Articles tagged with ‘Sally Hawkins’
Andrea Riseborough Rises to the Occasion!
Posted on September 14th, 2010 at 2:52 pm by
As this year’s Toronto International Film Festival gets underway, British actress Andrea Riseborough is emerging as a tour de force in the film industry. The rising star can be seen in three films being screened at the festival and consequently is catching attention from both industry insiders and the media.
Riseborough, 28, is not a newcomer to the scene. The actress is a former member of the National Youth Theatre, studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and has continuously worked on stage, TV, and in film. Riseborough played a young Margaret Thatcher in the British television production Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley, worked on stage with Kenneth Branagh in Anton Chechov’s play Ivanov, and appeared in Mike Leigh’s 2008 film Happy-Go-Lucky (one of my personal favorites.)
The three films in which Riseborough can currently be seen in at the Toronto festival include Never Let Me Go, starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, and Andrew Garfield; Made in Dagenham, starring Sally Hawkins; and Brighton Rock starring Lord Richard Attenborough.
Regarding Riseborough’s talents, Brighton Rock’s director Rowan Joffe said: “What Andrea has that many actresses of her generation do not have is a bona fide chameleon-like ability to be totally different from part to part.” Nigel Cole, who directed Riseborough in Made in Dagenham, also credits her with the same unique ability.
It sounds like Andrea’s prevalence in Toronto might just be the beginning of her rise to even greater prominence!
Knightley and Mulligan Join Forces to Never Let Me Go!
Posted on June 22nd, 2010 at 9:08 pm by
The trailer for an upcoming Brit film called Never Let Me Go was recently released and it looks, to say the least, very intriguing.
Two of our most cherished Brit actresses, Keira Knightley (The Duchess) and Carey Mulligan (An Education), will share the silver screen in the dramatic thriller. The cast also features English actors Andrew Garfield, Domhnall Gleeson, and Sally Hawkins. Garfield, along with Mulligan, was featured on the telly series Doctor Who; Gleeson is to play Bill Weaseley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; and Sally Hawkins previously worked with Mulligan in An Education. Hawkins also played the lead character of Poppy in the successful independent film Happy-Go-Lucky (one of my personal favorites.)
Never Let Me Go is based on an award-winning novel of the same name that was written by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The movie was primarily filmed in the countryside of Norfolk County, England and tells the story of three friends, Kathy (Mulligan), Ruth (Knightley), and Tommy (Garfield), who reunite years after attending a strange English boarding school together and proceed to uncover the dark mysteries of their shared past. The film is slated to be released at the end of 2010 and will be distributed in the US by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
I am curious to see just how interested American audiences will be in this very British artistic-looking sci-fi/drama/thriller film… only time will tell…
