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Stardust (2007 Film), Various Characters
They have returned! It only took me six months to finish the redesign of this set.
Charlie Cox as Tristan Thorn; Claire Danes as Yvaine; Michelle Pfeiffer as Lamia; and Robert De Niro as Captain Shakespeare. All available now at my Etsy Shop.
Stardust (2007 Film)
All four of my custom Funko POPs inspired by @neil-gaiman’sStardust are back and available at my Etsy. You can find them all here.
I wish they would make this movie again but literally nobody speaks, ever.
Tom Hiddleston & Claire Danes on Faith and Superstition in ‘The Essex Serpent’ (VIDEO)
After eight seasons of playing tough and troubled Carrie Mathison on Showtime’s Homeland, Claire Danes has clearly found a role far removed in Apple TV+’s The Essex Serpent. The six-episode adaptation of Sarah Perry’s bestselling Victorian novel of the same name introduces us to widower Cora Seaborne (Danes), who sees a new life ahead of her after the end of her abusive marriage. She relocates to the small village of Aldwinter in Essex. It’s here where Cora develops free thinking that was uncommon for women at the time and superstition about a destructive serpent that may or may not exist.
It’s also here where Cora meets local pastor Will Ransome (Tom Hiddleston), who is a prominent member of the community but finds himself at odds with the townspeople when the serpent superstition takes on new life after a tragedy strikes. The series also stars Clemence Poesy and Fear the Walking Dead alum Frank Dillane.
Based on Sarah Perry’s bestselling novel, the Apple TV+ limited series debuts Friday, May 13.
Since the series was also shot in Essex with many exterior scenes, the actors definitely got dirty upon the first meeting of their characters: They join forces to help a sheep that is stuck in the mud. “That was a very heavy sheep,” Danes says with a laugh.
But, all joking and sheep aside, Danes’ character starts at a place of awakening and enlightenment where her world truly opens up. “She had been in a very abusive relationship for her entire adult life,” Danes says of Cora realizing how restrained she had been in her marriage. “She’s strangely naive,” she adds.
Unlike many in his congregation, Will doesn’t believe in the serpent. “His faith has given him certainty and clarity, specifically as a man who people look to for answers,” Hiddleston says. “His faith is very progressive and his belief in God is that God is the force of love in the world and he’s wary of superstition.” Perhaps Cora will open up his world as well.
The Essex Serpent drops two episodes on May 13 and then weekly every Friday through June 10, Apple TV+
“Do you have a favorite role of the other person you’re working with? Like, Tom, do you have a favorite Claire Danes performance? - And Claire, do you have a favorite Tom performance?”
“…Tom is one of my favorite actors that I’ve ever worked with. There were more than a few occasions where I would be kind of, ah, out of a scene because I’d just be going, ‘Wow, he’s really good!’”
The Lip Bite has returned.
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Romeo + Juliet,Baz Luhrmann(1996):
PS: Pictures not mine, credits to the owners.
Rating: 8/10
- And when I shall die, take him and cut him up in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will fall in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.
- Did my heart love ‘til now? Forswear its sight. For I never saw true beauty 'til this night.
- Goodnight, goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
- How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath to say to me that thou art out of breath? Is the news good or bad, answer to that.
- A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence and have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punished. For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
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Homewrecker Hall of Fame
Actresses and man-stealers, Angelina Jolie, Kristen Stewart, Claire Danes and Penelope Cruz.
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‘The Essex Serpent’ Will Be Released On 13th Of May 2022 On Apple TV.
The Essex Serpent Review: Gothic Tom Hiddleston Drama is Divinely Tempting
The Essex Serpent Review: Gothic Tom Hiddleston Drama is Divinely Tempting
Apple TV+’s six-part adaptation starring Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston is a spookily atmospheric love story that makes the 1890s feel as modern as now.
Superstition, science and faith collide in an Essex fishing village when a centuries-old rumour resurfaces about a biblical sea serpent haunting the waters. Some believe the beast has come to punish Aldwinter’s people for their sins. Others – like Tom Hiddleston’s vicar Will Ransome – don’t believe in it at all. Widower Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes) hypothesises that it’s an evolutionary throwback to the age of the dinosaur. Will’s fey wife Stella (Clémence Poésy) secretly welcomes it as her lord and saviour. So unfurls Apple TV+’s atmospheric six-episode adaptation of Sarah Perry’s celebrated 2016 novel.
The Essex Serpent is the latest in a line of quality Apple TV+ shows (Foundation, Severance, Pachinko) unlikely to get the audience they deserve because they weren’t made for a mainstream broadcaster or streaming service with higher subscriber base. This one has stars, beauty, brains, a transportive atmosphere and a quasi-hypnotic pull, and yet will likely slip quietly under the waterline while lesser shows make a bigger splash. It’s an injustice, but one that does no harm to Apple TV’s developing reputation as the connoisseur’s choice for weird, slow-burn drama.
Anna Symon’s TV adaptation retains a good deal of the novel’s weirdness and folk horror veins as the villagers respond to what they see as their diabolical judgement. Village curate Matthew Evansford (Michael Jibson) is the chief prophesier of doom, pitted against Will’s patient attempts to soothe his flock of their Pagan superstitions. Hiddleston is great casting as the troubled vicar; he may cut a Byronic figure striding against the bleak landscape but his character is all kindness, love and scholarly contemplation. Will and Cora’s is a meeting of minds, a battle of intellects.
The story’s serpent – whether it exists or not – becomes the connecting thread between a collection of characters and stories that make the late Victorian era feel pressingly modern. There’s Cora’s companion Martha (Hayley Squires), a devoted socialist and political reformer whose campaign to improve rental conditions and build social housing could be going on in London as we speak. There’s the cocky, irreverent Luke Garrett (Frank Dillane), a surgeon whose experimental methods put him at the forefront of his profession. And there’s Cora herself, mother to a neurodivergent son, and an amateur palaeontologist reconstructing herself after the death of her abusive husband.
At points in the six episodes, Will and Cora’s tussling debates threaten to dehumanise them, turning them into walking points of view rather than characters. Claire Danes is terrific in the role (which was originally attached to Keira Knightley before Covid interfered. American Danes sounds every bit as English here as Knightley would have) but given scene upon scene of Cora’s impassioned stance-taking, her performance tends towards the emphatic. The same can be said for desperate gloom of fisherman Henry Banks (Gerard Kearns) whose family falls victim to the serpent, and the mouth-foaming, Revelations-based fear of curate Evansford. The larger-than-life tone though, suits this strange story and its bursts of Victorian melodrama.
Necessarily, the novel’s many letters have been converted into dialogue, which flattens out some of the book’s jauntier, ironic moments. The casting of Frank Dillane as Luke Garrett – no longer “the imp” but a romantic prospect in his own right – cuts through the earnestness and injects some necessary slyness. Dillane is memorable as the petulant, arrogant surgeon, and you can say the same for Hayley Squires as Martha. Both characters feel as enjoyably modern as any of us in their attitudes and appetites, and help to bring 1893 closer.
The immersion continues through the locations, which are made beautifully haunting by cinematographer David Raedeker and director Clio Barnard. The Gothic isolation of Cora’s rented cottage, tiny under vast, colour-streaked skies is sure to have more than a few of us daydreaming about stalking the mudflats to argue the nature of existence with a lanky, troubled vicar. (After all, there’s no real danger from the serpent. Biblical monsters don’t exist, do they?) However far from Aldwinter viewers may be, at least this well-cast, evocatively rendered, earnest drama can wholly transport us.
The Essex Serpent starts on Apple TV+ on Friday the 13th of May with a double-bill before the remaining four episodes arrive weekly.
Rating:
4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of 5
Claire Danes & Tom Hiddleston talk THE ESSEX SERPENT, sheep, falling in love, & more. | TV Insider
Tom Hiddleston & Claire Danes on The Essex Serpent and Making Their Period Drama Series | Collider
The Essex Serpent: such a slog surely no one will get past episode one | review | The Guardian
It has monsters, hysteria and Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston indulging in weird theological flirting … but it totally lacks the magic that makes great TV
There’s a bit in episode two of The Essex Serpent on Apple TV+ – I am one of the few people on Earth who will ever make it to episode two, so I can tell you this safe in the knowledge that you will never bother to watch as far – where Claire Danes’s Cora and Tom Hiddleston’s Will experience fata morgana, a mirage out at sea.
The central struggle at the heart of The Essex Serpent – or one of the 12 or 14 scattergun themes it has – is Cora’s naturalist, reason-based logic versus preacher Will’s more measured, conservative, faith-based beliefs, and how they weirdly flirt with each other by reading intensely through library books and tiptoeing around whether God is real. The mirage itches that scratch for them both: she has something she can research all the magic out of; he has something he can remember reading about romantically in one of his leather-bound books. They’ll bond over this, eventually, but I won’t watch that far. No one will.
There’s an analogy in here, and I am getting round to it: good TV is a random accomplishment that demands magic as much as it demands the exact right atmospheric conditions. It makes no sense that good TV ever really exists. Everyone involved – the costume designers, the lighting people, the sound recordists, the set scouts – have to get their job exactly right to produce one convincing scene as part of a far wider whole. It requires child actors who can actually act. There are so many whirring parts to make even one frame of legacy television. And as The Essex Serpent proves, even if you get a lot right, it can still be wrong.
Let’s start with the good bits: it is satisfyingly moody – lots of beautiful high shots of flat marshes, fog and, hark, there! Movement in the water! Also, it’s excellently cast: Claire Danes is, as ever, amazing; Frank Dillane is especially good as a slimy, wry, cocky rewritten version of the book’s Dr Garrett; Hayley Squires brings a huge amount of life to what could very easily be a useless side-character who just says “Yes, m’lady” a lot; Tom Hiddleston, as ever, puts in a perfect shift as Tom Hiddleston, where his performance really always relies on whether you can look past the fact that Tom Hiddleston is doing it, which I personally cannot. It looks beautiful. It feels “of a time” in exactly the way the source material demands: Victorian Essex on the verge of an era when old English villages that ran on folklore and hysteria started to cede to the big city sprawl.
But there is something missing at the heart of this one – that 1% of magic that every good TV show demands – and its lack makes this programme a great, long slog. It’s hard to put your finger exactly on what’s wrong: one thing is that the central fear the village is experiencing, the ancient horror of the mythological Essex Serpent, is never really set up enough for you to get why everyone’s hysterical. Maybe it’s because Hiddleston and Danes’s theological squabbling, the dynamite that explodes the entire story, feels less like two intellectual titans locking horns and more like a nervous University Challenge team trying to diplomatically figure out what order they’ll sit in. Maybe it’s too obsessed with being legacy TV to actually be good legacy TV: everyone’s always giving each other very poignant weird gifts, or gazing at one thing while crying about another, or heroically saving a life. And some of the dialogue – Claire Danes wakes up from a traumatic nightmare to be hugged instantly by a maid, who instantly says: “It’s OK. Michael can’t hurt you any more” – I mean, come on. Subtlety exists, Apple! I am begging you to use it!
Listen, I get it. It’s hard to keep making these big-budget limited series where absolute A-list actors agree to come down from film to TV. Every actor wants their Mare of Easttown moment, and every channel and streaming platform wants to give it to them. You buy the rights to the bestselling books and you cast the big-face actors and you get a talented director and you throw millions of pounds at it and you hope that’s enough. But, as The Essex Serpent proves, you still need something else: God, magic, luck, science. Whatever it is, this doesn’t have it.
Tom Hiddleston Reveals If Loki Could Beat The Essex Serpent | EXTENDED
Speaking with ET Canada’s Sangita Patel, Tom Hiddleston reveals if he believes his Marvel character Loki could beat the mythical creature from his new Apple TV+ series “The Essex Serpent”. Plus, his co-star Claire Danes teases what audiences can expect from their show.
‘Essex Serpent’ star Tom Hiddleston talks new series
On the Dean’s List/A-List interview for today one of the stars of the upcoming Apple TV+ series “Essex Serpent.”
Tom Hiddleston takes you behind the scenes tour of The Essex Serpent [video] | RadioTimes.com
From technical trickery to his favourite props, the actor gives us an insight into how the show was made.
Tom Hiddleston gives viewers a behind-the-scenes tour of the impressive The Essex Serpent set, in a new video released exclusively to readers of RadioTimes.com.
The new period drama is based on Sarah Perry’s novel of the same name, in which a widow from London moves to Essex in search of a mythical serpent, only to strike up an unexpected bond with a local pastor.
Hiddleston and Homeland star Claire Danes take the lead roles of Will Ransome and Cora Seaborne respectively, while Frank Dillane (Fear the Walking Dead), Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) and Clémence Poésy (The Tunnel) also star.
The six-part miniseries was filmed on location during the winter, as Hiddleston explains that a “wintry atmosphere” was needed, but the production moved to an indoor soundstage as the weather brightened up.
The Enfield-based studio is a sight to behold, including a detailed reconstruction of the Essex home and landscape used in the initial weeks of filming. Hiddleston has more fascinating insights to offer in the video.
Hiddleston explains: “As an actor, it’s so inspiring because you walk into a space – you’ve imagined the world in your mind, but it’s been built for you – and all you have to do is inhabit it. It’s a real gift from the designers.”
The clip gives you a sense of the attention to detail as Hiddleston picks out two of his favourite props, which might not even be noticed in the finished show, yet play a real role in breathing life into the world of The Essex Serpent.
Watch the video on Radiotimes.com >>
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