Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston Kickstart BAFTA Celebrations, Remember Albert Finney

Patrick Stewart, Michelle Yeoh, Jeremy Irons, Joanna Lumley and Jason Isaacs were also on hand at the pre-awards bash in London.

Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Patrick Stewart, Michelle Yeoh, Jeremy Irons and Anna Friel honored the charitable side of BAFTA on Friday night as London began its celebrations in anticipation of Sunday’s film awards with the lavish annual Film Gala, this year at the city’s Savoy Hotel.

Host of the Sunday film ceremony, Joanna Lumley, was showing no nerves ahead of her gig, saying she was “thrilled, looking forward to it so much." Returning for a second year to front the ceremony, Lumley told THR, “you don’t have to stress because it’s just me saying ‘isn’t our industry great and here are the brilliant people in it’.”

The death of actor Albert Finney was fresh on everyone’s mind, with Lumley saying she "adored: him. "We did A Rather English Marriage – I did it with him and Tom Courtenay. I couldn’t have loved him more. He was generous, funny, wise, ridiculously attractive. Everyone adored him, men and women alike. We used to do The Times crossword puzzle together.”

Hiddleston also worked with Finney and remembered him fondly. "He was the most kind, the most gracious, the most inspiring actor,” Hiddleston said. “It was really my first significant professional acting role, playing Randolph Churchill in The Gathering Storm, in which he (Finney) played Winston Churchill. I was 20 years old, very nervous, and he could not have been more charming and helpful, kind and considerate. And he bought me a whiskey afterwards!”

As for the evening’s gala, the aim of which was to raise funds to benefit those wanting to break into the industry, Hiddleston explained how BAFTA does “so much work, often unsung work, about leveling the playing field for everyone, keeping the doors open for everyone no matter where you’re from, whatever background. If you have a story to tell, BAFTA want to hear from you.”

Added Yeoh: "Any opportunity you get to be able to shine the light on a charity is always good. It’s important that we are not just seen to be doing something frivolous or glamorous, but it’s got heart and it’s got soul because I think the movies that we do have heart and soul, so it all ties in.”

Change is being seen, claimed Jason Isaacs. "When you work in the industry, and you may not know what BAFTA is doing, but you see around you the landscape is changing in terms of the number of women, people of color and people from different social backgrounds coming through the industry," he said.

After a champagne reception, a Great Gatsby-themed dance opened proceedings with host Claudia Winkleman welcoming on stage recent winners of the BAFTA young presenters’ scheme.

The Hollywood Reporter

Natalia Jamieson

Tom Hiddleston: Movie review: 'High-Rise' fascinates with destructive decadence

EXAMINER.COM
April 30, 2016
1:13 PM MST

High-rise

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Debuting April 28 on VOD and coming to theaters on May 13, "High-Rise" opens on imagery of a scruffy Tom Hiddleston in disheveled business attire. He is meandering through bloodied, squalid conditions of looted destruction where we find him rotisserie cooking an unusual dinner on a retrofitted spit. His third-person voiceover, backed by a classical record playing in the background, speaks of eerie satisfaction and renewed confidence amid the obviously dire conditions. A jack-hammered transition card hits declaring "three months earlier." That setup begs our minds to question what has transpired to create this reality. Consider that a perfect tease and taste of what is to come in Ben Wheatley's adaptation of J.G. Ballard's dystopian 1975 novel. In the words of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, "you ain't seen nothing yet."



At this new starting point, set in the late 1970's, the Tom Hiddleston we meet is greatly different. He is Dr. Robert Liang and he has just moved into an angular and tiered cement residence building as part of a newly-constructed complex of high-rises in a nondescript suburb of London. Liang is a chilly forensic doctor and an eager social climber seeking new anonymity, a clean slate, and an investment into something unique for a living space. He resides on the 25th floor, which counts as upper middle class within of the 40-story building.

The high-rise was designed to be self-sustaining and self-sufficient with all of the necessary amenities, from groceries to recreational facilities and security, available on the premises for its discerning homeowners. The orchestrator of this well-to-do lifestyle is Anthony Royal, dubbed "The Architect" by the social circles beneath him. Played by Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, he leads this designed and desired utopia from the top in his terraced top-floor penthouse with his trophy wife (Keeley Hawes).



Lavish parties are the seen-and-be-seen events within this closed circuit of a community. Robert attempts to mingle with the myriad of white privilege residents of the building. He catches the romantic eye of Royal’s personal aide, Charlotte Melville (Sienna Miller), a woman with a curious son (Louis Suc) lives in the next floor above him. Quickly, Robert experiences the trappings of the building's readily apparent, yet unwritten, hierarchy and befriends people of different classes. Second floor tennant Richard Wilder (Luke Evans), a TV documentarian, and his depressed pregnant wife Helen (Elisabeth Moss) reek of discontent and embody the brewing struggle of the poorer residents from the lower floors.

Little inconveniences like power outages turn into arguments and tiffs. Envy overcomes decadence. Hosts become bullies and people reveal their classist flaws. Pettiness boils over to rage. Neighborly relationships devolve into isolation. Uncivilized competition decays community harmony. Schemes turn into wars were resources like food, electricity, perks like swimming pools, and the freedom of elevators become contested to the death. Primal violence takes over on every imaginable level. By the time Portishead’s haunting cover of ABBA’s “S.O.S.” shows up, you realize how much everything has changed.



Tom Hiddleston is an ideal lead for Liang. He has the charismatic range to swing from a man built for the finer things to a sullen survivor of cold calculation and resolve. His wicked smirk and smooth line delivery cloak his character’s emotions and intentions brilliantly. Hiddleston is simply intoxicating, as he so often is in both his smaller films like “Only Loves Left Alive” and Marvel blockbusters. Luke Evans provides the strongest voice and performance outside of Hiddleston as the man targeting Royal and system and asking the loud questions no one wants to answer.

Director Ben Wheatley ("Kill List," "Sightseers") has crafted a sharp film of unraveling thrill and suspense that drips with endless style. The director made a wise choice to keep Ballard’s 1970’s setting and time period, giving “High-Rise” a throwback feel and lively tone on multiple levels. Composer Clint Mansell and cinematographer Laurie Rose tinge this film with an auditory and visual palette with period-appropriate filters of soundtrack and light. If you did not know these modern actors, you could have sworn this film was made 40 years ago. The cool exterior of swinging ambiance acts as sheep’s clothing for a savage wolf underneath. This film’s time capsule surface dissolves to keenly project its stout cautionary tale towards parallels to the modern day.

"High-Rise" is a strongly constructed blend of experimental science fiction with colossal political and social commentary. The layers of symbolism, analogy, and allegory are as tall as the building itself. There is a richly disturbing and dark fascination in observing how all of this frivolity comes crashing down in unpredictable and unlimited disaster. In this writer's opinion, inspired by a more pertinent and interesting source, this is the stylish and topical film the overrated "Snowpiercer" could only hope to become with its similarly isolated microcosm of class warfare.

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'High-Rise' Makes Class Warfare Sexy - Tom Hiddleston, Keeley Hawes, Jeremy Irons

VICE
By Brandon Harris
April 13, 2016

If Brazil, Lord of the Flies, and Snowpiercer were stuck in a blender, the result might look something like Ben Wheatley's strange and stylish new film High-Rise, which makes its US premiere April 20 at the Tribeca Film Festival. An adaptation of J.G. Ballard's 1975 dystopian novel famous for its canine-eating upper classes, High-Rise has polarized audiences and critics, hailed by some as "the social-surrealist film of the year," dismissed by others as "a bit of a dog's dinner." The film takes place in an impeccably ruined residential skyscraper, the high-rise of the title, seemingly beset by dysfunction and outright war amongst its residents, who are arranged vertically by a caste system that is very British, yet uniquely tribal.

"We wanted to make something that was not totally recognizable," the 43-year-old director told me last fall at an impossibly chic hotel bar in the Old Town section of Zurich, where the filmed had screened. The picture has a take-no-prisoners verve and sardonic humor to spare, but one leaves it as if having been bludgeoned with a hammer, unsure of up or down, left or right, teetering on collapse. How did we get here? What are the rules of this place? Wheatley and his collaborators, screenwriter Amy Jump and European mega-producer Jeremy Thomas, seem unwilling to offer anything that resembles traditional exposition or human motive throughout High-Rise's near two-hour runtime.

"Periods don't necessarily look like themselves," he remarked, a riddle for sure, but one that makes sense somehow coming from Wheatley, a portly, blued-eyed, shaggy-haired Brit who has become one of the isles' most lauded young directors in less than a decade of feature work. The director's surreal rendering of Ballard's class-oriented societal meltdown is set in an alternate-reality version of the late 1970s. The clothes and records and décor evoke the period without ossifying us there; the world has progressed in ways that it didn't in our times, but perhaps reasonably could have.

Although there are no poor people present, working- and lower-middle-class stiffs reside on the bottom levels while higher-income professional types, such as our hero Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston), live on the middle floors below the haute bourgeoisie at the top. Dr. Laing, who has the style and sophistication of those living on the upper floors, draws the interest of the Architect (Jeremy Irons), a mildly disabled schemer who lives at the top of this Grand Guignol with a diabolical, sexually charged redhead (Keeley Hawes) who tends to horses on their rooftop terrace.

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High-Rise makes its US premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on April 20.

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Tom Hiddleston Shares First Look at 'High-Rise'

MOVIEWEB
Feb 6, 2015 by B. Alan Orange

Worried there just won't be enough Tom Hiddleston to go around on the big screen this year, as he most likely won't have much screen time in Avengers: Age of Ultron? You'll be happy to know he takes the lead in High-Rise, an adaptation of J.G. Ballard's popular novel. To help ease the pain of these Tom Hiddleston-free days, the actor himself has posted a first look image at the thriller on his Personal Twitter, introducing his character Dr Laing.

High-Rise takes place in a new residential tower built on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's rise to power, at the site of what will soon become the world's financial hub. Designed as a luxurious solution to the problems of the city, it is a world apart. Enter Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston), a young doctor seduced by the High-Rise and its creator, the visionary architect Anthony Royal (Jeremy Irons). Laing discovers a world of complex loyalties, and also strikes up a relationship with Royal's devoted aide Charlotte (Sienna Miller).

High-Rise is in development and stars Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy, Reece Shearsmith, Peter Ferdinando. The film is directed by Ben Wheatley.

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Watch British Actors Reenact Iconic American Movie Scenes

PEOPLE
BY WADE ROUSE @waderouse 02/04/2015 AT 07:50 PM EST

The British are coming – or as anyone in Hollywood has long known, they've already arrived!

Be it Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley or Eddie Redmayne, there has been a British invasion of American movies – and awards ceremonies – over recent years.

That fact is humorously skewered in a cheeky short film for Vanity Fair by London-born photographer Jason Bell, whose work frequently appears in that magazine. (VF's annual Hollywood issue will be available Feb. 5 in digital editions and on newsstands.)




Bell had the idea to shoot an all-U.K. edition of the magazine's annual Hollywood portfolio (whose 30-page portfolio includes 44 English icons this year) after observing that "this British invasion of Hollywood has gotten so out of hand." The short film is cleverly divided into three parts – in the style of a World War II era newsreel – with the first clip showing the Brits "Preparing for War," the second depicting their "Coming to America" to infiltrate the film industry and the final installment, "Victory is Assured."




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Tom Hiddleston is more than just Loki in Marvel movies

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MOVIES NEWS / MERLINE ERDA



There are a lot of hugely talented British actors in Hollywood these days and many of them have become much sought after stars. One of the biggest and best British actors in Hollywood at the moment would have to be the talented and handsome Tom Hiddleston, who has given us some fantastic performances in recent years, in some brilliant movies.

Most of you will know Tom Hiddleston mainly for playing the role of Loki in the hit Marvel movies but there is so much more to than actor that just playing this Marvel villain. Tom has played so many more impressive characters over the years and also has plenty more projects lined up for the coming years.

Next up for Tom Hiddleston is a role in the movie High-Rise, which co-stars Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, and James Purefoy, with a release date expected sometime in 2015. Following that, Tom will then be seen starring alongside the likes of Charlie Hunnam, Jessica Chastain, and Mia Wasikowska in the movie Crimson Peak, which opens on October 16, 2015 in both the US and the UK.


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Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss join Tom Hiddleston in High-Rise

RADIO TIMES
Emma Daly
11:06 AM, 28 June 2014



Tom Hiddleston is in good company in Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s thriller High-Rise as Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss join the ranks, Variety reports.

The story charts the lives of affluent residents of a futuristic apartment block, in which all modern amenities are contained, leaving them cut off from the rest of society. It’s an unnerving tale of life running out of control, as residents become driven by their primal urges.

Hiddleston plays the role of doctor Robert Laing, who is fascinated by the building, forming a relationship with the architect’s aide Charlotte, played by Sienna Miller.

Evans was most recently seen on the big screen in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. He’s a busy man too, taking on the title role in Dracula Untold, which is due for release on 3 October.

Moss is perhaps best-known for her role as Peggy Olson in TV hit Mad Men and for her Golden Globe-winning turn in Top of the Lake.

Big-name stars Jeremy Irons, James Purefoy and Reece Shearsmith will also star.


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Michael Fassbender, Colin Farrell, Domhnall Gleeson, Allen Leech: Hollywood’s hottest A-listers are in Dublin for the IFTAs. Who gets your vote?

EVOKE.IE
April 4, 2014

The IFTAs are taking place tomorrow night in Dublin’s Doubletree Hilton Hotel, which will be brimming with hot Hollywood hunks! 

Ireland’s own Michael Fassbender, Jamie Dornan, Jack Reynor, Domhnall Gleeson and Colin Farrell will be throwing on their tuxedos for the prestigious event, while American actor Kevin Spacey is flying in especially.

Presented by MTV star Laura Whitmore, and Bachelor’s Walk actor Simon Delaney, the event will also be attended by Irish veteran actors Brendan Gleeson, Colm Meaney and Jeremy Irons, while Oscar nominated actress Saoirse Ronan will be getting out her best frock for the event.




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Tom Hiddleston & More in BBC's 'The Hollow Crown' Miniseries Trailer

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by Ethan Anderton
August 8, 2013

Since the offerings on various VOD outlets like iTunes are becoming much more engaging, we thought this truly epic miniseries from BBC deserved the attention of cinephiles. The network across the pond has put together a four-part series called The Hollow Crown, an adaptation of four of Shakespeare's classic plays Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V. What's even better is these adaptations feature Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers, Thor), Jeremy Irons (Die Hard with a Vengeance), Patrick Stewart (X-Men) and Ben Whishaw (Skyfall, Cloud Atlas). This looks like a gorgeous drama series.

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Max Irons jokes about his dad Jeremy Irons' reaction to his nude scenes in new Starz series

THE REPUBLIC

By ALICIA RANCILIO  Associated Press

July 26, 2013 - 5:44 pm EDT

BEVERLY HILLS, California — Like father, like son?

Max Irons, the star of the upcoming Starz series "The White Queen," jokes about his father Jeremy Irons' potential reaction to his nudity in the new show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ra6IS3U7LU

"Thankfully he hasn't seen it yet, but if he did I'd refer him to his back catalog," the 27-year-old English actor said to laughs Friday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour.

Max Irons stars as Edward IV during England's War of the Roses in "The White Queen," which premieres Aug. 10. His 64-year-old father has had explicit sex scenes in 1988's "Dead Ringers," 1992's "Damage" and most recently in the Showtime series "The Borgias."

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Fans battle to bring back The Borgias (TELEGRAPH)

By Caroline Hedley, Los Angeles5:56PM BST 22 Jun 2013

Devotees of the acclaimed historical drama starring Jeremy Irons as the corrupt 15th century Pope Alexander VI are to send hundreds of cans of sardines to the office of Showtime’s head of entertainment David Nevins, after the network announced it had cancelled plans for a promised fourth season of the show.

“Many of us feel that we have been cheated,” said Barbara Christel, organiser of the Bring Back The Borgias Facebook group.

“We were told we would have four seasons originally, but The Borgias was cancelled with just two episodes left of the third season. In one episode, Pope Alexander told his Cardinals: 'We shall dine on sardines’ during Lent. We decided to send cans of sardines to Showtime on June 28th as a sign that we, the fans, feel deprived.” The third series of the drama, written by Oscar-winning filmmaker Neil Jordan, is currently airing on a satellite channel in Britain but has already concluded in the US. The show also stars British actress Holliday Grainger as Medieval Italy’s notorious femme fatale, Lucrezia Borgia.

The lavishly-produced series, which was filmed on location in Budapest, is estimated to have cost almost £2.5 million an episode to create.

Despite a warm industry reception — The Borgias received 10 Emmy award nominations, a Golden Globes nod for Irons, and was described as “addictively entertaining” and “sumptuous” by critics - its third season ratings were steady but unspectacular, with an average of 2.4 million weekly viewers.

An online petition against the premature cancellation of the next series has attracted more than 10,000 signatures, and a Twitter campaign #SaveTheBorgias sparked more than 3400 Tweets in one hour.

One devoted fan has even created a range of T-shirts, bearing the slogan: “We are Borgia (sic) and we feel unloved.” Josef Alti, who plays Pypar in the US fantasy drama Game Of Thrones, is supporting the campaign, and François Arnaud, who plays papal progeny Cesare Borgia, has openly expressed his disappointment at the series’ termination.


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Brendan Gleeson now wary of speaking out on issues after 'Late Late' backlash (INDEPENDENT WOMAN)

NICOLA ANDERSON – 17 JUNE 2013

ACTOR Brendan Gleeson has revealed he is reluctant to speak out on social issues in this country after he was lambasted for criticising Irish hospitals on the 'Late Late Show' in 2006.

"I threw a wobbly on the 'Late Late Show' and I felt completely justified in doing it," he said.

"But the next thing was this plethora of things for about five years where I was more or less asked, when are you going to fix the health system. And so I am very conflicted on speaking out about social issues. I try to withdraw from that," Gleeson told the World Actors Forum at the Gate Theatre.

The event was organised by Michael Colgan, artistic director of the theatre, and was described by Arts Minister Jimmy Deenihan as "the Davos of acting".

Jeremy Irons was less inhibited at the forum when he called for action on the incinerator issue at Poolbeg, saying "vast" amounts of people should take to the streets to protest against the plans.

READ MORE: http://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/gleeson-now-wary-of-speaking-out-on-issues-after-late-late-backlash-29349702.html

Brendan Gleeson, Michael Gambon, Jeremy Irons: Film stars to share silver screen secrets

LAURA BUTLER – 07 JUNE 2013

SOME of the movie industry's best known film stars will take part in a two-day event to share their craft secrets and experiences.

International names Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson and Jeremy Irons will come together for the first Irish World Actors Forum on June 15 and 16.

For more information go to http://www.worldactors forum.com/

Irish Independent

Jeremy Irons: ‘THE BORGIAS’ SEASON 4 NOT LIKELY, SHOWTIME PLOTS MOVIE WRAP-UP? by Kevin Fitzpatrick May 8, 2013 7:30 PM (SCREEN CRUSH)

Rarely have Showtime series been in actual danger of cancellation, but Jeremy Irons’ papal drama ‘The Borgias’ may soon find itself without a fourth season. Via Deadline, we’ve learned the under-performing period drama could instead graduate to a two-hour movie wrapping up the series plot, in lieu of a fourth season.

“I would like to finish it with a two-hour movie,” series creator Neil Jordan told the British press. “Another 10 episodes is kind of exhausting. I’ve mapped out a movie, which, if (Showtime brass) agree, will shoot in June with the same cast, and finally the Pope will die horribly.” ‘The Borgias’ had long been a moderate ratings performer for Showtime, though recent episodes have gained momentum as high as 674,000 viewers.

Wrapping up ‘The Borgias’ with a film would fall in line with Showtime’s commitment to provide floundering series with proper endings, much as ‘The Big C‘ was granted four additional episodes to wrap up its final arc. “It’s really important to me that our audience feels taken care of,” Showtime boss David Nevins said earlier this year.

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The Borgias 3.03 Sneak Peeks: Cesare Has Been Ordered to France Written By Shilo Adams on April 22nd, 2013 at 1:48 pm (TVOM)

The attempt on Pope Alexander's life could have sent the Borgia Pope into hiding, fearful of exposing himself to the same threats that nearly cost him the throne. However, Alexander is nothing if not ambitious, so the near-death experience made him hungrier to gain a stronghold in the area and arm himself with enough resources to vanquish whatever plan Catherina Sforza has been cooking up. In doing so, though, he's going to have to use both Cesare and Lucrezia as pawns; will they be willing to go along with what their father wants and marry royalty from enemy lands?

On the next episode of The Borgias, Alexander has tasked Cesare with finding a bride in France after Lucrezia marries Alfonso. Naples and France are mortal enemies, but France has such a fearsome reputation and abundant resources that Rome needs to have the state in its palm. Their supplies have been dwindling at the exact wrong time, since Catherina Sforza has been pulling the strings of the Romagna families and gathering a force of her own, so the alliance with France will ensure that they have enough firepower and food to last them a battle of any length. Naples was once thought to be a key get for the Holy Father, but with the difficulty that King Ferdinand has been giving them and Cesare's accounts of their empty coffers, they might not be the important ally that they once looked to be.

Read more at http://www.tvovermind.com/the-borgias/the-borgias-season-3-episode-3-209168

Jeremy Irons Asks if Gay Marriage Would See Fathers Marry Sons (Video) 7:57 PM PDT 4/4/2013 by Aaron Couch (THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

The "Borgias" star speculates tax advantages could push unions between immediate family members.

Jeremy Irons has some questions about what same-sex marriage would mean for familial relationships and the legal system.

Activist Stars Attend Supreme Court's Gay Marriage Hearing, While Hollywood Tweets Support
In particular, the Borgias star wonders if it could open the door for fathers and sons to marry, perhaps as a way for a father to pass down his property without estate taxes upon death.

"Could a father not marry his son?" Irons asked during an interview with The Huffington Post. He said this technically would not be incest if it were between men, because "incest is there to protect us from inbreeding, but men don't breed.”

Jeremy Irons Discusses Gay Marriage

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The Borgias - Season One Bloopers (Jeremy Irons, David Oakes, Holiday Grainger, Francois Arnaud)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYGH-FEWEp0

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Tom Hiddleston, Sinead Cusack and Jeremy Irons (Photo by Dave M. Benett/Getty Images) CAITLIN MCBRIDE – 13 MARCH 2013 (INDEPENDENT WOMAN)

It's safe to say Hollywood heavyweight Jeremy Irons and his Irish wife Sinead Cusack are rock solid. The high profile couple made a rare public outing together at the prestigious South Bank Sky Arts Awards at The Dorchester in London last night, and after 34 years together, looked as happy as ever.

Jeremy has been incredibly honest about their marriage in the past, describing their relationship as "dysfunctional", and they are believed to be in an open relationship. The couple have often been photographed kissing and cuddling in public.

The high brow ceremony saw Jeremy as one of the guests on honour alongside his Tony award nominated wife. Actor James McAvoy was also in attendance alongside Anne Marie Duff, Richard E Grant, Grayson Perry,  Felicity Kendall and Akram Khan.

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The Borgias: A Behind the Scenes Look at Season 3 Written By Shilo Adams on March 5th, 2013 at 7:24 pm (TV OVER MIND)

The Borgia family suffered a series of blows last season that left them staggering. While Lucrezia lost Pablo and was forced to think about remarrying before she was ready, Cesare fell further out of favor with Rodrigo and Juan never recovered from an infected leg and humiliation on the battlefield, all but forcing Cesare to put him out of his misery. However, arguably the toughest blow was dealt by Cardinal della Rovere, who managed to infiltrate the Borgia camp and execute a hit on Rodrigo with a dosage of poison. This season on The Borgias, will Rodrigo be able to retain the papacy and recover from what happened before anyone can either finish him?

In a behind the scenes look at the third season of the historical drama, currently filming in Budapest, Rodrigo is shown being in full health, directing orders while on horseback. There was never any doubt that he would recover from the attempted assassination, but the fallout from there even being an attempt could be far reaching and have more significant impact than if he had succumbed to della Rovere's latest attempt at revenge. The cardinal will likely be inspired to go bigger and bolder in his next plan to make sure that it's successful, which could eventually lead to his undoing, while the Pontiff could become even more paranoid about his grasp on the papacy and the power of his enemies. That paranoia, seeded in the way he was elected to the throne, doesn't have to be a bad thing, however; it may cause him to go over his closest confidantes to suss out anyone not 100% loyal to him, increasing his safety and peace of mind.


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