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Отправлено: 14.07.07 11:01. Заголовок: Тюдоры (продолжение)
Потрясающий сериал. Посмотрела только несколько серий.. Надеюсь у нас в России его будут основательно показывать) Хотелось бы верить) 
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Отправлено: 31.08.09 22:50. Заголовок: BRITAIN’S top tour..
BRITAIN’S top tourist attractions are enjoying the busiest August bank holiday weekend in history thanks to the recession. So-called “staycationing”, or holidaying at home, has sparked a huge surge in visitors to -historical properties across -Britain and it’s no longer a case of “rip-off Britain” for tourists lured by the strength of the euro against the pound. Costume dramas like The Young Victoria are -helping fuel the growth, with the number of visitors to such sites as Osborne House, Queen Victoria’s Isle of Wight retreat, up more than 30 per cent on last year. Henry VIII is also proving a huge draw with events to mark the 500th anniversary of his accession to the throne this -summer triggering an enthusiasm for all things Tudor. The king’s favourite royal residence, Hampton Court Palace in south-west London, has seen a 31 per cent rise in visitor -numbers, helped by such TV shows as The Tudors, starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Henry VIII, and David Starkey’s Mind Of A Tyrant series. Films such as The Other Boleyn Girl, starring Scarlett Johansson, have further inflamed our passion for the story of -Henry’s six wives while The Young Victoria, a film dramatisation of the Queen’s early years and romance with Prince Albert, has once again reignited interest in Victoriana. Catherine Steventon, of -Historic Royal Palaces, the charity that cares for five historical attractions in London including Hampton Court Palace, said: “We are having a fantastic summer. We are really chuffed to pieces. This summer visitor figures are up by a fantastic 21 per cent.” At Windsor Castle, where there is also a Henry VIII exhibition, visitors are up 10 per cent. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/123792/Our-love-affair-with-the-Royals-beats-recession
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Отправлено: 31.08.09 22:51. Заголовок: Almost everyone in T..
Almost everyone in The Tudors is young, thin and beautiful. Not only is this a little unlikely, it can also make it hard to tell them apart. Fortunately, everybody says everybody else's name all the time. "Master Holbein," says the king, to Holbein. "Sir Robert, you look out of sorts," he says to Sir Robert Tavistock, whose name has already been announced by the bloke manning the door. "You don't even know who I am, do you?" says a woman who is having sex with Sir Francis Bryan. "Of course I do," he says. "You're Edward Seymour's wife." It might have been simpler, if less dramatically feasible, to chalk everyone's initials on their foreheads. It's Christmastide 1536, and Robert Aske ("Happy Christmas, Mr Aske," says the queen) is down from Yorkshire to explain his role in the late northern rebellion. The king appears to be in a forgiving mood, but you don't have to know much history to suspect he's lying. Jonathan Rhys Meyers's Henry VIII is an unblinking psychopath; he doesn't spend a lot of time playing tennis or writing Greensleeves. He glares, rants, broods and says unnecessarily hurtful things: "Your low birth, Mr Cromwell, deems you unfit to meddle in the affairs of kings." This double episode covered Queen Jane's pregnancy and the search for a suitor for Lady Mary, but the main theme was hanging. There was a tremendous amount of it. The Duke of Suffolk showed a certain reluctance to carry out the king's instructions to hang all of Yorkshire. Robert Aske's slow-motion hanging, seen from below, was a particularly gruesome interlude. We also got a few heads on pikes, one red-hot poker up the arse and a glimpse under Sir Francis's eye patch. It's almost impossible to watch television these days without accidentally learning something about Henry VIII, but The Tudors is a revved-up history lesson: light on dates and heavy on sex, glamour and lovely table settings. You wouldn't want to be a Tudor, though. Death would stalk you, with a red-hot poker. You'd be lucky to last two episodes. Jane Seymour, predictably, didn't quite make it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/aug/28/the-tudors-review
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Отправлено: 06.09.09 13:20. Заголовок: By heck! Henry VIII ..
By heck! Henry VIII was never like this when I was at school. Obese, bloated and ulcerated grotesquely by syphilis – that’s what our history teacher said. I do hope she’s watching The Tudors (BBC2). Not that it would necessarily change her mind. But the alternative handsome, camp, beautifully groomed bit of a lad who is that most notorious ladies man of English monarchs might just lighten her up a bit. And to be honest, she could always have benefited from a bit of lightening up. I’d take the gorgeous Jonathan Rhys Meyers’s Henry ahead of Holbein’s any old day... and risk beheading to boot. So this slick, sexy, costume drama may owe more to extravagant theatre than history – but who cares? It’s as smooth as a glass of iced Baileys and twice as potent. A right royal romp in which even the ugly characters are beautiful. In this less than historically honest take on henry’s life, the king is portrayed as a man more sinned against than sinning. Misunderstood by wives who failed to give him a son – and then had the nerve not to forgive his anger – the only queen who bore him a boy went and died in the process. See? Such an inconsiderate lot those unreliable Tudor females. No wonder he had to take so many mistresses. In addition to trying times at home in the castle bedchamber, the poor persecuted soul had to deal with ungrateful northern rebellion against his dissolution of the monasteries and his borrowing of church and abbey treasures to see the royal household through credit crunch. Bother in Carlisle, trouble in Pontefract, open disobedience in York – what was a king to do but delegate a massacre or three? Didn’t they know he was about to become a daddy? The truth is – well, actually I suspect there’s not too much historical truth here at all – but the other truth is that had this maligned monarch taken the trouble to watch his weight, work out in the gym, trim his beard, exfoliate and generally look a lot more like Jonathan than Henry, he’d have had a much more favourably sympathetic place in history. http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/opinion/anne_pickles/worth_risking_a_beheading_1_608248?referrerPath=opinion
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Отправлено: 12.09.09 18:00. Заголовок: Mistresses on the ma..
Mistresses on the make, mail order brides and murder: No wonder we can't get enough of the terrible Tudors There's an old joke among authors about how to write a bestseller. The perfect book would begin like this: 'I'm pregnant!' said the Queen. 'I wonder who can be responsible?' No book can fail with the three top ingredients - royalty, mystery and sex. Fact is stranger than fiction, of course, and there is an era in English history that provides the magic three - plus gritty power politics, seduction, betrayal, violent death and broken hearts. The real story of Henry VIII and his court beats anything a novelist or film-maker could invent. Imagine this: a glamorous young man becomes King before he's 18. He's clever, handsome, brilliant at every game he plays, cultured, generous, and he even writes songs. Nearly 40 years later, he's still on the throne - a throne that now buckles under his huge weight; he's swollen, grotesque and disgusting, prone to terrifying rages, a caricature of the golden boy who lit up his nation. On the way he's had six wives; he's divorced two of them, and two of them have been publicly beheaded. This story is part of our legend of what it means to be English. It is so lurid, so unlikely, that we never get tired of telling it, and every time it's told, it's made new. The Tudors survive anything - tough in death as in life. It seems you can replay their saga any way you like, and its essential truths - about men and women, about human nature - come shining through. You can tell the story as romance, concentrating on the women, wrenching them out of context so that they think and behave like modern women, which they weren't. You can twist up all the facts, like The Tudors TV series, casting the tiny actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the King who, at 6ft 2in, towered over most of his subjects. Still the story survives, and readers and viewers sense they have not heard the whole of it. A scholar like David Starkey interprets it for us, but we intuit murky depths, something unexplored, an area of darkness that eludes historians. It's as if this story is written not just in the pages of the history books but deep in our psyche. It's a fairytale, a horror story, and - most potently - a combination of the two. Henry is Bluebeard, luring young women into his castle. He's a serial killer, but he's also a man who - when he fell in love with his second wife, Anne Boleyn - risked his whole kingdom to have her by his side. These sexy, flamboyant, cruel people are ourselves, but on a massive scale, glowing in stained-glass colours. They are our own impulses, recognisable and familiar, and close to the bone, but dressed up in furs and brocade, sliding silently in velvet slippers through the palaces of our dreams. The Tudors are our secret nighttime selves. They enact for us, on our behalf, what we fleetingly desire. Which husband hasn't thought, even just for a shocking instant, of striking his wife dead? From Anne Boleyn to Diana, we use the royals as surrogates - their triumphs and suffering are public property, whereas our dramas are private, small, intimate. But there are special reasons why Henry's reign attracts us. Much of our history, until the Tudor era, appears unfinished, only half-real, a half-told tale. It's because women - apart from a very few outstanding individuals - make no mark on it. They are passive princesses, to be married or given in marriage. We know little about their personalities and it's hard to imagine their feelings. Then, with the reign of Henry VIII, everything changes. Women come to the fore as never before, and indeed as rarely since - no longer just love or lust objects, they become power players. After almost 20 years of marriage to Katherine of Aragon, Henry didn't have what he needed most - a son to succeed him. He was only the second Tudor monarch, and his dynasty's claim to the throne was shaky. There were ancient noble families, aggressive and fertile, keen to push the Tudors aside. If Henry died without an heir, England might plunge into civil war. And Henry could die at any time. He lived dangerously, hunting and jousting. And in those years, almost every summer saw an epidemic of a flu-like illness which killed thousands of strong young people. All the resources Henry and his ministers could command couldn't conjure up one simple thing - a male heir. For that they needed a woman. But who could tell which one? Katherine of Aragon was several years older than Henry. She had at least six pregnancies, mostly ending in miscarriages or stillbirths. She lived, as any woman in such a situation would, in a state of mourning. One little boy, 'the New Year Prince,' had survived for a few weeks; he would have been Henry IX. There was a daughter, Mary, undersized and frail. No one thought she could rule England. Katherine, Henry thought, had to be replaced. But she fought him every step of the way. We've all known a woman like Katherine - patient, long-suffering, immovably stubborn, and grimly glued to her status as wife. We still regard infertility as a tragedy, and the death of a child as the worst thing that can happen to a mother. It's impossible not to feel for Katherine, so we rehearse her story, as if by re-describing it we could make it come out differently. The politics of those years were fiendishly complex, but it's the simple thing that touches us: the dead babies in their winding sheets. Henry had already decided on a divorce, but his situation became even more fraught when he fell catastrophically in love. Royals married other royals. They married for duty. But Henry trampled on the rules. He wanted the woman of his choice, and his choice dismayed all Europe. Anne Boleyn was nothing but a gentleman's daughter. Like Katherine, she was clever, articulate, principled and highly educated. And she was a minx, a femme fatale, a siren, as clever as the slippery sea-creatures, only half human, who lured sailors to wreck their ships on the rocks. We've all known an Anne Boleyn. Maybe the one we know is a low-rent, small-town version, but there's no mistaking the purpose in her glittering eyes. Anne was no beauty, but she was alluring. Henry was like a moonstruck teenager, writing her letters which ended with their initials scrawled inside a heart. And she managed him beautifully, driving him into a frenzy of sexual desire. It didn't seem possible that she could displace Katherine and become Queen of England, but that was exactly what she did. In our 21st- century lives, a marriagewrecker in full cry is still an awesome sight. If Katherine is the patron saint of betrayed wives, Anne is the role model for every mistress on the make. We've all known great love affairs turn sour, but when Anne disappointed Henry - giving him only a girl, the future Elizabeth I - his revenge was terrible. He accused her of adultery with multiple partners, including her brother. It's a story to make a tabloid editor blush. The executioner from Calais came over especially to behead Anne with a sword, which ensured a swift, clean death. And waiting in the wings was Jane Seymour. Simpering little Jane, with her downcast eyes, who had watched and waited and never blinked as the sword flashed in the May sunlight; and coolly slipped her hand into the murderer's great paw, and his wedding ring on her finger. Jane did give Henry a son, but she died in doing it. Then Henry married, sight unseen, a German noblewoman called Anne of Cleves. Stories like hers are still played out in communities where arranged marriages are the rule. She was the 16th-century equivalent of a mail-order bride, miles from home in a country where she didn't speak the language. King Henry's third wife Jane Seymour gave him a son, but died during childbirth King Henry's third wife Jane Seymour gave him a son, but died during childbirth Imagine this: the husband takes one look, makes a face and turns his back. But the marriage must go through, or the families lose face. Henry's courtiers were astonished by the way he flinched from Anne. No one else could see anything wrong with her. Why didn't he just get down to it? He only had to have sex with her, he didn't have to be in love. But for Henry it didn't work that way. Sheepishly, after the wedding night, he told his minister Thomas Cromwell that he couldn't perform. Cromwell was a hard-bitten product of the political machine, a man from a rough background who had knocked around Europe as a mercenary soldier. You can imagine the look of astonished contempt he must have turned on his monarch as the sorry bedroom farce unfolded, detail by shaming detail. (Think Alastair Campbell glowering at some perceived failing in his master Tony Blair.) Perhaps the look in his eye was fatal, though, because before long Cromwell was executed without trial, and Henry made a fifth marriage on the day of his beheading. Maybe Anne of Cleves was the luckiest of Henry's wives. She got a quick divorce and a huge financial settlement. And Henry headed for disaster, with the sure instinct of a middle-aged male drooling idiotically over an 18-year-old. He called Katherine Howard his 'rose without a thorn'. He didn't know she'd already had two lovers, and didn't intend to settle down with a man old enough to be her father. Katherine is just the sort of girl who, if she were alive now, would forget her knickers on a big night out and be snapped by a leering photographer as she falls pandaeyed into a cab at dawn. But the consequence nowadays would be nothing more than a few sniggering column inches, with perhaps some lucrative kiss-and-tell deal to sweeten the sour taste. For a Tudor girl it wasn't like that. When Henry found out what she had been up to, he cut off her head - saving the fee of the expert swordsman this time, and making use of that very handy man with an axe, the executioner at the Tower of London. Experience was needed to survive Henry. His last wife managed it; Katherine Parr was wise, prudent, tactful, and had been married twice before. Even so, it was a near thing. She had some dangerous moments. Henry had become impossible to read. Perhaps no one ever read him correctly, even when he was young. In his strange and ferocious way, he adored women, and he was always looking, as many men still do, for some impossible ideal, some woman who existed only in his dreams. Any woman made of flesh and blood was bound to disappoint him. The problem was that his disappointment was lethal. Can we learn anything from Tudor England? The rules of love and desire seem much the same - beware of what you want, you may get it. The rules of power-broking seem familiar. Cheat, bribe, cajole, incriminate, blackmail, mislead, threaten, smear, and tell lies in Parliament; that's the way to get on. It's all very modern. But in that beautiful, fertile, green and unpolluted land, with its clear rivers, deep woods and fields of misty wild flowers, in that deeply devoted and pious land where gilded angels peered down from church roofs at the little people below, human blood flowed like water. You didn't respect your opponents, you jailed them, tortured them, killed them. The King's word was law and if the King was half-mad with lust or sick with pain, or deluded or just plain bored, no one could predict or prevent the consequences. Nowadays, an unhappy couple might wish each other dead; Henry saw his wishes through. If a minister makes a mistake, he gets to 'spend more time with his family'. In those days, his family found his head on a spike on London Bridge. The stakes were so high - and that's what makes the primal drama of Henry's England so enduring, so fascinating, so horrible that, 500 years on, you want to look away, but you can't. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212937/Mistresses-make-mail-order-brides--murder-No-wonder-terrible-Tudors.html#ixzz0Qu9cliRN
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Отправлено: 13.09.09 14:18. Заголовок: Bare breasts and rip..
Bare breasts and rippling torsos? Check. Impossibly beautiful people with exceptionally good teeth in 16th-century period costume? Check. A whole host of historical inaccuracies? Check. Yes, The Tudors is back - with 2.3 million tuning in on Friday - and I for one am delighted. After a lengthy recap of the previous two series, our much-married monarch began the new one with yet another wedding, this time to Jane Seymour, meaning the year is 1536 (and the king is supposed to be 45). Jonathan Rhys Meyers still looks far too young to be Henry VIII, and his interpretation of the role has not improved, consisting of shouting to convey every single type of emotion. However, the cast welcomes Max von Sydow – yes, Blofeld in Never Say Never Again, Major Von Steiner in Escape to Victory and Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told – as a cardinal, plotting with a Ronan Keating-lookalike monk with a claim to the English throne. Other newcomers for this series include Sir Francis Bryan, played by Alan Van Sprang, the man trying to force the princess to accede to her father's will. He does this all the while looking a bit like a pirate with his big, black eyepatch and speaking with an accent that's a cross between received pronunciation, and Mike Myers attempting to sound Scottish. Lady-in-waiting Ursula Misseldon is our first entirely fictitious character of the series, apparently introduced to heave her bosom and act provocatively. Despite her professed engagement to Sir Robert Tavistock, a sparkly necklace turns her head enough for her to become the mistress of the pirate, and then lay totally naked in front of a window with the jewels nestling around her throat. There's plenty of violence coming up as well, now that the Reformation is taking hold - Roman Catholic houses of worship are destroyed under Thomas Cromwell's regime and those ever-present captions pop up just to remind the simple viewer that those big religious buildings are churches and abbeys. There is a popular uprising, and leader Robert Aske reminds everyone that he and his followers are not in fact rebels, but pilgrims (although he managed to stop short of explicitly saying, "It's a Pilgrimage of Grace"). While gallons of blood are shed around the country as the pilgrims get their comeuppance, the king's one-track mind hasn't deviated – he wants a son, and he wants one now. Interestingly, the opening episode includes a mention of his physical decline, with the painful ulcer on his leg causing Rhys Meyers to showcase his newly-learnt "in agony" acting, consisting of wincing and biting on his hand; we can only hope he'll indulge in some method acting and put on at least four stone to portray the ageing, more portly, Henry. The king was soon back in his comfort zone of romping with comely ladies-in-waiting, as Lady Ursula distracted him from his suppurated leg in her own particular fashion. Despite having broken his new marriage vows after approximately 37 minutes, the king assured his queen that he loves her more than any of his other wives, though as he's killed one and left the other to rot in exile it's not really saying much. Jane Seymour's days are numbered, and anyway, in a few weeks we can look forward to Joss Stone's portrayal of wife number four, Anne of Cleves. That's one no historian should miss. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2009/aug/25/tudors-jonathan-rhys-myers
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Отправлено: 25.09.09 21:41. Заголовок: The Tudors return an..
The Tudors return and Henry isn't happy. By Alex Strachan, Canwest News ServiceSeptember 23, 2009 UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - Henry VIII, as depicted in the last season of The Tudors, is an angry, angry man. ``Well, I think six marriages does not make a man happy,'' Jonathan Rhys Meyers says, looking poised, relaxed - comfortable, even - in duds more suited to an Irish pub-crawl than the 16th century English monarch he plays in Michael Hirst's sprawling bodice ripper and historical tale of palace intrigue. ``I don't know anybody who has been married six times who is particularly happy.'' Nor one. ``Nor even one,'' Meyers says, with a rueful laugh. ``Love is blind, marriage is an eye-opener.'' When The Tudors returns, King Henry VIII is in his 30s. Knives are being sharpened, betrayal is in the air and the winds of destiny continue to conspire against the no-longer-so-young king. ``He finds he can't trust anybody, because nobody is trustworthy.'' Meyers says. ``Everybody has their own agenda. Look at anyone who assumes power: how young and fresh they look when they enter office, and how hardened and cynical they are when they come out of office. The experience of leadership has made Henry a very, very tense person. And, at the same time, he is very dangerous. Henry is a very dangerous man.'' The Tudors's third season focuses on Henry's ill-fated marriages to Jane Seymour and to Anne of Cleves, as played in The Tudors by Annabelle Wallis and R&B soul-singer Joss Stone; the downfall of the scheming Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, played by James Frain; and Henry VIII's violent suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a populist uprising in 1536 to protest the king's break with the Catholic Church in Rome. ``In the first season, Henry was a very young man - a kid,'' Meyers said. ``Young men do have redeeming qualities. They have a certain idealism. In the second season, a lot of tension happened with Anne Boleyn. He realized he was fascinated with Anne Boleyn, obsessed with Anne Boleyn - but he was not necessarily in love with Anne Boleyn. Certainly not in the same way he is in love with Jane Seymour. It was not a comfortable love. ``You will find, at the start of the new season, even though he is still very dangerous, he has found a comfortable family life with Jane Seymour - and then that's snatched away from him. It throws him into further turmoil. And then, with the rebellion in the north, the ill-advice he gets from Thomas Cromwell concerning his marriage to Anne of Cleves, his continuing struggle with his faith - it all starts to snowball.'' The relationship between love and marriage in the royal courts of 16th- century Europe was very different from the concept of marriage most people hold today, Meyers says. ``Marriage was a commercial venture, rather than the natural result of love. You married and you had children because children brought you heirs. They were a kind of security for your future legacy. Usually, marriages were arranged for commercial, political or estate value. And every so often, a love match happened - such as Henry's relationship with Jane Seymour. ``Jane Seymour wasn't the crazy, mad passion of Anne Boleyn. After Anne Boleyn, it was kind of, `Whew. Really, I think I can use a break.' And Jane Seymour was the break. She was the ray of light.'' Meyers suspects Henry struggled with his religious faith in his later years. ``I believe Henry remained Catholic, really, most of his life. Even though he did not want to be ruled by the Pope in Rome, he still held on to those very, very strong Catholic beliefs, I think, all his life. After killing so many people, after putting people to death on a whim, I think your relationship with God becomes strained. There are a lot of things going on in Henry's head. He is a leader. And it is very difficult to lead.'' Meyers is willing to suffer for his art - but only to a point. He is not, for example, about to pull a Robert De Niro in Raging Bull, and suddenly put on weight and grow a full beard when The Tudors returns for a fourth season, now filming in Ireland. The popular image of Henry VIII is the renowned, historical portrait painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, official painter to the royal court in 1536, around the time of Anne Boleyn's execution. ``The king's figure and magnificent apparel are proof of his authority,'' a British historian wrote of the famous portrait. ``But (the) portrait is not flattering: Henry appears guarded and suspicious, and quite unapproachable.'' ``I suppose I'd like a few extra pounds but, no, I'm not going to turn into the Holbein painting,'' Meyers said. ``I think it would defeat the purpose of what I've done these past three seasons. ``I could have gone down that road of dyeing my hair red and putting on the extra weight, but then that becomes something that's been done by other people. '' Meyers learned about Henry VIII, as so many other pupils do, while in school. ``I was instilled with the image of this rotund, food eating, beer guzzling, womanizing monarch who was a tyrant and a bad politician, a lapsed religious man who was completely out of touch with his spirituality by the time his reign ended. ``But I had to play him my way. So I may put on a few extra pounds, but nothing to write about in your computer, I'm afraid.'' Meyers believes the performance of Henry VIII that came closest to the historical text was that of the late Robert Shaw in Fred Zinnemann's 1966 film A Man for All Seasons. ``He captured that sense of athleticism, but you can also see that the weight is going to come on in later years. I'm not that guy. This is not that show. We wanted to do something that has Tudor England as a historical backdrop - which is a fascinating period in time - but which is also television and entertaining. We have had to mess with history a little bit. In me, when I'm in costume, you see Henry in a completely different way from the history texts. You are looking at a perspective, a certain perspective of Henry. ``I think the reason why that image of Henry standing there, with all that weight, has survived so long and the image become so burned in people's minds is that Holbein was a great artist and it is great art. There were other paintings of Henry when he was a young man, but these are not the images that are instilled in our mind.'' Meyers wanted to remain fit for The Tudors's frequent and torrid love scenes, in any event. ``Am I comfortable with them?'' he said. ``Very comfortable. ``There are worse things you can do with yourself on a rainy Tuesday morning in Dublin than hop into bed with the likes of Charlotte Salt or Natalie Dormer or, indeed, Joss Stone. To explain, I haven't jumped into her bed yet.'' The season is yet young. The Tudors returns Wednesday Sept. 30 on CBC at 9 ET/PT. http://www.canada.com/Tudors+return+Henry+happy/2025000/story.html
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"Well, I think six marriages does not make a man happy," Jonathan Rhys Meyers says, looking poised, relaxed -- comfortable, even -- in duds more suited to an Irish pub-crawl than the 16th century English monarch he plays in Michael Hirst's sprawling bodice ripper and historical tale of palace intrigue. "I don't know anybody who has been married six times who is particularly happy." Nor one. "Nor even one," Meyers says, with a rueful laugh. "Love is blind, marriage is an eye-opener." When The Tudors returns, King Henry VIII is in his 30s. Knives are being sharpened, betrayal is in the air and the winds of destiny continue to conspire against the no-longer-so-young king. "He finds he can't trust anybody, because nobody is trustworthy." Meyers says. "Everybody has their own agenda. Look at anyone who assumes power: how young and fresh they look when they enter office, and how hardened and cynical they are when they come out of office. The experience of leadership has made Henry a very, very tense person. And, at the same time, he is very dangerous. Henry is a very dangerous man." The Tudors' third season focuses on Henry's ill-fated marriages to Jane Seymour and to Anne of Cleves, as played in The Tudors by Annabelle Wallis and R&B soul-singer Joss Stone; the downfall of the scheming Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, played by James Frain; and Henry VIII's violent suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a populist uprising in 1536 to protest the king's break with the Catholic Church in Rome. "In the first season, Henry was a very young man -- a kid," Meyers said. "Young men do have redeeming qualities. They have a certain idealism. In the second season, a lot of tension happened with Anne Boleyn. He realized he was fascinated with Anne Boleyn, obsessed with Anne Boleyn -- but he was not necessarily in love with Anne Boleyn. Certainly not in the same way he is in love with Jane Seymour. It was not a comfortable love. "You will find, at the start of the new season, even though he is still very dangerous, he has found a comfortable family life with Jane Seymour -- and then that's snatched away from him. It throws him into further turmoil. And then, with the rebellion in the north, the ill-advice he gets from Thomas Cromwell concerning his marriage to Anne of Cleves, his continuing struggle with his faith -- it all starts to snowball." The relationship between love and marriage in the royal courts of 16th-century Europe was very different from the concept of marriage most people hold today, Meyers says. "Marriage was a commercial venture, rather than the natural result of love. You married and you had children because children brought you heirs. They were a kind of security for your future legacy. Usually, marriages were arranged for commercial, political or estate value. And every so often, a love match happened -- such as Henry's relationship with Jane Seymour. "Jane Seymour wasn't the crazy, mad passion of Anne Boleyn. After Anne Boleyn, it was kind of, 'Whew. Really, I think I can use a break.' And Jane Seymour was the break. She was the ray of light." Meyers is willing to suffer for his art -- but only to a point. He is not, for example, about to pull a Robert De Niro in Raging Bull, and suddenly put on weight and grow a full beard when The Tudors returns for a fourth season, now filming in Ireland. Meyers wanted to remain fit for The Tudors' frequent and torrid love scenes, in any event. "Am I comfortable with them?" he said. "Very comfortable. "There are worse things you can do with yourself on a rainy Tuesday morning in Dublin than hop into bed with the likes of Charlotte Salt or Natalie Dormer or, indeed, Joss Stone. To explain, I haven't jumped into her bed yet." The season is yet young.
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King Henry VIII is busting out all over. The Tudors returns for a third season, kicking off with Bluff King Hal’s third marriage. At this rate the show has guaranteed itself a six-year run; maybe more if it justifies its title and gives us the rest of the dynasty. It’s about time Henry’s daughter Bloody Mary had her own TV show. Meanwhile, TVO brings us a four-part documentary from Britain’s Channel 4 entitled Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant. And it could be coincidence that these two programs are reaching our screens simultaneously, but then there could also be a tooth fairy. Both shows demonstrate the resilience of the more colourful periods of English history in the face of all that supposed creativity can do to them. "Five hundred years ago," says an unctuous voice at the start of TVO’s offering, "an 18-year old boy sat in this chair in Westminster Abbey to be crowned king of England." Well, why should that be so incredible? The speaker, who’s also taking up most of the screen, is Dr. David Starkey, a British historian who, like many experts, knows his stuff better than he can deliver it. Admittedly, once past that opening sentence, he lets up a bit on the gobsmacked italics, but what he goes on to say is pretty jaw-dropping. Henry, he tells us in monkishly shocked tones, "would grow up to become the most infamous monarch in history." More infamous than Nero? Genghis Khan? Ivan the Terrible? Even if you stick to English history there are some strong contenders in the royal infamy stakes, especially considering that Starkey himself cleaves to the traditional notion that it was Richard III who murdered the Princes in the Tower. He’s on stronger ground when, sharing the screen with one of the Holbein portraits, he describes Henry as "the only king whose shape you remember," standing with his own hand on his hip to demonstrate. The fact is that, though Henry was responsible for his own share of torture and bloodshed, it wasn’t exceptional by the standards of his time. His real claims to notoriety are his appearance, as mediated by Holbein and Charles Laughton, and his six wives: circumstances that, taken together, have inspired as much titillated affection as revulsion. Starkey’s mission, to judge from his first two instalments, is to lament Henry’s tragic fall; to rehabilitate him before re-demonizing him. He gives us a young Henry devoted to his mother (who died in childbirth when he was still a boy), dubbed for dynastic reasons a Knight of the Bath, and one who "would always think of himself as a chivalrous knight." This involved some picturesque wars against France, undertaken mainly at the behest of the Pope, who subsequently thought better of the idea. Presumably Henry’s resentment of this was a delayed factor in the Protestant Reformation. Henry’s story, says Starkey, is "the best and bloodiest royal soap opera of them all," and The Tudors is back to agree with him. "Best," though, is pushing it a bit; in fact, a lot. The show may be sticking closer to the facts than it used to, but the writing remains as crass and rib-nudging as ever. This, the previouslies remind us, is the production in which Henry once said "I so much want a new beginning — a Renaissance" and went on to promise, "I will make such a Reformation in this kingdom that it will be remembered forever." Season 3’s first episode shows us all this Reforming taking place, in the form of the cynical and extremely lucrative sacking of the monasteries, leading in turn to the northern rebellion known as the Pilgrimage of Grace. The TV series Henry VIII, a mere six years ago, dramatized these events with a force and intelligence that The Tudors shows few signs of emulating. It also had the advantage of Ray Winstone’s Cockney Henry, which imposed itself through sheer gusto. The acting in The Tudors, hemmed in by its cliche-ridden script, is pinched and suburban, showing among other things why most British classical acting is now outclassed by Canadian. (The Tudors is, bizarrely, a Canadian co-production, but there’s almost no sign of that on the screen.) Jonathan Rhys-Meyers gives us a still-young Henry who seems to be anticipating his older self as promised by Starkey: a hysterical and calculating neurotic. He isn’t remotely bloated yet; maybe that’ll come by the time he hooks up with Catherine Parr, but lacking the famous "shape," Henry seems not only a physical but a spiritual shadow of himself. He isn’t much fun. The show seems to pride itself on being idiomatically hip, but its accoutrements are relentlessly old fashioned. There’s much terpsichorean hey-nonnynonnying; churchmen at parties snigger in corners; shepherds pose with their flocks while holding their crooks at picturesque angles. Violence, nudity and sexuality are promised and delivered: the nudity anyway. This is TV drama after all, and a naked woman is a naked woman, whatever style of costume she isn’t wearing. – Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant airs tonight at 10 p.m. on TVO. The Tudors returns for a third season on Wednesday at 9 p.m. on CBC. http://www.kelowna.com/2009/09/28/choose-your-own-regal-adventure-a-four-part-documentary-onhenry-viii-and-a-new-season-of-the-tudors-promise-varying-levels-ofhey-nonny-nonnying/
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The third series of BBC2's Jonathan Rhys Meyers drama The Tudors came to an end with 1.4 million viewers — nearly a million fewer than watched the climax to the second season — on Friday, 25 September. The big-budget US import had a 6% share of the audience between 9pm and 10pm, according to unofficial overnight figures. It was down on the 2.2 million and 10% share who saw the finale of the second series in October 2008. Another 2.2 million, also a 10% share, watched the end of the first series in December 2007. The Tudors was beaten by Derren Brown: How To Be A Psychic Spy, which had 1.8 million viewers, an 8% share, at the same time on Channel 4. Another 427,000 saw Brown's show on Channel 4 +1. ITV1's Rebus repeat had 3.0 million viewers, a 13% share, between 9pm and 10pm, while Channel Five's NCIS repeat averaged 1 million viewers, 5% of the audience. The second Friday night edition of BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing averaged 7.6 million viewers, a 34% share, between 8.30pm and 10pm. It beat ITV1's Coronation Street for the second week in a row, the soap's audience reduced to 6.4 million viewers, a 29% share. The second episode of the sixth series of Channel 4's Peep Show had 1.3 million viewers, 7% of the audience, between 10pm and 10.35pm, with another 356,000 watching on Channel 4 +1. It was down on the 1.8 million viewers and 9% share who watched the sixth series opener last week. Peep Show was beaten by a QI repeat on BBC2, which had 1.7 million viewers, 9% of the audience. But it had the edge over Five's Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which had 1.1 million viewers, a 7% share, between 10pm and 11pm. BBC1's EastEnders had the biggest audience of the night with 8.1 million viewers, a 39% share between 8pm and 8.30pm, beating an edition of ITV1's Tonight, about video-game addiction, which had 2.7 million viewers, a 13% share. Earlier, an hour-long edition of BBC1's The One Show had 3.8 million viewers, 20% of the audience, between 7pm and 8pm. It was beaten by a soap double helping on ITV1, with 5.8 million viewers, 32% of the audience, watching Emmerdale at 7pm, and 7.5 million viewers, a 38% share, watching Coronation Street at 7.30pm. A new series of Channel 4's Unreported World began with 400,000 viewers, a 2% share, between 7.35pm and 8pm, with another 41,000 viewers watching on Channel 4 +1. It was neck and neck with a repeat of docusoap Police Interceptors: Special Edition, which also had 400,000 viewers between 7.30pm and 8pm on Channel Five. BBC2's docusoap Victorian Farm had 1.4 million viewers, 7% of the audience, between 7pm and 8pm. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/28/tudors-jonathan-rhys-meyers-tv-ratings
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Отправлено: 29.09.09 21:28. Заголовок: Henry VIII, as depic..
Henry VIII, as depicted in the last season of The Tudors, is an angry, angry man. "Well, I think six marriages does not make a man happy," Jonathan Rhys Meyers says, looking poised and relaxed in duds more suited to an Irish pub-crawl than the 16thcentury English monarch he plays in Michael Hirst's sprawling bodice ripper and historical tale of palace intrigue. "I don't know anybody who has been married six times who is particularly happy. "Nor even one," Meyers says, with a rueful laugh. "Love is blind, marriage is an eye-opener." When The Tudors returns, King Henry VIII is in his 30s. Knives are being sharpened, betrayal is in the air and the winds of destiny continue to conspire against the no-longer-so-young king. "He finds he can't trust anybody, because nobody is trustworthy." Meyers says. "Everybody has their own agenda. Look at anyone who assumes power: how young and fresh they look when they enter office, and how hardened and cynical they are when they come out of office. The experience of leadership has made Henry a very, very tense person. And, at the same time, he is very dangerous. Henry is a very dangerous man." The Tudors' third season focuses on Henry's ill-fated marriages to Jane Seymour and to Anne of Cleves, as played in The Tudors by Annabelle Wallis and R&B soul-singer Joss Stone respectively; the downfall of the scheming Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, played by James Frain; and Henry VIII's violent suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a populist uprising in 1536 to protest the king's break with the Catholic Church in Rome. "In the first season, Henry was a very young man--a kid," Meyers said. "Young men do have redeeming qualities. They have a certain idealism. In the second season, a lot of tension happened with Anne Boleyn. He realized he was fascinated with Anne Boleyn, obsessed with Anne Boleyn --but he was not necessarily in love with Anne Boleyn. Certainly not in the same way he is in love with Jane Seymour. It was not a comfortable love. "You will find, at the start of the new season, even though he is still very dangerous, he has found a comfortable family life with Jane Seymour--and then that's snatched away from him. It throws him into further turmoil. And then, with the rebellion in the north, the ill-advice he gets from Thomas Cromwell concerning his marriage to Anne of Cleves, his continuing struggle with his faith--it all starts to snowball." The relationship between love and marriage in the royal courts of 16thcentury Europe was very different from the concept of marriage most people hold today, Meyers says. "Marriage was a commercial venture, rather than the natural result of love. You married and you had children because children brought you heirs. They were a kind of security for your future legacy. Usually, marriages were arranged for commercial, political or estate value. And every so often, a love match happened-- such as Henry's relationship with Jane Seymour. "Jane Seymour wasn't the crazy, mad passion of Anne Boleyn. After Anne Boleyn, it was kind of, 'Whew. Really, I think I can use a break.' And Jane Seymour was the break. She was the ray of light." Meyers suspects Henry struggled with his religious faith in his later years. "I believe Henry remained Catholic, really, most of his life. Even though he did not want to be ruled by the Pope in Rome, he still held on to those very, very strong Catholic beliefs, I think, all his life. After killing so many people, after putting people to death on a whim, I think your relationship with God becomes strained. There are a lot of things going on in Henry's head. He is a leader. And it is very difficult to lead." http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Drama+snowballs+with+Tudors+return/2044902/story.html
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Отправлено: 29.09.09 21:29. Заголовок: HOLLYWOOD comes to t..
HOLLYWOOD comes to town next week as the hit TV series 'The Tudors' arrives at Swords Castle to shoot scenes in its spectacular and newly-refurbished, medieval chapel. Following the official opening of the beautifully restored medieval chapel last week, Senior Executive Parks Superintendent, Gerry Fitzgerald, has confirmed that 'The Tudors' production team will be among its first guests. The cast, led by Irish heart-throb Jonathan Rhys Meyers, will roll up to the castle gates for their friendly invasion on October 5th and shoot scenes for the blockbuster show over three days, Mr Fitzgerald revealed. The medieval setting will be perfect for the fiery series about the lives, loves and passions of a young and surprisingly lean King Henry VIII, which is entering its final season. http://www.fingal-independent.ie/news/lights-camera-action-at-castle-1898959.html
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EXPLOSIONS rocked Swords Castle this week as rifle-carrying Frenchmen stormed the Fingal capital's landmark building and declared war on its inhabitants. No, it wasn't a late response to the Lisbon result, but all the thrills and spills of Hollywood, as the hit show ' The Tudors' came to town. The castle was transformed into a historic battleground, with foot soldiers, stunt men and camera crew mingling in its grounds, preparing for action. Sadly, there was no sign of leading man, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, as it was instead the second unit crew in tow, filming a series of battle scenes, which will make up part of the fourth and final series. For all the refurbishment carried out, you could be forgiven for thinking the castle was back in ruins, as the set designers had made a few changes for authenticity. Windows in the new chapel area were covered, while its staircase was removed, replaced instead with a pile of rubble and wood and the castle's flagpoles were taken down. And the look will be completed in the coming days, with green screens to be erected at the castle entrance, blocking off the view of Bridge Street and Main Street and allowing the CGI team to add in more appropriate scene. Some 60 to 70 crew members are taking part in the three-day shoot, with a mix of nationalities working from 7am, through to 7pm or 8pm in the evening. Scenes shot in Swords will make up elements of the famous 1544 siege of Boulogne, which took place during King Henry VIII's second invasion of France. Filming initially took place in Kilruddery, where soldieries made their way up a hill, leading to the 'city of Boulogne', which will be represented on film by the outer walls of Swords Castle. The scenes will feature in the sixth of seventh episode of the series, which will more than likely be shown in Ireland next year. http://www.fingal-independent.ie/entertainment/filming-takes-place-at-swords-castle-1905541.html
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He re-imagined Elizabeth I as a flirtatious young princess and upset historian David Starkey with a hedonistic Henry VIII. Now the creator of the hit television series The Tudors, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, is training his gaze on another English ruler: Henry V. Michael Hirst, who also wrote Elizabeth, a film that starred Cate Blanchett, has signed up to write the screenplay for Agincourt. This ?30m UK film will explore the battle in 1415, where a bedraggled English task force -- fronted by skilful longbowmen -- pulled off one of the most celebrated military victories in history against a much larger French army. It promises to offer a gritty, violent and almost certainly highly sexed counterpoint to previous film depictions of the campaign, notably Laurence Olivier's and Kenneth Branagh's film adaptations of the Shakespeare play Henry V. The film will be produced by Luc Roeg, the son of director Nicolas Roeg. Roeg said that he had hired Hirst because of his success in making The Tudors accessible to a modern audience, even though his project is more of a war film than a palace romp. "If you call the film Agincourt, then the battle has got to deliver," he said. He wants the fighting to feel like a medieval version of the grunts'-eye view of the D-Day landings in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. Filming is expected to start next year. http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/film-cinema/tudors-creator-turns-attentions-to-agincourt-movie-1912873.html
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Отправлено: 16.10.09 22:27. Заголовок: Jonathan Rhys Meyers..
Jonathan Rhys Meyers is feeling playful. We're on the set of The Tudors, and as the director dishes out instructions to the cast, Rhys Meyers pretends to stab him with his sword. Then he leans over and whispers to one of the pretty young actresses on his right. "How's your sister?" This could be taken the wrong way, especially coming from a guy who has been linked to a string of Hollywood beauties, and whose alter ego is King Henry VIII, who had six wives. But Rhys Meyers is just being polite. The actress updates him, then introduces the actress next to her, who happens to come from Virginia. "Oh, you're the Yank?" he says, flashing her a grin. "Virginia! Land of corrrrn! You like corn?" His fake American accent sounds a bit silly but it has all the girls in fits of giggles. It's suddenly apparent why Rhys Meyers, initially a surprising choice for this role, got the part. "When I first heard that they wanted me to play Henry VIII, I laughed," he says. "I was like, you've got to be kidding. It's ridiculous." Current Oil Prices Check the Latest Oil Prices Plus Oil News at FT.com FT.com ICICI Lombard Insurance One Stop for all your General Insurance needs in India. Buy Now! ICICILombard.com/GeneralInsurance Elizabeth Taylor Elizabeth Taylor in hospital for heart surgery. News on France 24 www.France24.com/Elizabeth-Taylor Dvd The Tudors Купи или продай сейчас! Выгодные цены. Большой выбор. www.molotok.ru It's a day earlier, and the actor has arrived at Dublin's Ardmore Studios, dressed in black skinny jeans, black singlet and black geek-chic glasses. He looks more rock star than royal. "I thought, they're going to want a proper Henry VIII. And I said 'guys, I'm not like that. I'm not your guy'. And then they explained what they were going to do." The idea was not to portray Henry as the fat, ageing tyrant of the history books but the young, athletic figure of emerging power in the 16th century. Rhys Meyers didn't have the weight or physical presence you'd expect for the part but he has a lot in common with the notorious monarch, says The Tudors creator and writer, Michael Hirst. "From what one reads about the young Henry VIII, he's not dissimilar in temperament. He's not dissimilar in looks either, but that was when Henry was young. But he lives kind of on the edge. He has a very small attention span and Henry did too. He's very bright and Henry was incredibly clever." Rhys Meyers can thank his short attention span for kick-starting his career. His father left the family home when his son was just 3. The eldest of three brothers, Rhys Meyers didn't exactly take on the paternal mantle. After he was expelled from high school at 16, he was discovered while hanging out in a pool hall in Cork. Later he went on to star in a series of commanding roles: a football coach in Bend it Like Beckham with Keira Knightley, a version of David Bowie in Velvet Goldmine, Elvis Presley in Elvis, for which he won a Golden Globe and a cheating husband in Woody Allen's Match Point with Scarlett Johansson. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/television/news/article.cfm?c_id=339&objectid=10603588
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Отправлено: 22.10.09 22:51. Заголовок: Тюдоры номинированы ..
Тюдоры номинированы на очередную награду ORONTO -- CBC-TV's sexy period drama The Tudors is heading into next month's televised Gemini Awards gala with four trophies, while CTV's slick cop series Flashpoint boasts three. Two of Canada's biggest co-productions took the most hardware Tuesday at an industry awards ceremony honouring the best in Canadian youth, comedy, drama and variety television. The Tudors, a lavish Canada-Ireland co-production starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, won drama trophies for best photography, best picture editing, best sound and best production design. Flashpoint, a CTV/CBS co-production that led the race overall with 19 nominations, nabbed drama awards for best guest performance by an actress, Tatiana Maslany; best guest performance by an actor, Henry Czerny; and best title design. The made-in-Manitoba CTV movie Elijah won two awards at Tuesday's ceremony -- best TV movie, and best writing (screenplay by Blake Corbet). Another local production, the Citytv sitcom Less Than Kind, was a winner, with Kelly Makin receiving the Gemini for best direction in a comedy program or series. The industry's biggest awards will be handed out Nov. 14 in Calgary and will be broadcast on Global and Showcase. Other multiple winners Tuesday included Space's Stargate Atlantis, which won for best dramatic writing and makeup, and the Family Channel's Life With Derek, which won for best children's or youth series and best performance in a children's or youth series. CBC-TV's The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos was named best talk series and the first season of CTV's So You Think You Can Dance Canada was named best variety show. Corner Gas alum Gabrielle Miller earned best performance by a supporting actress in a drama series for CTV's Robson Arms. Another awards ceremony Monday celebrated the best in news, sports, documentary and lifestyles television. Flashpoint initially led the nominees overall with a record 19 nods. After garnering three in the early ceremonies, it will compete for five more in next month's bash. -- The Canadian Press/Staff http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/TV/tudors-heads-into-geminis-with-four-trophies-in-crown-65457222.html
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Отправлено: 30.10.09 00:55. Заголовок: AFTER TAKING six a..
AFTER TAKING six awards in the Irish Film and Television Awards 'The Tudors' has finally run out of perishable wives and must draw a curtain on King Henry's reign in Bray. Shot on location in Ardmore Studios and County Wicklow, The HBO hit starring Cork-born Jonathan Rhys Meyers was the most successful drama to be made in these parts since ' Ballykissangel'. The programme has been a bolster to the Irish industry for the last number of years, The gap left when 'The Tudors' ceases will be a gaping wound. 'It has been a regular gig for a large chunk of people working in the film industry in Wicklow,' agreed Vibeke Delahunt of the County Wicklow Film Commission. Hope is mounting, however, that the American channel responsible for 'The Sopranos' will return to the Garden County soon with another similar production called 'Camelot' – same county, different king. With a wealth of eminently camera-friendly locations however, from Sally Gap and Powerscourt to the Bray Head Hotel or Harbour Bar and Russborough House, Killruddery, and Glendalough, can Wicklow continue to attract film and TV productions? The answer from the business is a resounding 'we certainly hope so.' This year so far has seen 'Raw', series two, made by RTE, as well as feature film 'Leap Year' shot in the Roundwood area. ITV sci-fi drama 'Primeval' is confirmed to be on the way to our area, which Kevin Moriarty of Ardmore Studios hopes to see dealt with on his turf. There is also a feature film in the pipeline by a Dublin company called Element Pictures, about which those in the know are remaining tight-lipped until the parties sign on the dotted line. However , nothing on the scale of the massive production about to finish in Bray is confirmed. ' The Tudors brought ?80 million into Wicklow over the last four years,' said Vibeke. 'The making of a similar programme would be great news for the county.' The period drama is not the first major money-spinner to grace the area, however. Many readers have fond memories of a very gracious and friendly Mel Gibson galloping all over Glendalough on horseback during the making of 'Braveheart', and who can forget Christie Brown's triumphant goal on a 'Dublin' street – the scene from 'My Left Foot' was actually shot in Bray. The star of that particular film, Daniel Day Lewis, was this year granted the freedom of Wicklow by the County Council. Wicklow Courthouse was one of the featured locations in 2006 for 'Becoming Jane', a charming tale of the life of author Jane Austen starring Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy, while the popular 'PS I Love You' was shot in Blessington the same year. The list goes on. 'Lassie', 'Breakfast on Pluto', 'The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse', 'King Arthur' and 'Laws of Attraction'. The wonderful Angela Lansbury has even worked in the area for the TV Movie version of 'Murder She Wrote' shot in Rathdrum. An improved tax incentive may continue to bring film-makers to the east coast, however, it remains to be seen if the bigbudget days of 'Excalibur' or 'Reign of Fire' will return. Stanley Kubrick first got a Wicklow welcome back in 1975 for Barry Lyndon, we're not sure if anyone of that calibre will ever return, but no matter – we'll always have 'Fair City'. - Mary FOGARTY http://www.wicklowpeople.ie/news/tudor-wrap-1928012.html
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Отправлено: 30.10.09 00:56. Заголовок: Jonathan Rhys Meyers..
Jonathan Rhys Meyers loves playing Henry VIII, but is certainly not in love with his character’s diet. The Irish actor and “Tudors” star revealed the king’s “deathly” food choices. "If you look at the Tudor diet, I'm surprised anyone lasted longer than six months,” he told Canada’s Edmonton Sun. While the actors on the set of the hit Showtime series nosh on fruit and veggies, their 16th century English “Tudors” characters opt for less healthy meals. For the king, Rhys Meyers explained, "They would take a chicken, tear the top off, giblets on the top, and they would take giblets from the bottom, they would take the throat, and the head, and the feet, and they would clip the wings, and they would cook those. The breast would go to the poor." But while the wealthy wined and dined on fattening foods, the poor were known to be healthier and live longer. "The poor were mostly rural, agricultural, so they would eat vegetables, they would drink water, they would eat roast beef, whatever they had at the time," the Irishman said. "Whereas if you went into the city, you're having jowl of salmon, jowl of chicken.” Rhys Meyers went on with his history lesson, explaining that royalty weren’t very hygienic either. "And when you're inside the kingdom itself, sanitation goes out the window,” the actor/model said. “Clean water was not a possibility. What they used to drink as water had a good percentage of ale in it. "The average man would imbibe 22 liters of alcohol per week, the average woman 15. So when you see portraits from that time and everybody looks a little worn? That's why they look worn." No wonder Henry VIII drank all that ale, because as Rhys Meyers explains, “A lot of things are going on in Henry’s head. “He is a leader. It is very difficult to lead." http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Jonathan-Rhys-Meyers-reveals-royaltys-deathly-diet-on-The-Tudors-66445697.html
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Отправлено: 02.11.09 22:40. Заголовок: IT’S 5.45am on a dar..
IT’S 5.45am on a dark October morning and I am sitting on a bus bound for the Kilmainham Royal Hospital. I am to be an extra in a scene for The Tudors . As a novice I am lucky to be sitting beside Gene, an old pro who is doing his best to initiate me into the hidden world of the extra. As the bus picks up more people, he remarks that there are no women on board. “So, it’s a battle scene?” I suggest. “Hardly, look around you,” he says with a sigh and I realise we are surrounded by men whose sword-wielding days are well and truly over. Oops! The bus arrives at the hospital gate and is directed around to the rear. We disembark and head to a large white marquee. I follow Gene, not letting him out of my sight. The morning has brightened and the scale of the operation becomes apparent. Outside the marquee there is a mobile kitchen, a generator and toilets. Just inside the entrance is a long table with rows of neatly laid out forms, one for each of us. These are to be guarded jealously and signed at the end of our stint as proof of our participation. Then we are allocated our “roles”. Gene gets to be a councillor, but as one of the lesser-experienced extras I am assigned the role of a bishop. We are sent to a cloakroom where we leave our possessions and are then costumed up. Once fitted, it’s straight into “hair”, a quick trip over to make-up and then it’s out to the mobile kitchen for breakfast. Time elasped, about 30 minutes for 70 grumpy men; not bad. After a full Irish we sit and await our instructions. The experienced have brought along newspapers or books. It’s approaching 9am when one of the production people comes and gathers us around to go through the king’s speech. It is a long speech by television standards and requires us to be, in turn: awestruck, happy, filled with consternation and finally, loving. I get nervous. At what stage was I supposed to mumble consternation again? Before you can say “stage fright” we are marched off to the chapel in Kilmainham Hospital. All of the clergy take up one side and the laity the other. I see straight away who the real extras are. They are the ones with the wigs and complicated costumes, some even have swords. My ego is pricked but there’s no time for jealousy. The floor manager again goes through the scene, step by step, and we await the presence of King Henry VIII, aka, Jonathan Rhys Meyers. As instructed we feign conversation, but as soon as the king’s presence is announced, we bow. In this scene the king is an old man, and step by painful step he makes it to his throne. He begins his speech and chides us, then lambasts us, then offers us his love. We applaud him, and he makes his way out. And that’s it? Well, not exactly. We do it several more times, from different angles, with different reactions. Through it all Jonathan has been superb. He delivers the same speech with equal passion and waits patiently as the technicians set up the new cameras positions. Where were the film star tantrums? Maybe he is too tired to throw them, I ponder? As there are no windows in the chapel, people are beginning to wilt and a tea break is announced. Outside, the clergy and laity mix with the bemused tourists. A lady asks if she can take a photograph of me and I get my first taste of celebrity- hood. All too soon, it’s back inside again. Same positions for everybody, but this time there are metal tracks laid on the floor. More camera work tracks the king as he walks to, and then from the throne. I come to realise the greatest gift you can possess for this job: patience. After every take the director disappears into another room to contemplate the result. We wait anxiously and finally he’s happy. I am told that this scene has been completed quite quickly compared with others. A five-minute scene took five hours. I do the maths and can understand why this is a valuable industry to Ireland. In all there must have been hundreds of people involved. Tired and stiff, we make our way back to the marquee to get some lunch: chicken in a tomato sauce with veg, plus a dessert. It is about 2pm and we don’t know whether we are to be used again or not. The announcement comes. “I need four bishops and some laity.” The old hands step forward quickly, leaving us newbies behind. “Everybody else hand back your costumes and thank you very much.” And that’s it, my career in the movies is over. On the one hand I am relieved to be out of the heavy costume and back into my own clothes, but on the other . . . As a few of us walk back to the bus I glance behind. The remaining extras are heading back towards the hospital, resplendent in their costumes. But we, the discarded few, are making our way across the well-trodden grass, back to our own time, our own place. The real world. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/1102/1224257901091.html
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Отправлено: 03.11.09 23:11. Заголовок: ONE OF this columnis..
ONE OF this columnist's favorites is actor Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. He is heading into the final season of "The Tudors" on Showtime. He will now appear as the older, more debauched Henry VIII. I am told that Jonathan has actually consented to "some aging." After all, he was, from the beginning, such an unlikely -- though brilliant -- choice for the role of the red-haired English monarch, and he got through most of this amazing series looking ravishing. Jonathan is one of those dark-night-of-the-soul kind of guys -- very intense, full of "issues." But one can break through and not have a total nervous collapse while interviewing him. He was a challenge at first. But if one just concentrates on his lips, his eyes, his boldly exposed chest, one gets through it. And he seemed to like it that this interviewer knew just a bit about English history. P.S. "The Tudors" drives scholars half mad. It is not always authentic. But it's great drama. And you never will forget some of its torture scenes -- people wrapped in oiled bandages for the fire, red-hot pokers up the backside, the rack reducing pathetic humans to crawling remnants as they approach the headman's ax. But after all, this part of "The Tudors" is authentic. Unfortunately. SING! DANCE! THRILL! ENJOY! What a kick to see a Broadway musical and be able to sing along (silently, of course) with such classics as "That Old Devil Moon," "Look to the Rainbow," "How Are Things in Glocca Morra," "If This Isn't Love." That's what you'll be doing if you go see the truly sparkling production of the beloved "Finian's Rainbow" just opened at the St. James Theater on Broadway. There's a wonderful cast, led by the one and only Jim Norton. (Broadway awarded his performance in "The Seafarer" with a Tony in 2008!) This Irish gent bears laughter and tears on his humble shoulders magnificently throughout. Then there's the endearingly lovely Kate Baldwin as his daughter. Ms. Baldwin is a big winner with her rich voice and charming looks, performing in this 62-year-old classic by Burton Lane and Yip Harburg. And, of course, there's the smolderingly sexy Cheyenne Jackson as her love, sending sparks up around both of them. Everyone in this show is great, and what's more, you can bring your children. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010755.html?categoryId=14&cs=1&cache=false
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Отправлено: 04.11.09 16:03. Заголовок: "IT'S GOOD t..
"IT'S GOOD to be King!" said Mel Brooks in "The History of the World, Part I." It's good to be Jonathan Rhys Meyers, too. This young actor -- only 30, though acting since his teens -- has hit his stride. He plays a new kind of Henry VIII in Showtime's opulent and sexy "The Tudors," which begins its second season Sunday. I met with Jonathan down in Manhattan's Soho, at the trendy 60 Thompson Street hotel. He looked, head to toe, like a page from men's Vogue. He is impossibly handsome. His features are startlingly lush; the eyes, the famous mouth. Like a matinee idol of years past -- Tyrone Power, perhaps -- even if Jonathan weren't a famous actor, he'd stop any room he entered. (The Dublin native began his career playing a glam-rocker in the cult classic "Velvet Goldmine" and he exudes a slightly decadent, ambiguous rock-star glamour.) The star is kinetic, and at first, almost disconcertingly intense. He laughs, "Oh, I know it. People always say to me, you're so jittery, you can't sit still, you're nervous. But I'm not nervous. I'm just a very excitable guy. I'm enthusiastic. I can't help myself." He says that when he made "Mission: Impossible III" with Tom Cruise, he found somebody else with a similar powerful energy. "I had a great time on that, and when Tom and I were together it was like, whoosh!, all the air in the room evaporated. He was terrific to work with because he is so committed and professional. I mean, 17 hours a day. You have to respect that." I REMIND Jonathan that we'd met briefly once before, at the premiere of his Woody Allen thriller, "Match Point." I hadn't been able to talk at length with him that night. But, when I passed him at the party, I said, "Great film, great performance, but what a sociopath your character is." Jonathan stepped back and barked, "He's not a sociopath, he's just a guy in a bad spot." I didn't pursue further niceties. So now I ask, was Henry VIII a sociopath or "just a guy in a bad spot?" Jonathan says: "Neither. He's a megalomaniac, somebody with absolute power who has been corrupted by it, absolutely. He was a great King in many ways, and did great things. But he also did terrible things. Not just to his women, but to his people. In the matter of divorcing Catherine of Aragon and marrying Anne Boleyn, challenging the church, he gave his people no choice. Choose the Pope or the King, be excommunicated by the Pope or excommunicated by the King. And God help you if you choose the Pope! I'm trying to show how he became what he became, why he was so paranoid, why he was so ashamed. He was paranoid because everybody wanted to be King and the knives were everywhere, literally. He was ashamed because in the matter of Catherine and Anne, he knew he'd done wrong. He never doubted the legitimacy of his marriage to Catherine. He wanted Anne, period." JONATHAN, slender, toned, not towering in height, is a very different Henry than we've seen before. "I had some trepidation, when offered the role. You know, when I played Elvis, I could look in the mirror, and sort of see Elvis in myself. But Henry the VIII? So, you know, I decided I'd play it more from here," touching the smooth plane of his semi-bare chest. "I do think we've sort of changed the game. When I saw photos of Eric Bana as Henry in "The Other Boleyn Girl" I thought, "Fuck! He doesn't look that dissimilar from me. I worried a little how I'd stack up. He's so tall; he's got that overpowering quality. And I've met him. He handed me my Golden Globe for 'Elvis." I remember just looking way up! But this is the 21st century. You have to have a hot Henry VIII! Nobody wants to see a 300 pound man making love to a beautiful woman. Maybe on some strange Internet site, but otherwise audiences demand eye-candy all around." The network is already planning a third season, minus the unfortunate ladies, Anne and Catherine, who meet their respective ends this year. Jonathan says, "I hope season three focuses on the rebellion in Scotland, where you see Henry fight for a change." I wondered if the series would touch on the pathetic Katherine Howard, the second wife to lose her head? Jonathan couldn't say, but did remark that Mistress Howard "absolutely deserved to be beheaded. Anne Boleyn was executed because there was no other way to get out of that. She couldn't give him a son and that was the reason for the marriage. But Katherine Howard earned her beheading. She was a little nymphomaniac. She had over one hundred lovers in the palace!" Now, I begged to differ with Jonathan; she'd had a number of indiscreet affairs before and, alas, during her marriage to Henry, but a "nympho" a "hundred lovers?" The actor was adamant and I let it go -- you don't argue with Jonathan Rhys Meyers! He did soften slightly, "Well, she was very young and silly, the poor thing had no concept of 'wed and bed' -- she didn't see she was doing anything wrong, Henry being rather gross by then." Jonathan spoke glowingly of Maria Doyle Kennedy, who plays Catherine, and infuses her every moment with dignity and strength, "Isn't she magnificent?!" he exclaimed. And of the delectable Natalie Dormer, as Anne, he insists, "season two belongs to her. She owns it; she plays it like a harp and broke down walls with this performance." On the bigscreen, Jonathan will soon be seen in "The Children of Hunag Shi," in which he plays a reporter covering the infamous Japanese occupation of China in 1937. And then comes "Mandrake," based on the comicbook character, Mandrake the Magician. HE STUDIED when very young at the foot of the great Italian director Lucino Visconti...He helped form the iconic operatic career of Maria Callas and became one of her intimate friends...He breathed new life into Shakespeare with a beautiful version of "Romeo and Juliet" in 1967, using actual teenagers playing teenagers...He gave Elizabeth Taylor a lusty shot at the Bard in "The Taming of the Shrew"...He offered Cher her last good movie role in his autobiographical film "Tea With Mussolini"...He raised the TV miniseries genre to a new level of quality with "Jesus of Nazereth." I do mean the one and only Franco Zeffirelli. On Saturday, at the Metropolitan Opera, Franco will receive a special plaque during the opening night intermission of his production of "La Boheme." This lush version of Puccini's tragic tale is the most performed production in Met history. It has been staged 346 times! Believe me, even if opera is not "your thing," Zeffirelli's concept conquers all. When Franco's Mimi coughs at the start of the third act, you realize that NyQuil won't help. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117982950.html?categoryid=2062&cs=1
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