Metro.co.uk: JBF reflects on playing ‘intense’ Izzie Todd in adaptation of Kate Atkinson novel

written by Ana on 20 April 2022

Jessica Brown Findlay has been interviewed by Metro.co.uk for a small snippet of Life After Life which was out last Friday. We will soon bring you HD screencaps to the gallery, so be sure to check later this week:

Jessica Brown Findlay talks about changing the past in BBC2’s Life After Life and coping with the anticipation of the novel’s fans.

Jessica has a habit of playing the most progressive character in a period drama. We know all about her turn as women’s rights campaigner Lady Sybil Crawley in Downton Abbey and now we have a new name to add to the list: Izzie Todd, a free-wheeling, high-living ‘modern spinster’ who has made post-World War I London her playground and damn what anyone else thinks. She also happens to be the aunt to Ursula Todd (Thomasin McKenzie), who has the strange habit of living her life all over again every time she dies.

Life After Life is high-concept sci-fi with a period drama twist – and a fascinating look at what it means to live your best life. But is Ursula’s life a gift or a curse?

‘If you were consciously repeating parts of your life, that would be torture,’ says Brown Findlay, charming company as she pauses to say please and thank you to those who greet her as she arrives on set for a different job. – ‘Part of the joy of it all – and it doesn’t always end happily – is the unknown. A lot of the reasons why we survive the things that come our way is that we’re not warned about it first, you just have to deal with it as you are living. A lot of the weight that Ursula carries is this feeling that she’s been here before.’

Would Brown Findlay change her past if she had the chance?

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Gallery Update: The Riot Club

written by Ana on 13 March 2022

After going through two days of voting (phase 1 and phase 2) we ended up updating the 2014 movie The Riot Club aka, first production name, Posh, into the gallery! Enjoy Blu-Ray quality screencaps as well as updated production stills from the movie, now available in the gallery:

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 Film Productions > 2014. The Riot Club

We also added some old interviews screencaps of Jessica while promoting the movie which also include two small scenes on set! Also, you may want to check one of my other fansites for co-star Holliday Grainger who also co-stared on The Riot Club. You can also see the interviews separated by interviewer: Film4, LondonLive 1, LondonLive 2, GlamourMagazine, OnDemandEntertainment, MSN, AP and The Fancarpet Extra.

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Interviews & Talkshows > Movies

Jessica attends 65th BFI London Film Festival

written by Ana on 16 October 2021

Jessica shined on her first 2021 attendance to premiere  Munich – The Edge of War, and wore Jimmy Choo (shoes), and Maison Valentino (outfit).

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Premieres, Special Events and other Appearances > 2021 > OCT 13: “Munich – The Edge of War” Premiere Screening – 65th BFI London Film Festival

Premieres, Special Events and other Appearances > 2021 > OCT 13: “Munich – The Edge of War” Post Premiere Reception

EDIT: Jessica did a short interview about her character as well as her decision on why she accepted to join the movie cast:

Herald Scotland Interview & Photos

written by Ana on 17 September 2017

A DREADED sunny day so I meet Jessica Brown Findlay in a hotel near the cemetery gates. This morning she’s in the Caledonian in Edinburgh, opposite St Cuthbert’s (where Thomas de Quincy is buried, if you’re interested). It’s the morning after the night of the world premiere of her new film England is Mine at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. That’s the new Morrissey film, if you didn’t know.

She does enjoy a good cemetery, does Brown Findlay. “I love cemeteries. I find them comforting. There are so many in London, really beautiful ones. There’s a great one in Stoke Newington. I go when I have a day. I like to go to the Good Egg in Stoke Newington for brunch and then walk through the cemetery with my partner.”
She doesn’t have a day just now, though. There is a film to promote. Jessica, let’s get down to it. Morrissey. Tortured genius or knob? “Oh God … Well, it’s the music that has always got me. Certain things can be said of the artist …”

Brown Findlay is a massive Smiths fan. All-the-albums-on-vinyl-sized. And maybe the fan in her hesitated before committing to England is Mine in case it all went Smiths up. “But the script was so beautiful,” she says.
Plus, it wasn’t about the flowers and the band and the theatrics. The film, she explains, is about “the world and soul and mind of someone before that”.
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Paul McGuigan reveals why Victor Frankenstein isn’t true to the book

written by Ana on 23 October 2015

Paul McGuigan has been dishing the details on upcoming film, Victor Frankensteinsaying it’s very different to Mary Shelley’s original novel and fans of the book might be in for a shock. Total Film sat down with the director to talk about why he wanted his adaptation to be different, and went behind-the-scenes to get some exclusive on-set pictures featuring Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy.

“[Frankenstein] has always been a mad scientist with funny hair – and that’s it,” shrugs director Paul McGuigan. “He’s not really had a backstory. So we give him one – a backstory that we’ve chosen to make up. So there’s not a reverence to the book. I think sometimes people are over- reverent about it. I don’t know if you’ve ever read it, but it’s as dull as dishwater, man. In a way, my catchphrase is always: ‘If you love the book, you’ll hate the movie.’ It’s that kind of twisting of it.”

Total film also caught up with stars James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe who were keen to support McGuigan’s more modern version of the tale. “There are things that you’d want to see out of the original,” admits McAvoy. “The archetypal mad doctor, mad scientist. And that’s perfectly there, in bucketloads.” But apparently, there will also be more comedy, action and… err, body fluids?

“One of the most stomach-turning scenes in the film will probably be the scene where I go from being a hunchback to not being a hunchback any more,” says Radcliffe. “It involves… I don’t want to say, because it’s so gross, I’ll ruin it.” We can’t wait!

Co-starring Jessica Brown Findlay and Andrew Scott, Victor Frankenstein will hit US cinemas November 25 2015 and UK cinemas December 4 2015. Read Total Film’s interview with Paul McGuigan, James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe in full in the new issue on sale October 23 2015.

Source: GamesRadar.Com

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