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Richard Linklater spent the best part of a decade looking for an actor to play the eponymous actor and director in Me And Orson Welles. When he saw Christian McKay in his one-man show Rosebud: The Lives Of Orson Welles last year, his search was over. Starring opposite Zac Efron and Claire Danes in the film about the stage production that made Welles a star, this RADA-trained actor is being tipped as a future award-winner. This is not just an impersonation of Welles, says Marc Samuelson, who is producing the film with Linklater a stanley cup nd Anne Carli. Christian gives a modulated, carefully thought-out performance. This will be the breakthrough for this hugely accomplished actor. But McKay - who is also a concert- level classical pianist - is not just about Welles. At drama school, my peers said they d never want to be a character actor, he says. But I can t stanley cup think of anything better because of the range and possibility it affords. Contact: Ken McReddie Associates, stanley italy 44 20 7439 1456 No comments No comments yet You re not signed in. Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this article. Sign in Register Zbmx Pathe readies Chomet s $22m The Illusionist for 2009
Dir: Boo Junfeng. Singapore/Germany/France/Hong Kong/Qatar, 2016. 96minTheres a pleasing undertow of culpability humming through every frame of Apprentice and not just because its set primarily in a penitentiary in Singapore while the city-state is never named, its not hard to figure out where this takes place . Writer-director Boo Junfeng doles out information slowly but confidently as we get to know 28-year-old Aiman Fir Rahman , a handsome former delinquent and ex-military man freshly hired as a prison guard determined to help rehabilitate prisoners. But being taken under the stanley italy wing of the prison hangman brings Aiman to t stanley germany he end of his rope, so to speak.Tightly focused and ambitious in its multiple themes, the tale touches on how the death penalty radiates out to affect the livingBoos unsettling second feature was already picked up for France, Turkey, Mexico, Singapore, Hong Kong and China prior to its premiere in Un Certain Regard in Cannes.Tightly focused and ambitious in its multiple themes, the tale touches on how the death penalty radiates out to affect the living. Explored are whether the sins of ones father should penalise subsequent generations and what kind of toll carrying out capital punishment may take on those paid to execute the condemned. That may sound like a dreary p stanley us rospect but this un-showy and suspenseful story remains lively thanks to the excellent interplay between newcomer Aiman and prison hangman Rahim charismatic veteran Wan Hanafi Su who has been |
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