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Lesley Manville Joins Brett Goldstein in ‘Escorted’ at Prime Video

Lesley Manville Joins Brett Goldstein in ‘Escorted’ at Prime Video

Published by Daniella Wilson

Prime Video‘s comedy Escorted, starring and created by Brett Goldstein, is adding Lesley Manville to its cast. The newly crowned Tony Award winner will play the mother of Goldstein’s character in the series. Her casting marks a return to Prime Video for Manville, who also stars in the Amazon-owned streamer’s Citadel. Escorted, which Prime Video ordered to series late last year, stars Goldstein (Ted Lasso, Shrinking) as Denny, a divorced dad in Manhattan who accidentally becomes a male escort. Prime Video describes the show as a “romantic comedy about sexual dynamics, keeping secrets, and whether real intimacy can ever be bought.” Manville (The Crown, Phantom Thread) will play Terri, Denny’s mother and a “charisma bomb” cabaret singer. Her character is a force of nature with a voice to match. Manville won a Tony Award on Sunday for best lead actress in a play for Oedipus. She was nominated for an Oscar in 2018 for her role in Phantom Thread; her recent credits also include FX’s Grotesquerie, the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, Mrs. Harris …

Lesley Manville ignites theatre debate after saying photos during curtain calls are ‘insulting’

Lesley Manville ignites theatre debate after saying photos during curtain calls are ‘insulting’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter To snap or not to snap – that is the question: Lesley Manville has ignited an impassioned debate after criticising “insulting” theatregoers who take photos during curtain calls. According to the Olivier Award-winning star, she believes phones should be kept in pockets until after the cast have given their bows to an applauding audience. Manville, who currently stars in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the National Theatre, urged people to “take the digital out of it for just a moment”, stating: “Come on, it’s theatre – let’s preserve it!” Lesley Manville urges theatregoers to leave phones in their pockets during curtain calls (Getty) “We are all in this room, we are telling you a story, you’re listening – clap or don’t clap, but don’t just stick your phone in our face. I find it insulting,” she said on Radio 4. The Phantom …

Lesley Manville stars in exclusive sweet moment from heartbreaking new film

Lesley Manville stars in exclusive sweet moment from heartbreaking new film

Published by Daniella Wilson

In a clip from her upcoming film, Midwinter Break, exclusively shared with Radio Times, Lesley Manville and co-star Ciarán Hinds’ characters share a tender moment in an Amsterdam bar. The clip – which you can watch above – shows Manville and Hinds as they each drink jenever, a Dutch gin that is traditionally preceded by a beer. Hinds watches on as his wife handily polishes off both the beer and the gin before holding his face and kissing him in a heartwarming moment that is tinged with a sense of sadness, hinting at the larger themes of love, faith and memory the film will go on to explore. Midwinter Break is based on the 2017 novel by Bernard MacLaverty and sees Manville and Hinds playing Stella and Gerry, a married couple who travel to Amsterdam to rekindle the passion that seems to have all but disappeared from their increasingly comfortable relationship. The couple fled their home of Belfast during the Troubles after Stella had a traumatic experience that the film slowly reveals across its 90-minute …