Showing posts with label Brendan Coyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brendan Coyle. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Monday, 4 February 2013
Men of Downton Abbey BEFORE Downton Abbey...Posted on February 3, 2013 by Cathy Chester
Mr. Carson, Jim Carter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WfUTDlmLMFk#!
Matthew Crawley, Dan Stevens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MMogFYhaHeA
Mr. Bates, Brendan Coyle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NU6o4Ticx-c
His Lordship, Hugh Bonneville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JexO-N39Nzg
http://anempoweredspirit.com/category/hugh-bonneville
http://anempoweredspirit.com/category/hugh-bonneville
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Friday, 1 February 2013
Brendan Coyle reveals his mother scolded him following his foul-mouthed Twitter spat (MAIL ON LINE)
By EMILY SHERIDAN and FAY STRANG
He shocked his fans when he became embroiled in a Twitter row about politics, using very colourful language.
And it seems Brendan Coyle also managed to upset his mother with his swearing, showing you’re never too old to be told off.
The Downton Abbey star took to Twitter to share his dressing down, writing: ‘Just rang my mum from the @NOBLEmovie set...she told me off for swearing... #yourenevertooold’
READ MORE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2271871/Brendan-Coyle-reveals-mother-scolded-following-foul-mouthed-Twitter-spat.html
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Brendan Coyle: Downton’s Bates tells fan to ‘go **** yourself’ on Twitter (THE SUN)
By ALEX WEST
Published: 3 hrs ago
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The actor — famed for his Bafta-nominated portrayal of the respectful flunky in ITV1’s period drama — hit the roof in a spat over his hatred of Lady Thatcher.
NHS consultant Roberta Knighton told him Twitter comments he posted about the ex-Tory PM were “beneath” him.
Fuming Coyle, 49, hit back: “Hard to know how to respond to that... but go f*** yourself feels about right.”
He then said: “You have no idea what is beneath me... p.s. go f*** yourself x”. Then he blocked her from viewing his account.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4771020/Downton-Abbeys-Brendan-Coyle-blasts-fan-on-Twitter.html#ixzz2JWKEFxz0
(keep in mind, peoples, this is from THE SUN)
Sunday, 27 January 2013
Downton Abbey Season 3, Episode 4 Recap: A Shocking Death Hits the Crawley Family Next Article 26 minutes ago by Gemma Wilson (WET PAINT)
To those among you who resisted the “Who died at Downton?” spoilers, we’re wiping the tears from our eyes long enough to tell you that Downton Abbey will never be the same. If you haven’t yet watched the January 27 episode, you best move along to something — anything — else.
There is no way to sugarcoat this news: Lady Sybil Crawley (Jessica Brown Findlay) is dead, and nothing is right with the world.
Lovely Lady Sybil — who wore scandalous harem pants, fought for women’s rights, helped housemaid Gwen get a job as a secretary, worked as a wartime nurse, married for love, and wanted nothing more than her independence — dies shortly after giving birth. Mrs. Hughes (Phyllis Logan) is spot-on when she says, “The sweetest spirit under this roof is gone.”
As we open, Sybil is in the early stages of labor. The family doctor, Dr. Clarkson (David Robb), is on hand, but Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) has also hired doctor-to-the-rich-and-richer Sir Philip Tapsell to handle the actual delivery. Everyone is worried, but in a standard, floor-pacing kind of way. Even the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) is there, explaining, “I hate to get news second hand.”
Dr. Clarkson starts to fear that Sybil may be in danger of eclampsia, but Sir Philip essentially tells him to shut up. “I warn you, Doctor, if you wish to remain, you must be silent.” Dr. Clarkson is adamant, and eventually Lady Grantham (Elizabeth McGovern) sides with him. He wants to get Sybil to a hospital for an emergency C-section, but Sir Philip won’t budge, and Lord Grantham only trusts his fancy doctor. So Sybil stays put.
But good news: It’s a girl, and everyone’s fine! The exhausted Sybil only wants to sleep, and everyone — both upstairs and down — finally goes to bed.
'Downton Abbey' Recap: 'Like Too Many Women Before Her' The women - and men - of Downton pay the price for the patriarchy (ROLLING STONE)
By Sean T. Collins
January 27, 2013 10:05 PM ET
The thing about comfort food is that when someone serves you a piping hot plate of it week after week, you never suspect that one day they're going to grab it and smash it into your face.
Downton Abbey is just a soap opera, as both its admirers and detractors will tell you; what side of that divide they come down on depends on both how they feel about the genre itself and this show's impeccable version thereof. And while people die on soaps all the time, those deaths are typically tearjerkers, not gut-punchers. That's certainly been the case on Downton until this point, where the major deaths – Kemal Pamuk, Cora Bates, William, Lavinia, even the Crawley heirs whose deaths on the Titanic started it all – have meant more to us in terms of how they've affected the survivors than the dyers themselves.
So I'll admit it: Despite the ominous rumblings from across the pond, where this season aired months ago, I never saw this coming. Not when Dr. Clarkson mentioned his concerns about pre-eclampsia. Not when the family really started to fight about which doctor was in the right. Not when the childbirth seemingly went off without a hitch. Not when Sybil was issuing ominously final-sounding instructions about how her family should be treated. Not even when the panic-stricken family gathered in Sybil's room, watching her scream and pound her own head and seize and convulse and gasp for breath. Surely, surely, something could be done. That's the kind of show this is, right?
Wrong. And in proving it wrong, creator/writer/showrunner Julian Fellowes and actress Jessica Brown Findlay delivered more than just one of the most physically unbearable-to-watch death scenes this side of Breaking Bad or Deadwood – they served up the show's most powerful broadside against its own sexist system yet.
Every woman I know who's experienced pregnancy and childbirth has at least one jaw-dropping story of creepy or condescending or infuriating paternalism by some male medical professional or other. Well before you get into the well-documented War on Women territory of moving to convict rape victims who abort their pregnancies of felony evidence tampering, women's physical and psychological pain during this process is too often treated like an inconvenience to be brushed aside or powered through rather than treated with all due hippocratically mandated urgency. If those needs are not taken seriously, neither is the gender that generates them.
In tonight's episode, that paternalism becomes tragically literal. That tragedy is foreshadowed when an ebullient Lady Edith learns she's been offered a gig as a newspaper columnist, with a carte-blanche remit that would make a 21st-century freelancer of any gender flip the eff out. (Ahem.) Without even realizing how condescending he's being, Robert reacts as though the editor only made the offer to draught off the great Earl of Grantham's family name. When he looks at his daughter he sees neither her talent nor her need for support, only a weaker-sex reflection of himself. And among his peer group, he's a relatively open-minded guy! Downton Season Three's laser-precise exploitation of Lord Robert's weaknesses has been kind of remarkable to behold.
Enter the odiously arrogant doctor Sir Phillip, and the mistake that costs Sybil her life. Confronted with a difference in opinion among two male medical professionals – one of whom has known Sybil not just as a patient but as a person (and even a staff member, during the War) since birth and therefore reacts to her uncharacteristic appearance and behavior with alarm, the other who'd never even met her until the day before and therefore blows it off – Robert and Cora split on what should be done. Naturally, the default decision is to do what her father prefers: nothing. The delay costs them precious time, preventing them from taking the question to Sybil's husband Tom to make the final call; by this point Sybil herself is too incoherent to make the decision herself. Father knew best, until he didn't.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/downton-abbey-recap-like-too-many-women-before-her-20130127#ixzz2JEqTnmup
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Saturday, 26 January 2013
Brendan Coyle: A Noble film for Deirdre (INDEPENDENT)
Filming for director Stephen Bradley's biopic of Christina Noble began in Vietnam this week and The Diary can reveal that producers are in talks for two offerings detailing the philanthropist humanitarian's career.
It's safe to say that a string of Ireland's leading names in the acting industry are on the cast list for Noble.
This includes Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham, Brendan Coyle of Downton Abbey and a minor role taken up by the ever-hilarious Mrs Doyle herself, Pauline McLynn.
READ MORE:http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/a-noble-film-for-deirdre-3349699.html
Friday, 25 January 2013
‘Downton Abbey’ season 4 spoilers: Major Michelle Dockery scoop! (CARTER)
Of course, let’s start things off here with a warning: if you want to be surprised about the ending to “Downton Abbey” season 3, you really need to stop reading now.
I DON'T DARE PUT ANYTHING ELSE HERE FOR THE AMERICAN AUDIENCE - CHECK OUT THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE: http://cartermatt.com/47216/downton-abbey-season-4-spoilers-major-michelle-dockery-scoop/comment-page-1/#comment-88993
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Hugh Bonneville: “I Hope ‘Downton’ Ends While We Are Ahead” By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 (BBC America)
Here’s a worrying thought.
Hugh Bonneville, star of Downton Abbey, thespian of note and general all-round thinking person’s Lord of the Manor, has expressed a worry that the TV series that not only made him a household name (in places where Downton is a hit, obviously) but also keeps him in hot dinners, should end sooner rather than later.
His concern appears to be keeping the brand alive at the cost of the things that make it a success, namely the period in which it is set, the age and experiences of the characters, and Julian Fellowes’ ability to make the passing of history sit comfortably within the world he has created.
He told the Mail: “I am sure the money men would like it to go on for ever and ever because it does sell extremely well around the world. I think the next series is nudging forward and starts six to eight months ahead from the last and I think we will start to bump into other period dramas if we are not careful time wise.”
By which he presumably means Brideshead Revisited, revisited.
READ MORE: http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2013/01/hugh-bonneville-i-hope-downton-ends-while-we-are-ahead/
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
NEWS/Downton Abbey Recap: Sybil and Branson Are on the Lam by Christina Dowling Sun., Jan. 20, 2013 8:00 PM PST (E!)
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Tom Branson (Allen Leech) brought some rainy weather with him when he crossed the Irish Sea and he has quite the tale to tell. Something that is a surprise to no one who has watched Downton's previous two seasons is that Tom is fighting for an independent Ireland. We might as well admit we are huge nerds for Irish history, but if you aren't caught up you should probably get on Wikipedia so you understand the Maud Gonne, Countess Markievicz and Lady Gregory shout-outs. Long story short he was present—but feeling very guilty—when a country house was burned to the ground. Ruh. Roh.
Turns out that Tom, while he might be wanted for arson, isn't a terrible person who left Sybil pregnant and alone in Ireland. It was all part of the big escape plan. But presumably getting banished from Ireland and stuck at Downton was not. However it is terribly convenient for the Bransons to come back to stay: All the drama is back under one roof!
Out of Favor: Bates (Brendan Coyle) is still walking in circles in the most depressing place in the world. And even worse he hasn't been getting any letters from his dearly devoted wife, Anna (Joanne Froggatt). Bates learns he is actually quite good at working the system in prison. Maybe he's done some hard time before or just watched a lot of Oz.
READ MORE: http://www.eonline.com/news/380369/downton-abbey-recap-sybil-and-branson-are-on-the-lam
Monday, 21 January 2013
Saturday, 19 January 2013
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Sunday, 13 January 2013
Saturday, 12 January 2013
Brendan Coyle Filming 'Noble' (DOWNTON ABBEY BLOG)
Yesterday [Jan 10] shooting kicked off on Stephen Bradley’s Noble starring Liam Cunningham, Deirdre O’Kane, Brendan Coyle, Ruth Negga and Nhu Quynh Nguyen.
The biopic is jointly produced by UK’s Destiny Films and Vietnam’s Starfilm and centres on Christina Noble who overcame her own harsh childhood to help youngsters around the world. Bradley wrote the script and in addition to directing he is also producing alongside Melanie Gore-Grimes. Ansty Productions provided financial support.
READ MORE - DOWNTON ABBEY BLOG
http://www.downtonabbeyaddicts.com/2013/01/brendan-coyle-filming-noble.html
Friday, 11 January 2013
Twitter Event: Season 3 (MASTERPIECE CLASSIC)
Winner of nine Emmy awards, Downton Abbey resumes for a third season as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate. The international hit is written by Julian Fellowes and features an all-star cast including Dame Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern, and Hugh Bonneville, plus a new guest star, Academy Award-winner Shirley MacLaine!
MASTERPIECE celebrates the return of Downton Abbey with live Twitter events beginning on Sunday, January 6, 2013, during the broadcast of the first part of Downton Abbey Season 3.
You’re welcomed whenever you’re watching, but during 9-11pm Eastern time, PBS and MASTERPIECE insiders - as well as moderators from Austenprose, The Daily Beast, Tom and Lorenzo and Vulture - will be tweeting too.
Tag your posts with the hashtag #DowntonPBS then follow along using your own favorite aggregator.
WHAT: PBS and MASTERPIECE are hosting a live Twitter discussion (#DowntonPBS)
WHEN: Sundays, January 6- February 17, 2013, during the national broadcast of each part
WHERE: The Twitterverse! (Use hashtag #DowntonPBS ).
TOPICS: Downton Abbey, fashion, MASTERPIECE Classic
WHO: @pbs ; @masterpiecepbs ; Laurel Ann Nattress(@Austenprose ) of Austenprose; Jace Lacob(@televisionary ) of The Daily Beast; Tom and Lorenzo (@tomandlorenzo ); and Vulture (@vulture ) – and YOU!
RSVP: Please follow and be followed (on Twitter, of course!) by other #DowntonPBS tweeters
MASTERPIECE: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/features/twitter-event/downton-abbey-season-3-twitter-event?elq=7111b2812cdd457890f24c5abe3f1824&elqCampaignId=499
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