Tom Sturridge

[mari]

allstars-online.net

 

[foreverandnone]

omg how cute!! that smile!!

 

[franchini]

aww, they both look very cute there.

 

[Les_Sucettes]

Love the quote, should have been a warning for Robert.

 

[Rebe]

he has a great smile

 

[beatgobum]

Playwright: my fears of an English Columbine

The writer of a play empathising with the 7/7 bombers is causing more controversy with a work about a bloody classroom shooting.

Simon Stephens's new play, called Punk Rock, is inspired by his fears that a British school will suffer a Columbine-style attack.

He revealed details of the new production today as his terrorism play, p*rn*gr*phy, finally gets its London premiere at the Tricycle. No other London venue has been willing to present the play in the two years since it opened in Germany.

The Lyric in Hammersmith is being equally bold by scheduling Punk Rock which Mr Stephens, 38, calls "The History Boys with a hand grenade up it". Punk Rock is about the lives of a group of sixth-form friends in a fee-paying grammar school. It sees tensions grow between the teenagers until one is tipped over the edge.

Mr Stephens said he deliberately set the story in a middle-class school: "In theatre, violence is often by the economically marginalised. I wanted to create characters who were recognisable and likeable to a middle-class audience. The kids in Punk Rock are affluent, articulate, educated and violent." The shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and massacres in Finland and Germany were "some of the most haunting news events of the last decade" for Mr Stephens.

"As a father and teacher I am haunted by the future of our young. There's a part of me that thinks it could happen because the dislocation and alienation under an act like that is something some kids in England feel," he said. The father-of-three, who lives in Mile End, has worked in Eastbrook comprehensive, Dagenham, and in private schools since becoming a writer.

The cast for Punk Rock includes Tom Sturridge, making his stage debut after appearing in Richard Curtis's film The Boat That Rocked, and Jessica Raine, who was in David Hare's Gethsemane.Sturridge, 23, said: "People want to be protected at the theatre. If you see violence, it's between working-class and urban males and you can go home and say, 'Wasn't that scary, darling?'."

The play is the first put on by Sean Holmes, the Lyric's new artistic director. "It's provocative and challenging and will shock, but in a good way," he said.

In p*rn*gr*phy, Mr Stephens showed a bomber's journey from Leeds to the capital. He said: "When you think of terrorists as human beings, it allows you to think of victims as human beings."

Punk Rock is at the Lyric from 3 to 26 September.

source: thisislondon.co.uk via community.livejournal.com/tomstudaily

 

[leiwen]

look at his sweater and there are little ducks on it too

thanks for posting bb

 

[beatgobum]

picspam made by lj user: imskankalicious from tom in "The boat that rocked" (it might contain spoliers for those who havent watched it yet i guess)

community.livejournal.com/imskankalicious

i skipped a few and the end, but you can see the whole thing here: http://community.livejournal.com/imskankalicious/16714.html#cutid1

 

[Les_Sucettes]

I tried watching this movie went it came out just for Tom, but It was so bad that he was not incentive enough for me to finnish it.

 

[Erna]

I loved the Boat that rocked! Tom was so cute. I really really enjoyed the whole movie 'cause of the great music and the fabulous cast.

 

[flyme2themoon]

Tom in US Vogue September 2009



Source: Scanned by flyme2themoon

 

[mrsjamesdean]

 

[Jeanster]

Tom in US Vogue September 2009

"22-year-old Tom Sturridge"? I think he is older than RPatz, and Pattinson is 23.

Thanks for posting, flyme2themoon

 

[Erna]

^ He was born in December 1985, Pattinson -86. They have only few months age difference though.

 

[dajrekshn]

i think it's unknown weather it's december 1985 or december 1986 as he stated two different dates as his b-days.

 

[Jeanster]

I thought it was unknown whether it's december 1985 or january 1986, but I have never heard of him being born on december 1986...

 

[dajrekshn]

that and this, cus i don't think they'd get it wrong for vogue.
i'll ask my friend, she's tom-obsessed, think she'd know.

 

[STYLEOClDE]

His hair looks so f---ing cute!

 

[dajrekshn]

asked my friend and she says it's unknown but that 1985 is generally taken as his birth year. i think he's younger than that. dunno.

 

[Label Basher]

Thanks for the Vogue scan. Did anyone else notice that they have changed the name from The Boat That Rocked to Pirate Radio? How stupid is that. Everyone knows it's called that so why change it this late in the game just for the US. Shakes head.