'Henry V' Movie Actress Renée Asherson dead at 99: Laurence Olivier leading lady in acclaimed 1944 film (image: Renée Asherson and Laurence Olivier in 'Henry V') Renée Asherson, a British stage actress featured in London productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Three Sisters, but best known internationally as Laurence Olivier's leading lady in the 1944 film version of Henry V, died on October 30, 2014. Asherson was 99 years old. The exact cause of death hasn't been specified. She was born Dorothy Renée Ascherson (she would drop the "c" some time after becoming an actress) on May 19, 1915, in Kensington, London, to Jewish parents: businessman Charles Ascherson and his second wife, Dorothy Wiseman -- both of whom narrowly escaped spending their honeymoon aboard the Titanic. (Ascherson cancelled the voyage after suffering an attack of appendicitis.) According to Michael Coveney's The Guardian obit for the actress, Renée Asherson was "scantly...
- 11/5/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
By Todd Gilchrist
HollywoodNews.com: Although Russell Brand has appeared in several successful films and twice hosted the MTV Video Music Awards, he’s still largely an unknown quantity to many American audiences. But the British comedian and actor is trying to change all that, and his latest film, Get Him to the Greek, affords him his biggest starring role to date. Hollywood News joined a small group of journalists at the film’s recent Los Angeles press day where Brand candidly chatted about his work in the film, the parallels between himself and his character’s self-destructive drug use, and his ongoing search for new ways to find success while challenging the conventions of moviemaking, comedy, even culture itself.
[Note: Although "Hollywood News" is used to distinguish questions from answers in the text below, our journalist was just one of many reporters asking questions of Brand.]
Hollywood News: Are you enjoying this publicity campaign thing that you’re on?
Russell Brand: I don’t mind these bits. It’s quite nice. It’s like a...
HollywoodNews.com: Although Russell Brand has appeared in several successful films and twice hosted the MTV Video Music Awards, he’s still largely an unknown quantity to many American audiences. But the British comedian and actor is trying to change all that, and his latest film, Get Him to the Greek, affords him his biggest starring role to date. Hollywood News joined a small group of journalists at the film’s recent Los Angeles press day where Brand candidly chatted about his work in the film, the parallels between himself and his character’s self-destructive drug use, and his ongoing search for new ways to find success while challenging the conventions of moviemaking, comedy, even culture itself.
[Note: Although "Hollywood News" is used to distinguish questions from answers in the text below, our journalist was just one of many reporters asking questions of Brand.]
Hollywood News: Are you enjoying this publicity campaign thing that you’re on?
Russell Brand: I don’t mind these bits. It’s quite nice. It’s like a...
- 5/28/2010
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Hollywoodnews.com
Eighteen months ago, the comedian's career seemed on the edge of collapse. Now he's on the verge of international stardom. So what went right?
When Russell Brand was 16, he inscribed a school-leaving card to his first girlfriend. "You might be as famous as me one day," he wrote. "If so, see you at the top." There was no "might", not from the very beginning, about how famous Russell Brand expected to be.
But the rest of us might have been forgiven for thinking the game was up for Brand after the 2008 incident when, egged on by Jonathan Ross, he prank-called the elderly actor Andrew Sachs to boast he had slept with his granddaughter. The incident cost him his show on Radio 2 and turned much of the UK media against him. Yet, a year-and-a-half on from "Sachsgate", while Ross's star is falling, Brand has become a transatlantically famous name.
Having been...
When Russell Brand was 16, he inscribed a school-leaving card to his first girlfriend. "You might be as famous as me one day," he wrote. "If so, see you at the top." There was no "might", not from the very beginning, about how famous Russell Brand expected to be.
But the rest of us might have been forgiven for thinking the game was up for Brand after the 2008 incident when, egged on by Jonathan Ross, he prank-called the elderly actor Andrew Sachs to boast he had slept with his granddaughter. The incident cost him his show on Radio 2 and turned much of the UK media against him. Yet, a year-and-a-half on from "Sachsgate", while Ross's star is falling, Brand has become a transatlantically famous name.
Having been...
- 4/6/2010
- by Sam Leith
- The Guardian - Film News
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