Virginielle
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^The whole young doctor volunteering thing didn't hurt either.
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Virginielle said:
I guess you're right about that too
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kochie332 said:i just saw the movie and man it was good. James is a gifted actor. Plus I didnt mind seeing his butt
Ha that scene was sweeet.
Forest Whitaker did do an amazing job acting the part of Amin, but I think because his performance was so hyped James didn't get as much recognition for his own performance as Dr. Garrigan as he would have otherwise, which is really unfortunate. I thought he was fantastic and just as interesting a character.
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^i agree. i mean hype for a movie is good, but when its just hype about one performance people tend to overlook the other performances. james did a fantastic job with his character.
when i rented it i was surprised at how many pictures of whitaker were on the cover of the dvd. its like 3 pictures of him and a tiny picture of kerry washington? kerry had a much much smaller role than james. plus why do they need so many pictures of whitaker on the cover?
when i rented it i was surprised at how many pictures of whitaker were on the cover of the dvd. its like 3 pictures of him and a tiny picture of kerry washington? kerry had a much much smaller role than james. plus why do they need so many pictures of whitaker on the cover?
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kochie332 said:
I guess because James' character was fictional? He was a plot device used to tell the story of Idi Amin---who the movie was essentially about. It was just told through the eyes of an outsider who'd gained an insider's point of view, which was probably more entertaining than had it been simply a biopic.
I think that had the movie been represented more accurately to what it was in marketing---more the doctor's narrative than Amin's---I would have been more likely to see it for reasons other than James McAvoy. I'm not so much one for biopics.
^it doesnt matter if a character is fictional or not. james did a really good job with that fictional character and was hardly recognized for it. And the only problem i had with the marketing was that they focused on Whitaker and his portrayal of Amin, not on the movie itself. They just really focused on his oscar worthy performance, not enough on the plot of the movie
I really didnt see the movie because of James. I saw it because my friends said it was a good movie. I just would have liked the movie and the other actors be recognized as well
I really didnt see the movie because of James. I saw it because my friends said it was a good movie. I just would have liked the movie and the other actors be recognized as well
According to The Evening Standard, James McAvoy is being touted to take on the role of unlikely New York-based sex writer Grant Stoddard.
Stoddard left the backwaters of Essex to pen a racy 'I did it for Science' column in Manhattan, which transformed his success rate with the opposite sex and took him into a number of unusual scenarios such as all-male nude bridge playing parties.
'Paramount Pictures have bought the film rights,' Grant Stoddard told the newspaper at the launch of his book Working Stiff -The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert, at LVPO on Dean Street in Soho last night. 'My mother thinks Orlando Bloom should play me but she is being kind. James McAvoy would be perfect. I think he'd do it very well.'
Stoddard left the backwaters of Essex to pen a racy 'I did it for Science' column in Manhattan, which transformed his success rate with the opposite sex and took him into a number of unusual scenarios such as all-male nude bridge playing parties.
'Paramount Pictures have bought the film rights,' Grant Stoddard told the newspaper at the launch of his book Working Stiff -The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert, at LVPO on Dean Street in Soho last night. 'My mother thinks Orlando Bloom should play me but she is being kind. James McAvoy would be perfect. I think he'd do it very well.'
I agree, that his performance was greatly overlooked.daddyslittlegrl8
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Is that his wife in the above pictures??
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Yeah---Anne Marie Duff---she's great. See 'Shameless': series 1 and 2---they're both terrif in them. She's also in The Magdalene Sisters and in the last two minutes of Notes on a Scandal.
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No I'm prett sure they did get married, very quietly.
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/James+McAvoy+s+star+challenge-26064.html
"The couple announced they married in a secret ceremony at the beginning of October this year, when they attended the London Film Festival together with Anne-Marie sporting an enormous diamond ring."
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/James+McAvoy+s+star+challenge-26064.html
"The couple announced they married in a secret ceremony at the beginning of October this year, when they attended the London Film Festival together with Anne-Marie sporting an enormous diamond ring."
Before going to his first Academy Awards ceremony this year, the Scottish actor James McAvoy spent a week in Uganda making a documentary for a Red Cross fund-raising campaign to help the country’s 1.4 million people left homeless by years of civil war.
For Mr. McAvoy the campaign is payback for “The Last King of Scotland,” which was set in Uganda and stars Forest Whitaker as the country’s infamous 1970s dictator, Idi Amin, and Mr. McAvoy as a young doctor who falls under his sway.
“The movie has been so good for our careers,” Mr. McAvoy, 28, said recently. “So it’s ridiculous not to use that to help.”
Mr. McAvoy’s career has been on the ascent ever since he graduated in 2000 from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Never without work — ask any actor how common that is — he shuttled among theater, television and film, with small parts and occasional leads. A hit BBC sitcom called “Shameless” made his name in 2004; a year later, his film work took over.
( It’s like someone’s released a book called ‘How Not to Write a Novel,’ and this guy has got that book and used it as a blueprint. )
For Mr. McAvoy the campaign is payback for “The Last King of Scotland,” which was set in Uganda and stars Forest Whitaker as the country’s infamous 1970s dictator, Idi Amin, and Mr. McAvoy as a young doctor who falls under his sway.
“The movie has been so good for our careers,” Mr. McAvoy, 28, said recently. “So it’s ridiculous not to use that to help.”
Mr. McAvoy’s career has been on the ascent ever since he graduated in 2000 from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Never without work — ask any actor how common that is — he shuttled among theater, television and film, with small parts and occasional leads. A hit BBC sitcom called “Shameless” made his name in 2004; a year later, his film work took over.
( It’s like someone’s released a book called ‘How Not to Write a Novel,’ and this guy has got that book and used it as a blueprint. )
Thanks for showing us the clip for 'Becoming Jane.' I am dying to see that film.
