#Olivia Ovenden

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Every man

Has two sides

The man he wants to be

And the man

He is

- De Nogaret, Knightfall s1

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I’m starting to realize De Nogaret is like the oracle of the story, with these quotes 🤔👀

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Beautiful gif ❤️🫶🏻

Knightfall - The History Channel

There were some very cinematic sets in the opening episode of Knightfall

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Esquire Magazine: Ben Whishaw's Disturbed Dramas

The actor has built a career portraying both troubled young men and national treasures. He talks to Esquire about playing junior doctor Adam Kay in the BBC’s adaptation of This is Going to Hurt, why he is drawn to disturbed characters, and not standing still for too long.

Olivia Ovenden for Esquire

Ben Whishaw is in the market for a new way to unwind. When the pandemic took hold in early 2020, he returned from filming in Chicago to London, where he lives with his partner Mark Bradshaw, a composer for film and TV, and, as a distraction from the news, pursued an interest in developing photos. He wasn’t very good at it, but there was something appealing about the way it demanded his total attention. “I’m thinking, maybe I should go climbing?” he says tentatively on a Zoom call from Paris, where he is shooting Passages, the new film from American indie director, Ira Sachs. “Very good for the body. It uses all of you,” says Whishaw. “In fact, I’m going to find a climbing wall and go immediately.”

Climbing is ripe with metaphors for Whishaw’s approach to acting, a career that he treats as a series of challenging moves, coupled with a determination not to look back-wards. When we speak in December, he still hasn’t seen No Time to Die, the third film in which he plays Q to Daniel Craig’s 007.

“I hate watching myself,” Whishaw says. “I’m always so disappointed. I know you just have to get over it and I’m not the only person in the world, but that’s how it feels to me. I do think if you were really satisfied, if you watch some-thing like, ‘Fuck, I’m so good in that,’ then that would be pretty weird.”

Even at 41, there is a teenage restlessness about Whishaw, dressed in a black hoodie and hiding behind contorted arms when reaching for the right words. He has kind eyes but a serious face, though the seriousness is often dispelled by bouts of laughter. He has spent the morning working on a Russian accent and at one point stops to apologise as he can hear the Slavic intonation he’s been practising invading his head. In real life, the actor, whose credentials include studying at Rada and, to great acclaim and aged just 23, playing Hamlet at The Old Vic, rarely strays far from softly spoken RP.

Read the rest at Esquire Magazine.

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Yet perhaps the element of the film [The Social Network] that has proved more prescient is how it captures the kind of repressed male anger which has since crystallised online. The Social Network can be read as exploring a similar kind of underground anger as in Fight Club, Fincher's 1999 film which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. Based on Chuck Palahniuk's book of the same name, Fight Club is a fictional story which imagines groups of men who beat each other up as a way of making them feel more alive. Palahniuk has spoken about how many men have approached him asking about real fight clubs, attesting to the power of his fiction by revealing they also felt they had unearthed some deeper truth about society and wanted to withdraw from it in protest. [...] In the near decade between Fight Club and The Social Network, the internet swept in and gave angry young men their own boxing ring to fight in every night, with forums, sub-reddits and social networks allowing people to anonymously remonstrate with strangers and spill their bitter musings. The two films make for interesting symbols of how masculinity has evolved in a short space of time, with each offering up an antihero for the furious, and marking the ways in which male rage has gone underground. [...] Despite opening to mediocre reviews and poor box office numbers, Fight Club's relevance has only increased in recent years thanks to it being adopted as a Bible for incels, as Palahniuk noted in a recent interview: "It shows how few metaphors men have. Just that and The Matrix". While it was intended as a warning about repressed male anger, it has since been misread as a how-to guide for men to reject society and celebrate violence as a way to feel something.

Olivia Ovenden, How ‘Fight Club’ and ‘The Social Network’ Mark the Evolution of Underground Male Anger

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Knightfall - (History)

The good: At the beginning of a lot of these shows, I have a real issue with telling who the heck is who. I didn’t have that issue for the first few episodes, which is good.

The bad: They are in FRANCE. Why is everyone speaking with a modern posh British accent?  Also, the make up on the women in episode 1 is distractingly modern and kind of garish (This goes away, thankfully).

Also bad: Season 1 was well lit and for the time period, had a lot of color. For some reason in Season 2 they started doing that thing where it’s so dark and washed-out that you can’t tell what’s going on half the time.

This show, while not un-entertaining, is kind of a mess. I get the feeling that they thought it was going to be canned at the end of the first season, then they got a surprise renewal and had to scramble to put the second season together. THEN they seemed surprised to not get a third season so the ending seems a bit slapped together, with a number of loose ends. What happened to Adelina?  What happened to Landry’s mom and what did she tell Pope Boniface that made him let Landry go?

I found in the first season that I couldn’t care less about the Templar and their search for the Holy Grail, but I loved the political intrigue surrounding the Crown of France.  By the second season, the Royal family was clearly batshit, and I cared about the Templar because let’s face it, they got fucked over.. ahem.. royally.

Last, all of the shows I’ve watched to this point had some level of humor to them,  while Knightfall had exactly one line I laughed at.

A show this dark needs SOME comic relief.

Observations:

Why did King Phillip and William DeNogaret decide to trade hairdos and facial hair in season 2?

The season 2 storyline with Princess Isabella and Queen Margaret made little sense to me and seemed to be mostly just to give them something to do. From what I understand, the Real Princess Isabella would have been too savvy to let a percieved slight turn her full-psycho.

Favorite Characters: 

QUEEN JOAN. I love her so much.  I wanted so much for her.  I wanted her to leave Philip and rule Navarre on her own and be an awesome queen.

Adelina is adorable and badass, and I want to know where she went.

Tancrede was my season two favorite, bless him. Undying loyalty to the main character gets me all the time.

And though she didn’t really show up until the last half of season 2 and didn’t do much until the last two episodes, Lydia was pretty cool.

Least Favorite Characters:

DeNogaret (aka, Uncle Creepy) sucks on a few levels.  In season one I thought he was going to be a fun, scheming, Littlefinger type. Season two he’s a boring advisor. He doesn’t even have any facial hair.  He’s beige curtains.

Princess Isabella sucks. It doesn’t help that they switched out the actress in season two to someone with no emotional expression whatsoever. But seriously, Isabella is the worst. In season one she’s not entirely terrible, but she doesn’t seem to have a problem with snitching on both DeNogaret and her OWN mother. Snitches get stitches! Season 2 she’s gone full sociopath because.. what.. her sister-in-law slighted her by.. trying to be nice? Weak sauce, dude.

King Phillip sucks. He was somewhat sympathetic in season one, as yes, his wife did sleep with his best friend, but he was over-the-top evil in season two (hence the “I’m evil” beard?)

OTP: Tancrede + Anne.  I guess Landry+Joan, but I could see from the beginning that wasn’t going to end well.  Otherwise, there’s not a lot of shippable material here.

Faces I recognized: Joey Batey (The Witcher) and Amelia Clarkson (The Last Kingdom)

“Historical” Drama Rewatch List

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I watched the season 1 finale of Knightfall the other week and it was really good!

There was a battle in the woods! 

Queen Joan went and took the grail to them in the woods and wanted to save Landry and The Templars from her husband The King! 

She sadly died it seems :( after giving birth to their child. I liked her too. She drank from the Holy Grail to save her but it only saved the baby and not her. 

They put her with the fallen soldiers in the forest, buried in a cross shape. Awww.

Then some other templar at the end found a scroll of names in the grail, like a holy lineage and I think it was Landry who was last on the list D:

Season one got a bit better as it went on. It still didn’t reach the heights of Vikings though.

William De Nogaret was my favourite the whole series! He’s a great villain and quite sexy <3 He’s like Tony Almeida <3

I can’t wait to see season two <3

I can’t believe they got Mark Hamill to be in season 2! that should be interesting.

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Knightfall (2017)

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knightfall // preview

∟ knightfall is an upcoming historical fiction drama television series on history. it recounts the fall, persecution, and burning at the stake of the knights templar, as orchestrated by pope clement v and philip iv of france on friday, october 13, 1307. the series focuses on templar leader sir landry, a brave warrior discouraged by the templars' failures in the holy land who is reinvigorated by news that the holy grail has resurfaced. [x]

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KNIGHTFALL ICONS PACK

By clicking the source link, you’ll find 318 icons for roleplay, made by myself from Knightfall (2017-2019).

Gina McKee, Jim Carter, Sabrina Bartlett, Genevieve Gaunt, Olivia Ross, Tom Cullen, Clementine Nicholson, Ed Stoppard, Mark Hamill, Simon Merrells and Julian Ovenden.

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Mr Carson finding his sass.

Knightfall Season 2 - The History Channel - 3/25/2019

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New Alex Interview with Esquire from his Q&A at their London Townhouse event (October 19, 2019)!

Alexander Skarsgård Isn’t Afraid Of The Dark

The Swedish actor won an Emmy and Golden Globe for his work on ‘Big Little Lies’, next up he takes on Stephen King’s infamous villain Randall Flagg, and tries to get Meryl Streep on board for 'Mamma Mia 3’

BY OLIVIA OVENDEN 23/10/2019

When Alexander Skarsgård was 20-years-old, he left his native Sweden and moved to Leeds, in the north of England. “It was important to avoid London because I was travelling with a friend and we wanted to get the quintessential English experience,” he revealed, during his on-stage talk last weekend,at the Esquire Townhouse in St James’, London.

If there was any doubt in the room as to how suited the Swedish heartthrob was to living in the student area of the city, it evaporated when they heard the joy with which he talked about Leeds’ most notorious pub crawl. “There’s this famous thing called the Otley Run,” he said, his voice warm with nostalgia. “I loved it.”

Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård grew up in Vällingby, Stockholm, the eldest son of actor Stellan Skarsgård, and spent his early years fantasising that his bohemian father was a regular dad who drove a Saab and worked a desk job.

At 13, his father’s friend cast him in the TV series Hunden som log (The Dog That Smiled), a fairly small Swedish production, but one that everyone he knew watched because of the few TV channels available. Skarsgård became uncomfortable with the level of fame it afforded him and decided to quit acting.

His father never pushed him to keep going or to capitalise on being recognised, something he is still grateful for. “He just said it was up to me, and that if I wasn’t loving it to do something else,” he says. “I would have listened if he’d said to stay in it, but that could have turned me off acting.”

Earlier that day, we meet at a private member’s club in London, where he arrives dressed in a cosy, walnut-coloured roll-neck, selvedge jeans and Clarks desert boots. The 43-year-old now lives in the East Village, New York, but flew here from Vancouver where he is currently filming The Stand, a TV adaptation of Stephen King’s novel.

It took seven years, a stint in the Swedish military and another stint mastering the aforementioned Otley run before Skarsgård returned to acting. His first big break came in 2008 when he played a 1000-year-old vampire in HBO’s True Blood, a show adapted from The Southern Vampire Mysteries novel series by Charlaine Harris. It was the height of vampire fever – the same year the film adaptation of Twilight was released – and Skarsgård’s portrayal of pallid, aquamarine-eyed Eric Northman spurned him legions of fans. Searching 'Eric Northman fan-fiction’ on Google brings up 81,500 results.

It was also the start of a fruitful partnership with between Skarsgård and HBO, a collaboration which hit a home-run when he was cast in Big Little Lies in 2017. The series, based on Liane Moriarty’s novel of the same name and starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, and Zoë Kravitz as three women living in Monterey, California.

Skarsgård plays Perry, the emotionally and physically abusive husband of Kidman’s character Celeste. To the outside world a handsome, sharply-dressed, romantic husband, but behind doors a monster who skulks around their house after her.

The show was widely praised for its nuanced and compassionate portrayal of domestic abuse, with Skarsgård’s performance going on to win an Emmy and Golden Globe amongst other plaudits for the series.

“The character had so much depth and inner turmoil that I never hesitated because it was dark,” he says. “I find it less interesting when an abusive husband is turned into a caricature: someone in a wife-beater with a beer on the couch screaming at his wife. It makes for more interesting story-telling if there are moments where you can see the person she fell in love with.”

He stayed with friends in Los Angeles while filming Big Little Lies, grateful to come back to a family’s home for dinner after shooting something so dark instead of returning to a lonely hotel room. After a run of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at a theatre in Sweden early on in his career, he learned how to leave dark characters behind at the end of the day or else it “would just suffocate you”, saying that as a result he finds playing dark characters “quite cathartic”.

There is a kind of Nordic gloom to some of his characters, something that might be responsible for his being cast as Stephen King’s demonic villain Randall Flagg in The Stand, due to be released next year. Skarsgård says he grew up afraid of St. Bernard dogs after reading Cujo and still remembers going to see The Shining.

King’s writing is enjoying a rich second life in film and television at the moment, with books such as The Dark Tower and Pet Sematary released recently, and Doctor Sleep soon to follow. There’s also It, the Warner Brother’s reboot which features Skarsgård’s younger brother, Bill, as Pennywise the clown. Are they competing for who can terrify children more? “Randall Flagg is a very different character,” he says diplomatically. “He’s such a delicious villain [and] it’s fun to play someone who has that exuberance.”

He is strongly rumoured to be appearing in The Northman, teaming up again with co-star Nicole Kidman. He’s coy about the project when I ask, though says of Kidman that he, “can’t think of another actress I’d rather work with”, and later on stage speaks highly of Northman director Robert Eggers most recent film, the trippy The Lighthouse,

Whether or not it will return for a third season, Big Little Lies seems to have drawn a line under Skarsgård’s character, though the actor does have an idea for getting more time on set with Meryl Streep, who played Perry’s mother Mary-Louise in season two.“I think they should do season three and it’s all about Perry and his mother. Dad worked with Meryl on Mamma Mia 1 and 2 and had an amazing time,” he says, adding that he would ,“one hundred per cent” do Mamma Mia 3 for some more time on-set with Meryl.

Which leaves one more important matter to discuss: whether he’s familiar with the 'skarksbrow’, the internet’s fixation with him raising his eyebrow into a perfect arch. “No, no. This?” he says, before cocking it and smiling. “I’ve never heard of that.”

Alexander Skarsgård is an ambassador for Clarks

Sources:  Article:  Esquire.com (x), Photos:  Esquire.com (x),  jessejimzbrand instagram (x) and elisehamer instagram (x).

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Gerwig said the pair [Ronan and Chalamet] have such palpable chemistry with each other that it is 'like they become a bonfire when they’re together.' Which frankly sounds incredibly dangerous for Timmy's hair.

Olivia Ovenden, “Esquire”

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Dream Call the Midwife Guest Star list

I thought I would put together a dream guest star list for Call the Midwife since we already have series 8 and 9 confirmed. Some could pop up in series 7. Feel free to add your own names to this list.  List under the cut. Should say this is a DREAM list. All are currently alive.  

I would like to see the characters of Jenny, Chummy, Cynthia, Patsy and Delia return if Trixie gets married.  

Sally Thomsett (Phyllis from the Railway Children not currently active actress but a chance to see her with Jenny Agutter again) 

Amanda Abbington 

Aisling Loftus (Basically anyone from Mr Selfridge)

Keeley Hawes

Matthew MacFadyen

Richard Armitage

David Tennant

Honeysuckle Weeks

Julian Ovenden

Olivia Colman

Jenna Coleman

Justine Waddell 

Anthony Howell 

Michael Gambon

Barbara Windsor

Paula Wilcox

Add any actors you would like to see. I know it would be rare to get any of them but it is a dream list.