#the times uk

[jbaileyfansite]

Fellow Travelers listed by the critics of The Times UK as one of the shows to watch this Fall [x]

#fellow travelers #jonathan bailey #matt bomer #jonny bailey #jonathanbailey #the times uk #paramount plus #paramount+ #gay romance #queer romance #lgbtq #NEW!

[austinslounge]

”I end by bringing up something that Butler once said about Presley, that he was a guy who seemingly had everything, but felt alone. Butler is clearly not at the singer’s level yet, but it has been a catapulting year.

How will he keep himself OK? “I’m trying to figure that out,” he says. “One interesting thing is that internally not much changes — it’s just a collective idea of who you are that changes.” From others? “Yes."

"And then, in every interview, you try to talk about who you actually are, but it’s so complex to try to quantify that.” He pauses, before standing up to glide away behind a panel and disappear. “I just need to realize how privileged I am,” he says. “And we all are — to have the life that we have.”

#The Times UK #austin butler #Interview #Elvis #YSL

[allthefights]

#Theo James #The Times UK #theoedit

[dailytomlinson]

Seven years since One Direction split, only one ex-member can still claim superstar status. Yet it wasn’t Harry Styles who fans camped out for overnight in sub-zero temperatures this week. It was Louis Tomlinson, until recently the least successful of the former famous five.

Slow to settle on a solo sound, the Yorkshire-born 30-year-old aped his idols Oasis and Arctic Monkeys on his widely derided debut album Walls in 2020. He did much the same on last month’s follow-up, Faith in the Future, yet something had changed. That one went to No 1.

Live, Tomlinson could still be finding his feet. His Walls world tour was cancelled due to Covid and even this show arrived a month late after the singer broke his arm. Initially, he did little other than hang Liam Gallagher-like on the mike stand, a slight figure in what could have passed for workout gear, and sprinkle swear words among his basic banter.

His almost exclusively female fans, on the other hand, were up for a party and perhaps the loudest singalongs Shepherds Bush has heard all year. The surprise was how strong the songs sounded.

Backed by a five-piece rock band, Tomlinson more than held his own despite his not notably distinctive vocals. His opener The Greatest was clearly indebted to Oasis, but its bolshiness and catchy chorus meant it didn’t matter. Even the poppier Kill My Mind had swagger, while Written All Over Your Face had a sleazy funk undercurrent that brought to mind Black Grape.

By mid-show Tomlinson had taken to prowling the stage, handing huge chunks of songs over to chanting fans and, occasionally, looking as if he might crowd surf. He didn’t, but the more confident he grew, the more electric the atmosphere.

Copy of a Copy of a Copy, officially an unreleased song, was a rocky monster that could give Tomlinson his first solo hit single. Walls, performed as an acoustic ditty, was greeted like Wonderwall. The only One Direction song on the set list, Night Changes, sounded tame by comparison.

Tomlinson may lack the inventiveness and sex appeal of Styles, but for simple singalongs, he’s now 1D’s go-to guy.

#the comparison between members is always such a disgusting thing to do and so low #write about him PERIOD #or write about the others PERIOD #individually #posting bc he got 4/5 stars #the 5th star wasnt given to louis out of pettiness thanks for listening #the times uk #fitfonoreview

[judi-daily]

The Times Sunday Magazine, 2016 Photographer: Nicky Johnston

#Judi Daily! #The Times UK #Judi Dench #Dame Judi Dench #Photographer: Nicky Johnston

[eddieredmayneargentinablog]

Exclusive Interview!

"Eddie Redmayne: ‘The aspiration is always to make a great film and I don’t think I’ve made many of those’

For his latest role the Fantastic Beasts actor relished the chance to ditch the tweed suits and play against type as an American serial killer, he tells Kevin Maher.

The Times UK, October 15, 2022

"Six years ago, Eddie Redmayne put the word out. The Oscar-winning star of The Theory of Everything, who was already shooting the first instalment of the Fantastic Beasts franchise, let it be known that he wanted a change. Yes, he had become famous for a certain kind of moral rectitude in lavish period dramas that included Birdsong, The Other Boleyn Girl and Les Misérables (his tearful rendition of Empty Chairs at Empty Tables from that film has been viewed 7.4 million times on YouTube), but enough was enough. “It was me actively saying that I’m looking for something different. Something not British. Something, ideally, where it’s not me wearing a tweed suit.”

It has taken a while, during which time he has bashed out two more Fantastic Beasts and enjoyed a last dip in the period trough (The Aeronauts), but Redmayne’s desires have finally been met. In The Good Nurse all bets are off. The 40-year-old is in full reinvention mode as the prolific American serial killer Charles Cullen, a former nurse who during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s is said to have murdered as many as 400 patients. Redmayne stars opposite Jessica Chastain, playing Amy Loughren, the co-worker who helped to bring Cullen to justice. And although Redmayne insists today that the film tilts towards Loughren’s “hero’s journey”, the sexy marketing sell is clearly “Newt Scamander does Hannibal Lecter”.

And he does it well. His Cullen is top-tier Redmayne, a mass of creepy physical touches (a blinkless smile, an off-kilter stare) and conflicted gestures perfected over three months of deep-diving research. “I found as much footage of Charlie as I could and I learnt the accent, I learnt the movement, and then I even went to nurse school, where I found out that I’m a f***ing useless nurse!” he says, chuckling at his inadequacies. Redmayne does this a lot. Good-natured self-deprecation. He is sipping decaf coffee in a swanky London hotel suite and wearing a crisp red and white “western-style” shirt that suggests a friendly yet slightly fragile cowboy. He peppers his conversation with asides about being not very good.

Of his movie career, he says: “The aspiration is always to make a great film and I don’t think I’ve made many of those.” Of his first big American outing, opposite Robert De Niro in The Good Shepherd, he says: “I was paranoid, I was disappointed and I did beige work.” And of his university days, doing theatre in Cambridge with his fellow students Dan Stevens, Rebecca Hall and Tom Hiddleston, he says: “I remember seeing Tom in Arcadia and he was amazing. Rebecca was always extraordinary, and I remember Dan doing the Scottish play with extraordinary power too. But to be clear, the theatre that I did in Cambridge was utterly appalling.”

He does, however, allow himself a vague acknowledgement of accomplishment regarding his stellar turn in The Good Nurse, honed over the intense preparation period that has become his trademark since playing the physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

“Back then, James [Marsh, director of The Theory of Everything] basically said: ‘Eddie, to a certain extent this lives or dies based on your performance.’ So I said: ‘OK, if that’s the case, I need four months’ prep, I need a vocal coach, I need a movement coach and I need to do my research.’ And that process worked for me and taught me that, as an actor, I need a long, long runway.”

He talks some more about The Good Nurse and how it’s “not a documentary, but as close to the truth as you can get”. Of his unnerving performance, and his so-called radical shift away from period dramas and blockbusters, he says that it’s not so much a reinvention as a return.

Most audiences, he says, imagine that he emerged fully formed into the middle of Redmaynia (see the knockout trilogy of Les Misérables, The Theory of Everything and The Danish Girl). Whereas, in fact, he began as an intensely provocative character actor who burst on to the scene in 2007 playing, brilliantly, a neurotic pansexual murderer who sleeps with his mother in Savage Grace. He then moved on to become a drug-addicted paedophile in Hick.

He started out, in short, as Edgy Redmayne. Then something happened: fame came calling, and the edges, perhaps, were rounded off. “My film career started in America, doing these tiny movies that nobody saw,” he says. “So it’s been kind of wonderful to get back to some sort of root, some instincts that thrilled me when I started,” he says. “And I do feel regalvanised by it.”

The real start, however, was as “one of around eight thousand workhouse boys in the Sam Mendes production of Oliver!” Redmayne was 12 at the time and living in Chelsea, southwest London; his father was in corporate finance and his mother ran a relocation business. His childhood was “wonderful and loving”, and the Oliver! role launched him on a well-documented path from the Jackie Palmer Stage School (James Corden was a fellow student and ridiculed Redmayne about it on his American talk show) to school plays at Eton, then the belle époque era of the Cambridge drama darlings Stevens, Hall and Hiddleston.

The path ended in 2005 with Redmayne, at the time working behind the bar at the Builder’s Arms in Chelsea, flying to New York and banging down the doors of a production company there because he wanted to star in its small and incendiary movie about incest and murder (Savage Grace).

Yet the impact of Oliver!, he says, can’t be underestimated. “I was at school in London and I was allowed to leave during the middle of maths and take the Tube to Oxford Circus from Hammersmith, to the London Palladium, into the theatre and then around to the backstage of that theatre. The intoxicating romance of that was overwhelming. That was the drug.”

When fame hit, it landed with a wallop. He experienced Redmaynia as a sensory overload and something to integrate with his marriage to the antiques dealer Hannah Bagshawe (they married in 2014, the year of The Theory of Everything).

“The whole year of making The Theory of Everything was a blur because the stakes were so high and because I knew Stephen [Hawking] was going to see it. Then, when I was promoting the film, I was making The Danish Girl. And then, when I was making Fantastic Beasts, there was a day where I left the shoot, flew to LA, did press for The Danish Girl, walked the red carpet, got back on the plane and flew straight back into the Fantastic Beasts shoot. It is a period that is a hazy blur, and also because I was newly married, and then with young kids. It was an extraordinary time, but one that I still haven’t made much sense of.”

There are, nevertheless, memories of that period. On Les Misérables, for instance, he remembers asking the director Tom Hooper if he could do multiple takes of that Empty Chairs number. “I did twentysomething takes, back to back.” And why? He laughs, guiltily, and admits: “Because every day on that set you’d hear someone saying [drops voice to reverential whisper]: ‘Oh, have you heard Hugh’s [Jackman] extraordinary rendition of Who Am I? And, oh, Annie’s [Hathaway] I Dreamed a Dream?’ But my one they kept pushing further down the schedule. So, by the time you get there, the pressure is immense. So I said: ‘Let’s give it as many times as we can!’ ”

He remembers, on The Theory of Everything, meeting Hawking outside a London screening room, where the physicist was about to be shown the movie of his life. “I was terrified, like, ‘Hi Steve, hope you enjoy the film, let me know what you think.’ And he took about six minutes to type out his reply, and it said [does calm, unemotional voice]: ‘I will let you know what I think. Good or otherwise’. And I remember thinking: ‘If it’s otherwise, I probably don’t need the details.’ ”

Redmayne and his wife, Hannah Bagshawe

Then something curious happened. Just as Redmayne was at his most pre-eminent and professionally infallible (no wrong role, no bad performance), culture intervened. The vivid debates around identity politics looked unfavourably on Redmayne’s decision, as a cisgender man, to play a pioneering transgender woman, Lili Elbe, in The Danish Girl. His failure-proof Fantastic Beasts franchise similarly took a kicking owing to the forthright views of its creator, JK Rowling, whose “women are women” stance was deemed unacceptable and appeared to have a real-world impact on the box office performance of the series (each entry has underperformed, the most recent instalment, The Secrets of Dumbledore, being a near flop).

Redmayne reacted by announcing that the Danish Girl debacle had been “a massive learning curve” and that, although he disagreed with Rowling’s stance on trans women (“Trans women are women, trans men are men and non-binary identities are valid,” he says), he felt that the “vitriol” aimed at her on social media was “absolutely disgusting”.

On stage with Jessie Buckley in Cabaret

MARC BRENNER

Today, he says that identity politics and issues of representation are foremost on his mind when a role is offered. “Can I be totally honest?” he asks when I raise the subject. “It’s something that, with every job I do now and every job I take, I wrestle with. On the one hand, I believe that actors should be able to play anything and that freedom of artistic expression is important. On the other, I’m conscious that there are many marginalised communities that haven’t had a seat at the table, and until there is more even representation it feels wrong to be playing some of those parts.”

And Fantastic Beasts No 4? “That’s a very good question, and I don’t know the answer. It’s probably a question for [the series producer] David Heyman, JK Rowling and Warner Bros.”

He ends on the future, and on the work-life balance and spending as much time as possible with his children, Iris and Luke. “Actors are essentially circus performers,” he says. “And yet I had an upbringing that was very settled. And so trying to work out what’s best for our family is something that I question every day. It’s about not wanting my job, and my interests and my love for what I do to, like, damage my poor little ones.”

And his next role? “I don’t want to be the actor who says, ‘I can’t tell you about it’, but I can’t tell you about it.” But does that mean he is, right now, in the middle of his famous four months’ prep? Is he on the runway? His eyes light up. “Oh yes,” he says, beaming, a full diabolical smile from the reformed, regalvanised, Edgy Redmayne. “Always.”

The Good Nurse is in cinemas on October 19 and on Netflix from October 26".

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/eddie-redmayne-the-aspiration-is-always-to-make-a-great-film-and-i-dont-think-ive-made-many-of-those-b7lwlqs5n?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1665789950

#eddie redmayne #eddieredmayne #redmayne #the good nurse #the theory of everything #fantastic beasts #the times uk

[justzawe]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mr-malcolms-list-review-flimsy-regency-romance-saved-by-a-comedic-star-nd6qt9mgq

Not sure if you’ve already posted about this one, but I love that Zawe’s getting praise for being the standout! 💕

HELP

I love all this praise, but the media is so mean to the rest of the cast 😭

#the times uk #zawe ashton #mr. malcolm's list #zawe praise

[thinkingnot]

I CNATBREATHE THEY TIMES ARTICLE WRITER SAID THE E WORDNWNFJEJCJDN

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a cropped out image of a paper copy of the Times UK that reads: “Simons is more quiet, thoughtful and endearing in person than he is on his channels or in the book, a collection of-“ the rest is cropped off

#tommyinnit #the times uk #tom simons

[thepotentialof2007]

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#f1 #porpoising #repetitive impact #racing drivers #health and safety #canada #2022 #overdramatization #if i speak... #the times uk #rebecca clancy #fck it i speak #how dare the sport have a podium celebration #in the wake of a racing incident #after my team told everyone i was ok #everyone else should sck it up tho #when facing predictable and preventable #life changing injuries #because i tell myself i love taking risks

[apixsyndication]

An article in The Times UK about the alleged escapades of some pilots, illustrated by an image from our shoot 'flying high' (with models not connected to the story, obviously!) 📸 © Nadia Pandolfo

#The Times #The Times UK #APIX Syndication #models #pilot #couple #love #photography #photographers #lifestyle #happy #publishing #licensing #publications

[wisemancax]

THIS Is How To Completely Reinvent & Rebrand Yourself

THIS Is How To Completely Reinvent & Rebrand Yourself Anna Bey Secrets of the Elite Woman How-to – Definition & Meaning.

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#Amal Clooney #Anna Bey #Audrey Hepburn #Cosmopolitan #How To #Jackie Kennedy #Kate Middleton #Lifestyle #New York Post #Newsweek #Rebrand #Rebrand Yourself #Reinvent #Reinvent Yourself #Secrets of the Elite Woman #The secrets to transforming into elegance are simple #The Times UK

[starks-hero]

#how time flys #uk politics #uk monarchy #the queen #bbc #queen elizabeth #queen elizabeth ii

[allthefights]

A couple of years ago my school asked me to come and chat to the kids. I thought what would be cool would be to jump on my motorcycle. Then I got a flat and my old teacher had to drive out in his Nissan Micra to rescue me. I instantly regressed — a 36-year-old sixth-former!

#Theo James #The Times UK #theoedit

[sadcowboyss]

A selection of some of my favourite tweets from today:

#british royal family #queen #queen Elizabeth #queens dead #wild time to be living in England rn lol #England #uk politics #the royal family

[1971dodgecharger]

girls 🫂 their emotional support piece of shitty 2000s media that altered their brain chemistry

#once upon a time #doctor who #skins uk #twilight #top gear #house md #girlhood #torchwood #my chemical romance #music #2000s #i say shitty theyre all amazing actually

[bienmoreau]

“What you hold onto is less important than the act of holding on itself. It’s so easy to get lost in ourselves and this world. Sometimes you need to find your way back one tiny miracle at a time.” - The Sunshine Court

WISHING THE HAPPIEST OF BOOK BIRTHDAYS TO @korakos! YOU DID IT AND ITS BLOODY BRILLIANT!

Please please excuse the disgusting things my iPad camera has done to this photo. This is the first time in years I’ve done something like this fully traditional and it has stretched so many rusty parts of my brain but I’m SO GLAD I got this done in time for release day! This book is WONDERFUL and I’m so happy it’s now out in the world!

#jean moreau #the sunshine court #nora sakavic #all for the game #tsc spoilers #like barely but we thought it would be worth tagging to stop people being upset #the sunshine court spoilers #mine #my art #technically this is meant to be released tomorrow but it’s up on Amazon already so YAY! TIME TO CELEBRATE!! #I hate how little justice these photos do to this painting 😭😭😭😭 #I’m gonna have to repost this once I’m back in the uk and can get good photos or scan it or something #but I HAD to do something for my boy for this momentous occasion!