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Claire Foy has revealed she went on a Nicolas Cage hunt while filming her new period drama The Night Watch.
The Upstairs, Downstairs star worked with Cage on the film Season Of The Witch, and while filming on location in Bath, where she knew he had a home, decided to try and track him down.
Claire said: “I did walk around the crescent where he lives going, ‘Nic, Niiiiiic!’ in the hope he would open his door.”
She added: “He’s a lovely man. When I first met, him he strode across the car park and went, ‘I’m so glad you’re doing this movie’. I thought, ‘Oh my God, are you mad?’ It was such a bizarre experience. I couldn’t think of what to say, because Nicolas Cage saying he’s glad that I’m doing the film that he’s doing was just a bit odd.”
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July 10, 2011 by Anna • "Season of the Witch", "The Night Watch", Articles
‘The Night Watch’ – Official Trailer
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July 09, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Videos
Claire Foy: ‘Next I want to do some singing and dancing’ – interview
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Spend a little time in Claire Foy’s company and you get the sense that, while she might be a bit stunned at how rapidly her acting career has progressed, she’s certainly going to seize her moment. Irrepressibly cheerful, fast-talking and candid, the 27-year-old has barely rested in the four years since she left the Oxford School of Drama. It was only a matter of months before she starred in the pilot episode of Being Human (she always knew it could be huge, she says); she went on to take the leading roles in the BBC’s 14-part adaptation of Little Dorrit and in Peter Kosminsky’s acclaimed Israel-Palestine drama The Promise, which she describes as “a real love project for everyone who did it”. Oh, and she’s also squeezed in Upstairs Downstairs and a Hollywood fantasy thriller, Season of the Witch, with Nicolas Cage.
Now we’re about to see her playing the romantically tortured Helen in Paula Milne’s adaptation of the Sarah Waters novel The Night Watch. She says that when she first read the script she thought “Oh God… On the outside you see her as what she is, which is doing lots of things wrong, like when you look into someone’s relationship and think, ‘Don’t do that, Don’t do that, Don’t do that’ – and then they keep doing it. It’s painful to watch, in a way.”
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July 09, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", "The Promise", "White Heat", Articles, Gallery
‘The Night Watch’: More UK Scans
Helen, played by Claire Foy, is Kay’s girlfriend but she’s less certain of her sexuality than Kay and struggles with social taboo.
“Helen is a lost soul who doesn’t really see herself as a lesbian,” explains Claire, 27. “She doesn’t like living a lie and she can’t justify being with a woman in her mind if other people think it’s a bad thing to do.
“So when she falls passionately in love with a woman, that’s a shock for her.” (Source)
The Night Watch will air next Tuesday, July 12, on BBC2, at 9pm.
GALLERY LINKS:
- Scans: Daily Express Saturday (UK) – July 9, 2011
- Scans: Daily Mail Weekend (UK) – July 9, 2011
- Scans: Woman (UK) – July 11, 2011
- Scans: Clippings from 2011
Big thanks to Lorna.
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July 09, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles, Gallery, Media Alerts
‘The Night Watch’: Claire Foy interview
BBC Two’s been having a stellar run of drama recently, and the latest show aiming to capture the attention of the British public is The Night Watch. Based on the novel by Sarah Waters – she of Tipping The Velvet fame – the film focuses on the lives of several women living in wartime, and just post-wartime, London. Among the list of amazing stars taking part is Claire Foy, who recently chatted to reporters about her role in the drama. Read on to find out what she had to say about researching smoking, why love scenes are easier with two women, and whether she’s nervous about how the film will go down… Continue…
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July 08, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles
Love among the ruins
“You don’t see the broad sweep of London at war,” explains Claire Foy, who appears in the one-off drama as an insecure and brittle marriage bureau owner called Helen Giniver. “It is more personal, about people trying to live their lives while a war is going on and how it affects their decisions and erodes their lives.”
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“Working backwards is a really clever device,” says Foy. “You really get the sense that life was almost easier in the war because every decision was made for you and you lived day to day because you knew you might die at any moment. After the war, none of the characters knows what to do with their life and the country is in a state of flux.”
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“The four main characters are outsiders, because they are not really part of the status quo,” says Maxwell Martin. “Most of them are hiding secrets, and the drama shows how the war frees them and yet binds them at the same time.”
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For both Foy and Maxwell Martin, the toughest part of the shoot was filming on the bomb sites where Kay (Anna Maxwell Martin’s character) has to work. The scenes were shot in Bath, which was doubling as wartime London.
Source: Our scans located in the gallery
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July 08, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles, Gallery
‘The Night Watch’: New UK Scans
Claire Foy is ditching her Little Dorrit bonnet for a new period drama — with World War Two as the setting and the subject being sex not rags to riches.
“Helen’s on a knife edge,” insists Claire. “Nobody knows she’s desperately in love with a woman and every day she’s pretending to be someone she’s not. It’s awful for her.”
The Night Watch is based on the book by Sarah Waters, who also wrote the steamy Tipping the Velvet. “It won’t be quite as controversial,” says Claire. Besides, it seems filming the bedroom scenes with a woman was fun.
“It’s much easier than with a man,” Claire says. “You can chat and everyone’s got the same bits and pieces!” (Source)
The Night Watch will air next Tuesday, July 12, on BBC2, at 9pm.
GALLERY LINKS:
- Scans: Closer (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: Heat (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: Your TV Week (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
Big thanks to Lorna.
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July 06, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles, Gallery, Media Alerts
Independent Magazine Scans
Jodie Whittaker talks The Night Watch and more.
GALLERY LINK:
- Scans: Independent Magazine (UK) – June 18, 2011, thanks to Lorna
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July 05, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles, Gallery
‘The Night Watch’: Extensive UK Media Coverage
Big thanks to Lorna.
GALLERY LINKS:
- Scans: Radio Times (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: Total TV Guide (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: TV And Satellite Week (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: TV Choice (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: TV Easy (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: TV Times (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: What’s On TV (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
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July 05, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles, Gallery, Media Alerts
Daily Telegraph Magazine Scans
Burning Desires
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters’ tale of turbulent passions set against the background of Blitz-hit London, is coming to television. Chloe Fox reports from the set.
GALLERY LINK:
- Scans: Daily Telegraph Magazine (UK) – July 2, 2011, thanks to Lorna
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July 02, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles, Gallery
New Guardian (2011) Outtake and 7 Brand New ‘Night Watch’ Stills
We forgot to post about, but, i’s tbetter late than never… Can you believe that Claire Foy Source has been online for 2 years already? 
Time flies! 
We’re very excited, happy and proud to have supported and followed Claire’s career throughout these years and to have brought you the latest news and images concerning Miss Foy. But, most of all, we’re very excited, happy and proud of everything that she has accomplished since we fell for her in Little Dorrit. Happy Anniversary to us and Congrats to Miss Foy for so many interesting projects and great performances! 
GALLERY LINKS:
- Photoshoots: The Guardian (2011)
- The Night Watch (TV, 2011): Production Stills
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June 29, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Gallery
‘The Night Watch’ – Claire Foy plays Helen
What attracted you to the role of Helen?
It was the project as a whole as opposed to just the character of Helen that attracted me. Richard Laxton – the director – was seeing people for every role and I originally really wanted to go for Viv, he kept saying: “Have a look at Helen, have a look at Helen.” When I did I felt she was such an interesting character, so difficult and also quite embarrassing to watch.
You really have to face up to some of your own insecurities to play a character like her because she is so vulnerable, fragile and naive. It was interesting to try and recall whether I had ever behaved like her.
But Helen is also lovely, you want to help her. She is like a friend who continually makes the wrong decisions, even after the advice you give them.
Continue…
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June 29, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles
HQs from the 2011 Philips British Academy Television Awards
Finally!
GALLERY LINK:
- Events: 2011 Philips British Academy Television Awards
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June 09, 2011 by Anna • "The Promise", Gallery, Public Events
Scan from Elle UK (2008)
I’m very happy to finally be able to offer you guys and girls, and add to our gallery, a scan from Elle UK, which was — to my best knowledge — one of the two big magazines to feature Miss Claire Foy, back in 2008, that we were missing (the other one is Vogue UK). The photo used in the article is part of the Daily Mail set, but it’s a previously unseen one. Enjoy!
GALLERY LINKS:
- Photoshoots: Daily Mail (2008)
- Scans from 2008: Elle (UK) – December 2008
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May 30, 2011 by Anna • "Little Dorrit", Articles, Gallery, Projects
Blu-ray Screencaptures from ‘Season of the Witch’
Please DO NOT click to view the images if you haven’t seen the film yet, because they’re obviously beyond spoilerish! Proceed at your own risk!
Many thanks to my friend Annie.
GALLERY LINK:
- Season of the Witch (2011): Blu-ray Screencaptures