Strictly Come Dancing star Layton Williams slammed so-called 'fans' of the show before it was revealed he had made it through to the final. The actor and West End star had another amazing weekend in the ballroom with dance partner Nikita Kuzmin.
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Hellooooo!”Robin Williams improvised so much on the set of the 1993 comedy “Mrs. Doubtfire” that production ended up shooting two million feet of film by the time the movie wrapped. “Early on in the process, he went to me, ‘Hey boss, the way I like to work, if you’re up for it, is I’ll give you three or four scripted takes, and then let’s play,’” Chris Columbus, 65, told Business Insider.
“By saying that, what he meant was he wanted to improvise.” “And that’s exactly how we shot every scene,” the “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” director added. “We would have exactly what was scripted, and then Robin would go off and it was something to behold.”In the film, Williams, who died by suicide in 2014 at age 63, plays Daniel Hillard, a struggling actor going through a divorce from wife Miranda (Sally Field). After their split, the newly single mother hires as a babysitter Mrs.
Euphegenia Doubtfire, who, unbeknownst to her, is actually her ex-husband.The film, which grossed more than $440 million worldwide and later spawned a Broadway musical, also stars Pierce Brosnan as Miranda’s colleague Stu. According to Columbus, Williams’ antics would often throw the entire production team off-kilter. “The poor script supervisor,” Columbus reminisced.
“Remember, this is the early 1990s, she wasn’t typing what he was saying. She was handwriting it and Robin would change every take.“So Robin would go to a place where he couldn’t remember much of what he said. We would go to the script supervisor and ask her and sometimes she didn’t even get it all,” he continued.
Strictly Come Dancing star Layton Williams slammed so-called 'fans' of the show before it was revealed he had made it through to the final. The actor and West End star had another amazing weekend in the ballroom with dance partner Nikita Kuzmin.
Strictly Come Dancing's Layton Williams was floored after judge Craig Revel Horwood gave him and partner Nikita Guzman a standing ovation during the semi-finals of the show. Layton and Nikita brought the house down with their lively performance of The Charleston - earning them full marks from the judges. When it was Craig's turn to give comments on the dance, he simply stood and clapped his hands, as his fellow judge Motsi Mabuse followed suit.
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Layton Williams has been dazzling us on Strictly Come Dancing and now he’s bringing the ballroom fun to Bad Education for its all-singing, all-dancing festive special. The 29-year-old, who plays Stephen Carmichael in the comedy reboot, says he was “absolutely thrilled” to show off his West End skills. “I’ve been gagging for a Christmas singy-songy musical moment from day dot,” he confesses.
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Robin Williams back in 2013.On the most recent episode of The Kardashians, the reality star had her fashion sense critiqued by her 10 year old daughter North West.While looking back at some of her previous Met Gala looks, Kardashian asked West what she thought about the floral Givenchy maternity dress she wore when she was pregnant with her back in 2013.“I really don’t like that one,” West said, while fellow reality star Scott Disick chimed in, “Nobody liked that one.”Kardashian, who attended the event as her ex-husband Kanye West‘s plus one, previously said she cried “the whole way home” after social media trolls compared her floral dress to a sofa.Williams — who died the following year — also made fun of Kardashian’s look by posting side-by-side images of her in the dress and himself as Mrs. Doubtfire.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Mrs. Doubtfire” director Chris Columbus revealed to Business Insider while celebrating the movie’s 30th anniversary this month that talks for a sequel to the beloved 1993 comedy only started in 2014 shortly before Robin William’s passing. Following the comedian’s death, there was not a shot Columbus would ever make another “Mrs.
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Robin Williams was known to be a talent in improvisation and Mrs. Doubtfire director Chris Columbus is opening up about working with the late actor.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Mrs. Doubtfire” director Chris Columbus marked the film’s 30th anniversary this month with a new interview courtesy of Business Insider in which he revealed that 2 million feet of film was shot during the making of the 1993 comedy because Robin Williams improvised so much dialogue. The film is home to one of Williams’ most classic characters.
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