On eve of receiving highest Bafta honour, actress hits out at increasing number of TV murder victims who are young women
On the eve of the awards ceremony where she will receive the British film industry's highest honour tonight – a Bafta fellowship, from Prince William – Dame Helen Mirren has criticised the growing number of dead women in British television drama.
Mirren told the Observer that she agreed with the playwright David Hare's recent complaints about the bloodthirsty nature of most drama on British TV, saying there was a clear sexual divide when it came to the corpses. "Most of those bodies are young women," she said.
Hare had spoken out against the number of murder victims on television at the launch of the second of his Worricker trilogy of films last week. "I can't personally stand the body count in contemporary drama. I just think it's ridiculous," he said.
On the eve of the awards ceremony where she will receive the British film industry's highest honour tonight – a Bafta fellowship, from Prince William – Dame Helen Mirren has criticised the growing number of dead women in British television drama.
Mirren told the Observer that she agreed with the playwright David Hare's recent complaints about the bloodthirsty nature of most drama on British TV, saying there was a clear sexual divide when it came to the corpses. "Most of those bodies are young women," she said.
Hare had spoken out against the number of murder victims on television at the launch of the second of his Worricker trilogy of films last week. "I can't personally stand the body count in contemporary drama. I just think it's ridiculous," he said.
- 2/16/2014
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Brendan Fraser and Kristin Scott Thomas will star in Neil Labute‘s new film, Seconds of Pleasure.
And that’s not all, because according to some new reports, Colin Firth and Ed Harris are in talks to appear in the film as well.
Labute is best known for his controversial films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors and his play The Shape of Things which he also adapted for the screen.
Check out the Seconds of Pleasure synopsis part:
“This time, in Labute’s debut collection of stories, he brings to the page his cutting humor and compelling take on the shadowy terrain of the human heart.
Seductive and disturbing, the stories in Seconds of Pleasure are not for the faint of heart. Each potent and pithy tale finds men and women exploiting-or at the mercy of-the hidden fault lines that separate them: a woman leaves...
And that’s not all, because according to some new reports, Colin Firth and Ed Harris are in talks to appear in the film as well.
Labute is best known for his controversial films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors and his play The Shape of Things which he also adapted for the screen.
Check out the Seconds of Pleasure synopsis part:
“This time, in Labute’s debut collection of stories, he brings to the page his cutting humor and compelling take on the shadowy terrain of the human heart.
Seductive and disturbing, the stories in Seconds of Pleasure are not for the faint of heart. Each potent and pithy tale finds men and women exploiting-or at the mercy of-the hidden fault lines that separate them: a woman leaves...
- 1/12/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
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