Emma Stone thanked her mother for giving her life and her “Poor Things” screenwriter Tony McNamara for the line “I must go punch that baby” when she accepted her leading actress BAFTA award on Sunday evening.
“Tony, thank you for the line ‘I must go punch that baby.’ It was life-changing for me,” Stone said on stage, while also thanking director Yorgos Lanthimos, her fellow cast and crew and her dialect coach Neil Swain.
“I was playing a British person in this movie and [Neil] did not laugh at me when he taught me how to say ‘wart-ter,’ even though as an American I say ‘wahter,'” Stone quipped. “So thank you England for accepting me.”
The actor also made sure to thank her mother. “Because she’s the best person I know in the whole world and she inspires me every single day. She’s always made me believe this...
“Tony, thank you for the line ‘I must go punch that baby.’ It was life-changing for me,” Stone said on stage, while also thanking director Yorgos Lanthimos, her fellow cast and crew and her dialect coach Neil Swain.
“I was playing a British person in this movie and [Neil] did not laugh at me when he taught me how to say ‘wart-ter,’ even though as an American I say ‘wahter,'” Stone quipped. “So thank you England for accepting me.”
The actor also made sure to thank her mother. “Because she’s the best person I know in the whole world and she inspires me every single day. She’s always made me believe this...
- 2/18/2024
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
When audiences think about actorly transformations, their first thoughts are often of weight lost or gained, hair grown or sheared, and mannerisms shed or adopted. But even if their silhouette doesn’t quite match a level of physical deterioration commensurate with their character’s malady, or their demeanor isn’t quite befitting of, say, an 18th century courtesan, an actor’s voice can be tremendously persuasive in convincing viewers that they are believably inhabiting a specific time or place.
“It all starts with the voice,” says Bradley Cooper, whose gruff delivery as Jackson Maine in “A Star Is Born” has earned him multiple lead actor nominations from critics groups across the globe. “That’s your way in because you can hear yourself as you’re talking, and it’s the best way to believe an imaginary circumstance.”
Actors often prepare exhaustively to learn and approximate the speaking rhythms of a specific time period,...
“It all starts with the voice,” says Bradley Cooper, whose gruff delivery as Jackson Maine in “A Star Is Born” has earned him multiple lead actor nominations from critics groups across the globe. “That’s your way in because you can hear yourself as you’re talking, and it’s the best way to believe an imaginary circumstance.”
Actors often prepare exhaustively to learn and approximate the speaking rhythms of a specific time period,...
- 1/5/2019
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Variety Film + TV
Lady Macbeth: She’s one of William Shakespeare’s most iconic characters, a scheming, ambitious woman. You can see her as a manipulative temptress who pushes her husband to go to murderous lengths to steal the Scottish crown, or you can see her as a mother who’s lost her child and, in her loss, pours her love and her longing into her husband and guides him to his full potential — or as some mixture of both. In crafting the character of the two leads, the latest film adaptation of “Macbeth” embraces the Macbeths’ apparent childlessness and the death of their child, which is hinted at in just a few places in the text. The very first shot of the film shows the Macbeths’ dead child on a pyre. Directed by Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel (“The Snowtown Murders”), this “Macbeth” takes place in 11th century Scotland, transporting the 17th century...
- 12/4/2015
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
Feature Juliette Harrisson 18 Jul 2013 - 07:19
BBC Four Drama bows out with a moving story of addiction, heartache, and love, starring Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter...
BBC Four has had to pull out from making original dramatic productions, but, as Drama Commissioning Controller Ben Stephenson puts it, they want to "go out with a bang." The channel has produced several biopics focusing on well-known British celebrities over the past few years, some, like Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! following a fairly standard life story from youth to death, others, like Hattie, focusing on a particular moment in its subject’s life (in that case, Hattie Jacques’ affair with a young driver, John Schofield) which is used as illustrative of their character and life story as a whole. Burton and Taylor, which tells the story of the last time Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton worked together, falls into the second category,...
BBC Four Drama bows out with a moving story of addiction, heartache, and love, starring Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter...
BBC Four has had to pull out from making original dramatic productions, but, as Drama Commissioning Controller Ben Stephenson puts it, they want to "go out with a bang." The channel has produced several biopics focusing on well-known British celebrities over the past few years, some, like Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! following a fairly standard life story from youth to death, others, like Hattie, focusing on a particular moment in its subject’s life (in that case, Hattie Jacques’ affair with a young driver, John Schofield) which is used as illustrative of their character and life story as a whole. Burton and Taylor, which tells the story of the last time Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton worked together, falls into the second category,...
- 7/17/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Peter Sarsgaard has played his fair share of, shall we say, ethically dubious characters. From his brutal killer in "Boys Don't Cry" to more vaguely menacing roles in "Flightplan" and "The Skeleton Key," the actor excels at making audiences question what's under the polite surface. In fairness, Sarsgaard has also played his share of good guys, earning laurels for his portrayal of The New Republic editor Charles Lane in "Shattered Glass." But the actor admits he hasn't made any films that his 3-year-old daughter Ramona (with wife Maggie Gyllenhaal) can watch anytime soon. "I don't have a single movie for her," he says with a laugh. "At least Maggie has 'Monster House' and now 'Nanny McPhee 2.' She can't watch anything of mine."The one exception is Sarsgaard's latest film, "An Education," which he says Ramona will be able to watch when she's a teenager. Written by Nick Hornby and Lynn Barber,...
- 12/10/2009
- backstage.com
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