Sir Tom Jones received a sweet surprise from a longtime friend while appearing on “The Voice UK”.
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LONDON -- When 22-year-old Daisy Edgar-Jones ditched her British accent for the dulcet Irish tones of Marianne in “Normal People,” the actor’s stardom hit a new trajectory.Based on Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel, “Normal People” became one of the biggest and most talked about television shows of 2020, mesmerizing audiences with the haunting love affair of Edgar-Jones and newcomer Paul Mescal as Marianne and Connell.Launched during a global lockdown, the actor jokes in an interview they had a
.Sir Tom Jones received a sweet surprise from a longtime friend while appearing on “The Voice UK”.
600,000 people have already been given the first Covid-19 vaccine in the UK between December 8 and December 20 according to the UK government. And tens of thousands of coronavirus vaccines will be delivered across Wales next week, one of Wales' medical advisers has said.
Lesley Manville is among those being awarded in the British New Year Honours scheme, which this year will recognize 1,239 individuals for their "extraordinary contributions" to the U.K.
We couldn’t imagine anyone else as Bridget Jones at this point, but Hugh Grant admitted he wasn’t sold on casting Renée Zellweger for the role.
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“The Undoing” actor who played caddish Daniel Cleaver alongside Texas-born Zellweger in the hugely popular flick admitted that he was initially skeptical of the unusual casting.“There was a whole scandal about why isn’t this a British actress?” Grant said in a new BBC2 documentary, “Being Bridget Jones.”“I didn’t know Renée Zellweger, and a Texan playing a British character? It did seem like a stretch,” he confessed.Grant revealed that the two-time Oscar winner’s first attempt at a British
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Being Bridget Jones, now streaming on BBC iPlayer.“I didn’t know Renée Zellweger, and a Texan playing a British character, it did seem like a stretch,” Grant continued.The actor added that Zellweger’s first attempt was “good” but also sounded like Princess Margaret, which he described as “startling”.“She was told to kind of, well she thought she better loosen it up a bit,” he added. “Then she came in and it was Princess Margaret having had a stroke.
Young Woman and the Sea, according to Deadline.The actress, who played Rey in the Star Wars Skywalker trilogy, is attached to the Disney+ project telling the story of the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel.Joachim Rønning (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil) is on board to direct, from a script by Jeff Nathanson.