When you look at his body of work, it’s hard to believe Rory Kinnear is only 44: the man’s covered a hell of a lot of ground. He’s earned his place as a household name with roles like Tanner – M’s efficient Chief of Staff in several Bond films including Skyfall – and Detective Nock in Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game, but while many actors would be rightly chuffed to bag these roles, they’re merely the tip of Kinnear’s acting iceberg.
Few actors, for instance, can claim to be responsible for a scene that has been burned onto our retinas, never to be forgotten, no matter how hard we try. For Rory Kinnear, that scene is in Black Mirror episode ‘The National Anthem’, the very first instalment of this disturbing dystopian anthology series, where he plays a Prime Minister forced into doing the dirty...
Few actors, for instance, can claim to be responsible for a scene that has been burned onto our retinas, never to be forgotten, no matter how hard we try. For Rory Kinnear, that scene is in Black Mirror episode ‘The National Anthem’, the very first instalment of this disturbing dystopian anthology series, where he plays a Prime Minister forced into doing the dirty...
- 1/25/2023
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
On 20 November, 1974, a man left his clothes in a neat pile on a Miami beach, walked into the sea, and never returned. Later that day, a waiter at a nearby hotel found the man’s clothes and the police were alerted. A search began, but the man could not be found. That man was John Stonehouse, Labour MP for Walsall North and a former Postmaster General in Harold Wilson’s government.
Stonehouse had been a rising star in Wilson’s government of 1964, with his sights set on high office. But things didn’t go as swimmingly as he’d hoped, and within a few years he was in financial ruin, his marriage was over, he had been questioned by MI5 on suspicion of being a spy for the Czech secret service, and he ended up faking his own death in Miami.
In the new ITV drama, Stonehouse, written by John Preston,...
Stonehouse had been a rising star in Wilson’s government of 1964, with his sights set on high office. But things didn’t go as swimmingly as he’d hoped, and within a few years he was in financial ruin, his marriage was over, he had been questioned by MI5 on suspicion of being a spy for the Czech secret service, and he ended up faking his own death in Miami.
In the new ITV drama, Stonehouse, written by John Preston,...
- 1/2/2023
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
On 20 November, 1974, a man left his clothes in a neat pile on a Miami beach, walked into the sea, and never returned. Later that day, a waiter at a nearby hotel found the man’s clothes and the police were alerted. A search began, but the man could not be found. That man was John Stonehouse, Labour MP for Walsall North and a former Postmaster General in Harold Wilson’s government.
Stonehouse had been a rising star in Wilson’s government of 1964, with his sights set on high office. But things didn’t go as swimmingly as he’d hoped, and within a few years he was in financial ruin, his marriage was over, he had been questioned by MI5 on suspicion of being a spy for the Czech secret service, and he ended up faking his own death in Miami.
In the new ITV drama, Stonehouse, written by John Preston,...
Stonehouse had been a rising star in Wilson’s government of 1964, with his sights set on high office. But things didn’t go as swimmingly as he’d hoped, and within a few years he was in financial ruin, his marriage was over, he had been questioned by MI5 on suspicion of being a spy for the Czech secret service, and he ended up faking his own death in Miami.
In the new ITV drama, Stonehouse, written by John Preston,...
- 12/17/2022
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
They say write what you know, and in Jeff Pope’s case, he knew coronavirus was an unwelcome intruder on his home. The BAFTA-winning producer of Stan & Ollie was laid low by the dastardly disease with his family, and although it was not so serious as to warrant a trip to hospital, it was profound enough to inspire Pope into making a drama about the experience.
His idea was simple: an anthology series of short stories about people coping with Covid-19 while being confined to their homes. The execution was far from simple, however, with the rulebook on writing, casting, filming and post-production ripped to shreds by strict social distancing measures. Oh, and there was the small complicating factor of having to rapidly deliver the series at the heart of lockdown so it didn’t lose any of its topical potency.
Executive producer Tom Dunbar says Isolation Stories has been...
His idea was simple: an anthology series of short stories about people coping with Covid-19 while being confined to their homes. The execution was far from simple, however, with the rulebook on writing, casting, filming and post-production ripped to shreds by strict social distancing measures. Oh, and there was the small complicating factor of having to rapidly deliver the series at the heart of lockdown so it didn’t lose any of its topical potency.
Executive producer Tom Dunbar says Isolation Stories has been...
- 4/30/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Lady Lucan — whose aristocrat husband vanished after he attacked her and killed their nanny 40 years ago — died of natural causes in her upscale London home on Wednesday, Sept. 27, at the age of 80, according to the New York Times.
The estranged couple made international headlines in 1974 after their nanny, Sandra Rivett, 29, was found bludgeoned to death in their five-story townhouse. Lady Lucan, whose real name is Veronica Bingham, claimed that her husband, John Bingham — the 7th Earl of Lucan — killed Rivett in their dimly lit basement in a case of mistaken identity. Lord Lucan, she claimed, had meant to kill her.
The estranged couple made international headlines in 1974 after their nanny, Sandra Rivett, 29, was found bludgeoned to death in their five-story townhouse. Lady Lucan, whose real name is Veronica Bingham, claimed that her husband, John Bingham — the 7th Earl of Lucan — killed Rivett in their dimly lit basement in a case of mistaken identity. Lord Lucan, she claimed, had meant to kill her.
- 10/1/2017
- by Jason Duaine Hahn
- PEOPLE.com
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