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Featuring, not one, not two, but three of Hunger’s Mighty Blighty Issue 6 stars, The Riot Club is a forthcoming film adaptation of Laura Wade’s acclaimed play, Posh. Today we’ve finally been treated to the much anticipated first trailer, and it’s good.

Sam Claflin, Holliday Grainger and Tom Hollander star alongside fellow Brits Max Irons and Douglas Booth in this drama-fuelled feature directed by Lone Scherfig, who you will no doubt be familiar with thanks to her Best Picture Academy Award nominee An Education and the recent cry fest that was One Day. When we caught up with Claflin for our Spring/Summer Issue, he commended his Riot Club cast members, saying that he believes them to be “the epitome of young, amazing British talent”, and he wasn’t lying.

The film follows two first year Oxford University students (played by Irons and Claflin), adamant to join the infamous Riot Club, a fictionalised version of the famed Bullingdon Club. And by the looks of things, as the film unfolds, their rowdy rich boy antics get a little out of control: we spot violence, tears and a blood-covered Irons looking rather taken aback.

While Claflin has bagged quite a few blockbuster roles as of late, most recently playing Finnick in the second instalment of The Hunger Games, it looks like The Riot Club will see Claflin take on a darker role: “When I read the script for the first time I was blown away. It’s a world that I’m not familiar with whatsoever, so I knew it was going to be challenging. I thought that it was my opportunity to prove to the world that I can do more than just be the guy who falls in love.”

Grainger plays Iron’s love interest, “a Northern, working-class, slightly socialist, vaguely intelligent young girl”.

In her interview with Hunger, the Manchester-born actress told us: “It was a great job to walk into. Especially as I’d just come back from Louisiana where I knew no one. It was great walking into the set of Posh where I knew most of the guys, and if I hadn’t met them personally, then they were best friends with one of my best friends.”

The Riot Club is out on the 19th September 2014.

www.hungertv.com/feature/riot-club/

Posted: 7/5/2014, 11:47

High Rise (Jeremy Irons, Augustus Prew) - the borgias cast

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EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller join Tom Hiddleston on RPC satire.

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Posted: 7/5/2014, 11:32

Anna Bolena (Anne Boleyn) - rinascimento estero

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La lettera che sembra che Anna abbia scritto ad Enrico VIII qualche giorno prima dell'esecuzione. Non è certo che sia autentica:

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To the King from the Lady in the Tower” [Heading said to have been added by Thomas Cromwell]

“Sir, your Grace’s displeasure, and my Imprisonment are Things so strange unto me, as what to Write, or what to Excuse, I am altogether ignorant; whereas you sent unto me (willing me to confess a Truth, and so obtain your Favour) by such a one, whom you know to be my ancient and professed Enemy; I no sooner received the Message by him, than I rightly conceived your Meaning; and if, as you say, confessing Truth indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all Willingness and Duty perform your Command.

But let not your Grace ever imagine that your poor Wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a Fault, where not so much as Thought thereof proceeded. And to speak a truth, never Prince had Wife more Loyal in all Duty, and in all true Affection, than you have found in Anne Boleyn, with which Name and Place could willingly have contented my self, as if God, and your Grace’s Pleasure had been so pleased. Neither did I at any time so far forge my self in my Exaltation, or received Queenship, but that I always looked for such an Alteration as now I find; for the ground of my preferment being on no surer Foundation than your Grace’s Fancy, the least Alteration, I knew, was fit and sufficient to draw that Fancy to some other subject.

You have chosen me, from a low Estate, to be your Queen and Companion, far beyond my Desert or Desire. If then you found me worthy of such Honour, Good your Grace, let not any light Fancy, or bad Counsel of mine Enemies, withdraw your Princely Favour from me; neither let that Stain, that unworthy Stain of a Disloyal Heart towards your good Grace, ever cast so foul a Blot on your most Dutiful Wife, and the Infant Princess your Daughter.

Try me, good King, but let me have a Lawful Trial, and let not my sworn Enemies sit as my Accusers and Judges; yes, let me receive an open Trial, for my Truth shall fear no open shame; then shall you see, either mine Innocency cleared, your Suspicion and Conscience satisfied, the Ignominy and Slander of the World stopped, or my Guilt openly declared. So that whatsoever God or you may determine of me, your Grace may be freed from an open Censure; and mine Offence being so lawfully proved, your Grace is at liberty, both before God and Man, not only to execute worthy Punishment on me as an unlawful Wife, but to follow your Affection already settled on that party, for whose sake I am now as I am, whose Name I could some good while since have pointed unto: Your Grace being not ignorant of my Suspicion therein.

But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my Death, but an Infamous Slander must bring you the enjoying of your desired Happiness; then I desire of God, that he will pardon your great Sin therein, and likewise mine Enemies, the Instruments thereof; that he will not call you to a strict Account for your unprincely and cruel usage of me, at his General Judgement-Seat, where both you and my self must shortly appear, and in whose Judgement, I doubt not, (whatsover the World may think of me) mine Innocence shall be openly known, and sufficiently cleared.

My last and only Request shall be, That my self may only bear the Burthen of your Grace’s Displeasure, and that it may not touch the Innocent Souls of those poor Gentlemen, who (as I understand) are likewise in strait Imprisonment for my sake. If ever I have found favour in your Sight; if ever the Name of Anne Boleyn hath been pleasing to your Ears, then let me obtain this Request; and I will so leave to trouble your Grace any further, with mine earnest Prayers to the Trinity to have your Grace in his good keeping, and to direct you in all your Actions.

Your most Loyal and ever Faithful Wife, Anne Bullen.

From my doleful Prison the Tower, this 6th of May.

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Posted: 5/5/2014, 14:03

Alessandro Farnese (Paolo III) - personaggi

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Paolo III Farnese nella basilica di Santa Maria in Ara Coeli ~~cioè la chiesa dove si è sposato Totti~~