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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jul 18, 2008 19:49:52 GMT
Details from this blog: startelegram.typepad.com/pop_cultural_district/2008/07/tca-cbs-day.htmlThis is the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour - which appears to be a chance for the press to quiz, amongst others, CBS executives about the upcoming shows. And....Rufus was there! July 18, 2008
Rufus goes American
Asked why his character has an American accent, Sewell says he wouldn't have played him if he was British because then the character would be just like him. "He's not me. He's got better lighting. And he's much much smarter."
startelegram.typepad.com/pop_cultural_district/tca_july_08_press_tour/Photos, we want photos!!  ADDED: Found one!  Actor Rufus Sewell, from the show 'Eleventh Hour', speaks during the CBS panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills Calif. on Friday, July 18, 2008.
(AP Photo/Matt Sayles) news.yahoo.com/s/mediaweek/20080717/ad_bpimw/2008tcasummerpresstourtidbitsnotesofinterestAnd more:  Actor Rufus Sewell, left, and executive producer Cyrus Voris, from the show 'Eleventh Hour', are seen during the CBS panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills Calif. on Friday, July 18, 2008.
(AP Photo/Matt Sayles)  Executive producer Ethan Reiff, left, actor Rufus Sewell, center, and executive producer Cyrus Voris, from the show 'Eleventh Hour', are seen during the CBS panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills Calif. on Friday, July 18, 2008.
(AP Photo/Matt SaylesAnd lots at Daylife  :     www.daylife.com/topic/Rufus_Sewell/photos/all/1There are also some at Getty (and jamd), but I can't reproduce those without the watermarks, so I'll leave those to someone else (Maaaxxxxxx!!!) |
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Post by ree on Jul 19, 2008 2:52:06 GMT
I don't know....his lighting looks pretty darn good to me in those pics! My he does color up lovely doesn't he?
Positively caramellicious!
Hope he isn't forgetting to filter out those dangerous sun rays.
Thank you GE2
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Post by uncorked on Jul 19, 2008 3:40:53 GMT
I want sound and MOVING pictures ...so where was this..anyone know?
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Post by dreamer on Jul 19, 2008 8:18:33 GMT
Very very good, smart and tanned. That colour suits him.
Thanks GE2
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jul 19, 2008 12:08:39 GMT
You're welcome - I have my duty to do by you all, after all.....  And there's more! From Daylife again www.daylife.com/photo/0eGedGrai19Ce/Rufus_Sewell Julia Louis-Dreyfus, right, star of the CBS show "The New Adventures of Old Christine," arrives alongside actors Rufus Sewell, center, and David Zayas, at the CBS, CW and Showtime Press Tour Party in Los Angeles, Friday, July 18, 2008. From a blog:  The British star Rufus Sewell made a very conscious decision to play an American character because he wants to definitely establish himself as different from his character. He also wants to avoid typecasting, and he would much rather play one strong character for a long period of time on TV than play several similar roles in a series of increasingly bad movies.www.buddytv.com/articles/eleventh-hour/live-from-the-tca-press-tour-c-21318.aspx |
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Post by miss october on Jul 19, 2008 15:12:36 GMT
These shots are great! He looks so good in grey!
(What am I saying? He'd look good even in lime green and pink polka dots!)
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Post by dreamer on Jul 19, 2008 15:30:21 GMT
(What am I saying? He'd look good even in lime green and pink polka dots!) I perfectly agree, miss october! |
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Post by sharman on Jul 19, 2008 16:17:56 GMT
Wonderful! Thanks for posting all of this!  The Orlando Sentinal has an interview with Rufus: "Eleventh Hour" remains a mystery, but Rufus Sewell could sell it"The best bet for success could be Sewell, the 40-year-old British actor who has appeared in everything from "Middlemarch" on TV to "The Legend of Zorro" at the multiplex to "Rock 'n' Roll" on Broadway. He played Alexander Hamilton in the HBO miniseries "John Adams." His recent movies include "The Holiday," "Amazing Grace" and "The Illusionist," in which he played Crown Prince Leopold." blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2008/07/eleventh-hour-r.html |
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Post by catdishy on Jul 19, 2008 19:45:01 GMT
What a gorgeous smile...we don't see it often enough.Thanks GEll.
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Post by bluenessie on Jul 19, 2008 22:01:03 GMT
in these pictures he's very hot!
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jul 20, 2008 12:43:40 GMT
A couple more from the CBS press tour party on 18 July, this time from Contact Music:   |
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Post by ree on Jul 20, 2008 21:24:56 GMT
Love the pic of Ruf revealing his beautiful smile, and the tiniest twinkle in his eye in the last one.  |
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jul 21, 2008 18:10:24 GMT
Another interview from Friday (Maxx has already linked to it on www.roofsewell.com, but what the hey, let's have it here, too!): Sewell Avoided U.K. Eleventh
British actor Rufus Sewell, who stars in CBS' upcoming SF series Eleventh Hour, told reporters that he avoided watching the U.K. series on which the show is based and doesn't want to be compared with original star Patrick Stewart.
"I think I'd heard a little about it, but when it was on in England, I was out of the country," Sewell said in a news conference at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., last week. "When I realized that it was based on that series, I studiously avoided looking at it. I mean, for me, the fact that they're casting me as opposed to Patrick Stewart means I don't need to worry about trying to be like Patrick Stewart, because, obviously, you'd get Patrick Stewart if that's what you wanted."
Eleventh Hour, from producer Jerry Bruckheimer, follows Dr. Jacob Hood (Sewell), a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government, as he investigates scientific crises and oddities. He is called in at the 11th hour and represents the last line of defense.
"I really like the character," Sewell said. "I really like the fact that [he's] really, really smart, who also had a little bit of mystery and was quirky and idiosyncratic and not without a sense of humor. And at the center of it, ... there's a slightly screwball element."
Sewell said he personally didn't get involved in researching the scientific themes of the show, but added that he has faith in the writers, who include a rocket scientist from NASA, a science journalist and other technical experts on staff.
"I'm by nature a truant, and I've always tried to avoid work," Sewell (The Illusionist) said. "But, yes, I completely trust--in terms of the team of writers, the background work--that it wouldn't be a matter of checking up to find that they've got their facts wrong. But [I'd like to do] whatever work I can do to back that up so I do know what I'm talking about, and I think I'm at the beginning of quite a big journey of education in many wide-ranging subjects."
The show's executive producer, Cyrus Voris, said he wants to keep the series as acccurate as possible. "Danny Cannon, our director, mentioned that one of the things he loved is that after every episode, he hopes that people will run off and start Googling the topic of that particular episode and find out all this stuff," Voris said.
www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=57930I LIKE "quirky"! |
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Post by ukelelehip on Jul 21, 2008 19:51:55 GMT
GREAT lighting!! He's looking fabulously sharp these days.  |
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jul 22, 2008 21:24:19 GMT
The Japanese blog lady has put this up, amongst others (here: loverufus.exblog.jp/i8 )  I really, really, really want to see this one without the watermark. Can't someone magic it away, pleeeaaaasssse?  And from this one:  And I love the look on his face in this one:  |
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