Artists Against TTIP and Act for Change

I decided to put Artists Against TTIP and Act for Change in a blog post because I noticed that there are some people who are associated with both campaigns: David Morrissey, Juliet Stevenson, Samuel West and Ruth Wilson.



Screencaps of Tobias Menzies, Juliet Stevenson, Andrew Scott and Ruth Wilson from the Artists Against TTIP launch video.
Artists Against TTIP launched in July. TTIP is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a treaty aimed at aligning trade laws between the EU and US. In The Stage, Samuel West commented on cosmetic regulations and Carrie Cracknell suggested possible issues with subsidy and copyright.

Click the pictures above to view a selection of videos on the Act for Change Youtube channel.
(Row 1 - Chipo Chung, Indira Varma, Gemma Chan
Row 2 - Ruth Wilson & Danny Lee Wynter, Juliet Stevenson, David Harewood & David Morrissey)

Danny Lee Wynter established Act for Change in 2014, after seeing an ITV trailer which did not feature a single BAME or disabled artist. The organisation aims to improve diversity in UK performing arts, both in performance and behind the scenes.
In June, Shami Chakrabarti (head of civil rights group Liberty), chaired an Act for Change event at the National Theatre. The event had a variety of panellists: actor Adrian Lester, actor/writer Cush Jumbo, director Phyllida Lloyd, critic Mark Lawson, shadow culture secretary Chris Bryant and artistic director Jenny Sealey (BBC News and Samuel West's Twitter, @exitthelemming). Actors Sophia Sinclair, Ayesha Casely-Hayford and Mitesh Soni shared their thoughts on the debate; all have stressed the importance of improving opportunities for people from diverse backgrounds.

Whatsonstage.com awards nominations and the British Independent Film Awards

Nominees for the Whatsonstage.com awards include Charles Edwards (Best Supporting Actor in a Play); Ruth Wilson and Kristin Scott Thomas (Best Actress in a Play); and Benedict Cumberbatch and David Tennant (Best Actor in a Play). The full list of nominations is here, and voting closes 31 January.

Guests at the British Independent Film Awards included Benedict Cumberbatch, Dominic Cooper, Gemma Arterton, Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Hall, Ruth Wilson and Tom Hollander (Getty: arrivals, after party, inside arrivals).

Film - Anna Karenina. Film - The Big Year. BBC Radio.

(A glimpse of Rosamund Pike in the The Big Year trailer; and David Tennant and Kenneth Branagh discussing radio drama. Click these screencaps for 720p full size.)

Ruth Wilson has been cast in Anna Karenina, which will be directed by Joe Wright and will begin filming this month. The film's cast includes Keira Knightley, Kelly Macdonald and Matthew Macfadyen (Screen Daily).

Jason Isaacs has been interviewed for "My Secret Life" in the Independent. His responses cover things such as fashion, musicals and children.

Rosamund Pike features briefly in The Big Year trailer, which can be viewed at Apple (via firstshowing.net).

BBC Radio

• The Life and Fate website links to pages where it will be available to download as a podcast, as well as related programs. The site's videos of David Tennant and Kenneth Branagh discussing the production and radio drama in general from can also be viewed on Youtube (via tennantnews).
• Harriet Walter stars in the Drama on 3 Glass Chair Chair Glass 
• Juliet Stevenson and Kenneth Cranham are the readers for Words and Music "Nine Lives"
• Alex Jennings reads The Boys from Brazil

Ruth Wilson - Theatre - Anna Christie

Interviews

Front Row (5 August)
BBC Breakfast
Lottie Moggach, "Why fame leaves Ruth Wilson cold", The Times (9 August), pp. 10-11

Profile

Guardian (via Ruth Wilson - The Placeholder Blog)

Pictures

Press night (wooller.com)

Reviews


Express
"Anna is played rivetingly by Ruth Wilson with a frankness and vulnerability and Rob Ashford’s production sustains the play’s intensity beautifully."

Guardian
"Wilson triumphs in it [the role]: strutting and slumping like a sot but talking in languorous cadences which float questioningly over her unflinching statements."

[another review] "What Wilson captures with seeming effortlessness are the contradictions inside Anna: the aching loneliness of soul, the temporary satisfaction that stems from Mat's love and the final desolate uncertainty as he takes once more to the sea."

Independent
"Wilson brilliantly conveys contrary emotions..."

[a different review] "Wilson is magnificent in every department as Anna. She manages to combine a caustic, world-weary cynicism and a vulnerability to new experience."

Financial Times
"Ruth Wilson is captivating... her Anna has a brittle quality and a smile that breaks across her hardened face then fades as quickly as it came."

The Stage

"Ruth Wilson gives her [Anna] a tough but vulnerable integrity."

The Arts Desk

"Wilson is a perfect foil for Law. Sometimes sultry, sometimes sassy, always sympathetic, her characteristic crooked smile can denote wonder as much as emotional vulnerability. She perfectly captures Anna’s sense of independence as well as her agony."

 

 

Telegraph

"Ruth Wilson brings both toughness and vulnerability to the role of the weary prostitute given a tantalising glimpse of a better life. There is an emotional rawness here..."

Official London Theatre
"Ruth Wilson captures Anna’s hardened self-defence system and independent spirit, which is gradually softened by her affection for Mat."

Sunday Times (Christopher Hart, 14 August)
"Ruth Wilson, as Anna, is mesmerising from first appearance."

The Times (Libby Purves, 11 August)
"Wilson's Anna is a terrific creation. A cynical, wounded, painted barfly, she is softened into wonder by the sea she has never seen before, and reaches a magnificent dignity as her secret unravels."

Welcome to the Punch, Anna Christie, BBC Radio

The film Welcome to the Punch has begun filming. It stars Andrea Riseborough, James McAvoy, Mark Strong and David Morrissey (Empire Online).

Pictures from rehearsals for Anna Christie can be viewed on the Donmar Warehouse and Daily Mail websites. Also, the Evening Standard has an interview with Ruth Wilson (via Ruth Wilson - The Placeholder Blog).

BBC Radio

• Toby Stephens and Olivia Colman are the readers for Words and Music "Obsession"
• Lesley Sharp and Lizzy Watts star in the Afternoon Play Welcome to the Wasteland {repeat}

Romola Garai, Ruth Wilson, BBC Radio

Romola Garai and Nicholas Burns will star in The Village Bike at the Royal Court from 24 June to 30 July.

A quote from Ruth in the Telegraph about Michael Grandage, outgoing artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse:

"'He is an agent’s worst nightmare!’ Ruth Wilson laughs. Not only does he cut them entirely out of the process by contacting their clients directly, but he also expects his actors, however famous they are, to work for a company wage."

Ruth previously performed at the Donmar in A Streetcar Named Desire, and will star in the theatre's upcoming production of Anna Christie.

BBC Radio

• Hattie Morahan, Bertie Carvel and Tobias Menzies star in the Drama on 3 Serious Money by Caryl Churchill (available on iPlayer for 4 more days)
• Alex Jennings reads Twenty Minutes "A Warning to the Curious" (available on iPlayer for 5 more days)
• Andrew Scott voices James Joyce in the Book of the Week James Joyce - A Biography. Jim Norton narrates.   
• Jason Isaacs was interviewed on Loose Ends 

Ruth Wilson, Andrea Riseborough, Parade's End, BBC Radio

Series 2 of Luther begins Tuesday 14 June (BBC press office). A bit of publicity - Stylist has an interview with Ruth. And she appears briefly in this trailer for the show (click the thumbnail for full size):

Ruth took part in the Josephine Hart poetry week at the Donmar Warehouse this week. She read "Train" by Helen Mackay (@lawyercatrin, Ought to be Clowns).

Owen Sheers has written about Andrea's research for Resistance, in which she plays Sarah (Telegraph).
Andrea will play Princess Betsy in the film adaptation of Anna Karenina directed by Joe Wright. Tom Stoppard wrote the script (Daily Mail).

Another Stoppard script - Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall will star in a BBC/HBO adaptation of Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford (Deadline Hollywood).

BBC Radio

• Rupert Penry-Jones, Ruth Wilson, Rory Kinnear and Tom Goodman-Hill star in the Drama on 3 Flare Path
• Sam Troughton and Hattie Morahan star in the Classic Serial Plantagenet "Edward II - The Greatest Traitor". The BBC Radio 4 blog has a post about the series.
• Jason Isaacs stars as Lieutenant Clancy in the Friday Play Bullitt, which is available on iPlayer for six more days
• Juliet Stevenson stars in the Afternoon Play The Apple Tree
• Hugh Bonneville and Helena Bonham Carter are the readers for Words and Music "Turning Points"

Dan Stevens

Downton Abbey

• The show premieres tonight in Australia on Channel 7 at 8.30pm
• Dan and other cast members attended the British Academy Television Awards
• Dan co-hosted Richard Bacon earlier this week - the show was broadcast from the set, where series 2 is currently filming

The Cradle of the Snake had its BBC Radio 4 Extra premiere this week.

Dan, Harriet Walter and Ruth Wilson will take part in Poetry Week at the Donmar Warehouse next week.

Ruth Wilson, Rosamund Pike, Hayley Atwell. Guardian BAFTA television portfolio.

Ruth Wilson interviews from the Guardian (via the Ruth Wilson Placeholder Blog) and BA High Life to publicise Luther (series 2 premieres in June on BBC1) and Anna Christie (Donmar, August-October).
A glimpse of her from the Luther series 2 episode 1 teaser (click the thumbnail for full size):

She will star in a BBC Radio 3 production of Flare Path by Terence Rattigan with Rory Kinnear and Rupert Penry-Jones. It will be broadcast 5 June.
On 12 May, Ruth attended the Butterfly Ball.

The voice cast for Warp Film's The Organ Grinder’s Monkey includes Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans and Rosamund Pike.
Earlier this month, Rosamund was a guest at the closure of El Bulli in Spain, and she attended the Women for Women Gala.

A tweet from make up artist Lisa Eldridge about Hayley Atwell doing publicity for Captain America:

"With gorgeous Hayley Atwell again shooting publicity & gearing up for the release of Captain America http://youtu.be/jX-dpQAginE"

(tangent: Lisa also does informative and interesting make up tutorials - her website is here)

John Simm, Hugh Bonneville, Claire Foy and Maxine Peake feature in the Guardian's BAFTA television portfolio.

Ruth Wilson, Anna Maxwell Martin, Simon Russell Beale, BBC Radio

From Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column: Jack O'Connell, Ruth Wilson and Anna Maxwell Martin will star in You Want Me to Kill Him? directed by Andrew Douglas and produced by Bryan Singer; and Simon Russell Beale's upcoming projects include Bluebird (Atlantic Theater Company), a new play by John Hodge about an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (Cottesloe, National Theatre) and presenting the BBC series Symphony.

BBC Radio

• Andrew Buchan and Josette Simon are the readers for Words and Music "Law and Order"
• David Tennant stars in the Drama on 3 Kafka the Musical
• Blake Ritson reads the Book at Bedtime The Absolutist

Ruth Wilson, glamour.com's "Hot, Young and British", BBC Radio

Ruth Wilson has been interviewed in the Telegraph for her upcoming role in Anna Christie, and featured in the Times' Theatre Issue.

Andrea Riseborough, Andrew Garfield, Romola Garai and Hayley Atwell have been profiled in glamour.com's slideshow "Hot, Young and British".

BBC Radio

• Rory Kinnear and Anna Maxwell Martin are the readers for Words and Music "Labyrinth"
• Claire Foy and Blake Ritson star in the Saturday Play Leverage
• Ian McDiarmid, Ben Miles and Stephen Dillane read for the Afternoon Reading I Expected the Worst 
• Hattie Morahan narrates the Book at Bedtime The Tiger's Wife

Noir and foxes

[updated 19 March 2011]



Sources: my screencaps from Digital News Agency videos

Ruth Wilson and Hayley Atwell attended the Emporio Armani "Noir" show and Black Party at Milan Fashion Week (via Ruth Wilson - the placeholder blog). Getty and WireImage have pictures of Ruth and Hayley arriving for the show; and Moda è Donna has a picture from the party. Ruth and Hayley have also been featured in an article from WWD:

"Hayley Atwell said she hoped the release of summer blockbuster “Captain America,” in which she plays the superhero’s girlfriend, would bring more opportunities in film and fashion. “I would love to do a campaign,” she enthused. “Designing would be amazing as well.” She declined to comment on rumors she is joining Baz Luhrmann’s planned 3D remake of “The Great Gatsby,” featuring Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. “That would be incredible. I know that the script is being worked on at the moment so it’s in the very early stages,” Atwell said.
Ruth Wilson, meanwhile, said she’s set to play the title role of “Anna Christie” opposite Jude law at London’s Donmar Theater, with rehearsals starting in June."

Rosamund Pike, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall and Gemma Arterton attended the Mulberry woodland-inspired show and party at London Fashion Week. Pictures: Cosmopolitan, Mulberry blog 1|2. Videos: Vogue, Mulberry/Facebook, Digital News Agency.

Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, Glamour's Women of the Year Awards and the Offies

Broadcasting Press Guild Awards nominees include Any Human Heart, Downton Abbey and Sherlock for Best Drama Series; and Hugh Bonneville, Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hollander for Best Actor (via darcylicious). The winners will be announced 25 March.

Hayley Atwell, Gemma Arterton, Hattie Morahan, Keira Knightley, Ruth Wilson and Andrea Riseborough have received nominations for Glamour's Women of the Year Awards, which will be held on 7 June.

Toby Jones has been nominated for a Best Male Offie for The Painter at The Arcola.

Ruth Wilson, Rosamund Pike, actors on Twitter, BBC Radio

Ruth Wilson attended the De Beers pre-BAFTA film and jewellery lunch on 3 February. Earlier this week, she was a guest at the Evening Standard Film Awards, where winners included Andrew Garfield (Best Actor, The Social Network and Never Let Me Go) and Kristin Scott Thomas (Best Actress, Leaving). Pictures: WireImage, Rex Features, Getty.

Rosamund Pike will play Andromeda in the Clash of the Titans sequel (via Indiewire). Rosamund attended the London Film Critics Circle Awards, where she was nominated for British Actress of the Year. Other guests included Colin Firth (winner, Actor of the Year) and Kristin Scott Thomas (Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film). Pictures: WireImage and Getty (winners, arrivals, pre drinks reception).

A nice mention of Sam West and Hugh Bonneville in an article from the Guardian about theatres' use of Twitter:

There are some great actors tweeting brilliant material, but the skill of acting well is irrelevant to the skill of writing well for Twitter.

Hugh Bonneville will introduce a screening of Iris at the Minghella Film Festival on 12 March (via his Twitter, @hughbon).

BBC Radio

• James Fleet will be interviewed on Loose Ends
• Toby Stephens stars as Philip Marlowe in the Saturday Play The Lady in the Lake, which is part of BBC Radio 4's Classic Chandler
• David Morrissey will be interviewed on Midweek, and he stars in Adam Baron's Shut Eye {repeat}

Barney's Version, Birds Eye View Film Festival, Brighton Rock

Rosamund Pike interviews about Barney's Version from Digital Spy, Total Film, the Guardian, the Herald, Metro and the Washington Post; a Cultural Life interview from the Independent and the film that changed Rosamund's life from the Guardian.

Rosamund Pike and Ruth Wilson (with an injured leg - hopefully she recovers soon) attended the Birds Eye View Film Festival 2011 launch on 25 January (via the Ruth Wilson Placeholder Blog). Rosamund announced the programme for the festival. Little White Lies has a partial transcript from the speech she made at the launch. Pictures: Getty, WireImage, Flickr/Birds Eye View.

Sue Terry Voices has a new showreel for Ruth Wilson. Ruth stars in the Friday Play Like Minded People which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 5 February.

Recently, Andrea Riseborough attended the South Bank awards, the Instyle Best of British talent party and the Brighton Rock premiere in Preston Circus. Press coverage for the Brighton Rock premiere includes articles from the Argus, Sky News and the Eastbourne Herald. Also, the BBC has an interview with Andrea.

Awards season events, Rosamund Pike, Toby Jones, Ruth Wilson

Awards season events

Golden Globe winners included Colin Firth (The King's Speech/Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture – Drama), Paul Giamatti (Barney's Version/Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical), Boardwalk Empire (Best Television Series - Drama) and Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire/Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama).
Pictures: arrivals (featuring Andrew Garfield, Colin Firth, Hayley Atwell, Kelly Macdonald and Tilda Swinton); Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Kelly Macdonald attended the Weinstein/Relativity Media after party (Getty 1|2, @liviafirth 1|2); Andrea Riseborough and Tilda Swinton attended the InStyle/Warner Bros after party (Getty); and Andrew Garfield attended the Sony Pictures Classics after party (Getty).

In other awards season events, Hayley Atwell was a guest at the HBO luxury lounge and the Instyle beauty lounge; also, Hayley Atwell and Andrea Riseborough attended the BAFTA LA tea party (arrivals, red carpet).

Dominic Cooper and Talulah Riley announced the BAFTA film nominations. Nominees include Colin Firth (The King's Speech/Leading Actor), Andrew Garfield (The Social Network/Supporting Actor and Orange Wednesdays Rising Award) and Gemma Arterton (Orange Wednesdays Rising Award).

Interviews

Rosamund Pike/Barney's Version: Anglophenia, She Knows, USA Today, tv.com.

Toby Jones (the Arts Desk) - Toby stars as Turner in The Painter at the Arcola Theatre which runs until 12 February.

Radio

Ruth Wilson and Tom Brooke star in the Friday Play Like Minded People which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 4 February at 9pm.

Dan Stevens, Ruth Wilson, Rosamund Pike, Jacki Weaver

Cultural life interview with Dan Stevens from the Independent.

Ruth Wilson and Jude Law will star in Anna Christie at the Donmar Warehouse from 9 August to 8 October 2011, with previews from 4 August.

Rosamund Pike reads the audiobook of The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming, which forms part of a set of twenty James Bond stories that will be released next year.
Screencaps of Rosamund from the Burning Palms trailer (click thumbnails for full size):

Rosamund and Paul Giamatti, her co-star in Barney's Version, have done extensive publicity for the film. Rosamund's interviews include Black Book, Movie Geeks United, Screen Crave, Examiner, Movieline, comingsoon.net and IFC. Also, Paul mentioned Rosamund in an interview with the LA Times:

For such an unhappy man, he marries amazing women. Did you have a hand in casting?

I was auditioning these women, and they said, "Oh, yeah, there's this woman Rosamund Pike we're thinking about," and I said, "What do you mean, 'Oh, yeah, there's this woman'? Just cast her!" I have a mad crush on her and have been weirdly obsessed with her for 10 years since I saw her in James Bond ("Die Another Day"). I've gone to England to see her plays. I don't have this thing where I'm dying to work with a lot of people, but she's one of them.

The Barney's Version UK trailer has slightly different footage to the US trailer. Some screencaps (click thumbnails for full size):



Other awards season publicity: Golden Globe nominee Jacki Weaver has done several interviews to promote Animal Kingdom (comingsoon.net, New York Post, Movieline, LA Times, Herald Sun, Next Movie, Movie Web, Scott Feinberg).

Belarusian election embassy protest, Barney's Version, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Garfield.

Grey Photography has uploaded a set from the Belarusian election embassy protest which took place in London on 21 December. People who attended include Harriet Walter, Dan Stevens and Sam West.

Rosamund Pike interviews from the Vancouver Sun and The Star about Barney's Version.

A picture of Ruth Wilson taken by Graham Jepson.

Andrew Garfield won Total Film's Hotlist award for Hottest Actor (via monkeywonder) and was interviewed on Film Weekly.

Carey Mulligan, Andrea Riseborough. Ruth Wilson - Television - Luther. BBC Radio.

A picture of Carey Mulligan taken by Shot by Shooter.

Ruth Wilson has received a Satellite nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television for Luther (via Momentary Bursts of Enthusiasm).

A short interview with Andrea Riseborough from the Guardian.

BBC Radio

• Readers for Readings from the King James Bible, which will be broadcast 9 January on Radio 4 include Samuel West, Rory Kinnear, Hugh Bonneville, Toby Stephens, and Dan Stevens
• Toby Jones and Niamh Cusack star in episode 2 of The Phone, "All Night Cafe"
• Tim McInnerny and Fenella Woolgar star in the Afternoon Play Wodehouse in Hollywood {repeat}
• Tim McInnerny and Alex Jennings star in the Afternoon Play How To Be An Internee With No Previous Experience

British Independent Film Awards

Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Andrea Riseborough, Rosamund Pike, Ruth Wilson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew Goode, Romola Garai, and Jason Isaacs attended the British Independent Film Awards. Carey won the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film (Never Let Me Go) and Colin won the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film (The King's Speech).
Pictures: Rex Features, WireImage (inside, arrivals), and Getty (champagne reception, arrivals, after party).