Ciarán Hinds Is Perfect For Game of Thrones, Kit Harington Says Friday, October 12th, 2012 at 1:45pm by Terri Schwartz Television (SPINOFF ON LINE)

The most exciting casting development in Season 3 of HBO’s Game of Thrones is the addition of Ciarán Hinds as Mance Rayder. As the King Beyond The Wall, Mance will come face to face with Kit Harington’s Jon Snow as the man of the Night’s Watch infiltrates the Wildling camp.

Spinoff Online caught up with Harington at New York Comic Con while he was promoting Silent Hill: Revelation 3D and asked him about working with Hinds, known for his roles in Road to Perdition, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and HBO’s Rome.

“Ciarán Hinds is one of the most lovely men you will ever meet, and also one of the most fantastically fantastic actors,” Harington said. “I’m so privileged with the people I’ve worked with, the other older actors I’ve worked with, and he’s now another addition to that list that I can say I’ve worked with. It was fantastic.”

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Above Suspicion: Ciarán Hinds interview (The Telegraph)

Ciarán Hinds tells Jasper Rees about playing Linda La Plante’s hard-boiled, flawed cop in ITV1's Above Suspicion: Silent Scream.

Ciarán Hinds as DCS Langton and Kelly Reilly as DI Travis in Above Suspicion Photo: ITV

By Jasper Rees

7:00AM GMT 10 Jan 2012

In her 20 years writing for television, Lynda La Plante has asked viewers to stomach some fairly assertive female protagonists – think Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect, Amanda Burton in The Commander or Janet McTeer in The Governor. And though the most recent, Above Suspicion’s fiery DI Anna Travis (played by Kelly Reilly) can stomp and snarl with the best of them, its latest series sees the trousers returned to their traditional (if not rightful) male owners in the form of Ciarán Hinds’s DCS James Langton, a detective whose personality has dents in all the wrong places.

Above Suspicion: Silent Scream, the fourth of La Plante’s bestselling novels featuring detectives Travis and Langton to be adapted for television, sees the pair investigating the brutal murder of a promiscuous film star, while as usual attempting to deal with their own fraught, sexually-charged relationship.

Meanwhile since 2011’s third series, Deadly Intent, Langton has been passed over for promotion, and must answer to a younger former underling. “Langton is coming to the end of his life,” explains Hinds. “He’s tired and he wants the last secure job as commander. And he feels cheated. He is a man with chips on his shoulder and flawed.”

But by the end of part one, his new boss can make no headway with the murder on a film set of a stroppy actress, so Langton is invited back to centre stage, bashing heads together more or less literally to solve the case.

What does Hinds see in Langton when a new script plops on the mat? “I see somebody I wouldn’t like to have a drink with,” he says. “He is sort of unbending. He is very set in his ways, unreconstructed. But down in there is some little bit of soul.”

Hinds looks the part: breeze-block cheekbones, an air of heft, eyes which can turn reptilian. You know why he once needed only a week to take over as Richard III when Simon Russell Beale did his back in. You could believe him when his Julius Caesar declared himself emperor in Rome. And yet the soft centre is rather nearer the surface. “You have a certain look – [mine is] a grumpy old bollix. I’m not really, but I have the body of a bruiser.” And once more he finds himself using that thuggish aura to powerful effect.

It’s all a very long way from The Mahabharata, the epic theatre production by Peter Brook on which Hinds met his partner Hélène Patarot and which has made a Parisian of him since 1987. “It sure as hell is. I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.”

To that end he is currently giving a towering performance as Sean O’Casey’s rambunctious sot opposite Sinead Cusack in Juno and the Paycock at the National Theatre. “It’s a thorny old role,” says Hinds.

So established and revered is the Irish play that, according to Hinds, one wag warned Cusack, “The thing about opening nights of Juno and the Paycock is that half the audience will have been in it at some stage and the other half will have believed they wrote it.”

The evidence has faded in his accent, but Hinds himself comes from Belfast, and goes back twice a year to see his mother, “still dancing with us at 91”. How Irish did he feel as a young man? “My feet always danced to Irish traditional music but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.”

He has since passed himself off as a native in many a citadel of Englishness. Among other brooding literary heroes – Michael Henchard in The Mayor of Casterbridge, Rochester in Jane Eyre - he played the diffidently romantic Captain Wentworth in Roger Michell’s television version of Persuasion (1995), probably the finest Austen adaptation of the past 20 years. Most recently he played one of the inner circle of MI6 spooks in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, who convene in a sort of orange eggbox to play out a series of thrillingly tense scenes.

“I had an idea that it was going to be very special. They said, ‘Gary Oldman’s going to do it. And Tomas Alfredson is going to direct it.’ All right, you’re more than three quarters of the way there. It truly felt like a collaboration. You knew everybody was committed and enjoyed sitting around a room with each other.”

If Above Suspicion’s latest murder victim – the young film star – is anything to go by, actors are not always such harmonious company. Has Hinds ever worked with somone so frightful? “Just once. Quite a while ago … This actress was very good, very young, but totally demanding. It was all about ‘me, me, me’. When you find somebody who doesn’t give and take, you go, ‘Remind me never to work with you again.’”

Hinds prefers the unimpressed attitude of an armourer who once came up to him on the set of one of his sword-and-sandal epics. “He said, ‘Do you know what we call you guys? Talking props.’ That made me laugh so much. Bring on the talking props. That’s what we are. There’s a bit more to it. But sometimes not that much more.”

- Above Suspicion: Silent Scream is on ITV1 on Mondays at 9.00pm

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Ciaran Hinds Says Ghost Rider Different To Previous Work (Female First)

 

09 January 2012

Ciaran Hinds has revealed that Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is a type of movie that he never thought he would be a part of.

The actor takes on the role of the Devil in the second movie in the Ghost Rider franchise.

Nicolas Cage is back as Johnny Blaze while Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor are at the helm.
And Hinds admits that it was a type of movie that he was no use to working on.

Speaking to Digital Spy the actor said: "It's a genre I don't know. That was something I didn't think I would ever be involved in.

"I do Shakespeare! I wear breeches and do Jane Austen! And then this is just mad, so different.

"I don't know how it'll turn out - probably just this mad kind of film that certain people of a certain age will get into."

And we are going to be seeing plenty of Hinds on the big screen in the early part of 2012 as he is set to star in John Carter and The Woman In Black.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is released 17th February.

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'John Carter' will be difficult to pull off, says Ciaran Hinds (Digital Spy)

Published Friday, Jan 6 2012, 9:34am EST | By Simon Reynolds and Morgan Jeffery |

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John Carter star Ciaran Hinds has said that the forthcoming Disney blockbuster will be a difficult movie for director Andrew Stanton to "pull off".

The Northern Irish actor appears as Tardos Mors in the science fiction epic alongside Rome co-stars Polly Walker and James Purefoy.

Hinds told Digital Spy that Stanton first approached him to star in the movie after seeing him perform in a stage production of Burnt by the Sun.

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"Andrew Stanton came to see a play I was doing three years ago at the National. God love him, he sat through a big Russian epic," he said.

"I met him afterwards and he'd seen [HBO drama] Rome and he wanted to use some of us, because he wanted these people on Mars - Jeddaks - to be almost Roman."

"I [then] realized that this is the Andrew Stanton who did Finding Nemo and WALL-E. Those were two of the most beautiful films I know - they touch adults and children alike."

Hinds confessed that Stanton has a challenge on his hands juggling the movie's huge visual effects demands.

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"I think John Carter is going to be a difficult thing to pull off, but he's a very brilliant man," he commented.

"It's moving three different things. It's moving animation with computer digitalisation and real live-action. How you do that seamlessly I've no idea, and then how that reads through this big interplanetary story... it remains to be seen."

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Movie Review: 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' keeps its action undercover (Cleveland.com)

Published: Wednesday, January 04, 2012, 12:00 PM

By Clint O'Connor, The Plain DealerThe Plain Dealer
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FOCUS FEATURES George Smiley (Gary Oldman) keeps an eye on potential traitors in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."  

 

Trench-coat trudging, briefcase-carrying Gary Oldman, as John le Carre's Cold War-era British agent George Smiley, looks like he's on his way to the "Death of a Salesman" auditions. But this quiet man is way too crafty and thoughtful to suffer an Americanized meltdown. Smiley effortlessly guards his secrets, never tips his poker face, and has the goods on much of British and Soviet intelligence, circa 1973. He is almost entirely impenetrable.

 

This is very good if you are a professional spy. This is not so hot for your lead character in a thriller.
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" deftly offers a nuanced approach to the world of supersleuths, thanks to director Tomas Alfredson ("Let the Right One In") and screenwriters Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan. It's tough to streamline le Carre's novel into a film. The BBC took several nights to unravel the mysteries, with Alec Guinness as Smiley, in the late '70s. This film version is sly and subtle, but it lacks dramatic punch.

Oldman's performance is superb, by the way, and not easy considering his flashier moments include trying on a new pair of eyeglasses and removing his shoes. I didn't exactly have a stopwatch going, but he doesn't speak for about the first 20 minutes of the film. We see him -- trench coat, briefcase. He just doesn't throw words around loosely.

Smiley's mission is to uncover a mole, some high-level operative inside British intelligence (appropriately dubbed "The Circus"), who has been feeding information to the Soviets. There are plenty of suspects: the unctuous Percy (Toby Jones), the dutiful Roy (Ciaran Hinds), the sniveling Toby (David Dencik) and the charming Bill (Colin Firth). The excellent cast also includes Mark Strong and Tom Hardy as agents dispatched to do more of the dirty work. Note to Firth fans: Yes, this comes on the heels of his wonderful Oscar-winning turn in "The King's Speech," but Bill is a relatively small role.

With an assist from one of the few fellow agents he can trust (Benedict Cumberbatch), Smiley starts to retrace the years of deception in his own agency. Smiley's one Achilles' heel is his estranged wife, Ann. She is mostly referred to only in passing, but the pain of whatever went wrong in that relationship hangs over the film like the steady London mist.

Alfredson and company did not tinker with le Carre's early '70s setting, which adds a certain retro-appeal to the shenanigans. But it's a long, winding and sometimes confusing road to the payoffs in "Tinker Tailor." Good luck figuring this one out.

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REVIEW: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Advance Screening)

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is like a James Bond spy movie without the James or the Bond. It’s a meticulous espionage film depicting the true world of gentlemen in shadows hoarding and sharing information on behalf of their country’s security. It’s a grainy time piece that takes us back to the 70s with the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in London. It’s a torturous puzzle that may put you to sleep if you can’t follow along and requires an intellect to enjoy. It did wonderfully in Britain but I can’t see its success repeating in America. It’s painfully slow and dull at times but oh so rewarding in the end if you can keep up.


The performances are paramount and Gary Oldman shines in a way in which he deserves. There is a masterfully shot monologue of his that may have been the best film making of the year. Joining him is Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ciarán Hinds. The entire film is character driven so their acting had the utmost importance and they all delivered. Since we’re dealing with spies and double agents, their expressions and body language had to tell the story while hiding their true intentions but still give the audience some clues to go off of.

Behind every big decision is a soundproof room full of old spies

The plot of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TTSS) is actually pretty straight forward: find the mole. What ensues, however, is the complete opposite of straight forward. Control (the cheif of Circus – the headquarters of the SIS) and George Smiley are forced to retire after a mishandled operation in Hungary as Control believes there is a mole in their midst. After Control (John Hurt) dies, Smiley (Gary Oldman) is brought out of retirement to investigate allegations by a scalphunter, Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy), which supports Control’s beliefs of a long-time mole in a senior position of SIS. They narrow their suspicions down to a few men: Percy Alleline (Toby Jones) “Tinker”, Bill Haydon (Colin Firth) “Tailor”, Roy Bland (Ciarán Hinds) “Soldier”, and Toby Esterhase (David Dencik) “Poorman.” Through interviews with former employees of the circus and spying on his own, Smiley must figure out who is the double agent.

Who could be the double agent!?

The story travels from London to Budapest and Istanbul with stories of Russia and America. It’s confusing, to say the least, to keep track of people, places and things but as a master spy, this is what must be done. As you slowly start figuring out the jargon of the men in suits, codewords and code names, and understanding their inner workings, you’re pulled into this immense would of paranoia and deal-making that’s so interesting but also so bland at the same time. The extent of most of these men’s actions is sitting in a soundproof room with each other discussing documents. Not much action going on in there. Instead, it’s a mind game that puts you to the test to figure out what’s going on before George Smiley himself.

I'm always fascinated on how they make these esquite period sets

I can’t recommend this movie to the average theatergoer. It’s not a popcorn movie. It’s a deep thinker with beautiful direction and acting. It’s not going to keep you on the edge of your seat but it will make the gears in our head turn faster than any other movie in theaters if you get engaged in the scenarios. There were about 20 walkouts in my screening and a few people snoring so if you’re not up to the task, don’t go. But if you are interested in the underworld and workings of true espionage, this is a delightful film that will leave you in awe at the end. Who is who, what is what, what’s going on!? Even though TTSS isn’t as flashy as other spy films, it’s still really cool… I want a codename now.

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