News and updates on the work of Scottish actors around the world.
Alan Cumming has been pretty busy lately.Read more at LAtimes
The Tony-winner and Emmy-nominee's role as slick campaign manager Eli Gold on "The Good Wife" continues to be meaty, with the series recently picked up for a fifth season. He's set to star in a one-man "Macbeth" that opens on Broadway later this month (more on that shortly). And now he has several film projects in the works.
Cumming tells The Times that he's come aboard to star in "First-Class Man," the long-developed Roger Spottiswoode film about an Indian prodigy who makes the move from his native country to Cambridge, England. (Cumming quipped he'll be playing the Indian boy, though given his "Macbeth" turn—he’s playing 15 different parts, including Lady Macbeth -- we wouldn’t be so sure he’s joking.)
Meanwhile, Cumming says he’s on board to start in the wartime Dutch drama “Dunes of Overveen,” an indie project co-written by gay activist David Mixner and the British expat writer Richard Grant, with the project seeking a director.
Business has been slow since a nuclear naval base opened in the Scottish seaside town where Helen (Blythe Duff) manages a small hotel, and so she is surprised when a stranger (Andrew Scott-Ramsay) wants to rent a room. She’s even more surprised, though, when the young man turns out to be one of the four navy brats who brutalized her son at a rally protesting nuclear weapons years before. David Harrower’s fifty-five-minute drama, directed by George Perrin (part of “Brits Off Broadway”), is a study in how two people with reason to hate each other might, after years apart, not only see each other anew but develop a particularly strong bond. But the short piece, though polished, feels more like a sketch than a fleshed-out play.
Previews begin March 27, opens April 3, closes April 21
Siobhan Redmond guest-stars as a slightly scatty woman who gets stuck in the hospital lift with Jimmi. After Carrie’s young son — also called Jimmi — died during an operation, she marks the precise anniversary with a picnic at the hospital. But while she’s used rituals and signs to help her cope with the grief, she says her husband, a once calm and quiet cellist, became a live-for-today “wild child”. But her colleague Reggie (Adrian Hood) later reveals something about her that alarms Jimmi.Read more at Radio Times
Meanwhile, Emma presents her version of Sam’s last moments to the police but her colleagues at the Mill — and specifically Howard — doubt her story.
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213/221. Jimmi becomes trapped in a lift with a woman who has relied on a strong belief in fate to cope with the death of her son, but which has also prevented her moving on from her grief. Meanwhile, Emma relays her version of Sam's final moments to colleagues and DI Collier, while Daniel tries to win back Zara.
We always knew Broadway.com video blogger Alan Cumming was “kind of a rock star!” The "Scottish play" headliner chats with Chris Noth (kinda), gets his first Macbeth injury, has a fabulous fashion show and gives away undies.
Today Cressida Cowell tweeted that the How To Train Your Dragon television series has just started showing on the Cartoon Network in the UK. The programme is called The Dragons: Riders Of Berks and David Tennant voices Spitelout in episode twelve of the series which, by our calculations, will premiere on Saturday 11th May at 10.30am with a repeat at 6.30pm and on the following Monday also at 6.30pm.Source: DavidTennantOnTwitter
James McAvoy in Neverwhere teaser trailer: "I'm not going mad. Am I?"Read more and listen to the trailer at Radio Times
Listen to a snippet of the upcoming Radio 4 drama starring McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch and Christopher Lee
James McAvoy introduces us to his Neverwhere character Richard Mayhew in this brand new clip from the BBC Radio 4 drama.
Adapted from award-winning author Neil Gaiman’s novel, Neverwhere sees Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into a subterranean world beneath London following an act of kindness.
“I helped a girl called Door, now something strange has happened and it's like I'm falling through gaps,” laments McAvoy in the clip. “I need to get back…my life. I’m not going mad. Am I?!”
As well as McAvoy, Neverwhere features an all-star cast including Benedict Cumberbatch, Anthony Head, Bernard Cribbins and Christopher Lee.
James McAvoy dismisses 'The Crow' rumoursRead more at Digital Spy
James McAvoy has dismissed rumours linking him with the lead role in the proposed remake of The Crow. The X-Men: First Class star described the reports as "rumour mill" but did not rule out appearing in the film should he be approached.
