Contains spoilers for Pieces of Her episodes one to four
Netflix’s thriller Pieces of Her is based on a novel by the aptly named best selling author Karin Slaughter. Though it’s set in America, the whole of the series was shot in Australia with the majority of filming taking place in 2021, and many of the cast are Antipodeans and Brits as well as Americans.
It’s a twisty tale of a mother who carries out an act of bravery which suddenly exposes her to a world she had long since left behind, and a daughter who discovers she really doesn’t know her mum at all. Pay attention! But in case you’re distracted by the niggling sense of ‘where do a recognise them from?’ we’re here to remind you.
Pieces of Her. Toni Collette as Laura Oliver in episode 105 of Pieces of Her. Cr. Mark Rogers...
Netflix’s thriller Pieces of Her is based on a novel by the aptly named best selling author Karin Slaughter. Though it’s set in America, the whole of the series was shot in Australia with the majority of filming taking place in 2021, and many of the cast are Antipodeans and Brits as well as Americans.
It’s a twisty tale of a mother who carries out an act of bravery which suddenly exposes her to a world she had long since left behind, and a daughter who discovers she really doesn’t know her mum at all. Pay attention! But in case you’re distracted by the niggling sense of ‘where do a recognise them from?’ we’re here to remind you.
Pieces of Her. Toni Collette as Laura Oliver in episode 105 of Pieces of Her. Cr. Mark Rogers...
- 3/6/2022
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
This week, Nicole Kidman returned to the Palm Springs International Film Festival for the first time since her father's death.
"Last time I was here, I was making a lot of movies and I was single," Kidman told Et, acknowledging that it's been 12 years since she walked the Psiff red carpet. "I was here with my dad last time, and I have photos walking up the red carpet with my dad, holding his hand."
Read: Nicole Kidman on the Death of Her Father
Dr. Antony Kidman -- a clinical psychologist at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia -- died unexpectedly in September 2014 after he fell while on vacation in Singapore.
Et was with the Oscar winner and her father when they attended the Psiff in 2005. That year, Nicole was presented with the organization's highest honor, the Chairman's Award, and Antony was clearly pleased with his daughter's accomplishments.
"I'm very proud," he told Et...
"Last time I was here, I was making a lot of movies and I was single," Kidman told Et, acknowledging that it's been 12 years since she walked the Psiff red carpet. "I was here with my dad last time, and I have photos walking up the red carpet with my dad, holding his hand."
Read: Nicole Kidman on the Death of Her Father
Dr. Antony Kidman -- a clinical psychologist at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia -- died unexpectedly in September 2014 after he fell while on vacation in Singapore.
Et was with the Oscar winner and her father when they attended the Psiff in 2005. That year, Nicole was presented with the organization's highest honor, the Chairman's Award, and Antony was clearly pleased with his daughter's accomplishments.
"I'm very proud," he told Et...
- 1/4/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Dev Patel stars in Lion. Photo credit: Mark Rogers; © Long Way Home Productions 2015
Lion tells the dramatic true story of Saroo Brierley, who as a five-year-old boy from a small Indian village becomes lost and alone in Kolkata, before being adopted by an Australian couple. As a young adult, Saroo began a seemingly impossible search for this birth mother and the remote village where he was born, with the help of a then-new technology called Google Earth.
Dev Patel, best known to audiences for Slumdog Millionaire and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, stars as the grown Saroo and delivers a powerful performance. Patel’s performance and the amazing true story itself are the greatest strength of Lion. Director Garth Davis opts for a chronological approach in telling Saroo’s story. The choice makes Lion often feel like two movies, with differing tones and differing stars. Although Patel acts his heart...
Lion tells the dramatic true story of Saroo Brierley, who as a five-year-old boy from a small Indian village becomes lost and alone in Kolkata, before being adopted by an Australian couple. As a young adult, Saroo began a seemingly impossible search for this birth mother and the remote village where he was born, with the help of a then-new technology called Google Earth.
Dev Patel, best known to audiences for Slumdog Millionaire and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, stars as the grown Saroo and delivers a powerful performance. Patel’s performance and the amazing true story itself are the greatest strength of Lion. Director Garth Davis opts for a chronological approach in telling Saroo’s story. The choice makes Lion often feel like two movies, with differing tones and differing stars. Although Patel acts his heart...
- 12/26/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Adapted from the memoir “A Long Way Home” by Saroo Brierley, the incredible film Lion stars Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. Directed by Garth Davis in his feature film directorial debut, the drama also stars Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Sunny Pawar, Priyanka Bose, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Deepti Naval.
Lion tells the story of five-year-old Saroo (Sunny Pawar) who accidentally ends up alone on an empty train. Frightened and bewildered, he travels thousands of miles away from his home, and lands in chaotic Kolkata. Somehow, even without speaking the language, Saroo survives living on the streets. The young boy escapes all sorts of terrors and close calls before ending up in an orphanage that is not exactly a safe haven. Eventually Saroo is adopted by an Australian couple (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham), and finds love and security as he grows up in Hobart. As an adult, not wanting...
Lion tells the story of five-year-old Saroo (Sunny Pawar) who accidentally ends up alone on an empty train. Frightened and bewildered, he travels thousands of miles away from his home, and lands in chaotic Kolkata. Somehow, even without speaking the language, Saroo survives living on the streets. The young boy escapes all sorts of terrors and close calls before ending up in an orphanage that is not exactly a safe haven. Eventually Saroo is adopted by an Australian couple (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham), and finds love and security as he grows up in Hobart. As an adult, not wanting...
- 12/19/2016
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Dev Patel in ‘Lion’ (Courtesy: Long Way Productions)
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
Aside from the amazing characters, acting, and storytelling in Lion, the film had another unique aspect to it: just how much non-English is spoken. The Garth Davis-directed drama is considered a frontrunner by most critics in the best picture at the 2017 Oscars — but will language hold it back in the long run? Let’s take a look at history and see what we can learn.
While a large part of Lion is in English, there is also a substantial part of it that is in Bengali and Hindi. That’s because the plot — based on a 2013 memoir titled A Long Way Home — follows the true story of Saroo Brierley from becoming lost at the age of five, surviving many challenges, getting adopted by an Australian couple, and finding his birth family 25 years later. With the five-year-old...
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
Aside from the amazing characters, acting, and storytelling in Lion, the film had another unique aspect to it: just how much non-English is spoken. The Garth Davis-directed drama is considered a frontrunner by most critics in the best picture at the 2017 Oscars — but will language hold it back in the long run? Let’s take a look at history and see what we can learn.
While a large part of Lion is in English, there is also a substantial part of it that is in Bengali and Hindi. That’s because the plot — based on a 2013 memoir titled A Long Way Home — follows the true story of Saroo Brierley from becoming lost at the age of five, surviving many challenges, getting adopted by an Australian couple, and finding his birth family 25 years later. With the five-year-old...
- 12/15/2016
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
Every year, Saroo Brierley celebrates his birthday on May 22. But that wasn’t the day he was born. It was the day he was found.
As a 5-year-old boy growing up in rural India, Brierley would often join his older brother as they scrounged for coins and food on trains to help their impoverished mother and siblings. One day in 1986, Brierley fell asleep inside an empty train stationed a few stops away from their hometown while waiting for his brother to fetch him. When he awoke hours later, he was hundreds of miles away, careening on an out-of-service train eventually headed for Calcutta.
As a 5-year-old boy growing up in rural India, Brierley would often join his older brother as they scrounged for coins and food on trains to help their impoverished mother and siblings. One day in 1986, Brierley fell asleep inside an empty train stationed a few stops away from their hometown while waiting for his brother to fetch him. When he awoke hours later, he was hundreds of miles away, careening on an out-of-service train eventually headed for Calcutta.
- 12/8/2016
- by alexisloinazpeople
- PEOPLE.com
Lost and Found: An interview with the star of Lion, Dev PatelLost and Found: An interview with the star of Lion, Dev PatelMarni Weisz - Editor, Cineplex Magazine12/7/2016 12:54:00 Pm
In Dev Patel’s career there will be pre-Lion movies, and post-Lion movies.
Pre-Lion, the British-born actor of Indian heritage seemed to play clean-cut, skinny, cute, but slightly nerdy guys. Think of him as well-meaning romantic Sonny Kapoor in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Chappie’s bespectacled robot designer Deon Wilson, and even as unlikely trivia champ Jamal in 2008’s Best Picture-winning Slumdog Millionaire, Patel’s breakthrough film.
But Lion, which finished second only to La La Land in the battle for the Toronto International Film Festival’s prestigious People’s Choice Award, proves he can be something much different. Burly, masculine, quiet, sexy…and Australian.
“A script like this demands that you go there,...
In Dev Patel’s career there will be pre-Lion movies, and post-Lion movies.
Pre-Lion, the British-born actor of Indian heritage seemed to play clean-cut, skinny, cute, but slightly nerdy guys. Think of him as well-meaning romantic Sonny Kapoor in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Chappie’s bespectacled robot designer Deon Wilson, and even as unlikely trivia champ Jamal in 2008’s Best Picture-winning Slumdog Millionaire, Patel’s breakthrough film.
But Lion, which finished second only to La La Land in the battle for the Toronto International Film Festival’s prestigious People’s Choice Award, proves he can be something much different. Burly, masculine, quiet, sexy…and Australian.
“A script like this demands that you go there,...
- 12/7/2016
- by Marni Weisz - Editor, Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
Getting an audience to cry, especially if that audience includes Academy members, is always a shortcut to success. This week, a prime awards contender is going to try and do just that in Lion. Also, Happy Thanksgiving to you all as well. In many ways, one can give thanks for films of this ilk finally hitting theaters. Now, this isn’t necessarily the cream of the Oscar crop, but it’s a solid entry into the prestige fare category that late November always brings. This is a movie you should become very familiar with, as voters are going to be in love with it. The question is just, to what degree will that be? The film is a dramatized version of a true story. It centers on Saroo (Sunny Pawer), a five year old boy in Indian who gets lost one day when he accidentally gets on the wrong train.
- 11/24/2016
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Dev Patel doesn't appear until nearly an hour into Lion – but when he does his strong, soulful, Oscar-buzzed performance cuts deep. The film is based on Saroo Brierley's bestselling memoir A Long Way Home, about a five-year-old Indian boy, raised in abject poverty, who falls asleep on a train and ends nearly 1,000 miles away in Calcutta. With only a child's memory of his single mother (Priyanka Bose) and his Hindi village, Saroo is stranded on dangerous streets among a Bengali-speaking populace he can't understand or dare to trust. It's...
- 11/22/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Bill Clinton made a surprise appearance at the New York premiere of Lion on Wednesday night.
The former president attended the Museum of Modern Art screening, with castmembers Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Sunny Pawar in tow. The drama's subject, Saroo Brierley, and his parents, Sue and John Brierley, were also present.
Directed by Garth Davis and adapted from Saroo Brierley's memoir, A Long Way Home, Lion tells the true story of how a wrong train takes a 5-year-old Indian boy hundreds of miles from home. After overcoming many challenges, he is adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years...
The former president attended the Museum of Modern Art screening, with castmembers Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Sunny Pawar in tow. The drama's subject, Saroo Brierley, and his parents, Sue and John Brierley, were also present.
Directed by Garth Davis and adapted from Saroo Brierley's memoir, A Long Way Home, Lion tells the true story of how a wrong train takes a 5-year-old Indian boy hundreds of miles from home. After overcoming many challenges, he is adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years...
- 11/17/2016
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nicole Kidman's new drama Lion is an emotional rollercoaster that's been resonating with audiences and tells an important message about love and the meaning of family.
The actress sat down with Et's Nischelle Turner on Sunday, where she opened up about how her own experiences as an adoptive mother helped her understand her character, who is based on a real person.
"Sue Brierley is a real woman, so I had to absorb who she was and kind of try to honor her," Kidman shared. "I wanted to really layer it so you felt her heart beat and you felt her spirit."
Watch: Nicole Kidman Rocks Super Eccentric, Abs-Baring Dress to Event in Shanghai
Lion tells the story of a man named Saroo (Dev Patel) who, as a young boy, gets lost in Calcutta, hundreds of miles from his home. After surviving on the streets for a time, Saroo is adopted by a caring Australian couple, Sue and...
The actress sat down with Et's Nischelle Turner on Sunday, where she opened up about how her own experiences as an adoptive mother helped her understand her character, who is based on a real person.
"Sue Brierley is a real woman, so I had to absorb who she was and kind of try to honor her," Kidman shared. "I wanted to really layer it so you felt her heart beat and you felt her spirit."
Watch: Nicole Kidman Rocks Super Eccentric, Abs-Baring Dress to Event in Shanghai
Lion tells the story of a man named Saroo (Dev Patel) who, as a young boy, gets lost in Calcutta, hundreds of miles from his home. After surviving on the streets for a time, Saroo is adopted by a caring Australian couple, Sue and...
- 11/7/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
Director Garth Davis and Harvey Weinstein to present the true life story in Zurich.
Garth Davis’ Lion, starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman, is to open the 12th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 22-Oct 2).
The film will receive its European premiere on Sept 22 at the festival, with director Garth Davis and exec producer Harvey Weinstein expected to attend.
Adapted from Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home, the film tells the true story of how a wrong train took a five-year-old Indian boy hundreds of miles from home.
He was placed in an orphanage and eventually adopted by an Australian couple, Sue and John Brierley (played by Kidman and Wenham).
Patel plays the older Saroo, haunted by memories of his childhood, who set out to find his lost family using Google Earth technology.
Davis makes his feature directorial debut, having previously co-directed mini-series Top Of The Lake with Jane Campion.
Zff director...
Garth Davis’ Lion, starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman, is to open the 12th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 22-Oct 2).
The film will receive its European premiere on Sept 22 at the festival, with director Garth Davis and exec producer Harvey Weinstein expected to attend.
Adapted from Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home, the film tells the true story of how a wrong train took a five-year-old Indian boy hundreds of miles from home.
He was placed in an orphanage and eventually adopted by an Australian couple, Sue and John Brierley (played by Kidman and Wenham).
Patel plays the older Saroo, haunted by memories of his childhood, who set out to find his lost family using Google Earth technology.
Davis makes his feature directorial debut, having previously co-directed mini-series Top Of The Lake with Jane Campion.
Zff director...
- 8/29/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Stars expected to attend UK premiere of true life survival story.
Garth Davis’ Lion, starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman, is to screen as the American Express Gala at the 60th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 5-16).
The film will receive its UK premiere on Oct 12 at London’s Odeon Leicester Square, with Patel and Kidman expected to attend.
Adapted from Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home, the film tells the true story of how a wrong train took a five-year-old Indian boy hundreds of miles from home.
He was placed in an orphanage and eventually adopted by an Australian couple, Sue and John Brierley (played by Kidman and Wenham).
Patel plays the older Saroo, haunted by memories of his childhood, who set out to find his lost family using Google Earth technology.
Davis makes his feature directorial debut, having previously co-directed mini-series Top Of The Lake with Jane Campion.
Davis...
Garth Davis’ Lion, starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman, is to screen as the American Express Gala at the 60th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 5-16).
The film will receive its UK premiere on Oct 12 at London’s Odeon Leicester Square, with Patel and Kidman expected to attend.
Adapted from Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home, the film tells the true story of how a wrong train took a five-year-old Indian boy hundreds of miles from home.
He was placed in an orphanage and eventually adopted by an Australian couple, Sue and John Brierley (played by Kidman and Wenham).
Patel plays the older Saroo, haunted by memories of his childhood, who set out to find his lost family using Google Earth technology.
Davis makes his feature directorial debut, having previously co-directed mini-series Top Of The Lake with Jane Campion.
Davis...
- 8/17/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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