Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg: Ripper Street Filming

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Matthew Macfadyen: Glad to be back in hat (BELFAST TELEGRAPH)

Matthew Macfadyen has said he could't wait to get back into his bowler hat for the new series of Ripper Street.

Filming has begun on the second series of the BBC One drama, and Matthew is looking forward to being reunited with his distinctive costume.

He said: "It's fantastic to begin shooting in Dublin again for the second series of Ripper Street - and to be reunited with much of the wonderful cast and crew from last year. Also to be reunited with my bowler hat - I'd missed it.

"The show's creator Richard Warlow has given us two wonderful, strange and unsettling opening episodes, teeming with the fierce and fragile life of Victorian Whitechapel."

Matthew will be joined again by co-stars Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg to play the Victorian crime fighting team.

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Matthew Macfadyen: ‘Ripper Street’ Filming Moves to North Great George's Street 23 May 2013 : By Kevin Cronin (IFTN)

Dublin’s North Great George's Street witnessed dramatic scenes of ‘Ripper Street’ season two filming this week, with one character getting thrown from a window and impaled through the leg on a railing.

By contrast, cast and crew members - including stars Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg - were in high spirits, and a crash mat was laid under the scene of the wounded police detective (and uninjured stuntman) left hanging upside down.

Bafta-nominated for Best Drama series earlier this month, ‘Ripper Street’ returned to Clancy Barracks at the end of April for principal photography on its second 8-part series before moving to the Natural History Museum on Merrion Row and other Dublin locations in the weeks since.

The Whitechapel-set crime thriller, set in the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper killings in 1889, will wrap filming in Dublin on 31st August and return to BBC screens in 2014.


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Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn: Photos Ripper Street set - Wednesday 1st May 2013 (CONTACT MUSIC)

Actors seen filming the second season of the hit television drama series 'Ripper Street' - Dublin Ireland - Wednesday 1st May 2013 (14 images)

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MATTHEW MACFADYEN, JEROME FLYNN, ADAM ROTHENBERG: 'Ripper Street' Filming Moves to Natural History Museum, Dublin (IFTN)

Filming on Season 2 of ‘Ripper Street’ has moved to the Natural History Museum on Merrion Street - affectionately known as the ‘Dead Zoo’ for its taxidermied animals - as production continues on the Whitechapel set series.

Whether detectives Reid and Drake can solve the mystery of the missing rhino heads and horns, which were moved for safekeeping to the museum archive in Swords before being stolen, remains to be seen.

'Ripper Street’ is nominated for the top award of Best Drama Series in this year’s BAFTA TV awards, which are set to take place on 12th May.

Clancy Barracks again doubles for police headquarters in London as the primary shooting location for the second season of the BAFTA-nominated BBC series, which will wrap shooting in Dublin on 31st August.


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HIT television drama 'Ripper Street' is set to return to film series two in Dublin on April 29 for four months in the Irish capital. (INDEPENDENT)

Laura Butler – 01 March 2013

An industry source told the Irish Independent that the cast and crew of the BBC production will once again shoot the entire series in Dublin and are scheduled to continue filming at Clancy Barracks until August 31.

"The whole team really enjoyed filming in Ireland last year and it worked out very well for the production," the source said.

The first instalment saw Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg play policemen and a doctor living in Whitechapel in 1880s London, in the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders.

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James Mason: The audacious Odd Man Out turns Britain’s biggest star into furniture in his own film BY MIKE D'ANGELO (AV CLUB)

In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key movie scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean.

Imagine that you’re at the multiplex to see your favorite actor’s latest star vehicle. Doesn’t really matter who it is, but for the purposes of this exercise, let’s stipulate that it’s somebody very famous, a take-charge personality. Liam Neeson would be perfect, but it could be Matt Damon, Denzel Washington, Daniel Day-Lewis, whoever. Anyway, he’s playing the leader of a gang or a criminal organization of some kind, and early scenes show him planning a big heist. Maybe he and his confederates have noble motives for the robbery. Not important. What is important is that you came to see Neeson (or Damon, or whoever) do his badass thing… but his character is shot during the holdup, badly wounded, abandoned by the rest of the gang. He’s bleeding so much, he can barely stay conscious. And while he’s physically present for much of what follows, it’s only in the way that, say, Tim Roth is physically present for the first half of Reservoir Dogs. The actual movie is about the various people who come in contact with him, virtually none of whom are played by similarly well-known actors.

Sound plausible? That’s the gist of Carol Reed’s 1947 classic Odd Man Out, which stars James Mason—the most popular British actor for four years running at the time of its release—as IRA leader Johnny McQueen. (His group is called “The Organization” throughout, but it’s Northern Ireland, so who are we kidding?) Mason gets shot 14 minutes into the two-hour picture, and is only intermittently awake and coherent from that point forward; the drama revolves entirely around random citizens, mostly embodied by stage actors Reed drafted from the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. It’s a portrait of a community, exploring the ambivalence of people who sympathize with Mason’s cause, but not necessarily with his methods. In its finest, thorniest scene, a couple of middle-aged women gradually realize that the “accident victim” they’ve taken in won’t likely garner them awards for Samaritans Of The Year.

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Sherlock star shooting Dublin comedy (RTE)

Sherlock star Andrew Scott has joined Amy Huberman, Hugh O'Conor, Brian Gleeson and Peter McDonald in the new comedy The Stag, which begins shooting in Dublin next week.

IFTN reports that the film, co-written by McDonald and director John Butler, follows a group of friends on a stag party, with Dubliner Scott playing the best man.

Huberman plays the bride-to-be and the cast also includes Michael Legge and Andrew Bennett.

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Downton's not anti-Irish, says star Alan Leech (HERALD IE.)

By Melanie Finn, Showbiz Editor
Saturday November 03 2012

Downton Abbey's Dublin-born star Allen Leech has defended the show from claims that it portrays the Irish in a negative light, while admitting he had to swot up on Irish history for the role.

The actor (31) plays rebellious Tom Branson in the hit period drama and had many of the biggest storylines in the third series.

However, eyebrows were raised among Irish viewers when a recent episode showed Maggie Smith, who plays the Countess of Grantham, referring to Branson's Irish brother as a "drunken gorilla".

And there is no shortage of anti-Irish sentiment in recent episodes, given the aristocratic family's horror at his decision to raise his baby with his wife Lady Sybil as a Catholic.

Yet Allen, in Dublin to launch Brown Thomas's Christmas season, said it was a realistic portrayal of the era, given all the Anglo-Irish tensions arising from the 1920 War of Independence.

"You have to remember that, at that time, in England, that's actually how the Irish were depicted," he explained.

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Brendan Gleeson & Co Are Blessed With Irish Locations for 'Calvary' 31 Oct 2012 : By Steve Cummins (IFTN)

'Calvary' cast on set in The Carlyan pub in Rush

It may be a typically dull and dreary day in north Co Dublin but the small, seaside town of Rush is alive with activity. In off the main street four or five heavy duty lorries are parked beside a number of trailers and temporary dressing rooms.
Men in high-visibility vests, equipped with buzzing walkie-talkies roam up and down the street, past The Carlyan pub and on down to a newly-built temporary wooden church. John Michael McDonagh’s ‘Calvary’ is in town and excited locals are trailing the streets, pen and paper in hand, hoping for a glimpse of the film’s stars, Chris O’Dowd, Aidan Gillen, Kelly Reilly and, of course, Brendan Gleeson.

It’s the reunion of Gleeson and writer and director McDonagh, following the huge success of ‘The Guard’, that is the cause for much of the excitement. From the chatter among the locals to the media invitation to visit the set, comparisons aplenty are made to McDonagh’s surprise 2011 hit. The priest Gleeson is playing in ‘Calvary’ is, we are told, “the flipside to ‘The Guard’s Sergeant Gerry Boyle” and, like ‘The Guard’, the film is set in the west of Ireland. Cast and crew may now be stationed in Rush, but the bulk of the five-week shoot has taken place in Co Sligo.

Described as a dark, comedy-drama, the plot of McDonagh’s ‘Calvary’ follows Gleeson’s priest, a good-natured man who has become increasingly shocked at the behaviour of the locals in his small country town. After being threatened during confession, he’s forced to battle the dark forces closing in around him.

“I think that it’s got the best ensemble cast that’s ever been assembled for an Irish movie,” McDonagh says from inside The Carlyan pub where he’s just completed filming a pub scene with Gleeson, Gillen, O’Dowd and Reilly. The rest of the ensemble cast he speaks of include a number of well-known Irish names - from Dylan Moran, David McSavage and Pat Shortt, to Domhnall Gleeson and David Wilmot.

“I wanted it to feel, not only Irish, but sort of international as well,” continues McDonagh as he explains his casting decisions. “So you’ve got Isaach De Bankolé, who’s been in ‘Casino Royale’ and Jim Jarmusch films, and Marie-Josée Croze, who’s been in ‘The Diving Bell & The Butterfly’. So I don’t want it to feel like a small film, or a parochial film. I want it to feel like a film that could play on an international circuit.”

Cutting a relaxed figure, the English-born filmmaker says he always had Gleeson in mind for the lead role. Indeed, the idea for ‘Calvary’ stemmed from a bar room conversation between the two towards the end of shooting ‘The Guard’.

“It was the last night in Galway so there was a lock-in in the pub,” McDonagh remembers. “All the cast were there, and that, and at a certain point in the evening I said ‘I bet that loads of people are planning scripts about bad priests and dealing with the whole subject in a really depressing way’. I thought that it would be good to do the opposite – to do a film about a good priest - because it’s quite difficult to do films about good people. Usually, the hero is flawed in a major way or they’re an anti-hero.

“Brendan just said, drunkenly, ‘I’ve always wanted to play a good priest’. So that’s where the idea hatched. The editing of ‘The Guard’ went on so long that I wrote the script during it. So when that was finished I had the next one ready to go and Brendan really liked it. So then you’ve already got your lead actor.”

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Brendan Gleeson back home to film new comedy (HERALD IE.)

Wednesday October 17 2012

A LITTLE piece of Hollywood came to Rush this week as award-winning actor Brendan Gleeson began filming on his new movie Calgary.

The Harry Potter star is out in the north Dublin seaside town as he begins work on the much-anticipated follow on to The Guard.

Locals were gobsmacked to see the famous actor strolling around the tight-knit town as he immersed himself in filming at Harbour Park, with the project expected to last for around six weeks.

Written and directed by the same director, namely John Michael McDonagh, it's described as a black comedy drama and began filming in Sligo last month before moving to Dublin. And there's some serious heavy hitters joining Gleeson on the movie including Bridesmaids star Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen and Isaach de Bankole.

It sees the former teacher taking on the role of a priest who's intent on making the world a better place. But he's left shocked by the "spiteful inhabitants" in his small town, culminating in him being threatened.


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BRENDAN COYLE: Origin Theatre Patron will be appearing during upcoming New York Festival dedicated to Irish Playwrightsm, September 3 to October 1

It's time to give Origin Theatre its due, because its fifth annual New York festival dedicated to Irish playwrights (the only one in the world, as it happens) is running from September 3 to October 1 in New York.


For Origin it’s been a catalogue of successes because the company is celebrating its 10th anniversary season, and this year the month-long festival features Irish plays and musicals from 11 contemporary Irish playwrights (plus Eugene O’Neill) in productions from Belfast, Dublin, Boston and New York.


“It’s year five so now we’re getting a huge amount of applications for the festival from Irish companies, so this year we have a broader scope. It’s not just theater -- it’s musicals and other aspects of theater. This year we’ll stage panel discussions and related events too.”

Right on cue to offer his services and his star power is Origin’s newest honorary patron, the Irish and British actor Brendan Coyle (Downton Abbey). Coyle joined the company in May and will appear during the festival to announce an upcoming 1st Irish project in New York.

Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/story/artsandstyle/tipsheet/origin-theatre-to-wow-at-1st-irish-festival-for-the-fifth-time-in-new-york-169022886.html

Matthew Macfadyen: ‘Ripper Street’ Wraps Filming In Ireland 24 Jul 2012 : By Eva Hall (IFTN)

Principal photography has officially wrapped on BBC series ‘Ripper Street’ after an 18-week shoot in Dublin.

The Clancy Barracks location, which was home to Whitechapel residents Jerome Flynn, Matthew Macfadyen and Adam Rothenberg’s characters Detective Drake, Inspector Reid and Captain Jackson, as well as a set which took eight weeks to build, is currently being dismantled after an 18 week-long shoot.

Screen Scene VFX in Dublin is currently putting the finishing visual effects touches to the eight-part drama, while Egg Post Production, also based in Dublin, is looking after the full audio post and grading.


Geraghty and his team designed streets, a prison, a bar, and even a laboratory for the period drama. Speaking to IFTN before production ended, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ actor Matthew Macfadyen praised Geraghty for his work, calling him “really talented”.

Both Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones) also appreciated Irish designer Lorna Marie Mugan’s period drama designs. Flynn said putting the costume on allowed him to “immediately feel like you’re in period so doing something in period helps, you just kind of mould into what you’re doing.” Mugan has just been nominated for an Emmy Award for her designs for Sky series ‘Treasure Island’.


Macfadyen echoed Flynn’s statements, commenting: “I shouldn’t sound sentimental, but there does feel like a lovely atmosphere with the crew, and maybe it’s that a lot of things are filming here and there’s been a resurgence in big companies, it just feels like a lovely place to work.

“It’s been lovely being in Dublin, it feels very contained, it’s not like shooting in London where you’re spending your whole day in the car and it’s very disparate. We’re never more than 20 minutes away from any location, and the crew has been fantastic.”


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Matthew Macfadyen: 'Ripper Street' Begins 19-week shoot in Dublin (IFTN- IRISH FILM AND TELEVISION NETWORK)

21 Mar 2012 : By Steve Cummins

‘Ripper Street’, an eight-part series for the BBC based on the Jack The Ripper murders, has begun filming in various locations around Dublin.

Created by Richard Warlow (Waking the Dead) and starring Matthew Macfadyen (Pride and Prejudice, Frost/Nixon), Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones) and Adam Rothenberg (House), ‘Ripper Street’ is currently using a Dublin army barracks and the area in and around Dublin Castle to re-create London's East End in 1889.

Filming began on March 12 and is scheduled to run for 19 weeks in total. A wide and varied Irish crew have been employed to work on the series with production designer Mark Geraghty (In America, Death Of A Superhero, Leap Year) among the leading local crew members.

Irish production company Element Pictures are co-producing the series with Tiger Aspect Productions and Lookout Point. BBC America also joined the production last week and plan to launch ‘Ripper Street’ in America as part of their Dramaville series this Autumn.

With a budget of €8million, the series is also being made with the participation of the Irish Film Board. BBC Worldwide is distributing the series globally.


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Brendan Gleeson giving a tremendous speech in Dublin on freedom and equality. Wonder if he'd run for president