Viggo Mortensen takes his love for the Canadiens On The Road, to Cannes Film FestivalMay 23, 2012. 8:04 am • Section: The Cine Files (MONTREAL GAZETTE)

(From L) British actor Sam Riley, US actor Viggo Mortensen, Brazilian director Walter Salles, US actress Kirsten Stewart, British actor Tom Sturridge, US actress Kirsten Dunst, US actor Garrett Hedlund and British actor Danny Morgan pose with the flag of ice hockey team "Montreal's Canadians" during the photocall of "On the Road" presented in competition at the 65th Cannes film festival on May 23, 2012 in Cannes. ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/GettyImages



Actor Viggo Mortensen was photographed several times at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival with a Canadiens hockey jersey – specifically, one with Guy Lafleur’s name on it.

He was promoting A Dangerous Method, the David Cronenberg film about Freud and Jung, at the time, and  shared his Lafleur love with his co-star Keira Knightley.

This time around, he’s promoting On The Road, a long awaited film based on the book by Jack Kerouac. Mortensen plays William S. Burroughs.


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Cannes 2012: How British actors are dominating Hollywood like never before The success of actors like Robert Pattinson and Tom Hardy show that Brits are no longer just in demand as toffs and villains, reports Anita Singh (THE TELEGRAPH)

In the 20 years since Colin Welland collected an Oscar for Chariots of Fire and famously declared: "The British are coming!" there have been plenty of false dawns.

British actors flocked to Hollywood only to find themselves cast repeatedly as villains, fops and toffs. But this year's Cannes Film Festival proves that US studios have finally fallen for the charms of the British leading man.

The three major US films in competition all have British actors playing American leads.

Tom Hardy is the star of Lawless, a Prohibition-era gangster film in which he plays the toughest of three bootlegging brothers in rural Virginia.

Robert Pattinson, he of the teen Twilight franchise, plays the lead in another literary adaptation, Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis, as a billionaire Manhattanite.


And the long-awaited adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On The Road, that most quintessential of American novels, stars Yorkshire's Sam Riley as Sal Paradise.

It is a state of affairs mirrored in US television, where British actors are slipping seamlessly into US lead roles, from Hugh Laurie in House to Damian Lewis and David Harewood in Homeland.

Industry watchers say we have entered a golden age for Brits in Hollywood.

"It's what I call 'Hugh Laurie Syndrome," said Tim Gray, editor of trade bible Variety.

"When Laurie appeared in House, Americans said, 'Who is this actor? I love him, he's great'. Then we found out he's British, and it's like a magician has pulled a trick on you. People like to be fooled sometimes.


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Daniel Radcliffe Is 'Phenomenal,' Elizabeth Olsen Raves (MTV)

Jan 21 2012 7:44 PM EST 1,648

 

'Martha Marcy May Marlene' actress is getting ready to star opposite Radcliffe in the thriller 'Kill Your Darlings.'

By Josh Wigler, with reporting by Josh Horowitz (@joshuahorowitz)

 

PARK CITY, Utah — Daniel Radcliffe is no longer just the Boy Who Lived — at this stage, he's the Man Who Flourished.

Indeed, Radcliffe has kept his post-"Potter" career very interesting, what with a turn as a horror lead in next month's "Woman in Black," a lengthy run on Broadway in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" and even a hosting stint on "Saturday Night Live" earlier this year. He's set to keep his fans guessing even further with his next confirmed movie, "Kill Your Darlings," which tells the tale of how Beat Generation icons Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr first met — and how that meeting eventually led to murder.

Radcliffe plays Ginsberg in the film, and starring opposite him is up-and-coming actress Elizabeth Olsen. The brilliant young star of "Martha Marcy May Marlene" spoke with MTV News about joining the cast of "Kill Your Darlings," making her admiration for the "Harry Potter" star very well-known.

"He is so phenomenal," Olsen said at the Sundance Film Festival, where she's repping the paranormal thriller "Red Lights." "He's an incredible person. He's so funny and smart and fun. He's such a good guy."


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Daniel Radcliffe: Elizabeth Olsen Set to 'Kill Your Darlings' Along with Daniel Radcliffe (First Showings)

by Ethan Anderton
January 12, 2012
Source: Variety

Just after Thanksgiving in 2011, it was reported that Daniel Radcliffe was keeping his career interesting post-Harry Potter by playing Allen Ginsberg in the thriller Kill Your Darlings, a story about the relationship between Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr which eventually ends up with them caught up in murder. Now Variety has word that the cast is filling out around Radcliffe with Sundance starlet and indie darling Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene) is set to join the film along with Dane Dehaan ("In Treatment") and Jack Huston ("Boardwalk Empire"). Details on their characters below.

Olsen has been set to play Edie Parker, the wealthy art-student girlfriend of Jack Kerouac who will be played by Huston. Meanwhile, Dehaan will play Carr, a key member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation in the 1940's who also catches the romantic eyes of Ginsberg. Carr befriended the beatnik poet and introduced him to Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs but she was also friends with a somewhat deranged David Kammerer, who was so in love with Carr that when he and Kerouac decided to join the Merchant Marines, he flipped out and ended up in a scuffle with Carr at a park, where he eventually stabbed Kammerer to death. As you can imagine, things take a turn for the worse after that. The film is expected to begin filming at Columbia University in New York City this March. If Radcliffe keeps this up, he will have much more than The Boy Who Lived leaving a mark on cinema.

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Daniel Radcliffe to Play Allen Ginsberg in 'Kill Your Darlings' Thriller

November 29, 2011
Source: Twitch
by Ethan Anderton

With The Woman in Black on the way and a Broadway stint in the stage musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, British actor Daniel Radcliffe is quickly making a career for himself outside of the now finished Harry Potter film franchise. Recently Radcliffe revealed that he would be playing a gay character in an unnamed film sometime in 2012, and now Twitch has learned he will play beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg in John Krokidas thriller Kill Your Darlings, a film based on actual events which originally had Jesse Eisenberg lined up for the role back in 2009, but it seems he's dropped out.

The story revolves around the relationship between Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr which eventually ends up with them caught up in murder. Columbia student Lucien Carr befriended Allen Ginsberg and introduced him to Jack Kerouac and fellow Beat poet William Burroughs. Carr was also friends with a somewhat deranged David Kammerer, who was so in love with Carr that when he and Kerouac decided to join the Merchant Marines, Kammerer flipped out and ended up in a scuffle with Carr at a park, where he eventually stabbed Kammerer to death. It's not clear whether Chris Evans and Ben Wishaw remain attached as Kerouac and Carr respectively, but with Eisenberg out, I'm betting the whole project is casting from scratch. Radcliffe joins a strong group of actors who have brought Ginsberg to life like John Turturro, Hank Azaria and James Franco, so he definitely has his work cut out for him. Interested?

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