Richard Armitage tangentially related
Current projects:
- (The Stranger): More shots of filming near Bolton.
- (The Lodge): You can see the film at a film festival in New Orleans (French Quarter). Birth Movies Death is really excited about it. This got a lot of additional coverage in the online horror press but I’m not going to link to it all.
- (Castlevania): There’s a new / additional Trevor Belmont toy from Diamond Select, this time an action figure, but so far it can only be purchased as part of a trio. (I imagine that someone enterprising will buy quite a few and break them up and they’ll show up on the secondary market, as happened with a lot of the Hobbit toys.
Past projects:
- (The Hobbit): The Tolkien Estate is not endorsing the soon-to-be-on-our-screens Tolkien biopic.
- (The Hobbit): AUJ makes a list of films where the trailer was better than the film — which I don’t agree with — but is very complimentary about Armitage’s singing.
- (Berlin Station): One of the Paramount TV execs responsible for the show comments on her (unrelated) firing).
- (North & South): The strong women of the piece.
Things Armitage has said:
- re: his self-image as a monkey in Regents Park, some neat pictures of the park last weekend.
Collateral attractions:
- Profile / interview with Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal).
Kudos:
Fandom:
- Merriam-Webster adds the word “stan” to the dictionary.
- I thought this was interesting: Britney Spears fans start a conspiracy theory that she was held at a mental health facility against her will.
Industry issues:
- This is an article about the cancellation of The Santa Clarita Diet, a series I don’t watch, but it makes the (to me) interesting point that after season 3 a TV series jumps significantly in cost. I wonder why: is a salary renegotiation involved? (and was that what ultimately killed Berlin Station?).
- The vaunted rollout of Luminary, a new paid podcast service, has generated a lot of anger in the industry.
Am I greedy if I wished for some more infos about the filming of ‘The stranger’? A Bts pic with people here and ther would be nice sigh
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I was wondering about that. Why so little? Including from Armitage. Is it that they are that afraid of spoilers? Or was it that in Berlin, they were almost all Ausländer and sort of pushed into making their own fun together, i.e., this set is actors who are living mostly at home and already have their own social lives? But I agree, nothing with any of the actors in it seems strange.
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@Servetus: Yes, that’s possible. Some of the younger actors are active on Instagram but they don’t post much about the filming either
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i’m enjoying the Mathew Wright interview especially the rock singer revelation! lol and also the amusing part where MW calls his belly ‘my precious’ hehe
re The Stranger-gosh it’s so dull out there and whilst I know they’re worried about spoilers.i wish they would try and work on the hype a bit
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Some of those really old interviews are fantastic. A lot more unguardedly joky than he usually is today, but also a lot less at stake. I think there’s probably an audio of it still at Richard Armitage Online.
re: The Stranger — maybe they think they already have a built in audience b/c of Netflix.
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he also got burned by an interviewer early on in his career ,which i guess explains alot
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This was before that. But although I know that’s the story on the street, I have never really believed it.
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The Stranger article only brought up one photo for me, I couldn’t access the rest, but by the sound of things I haven’t missed anything.
You’re not greedy Herba, I’ve been hoping for the same thing. We got those initial sneak peeks of RA on set but nothing since, so maybe they’ve clamped down for spoiler reasons.
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it’s mostly film trucks in the street outside a building.
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Thanks for the pinkback to my Regents Park post – love the Richard Armitage link – who’d have thought 😀
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It’s one of the parts of London I’ve never visited and when I saw your (as usual) lovely pictures, I thought, those trees are not very big! Poor trees! Thanks for taking us there.
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Glad you enjoyed my pictures. I have to confess there are some larger trees in the park (partly why I got lost a few times), hopefully he tried climbing one of those 🙂
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