2007 Olivier Awards - Rufus nominated!

[aftereightlady]

admin said:

Someone send him a text or email to congratulate him!

OH YES!

Couldn't we all sign...

[GreenEyesToo]

admin said:

Can I just woo-f*cking-hoo!!! Someone send him a text or email to congratulate him!

That would be Minx, then!!

And, hey Uke, like the new (very new - that was quick!) pic at the top - is that staying?

[ukelelehip]

Yeah, what do you think of my mad Paintshop skillz?? I'm keeping it for a while... how about until he wins his next award?? Ha ha.

[GreenEyesToo]

That'll be until the Tony next year, then?? ;D

[quoll]

Congratulations to Rufus (as if any of us doubted!!!!)

Oh yes, someone please do send a congratulatory text from us all!

[ukelelehip]

www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/display/cm/contentId/92730

Sewell gets hat trick

Rufus Sewell has made it three in a row by winning the Best Actor award at the Laurence Olivier Awards 2007. The actor picked up the equivalent accolade in the season’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards and Critics’ Circle Awards.

Tonight, Sewell fended off stiff competition from Iain Glen (The Crucible), David Haig (Donkeys’ Years), Frank Langella and Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon) to win Best Actor for his portrayal of Czech student Jan in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘N’ Roll, which opened at the Royal Court and subsequently transferred into the Duke Of York’s.

It is a first Laurence Olivier Award win for Sewell, who picked up a Best Actor In A Supporting Role nomination back in 1994 for his part in another Stoppard play, Arcadia. The actor’s other stage credits include Macbeth at the Queen’s and Luther at the National, while he has been seen on screen in the BBC’s modern adaptation of The Taming Of The Shrew, Charles II: The Power And The Passion, and most recently, alongside Kate Winslet in the film The Holiday.

Set during the cold war years 1968-1990, Rock ‘N’ Roll follows Jan, who studies in Cambridge before returning to his communist homeland and becoming caught up in the dissident movement, and Max, a Marxist philosopher and professor at Cambridge University. The story is punctuated by music of the era, including that of Czech band The Plastic People Of The Universe, who came to symbolise resistance to the Communist regime.

Rock ‘N’ Roll is still running at the Duke Of York’s until 25 February, with Dominic West in the role of Jan.

[GreenEyesToo]

I bet he's sorry he's missing the sea-bass, and clam and chorizo risotto ;D

(That reminds me, I'm getting really hungry...)

Wonder if they'll get him on a satellite link from Canada later, and put it on the video blog?

[aftereightlady]

greeneyestoo said:

Wonder if they'll get him on a satellite link from Canada later, and put it on the video blog?

What the hell he does in Canada? I thought he's deliberately unemployed at the moment and has no movie projects ahead. IMDB says so, too. No projects announced. Am I that uninformed???

[rai]

Not that it matters now, but the video blog is finally up - well, the pre-show thing. At least it's more than the intro now. Perhaps there will be some Rufus-related stuff, certainly R'n'R stuff.

SO HAPPY ;D

Rai

[ukelelehip]

I am imagining Rufus sitting in the office of his agent. Agent on the phone with producers: Harrison Ford has just dropped out of Indiana Jones! Can you do it? Rufus twiddles unemployment beard and checks his diary... Oh bugger, the Oliviers!

Ok, perhaps not

[aftereightlady]

Haven't we anyone here who could mail him our congrats and ask him if he's ok?

I still find it rather alarming that he isn't there. It's HIS great evening, he should be that proud and happy and lionised by everyone. After all, London is his home, isn't it?

[rai]

found this:

Best Actor - Currently filming in Canada, Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Rufus Sewell sent his director Trevor Nunn to collect his Best Actor trophy for him. Sewell dictated if-needed acceptance remarks to Nunn over the phone, which Nunn faithfully read, editing out only those relating to the director “bloke”. Sewell recalled he “had a great opportunity in the theatre when Tom (Stoppard) and Trevor cast me in Arcadia when I was first starting out”, but he’d come to realise during his career that those opportunities were rare. However, he said, another came in the form of Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll and he wanted “to thank Tom Stoppard on my knees” for letting him do it. He also praised all of his fellow cast members, including Sinead Cusack, who “every night cast her spell that I just had to wander into”. And he credited the Royal Court “for making Tom Stoppard a Royal Court writer at last”.

[ukelelehip]

rai said:

found this:

Best Actor - Currently filming in Canada, Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Rufus Sewell sent his director Trevor Nunn to collect his Best Actor trophy for him. Sewell dictated if-needed acceptance remarks to Nunn over the phone, which Nunn faithfully read, editing out only those relating to the director “bloke”. Sewell recalled he “had a great opportunity in the theatre when Tom (Stoppard) and Trevor cast me in Arcadia when I was first starting out”, but he’d come to realise during his career that those opportunities were rare. However, he said, another came in the form of Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll and he wanted “to thank Tom Stoppard on my knees” for letting him do it. He also praised all of his fellow cast members, including Sinead Cusack, who “every night cast her spell that I just had to wander into”. And he credited the Royal Court “for making Tom Stoppard a Royal Court writer at last”.

Oh my god, so sweet!! I am grinning from ear to ear!

*squeeeee*

[rai]

David Harrower’s Blackbird beats Frost/Nixon, Rock ‘N’ Roll and The Seafarer to Best New Play.

Well, bummer to that.

Rai

[ukelelehip]

WT*? That is SO out of left field!