Time Out Exclusive “Tintin” Clip

October 17th, 2011 • Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, Videos

Thanks to Time Out, we have another new clip from The Adventures of Tintin! Here we get a scene in which the villainous Ivan Ivanovich Sakharine (Daniel Craig) menaces our plucky hero (Jamie Bell) in an attempt to learn the location of a secret treasure map. The clip gives viewers a real sense of how Spielberg and Jackson have used CG animation to create believable characters and a wholly immersive world which looks eerily identical to Hergé’s drawings. I can’t embed the clip into the site, but click on the link below to get taken to the Time Out site.

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GQ&A: Jamie Bell

October 17th, 2011 • E-Articles, Jamie

We begin with a slight Californian drawl and end with a broad Yorkshire brogue. Over the course of our time with the star of Steven Spielberg’s new version of Tintin, Jamie Bell’s accent slowly crosses the Atlantic. Forever linked with his role as an unlikely ballerina in Billy Elliot, Bell has since played a huge variety of roles from a teleporter in Jumper to a clergyman in Jane Eyre. Here he talks to GQ.com about his love of milkshakes, how to please a woman and his fondness for Greggs…

GQ.com: What’s small talk with Steven Spielberg like?
Jamie Bell: I was so nervous to reveal how much of a fanboy I am in case he started thinking, “Oh my God, we’ve cast a maniac.” So it’s only been recently, hanging out with Steven and doing all the press that I’ve been able to go, “Dude, that decision in Hook when he does this thing…” But I held my tongue for the longest time.

You’ve described Tintin as “Hitchcockian”. Which of his films does it resemble most?
Strangers On A Train or The 39 Steps. Lots of people looking over their shoulders in very low lighting, revealing bits of information and ending up dead.

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Jamie’s “Tintin” Competition Video Update

October 17th, 2011 • General

Jamie now has his own YouTube account, and earlier posted a video message to his fans encouraging them to get involved with his Tintin premiere ticket competition! Check it out in full below:

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Jamie to Appear on “The Graham Norton Show”

October 16th, 2011 • Jamie, Public Events

Jamie is set to be a guest-star on the BBC talk show The Graham Norton Show on Friday 21 October! It looks as though he’ll be on there to co-inside with the UK premiere of The Adventures of Tintin, and will be interviewed alongside Kate Winslet and comedian Rob Brydon, so looks to be a great show!

Next on:
Friday, 22:35 on BBC One (except Scotland)

The BAFTA-award-winning host returns with a new series of his unique talk show – featuring the biggest celebrities, the brightest conversation, the best jokes and, of course, his irrepressible audience.

Together on Graham’s sofa in this opening episode are Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet, talking about her remarkable career and new film Contagion; top comedian Rob Brydon; Billy Elliott star Jamie Bell, now starring as Tintin in the new Spielberg movie; and indie band Noah and the Whale, performing L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.

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Jamie Bell: The Eternal Orphan

October 16th, 2011 • E-Articles, Jamie

Jamie Bell had to get a grip. There he was, the star of Billy Elliot, an unknown 15 year-old from a ­single-parent family in Billingham, Teesside, who beat hundreds of other wannabes to play the working class boy who loved ballet in the 2000 film. He won a Bafta; Russell Crowe was his new best friend. What was not to like? Himself, it seems.

“I lost my mind at 15,” says Bell of his hype-induced meltdown. He went back to school and managed to finish his GCSEs. But, “I’d been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the power. And I was like, ‘This is great!’ Then that was gone. But I was like, ‘Yeah, but I still want that.’ I’d lost my humble, very quiet, introverted sensibilities which I think I definitely had as a kid. And I…” Became a brat?

“Yeah, I became a little a——-,” he smiles. “And, you know, you’re a 15-year-old kid so it’s your world. And I was a b—— at 16! But still, looking back on it now, it was worry­ing because it is very persuasive, and you have all these grown-ups who it seems are encouraging it. And that’s unhealthy.” But unlike so many child stars before him, Bell’s spin-out was short-lived.

His mother, his manager and Stephen Daldry, the Billy Elliot director who became the mentor and father figure that Bell had never had, helped steer him right. (Bell has never had contact with his father, who left before he was born.) He chose parts in a few indie films, and turned down parts in American teen movies, “which focused on me as a kid. I wanted to still be a kid, but I came from the north east of England. I didn’t really sympathise or empathise with those kinds of characters.” And so he quietly got on with building a decent career as an actor. The rampaging ego retreated.

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