Showing posts with label Rupert Penry-Jones. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Philip Glenister and Rupert Penry-Jones compete for detective drama
THE TELEGRAPH
By Tim Walker7:30AM BST 17 Apr 2014
Rupert Penry-Jones and Philip Glenister searched for treasure together in Sky One’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Now, the pair are fighting over it as the battle for the starring role in the television adaptation of Paul Mendelson’s new crime thriller The First Rule of Survival gets serious.
“Philip is in deep negotiations through a production company to do it,” Mendelson tells Mandrake at the launch of the novel at Daunt Books in Marylebone. “There is another actor called Rupert Penry-Jones. He is in deep negotiation, too, through another production company that wants to do it.”
Set in Cape Town, the book follows Colonel Vaughn de Vries as he revisits a case involving the abduction of three white schoolboys. As for who will win the role, I hear that Glenister, who, incidentally, attended the launch, is the frontrunner. “Ultimately, I guess the publisher decides and I guess I’m part of that decision,” says Mendelson. “Phil is one of my oldest friends. I’ve known him for 30 years and he was in the back of my mind when I wrote it.”
READ MORE HERE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10770877/Philip-Glenister-and-Rupert-Penry-Jones-compete-for-detective-drama.html
By Tim Walker7:30AM BST 17 Apr 2014
Rupert Penry-Jones and Philip Glenister searched for treasure together in Sky One’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Now, the pair are fighting over it as the battle for the starring role in the television adaptation of Paul Mendelson’s new crime thriller The First Rule of Survival gets serious.
“Philip is in deep negotiations through a production company to do it,” Mendelson tells Mandrake at the launch of the novel at Daunt Books in Marylebone. “There is another actor called Rupert Penry-Jones. He is in deep negotiation, too, through another production company that wants to do it.”
Set in Cape Town, the book follows Colonel Vaughn de Vries as he revisits a case involving the abduction of three white schoolboys. As for who will win the role, I hear that Glenister, who, incidentally, attended the launch, is the frontrunner. “Ultimately, I guess the publisher decides and I guess I’m part of that decision,” says Mendelson. “Phil is one of my oldest friends. I’ve known him for 30 years and he was in the back of my mind when I wrote it.”
READ MORE HERE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10770877/Philip-Glenister-and-Rupert-Penry-Jones-compete-for-detective-drama.html
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Rupert Penry-Jones on life in America: 'I want to make it in Hollywood, but I WON'T BEG'
MAIL ON LINE
By NICOLE LAMPERT
PUBLISHED: 17:30 EST, 7 March 2014 | UPDATED: 17:30 EST, 7 March 2014
Rupert Penry-Jones has just come back from Hollywood.
Brits are having a bit of a moment over there on critically acclaimed shows like The Americans, Suits and Masters Of Sex, and Rupert has the sort of leading man good looks and posh accent that should have them rolling out the red carpet for him.
The only problem is, well... it didn't go brilliantly.
'I went to meet up with a few people but it's put me off for another few years,' says Rupert.
'I don't like the way that place makes me feel. When you go out to California, unless you're a movie star, you feel like a failure and I don't want to feel like a failure. If they call me, of course I'd do it, but I'm not going to go banging on doors. It's too demeaning and humiliating. I do want to work on an American show; the best of their TV is the best in the world at the moment. But I'm not going to beg.'
He didn't come away from LA completely empty-handed - he won a small part in the second series of a pirate drama called Black Sails - but he seems a little underwhelmed by it.
'I like to go into a series from the beginning and this is the second series,' he shrugs. 'I don't know what's going to happen to my character but it was fun to film; I got to spend a few weeks in Cape Town with my friend Toby Stephens, who's also in it.'
Normally at this time of year Rupert, 43, whose mother is To The Manor Born's Angela Thorne and whose father Peter Penry-Jones was an actor too, would be filming Whitechapel; but that was axed by ITV at the end of last year. He admits he's still surprised and a little bit angry that the channel didn't let the gory detective drama have a fifth and final series.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2575671/I-want-make-Hollywood-I-WONT-BEG-Rupert-Penry-Jones-life-America.html
By NICOLE LAMPERT
PUBLISHED: 17:30 EST, 7 March 2014 | UPDATED: 17:30 EST, 7 March 2014
Rupert Penry-Jones has just come back from Hollywood.
Brits are having a bit of a moment over there on critically acclaimed shows like The Americans, Suits and Masters Of Sex, and Rupert has the sort of leading man good looks and posh accent that should have them rolling out the red carpet for him.
The only problem is, well... it didn't go brilliantly.
'I went to meet up with a few people but it's put me off for another few years,' says Rupert.
'I don't like the way that place makes me feel. When you go out to California, unless you're a movie star, you feel like a failure and I don't want to feel like a failure. If they call me, of course I'd do it, but I'm not going to go banging on doors. It's too demeaning and humiliating. I do want to work on an American show; the best of their TV is the best in the world at the moment. But I'm not going to beg.'
He didn't come away from LA completely empty-handed - he won a small part in the second series of a pirate drama called Black Sails - but he seems a little underwhelmed by it.
'I like to go into a series from the beginning and this is the second series,' he shrugs. 'I don't know what's going to happen to my character but it was fun to film; I got to spend a few weeks in Cape Town with my friend Toby Stephens, who's also in it.'
Normally at this time of year Rupert, 43, whose mother is To The Manor Born's Angela Thorne and whose father Peter Penry-Jones was an actor too, would be filming Whitechapel; but that was axed by ITV at the end of last year. He admits he's still surprised and a little bit angry that the channel didn't let the gory detective drama have a fifth and final series.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2575671/I-want-make-Hollywood-I-WONT-BEG-Rupert-Penry-Jones-life-America.html
Friday, February 7, 2014
Rupert Penry-Jones on Silk series 3: It feels like a grenade has been thrown in (SPOILERS)
RADIO TIMES
Emma Daly
5:10 PM, 07 February 2014
Spoilers follow
With illness, divided Chambers and complicated romance at the heart of the new series of Silk, there’s plenty to be getting on with away from the action of the court.
But while star Rupert Penry-Jones says the very nature of a courtroom drama means “it could go on and on” (all sorts of cases can be brought to court, after all) the cast aren’t sure what’s next after series three.
“If feels like everyone gets blasted in different directions at the end of the series,” Penry-Jones tells RadioTimes.com. “We all sort of end up going off in different ways and no one knows where the other person is, literally. So it kind of feels like maybe [writer Peter Moffat] has thrown a grenade in and blown the whole show up.
“You never know what to expect with [Moffat]. He’s kind of written himself into a place, I don’t know what he’s going to do next. We as a cast aren’t sure whether its been written in a way that this is it or whether it’s got more,” Penry-Jones adds.
The actor, who plays barrister Clive Reader, says it’s very much up to how people “react to the show”.
If given the chance to stick with Silk, Penry-Jones says he’s not making decisions until “there’s a decision to be made”.
“It depends on what Peter says he’s going to do with the next series, if there is another series. I stayed in Spooks for four years, and that was a long time.”
But for now there’s enough going on in Silk. Clive’s “not trying to shag everything that moves” and, now a QC, has “got a lot more confidence”.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-02-07/rupert-penry-jones-on-silk-series-3-it-feels-like-a-grenade-has-been-thrown-in
Emma Daly
5:10 PM, 07 February 2014
Spoilers follow
With illness, divided Chambers and complicated romance at the heart of the new series of Silk, there’s plenty to be getting on with away from the action of the court.
But while star Rupert Penry-Jones says the very nature of a courtroom drama means “it could go on and on” (all sorts of cases can be brought to court, after all) the cast aren’t sure what’s next after series three.
“If feels like everyone gets blasted in different directions at the end of the series,” Penry-Jones tells RadioTimes.com. “We all sort of end up going off in different ways and no one knows where the other person is, literally. So it kind of feels like maybe [writer Peter Moffat] has thrown a grenade in and blown the whole show up.
“You never know what to expect with [Moffat]. He’s kind of written himself into a place, I don’t know what he’s going to do next. We as a cast aren’t sure whether its been written in a way that this is it or whether it’s got more,” Penry-Jones adds.
The actor, who plays barrister Clive Reader, says it’s very much up to how people “react to the show”.
If given the chance to stick with Silk, Penry-Jones says he’s not making decisions until “there’s a decision to be made”.
“It depends on what Peter says he’s going to do with the next series, if there is another series. I stayed in Spooks for four years, and that was a long time.”
But for now there’s enough going on in Silk. Clive’s “not trying to shag everything that moves” and, now a QC, has “got a lot more confidence”.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-02-07/rupert-penry-jones-on-silk-series-3-it-feels-like-a-grenade-has-been-thrown-in
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Gothic crime drama Whitechapel is shelved by ITV
Rupert Penry-Jones' other screen credits include BBC dramas Silk and Spooks
BBC NEWS
19 November 2013 Last updated at 13:06
ITV gothic crime drama Whitechapel has been axed after four series, the cast and crew have confirmed.
Its star, Rupert Penry-Jones, broke the news via Twitter, saying that "ITV don't want any more Whitechapel".
The decision to end the show is part of ITV's efforts to "continue to refresh the channel's drama portfolio", it said in a statement.
The show chronicled a police unit investigating brutal murders in east London.
Penry-Jones, who starred alongside Steve Pemberton and Phil Davis, said in his Twitter message: "Sorry to be the bearer of bad news everyone, but ITV don't want any more Whitechapel. That's all folks."
Series director Jon East also shared the news of the programme's demise via Twitter, saying: "We went out on a bang! Shame nevertheless. It was a great roll, a terrific cast and crew firing on all cylinders. So, onwards!"
"Whitechapel has been a successful drama commission since first broadcasting in 2009. The commissioning team continue to refresh the channel's drama portfolio, hence the decision not to commission beyond the fourth series," ITV said.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25000090
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones: Blood, sweat and fears
THE AGE
Guy Davis
October , 2013
It begs the question: is Whitechapel actually a nice place to live? Does anyone even really want to go there?
“It is nice, actually,” Whitechapel star Rupert Penry-Jones chuckled.
“It’s become a very trendy part of London. It wasn’t always but now it’s where the young, cool people tend to go. I love it there – it’s got real atmosphere.”
Well, if the fourth season of Whitechapel is any indication, the area not only attracts the young and the cool but the crazy and the bloodthirsty.
The six episodes making up the season are split into three two-episode investigations undertaken by Penry-Jones’ DI Joseph Chandler, Phil Davis’ DS Ray Miles and their team, including unofficial consultant Edward Buchan (Steve Pemberton), a true-crime enthusiast.
And the cases they’re trying to crack? A witch hunt where the victims are crushed under boulders and burned alive at the stake, for one.
Then there’s mysterious deaths in the sewers that may be the result of feral pigs.
“And there’s one where someone is skinning people,” Penry-Jones said dryly. “This is possibly the most grisly season yet.”
But the actor, whose other notable small-screen roles include Spooks and Silk, rather likes it that way.
“To be honest, the scarier and more gruesome the better, as far I am concerned,” he said.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-guide/blood-sweat-and-fears-20131006-2v1wc.html#ixzz2hEn157qG
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Whitechapel star Rupert Penry Jones talks crime drama return in series four
THIS MORNING
October 1, 2013
It was meant to be a one-off crime drama, but Whitechapel captured the audiences’ attention so brilliantly the show is back with its fourth series.
Returning in his role as Detective Inspector Joseph Chandler is Rupert Penry Jones, who today joined This Morning to talk about the runaway success of the thrilling series, and what twists and turns viewers can expect from the latest outing.
“When it started it was not meant to be a series, just a one-off standalone three-part drama," Rupert explained.
“They called it Whitechapel, which made it very difficult to make it into a serial killer show with serial killings happening in Whitechapel every week.
“But they’ve come up with a great idea this year, there’s something else going on, a sort of supernatural vibe. Is it the devil, what’s happening? There’s someone whispering in people’s ears. They’ve opened the world up now and they can have as many serial killings as they like.”
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones: Whitechapel: Chandler, Miles and Buchan are back as yet another murder is committed on the streets of Whitechapel (SPOILERS)
YAHOO
By Daniel Wood | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Mon, Sep 9, 2013 22:50 BS
Whitechapel is back for its fourth season, and the first episode does not disappoint in the slightest. We immediately get acquainted to the three main characters, DI Joe Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones) and DS Ray Miles (Phil Davis) as they attend Edward Buchan's (Steve Pemberton) book signing, three leads have excellent chemistry together and waste no time re-establishing themselves.
Straight away we get the trademark eeriness and underlying horror that Whitechapel has been excellent at delivering so far and you can't help but feel a sense of dread and unease right from the start of the episode. The frequent flips between the book signing scenes and the first murder of the new series really helped to amp up the horror element by juxtaposing a seemingly innocuous book signing with the wince-inducing scenes of poor Alexander Zukanov (David Grant) getting crushed to death.
Whitechapel is a show that is never for the faint of heart, as it really does pull no punches, evidenced by director Jon East's almost cruel refusal to cut away just before the sickening moments happen. The caving in of Zukanov's chest was an incredibly affecting moment, as were several other moments throughout the episode, such as Dorothy Cade breaking the neck of a pigeon, and her eventual demise. This stalwart 'testing' of the audiences gag reflex and refusal to make things easy for them is a credit to the show.
Following Zukanov's murder the team finds itself embroiled in a storyline that mixes the occult with international espionage in a mash-up that provides many thrilling, and also completely disconcerting moments. You really get the sense that although quietly mocking its conceit, when Buchan mentioned Whitechapel as containing a 'Gate of Hell' that they really want you to consider this a possibility.
Match this with the fact that a creepy old lady in the book signing is called Louise Iver (Lucifer) uttering prophetic sentences about the main characters secrets and the apparent rogue agent Crispin Wingfield hinting that there was a force that was responsible for all of the previous Whitechapel cases. As a result we get the real sense that this is more than a crime procedural drama and that the show is maybe heading in a direction that sees the supernatural actually behind the real life crimes. Not sure what my thoughts are on that yet.
READ MORE HERE: http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/whitechapel-chandler-miles-buchan-back-yet-another-murder-215000817.html
Friday, August 30, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones on what it's like being the most handsome toff on TV - and his wife makes of it all
I quite like making women go weak at the knees
By NICOLE LAMPERT
PUBLISHED: 16:32 EST, 30 August 2013 | UPDATED: 16:32 EST, 30 August 2013
The chiselled features of Rupert Penry-Jones don’t just turn heads, they set hearts a-flutter and reduce hitherto dynamic, accomplished women to simpering schoolgirls.
The towering star of Whitechapel and Silk is lusted after by everyone from the woman next door to the highest paid female TV presenter in the country.
According to Maxine Peake, his co-star in legal drama Silk, she can slip into the public gallery at the Old Bailey to research her role unrecognised, but when Rupert once accompanied her, 'Women were cooing and going all gooey over him.'
And who can forget that embarrassing interview last year on This Morning, when Holly Willoughby, who’s interviewed Hollywood stars, prime ministers and Olympic heroes, stammered, giggled and blushed before finally burying her face in a cushion to mask her discomfort?
No, there’s no denying Rupert’s a heart-throb. As his actress wife and former M&S voiceover doyenne Dervla Kirwan might have purred, 'Not just any heart-throb, but Britain’s heart-throb.'
Because, while most of his other pretty boy contemporaries have moved to Hollywood, the most handsome home-grown talent on British TV is thankfully still here, gracing our screens for up to six months of the year.
We meet on the appropriately creepy set of the fourth series of his horror detective show Whitechapel.
The disused Hornsey Town Hall in north London is a former Art Deco masterpiece now full of mysterious dark corridors, strange noises and rumours of ghosts. Rupert, 42, has been doing 12-hour shifts all week, but he strides into the room with a big smile.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2405760/I-quite-like-making-women-weak-knees-Rupert-Penry-Jones-like-handsome-toff-TV--wife-makes-all.html#ixzz2dVl4bXQl
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Saturday, August 24, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones: ‘Silk’ Has American Debut on ‘Masterpiece Mystery!’
NEW YORK TIMES
By MIKE HALE
Published: August 23, 2013
Stories by lawyers about lawyers are often guilty of grandstanding for the jury (that’s us), and early in the first episode of “Silk” the barrister heroine is told, apropos of not much: “Fifteen years you’ve been doing this and you still believe, don’t you? Innocent until proven guilty.” Just in case we missed the point, it’s repeated by her a few minutes later: “Innocent until proven guilty. Four words to live by.”
It’s a little disturbing to think that this is such a novel concept in the British legal system, but we’ll have to take the word of Peter Moffat, the show’s writer and a former barrister who created two previous legal dramas for British television. “Silk,” which is about to start its third season on BBC, makes its American premiere as part of PBS’s “Masterpiece Mystery!” on Sunday night.
It’s set among the lawyers in a London chambers, and one hurdle for American viewers will be the unfamiliarity of terms like chambers as well as the roles of barristers, solicitors, clerks, pupils and crown prosecutors.
Silk
On PBS stations on Sunday nights at 9 (check local listings).
Produced by the BBC and Masterpiece. Written by Peter Moffat; directed by Michael Offer; Cameron Roach, producer; Hilary Salmon, executive producer for the BBC; Rebecca Eaton, executive producer for Masterpiece.
WITH: Maxine Peake (Martha Costello), Rupert Penry-Jones (Clive), Tom Hughes (Nick), Natalie Dormer (Niamh) and Neil Stuke (Billy).
READ MORE HERE: http://tv.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/arts/television/silk-has-american-debut-on-masterpiece-mystery.html?_r=0
By MIKE HALE
Published: August 23, 2013
Stories by lawyers about lawyers are often guilty of grandstanding for the jury (that’s us), and early in the first episode of “Silk” the barrister heroine is told, apropos of not much: “Fifteen years you’ve been doing this and you still believe, don’t you? Innocent until proven guilty.” Just in case we missed the point, it’s repeated by her a few minutes later: “Innocent until proven guilty. Four words to live by.”
It’s a little disturbing to think that this is such a novel concept in the British legal system, but we’ll have to take the word of Peter Moffat, the show’s writer and a former barrister who created two previous legal dramas for British television. “Silk,” which is about to start its third season on BBC, makes its American premiere as part of PBS’s “Masterpiece Mystery!” on Sunday night.
It’s set among the lawyers in a London chambers, and one hurdle for American viewers will be the unfamiliarity of terms like chambers as well as the roles of barristers, solicitors, clerks, pupils and crown prosecutors.
Silk
On PBS stations on Sunday nights at 9 (check local listings).
Produced by the BBC and Masterpiece. Written by Peter Moffat; directed by Michael Offer; Cameron Roach, producer; Hilary Salmon, executive producer for the BBC; Rebecca Eaton, executive producer for Masterpiece.
WITH: Maxine Peake (Martha Costello), Rupert Penry-Jones (Clive), Tom Hughes (Nick), Natalie Dormer (Niamh) and Neil Stuke (Billy).
READ MORE HERE: http://tv.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/arts/television/silk-has-american-debut-on-masterpiece-mystery.html?_r=0
Friday, August 23, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones: Silk premiere's Sunday on Masterpiece (video)
MASTERPIECE
Sunday, August 25, 2013 at 9:00 pm on PBS
Barrister Martha Costello (Maxine Peake) is under pressure to win cases as she aspires to rise to the rank of Queen's Counsel, also known as "taking Silk." But Clive (Rupert Penry-Jones) is opposing counsel in a major case, and a formidable rival. See the premiere of Silk, Sunday, August 25, 2013, 9pm ET, on MASTERPIECE Mystery! [120 minutes; online video viewable in the U.S. only]
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones: 'Whitechapel' returns for series four: First look trailer
DIGITAL SPY
Published Wednesday, Aug 14 2013, 10:05am EDT | By Alex Fletcher
Whitechapel returns soon for its fourth series on ITV and the first trailer for the latest episodes has been unveiled today (August 14).
Watch the Whitechapel series four trailer below:
Read more: http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/news/a506703/whitechapel-returns-for-series-four-first-look-trailer.html#ixzz2by6PZRO7
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Published Wednesday, Aug 14 2013, 10:05am EDT | By Alex Fletcher
Whitechapel returns soon for its fourth series on ITV and the first trailer for the latest episodes has been unveiled today (August 14).
Watch the Whitechapel series four trailer below:
Read more: http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/news/a506703/whitechapel-returns-for-series-four-first-look-trailer.html#ixzz2by6PZRO7
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Saturday, July 13, 2013
Monday, July 8, 2013
RUPERT PENRY-JONES: SPOTTED IN THE TEMPLE: THE FILMING OF SILK SERIES 3 — AND RUPERT PENRY-JONES ISN’T HAPPY By Alex Aldridge (LEGAL CHEEK)
The good news for actor Rupert Penry-Jones, who plays barrister Clive Reader in hit BBC drama Silk, is that his character has finally been made a QC — as you can see below. The bad news is that he was forced to miss yesterday's historic Wimbledon final for the filming of the third series...
Can't believe I had two tickets for the final today and couldn't go cos I am filming silk. I hope everyone appreciates my sacrifice
Monday, July 1, 2013
Regarding Rupert Penry-Jones...At Wimbledon - Photo credit: Guardian and Getty
Rupert Penry-Jones and Jack Davenport - second row, center
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones: BBC show Silk shot in Hatfield ‘court’
By Emma Hardwick, Reporter
Saturday, June 22, 2013
3:00 PM
A MOCK courtroom in Hatfield became the set for a BBC drama this week.
Silk, which highlights the problems modern barristers face, was being filmed at the University of Hertfordshire on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Stars Maxine Peake, who was previously in Dinnerladies and Shameless, and Rupert Penry-Jones, from Spooks, were on set shooting scenes.
Filming took place at the entrance of the Law Court Building, at the de Havilland Campus, in Mosquito Way, and in their Crown Court Room.
The scenes will make up part of one episode of the third series.
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