Benedict Cumberbatch: Still loves Olivia Poulet

SHOW BIZ SPY
Posted by Adam
Monday April 14, 2014



BENEDICT Cumberbatch can’t get over his ex-girlfriend.

The actor split from longtime love Olivia Poulet in 2010, but Cumberbatch says he still loves his former flame.

“It happened very gradually, very mutually,” he said. “We’re still very good friends. There was no acrimony. I love her, adore her, always will.

“It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father. I used to think that I’d get married in my mid-30s and have children. But now I think I can wait. I’m no longer in a hurry to get married.”

Benedict, 37, likes women who have a good sense of humor.

“A woman who knows that she doesn’t have to get all decked out to look good is sexy,” he said.

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Tom Hiddleston, Martin Freeman, James McAvoy, Judi Dench - The Olivier awards 2014 red carpet – in pictures, plus winners

THE GUARDIAN
Mark Brown, arts correspondent
The Guardian, Sunday 13 April 2014

Host Stephen Mangan and Louise Delamere on the red carpet. Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images

The winners

Best actor Rory Kinnear for Othello at the National theatre, Olivier

Best actress Lesley Manville for Ghosts at the Almeida theatre & Trafalgar studios

Best actor in a supporting role Jack Lowden for Ghosts at the Almeida theatre & Trafalgar studios

Best actress in a supporting role Sharon D Clarke for The Amen Corner at the National theatre, Olivier

American Airlines best new play Chimerica at the Almeida theatre & Harold Pinter theatre

Best new comedy Jeeves & Wooster In Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York's theatre

Best director Lyndsey Turner for Chimerica at the Almeida theatre & Harold Pinter theatre

Best actor in a musical Gavin Creel for The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales theatre

Best actress in a musical Zrinka Cvitešić for Once at the Phoenix theatre

Best performance in a supporting role in a musical Stephen Ashfield for The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales theatre

Mastercard best new musical The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales theatre

Best revival Ghosts at the Almeida theatre & Trafalgar studios

Best musical revival Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter theatre

Best theatre choreographer Casey Nicholaw for The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales theatre

Best entertainment and family The Wind In The Willows at the Duchess theatre

Autograph sound award for outstanding achievement in music Once – Martin Lowe for composition & arrangements, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová for music and lyrics

White Light award for best lighting design Tim Lutkin & Finn Ross for Chimerica at the Almeida theatre & Harold Pinter theatre Paul Pyant and Jon Driscoll for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Best sound design Carolyn Downing for Chimerica at the Almeida theatre & Harold Pinter theatre Gareth Owen for Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter theatre

Best costume design Mark Thompson for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Xl video award for best set design Es Devlin for Chimerica at the Almeida theatre & Harold Pinter theatre

Outstanding achievement in an affiliate theatre Handbagged at the Tricycle theatre

Best new dance production Eastman – Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Sadler's Wells for Puz/zle at Sadler's Wells

Outstanding achievement in dance Michael Hulls for his body of lighting work including Ballet Boyz – The Talent at Sadler's Wells

Best new opera production Les Vêpres Siciliennes at the Royal Opera House

Outstanding achievement in opera English Touring Opera for its brave and challenging touring productions at the Linbury studio theatre, Royal Opera House

BBC Radio 2 audience award Les Misérables at the Queen's theatre

READ MORE HERE; http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/apr/13/almeida-theatre-wins-olivia-awards-chimerica-west-end

Colin Firth on stardom: 'You're a bit part in a farce'

Donna Freydkin,
USA TODAY
10:07 p.m. EDT April 13, 2014


(Photo: Stan Godlewski for USA TODAY)

"You're a bit part in a farce. You're not the star of some big tragedy. If you lose your sense of the absurd, you're likely to become miserable. Don't take this lofty position that the fruit baskets and first-class travel are vulgar. Laugh it off. You're not winning a Nobel Prize for science. We're not that important. Treat it as a rather enjoyable farce," says Firth. "All we do is what we like. We put on costumes and pretend, which is very similar to what I was doing when I was 5."

And yet, says Firth, treat your work, and those who do it with you, with respect. "Every so often, you get brought up short that you had a brush with something important. This story is important and you're entrusted with that," he says of his and Irvine's film, about a tortured World War II prisoner who forgives his tormentors.

Firth and Irvine have a pretty solid connection.

"If I have half the career Colin has had and could be half as decent…" muses Irvine.

Firth still makes ladies swoon for his portrayal of dreamy Mr. Darcy in the 1995 British TV adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and won a best-actor Oscar for playing a stuttering monarch in 2010's The King's Speech. And Irvine carried Steven Spielberg's 2011 epic War Horse before being hand-picked by Firth to play the youthful version of train engineer turned POW Eric Lomax in The Railway Man.

Seeing someone so chiseled and fresh-faced playing him is, admits Firth, "a little humbling, I'm afraid. Particularly as I'm being told that he does a better Colin Firth than I do. I think it might be time to retire."

But not before he and Irvine discuss and dissect all the perks and perils of their chosen careers.

On choosing their roles wisely: For Firth, who has starred in musicals (Mamma Mia!), romantic romps (Bridget Jones's Diary) and shadowy capers (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), it comes down to what feels right in the moment. Sometimes, he's up for a lark. Other times, he craves something more serious. "I find the criteria change every time. This one, heavily weighing in the scales was the importance of the story and why the hell wasn't it told," says Firth. And for Irvine, a World War II buff, it came down to the importance of telling this particular story. "It's also a movie about the very best in people. I can't relate to what Eric went through but I can't imagine forgiving someone. That's one of the most extraordinary things," says Irvine, who vacillates between big studio films and smaller fare like Railway Man.

On being a public figure: Firth, dapper and debonair as he is, is someone who lives his life behind closed doors, by choice. He's married to Italian environmental activist Livia Giuggioli, and has two sons with her, Luca, 13 and Matteo, 10 (and an older son from a relationship with actress Meg Tilly). "It's not my life plan to be private but I've never intended otherwise. I've never had an instinct to do it any other way. When I was Jeremy's age, I never imagined my work would put me in front of a camera. I liked doing plays. I didn't bargain for any level of recognition, really," says Firth. "My instinct to retreat when I'm not on is a driving force. I wear the same things most of the time when I show up now. It's a single body armor for that duty. And the rest is simply nobody's business." For Irvine, it's still a learning process when he's recognized. "When someone catches you off-guard, when you're out shopping, I often think I'm more nervous than them," he says.

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Benedict Cumberbatch: BBC Sherlock Season 4 & 5 Update-Moffat And Gatiss Say Quality Won't Be Sacrificed; No Movie In The Works?

LATIN POST
By Kevin Li (staff@latinpost.com)
First Posted: Apr 13, 2014 01:03 PM EDT

Since the start of Sherlock Season 3, rumors have been circulating about the plot of the show's fourth season. Steven Moffat, the show's executive producer, told The Guardian that the idea for the next season just popped into his head while they were sitting on top of the show's production bus. He unfortunately added that there are no plans of making a Sherlock movie.

Actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman have expressed their interest in continuing to do the series as well. The plot for Seasons 4 and 5 has already been laid out according to Moffat and they have no intention of casting famous personalities but rather to put in more thrilling scenes and angles.

Moffat declared that he does not know when Season 4 will be released. He said that Sue is working on the schedules while Capaldi has just started "Doctor Who." Sherlock fans may have to wait two years for Season 4 but Moffat assured them that quality will not be sacrificed.

If we will look at the current schedule of Freeman and Cumberbatch, it indeed looks like we will have to wait for 2016 for Sherlock Season 4. The last episode indicating that Moriarty was still alive made fans to want more of Sherlock. Moriarty was seen on the screen asking "Did you miss me?" in the last minutes of the final episode.

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Gods of Egypt star Gerard Butler is hitting Sydney social scene hard

NEWS.COM.AU
APRIL 12, 2014
AMY HARRIS

Gerard Butler enjoyed himself at the Ellery show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia. Picture: Getty Images Source: Getty Images

HE’S Sydney’s latest adopted son and Scottish movie hunk Gerard Butler is not wasting time making friends with the harbour city’s female population.

Taking advantage of his time in Australia as he ­prepares to shoot the $150 million epic Gods of Egypt, Butler has thrown himself into the city’s ­social scene, getting familiar with several women on various occasions — even leaving a party in Bondi last week with two girls in tow.

Gerard Butler earnestly discusses the fashion at the Ellery show. Picture: Getty Images Source: Getty Images

Kicking on from the Kym Ellery show at fashion week on Monday night, Butler and a small entourage made their way to a party at Da Orazio Pizza and Porchetta for sock label Scarce.

With models including Bambi Northwood-Blyth and Cheyenne Tozzi looking on, Butler hit the dancefloor and it was then that a handful of women caught his eye.

Gerard Butler does his best at the opening of Casablanca Bar, Double Bay. Source: News Corp Australia


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