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With filming back under way on director Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic after a lengthy delay, Kelvin Harrison Jr. has signed on to join the cast. Harrison Jr., 26, has come aboard to play blues legend B.B. King in the biopic, according to Deadline. He joins a star-studded cast that includes Austin Butler as Elvis … Read more
Rachel Brosnahan may be American, but she believes a little bit of her funny bone is British. Brosnahan is famous for The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Amazon Prime’s smash comedy hit in which she plays New Yorker Midge, the ‘perfect housewife’ from the Upper West Side who becomes a Downtown stand-up (specialising in mocking men) after her … Read more
Theatrical sorcery will be front and centre in the new stage version of the beloved Disney film Bedknobs And Broomsticks. The 1971 movie musical starred Angela Lansbury as Miss Eglantine Price, an apprentice witch trying to conjure up duff spells, sold to her by fake magician Professor Emelius Browne (David Tomlinson), to stop the enemy … Read more
The sisterhood on the set of The Black Narcissus clearly took no vow of silence when it came to discussing their costumes. ‘The habit? I hated it by the end of the shoot,’ said actress Aisling Franciosi, who appears with Gemma Arterton and Diana Rigg (in one of her last roles), in the mini-series based … Read more
Animal Farm, George Orwell’s allegorical fairy tale, is being adapted into a musical by Olivier award-winning playwright James Graham. George Orwell is pictured above Animal Farm, George Orwell’s allegorical fairy tale, is being adapted into a musical by Olivier award-winning playwright James Graham. The music will come from Alan Menken, the eight-time Oscar-winning composer behind … Read more
Romeo and Juliet found themselves up against not just their two warring houses, but Perspex screens Shooting a new film version of Shakespeare’s most intimate play, Romeo and Juliet found themselves up against not just their two warring houses, but Perspex screens. Olivier award-winning star Sam Tutty and his Juliet, Emily Redpath, right, also had to … Read more
Tuppence Middleton felt very much at home in old Hollywood, where she spent three months filming Mank, director David Fincher’s masterful homage to celebrated screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (a magnificent Gary Oldman). Each morning she’d draw back the curtains in her room at the fabled Villa Carlotta, nestled beneath the Hollywood sign, and gaze out … Read more
Nicole Kidman was feeling ‘very sore’ after learning the steps for her big number in movie musical The Prom. ‘I bow down at the feet of dancers,’ said the Oscar-winning star, after mastering the Fosse-esque moves for the Ryan Murphy-directed movie, which is heading to Netflix on December 11. She plays Angie Dickinson, a showgirl … Read more
Ocean currents will carry Hollywood’s Megan Mullally and her comedic and musical skills to The Barbican Theatre in the spring Ocean currents will carry Hollywood’s Megan Mullally and her comedic and musical skills to The Barbican Theatre in the spring, where she’ll be joined by our own Robert Lindsay for some farcical frolics in the musical … Read more
The portrait of Prince Charles by Josh O’Connor in The Crown is one of simmering fury because he can’t be with the woman he really loves…Camilla. The 30-year-old actor, who I predict will be propelled to major stardom thanks to his flawless depiction of a lovesick love rat, said it took him time, after playing … Read more