Jamie Bell Talks “Billy Elliot the Musical”

July 1st, 2011 • By Tran :: Billy Elliot, Press

G’day visitors,

Thanks to Philip for linking me to this interview of Jamie Bell with San Francisco Chronicle about Billy Elliot the Musical.

Jamie Bell, the star of the film “Billy Elliot,” offers his thoughts on the stage musical:

Q: What’s your general reaction to the stage version?
A: I think it’s difficult when you try to take a film and turn it into something else; I don’t think it’s an easy thing. And they’ve done it very successfully. It works. The story is a great story. It’s so universal, it’s so accessible on a universal level that it doesn’t actually matter what (medium) you tell it in; it will work. It’s fantastic literature. You take a guy with everything against him, and he’s going to win. That’s the basic principle. So it’s a great show. It really works; I was surprised, really surprised.

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Also, there are new paparazzi photos of Jamie Bell strolling the streets at JustJared – we no longer add paparazzi photos here at JBO.

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Metro’s Interview with Jamie Bell

March 23rd, 2011 • By Tran :: E-Articles, The Eagle

Hello visitors,

Metro recently sat down with Jamie Bell for an interview about him avoiding the gym and getting into shape for his new film The Eagle by walking his dog.

Jamie Bell: The only physical exercise I do is walk the dog

Billy Elliott‘s child star Jamie Bell talks to Metro about avoiding the gym and getting into shape for his new film The Eagle by walking his dog.

A big pair of black-rimmed spectacles enters the hotel room. Somewhere behind them is a small, mild-mannered Jamie Bell. Seemingly dressed in grey school trousers, Bell flaunts a ‘geek chic’ exterior that gives no hint of the butched up bod he unleashes in The Eagle.

It’s a swords’n’sandals adventure set in Roman England that’s causing this one-time skinny unknown who beat 2,000 hopefuls to play ballet wonderboy Billy Elliot to be re-labeled as Billingham’s answer to Gladiator. So, how does it feel to be the new Russell Crowe?

‘Erm, I’m not really that at all, to be honest,’ says Bell, protectively shuffling his scuffed high tops on to the coffee table in front of him, ‘There was no trainer or on-set gym happening.

‘We wanted to try to be as authentic as possible and my character, Esca, is a slave.

‘If we bulked him up, it would look completely ridiculous – particularly on me, because I’m a tiny guy.’

Come on, Bell, those biceps don’t grow on trees. ‘I’m so not a keep fit person,’ he insists.

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And many thanks to Philip for linking me to the article.

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The Observer’s Interview with Jamie Bell

March 18th, 2011 • By Tran :: E-Articles, Jamie, Magazines

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This interview The Observer did was Jamie Bell was released earlier this week. Jamie Bell talks about his upcoming productions, his stint in New York, and life in Los Angeles.

Jamie Bell interview: This boy’s life

At 14, Jamie Bell beat 2,000 hopefuls to play Billy Elliot. A decade later, the boy from Billingham has 16 films under his belt and has worked with Clint Eastwood and Peter Jackson. But this summer he stars in Steven Spielberg’s Tintin – which is where, he says, the whole incredible adventure began

In a low-lit rum bar in a fashionably shabby corner of West Hollywood, Jamie Bell recalls the first time he saw a film in a cinema. “It was Jurassic Park,” he says. “I was eight years old and I was terrified because, you know – dinosaurs! They’re real!” He tells a good story. Plenty of animation. And the louder he gets the more Geordie his accent. “At the end, the credits said: ‘Directed by Steven Spielberg’ and I thought: ‘OK, I’m going to remember that name. Because he’s done something to me here, something important.’”

Sixteen years later, it’s happening again. In July, Bell plays the title role in Spielberg’s latest, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of The Unicorn. It’s one of four movies that Bell has coming out in 2011, a bumper year for the 24-year-old actor. First up is The Eagle, a swords-and-sandals adventure adapted from Rosemary Sutcliff’s classic historical novel. And then comes Tintin, one of the most popular comic strips of the century, realised with innovative motion-capture technology by the world’s most famous director. “If you told that kid watching those dinosaurs: ‘You’re going to be working with that man…’” He shakes his head. “It’s just incredible. A massive milestone. It has monumental connections.”

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Additionally, thanks to Philip, I have added scans of Jamie’s article in March 13th’s issue of The Observer. Unfortunately, the text is unreadable, so if you have better scans, please share with us by emailing me.

Other than that, thank you for visiting! Remember, you can follow Jamie Bell Online on Twitter or “Like” us on Facebook!

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NYMag.com’s Interview with Jamie

February 10th, 2011 • By Tran :: E-Articles, Jamie

Hello visitors,

Here is another great interview, but this time Jamie is interviewed by NYMag!

The Eagle’s Jamie Bell on Tintin, Scary Horses, and Almost Landing Spider-Man

Jamie Bell hasn’t been seen in a movie since 2008, but he’s about to make up for that with a vengeance. This Friday, he stars in Kevin Macdonald’s The Eagle, where he plays a second century slave accompanying his Roman master (Channing Tatum) on an adventure into the Scottish highlands, and he’ll then appear in Jane Eyre, the thriller Retreat, and Steven Spielberg’s highly anticipated The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, where he plays the beloved comic-strip character via motion capture. All this, and he just wrapped the Sam Worthington drama Man on a Ledge, too. “I know, it’s too much,” he laughed during a sit-down with Vulture, where he discussed the hardship of making ‘The Eagle’, Spielberg’s foray into new technology, and the recent British superhero boom.

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First Look at The Adventures of Tintin!

November 2nd, 2010 • By Celyn :: Press, Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have chosen Empire to reveal the first look at The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. Headed our way next October, the film adapts the enormously popular books by Hergé in performance-captured, 3D form.

Our exclusive and specially-Weta-created cover is a riff on the iconic image of Tintin (Jamie Bell) and his dog Snowy picked out by a spotlight as they are running. Then we have a couple of stills from the film, one showing you Andy Serkis’ Captain Haddock and another with Haddock and Tintin adrift at sea and signalling for help.

“With live action you’re going to have actors pretending to be Captain Haddock and Tintin,” says Peter Jackson. “You’d be casting people to look like them. It’s not really going to feel like the Tintin Hergé drew. It’s going to be somewhat different. With CGI we can bring Hergé’s world to life, keep the stylised caricatured faces, keep everything looking like Hergé’s artwork, but make it photo-real.”

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