 10pm on Channel 4.
Watch it HERE.
GALLERY LINK:
- Hacks (TV, 2012): Trailer
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December 29, 2011 by Anna • "Hacks", Gallery, Videos
The Moet British Independent Film Awards 2011
Claire Foy and Stephen Campbell Moore attended The Moet British Independent Film Awards 2011 yesterday. I’ll be adding more photos as soon as possible.
GALLERY LINK:
- Events: The Moet British Independent Film Awards 2011
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December 05, 2011 by Anna • Gallery, Public Events
Dazed & Confused Scan
In an explosive finale to Dazed & Confused’s 20th Anniversary season, magazine co-founder Rankin has photographed a series of 20 covers for the December issue, featuring new portraits of 20 iconic cover stars from Dazed’s past including Kate Moss, Tilda Swinton, Alicia Keys and Jarvis Cocker. Each unique cover has a gatefold pull out, which features 20 rising stars chosen by each celebrity, resulting in a groundbreaking portrait of pop culture heroes of the future. Claire Foy was PJ Harvey’s choice.
GALLERY LINK:
- Scans: Dazed & Confused (UK) – December 2011, thanks to Lorna
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November 21, 2011 by Anna • "The Promise", Articles, Gallery
First Trailer For “Wreckers”
Wreckers is on release in the UK from December 16th, and the Curzon Soho are having a Q&A screening on the 17th.
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November 07, 2011 by Anna • "Wreckers"
Claire Section Updated
I’ve just updated the Claire section of this website with brand new info that Mia and I recently gained access to. I hope you’ll all enjoy to learn new tidbits about Miss Foy. 
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October 22, 2011 by Anna • Site
UK Premiere of “Wreckers”
GALLERY LINK:
- Events: UK Premiere of “Wreckers”
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October 21, 2011 by Anna • "Wreckers", Gallery, Public Events
Brand New Outtakes from the Observer Photoshoot
Thanks to my friend Mata.
GALLERY LINK:
- Photoshoots: The Observer (2011)
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October 09, 2011 by Anna • Gallery
Eileen Atkins quits “Upstairs Downstairs”
Dame Eileen Atkins has said she will not appear in the next series of period drama Upstairs Downstairs, a show which she helped create.
The veteran actress conceived the idea for the original show – which ran from 1971-1975 – along with its star Jean Marsh, but did not appear until the series’ 2010 revival in which she played Lady Holland.
However according to the BBC News website Dame Eileen has opted out of the next series amid reports she is “unhappy” with the direction the scripts are taking.
“It’s with much sadness that we say goodbye to her wonderful character, the straight speaking mother-in-law Lady Holland,” a BBC statement said.
“However we respect her decision and will be announcing new star casting soon.”
The next six episodes of the show – which follows life above and below stairs in the home of a wealthy diplomat’s family – are due to begin filming in October, and will be broadcast in 2012, following the show’s successful revival last Christmas.
Co-creator Jean Marsh is the only cast member to have appeared in both the original and the 2010 version, which also featured Ed Stoppard, Claire Foy and Keeley Hawes.
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August 21, 2011 by Anna • "Upstairs, Downstairs", News / Rumors
“The Devil’s Double” UK Premiere
Claire Foy and Stephen Campbell Moore attended the UK premiere of ‘The Devil’s Double‘ at Vue West End on August 1, 2011 in London, England.
GALLERY LINK:
- Events: “The Devil’s Double” UK Premiere
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August 04, 2011 by Anna • Gallery, Public Events
‘The Night Watch,’ BBC Two
Written by Jasper Rees
Sarah Waters’ highly praised novels have marched from the page to the screen with regimental regularity and no apparent sacrifice in quality. Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith, with their big Victorian brushstrokes, were built for television no less than Dickens is. With The Night Watch, adapted last night, her subject was still the love that dare not speak its name. But two things were different. This time Waters’s narrative was compressed into a single film. And it was set in the Blitz, when a modern lady’s drawers could be removed in a flash.
As usual with popular quality fiction, those with a strong loyalty to the original will be posting their objections in the comments box. But clearly this was an efficient filleting by Paula Milne. All the important marks were hit: the terror of discovery for young gay men and women, somewhat alleviated by wartime when everyone was too busy licking Hitler to keep an eye on the same-sex fumblings among pert young flatsharers. In 90 minutes the more sinuous and serpentine coils of Waters’ plotting were sacrificed in the interests of clarity. But something of the structural ambition was preserved as, like Harold Pinter’s portrayal of a love triangle in Betrayal, the story came by its relevations by travelling backwards in time, in this case from 1947 via 1944 and thence to 1941.
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July 13, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles
Sarah Waters interview for ‘The Night Watch’
By Eithne Farry – 12 Jul 2011
Sarah Waters is the historical novelist that television loves to adapt. The author of Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith and Affinity has already seen her first three novels reach the small screen; The Night Watch is the fourth. This time round, though, the drama is not set amid the seedy Dickensian alleys of the Victorian era, but the bomb-damaged streets of wartime London. “It was a disruptive time, a really porous time,” Waters says. “People were living with a few layers’ less skin than usual. The landscape had been blown up, exposed, and people were sharing space with strangers, but all sorts of people benefited from it too, found new ways of living.” Continue…
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July 12, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles
Claire Foy – ‘The Night Watch’ interview
We speak to Claire Foy who plays Helen in the BBC drama The Night Watch. Based on the novel by Sarah Waters the drama centres on the interwoven stories of four women before, during and after the Second World War. Here Claire talks about period dramas, sex scenes and working with so many of her peers
You’ve had roles in things from Little Dorrit to Upstairs Downstairs and now The Night Watch – so do you like period dramas?
Claire Foy: I like any drama that pays me to be in it! Period or otherwise! Why are people so obsessed with this I find it very funny? But yes I have done quite a few period pieces. Really I like anything that’s got a good character and a story. They do so many adaptations and remakes and are always finding literature and turning it into dramas so as long as they’re doing that hopefully I’ll do lots and lots and lots, but mix it up with some modern things as well.
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July 12, 2011 by Anna • "Little Dorrit", "The Night Watch", Articles
‘The Night Watch’: Even More UK Scans
“It’s all about how the war frees you, but binds you at the same time”
Helen is far less at ease with her sexuality than Kay, and struggles to come to terms with her affections — leaving her wracked with insecurity.
“Helen makes a lot of bad decisions,” Claire tells Inside Soap. “She wants to do the right thing all the time. She’s concerned about what people think and what the right thing to do is — but she doesn’t know what that is. She wants love, but doesn’t know what to do when she gets it — that’s why her relationship with Kay goes so wrong.” (Source)
The Night Watch will air tomorrow, July 12, on BBC2, at 9pm.
GALLERY LINKS:
- Scans: Inside Soap (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: Sunday Telegraph Seven (UK) – July 10, 2011 –> Sarah Waters on being adapted and letting go
- Scans: The Observer – The New Review (UK) – July 10, 2011
- Scans: Clippings from 2011
Big thanks to Lorna.
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July 11, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles, Gallery, Media Alerts
Screencaptures from the ‘Night Watch’ Official Trailer
The Night Watch will air next Tuesday, July 12, on BBC2, at 9pm.
GALLERY LINK:
- The Night Watch (2011, TV): Official Trailer