Academy Award winner and longtime stage actress Maggie Smith has taken on many fulfilling roles over the years, although she wouldn’t include her work in Downton Abbey or the Harry Potter films among them.
Smith, who played schoolmistress Minerva McGonagall in the boy-wizard adventures and Dowager Countess Violet Crawley in the period drama told the U.K.’s Evening Standard she didn’t find her roles in the two franchises creatively challenging.
“I am deeply grateful for the work in Potter and indeed Downton but it wasn’t what you’d call satisfying. I didn’t really feel I was acting in those things,” Smith said.
The 84-year-old actress added that she and the late Alan Rickman, who played Professor Severus Snape, used to joke that their work on the Potter movies was made up entirely of reaction shots. Still, Smith said there was a upside to being in the...
Smith, who played schoolmistress Minerva McGonagall in the boy-wizard adventures and Dowager Countess Violet Crawley in the period drama told the U.K.’s Evening Standard she didn’t find her roles in the two franchises creatively challenging.
“I am deeply grateful for the work in Potter and indeed Downton but it wasn’t what you’d call satisfying. I didn’t really feel I was acting in those things,” Smith said.
The 84-year-old actress added that she and the late Alan Rickman, who played Professor Severus Snape, used to joke that their work on the Potter movies was made up entirely of reaction shots. Still, Smith said there was a upside to being in the...
- 12/7/2019
- by Anita Bennett
- Deadline Film + TV
Tribeca Enterprises and Chanel have announced the second annual Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program to support new and emerging Us-based female writers and directors of short-form narrative films.
Five filmmakers will receive project support and one will be awarded full financing to produce her short film, along with support of Tribeca Studios and Pulse Films to make the project.
The four other projects will each receive grant funds to continue the development of their films.
The participants are: Ani Simon-Kennedy with Camp Moonlight; Joey Ally with Displacement Therapy; A.V. Rockwell with Feathers; Catherine Eaton with On The Outs; and Sonejuhi Sinha with The Quarry.
The initiative runs in New York from October 25-27.
The Visual Effects Society said on Thursday that five-time Oscar winner Ken Ralston will receive the Ves Lifetime Achievement Award “in recognition of his enormous contributions to filmed entertainment.” The award will be presented at the 15th Annual Ves Awards...
Five filmmakers will receive project support and one will be awarded full financing to produce her short film, along with support of Tribeca Studios and Pulse Films to make the project.
The four other projects will each receive grant funds to continue the development of their films.
The participants are: Ani Simon-Kennedy with Camp Moonlight; Joey Ally with Displacement Therapy; A.V. Rockwell with Feathers; Catherine Eaton with On The Outs; and Sonejuhi Sinha with The Quarry.
The initiative runs in New York from October 25-27.
The Visual Effects Society said on Thursday that five-time Oscar winner Ken Ralston will receive the Ves Lifetime Achievement Award “in recognition of his enormous contributions to filmed entertainment.” The award will be presented at the 15th Annual Ves Awards...
- 10/20/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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