Word on the wire is that The Capture, BBC1’s intriguing new six-part surveillance thriller, has all the water-cooler potential of Bodyguard. The complex story of an innocent man falsely accused in the ‘post-truth’ era will keep even the most observant armchair sleuth on their toes. It is a timely production, taking on such hot topics as fake news and the power of the intelligence services.
It stars the superb Holliday Grainger as ice-cool cop DI Rachel Carey and Callum Turner (War And Peace) as a soldier caught in a hellish hi-tech web. And she has high hopes for the show. ‘No one could foresee the success Bodyguard,’ she admits, ‘but the moment I saw the script for The Capture I knew it had that certain something. It’s a production I would definitely want to watch.’ Read More
TimeOut: ‘Animals’ stars on freedom and friendship
The ‘Animals’ stars talk about their buzzy friendship drama, finding meaning in life and party panic.
Dubbed ‘“Withnail and I” with girls’ by Caitlin Moran, Emma Jane Unsworth’s novel ‘Animals’ was published in 2014. Now she has adapted it for a film directed by Sophie Hyde (‘52 Tuesdays’) featuring Alia Shawkat as debonair rebel Tyler and Holliday Grainger as sidetracked writer Laura. Powered by MDMA (smashed-up cola Chupa Chups), cocaine (icing sugar) and gallons of white wine (apple juice), their combined energy captures the euphoria of wild nights out in Dublin, the repetitive nature of a lifestyle of coming up and coming down, and the private desires that can drive even the closest friends apart.
Holliday Grainger on flashing, corsets and #timesup
As to promote The Animals, Holly made a few interviews, which we already post, but he also bring you a new interview which was out on a Herald magazine ! She was featured on the cover.
HAVE you ever, I ask Holliday Grainger, flashed a pianist in real life?
“Flashed a what?” the woman sitting opposite me in a suite in a London hotel asks, sounding maybe ever so slightly horrified.
“A pianist,” I repeat.
“Oh, a pianist.” She looks relieved. “Have I ever flashed a pianist? Nope, I don’t think I ever have. I’ve never flashed a pianist.”
She pauses, has a think and then adds: “I might have flashed a guitarist.”
Holliday Grainger is a 31-year-old actress with cheekbones, a Manchester accent, a full-throated laugh and a career that has already has the kind of sustain The Pixies’ Joey Santiago regularly coaxes out of his Les Paul guitar.
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Metro.co.uk: Sixty Seconds with Holliday Grainger
The actress, 31, on mind reading on the Tube and playing a hard-partying Dubliner in new film Animals
How was it filming all the drinking scenes in animals? there are a lot of them!
Yes, there are. We were drinking a lot of apple juice so there were sugar highs. It’s kind of interesting to track that continuity of drunkenness. You’ve just got to remember what it feels like.
Were you inspired by any of your friends, naming no names?
Definitely. It’s all from aspects of every friendship I have or from people I see.
What kind of party person are you?
Obviously I’ve been through my stages, my blowout stage — haven’t we all? — but I’m pretty good now. One thing about getting older is hangovers are harder. And you’ve got to have a lot of stamina when you’re on a shoot. I can’t burn the candle at both ends like I used to.
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TIFF Outtakes + Screencaps Section updated
Last April, we released two photos from a TIFF photoshoot featuring Holliday and Anna Paquin for Tell It To The Bees. We now release 3 extra outtakes from that photoshoot!
Also, visit our newly updated category for screencaps, where Holly made interview, event appearances and others, which we added caps to the gallery from videos from the web:
Sundance Film Festival London ’19 presents ‘Animals’
As previously announced by us here and our social networks, we bring you pictures and videos from Sundance Film Festival London ’19 from Animals premiere! Enjoy:
PUBLIC APPEARANCES – 2019 – MAY 30: American Airlines x Sundance Festival opening night party at The May Fair Hotel
PUBLIC APPEARANCES – 2019 – MAY 30: Sundance London Filmmaker and Press Breakfast
PUBLIC APPEARANCES – 2019 – MAY 31: Pre-Party European Premiere of “Animals” during the Sundance Film Festival
PUBLIC APPEARANCES – 2019 – MAY 31: European Premiere of “Animals” during the Sundance Film Festival
PUBLIC APPEARANCES – 2019 – JUNE 01: ”ANIMALS” SCREENING DURING SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL