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Micheal Ward has teamed up with EE for the 'Stage Is Yours' campaign. The 'Top Boy' star is aiming to inspire secondary school kids to get involved in the arts by finding a young actor to feature in the film 'Naz', a biopic of British boxing icon Prince Naseem Hamed. The campaign will feature a TikTok improv competition where performers aged from 13 to 17 will have the chance to demonstrate their acting ability alongside Ward. In addition, Micheal – who won the EE BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2020 – has teamed up with EE to develop a series of workshops aiming to inspire secondary school pupils ...
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Daryl McCormack says Dame Emma Thompson has been like a "guardian" to him. The 30-year-old actor stars alongside 'Matilda' actress Emma, 63, in the new comedy-drama film 'Good Luck to You, Leo Grande' - which sees an ageing teacher hire a young male escort in the hope of having her first orgasm - and admitted that working with the acclaimed star was like "having a half day at school." He said: "It was like a half day at school – you know, the days where you’re allowed to come in wearing your own clothes, and it’s nice outside and you get an ice-cream. Emma's an amazing friend, but also like a ...
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Micheal Ward says that "nobody wanted him" to become an actor. The 25-year-old star is known for his roles in 'The A List' and 'Beauty' but explained that he didn't care for anything except PE and drama at school and received no support in his dreams until one friend encouraged him to "believe in himself." He said: "I liked PE and I liked drama. I didn’t enjoy anything else so I went for it. There was nobody around me who wanted to be an actor. When I went to [Epping Forest] College to study performing arts, I was the only black guy on my course. I’d be learning ballet and my friends would wat...
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Micheal Ward thinks that Olivia Colman's nerves added to the raunchy scenes in 'Empire of Light'. The pair feature in Sir Sam Mendes' new movie as Stephen and Hilary, two people who fall in love while working at a cinema during the 1980s, and Micheal felt that the Oscar-winner's struggles added to the authenticity of the film's intimate sequences. He told the i newspaper: "The fact that Olivia was a bit nervous added something to it, because it felt that we both had to overcome something. "Automatically you're kind of stroking (the other person) and you're like, 'And one and two and three...'"...
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Olivia Colman wanted her sexy scenes to be cut from 'Empire Of Light' The 48-year-old Oscar-winning actress stars opposite Micheal Ward, 25, in Sam Mendes' new movie but she's admitted the saucy segments between the lead stars left her cringing and she was hoping the director would remove them in the final edit. She told the Daily Mail newspaper's Richard Eden: "I always wanted Sam to take out the sex scenes because I was so embarrassed.' "I said, 'Why can't they go for the kiss, and cut, and then pretend that it had already happened?'" In the film, she plays a cinema boss who falls for a much...
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Micheal Ward will star alongside Olivia Colman in 'Empire of Light'. Director Sam Mendes has tapped the 'Top Boy' actor to star in his new drama for Searchlight Pictures. Plot details on the film – which marks the first time that the '1917' filmmaker has penned a screenplay alone – have been kept under wraps, but the production is set around a beautiful, old cinema on the South Coast of England during the 1980s. Micheal's previous credits include Steve McQueen's anthology series 'Small Axe' and movies 'Blue Story' and 'The Old Guard'. Sam is producing the flick with Pippa Harris through his Ne...
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