When Natascha McElhone got her big break as an actor, she very nearly blew it. She was fresh out of drama school and appearing in Richard III at the Open Air Theatre in London’s Regent’s Park. It was pouring with rain one evening and, though McElhone didn’t know it, the writer and director James Ivory, of Merchant Ivory fame, had come to watch the show. She had briefly met him a few weeks earlier while reading for a part in his 1996 film Surviving Picasso, a biopic of the artist told from the perspective of the painter Françoise Gilot, who was his lover for a decade. “I had gone in, read a page of the script and was immediately ushered out, so I didn’t think anything of it,” she recalls.
And so, on this rainy night, McElhone was having a post-show drink at the bar when “this...
And so, on this rainy night, McElhone was having a post-show drink at the bar when “this...
- 2/1/2023
- by Fiona Sturges
- The Independent - TV
Exclusive: Clémence Poésy (The Essex Serpent) and Adam Nagaitis (Chernobyl) are set as leads opposite Norman Reedus in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, AMC’s spinoff from its flagship drama. This marks British actor Nagatis’ return to AMC where he previously starred in The Terror.
Set after the series conclusion of Twd, the Reedus-led offshoot finds the zombie apocalypse fan favorite transported across the Atlantic to France and a whole new level of a world gone mad.
French actor Poesy will play the female lead Isabelle, a member of a progressive religious group, who joins forces with Daryl (Reedus) on a journey across France and finds herself confronting her dark past in Paris.
Nagaitis protrays Quinn, a displaced Brit who has become powerful in post-apocalyptic Paris as a black marketeer and the owner of the Demimonde, a sexy underground nightclub.
Originally intended to star fellow Twd alum Melissa McBride alongside Reedus,...
Set after the series conclusion of Twd, the Reedus-led offshoot finds the zombie apocalypse fan favorite transported across the Atlantic to France and a whole new level of a world gone mad.
French actor Poesy will play the female lead Isabelle, a member of a progressive religious group, who joins forces with Daryl (Reedus) on a journey across France and finds herself confronting her dark past in Paris.
Nagaitis protrays Quinn, a displaced Brit who has become powerful in post-apocalyptic Paris as a black marketeer and the owner of the Demimonde, a sexy underground nightclub.
Originally intended to star fellow Twd alum Melissa McBride alongside Reedus,...
- 11/7/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Genius has some new company. Recently, National Geographic Channel announced Alex Rich, Clémence Poésy, Robert Sheehan, and several others have joined the TV show's second season.The upcoming season of the anthology drama will explore the life and works of Pablo Picasso (Antonio Banderas). The cast also includes Alex Rich as Young Picasso, Clémence Poésy as Françoise Gilot, Robert Sheehan as Carlos Casagemas, Poppy Delevingne as Marie-Thérèse Walter, Aisling Franciosi as Fernande Olivier, and Sebastian Roche as Emile Gilot.Read More…...
- 11/3/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Today marks the centennial of the great French photography Robert Doisneau and though he wasn't a celebrity photographer -- the kind we obviously have the greatest use for as film obsessives -- he did them on occassion. I love this shot of one of the great auteur/muse pairings (both onscreen and off) actor Jean Marais (left) and Jean Cocteau (right).
Here's another of Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot.
Remember when Anthony Hopkins and Natasha McElhone pretended to be them? I know I know. No one saw Surviving Picasso (1996)... but I did because Julianne Moore was Dora Maar (another Picasso victim... excuse me, lover!) and with Julianne I martyr myself to completism.
If you could photograph one auteur/muse pairing, who would it be?...
Here's another of Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot.
Remember when Anthony Hopkins and Natasha McElhone pretended to be them? I know I know. No one saw Surviving Picasso (1996)... but I did because Julianne Moore was Dora Maar (another Picasso victim... excuse me, lover!) and with Julianne I martyr myself to completism.
If you could photograph one auteur/muse pairing, who would it be?...
- 4/14/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
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