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Continuing to add missing high quality screencaptures of Claire Foy in her projects I bring you today pictures of feisty Adora Belle Dearheart in the first of two episodes of Terry Pratchett’s ‘Going Postal‘. Enjoy!
GALLERY LINK:
- Going Postal (TV, 2010): Episode 01
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September 05, 2011 by Mia • "Going Postal", Gallery
‘The Promise’ Blu-ray Screencaptures – Part 4
As promised, here the screencaptures of Claire Foy as Erin Matthews in the fourth and final episode of ‘The Promise‘. After Paul comes and gets Erin when she’s stuck in Hebron they continue the search for her grandad’s servant and or his family. However, they learn that he moved to Gaza. Paul being unwilling to take her into the warzone Erin asks Omar. When he realizes she plans to return a precious house key to Mohammed he finally agrees to take her. Ending up by herself with relatives of Mohammed Erin faces danger as Israeli soldiers are raiding the house because the family’s daughter was a suicide bomber.
GALLERY LINK:
- The Promise (TV, 2011): Episode 04
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September 04, 2011 by Mia • "The Promise", Gallery
‘The Promise’ Blu-ray Screencaptures – Part 3
I finally added Blu-ray screencaptures of Claire Foy as Erin Matthews in the third part of the gripping drama ‘The Promise‘. This episode doesn’t feature as much footage of Erin but even so her journey gets more exciting. She goes to see Omar at his home by herself and invites him inside Eliza’s home, which leads to trouble and another epileptic fit. Through the diary Erin finds out how her granddad also suffered from those. After connecting with Paul things go further than planned and Erin takes off by herself to occupied Hebron and into the city’s closed off ‘sterile zone’ which of course again leads to trouble. Expect screencaptures from the final and even more tumultuous final episode later this week – enjoy!
GALLERY LINK:
- The Promise (TV, 2011): Episode 03
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August 30, 2011 by Mia • "The Promise", 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
Television Awards 2011: Official Brochure
The Television Awards brochure was given to all attendees of the 2011 Philips British Academy Television Awards last May. It was made available as e-mag. Not only does it feature the previously mentioned photoshoot of Claire Foy but she answered also the BAFTA Big Questions – how she got into acting, what movies influenced her and what advice she would give to somebody starting out in the acting industry.
GALLERY LINK:
- Interviews/News Segments > Philips British Academy Television Awards | Official Brochure | BAFTA Big Questions
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July 20, 2011 by Mia • Gallery, Videos
‘The Night Watch’ Screencaptures
I added HQ screencaptures from Claire Foy’s latest project ‘The Night Watch‘ wich aired in the UK last week. Enjoy!
GALLERY LINK:
- The Night Watch (2011, TV): Screencaptures
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July 18, 2011 by Mia • "The Night Watch", Gallery
‘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
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July 10, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Gallery
Foy: My search for Nicolas Cage
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.”