Jeremy Irons, Oscar-winning British actor, and fellow actress Holliday Grainger arrived Tuesday evening, 20 September 2011, at the Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport.
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A Jeremy Irons – The Authoritative Website exclusive! Marc Sinden, producer of The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, gives his firsthand account of working with Jeremy Irons on making the recording:
“We recorded his story in an audio suite at the BBC Borehamwood Studios. I directed the reading, as I had done for all of the stories included in the 4-CD box set of The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde and Jeremy arrived on his enormous motorbike, in leathers, which worried me as I thought that he might ‘squeak’! He didn’t, however, and he was utterly professional and well-prepared, as usual, and we recorded the whole story in three takes. I was delighted that he had invented so many voices for all of the characters in the story and several of them made me laugh out loud! We then had lunch in the commissary and had a wander around the Eastenders permanent set before he roared off on his huge bike, while I waited for Joanna Lumley to arrive to record her story. He really is the most un-‘star like’ actor I know – a real actor – and a wonderfully loyal and sweet friend.”
The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: In Aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund
The recording is now available from audible.com, on CD and from iTunes. Click on the link above to listen to a preview and to order.
The hard copies of the 4x CDs of The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde read by various stars (Dame Judi Dench, Jeremy Irons, Joanna Lumley, Sir Derek Jacobi, Sinead Cusack, Robert Harris, Samantha Bond, Geoffrey Palmer, Sir Donald Sinden) and sold in aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund, are now available!
You can get them as 4x CDs from http://www.sindenproductions.com/2010/02/02/the-fairy-tales-of-oscar-wilde/ and either pay by good-old-fashioned cheque for £19.99 + £4.45 p&p per 4x CD set or via PayPal, or as a digital download at http://www.audible.co.uk/aduk/site/product.jsp?p=BK_WHTR_000005UK&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes or now even on iTunes.
http://www.sindenproductions.com/2010/02/02/the-fairy-tales-of-oscar-wilde/
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Max Irons and Emily Browning attend the opening of the Nicole Farhi global flagship store on September 19, 2011 in London, England. (Photos by Dave M. Benett/Getty Images. Some photos via Just Jared)
This year, while in Hungary filming The Borgias, Jeremy Irons is using a new BMW R 1200 GS Adventure Triple Black motorbike. He will use the 100hp special edition BMW until November, when they finish shooting The Borgias. He uses it in Budapest during weekdays and goes to the countryside during weekends.
Zambo Balasz, manager of Hungary BMW, handed over the keys to the machine adding: “We are very pleased that Mr. Irons again chose our motorcycles during his stay in Hungary. It is important that such an important guest be able to know as many sides of the country, which is a great opportunity for touring.”
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The Borgias has been nominated for six 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards and has already won two, at the Creative Arts Emmys.
The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards will be telecast live on Sunday 18 September 2011 at 8:00p.m. EST/ 5:00p.m. PST on FOX, in the United States.
The Borgias – Lucrezia’s Wedding Showtime
Showtime Presents in association with Take 5 Productions and Octagon Films
Francois Seguin, Production Designer; Jonathan McKinstry, Art Director; Judit Varga, Set Decorator
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The Borgias – The Poisoned Chalice/The Assassin Showtime
Showtime Presents in association with Take 5 Productions and Octagon Films
Paul Sarossy, Director of Photography
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The Borgias – Lucrezia’s Wedding Showtime
Showtime Presents in association with Take 5 Productions and Octagon Films
Gabriella Pescucci, Costume Designer; Uliva Pizzetti, Costume Supervisor
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Showtime Presents in association with Take 5 Productions and Octagon Films
Neil Jordan, Directed by
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The Borgias Showtime
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Trevor Morris, Music by
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The Borgias – The Poisoned Chalice/The Assassin Showtime
Showtime Presents in association with Take 5 Productions and Octagon Films
Bob Munroe, Lead Visual Effects Supervisor; Doug Campbell, Visual Effects Supervisor; Bill Halliday, Visual Effects Producer; Juan Jesus Garcia, Visual Effects Art Director; Luke Groves, Visual Effects Technical Producer; Seth Martiniuk, Lead Visual Effects Compositor; Blair Tennessy, CGI Supervisor
The Borgias takes top honours at Canada’s Gemini Awards
At a star-studded gala Wednesday night, 7 September 2011, The Borgias won the Gemini Award for best dramatic series.
When it premiered in April, The Borgias, a period drama full of sex and scheming, grabbed the attention of 1.3 million viewers in Canada.
Jeremy Irons accepted the award via pre-recorded video message.
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The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presented 61 Gemini Awards Wednesday night, 31st August 2011, at the second of three galas. Programs in the categories of drama, comedy, variety and children’s or youth programming were honoured in Toronto.
The Borgias received three awards in Wednesday night’s ceremony.
Winners from Wednesday night’s ceremony:
– Best direction in a dramatic series: Jeremy Podeswa for The Borgias
– Francois Seguin wins Best Production Design/Art Direction in a Non-Fiction Program/Series for The Borgias.
– The Borgias – The Poisoned Chalice/The Assassin ….. Best Production Design or Art Direction in a Fiction Program or Series
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The Gemini Awards culminate with the Sept. 7 gala on CBC-TV. Comedy superstar Russell Peters will host, with presenters set to include Catherine O’Hara, Alan Thicke, Hugh Dillon and Priestley.
Jeremy Irons is set to film Shakespeare’s Henry IV, parts 1 and 2, as part of the BBC’s 2012 Shakespeare Season, directed by Richard Eyre.
Irons will feature alongside Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal and Simon Russell Beale as Falstaff in Henry IV. Hiddleston will then take the lead role in Henry V, which along with Richard II forms part of the BBC cycle of Shakespeare’s history plays to be broadcast in 2012.
Henry IV will be directed by Sir Richard Eyre, the former director of the National Theatre, with Thea Sharrock taking directing duties on Henry V, which goes into production later this year. Henry IV is due to begin filming in January.
Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes has also signed up to helm four new versions of Shakespeare’s history plays for the BBC, it has been announced.
Mendes will be executive producer of Richard II, Henry IV parts I and II, and Henry V as part of a special season devoted to the Bard planned for 2012. They will be shown on BBC2.
The BBC’s 2012 Shakespeare season will be produced by Neal Street Productions with American partners NBC Universal and WNET.
Involving some of the most pre-eminent Shakespearian actors and directors of our time, the films will consist of bold adaptations of Richard II, Henry IV Parts I and II and Henry V, set in the Medieval period and filmed on locations around the UK and Europe. These four films will be linked to the Cultural Olympiad of 2012.
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More details from the Daily Mail:
Producers will be Rupert Ryle Hodges and executive producers Gareth Neame, Pippa Harris and Sam Mendes.
Julie Walters is in discussions to pull a pint or two as landlady of the infamous Boar’s Head Tavern.
Richard Eyre and Thea Sharrock would like the actress to play Mistress Quickly in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and Henry V, all of which are being filmed for BBC2 to be screened as part of next year’s cultural Olympiad.
The award-winning Ms Walters has agreed to do the project, but it’s a question of making the filming dates work.
Michelle Dockery, who has found much-deserved fame as Lady Mary in Downton Abbey, is being approached about playing Lady Percy, Hotspur’s wife, in the Henry IV films.
Joe Armstrong is in negotiations to play Hotspur, and there’s a plan afoot to try to get his father Alun Armstrong to play the Duke of Northumberland — Hotspur’s father. As I told you a while back, Tom Hiddleston is playing Prince Hal, in the two Henry IV dramas, and Henry V.
Richard Eyre will direct the Henry IV films (more than four hours of drama in total).
SATURDAY / OCTOBER 1, 2011
PANELS
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Big roles on the small screen.
With Laura Dern, Edie Falco, William H. Macy, and Jeremy Irons.
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The Borgias premiered in the UK on Sky Atlantic on Saturday 13 August 2011. Here are a few articles from the UK press regarding the series:
The Guardian “Irons is fabulous….It’s a mesmerising performance”
The Telegraph – [Borgias review]
The Telegraph – Jeremy Irons: Why I said yes to a fornicating pope.
Digital Spy UK – ‘The Borgias’ David Oakes interview: ‘Playing a hedonist is fantastic’
Jeremy Irons and fellow castmates from The Borgias – David Oakes (Juan Borgia) and Ronan Vibert (Giovanni Sforza) – attended the Prince concert at the Sziget Festival in Hungary on 9 August 2011.
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