James McAvoy confused by some roles

STV
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James McAvoy sometimes finds himself in roles where he ''doesn't know what the f**k'' he's going to do.

The actor admits he can't always envision a part just by reading the script, but he gets a great feeling when one immediately leaps out at him, such as his current film, 'Filth'.

He said: ''Sometimes when you read a script you don't start getting ideas and that can be slightly worrying. I have done jobs where I think, 'I don't know what the f**k I'm going to do,' and you just get there on the day and make it work. But with 'Filth' every single scene just presented so many ideas and I was inspired immediately.''

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Anne-Marie Duff on James McAvoy, whether she'd brave the jungle and Elvis (RADIO TIMES0

Claire Webb
12:08 AM, 28 May 2013

Why return to Shameless after all these years?

I made a drunken promise as I was leaving that I’d come back to play Fiona Gallagher for the very last episode – never thinking it would happen! It was extraordinary: same grim and grubby kitchen, same props... It was lovely.

Did falling for James McAvoy off-screen as well as on make the “shameless” scenes awkward?

I’m not going to go into that! But yes, I’ve got a lot to be grateful for. It’s extraordinary what happened to us all – we all thought this was probably a Titanic of a programme at the beginning. It’s been such an incredible opportunity for all of us.

Why do you think Fiona is such a good character?

I think Paul Abbott writes so beautifully – especially for women. They’re never just archetypes. Fiona was sexy, funny and naughty and at the same time had this huge moral code.



What can’t you miss on TV?

A really good British drama. America is the most innovative at the moment but I think British drama is always higher quality. Recently I’ve been totally glued to The Village.

And when you’re after something a little more... Trashy?

The Voice! There doesn’t seem to be the humiliation aspect of a lot of other talent contests.

So you could never be tempted by I’m a Celebrity...?

No way, José! There’s not enough money in the world. I think those shows are a little bit unhealthy.

Childhood favourite?

Come Back Lucy, which was about a little girl who lived in a haunted house. I would sometimes pretend to be her when I was playing. I also have fond memories of watching James Bond movies on bank holidays because we’d have crisps and chocolate as a special treat.

What film have you curled up to time and again?

Brief Encounter. I find it an extraordinarily grown-up, tender love story that still stands the test of time.

Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?

Elvis Presley. I’m the biggest Elvis fan in the Western world. Ever since I saw King Creole on TV in my teens and he was pretty tasty...

Film Geeks at the Theatre – James McAvoy on the Differences Between Stage and Screen May 15, 2013 By Ben Mortimer (HEY U GUYS UK)

Not all that long ago there was a pretty clear distinction between a theatre actor and a film actor. Once in a blue moon you’d see an A-lister getting back to their roots with a role at the National Theatre, but on the whole the closest you’d get to a well-known thesp on a West End stage was Jason Donovan in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat.

Recently, though, things have been changing. London theatre-goers can see Luke Treadaway, Brian Cox, John Simm, Roger Allam, Zoe Wanamaker, Rupert Everett and Helen Mirren. And that’s just the ones that immediately sprang to mind.

With this in mind, we’ve decided to do something a little different at HeyUGuys: an occasional column looking at the cross over between the worlds of stage and celluloid. We’re calling it ‘Film Geeks at the Theatre.

READ MORE: http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/film-geeks-at-the-theatre-james-mcavoy-on-the-differences-between-stage-and-screen/

James McAvoy feels the flower power as Professor X (THE SCOTTISH SUN)

FLOWER POWERFUL ... James McAvoy as Professor X

By JONATHAN WHITELAW

Published: 10 hrs ago 

JAMES MCAVOY - wearing a floral shirt and high waisted bell bottoms, the 34-year-old actor looks more funky than fantastic on the set of new comic book movie X-Men: Days of Future Past.

McAvoy plays Professor Charles Xavier, leader of the X Men, in a role made famous by Patrick Stewart.

As a prequel to the earlier X Men movies, some of the action will be taking place in the 1970s, hence the change of mutant powers to flower power for the Glasgow born star.

The picture was tweeted by the movie’s director Bryan Singer, who noted the similarities between McAvoy and Al Pacino in the 1973 cop thriller Serpico.

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Happy Birthday, James McAvoy! (Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy favorite interviews)

James McAvoy

Actor

James McAvoy is a Scottish actor. He made his acting debut as a teen in 1995's The Near Room and continued to make mostly television appearances until the early 2000s. 

Born: April 21, 1979 (age 34), Glasgow

Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m)

Spouse: Anne-Marie Duff (m. 2006)

Upcoming movie: X-Men: Days of Future Past, Filth, Welcome to the Punch, Trance
Stage: Macbeth

Children: Brendan McAvoy

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James McAvoy: At the Movies: ‘Trance’ is Eye-catching

By Megan Bianco

We’ve had a few films already this year with surprising plot twists like Side Effects, Stoker and The Place Beyond the Pines, and Trance follows suit effectively. Boyle’s fast-paced, flashy style and Rick Smith’s score fit Joe Ahearne and John Hodge’s script memorably and intriguingly. McAvoy proves that he is capable of playing nice guys and bad guys, while Dawson carries the film just fine as one of 2013’s smartest characters thus far. What Inception did for dreams on screen, Trance does for memories.

READ MORE: http://www.thecapistranodispatch.com/2013/04/19/at-the-movies-trance-is-eye-catching/

James McAvoy: Is this a phone I see before me? asks angry James McAvoy (HERALD SCOTLAND)

From giggling schoolchildren to chirping mobile phones, noises off have a rich history of drawing ire from actors on the stage.

Phil Miller

Arts Correspondent

Now Hollywood actor James McAvoy has become the latest to be visibly irked by activity from the audience.

During a performance of Macbeth in London, the Scots star saw a member of the audience was filming him with a mobile phone.

The Glasgow-born actor, who was playing the role of Shakespeare's Scottish king at the Trafalgar Studios, remonstrated with the man.

One witness said the actor shouted at him and asked him to stop filming.

"The poor fellow looked very embarrassed," a witness said.

Last night, a statement on behalf of the theatre said: "An audience member was caught filming by the actor James McAvoy.

"The filming disrupted the production of Macbeth, forcing James McAvoy to respond to the audience member by asking them to stop filming immediately.

"The production then continued as planned once the camera had been put away."

READ MORE: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/is-this-a-phone-i-see-before-me-asks-mcavoy.20724053

Rosario Dawson And Michael Fassbender Dating?! By Lisa Potter - (Marie Claire)

Do we spy a hot new couple?! Rosario Dawson and Michael Fassbender were spotted enjoying a low-key weekend in London over the Easter weekend together.

The pair, who would surely make one of the most handsome couples in all the land, were seen taking in the city's sights numerous times together over the weekend.

Read more at http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/celebrity/541818/rosario-dawson-and-michael-fassbender-dating.html#XFlL8t7HdfZ9kcpd.99 

Ewan Mcgregor - Ewan Mcgregor Defends James Mcavoy Over Theatre Criticism 25 March 2013 (CONTACT MUSIC)

Ewan Mcgregor has stepped up to defend fellow Scottish actor James Mcavoy over criticisms theatre bosses are "dumbing down" by hiring him to star in a new London production of Macbeth.

The comments have riled MCGregor, who has now spoken out in defence of MCAvoy and called the criticisms "ridiculous".

In a post on Twitter.com, he writes, "Hardtalk moaning about celebs in theatre. Using James McAvoy as an (example). Ridiculous. Don't they know he's a brilliant actor. Come on Bbc!"

READ MORE: http://www.contactmusic.com/news/ewan-mcgregor-defends-james-mcavoy-over-theatre-criticism_3575120

James McAvoy helps a collapsed audience member during a Macbeth play By Gavriella Tjandra, 3/23/2013

James McAvoy helped a collapsed audience member during his performance of Macbeth in Trafalgar Studio 1, London.

The X-Men: First Class actor stopped in the middle of his performance, went down the stage, and assisted the audience member, who, according to eyewitnesses, had fallen ill, E! News reported.

A theatergoer tweeted, "Saw James McAvoy stop mid culmination scene in #Macbeth to help a collapsed audience member..."

"...crack a joke or 2, then continue with the same intensity. Top guy," the fan continued.

After helping the audience member, McAvoy reportedly called the emergency personnel, and finished the scene he had previously abandoned.

Despite an interrupted performance, the 33-year-old actor pulled it together, and gave an over-the-top act.


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James McAvoy, Anne Marie Duff - SHAMELESS - lovely couple, on and off screen (If My Heart Was A Home)

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JAMES MCAVOY: Macbeth is making me feel 103

SOME pity, please, for James McAvoy.

By: Adam Helliker
Published: Sun, March 17, 2013

"I'm 33 but I feel like I'm 103 because the stage show is so exhausting. Eight performances a week and no let-up. It's the most physical thing I've ever done, and it puts all the action movies in the shade. I've got cuts and bruises in places I didn't even know I had.

"Until now the worst damage I'd ever done myself was getting a bruised coccyx... and that was the result of an attempt to slide down the handrail at Tottenham Court Road Station when I was 22."

READ MORE: http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/adam-helliker/384923/Macbeth-is-making-me-feel-103-says-James-McAvoy

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James McAvoy says having sister co-star in Filth was most uncomfortable moment of his career (DAILY RECORD)

THE Scots star's younger sister Joy, known for her appearances in The Angels' Share and The Wee Man, falls victim to McAvoy's crazed character in the Irvine Welsh adaptation.

JAMES McAVOY says the most uncomfortable moment of his career was threatening his little sister Joy on camera.

The pair feature together for the first time in the movie version of Filth, the best-selling novel by Irvine Welsh.

McAvoy, 33, plays crazed policeman Bruce Robertson and Joy is a florist who he confronts when she becomes a murder suspect.

He said: “It was weird.

“I had to threaten her violently and ever so slightly sexually as well. That was well weird.”

McAvoy said he is proud of his sister, who is carving out an impressive reputation thanks to roles in The Angels’ Share and The Wee Man.

READ MORE: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/james-mcavoy-sister-co-star-irvine-1755511

James McAvoy Admits He's Had A 'Mental and Physical Breakdown' (E.)

BY HANNAH LANE ON MARCH 7, 2013

The Atonement star is pushing himself to the limit with three new films and a sold out theatre show.

James McAvoy seems unstoppable at the moment! After becoming a Hollywood star with films like The Last King of Scotland and X-Men: First Class, the 33-year-old actor has just finished a flurry of new films and performs every night to packed audiences in London.

The Scottish actor's fame looks set to sore further after the release of some of the most highly anticipated films this year.

McAvoy is starring in British crime thriller Welcome to the Punch alongside W.E actress Andrea Riseborough, Danny Boyle's Trance and a film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's controversial novel Filth.

He has also just completed a two-part film with Oscar nominated redhead Jessica Chastain called The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby.


READ MORE: http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/107525/James-McAvoy-Admits-Hes-Had-A-Mental-and-Physical-Breakdown

New photos of Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy and the cast of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere (RADIOTIMES)

An exclusive first look at shots of the star-studded cast of the Radio 4/4 Extra fantasy drama, also featuring Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Christopher Lee and Bernard Cribbins

Paul Jones
10:08 AM, 04 March 2013
London Below is slowly coming to life. With less than two weeks to go until Radio 4/4 Extra opens a portal to the magical realm in fantasy drama Neverwhere, we have a gallery of exclusive shots of the star-studded cast, including Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy and Natalie Dormer.

McAvoy is Richard Mayhew, a young businessman drawn into the subterranean world of London Below after he comes to the aid of a girl named Door, played by Dormer. In a place where famous landmarks take on a life of their own, Benedict Cumberbatch is the Angel Islington, an actual angel who watches over the city beneath the city.

VISIT THE BBC NEVERWHERE SITE HERE

READ MORE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-03-04/new-photos-of-benedict-cumberbatch-james-mcavoy-and-the-cast-of-neil-gaimans-neverwhere

Is James McAvoy The New Crow? Rumour has it that he's in talks 26 February 2013 | Written by Owen Williams | (EMPIRE ON LINE)

Relativity's reboot of James O'Barr's The Crow has been thrashing around in development for ages now. Last we heard, a year or so ago, attached star Bradley Cooper and director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo had both left the project. The Crow refuses to stay dead, however, and word this morning is that James McAvoy is in talks to wear the leathers and the corpse paint. F. Javier Gutierrez is the man currently in the director's chair.

We are slightly dubious about this news, since BD seem disinclined to talk about any sort of source for their scoop. But they point out that they previously correctly announced Mark Wahlberg's brief involvement, so maybe they have a secret insider source. McAvoy seems like an odd choice, but we wouldn't necessarily have pegged him for Professor Xavier either, and look how well that worked out.


read more:http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=36622 

James McAvoy: Review: Macbeth starring James McAvoy, Trafalgar Studio 1, London The X-Men actor impresses with a no-holds-barred performance set in a futuristic Scottish dystopia that won't please Alex Salmond (THE INDEPENDENT)

PAUL TAYLOR

James McAvoy's Macbeth skids across the stage on his knees and chucks up violently with his head down the loo before he launches into the “If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well/It were done quickly” soliloquy.

You could say that he is always the man of action even when laying bare – in incisive and pungently Scots-accented verse-speaking – the knotty nuances of his innermost fears and torments. And the actor makes that seem perfectly natural in a gripping, no-holds-barred performance that will impress fans of his work in the X-Men movies and unlock for youthful newcomers to Shakespeare some of the poetic and psychological riches of the play.   

Jamie Lloyd's production is set in the near future in a dystopian, separatist version of Scotland that is not calculated to gladden the heart of Alex Salmond. Our hero is initially a kind of Mad Mac figure in a world that, ravaged by bankruptcy and climate change, seems to have reverted to a bloody primitive tribalism. 

This show launches the new Trafalgar Transformed season for which the main Studio 1 space has been reconfigured by Soutra Gilmour. In-yer-face immediacy has never hitherto been the strength of this venue. But in addition to pushing the stage out over the first few rows, her spectacularly grungy in-the-round design for Macbeth places some seventy seats onstage (pac-a-mac ponchos recommended) and with all the frazzled lightning and crash-bang-wallop effects, it's as though you are being pulled into a nation's nervous system as it goes haywire.

READ MORE: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/review-macbeth-starring-james-mcavoy-trafalgar-studio-1-london-8506690.html

Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy and the cast of Neverwhere - first photo and air date revealed (RADIO TIMES)

Paul Jones

6:24 PM, 20 February 2013

As anticipation mounts among fantasy fans ahead of the Radio 4/4 Extra co-production of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, RadioTimes.com can reveal the first exclusive shot of the star-studded cast, which reads like a who's who of cult TV.

Sherlock's Benedict Cumberbatch and X-Men's James McAvoy are joined by Game of Thrones and former Fades star Natalie Dormer, Doctor Who alumnus Sophie Okonedo and Homeland's David Harewood for the tale of London Below, an alternate reality beneath the capital where famous landmarks take on a life of their own.

Screen legends Christopher Lee and Bernard Cribbins also star in an adaptation that is being described as an "audio film".

READ MORE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-02-20/benedict-cumberbatch-and-the-cast-of-neverwhere---first-photo-and-air-date-revealed

James McAvoy: (We) Hollywood stars are all imposters McAvoy: My background helps keep my feet on the ground (SUN)

The X-Men: First Class star - raised by his grandparents - said he judges fellow actors by how they treat the humblest crew member, not by their multi-million dollar salaries.

McAvoy, 33, who shot to fame in television's Shameless and Early Doors, is making his return to the West End stage with an all-Scottish Macbeth this week.

And he said he would not be surprised to see Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond in the audience.

The actor, who was raised in Glasgow's Drumchapel area, said: "My background does keep my feet on the ground, but I don't really like seeing Drumchapel as a bad place: it's not fair to the people that live there.

"One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up. At a proper Hollywood party - an Oscars party - you look around and go, 'F***, he's a movie star and she's a movie star and he got $6million for a film,' but it's clear everybody's the same."


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/4804342/James-McAvoy-Hollywood-stars-are-all-imposters.html#ixzz2LTqHamkS