Of all the things to pop into my head while watching August: Osage County, quotes from a Noel Streatfeild "Shoes" novel would seem to be the very least likely.
But there it was -- I kept recalling quotes from Theatre Shoes, related to a family of actors in the book. (Bear with me a minute as we digress into young-adult lit.) Sorrel is a 12-year-old girl who is learning to be an actress, and her Uncle Francis is a very grand and haughty actor-manager who "very consciously acted when he was acting and ... thought there must be something wrong with a performance which came naturally and easily."
In another series of quotes, Sorrel and her teacher discuss Uncle Francis's ambitious daughter Miranda taking a turn as Ariel in The Tempest, a role Sorrel also plays:
"Miranda's brilliant -- and yet, as Ariel you give the better performance, and that you'll...
But there it was -- I kept recalling quotes from Theatre Shoes, related to a family of actors in the book. (Bear with me a minute as we digress into young-adult lit.) Sorrel is a 12-year-old girl who is learning to be an actress, and her Uncle Francis is a very grand and haughty actor-manager who "very consciously acted when he was acting and ... thought there must be something wrong with a performance which came naturally and easily."
In another series of quotes, Sorrel and her teacher discuss Uncle Francis's ambitious daughter Miranda taking a turn as Ariel in The Tempest, a role Sorrel also plays:
"Miranda's brilliant -- and yet, as Ariel you give the better performance, and that you'll...
- 1/10/2014
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
Sydney, July 19: Emma Watson has said that she tries to make her movie choices from the heart.
The 23-year-old actress said that her decisions are based on what she loves and identifies with, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
She said that she is still studying, so she'd rather do something because it will look good.
So far her decision has meant the she has not done any more wizard films after 'Harry Potter.'
Her first non-wizarding movie role was in a TV adaptation of Noel Streatfeild's classic 'Ballet Shoes,' since then she has starred in 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' where her role was of a arty high-school.
The 23-year-old actress said that her decisions are based on what she loves and identifies with, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
She said that she is still studying, so she'd rather do something because it will look good.
So far her decision has meant the she has not done any more wizard films after 'Harry Potter.'
Her first non-wizarding movie role was in a TV adaptation of Noel Streatfeild's classic 'Ballet Shoes,' since then she has starred in 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' where her role was of a arty high-school.
- 7/19/2013
- by Ketali Mehta
- RealBollywood.com
Former Hogwarts alumni in line for two new films: Watson for Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella and Radcliffe for Frankenstein
Harry Potter alumni Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe are lining up leading roles in two new versions of well-known tales: Cinderella and Frankenstein respectively.
Watson, fresh from the well-liked teen flick The Perks of Being a Wallflower, is being courted for Disney's live-action version of the Cinderella fairy story, to be directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Watson, 22, had a somewhat tentative start to her post-Potter acting career, taking on a TV movie of Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes and a small role in My Week With Marilyn as she appeared to concentrate more on fashion-related work. But the success of Perks has seen her sign up to more substantial projects: she has a leading role in Sofia Coppola's celeb-thief drama The Bling Ring, plays herself opposite James Franco in Evan Goldberg...
Harry Potter alumni Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe are lining up leading roles in two new versions of well-known tales: Cinderella and Frankenstein respectively.
Watson, fresh from the well-liked teen flick The Perks of Being a Wallflower, is being courted for Disney's live-action version of the Cinderella fairy story, to be directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Watson, 22, had a somewhat tentative start to her post-Potter acting career, taking on a TV movie of Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes and a small role in My Week With Marilyn as she appeared to concentrate more on fashion-related work. But the success of Perks has seen her sign up to more substantial projects: she has a leading role in Sofia Coppola's celeb-thief drama The Bling Ring, plays herself opposite James Franco in Evan Goldberg...
- 3/1/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Natalie Portman excels in this gripping ballet psychodrama from Darren Aronofsky. Peter Bradshaw applauds a film about fear, love and hatred
Fantastically deranged at all times, Darren Aronofsky's ballet psycho-melodrama is a glittering, crackling, outrageously pickable scab of a film.
At its centre is young ballerina Nina Sayers, played by Natalie Portman. She is beautiful, vulnerable, sexually naive and susceptible to mental illness. To play the role of a lifetime, Nina must delve deep into her own dark side. As her hallucinations and anxiety attacks escalate in tandem with her progress in rehearsal, artistic breakthrough fuses with nervous breakdown. This is a movie about fear of penetration, fear of your body, fear of being supplanted in the affections of a powerful man, love of perfection, love of dance, and perhaps most importantly of all, passionate and overwhelming hatred of your mother.
Portman has decisively moved out of the ugly...
Fantastically deranged at all times, Darren Aronofsky's ballet psycho-melodrama is a glittering, crackling, outrageously pickable scab of a film.
At its centre is young ballerina Nina Sayers, played by Natalie Portman. She is beautiful, vulnerable, sexually naive and susceptible to mental illness. To play the role of a lifetime, Nina must delve deep into her own dark side. As her hallucinations and anxiety attacks escalate in tandem with her progress in rehearsal, artistic breakthrough fuses with nervous breakdown. This is a movie about fear of penetration, fear of your body, fear of being supplanted in the affections of a powerful man, love of perfection, love of dance, and perhaps most importantly of all, passionate and overwhelming hatred of your mother.
Portman has decisively moved out of the ugly...
- 1/21/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
With Daniel Radcliffe’s turn in Hammer’s The Woman in Black getting a lot of attention at the moment and as the dust settles after the juggernaut of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 rolls through town the spotlight is now fixed on another of the main cast.
Emma Watson took a role in the 2007 UK TV adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s novel Ballet Shoes and in her first role post Potter (although they are still wrapping up reshoots on the second part of the final film) sees Watson take a role in Simon Curtis’ big screen version of My Week with Marilyn.
In the picture below, which was secreted between some other showbiz stories by the Mail’s Baz Bamigboye, Watson is seen playing opposite Eddie Redmayne as Lucy, a wardrobe assistant on the film The Prince and the Showgirl, the making of which acts as the film’s backdrop.
Emma Watson took a role in the 2007 UK TV adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s novel Ballet Shoes and in her first role post Potter (although they are still wrapping up reshoots on the second part of the final film) sees Watson take a role in Simon Curtis’ big screen version of My Week with Marilyn.
In the picture below, which was secreted between some other showbiz stories by the Mail’s Baz Bamigboye, Watson is seen playing opposite Eddie Redmayne as Lucy, a wardrobe assistant on the film The Prince and the Showgirl, the making of which acts as the film’s backdrop.
- 12/11/2010
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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