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Jessica Gunning and Nicola Coughlan have joined the cast of 'The Magic Faraway Tree'. The stars of 'Baby Reindeer' and 'Bridgerton' respectively are to feature in an all-star ensemble of the new film that is based on the novels by Enid Blyton. 'The Magic Faraway Tree' tells the story of how Polly (Claire Foy) and Tim Thompson (Andrew Garfield) and their children Beth, Joe and Fran find themselves forced to locate to the English countryside where "they discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric occupants". Coughlan and Gunning will star as Silky and Dame Washalot – two inhabita...
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Royal replicas featured in 'The Crown' have made a mint at auction. Props and costumes used in the hit Netflix drama - including dupes of Princess Diana's 'revenge dress' and her engagement ring - went under the hammer at Bonhams and made a massive £1.6 million with proceeds from the sale being donated to fund scholarships at the National Film and Television School (NFTS). Charlie Thomas, Bonhams UK group director for private and iconic collections, said: "It has been an immense privilege to work with ['The Crown' production company] Left Bank Pictures on this incredible sale. "The Crown Aucti...
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‘The Crown’ star Viola Prettejohn had a "pinch me" moment when she was getting fitted out by the late Queen’s tailor. The ‘Generation Z’ star - who plays the teenage version of the late Queen Elizabeth II in the sixth season of the Netflix royal drama - was thrilled to head to Saville Rowe’s iconic tailor Dege and Skinner and revealed the regal treatment really got her into her “character”. The 20-year-old actress told Marie Claire magazine: "The military uniform was made exactly for me on Saville Row by one of the Queen’s tailors, Dege and Skinner. I got the call about the role and then, a da...
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Claire Foy was "embarrassingly excited" to be in 'All of Us Strangers' with Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal and Jamie Bell. The 39-year-old star features in Andrew Haigh's tear-jerking romantic fantasy film and explained how she had to "rein it in" working with her co-stars. Claire told IndieWire: "I got to tick off a lot of my bucket list actors in this. "I was embarrassingly excited to be in the film with the three of them. I wasn't a fan girl! I managed to rein it in. There were some definitely very exciting days." Claire had particular praise for 'Billy Elliot' star Jamie and was desperate for h...
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Andrew Scott was "in bits" after reading the script for 'All of Us Strangers'. The 47-year-old actor stars in the new romantic fantasy film as gay writer Adam, who begins a relationship with enigmatic neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal) that helps him overcome the death of his parents (played by Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), and described writer-director Andrew Haigh's script as "truly heartbreaking". Andrew told The Hollywood Reporter at the film's Los Angeles premiere on Saturday (09.12.23): "I thought it was really one of the most extraordinary scripts I'd ever read. Truly heartbreaking. "I was rea...
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Claire Foy has admitted she left 'The Crown' "for my own sanity". The 39-year-old actress portrayed a younger Queen Elizabeth II alongside Matt Smith, 41, as Prince Philip in the first two seasons of the hit Netflix series about the British Royal Family - for which she won a Golden Globe, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards - and although she didn't go into any further details about her exit, she insists it was the "healthy" thing to do. She told People: “I’ve got a lot of love for the people who are still doing the show, but for my own sanity, I ended the show when I...
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Vanessa Kirby feared she was "finished" after shooting in 'The Crown'. The 35-year-old star was a successful stage actress but had struggled to make the transition onto TV or film before landing the role of Princess Margaret in the first two seasons of Netflix's regal drama, and though she won a BAFTA Award for her work on the show, she recalled thinking her character seemed so over-the-top in contrast to Claire Foy's Queen Elizabeth, it could end her career. She told The Times newspaper: “Claire is the master of subtlety and I’d be sitting across from her in those scenes with tears coming out...
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Bill Murray, Rooney Mara and Claire Foy got stuck outside the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night (26.02.23) due to fire safety checks. The actors were among the stars who were forced to wait outside the ballroom in Los Angeles' Fairmont Century Plaza hotel along with hundreds of guests while the Fire Marshal carried out some investigations ahead of the glitzy ceremony. Video footage of the hold-up was posted on Twitter by Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh, who wrote: "Total chaos at the SAG Awards as Claire Foy and Rooney Mara are not being allowed inside the ballroom of the Fa...
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Claire Foy thinks she "probably shouldn't go" to the Oscars. The 38-year-old actress' latest movie 'Women Talking' - which is directed by writer Sarah Polley and also stars the likes of Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand, and Sheila McCarthy - is nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay at the upcoming ceremony, and though the British star admitted it hasn't yet decided which of the cast will be invited to go, she thinks she should step aside because the event takes place in California on 13 March, the same day her and ex-husband Stephen Camp...
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Claire Foy's life was transformed by her time at drama school. The 38-year-old actress has become one of the biggest names in the TV and film industries over recent years - but Claire was unaware of what it took to become successful before she attended the Oxford School of Drama. The actress - whose film credits include 'First Man', 'Unsane' and 'My Son' - told Collider: "I think I went to drama school with very little understanding of what it would take to be an actor, or what was involved, or the skills you had to have ... any of those things." Claire feels like her time at drama school prep...
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