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Written by BAFTA award-winning Director Peter Kosminsky (Warriors and The Government Inspector), The Promise is an inspiring depiction of political injustice experienced in modern day Israel and the old state of Palestine in the Second World War.
Claire Foy (Little Dorrit) and Christian Cooke (Cemetery Junction) lead an international cast, including Itay Tiran (Lebanon), Haaz Sleiman (The Visitor), Ali Sulaiman (Paradise Now) and Perdita Weeks (Lost in Austen), in Peter Kosminsky’s new four-part drama serial, released on DVD and Blu-ray on 28th February. Continue…
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February 03, 2011 by Anna • "The Promise", News / Rumors
Claire Foy & Christian Cooke, The Promise
Feb 01, 2011 – A major new Channel 4 drama looks at the bloody and brutal history of Israel. TV Choice talks to its two stars, Claire Foy and Christian Cooke…
Tell us about your characters
Claire Foy: I play Erin who’s on a gap year before university and goes off to Israel with her schoolfriend Eliza, who is doing her National Service. Erin is very moody. She feels her life is not as good as anyone else’s and has got a massive chip on her shoulder. But when she reads her grandfather Len’s diary she starts to change. It’s about his experiences in post-war Israel and all of a sudden she feels she has something to believe in and someone to love.
Christian Cooke: And I play her grandad in the scenes set after the war. Len was part of the British peacekeeping force sent to Israel in accordance with the 1917 mandate. He’s young and naive but he’s got a strong sense of justice. Continue…
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February 01, 2011 by Mia • "The Promise", Articles
Photoshoot used in You & The Independent
Added more pictures to the set of portraits that were used by You Magazine last year and just recently by The Independent. Enjoy!
GALLERY LINK:
- Photoshoots: You Magazine (2010)
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February 01, 2011 by Mia • Gallery
TV Choice w/c 5 February Claire Foy’s promising role
Claire Foy reveals how she identified with her latest role as a stroppy teenager in this week’s TV Choice.
Feb 01, 2011 – Claire plays spoilt Erin, 18, who travels to Israel with her friend Elizar in Channel 4’s The Promise. But Erin starts to change when she reads her grandfather’s diary about his experiences in the British peacekeeping force in Palestine at the end of WWII.
‘Erin thinks the world’s against her,’ explains Claire Foy, who spent 10 weeks filming in Tel Aviv.
‘I could appreciate what she was like because I was like her when I was 18. Looking back I was awful, just so moody. I’m worried that my mum’s going to see this and think, “Oh my God, the bitch is back.â€â€™
Exclusive scan over here
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February 01, 2011 by Anna • "The Promise", Articles
Lots of ‘The Promise’ Related UK Scans
Huge thanks to Lorna. 
GALLERY LINKS:
- Magazine Scans from 2011: Total TV Guide (UK) – January 29-February 4, 2011
- Magazine Scans from 2011: Radio Times (UK) – February 5-11, 2011
- Magazine Scans from 2011: TV Choice (UK) – February 5-11, 2011
- Magazine Scans from 2011: TV Times (UK) – February 5-11, 2011
- Magazine Scans from 2011: Total TV Guide (UK) – February 5-11, 2011
- Magazine Scans from 2011: TV And Satellite Week (UK) – February 5-11, 2011
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February 01, 2011 by Anna • "The Promise", Articles, Gallery, Media Alerts
Independent On Sunday Scan and ‘The Promise’ Stills
Big thanks to Lorna.
GALLERY LINKS:
- Magazine Scans from 2011: Independent On Sunday (UK) – January 30, 2011
- The Promise: Production Stills
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January 31, 2011 by Anna • "The Promise", Articles, Gallery
Claire Foy: ‘I’ve surprised myself by not behaving like a massive knob’
I want to be an actress not a celebrity I don’t want to get involved with that whole circuit, it’s not me. I’ve been to a couple of red-carpet events; everyone’s taking your photo, and you know one person there. It feels strange, like arriving at a party with no friends in sight. Why would you do that?
I embarrass myself on a daily basis Particularly after I’ve had a glass of wine. All of a sudden I think that what I have to say is really important, so I end up telling people how to run their lives. I’m lucky that my friends know me well enough to say, “Claire, shut up.”
I feel very lucky I’ve worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I’d be any good at, or make a living from. Continue…
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January 30, 2011 by Anna • "Season of the Witch", "The Promise", "Upstairs, Downstairs", Articles
New ‘Season of the Witch’ Still
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GALLERY LINK:
- Season of the Witch (2010): Production Stills
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January 27, 2011 by Anna • "Season of the Witch", Gallery
Peter Kosminsky: Britain’s humiliation in Palestine
Peter Kosminsky is one of Britain’s most acclaimed directors of hard-hitting television drama. His latest project – 11 years in the making – tells the story of postwar Palestine and Israeli independence through the eyes of a British soldier serving in the territory. It promises to be an event.
In 1999, shortly after his film about the British peace-keeping force in Bosnia, Warriors, was screened by the BBC, Peter Kosminsky received a letter. It was from an old soldier, who had found Warriors moving, and wanted to thank its director. At the end of the letter, though, was a line – thrown out more in hope than expectation – that caught Kosminsky’s eye. “You should do a film about the British soldiers who were in Palestine,” it said. “No one remembers us.” Continue…
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January 23, 2011 by Anna • "The Promise", Articles
Photoshoot update
Many thanks Hilary for the scan and photoshoot picture from Screen Daily and its magazine Screen International. I also added a recent unknown photoshoot.
GALLERY LINKS:
- Magazine Scans from 2008: Screen International (US) – July 11-24
- Photoshoots: Screen Daily (2008)
- Photoshoots: Unknown (2011)
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January 16, 2011 by Mia • Gallery
The Insiders: Claire Foy and Robert Sheehan
The next installment of Paranormal Activity won’t hit theaters for a while, but a spooky period piece will keep you jolted in the meantime. It’s Season of the Witch, the film about medieval knights who transport a young – and possibly demonic – woman to her Witch Trial. And it’s scary / creepy / gross / all the things that make going to a big action movie with a pack of Gummi Worms fun.
We sat down with the movie’s two young British stars, who share screen time with Nicholas Cage and a lot of fire, blood, and dirt.
GALLERY LINK:
- Photoshoots: Nylon (2011)
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January 11, 2011 by Mia • "Season of the Witch", Articles, Gallery
‘Upstairs Downstairs’ in the Evening Standard Magazine
GALLERY LINK:
- Scans from 2010: ES Magazine (UK) – December 17, 2010, big thanks to Lorna
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January 10, 2011 by Anna • "Upstairs, Downstairs", Articles, Gallery
InStyle (UK) – February 2011
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Claire Foy tells InStyle UK she’s got a style crush on Sophie Ellis-Bextor! 
GALLERY LINK:
- Scans: InStyle (UK) – February 2011
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January 08, 2011 by Anna • Gallery
Claire Foy in Yigal Azrouel
Whilst attending the after party for her latest blockbuster, Season of the Witch, British actress Claire Foy was dressed to impress in Yigal Azrouel dress in New York on Tuesday.
Proving that long lengths are sticking around for yet another season, the rising young star rocked the formal floorlength gown, complete with a contrasting sheer white upper body and statement black waistband – not to mention a seductive thigh high split – with an air of effortless elegance and a subtle sexiness to boot.
And teaming her look with black accessories, Foy certainly knows how to turn pared-down minimalism into one massive style statement – and with a slick of vibrant red lippy, this British beauty proves she’s got what it takes in the style stakes.
So keep your eyes peeled for this up-and coming-fashionista – she’s definitely one to watch for 2011.
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January 08, 2011 by Anna • "Season of the Witch", Articles, Public Events
‘Season Of The Witch’ Press Day
Earlier this week I got a chance to go to the press conference for the new supernatural thriller, “Season of the Witch,” with actors Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Claire Foy, Robert Sheehan, and Stephen Campbell Moore. Aside from actors being covered in bacon and attacked by wolves, I’d really like to know more about Ron Perlman’s hotel habits. I never thought I would, but I do.
This film is rooted in the time of the Crusades. What themes in the film do you think are relevant to today?
Nicolas Cage: I think there are enormous parallels to be made in politics and religion, but I don’t want to draw them. I’ll leave it up to you guys to sort that out.
Ron Perlman: Very, very good answer. Continue…