Charlotte attended the BGC Global Charity Day on September 11th here are some pics of her, she looks absolutely adorable:
the 3rd trailer for "In the Heart of the Sea" was released
And lastly the release date for London has fallen has been moved once again from January to March 4, 2016, apprantly the film has been testing well with audince so they have moved it to a more prime spot. Look forward to seeing charlotte on the red carpet to promote the film. Here is the article to read more about it; http://www.avclub.com/article/big-ben-safe-now-london-has-fallen-gets-pushed-mar-225501
If you haven't heard Charlotte is pregnant with her first child. I am so excited for her I know how long and how badly she has wanted a child. I also want to point out what a good looking kid this baby is gonna be. Here are pictures of her at the "Legend" premiere she looks beautiful.
Sorry for the lack of updates but I am here to update as much as I possibly can. Let's start with Charlotte's film projects London has Fallen has been moved from its original fall date to January 22nd 2016. I'm a little dissapointed but we still have Heart of the Sea to look forward to in the winter. There is also a new poster for the film:
Next up Charlotte attended a couple of events first up was the audi challenge something of which she attended last year.
Charlotte was seen out and about with Tom
Charlotte has been making the rounds promoting her new BBC miniseries Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Here are a couple of her interviews.
Charlotte Riley: My husband Tom Hardy is good in the bedroom (he's great at making the bed, apparently)
Charlotte Riley and I are discussing pogonophobia when the pubic hair comparison comes up.
Charlotte Riley and I are discussing pogonophobia when the pubic hair comparison comes up.
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"My friend sent me this thing on What's App the other day about female fashions in pubic hair trimming versus men's trimming of their faces from the 1970s," Riley tells me. "So as women's bushes have got smaller and smaller men's facial hair has got larger and larger. That really tickled me."
Well it would I almost say as she is tries to find it on her phone. She then looks up at me. "I'm going to regret saying this," before bursting out laughing.
While I try to imagine what the hipster beard/female waxing graph might possibly look like (and whether it might radically change our idea of the Hoxton Fin) Riley has returned to my original question. "I'm not scared of beards," she confirms once I've explained what pogonophobia is. "That's a great word. I'm going to write that down.
"I think beards are fab as long as there is no food in them and they smell nice. Yeah, they're better than short and spiky because that's not good for women's delicate skin."
I ask of course because Riley's better half - Tom Hardy if you didn't know - often spouts some radical facial hair in his roles (when he's not wearing a mask on his face in Batman movies). There was the handlebar tache in Bronson, the full set in Peaky Blinders and, out this week, the stubbly look in the new Mad Max film. "I just love him however he comes," Riley says sweetly.
Riley's own thespian transformations tend to be less showy (or hairy for that matter) but just as effective. She's a face you might recognise from Peaky Blinders, medieval TV drama World's End, lurking in the background behind Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in the rather silly sci-fi thriller Edge of Tomorrow or making a splash in the 2009 TV version of Wuthering Heights in which she starred opposite said Mr Hardy (in case you were wondering how they met).
But this might be her moment. She is one of the lead roles in the BBC's much-trailed, already much-lauded new fantasy drama Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, in which she plays Arabella, married to the titular Jonathan Strange (Bertie Carvel to you and me; Eddie Marson plays Mr Norrell). And that's just for starters. There's also a big-screen thriller opposite our very own Gerard Butler (London Has Fallen) and Ron Howard's latest film In the Heart of the Sea.
In short, she's keeping busy.
In fact Riley has travelled down to London from Liverpool today just to meet me. Okay, maybe to spend a bit of time at home too. She's up in Liverpool filming Stephen Poliakoff's latest drama Close to the Enemy, set in the post-war years. "I'm particularly passionate about the forties, so I'm loving learning to swing dance at the moment," she says gleefully. But only after she says how much she wanted to work with the writer and director who gave us Glorious 39 and Caught on a Train.
Close to the Edge is another costume drama. We are obsessed with them, aren't we, Charlotte? "I think it's because the weather's so cold and the past seems so cosy and warm."
In person Riley is a bright-eyed, brown-eyed girl with a northern English accent (she grew up near Middlesbrough) and a huge sense of fun. I have brought a bundle of folded-up bits of paper with me which I dump onto the table when we sit down. "We'll get to these later," I say. "You can't tease me like that," She complains.
Okay. Each contains a word, I explain, and you have to tell me the first thing that comes into your head when you read the word.
But before we go there maybe we should talk about Jonathan Strange first. A seven-part adaptation of Susannah Clarke's fantasy novel (think the Battle of Waterloo but with magic), it combines costume drama with CGI. "I didn't get to see what they did with the magic until I watched the previews, Riley says. "They really did keep the green scene stuff to an absolute minimum. And then you get to watch the CGI trickery afterwards and go 'oh wow. Amazing.' Sand horses appear and statues move and all that good stuff."
It's dark too, she says. "I loved the marriage of that with the really human stories, in particular Arabella and Jonathan's story.
"She keeps Jonathan - who is this mad eccentric - grounded. The banter between the two of them is quite modern in some ways. That keeps things light and fun. She was great fun to play."
In what ways is she most like Arabella? "She's pretty nosy. I'm quite a nosy person. My dad says I have the ears of an elephant. I can hear everything that's going on. I hate missing out on things.
"Nosy-slash-inquisitive. I'm intrigued by people. There's a saying up north. 'Shy bairns get nowt.' You don't ask, you don't get. You don't enquire, you don't learn."
So, let's learn what we can about Ms Riley. Charlotte, pick a word.
Charlotte Riley on love
"I have recently discovered my love of dogs. I was really badly attacked by a dog when I was a kid. I was never scared of dogs. I just never had a great love for them. Now we have two dogs and it's really expanded my love for the whole animal kingdom. I always thought people who come home early from a night out to get back to their dogs or bought their dogs stockings for Christmas were just the saddest human beings ever. But now I am one of those sad human beings."
When did you first fall in love Charlotte?
"Probably when I saw New Kids on the Block on Top of the Pops. I fell in love with Joey. I've still got their albums somewhere."
Charlotte Riley on culture
It makes me think of yoghurt."
Charlotte Riley grew up in Stockton on Tees, the youngest daughter of an engineer and a nurse. "My brother and sister are 10 and 11 years older than me," she says. "They'll have it that I wasn't, but I was the little accident that came along. It was like having two sets of parents actually. My brother and sister were really involved in bringing me up. I had the concentrated love of four people."
At the end of junior school she played Captain Hook in the school play and distinctly remembers loving the experience. That was the beginning of something, though it took her a while to get there.
She'd spend her teenage days "dancing in terrible nightclubs where the floors lit up and everything was sticky" before going to Durham University where she studied linguistics. Acting was a goal. She just wasn't sure how to get there.
It was always an instinctive thing for her. It's the physicality of acting she likes (she's done courses at clown school in her time). "I wasn't brought up going to the theatre and reading Shakespeare. I didn't know who the Three Sisters were when I auditioned for my first Chekov play."
She comes from a working-class background but she's not sure she qualifies as that any more. "I think my parents would definitely have described themselves as working class. For me it's not something that sits in my consciousness or something I define myself by.
"They both grew up with very little in prefabs in Middlesbrough. My dad was a fitter in ICI and the one thing I really appreciate is they worked so hard all their lives so I could have much more of a choice in what I wanted to do with my life.
"I remember being challenged once as to why I was taking time out after university which is actually when I wrote some plays and worked out what I was going to do. I was challenged by a friend's parents and I said 'well, my parents worked their arses off all their life so I could have that choice.'
In her career she's only used her own accent twice. "I play people who are very powerful and have a huge amount of money. It's quite diverse. The point of being an actor is that hopefully you can transform and play people from different walks of life."
It's a licence to move between the classes? "Yeah, exactly."
Inevitably she did the Edinburgh thing, squeezed in four to a room in sleeping bags with the Durham Revue in a tiny flat above the World's End pub. Appearing at the fringe, she says, is "possibly one of the most terrifying stages you'll ever perform on because the audience might be walking past you on the Royal Mile the next day."
Her experiences there inspired her to apply to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in London. A year after graduating she was playing Cathy to Hardy's Heathcliff.
About your better half, I say. You know I'm contractually obliged to ask a question about him. "Hah," she laughs. So, let's see. Is he good around the house?
"He's great around the house. We do designated things. I love recycling. He's good at making the bed. It works brilliantly."
Making the bed does not seem the most arduous task but let it lie. Some other quick questions, Charlotte. What's the hardest thing to do in acting? Playing dead, sex scenes or walking a straight line? "Sex scenes. My first question is 'are they necessary?' It's generally that that makes me go 'oh really?'"
Right. Gerard Butler. What's the most Scottish thing about him? "Just his sense of humour ..." She looks across the table. I don't suppose that's particularly Scottish."
Of course it is, Charlotte. "Yeah, you're all fucking hilarious."
Are you driven? "I wouldn't say I am in the way I see it in other people. People often say to you 'what's your five-year plan?' I don't really work like that. As things come along then I get excited about them."
But, Riley says, she doesn't just bob along. "I'm not directionless. I want to make positive choices so that I'm doing stuff that I enjoy as much of the time as I can." And if nothing is in the offing - less so now you'd imagine as her reputation grows - she can always do some writing or painting.
Come on, though, Charlotte, you'd be miserable if there was no work on the horizon. Do actors sit about all day bitching like journalists? "They do. The collective term is a 'moan of actors'. But I think it depends on who you hang out with. It does my head in, people whinging too much."
We've time for another word. She opens the folded paper. "Failure," she reads. "I feel quite passionate about theatre. I know that sounds really weird. I think getting things wrong is just as important as getting things right. Because you learn. How many amazing inventions have been created by getting things wrong? It's all a matter of perspective, isn't it? Failure. It can be painful but equally you learn so much.
"I don't see failure as failure. I just see it as an opportunity to get it right ... " She plays back in her head what she's just said. "... Which sounds like one of those really vomit-worth positive affirmation things. But I feel quite passionate about it."
When was the last time she feels she failed? "I think you feel it on a daily basis. When you feel you could have been a bit more tolerant or compassionate. Equally, you can watch yourself in something in terms of your acting and just be 'rubbish. I won't be doing it like that again.'
She is animated now. Keen to dig away at the idea.
"I went back to my old school and the teachers thought it was really strange that I did a speech about failure. Education is so much about ticking boxes and getting answers right. Children are being brought up to think that it's black or white, right or wrong. There needs to be more room to go 'you're at school. You can epically get it wrong and enjoy getting it wrong and then find a different way of doing it. I just think it's really sad when you see people feeling really stifled by a society that's about villainising people for fucking up and getting it wrong."
Charlotte Riley has not been getting it wrong. Charlotte Riley loves dogs and doesn't mind beards. Charlotte Riley doesn't make the bed. Consider this an introduction.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell starts on BBC One tomorrow night at 9pm.
Here are a couple of more interviews of Charlotte with her costar Bertie Carvel looks like to two of them got along really well.
Cahrlotte is also working on season 3 of Peaky Blinders which I believe will be coming this fall and she is working on a project called Close to the Enemy costars Freddy Highmore, Angela Bassett and Jim Sturgess. That's all the updates I have for now if there is anymore news I promise to be faster about the updates.
Charlotte has been keeeping herself very busy as she has attended 3 events in the past couple of weeks. First Charlotte attended the Instyle best of talent Pre-bafata event in the UK.
She later attended a luncheon for Women in Cinema
Lastly and most importantly Charlotte attended the Bafta Awards and she looked stunning as always I don't think I have ever seen here wear a dress with a slit in it and I am really loving the bangs.
Sorry for the lack of updates but I became incredibly busy during the holiday season, but things have finally calmed down and I am here with tons of updates. First off Happy belated birthday to Miss Riley who turned 33 last month. Second we got our first sigting of Charlotte earlier this month when she attended the Palm Springs Film festival of her film "Grand Street" she looked lovely as always. I don't know how the film was received but hopefully the film will be released later this year.
Charlotte was also featured in Instyle UK
This is definately one of my favorite photoshoots that she has done.
Also Charlotte was officially nominated a BBC Audio Drama Award Best Actress in an Audio Drama
• Aisling Loftus in Educator
• Charlotte Riley in Slipping
• Ellie Kendrick in How to Say Goodbye Properly
Heres hoping that she wins, the winners will be annouced on February 1st.
Lastly Charlotte participated in a interview for her upcoming minisereies Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, you can read the interview here:http://www.nerdist.com/2015/01/chatting-jonathan-strange-mr-norrell-with-bertie-carvel-and-charlotte-riley/
Chatting JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL with Bertie Carvel and Charlotte Riley
Charlotte Riley and Bertie Carvel are champions. They’ve flown halfway across the world to chat with a veritable smorgasbord of TV writers at the Television Critics Association winter press tour and the jet-lag is just kicking in, but still they carry on. The stars of BBC America’s upcoming adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s novel Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell don’t mind because they’re seriously enamored with the project itself. An adult period drama set against the Napoleonic Wars, Strange is a sort of cake-and-eat-it-too situation because it also involves a LOT of magic (because the duo just so happen to be magicians).
Given how hard (read: expen$$$$$ive) it is to make on-screen magic look as fantastical as our imaginations, wariness is to be expected, but rest assured: it is not! We watched the first two episodes and then chatted up Jonathan and Arabella Strange’s real-life counterparts and were giddily excited about just how magical — literal and otherwise — this adaptation looks to be.
But first, heart attacks. CHARLOTTE RILEY: Did you know that when the clocks go back, more people have heart attacks? NERDIST: Is that a thing? CR: Just that one hour time difference screws with people’s levels of sleep and their energy and therefore more people — when the clocks change — more people are admitted [to hospitals] for heart attacks. There’s a spike in the statistic. …And on that morbid note! N: Well I for one will not let heart attacks get in the way of my excitement about this and you must be too, Bertie, because don’t you love the book? BERTIE CARVEL: I love the book and I love our series. I used to sort of cast myself in it. N: Did you cast yourself as Jonathan Strange? BC: Oh yeah! Yeah, but I was thinking I would never be famous enough to have a shot at it and ten years later, here we are: making it! N: Well, what does that feel like now? BC: Massively exciting. I’m not a great fan of the “dream come true” narrative when it comes to actors telling stories, but I can just straight down the middle say this is kind of a dream come true. I’ve kinda cast spells for it, really, and it’s amazing to have that honor and responsibility of translating something to the screen that you love so much and have imagined so fully. So often when you see a screen adaptation of something literary that you’ve imagined yourself it’s so often disappointing. I hope people will share my excitement about it. CR: Yeah, being on set, there was a real buzz about it in terms of all the different departments who were working on it. You could really tell that everyone had read the 7 episodes and thought ‘Wow, I wanna do this.’ It sounded kinda genre-changing and it really pushed the limits of costume and hair and make-up. They didn’t want to use CGI for a lot of it so everybody in every department had to be super-creative and you really did get a sense that everybody felt a part of something that was exciting and new and different and fresh. I certainly felt that on the first day of rehearsal and it continued throughout the shoot. N: I imagine that just sort of adds to the magic itself. CR: Yeah, and there’s a lot of magic in it, so a lot of the sets and things that you walked onto in the morning — you had no idea what they were going to look like. You see it in the script or the section of the book and then you walk on set and there is a giant tree, in a ballroom, and there are dancers and music and you really do feel it. You get completely transported every day. You’re learning dance moves and there’s wind machines — you’re thinking ‘this is something out of my craziest dreams.’ A lot of the sets are quite twisted and strange and quite eerie, but beautiful at the same time — like a kind of f**ked up nightmare. What do the French call it? Jolie Mon? BC: Jolie laide. [Note: this translates to "pretty ugly"] CR: Right, Jolie laide. BC: I think that magic, in the sense of the magic of the occasion — what am I struggling to say here? N: It elevates? BC: I think it’s more, well, this is a story about magicians and magic and what does that really mean. What it doesn’t mean, to me, is how many special effects can you get on the screen. Although we’ve got wonderful, amazing special effects, too. But what it really means is, I think magic is a metaphor for the imagination, really. And one of the reasons it’s such a brilliant novel is you’re asking the reader to imagine these great feats of magic and there’s something about making a drama that requires people to do just that — to kind of imagine this stuff and come together to create it. There really is a magical quality to that. You are making something that is not there, there. That’s sort of an esoteric way of putting it, but if you were just sort of cynically turning up and doing it, it wouldn’t have the same effect. I think there is magic in our translation of this to the screen because it’s about the potency of people’s imagination. N: Well — and this is not a completely formed idea in my mind so bare with me, but — I think that we’re seeing a lot more of that in stuff these days because we’re all sort of realizing that we don’t truly know the what those limits are in regards to human imaginative ability. BC: I think you’re right: I think we’re in an era where the questions that science are asking — and by nature, they ask more questions than they can answer — and I think that was different earlier in the twentieth century. I think there was an excitement that science would start to answer all the questions we often had. I think it’s flipped on its head though, now, and that’s why we see more and more stuff about fantasy and magic. This story — Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell — are two very different men. One, Norrell, is a kind of enlightenment figure who wants to rationalize the world and one who is an instinctive romantic figure. One had talent but no skill (that’s me) and another with great skill but no talent. And there’s this great clash and I think what happened around the time the novel’s set is, is that the enlightenment basically won and we all got programmed to think that you could solve the universe in terms of rationality and science. I read somewhere that the program of the enlightenment was the disenchantment of the world — and that sorta won. I think this novel, and our story, images what would’ve happened if that went the other way: that the romantic, instinctive side answered in full-force.
And I think, culturally, we’ve come back around to that — people crave stories that solve the world in a different frame than oh, well, ‘A plus B equal C.’ N: Can you just tell me about the Stranges in general in this story. BC: The? N: The Stranges. You and your wife …or the new band that you two are clearly going to make now with that. ‘Hey, whats up we’re The Stranges.’ BC & CR: [Laughs] CR: I like that idea! Let’s form a band — I’ll play the drums.
BC: We were just talking about that, actually — and I think the main thing is trust. These two were childhood sweethearts and they know each other. Jonathan Strange is the luckiest man in the world to have married someone who loves and knows him so well and they go through an awful lot together. The thing about this story is the horizon keeps receding — it matures and matures and matures and you wouldn’t know, two-thirds of the way in, where the last third is going to go. And their relationship, similarly, the arc of it is much longer, deeper, and more profound than one would expect. It’s a love story but not just a straightforward one. The corners they have to navigate are quite literally out of this world. CR: They’re really the heart of the piece. Between the other characters, there’s not really a lot of love in the piece. I think they are really the beating heart of it and it’s quite beautiful to watch, really — they’re quite a modern couple. BC: I was going to say that, yeah. CR: For 1806. She has a huge amount more freedom than a lot of other woman would back then and so does he. BC: They’re very evenly matched. She’s actually more than a match for him, really. CR: And they give each other a lot of room to grow and to learn, and she’s quite a guiding hand for him. And he injects her life with a huge amount of fun and widens her horizons in a way that they never would’ve been if she hadn’t met him. And she’s his support network. BC: There’s a great line where Arabella says ‘I’ve always been more in the habit of rescuing him,’ and that’s right. They, in different senses, save each other. I think he’s the lucky one in that relationship — I’m not quite sure what he’s doing for her. CR: We’ll they’re very kooky together! They move around each other like fish, they understand each other’s movements. They both look at things and notice things at the same time. They’re both quite nosy. BC: I like to sort of talk about this as a movie in seven chapters, not least because the term “a mini-series” doesn’t seem to quite cut it somehow. But also because the scale of it — the kind of cinematic sweep of it — really is on par with something you’d see in a movie theater. … Can you tell that we’re quite enthusiastic about it? N: I can! I love it — it only makes me more jazzed to see the rest of it. BC: It’s really hard to do these interviews because what Charlotte was saying is right — it’s so rich so we don’t know which direction to really sell people on. CR: And it just gets bigger, and bigger, and bigger. BC: I’m tempted to always want to pull back on the magic because it’s a detail. You could sustain just watching these characters journey — and you get magic! Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is slated to run in 2015. Are you excited about it? Let us know in the comments.
One more side note but charlotte's movie in the Heart of the Sea was pushed from March 2015 to December 2015 this makes me incredibly happy, I hope this means that the studio feels that film should be up for awards consideration come awards season 2016.
