Belfast creator Sir Kenneth Branagh says Outlander star Caitriona Balfe will return to the Oscars stage despite her snub at this year's ceremony.
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Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe sat down with British Vogue to talk about their film “Belfast”, which has earned them awards buzz.
For the publication’s February issue, the Irish stars discuss growing up in the country dubbed the “Emerald Isle”, the important meaning behind the film, and what they hope the younger generation will take from it.
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Dornan, who actually grew up in Belfast in the 1980s and ’90s, recalled his youth.
“If you’re born there, and you’re raised there, you’re very cognizant of the fact that you are from a very complicated place,” he said. “From the day I was born, until the day I left, people pretty much were fighting a civil war.”
Balfe noted her own experience living in the Republic of Ireland, right on the border, in Monaghan.
“A very IRA-leaning area. But my dad was a police sergeant — that’s why we were there — so we were brought up very apolitical.”
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Dornan and Balfe both acknowledged that, as children, they were unaware of the idea of “sides,” of division, for much of their day-to-day lives.
“I always think back to stuff that became normal, that was not normal. Like trying to meet your mates on Saturday afternoons in town and there’d been a bomb scare,” Dornan said.
“I remember we used to go weekly shopping in the north, and you would go through checkpoints at least once a week. We didn’t even really think about it until our cousins came up from the south and they would be terrified going through, because you’d have British soldiers with machine guns pointed at the car asking for your papers,” Balfe added.
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Belfast creator Sir Kenneth Branagh says Outlander star Caitriona Balfe will return to the Oscars stage despite her snub at this year's ceremony.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime VideoDirector: Kenneth Branagh | Starring: Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, Colin Morgan, and Jude HillA semi-autobiographical film that chronicles the life of a working-class family and their young son's childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital. Where to watch: Apple TV+Director: Sian Heder | Starring: Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant, Marlee MatlinRuby is the only hearing member of a deaf family from Gloucester, Massachusetts. At 17, she works mornings before school to help her parents and brother keep their fishing business afloat.
The Power of the Dog), heartwarming tales about family's striving to do their best (King Richard or Coda, for sure), or something else entirely, there are so many movies you can root for this awards season. And for once you have time to catch up with all of them.
West Side Story, a role that won Rita Moreno an Oscar for the 1961 adaptation, has no shortage of scene-stealing Oscar moments, many of which show off her incredible talent as a singer and dancer as well. Caitríona Balfe’s role as the protective mother in Belfast looks close to a lock as well. She was the only actor from her film nominated at the SAG awards, making the cut even as Jamie Dornan and Ciarán Hinds were brutally snubbed.
Outlander'sCatriona Balfe has admitted she is "proud" after she and new film Belfast got a whopping six BAFTA nominations.
Clayton Davis Ballots are in, and the nail-biting portion of Oscar season has begun. Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards will be revealed on Feb.
Already having made history at Netflix with the record-breaking “Red Notice,” Gal Gadot (“Wonder Woman”) will be returning to the streaming service for another genre film, “Heart of Stone.” Tom Harper, the helmer behind “Wild Rose,” directs from a script penned by comic book writer Greg Rucka (“The Old Guard”) and Allison Schroeder(“Frozen II,” “Hidden Figures”).
Jamie Dornan has found his next role, and this time, he’ll be acting opposite Gal Gadot!
Jamie Dornan (“Belfast”) has joined the cast of “Heart of Stone,” a spy thriller that will star Gal Gadot in what could be an action franchise in the vein of the “Mission: Impossible” series for Skydance Media and Netflix, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.“The Old Guard” writer Greg Rucka wrote the screenplay with Allison Schroeder. Tom Harper, known for “The Aeronauts” and “Wild Rose,” will direct.Plot details are being kept under wraps.Gadot is producing through her Pilot Wave banner along with Jaron Varsano, Mockingbird’s Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lyn, and Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger will also produce.Patty Whitcher, Harper and Rucka are the executive producers.Skydance has already found success with the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, and Skydance’s “The Old Guard” starring Charlize Theron and “6 Underground” also proved to be big hits for Netflix. Dornan is currently starring in “Belfast,” for which he received a Critics Choice nomination and Golden Globe nomination.
Angelique Jackson After warming fans’ hearts as Pa in the awards season contender “Belfast,” Jamie Dornan has signed on to join Gal Gadot in the international spy thriller “Heart of Stone,” from Netflix and Skydance. Directed by Tom Harper and written by Greg Rucka and Allison Schroeder, the international spy thriller is produced by Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger, along with Mockingbird’s Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn, and Pilot Wave’s Gadot and Jaron Varsano.
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off his Oscar-buzzed turn in Belfast, Jamie Dornan looks to have found his next big role, as sources tell Deadline he is set to join Gal Gadot in the international spy thriller Heart of Stone from Netflix and Skydance.
Kirsten Dunst is looking back at her time on the set of the 2006 historical drama, and recalling just how «nervous» she was as a young actress in such a free-spirited and sometimes risqué project.Dunst recently reconnected with her co-star and on-screen love interest, Jamie Dornan, as part of's Actors on Actors chat series, and the pair reflected on their experiences on the set.After Dornan admitted that that he felt a bit intimidated by the film — considering it was his first-ever acting gig — Dunst revealed, «I was nervous too.»«All our stuff was like making out, and I’m not comfortable with that,» shared Dunst, who was 22 while filming the Sofia Coppola-directed drama. «It’s never comfortable, ever.»«I think my first time I even showed my breasts was with Sofia.
Kirsten Dunst (“The Power of the Dog”) and Jamie Dornan (“Belfast”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here.Since their first meeting, Jamie Dornan and Kirsten Dunst have followed similar trajectories. They initially played off one another in Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film “Marie Antoinette” — his eligible Swedish count set off sparks with her teen queen of France.
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Jude Hill was just nine when he landed the role that might well lead to him becoming the youngest person to be nominated for an Oscar in over nine decades.The budding star beat 300 hopefuls to play a fictionalised version of a young Sir Kenneth Branagh in the director’s semi-autobiographical film, Belfast, which arrived in cinemas last weekend. Largely shot in black and white, the film also stars Jamie Dornan and tells the story of a young boy growing up in a working-class family during the Troubles in the late 1960s – and Jude has wowed cinema-goers with his star turn in the lead role.