Emma Watson and Cumberbatch top 'sexiest' stars list

BBC
October 2, 2013

Emma Watson and Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch have topped a poll of the world's sexiest film stars.

Cumberbatch, 37, beat Twilight star Robert Pattinson and Bradley Cooper in the actor category of Empire Magazine's poll.

Former Harry Potter star Watson, 23, placed higher than Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis and Angelina Jolie in the actress list.

The poll was voted for by more than 50,000 movie fans.

Cumberbatch was followed by fellow British actors Tom Hiddleston and Man Of Steel's Henry Cavill in the top three.

Drive star Ryan Gosling was fourth, with Robert Downey Jr in fifth place.

The top 10 was completed by Chris Hemsworth, Robert Pattinson, Michael Fassbender, Hugh Jackman with Hangover star Bradley Cooper coming 10th.

Cumberbatch, who plays Julian Assange in new film The Fifth Estate, has previously spoken about becoming a pin-up, saying: "It puts a bit of a spring in your step. It's nice, you swagger a little bit, it's enjoyable.

"I've punched well above my weight this year. I find it hysterically funny. It's a giggle.

"I wield it with a massive smile."

Top 10 sexiest actors

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• Benedict Cumberbatch
• Tom Hiddleston
• Henry Cavill
• Ryan Gosling
• Robert Downey Jr
• Chris Hemsworth
• Robert Pattinson
• Michael Fassbender
• Hugh Jackman
• Bradley Cooper

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‘Crossfire: Bared To You’ Casting: Henry Cavill as Gideon Cross or Christian Grey? Sylvia Day Wants the ‘Man of Steel’ Actor as Her Sexy Billionaire (VIDEOS)

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Sylvia Day says she wants Henry Cavill to star in the TV adaption of "Bared to You" as her sexy billionaire. He is also a top contender for Christian Grey in "Fifty Shades of Grey." (Photo : Reuters )

Henry Cavill is one of the hottest and most sought after actors in Hollywood right now. The "Man of Steel" actor is not only a rumored favorite to play Christian Grey in the upcoming movie "Fifty Shades of Grey" but he is also a top contender to play Gideon Cross in the TV adaption of the erotic "Crossfire" series.

Author Sylvia Day recently did an interview for "Good Day Book Club" where she spoke about who she would cast as Gideon Cross and Eva Tramell.

"Superman would make a great one. Henry Cavill, I think he's perfect," Day said.

As far as the leading lady the author said if it was up to her she would pick Scarlett Johansson.

"Eva is a really curvy girl. She's not a waif by any means and Johansson rocks those curves so I think she would be fabulous.

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Tom Hiddleston: Brits always play baddies (xpose)

Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch have been "laughing" about British actors playing villains in blockbuster movies.

Tom Hiddleston finds it hilarious that British actors are renowned for playing "the bad guy".

The actor was named Best Villain at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday. Tom won the accolade for his portrayal of Norse god Loki in last year's box office smash The Avengers.

He loved playing the character, and often discusses the trend for Brits playing baddies with his pal Benedict Cumberbatch.

"I was talking about it with my friend Benedict, who is the villain in the new Star Trek film and we were laughing about it," he told UK TV show Lorraine. "It's as if there is a long line of British actors who have appeared in big American films as the bad guy. I think it all started with James Mason."

Tom is playing Loki for a third time in Thor: The Dark World, which will hit cinemas later this year.

As he collected his golden popcorn award at the MTV Movie Awards, he praised the cast and crew for making the movie such a memorable experience.

"I loved this film. I had the best time making it, and you know, obviously I'm not from this country as you can hear, but you were very hospitable to me, and I would like to thank Joss Whedon [director] first of all," Tom said in his acceptance speech. "Thank you, Chris Evans. Thank you to Sam Jackson. And absent friends, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Jeremy Renner, my brother from another mother, Chris Hemsworth, and a special thank you to Mark Ruffalo for smacking me like a ragdoll."

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Ciaran Hinds: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Game of Thrones Star Ciarán Hinds is Not Funny He has specifically requested that we not elaborate on this headline.

By Kimberly Kaye • Mar 26, 2013 • New York City

"Don't explain it in that little section below the headline," Ciarán Hinds instructs while organizing tea for the two of us in his dressing room at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. "It should just be, headline: ‘Mr. Hinds isn't funny,' period. Then your first sentence can be, ‘Hinds comes from a long line of dead stoics,'" he laughs. Of course it's not true. Anyone who helps an interviewer fabricate skewed headlines and desk copy has a sense of humor, and Hinds continues to show it off with wry one-liners and well-placed expletives. A Belfast native and veteran onscreen bad guy in flicks like Munich and TV shows like Game of Thrones, the leading man is currently dominating Broadway's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, playing infirmed Southern non-gentleman Big Daddy opposite Scarlett Johansson, Benjamin Walker, and Debra Monk. It's a role he nearly didn't take, convinced an American might be better suited to the Southern gothic poetics of Tennessee Williams. With the show's run coming to an end on March 31, we checked in with Hinds to talk about poetry, the possibility of doing drag, and his Broadway run with Scarlett and company.

You said opening night you felt there must be somebody more qualified to do American, poetic Tennessee Williams than you. Do you still feel similarly?

That's tough. I said yes to the job, I get paid to do the job. The job is to not shortchange anybody. But no [actor] ever really knows what [audiences get] from what they do. You try to work, with the director and your fellow actors, to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right. That's why sometimes you say yes to parts like this, even if you're unsure. You're unsure about much of what you do. Sometimes people will say to me ‘Why do you always play bad men? [points to face] It's the face!

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Helen Mirren recalls the 'Frenzy' of auditioning as a young actress for the real 'Hitchcock' Oscar winner plays his wife in a 'Psycho' drama starring Anthony Hopkins as the famed film director BY ETHAN SACKS / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Helen Mirren: 'I didn't like Hitchcock very much [in 1972], and he didn't like me very much either.'

It’s no mystery what drove Helen Mirren to star in “Hitchcock.”

Long before she was an Academy Award winner (for 2006’s “The Queen”) and a Dame, Mirren was a young stage actress in London auditioning for the real Master of Suspense as he was preparing to shoot his second-to-last film, “Frenzy,” back in 1972.

“I didn’t like Hitchcock very much, and he didn’t like me very much either,” Mirren tells the News. “It was not a good meeting at all. I guess it was a kind of audition, but I didn’t really want to be in the movie.

“I had no appreciation of who Alfred Hitchcock was. He was just an old-fashioned guy making old-fashioned movies, as far as I was concerned. I was ignorant and prejudiced.”

Forty years later, Mirren had the chance to correct an impetuousness of youth — if not to work with Hitchcock directly, then get to do the next best thing.

In “Hitchcock,” opening today, the 67-year-old actress stars as Alma Reville, the wife, frequent editor and moral compass of the legendary filmmaker.

Based on Stephen Rebello’s nonfiction book “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of ‘Psycho,’” the tongue-in-cheek drama focuses on the couple’s uphill battle to film what would become the director’s signature hit. The movie also chronicles how they struggled to keep their marriage together in the process.

History has proven 1960’s “Psycho” to be Hitchcock’s most successful work and a genre-sparking thriller. But Alfred and Alma risked losing their home to finance it themselves. Getting the project through the censors and the studio, Universal, was murder.


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The very funny TOM HIDDLESTON

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Review: Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren are simply stellar in 'Hitchcock' THE MOVIE CAN'T QUITE LIVE UP TO THE PERFORMANCES By Gregory Ellwood FRIDAY, NOV 2, 2012 4:32 AM (HIT FIX)

HOLLYWOOD – There have been many movies about the history of the movie industry, but it’s surprising it took this long for someone to bring the life of Alfred Hitchcock to the big screen.  The legendary filmmaker captained an impressive list of classic films including “Vertigo,” “North by Northwest,” “The 39 Steps,” “The Lady Vanishes” and “Dial M for Murder” among others.  And with his TV series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents…” he became one of the most recognizable directors and celebrities of the 1950’s.  His biggest hit, however, was one of his latter films, 1960’s “Psycho.”  Hitchcock’s obsession with making that “horror” film sets the stage for Sacha Gervasi’s  “Hitchcock,” which opened the 2012 AFI Film Fest Thursday night.

Coming off the success of “Northwest,” the picture finds Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) seemingly bored and uninterested in the numerous projects Hollywood is throwing his way.  That all changes, however, when he learns about Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein (an almost unrecognizable Michael Wincott) who has stunned authorities by digging his mother up from the grave and murdering and then mutilating a number of young women.  The crimes inspired Robert Bloch to write the fiction novel “Psycho,” although at the time he claimed he didn’t realize how close his book about the off-kilter Norman Bates was to Gein’s own story.  Unfortunately for the famous filmmaker, Paramount Pictures – a studio that he owes one more film to – has no interest in funding “Psycho.” So, Hitchcock decides in order to feel creative again he'll mortgage his house and use his own savings to fund the $800,000 picture.

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'Hitchcock' trailer plus the new poster with Anthony Hopkins & Helen Mirren by Ethan Anderton October 29, 2012

The first poster for the behind-the-scenes drama Hitchcock, which chronicles the titular director and the trials and tribulations of making his horror classic Psycho, had a retro horror style. Anthony Hopkins stood in signature profile stance with snapshots of the rest of the cast including Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, Helen Mirren and more. Now a new poster keeps the same style but with less graceful composition as Hitch merely stands with a knife, right next to Mirren as his wife Alma. It's nothing special, but the trailer for the movie speaks for itself anyway, so watch that if you haven't already.



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Oscar winner Colin Firth set for Dubai's DIFF (ARABIAN BUSINESS.COM)

The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) on Tuesday announced that Oscar winning actor Colin Firth and his fashion entrepreneur wife Livia will attend the event this year to support the annual 'One Night to Change Lives' charity.

The couple who are Global Ambassadors for Oxfam, will be joined by actresses Kristin Davis and Rooney Mara at the black-tie charity evening on December 14 at the Armani Hotel in Dubai.

Amr Waked and Ali Mostafa will also attend the exclusive gala dinner and auction which will raise funds for the UAE-based Dubai Cares and Oxfam.

This will be the second year that Colin Firth has attended DIFF, following his visit to promote the multi-award winning film, The King's Speech in 2010.


Oxfam has worked with Dubai Cares since 2008 to improve access and quality education for nearly 63,000 school children in some of the world's poorest countries including Mali, Niger, and Pakistan.

Oxfam's Global Ambassadors include A-list actors Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Minnie Driver, Gael Garcia Bernal, Djimon Hounsou, Kristin Davis, Rahul Bose; musicians Coldplay and Annie Lennox; Helena Christensen and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

A number of Oxfam ambassadors are expected to attend the December event.

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TOM HIDDLESTON: Joss Whedon - A Beer And Fish And Chips Made 'The Avengers' Sequel PossibleTraditional British food and drink gave Joss his inspiration (E.) BY MARK WORGAN ON SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

We think of Hollywood movies  as having their beginnings in swanky restaurants in the warm climate of Southern California, but 'The Avengers' director Joss Whedon has revealed that the inspiration for a sequel came to him while drinking in a London pub.

Starring Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansen, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Tom Hiddleston  and Mark Ruffalo, the original movie took over $1.4bn worldwide, so it was never likely that there wouldn't be a sequel. However the director of the original movie has revealed that he had serious doubts - until he went for a pint and fish and chips.

According to The Press Association Whedon said: "There's a business aspect to it and I would be disingenuous not to say that, but the question for me is, do I have another story to tell about these people?

"So we worked on the business side of it and I didn't think it was going to happen - I was like 'I'm never going to do this again.' But once they worked on the business aspect of it I thought that seems fair and cool, so the question was, Do I have another thing to say

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Tom Hiddleston: Avenger's Gag Reel

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Anthony Hopkins: He’s one of the busiest actors in Hollywood, but superstar Sir Anthony insists: I’m too lazy to chase roles by Robin Turner, Western MailJul 17 2012 WALES ON LINE

And at the end of this year Welsh film star Sir Anthony Hopkins will be celebrating his 75th birthday.

But that has not stopped in-demand Port Talbot born actor Hopkins claiming he is “too lazy” to go off in pursuit of interesting film roles.

The veteran actor, now based in sun-baked Los Angeles, will next be seen playing legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock in the eagerly awaited biopic Hitchcock, based on the making of the 1960 shock horror flick Psycho.


Alongside him will be fellow Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren as the director’s wife Alma Reville and Scarlet Johansson as Psycho’s damsel in distress Janet Leigh.

Jessica Biel will play Vera Miles who was film’s heroine.

On-set photographs of Hopkins looking a dead ringer for Hitchcock seem to suggest he was made for the role.

But in an interview with Total Film Magazine, Hopkins insists though the part was initially offered to him several years ago, he never set out to land the role.

He explained: “It came along about seven or eight years ago with one director attached and then that fell apart.

“Then about a year ago my agent called and said ‘Hitchcock is back’.

“I met the director, Sacha Gervasi, and he seemed to have such unbridled enthusiasm about it that I said: ‘OK, let’s give it a whirl.’

“I guess my saying: ‘Let’s have a go’ gave it the green light.

“But I never pursue anything – I’m too lazy.”



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How eerie! Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren are dead ringers for horror director Alfred Hitchcock and his beloved wife By LINDA MASSARELLA PUBLISHED: 15:36 EST, 1 June 2012 | UPDATED: 07:53 EST, 2 June 2012 MAIL ON LINE

In the first snap shots taken of Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren on the Los Angeles set of Hitchcock yesterday, it's clear the British actors have slipped right into character.

The 74-year-old Silence of the Lambs star was completely transformed into the legendary director with the help of prosthetic makeup. It gave Hopkins the long-nosed and big-jowled profile for  which Alfred Hitchcock was so famous.

Naturally slim, Hopkins was turned into a 300-pound giant with the help of a fat suit and further prosthetic make up around his jaw and neck.

Luckily for Mirren, Alma Hitchcock was naturally slender,

Some red hair dye, jewels and a period mink coat and long white gloves were all the 66-year-old actress needed to add to play the part.

Production on Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock has been underway for about five weeks at various locations around Hollywood.

The movie looks at the period of Hitchcock's life when he was making one of the most iconic films of all time, Psycho.


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Keira Knightley Replaces Scarlett Johansson In Can A Song Save Your Life? comments published: 2012-05-16 13:18:5 (CINEMA BLEND)4 Author: Katey Rich

Even before The Avengers came out and we knew about the big chase scene between Mark Ruffalo's Hulk and Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow, we were getting excited about a planned reunion between the two of them. The actors had signed on as of February to star for Once director John Carney in A Song Can Save Your Life, another musical about an aspiring musician who moves to New York with her boyfriend and promptly gets dumped. Johannson was set to play the singer, with Ruffalo as a music producer who discovers her performing in bars.

It's just been a few months since that announcement, but a lot appears to have changed. Screen Daily is not only reporting that Keira Knightley will replace Johansson in the film, but they make no mention of Ruffalo, suggesting he might be off the project as well. They say Johansson left for personal reasons-- maybe she's just dying for a break after so much time promoting The Avengers?-- and mention that True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld is still on board, set to play the daughter of the record producer character, who may or may not still be Mark Ruffalo.

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Helen Mirren: Helen Mirren bares her belly as she takes a break on the set of Hitchcock PUBLISHED: 17:10 EST, 12 May 2012 | UPDATED: 02:15 EST, 13 May 2012 (MAIL ON LINE)

At 66 years old it’s not often you see her showing any flesh below the bust and above her hemline.
But Helen Mirren flashed a little more than expected while on the set of her new film yesterday.

The legendary actress – who is starring as Alma Reville in the upcoming movie Hitchcock – revealed her midriff as she hurried around in Pasadena, California in between scenes.


Wearing a black and white skirt which fell below the knee with white slippers and a ginger wig for her role, the star looked relaxed as she sipped on a hot beverage in a paper cup.


However Mirren appeared to get too comfortable as she let a few buttons loose in the sunshine, causing her stomach to show.

Helen would have no problem accidentally displaying her tummy in a second outfit she wore.


The film also features Scarlett Johansson as Psycho star Janet Leigh whose character Marion Crane famously met a sticky end in the shower scene.




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Tom Hiddleston talks about working on Avengers

Tom Hiddleston: I have family in India Robin Bansal, Hindustan Times New Delhi, April 26, 2012 (HINDUSTAN TIMES)

Rumour mills might be agog about the long impending visit of his Avengers co-stars Robert Downey Jr, Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson to India, but not many know that actor Tom Hiddleston, who plays the supervillain Loki in the flick, has home here.

"I have family in India.  My sister stays in Chennai and I've been to India about four times so far,” Tom tells us in an exclusive telephonic interview from Los Angeles. “The last time I came was in October last year… I came very quietly just to see my sister. I love it there,” says the 31-year-old, who’s been to Chennai, Pondicherry and Mahabal-ipuram, and wishes to visit Delhi and Mumbai now.

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Tom Hiddleston: On 'Avengers' set, laughter is a powerful weapon By Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY Updated 9h 35m ago

ALBUQUERQUE – Saving the world is serious business for a superhero. But when Robert Downey Jr. starts a battle scene on the set of The Avengers, he doesn't exactly have on an Iron Man face.

Just before cameras roll, the smiling actor whispers up a competition with his co-stars — Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris Evans (Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) and Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow). Whoever gives the most distracting off-camera look to Tom Hiddleston (enemy Loki) wins.

"For an entire take, they are all giving these seductive, come-on faces," Hiddleston says. "I had to fight to keep a straight face."

Laughter, it turns out, is a powerful weapon in the Avengers arsenal as the film hits theaters May 4. The greatest collection of comic-book superheroes ever assembled on-screen brings plenty of humor in the movie — and even more humor off-screen, thanks to Downey.

"We look at him as our quarterback," Evans says. "He's always smiling. And that's infectious."


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Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson, Ralph Macchio, Helen Mirren Set for Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho By Andy Propst • Apr 17, 2012 • Los Angeles (THEATER MANIA)

Alfred Hitchcock (left) and Anthony Hopkins as the famed director

As previously reported, Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins will play Hitchcock and Oscar winner Helen Mirren will play the filmmaker's wife, Alma Reville. Tony Award winner Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Biel will play Janet Leigh and Vera Miles, respectively, two of the actresses who starred in Psycho. Macchio will portray the classic film's screenwriter, Joe Stefano.


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Tom Hiddleston is perfect. What else is new? We thought a man with a double first from Cambridge and an astonishing start to his acting career would have something interesting and articulate to say about himself. We were right. (OH NO THEY DIDN'T)

'As an actor, the labels that are so easily attachable to me - like Old Etonian or Cambridge graduate or Rada alumnus - are, in a way, the least interesting things about me,' said Tom Hiddleston

 'You know how tennis players raise each other’s game, how Nadal plays his best tennis when he’s up against Federer? Well, acting with Robert Downey Jr is like playing Agassi. You never know what he’s going to do next. Unless, of course, you happen to be throwing him out of a window and he’s shouting, “Throw me harder, baby. Let’s make it real.”’

Tom Hiddleston shakes his head and laughs. It’s been some journey from the darkness of a cinema in Malmo, Sweden, where four years ago, during a break from filming the first season of Wallander, he spent an evening watching Downey Jr signal his spectacular return to form in the first instalment of Iron Man.

 Now, in The Avengers, the superhero film to end them all, this charming Old Etonian and Cambridge graduate reprises his role as Loki, the baddie from Thor, and gets to do battle with a line-up of Marvel Comics’ most iconic characters: Iron Man (Downey Jr), the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Captain America (Chris Evans) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson).

But first, back to that evening in 2008. Hiddleston was in Sweden having landed a small part as the sidekick to Kenneth Branagh’s brow-beaten detective. Up to that point, he’d made a few blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearances in TV dramas, starred in a small British film and won rave reviews for his stage work, collecting an Olivier Award in the process.


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