The Escape Artist Producers: "David Tennant is one of the most extraordinary actors I’ve ever worked with."

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDYIaSP-qV-yXlGarl4UKdnutuTtwCYkslArREpOMW2onNH_7B7WiG38Xi7R8YwDbQ14nfiAnAX3RlDfNt3PvkzGJBI8DZze1Pgyitszqhy6tiNKNcwsjUznU-P1AdmaUDMiKeqLkRH_c/s1600/thees6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDYIaSP-qV-yXlGarl4UKdnutuTtwCYkslArREpOMW2onNH_7B7WiG38Xi7R8YwDbQ14nfiAnAX3RlDfNt3PvkzGJBI8DZze1Pgyitszqhy6tiNKNcwsjUznU-P1AdmaUDMiKeqLkRH_c/s640/thees6.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><h1 class="minisite" style="clear: left; letter-spacing: -1px; margin: 0px; padding: 11px 8px 6px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></h1><h1 class="minisite" style="clear: left; letter-spacing: -1px; margin: 0px; padding: 11px 8px 6px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Interview with The Escape Artists producers, Hilary Bevan Jones and Paul Frift:</span></h1><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="section" id="section-1" style="background-color: white; line-height: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 32px;"><h2 style="border-color: rgb(20, 122, 200); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 3px; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 6px 1px 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hilary Bevan Jones</span></h2><div class="content content-rich-text"><div class="richtext"><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Wolstencroft has described your relationship as a ‘will they won’t they’ romance with regards to ever working together. Why now and why this project?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David and I have wanted to work together for ages, but then he moved out of the country. Then we had a lovely lunch at BAFTA and that’s when the moment was right. He told me this idea and I leapt at it, within a couple of hours the working script had come around to my office and within another hour I’d read it and I’d told him I wanted to do it. So it all happened very quickly.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What was so appealing about the script?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are so many different elements to The Escape Artist and that’s why I find it so appetising. When I first read it and the story unravelled something happened which actually made me jump a foot out of my seat. I was really shaken and really surprised. David’s writing always manages to surprise me and I absolutely love that.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Could you tell us a bit about the casting?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant was the first choice for Will so that was fantastic when he said yes. We then wanted somebody you absolutely believe he could have a very sexy but happy relationship with, and Ashley Jensen was again a first thought, and is perfect. For Maggie, Brian Welsh had worked with Sophie a lot, and I had been longing to work with her for years.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think Toby Kebbell brings what Will could have been in another life, in another time to the role of Foyle. Foyle is not the most pleasant of people but there’s something attractive about him, there’s a sensuality, a charisma. They’re both magnetic and I think magnets do sometimes attract and sometimes they repel and we really needed that dynamic at the core of the piece.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What did Brian Welsh bring to the project?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s the first time I’ve worked with Brian. I really loved Black Mirror, it was sensational and I knew other actors that had worked with him and they all spoke very highly of him. I think what he brings is an absolute focus, he’s wonderful with the cast but he also has a real vision for the whole piece. This is quite a tapestry so you need somebody who can stand back and make sure it all comes together and he does that really well.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why is this suited to television in particular?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To be honest TV gives you extra time, it’s that simple. There is nothing else that would warrant it not being on a big screen except that 180 minutes is a bit long. You can explore the characters more and get into the nuances, where as in a movie of 100 minutes you can’t quite have the same scope. You can have scale obviously but you can’t get into those little extras.</span></div></div></div></div><div class="section" id="section-2" style="background-color: white; line-height: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 32px;"><h2 style="border-color: rgb(20, 122, 200); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 3px; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 6px 1px 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Paul Frift</span></h2><div class="content content-rich-text"><div class="richtext"><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How did you get involved with the project?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hilary called me quite early on and I was very excited because we hadn’t worked together since State Of Play. Though since then we worked together on Restless. When she told me it was a contemporary legal thriller written by David Wolstencroft, creator of Spooks I became even more excited. Then she told me it was going to star David Tennant, and the excitement levels went straight through the roof!</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What do you think the story is really about?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I guess it’s something to do with the existence of good and evil in life. Legal dramas tend to work out who is innocent or who is guilty, so it’s to do with that hunt for justice. I’ve always been fascinated by legal dramas in the sense that it is something that has been going on for centuries. When you get to the trial there’s something about that event - prosecution, defence, jury, judge - seeing that on film brings out that sense of justice in all of us.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How did you make sure everything was legally accurate?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have a legal advisor who is a QC, Andrew Jeffries. We went to watch him at The Old Bailey and there’s certainly something of an actor in him and I think probably in every barrister because they are having to sell something to their public, the jury.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Were there any challenges on the shoot?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shooting in Scotland was very challenging. It was snowing, very cold, possibly the coldest I’ve ever felt on a film location, and I’ve filmed in Iceland and Austria but this was very, very cold. It was a real challenge for the actors as they’re a bit more exposed than us - completely layered up in our clothing. We try and make them as warm as we possibly can but I think they are quite incredible to keep their concentration and deliver even in those circumstances. The crew too were incredibly professional, they just kept going.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you talk about working with David Tennant?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David is one of the most extraordinary actors I’ve ever worked with. He’s incredibly professional, very good technically, he seems to be able to remember lines like no other actor I’ve come across. I think this role will take him to places no other role has taken him recently. I think it really pushes him to give a fantastic performance.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What made you choose Brian Welsh to direct?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We looked at Black Mirror and Mayday, they were both very striking pieces of television. Brian is young, he’s fresh, he’s got a lot of new ideas and it’s been a great joy working with him. I think he is really trying to bring out the Hitchcockian tension in the drama. He’s also extremely good with actors, he’s an actors director and we like that. And he’s very good at the visual side of it. He’s doing a great job.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Could you talk more about the visuals and look of the show?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well we’re also very lucky to have David Higgs as our cinematographer. He is extremely experienced and gives all of the visuals a very rich look. His operating style is very dynamic, and he brings out all of the different aspects of the drama.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What about the location choices?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In terms of locations, there is a distinction between the very ancient and the modern. The legal world has been around for centuries and our characters live in the modern world so we chose some very ultra modern loft apartments for both Will and Maggie, and of course The Old Bailey, Middle Temple and the High Court in Scotland bring a great contrast to the piece and it works very well.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What audience are you aiming at with The Escape Artist?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every so often a thriller comes along that bites into what the audience wants and pushes all their buttons, and that’s what we’re hoping to do with this.</span></div></div></div></div></div>

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David Wolstencroft On The Escape Artist: "David Tennant Inhabits The Part Completely"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6LOWRHjWwGq6_6h-r9P-ecqkKN7jaUHG1xHJhUX0Iw6YNrqWHpEtWEqYEBvOZtbstDFIlu0JVS9Xg4fb9AhRWk9TlMgcxZMBDHlD8f-gSOG4Lc3DJhs7qHQ_OfFD1buVIGE-wYglZKU8/s1600/thees5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6LOWRHjWwGq6_6h-r9P-ecqkKN7jaUHG1xHJhUX0Iw6YNrqWHpEtWEqYEBvOZtbstDFIlu0JVS9Xg4fb9AhRWk9TlMgcxZMBDHlD8f-gSOG4Lc3DJhs7qHQ_OfFD1buVIGE-wYglZKU8/s640/thees5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Escape Artists writer David Wolstencroft talks about the new BBC One drama:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why did you choose ‘The Escape Artist’ as the title?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Titles just materialise. When I created Spooks, that title was literally the first thing I wrote, at the top of the notepad. It was exactly the same with The Escape Artist. I knew I wanted to write a legal drama that had aspects of a Hitchcockian thriller to it. Something that didn’t go the usual way these types of stories can go, I wanted to give it an air of mystery and menace.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you tell us what makes this crime drama different?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There’s a tendency with legal stories to get caught up in the intellectual side of things rather than the emotional underbelly. I wanted to do something that from the gut rather than something that was about the ins and outs of the law, although this does of course involve that but I tried to frame it in a different way.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you tell us about the character of Will?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will is the master of the machine that is the legal system. I wanted to write a story about someone who gets out of that machine and is promptly run over by it. I’ve had personal experiences with legal process both here and in America, and all of those experiences have resulted in me thinking deep, raw, primal thoughts. You’re dealing with these spectacularly complex legal concepts, having these meetings that are full of legal gibberish, and yet the overall feeling for me was one of boiling fury. I was like a caged animal, and so I wanted to put that into this story of a criminal barrister.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How important are Will’s family to his journey?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our private life often tells a more truthful story about ourselves that the one we project professionally. Will’s world - his marriage, his relationship with his son, is paramount in this story. It helps us identify with him. I don’t imagine I could be a lawyer or do what Will does, but he’s committed to his family, and that’s something I relate to very much. I think that creates a powerful emotional connection.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did you have casting in mind when writing?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I rarely have anyone in mind when I write because I think that sometimes limits the character. In any case the right actor will also bring their own stuff to it. I have been very lucky in that David Tennant does just inhabit the part completely.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ashley and David had worked together before, that must have helped in terms of casting?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was so excited when we were talking about Ashley joining the cast as I’ve long admired her work in Ugly Betty and in Extras. I knew that working with them both was going to be a lot of fun because they’ve got a short hand together.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Could you tell us a bit about the part of Maggie played by Sophie Okonedo?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think Will, Maggie and Foyle all share an element of the psychopath about them. What I love about Maggie and what Sophie has done with the character is she gives the impression that she would truly stop at nothing in order to succeed - but she never does go that far, she’s a brilliant lawyer.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How did you feel about Toby Kebbell being cast as Foyle?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was blown away by what Toby did. He was like a de-tuned television walking around the set. Deeply unsettling. The scenes between Foyle and Eileen especially. Those scenes really are messed up. When I wrote them I had an image in my mind on just how dark it would be but they went completely into the basement.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Was the character of Foyle based on any real-life criminals?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No, but I think he evolved out of the need for him to be in the script. In as much as I wanted him to be as engaging a nemesis as possible. He needed to be intelligent and manipulative a classic villain. I also wanted him to have an emotional response, he stays very much true to what he believes in, even as a psychopath he goes into very dark hellish places but he still stands up for what he believes in, in a horrible way. He’s a man of honour, perversely, but the wires are all jumbled.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How did you put the twists and turns of the story together?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did what I always do – I wrote myself into a corner and waited to see what happened. Will helped me get there, by that stage I knew him and although it sounds weird he sort of helped me do that.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are there hints that Foyle and Will could have swapped places?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are a lot of mirror scenes in the script to make that point. Brian (Welsh) does a great job in showing it using reflections in people’s glasses, mirrors on walls etc. That’s part of what I think the ambition has always been, to show reflections between the characters, showing their similarities. There are a lot of ways to approach the show that aren’t just about who done it and how.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why did you choose television rather than film to tell the story?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m a TV addict. I grew up with the big event series like Cracker, House Of Cards, Edge Of Darkness. And the bar keeps being raised, which speaking personally as a writer I respond to very much. Look at something like Sherlock, and the way they tell stories on that show. I think television does allow you to inhabit a world in a way film doesn’t. I also wanted this to return. The BBC have been really supportive in that regard, they really got it from the beginning and we all wanted to make the same thing so it seemed like a perfect fit.</span></div>

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDiUY-F6ouyupFt7cZprqfjNPXQRpWrMP5HZqPMwZdajxEdW2dxwVYPB_xh8qREJOPeMa4KktB0iYDF7iCa7B36vkFWEIfCCc2_aDrAGnzmIXAXC65f3eGg8EnEQ_Y3B8qNm1qvn_fXKQ/s1600/thees2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDiUY-F6ouyupFt7cZprqfjNPXQRpWrMP5HZqPMwZdajxEdW2dxwVYPB_xh8qREJOPeMa4KktB0iYDF7iCa7B36vkFWEIfCCc2_aDrAGnzmIXAXC65f3eGg8EnEQ_Y3B8qNm1qvn_fXKQ/s640/thees2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant's The Escape Artists co star Ashley Jensen has been chatting about working on the BBC drama:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s a fantastic script - was that what drew you to the part?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think every actor says it ultimately comes down to the script. In this case the script was such a brilliantly executed story, with very complex moral dilemmas, that I couldn’t say no. Quite often when you read a script you find that life gets in the way, you have to do something else and you get distracted, but this was a genuine page-turner, so I really, really liked it.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You take different jobs for different reasons and I think because David and I have a good rapport it will add to the impact of the story. I wanted to be part of that.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do the producer and director manage to reflect the twists and turns of the script in the finished films?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The way it’s been shot very much sets the tone for the whole piece. It’s a collaboration of course, the casting, lighting, directing just as much as the writing of the script, but to have the wonderful base to work from is always a great place to start. When I first discussed it with our director Brian he told me that he wanted to shoot it like a Hitchcock thriller, so it would have subtle lighting and interesting shots, and indeed from what I’ve seen he’s achieved that.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Wolstencroft describes The Escape Artist as a thriller set against a legal back-drop?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That’s what’s so interesting. You can almost set a thriller anywhere but I do think it is fascinating to watch the British legal system in action. The story has several different levels - David is going on this journey where he has to address things that he has believed in all his life. He’s questioning his whole way of thinking and his life has just been turned on its head so I think this is an intellectual show as much as it is a thriller. With any good thriller you should get to the point where you ask yourself, what would I do? The Escape Artist absolutely does that. If you’re asking yourself those questions then that’s good story telling.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did it make accepting the job easier knowing David Tennant was going to be your on-screen husband?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David and I knew each other from 20 years ago. We did theatre together in Scotland and then worked in theatre together 10 years later. We’ve kept in touch throughout that time which helps when you’re playing a married couple that need to be so familiar with each other. I think there are a lot of women that would be slightly jealous of my bedroom scenes with David Tennant - but it’s all part of the job!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You’re known for both your dramatic and comedic roles – do you approach them differently?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wouldn’t say I approach drama in a particularly different way to comedy. If anything I approach American and British comedy a little differently. All of the American comedy I’ve done is quite often about the lines, whereas the British comedy is about the space between the lines and the things that are not said.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What was the shoot like for you as a whole?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I seemed to be literally on my back the whole time. I was in a bath on my back, I was in a bed on my back. So I would get up and walk into work then lie down. The glamour of it all!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What was it like working with Monica Dolan?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Monica is a friend of mine. It’s funny actually - I was just saying earlier that when women get to the age of 40 they’re split into two categories - you’re either playing the Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction or the Anne Archer in Fatal Attraction. My good friend Monica is definitely Glenn Close and I’m definitely Anne Archer!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is the dynamic like between your character and Maggie?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think women can be their own worst enemies sometimes. Maggie is so deeply patronising to Kate but it’s Maggie’s insecurity and her need to constantly prove things to herself. Kate is the bigger woman I think because she is very secure in her relationship. Maggie wants affirmation whereas Kate is very secure in who she is and what she has, so it doesn’t really affect her.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What were the producers Hilary Bevan Jones and Paul Frift like to work with?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They have a body of work that is BAFTA winning, with wonderful, eclectic, interesting scripts, so knowing the calibre of work they have behind them you always felt in safe hands. They were always around and they really were brilliant producers!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The story is heavily set in British law, could that be an issue for international viewers?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think really this is a morality tale of good and evil, and those themes are universal – so in terms of a drama and a thriller it works for everyone. I also think it is quite interesting for an international audience to see how British law works because it is so steeped in history. It’s not like Judge Judy - we still wear wigs and there are rules you have to adhere to and speeches that people have to make. It was fascinating for me as I didn’t really know much about it before.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How was it working within such an ensemble cast?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think we got a certain calibre of actors wanting to be a part of The Escape Artist because they believed in the script and in Brian and David’s vision for the films. It’s a very creative piece of filmmaking and as an actor that’s always exciting to be part of. Gus, who played my on screen son Jamie, was absolutely brilliant, I think child actors these days seem to be getting better and better. He was so free and very receptive. Before a scene we would have a bit of banter and he didn’t get shy or embarrassed or coy or feel silly about it and he was very much there and very open.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did you feel at all protective towards Gus given some of the darker subject matter?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well Gus wasn’t allowed on set for the more disturbing scenes. Production went to great lengths to do that which was the right thing to do. He was completely unperturbed by it. Gus, I believe, is 12 but looks a lot younger.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You must have felt at home with all the Scottish accents?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s always nice to hear the dulcet tones of a Scottish accent. I spent six yours in America being the only Scottish person. I used to make jokes about being the token jock and of course out there a jock is a totally different thing and they all said, ‘what you play football?’ and I found myself having to explain my sense of humour.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why should people tune in for the show?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I want people to watch it because good drama makes you question things and question yourself, like a good book can and going to the theatre makes you have a discussion afterwards. This is the sort of piece that will have the audience asking themselves what would they do in that situation, and what would provoke them to make them go that far?</span></div>

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The Escape Artist Introduction And Character Profiles

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLls34O0QgTOEaxytOr888C2cKwtKlfVLksw5xwm2shU3BPBa1P5Na-TL0R8-xC8OC7CCBYVp74fGKJI_D58ByIFmWTQ6b1Cek9ChAZWiKr9Z9aU37FBnrGl4orkYjCob6NueG2q5Eqho/s1600/escapeartpromo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLls34O0QgTOEaxytOr888C2cKwtKlfVLksw5xwm2shU3BPBa1P5Na-TL0R8-xC8OC7CCBYVp74fGKJI_D58ByIFmWTQ6b1Cek9ChAZWiKr9Z9aU37FBnrGl4orkYjCob6NueG2q5Eqho/s640/escapeartpromo.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Escape Artist is a new three-part legal thriller for BBC ONE. Created and written by David Wolstencroft (Spooks, Shooting Dogs) The Escape Artist stars David Tennant (Doctor Who, True Love), Toby Kebbell (RocknRolla, Black Mirror), Sophie Okonedo (The Slap, Criminal Justice), and Ashley Jensen (Extras, Ugly Betty).</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Escape Artist is an original suspense thriller set in the world of criminal law. David Tennant plays Will Burton, a talented junior barrister who specialises in spiriting people out of tight legal corners, hence his nickname of 'The Escape Artist'.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will is in high demand as he has never lost a case. But when his talents acquit the prime suspect in a horrific murder trial, that brilliance comes back to bite him with unexpected and chilling results.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The law often seems like an intellectual exercise,” says Wolstencroft “but scratch under the surface, and it’s all blood and guts. I wanted to write a thriller set in the legal world that’s as much about those primal feelings as it is about the twists and turns of the case. David Tennant is one of the most accomplished and iconic actors of his generation. Seeing him in Will's shoes is incredibly exciting."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Producer, Hilary Bevan Jones, says: “The outstanding cast we have assembled, which is headed by David Tennant, Toby Kebbell, Sophie Okonedo and Ashley Jensen is a testament to David's breathtaking and original script. Directed by Brian Welsh and produced by Paul Frift, I believe The Escape Artist will be one of the most anticipated TV drama events of 2013.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Executive Producer for the BBC, Matthew Read, says: “After the incredible response we got for William Boyd’s Restless, it’s fantastic to be working with Hilary Bevan Jones and Endor again on an original drama that brings together the very best of British talent.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Escape Artist is produced by Hilary Bevan Jones (State Of Play, Restless) and Paul Frift (Room At The Top, Restless) and directed by Brian Welsh (Black Mirror, In Our Name, Mayday) the executive producers are David Wolstencroft and Matthew Read for BBC.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Escape Artist will also be released on DVD by Acorn Media immediately following its BBC One broadcast.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00EJFEN50?ie=UTF8&camp=3194&creative=21330&creativeASIN=B00EJFEN50&linkCode=shr&tag=dtennant-21&=dvd&qid=1377751770&sr=1-3&keywords=the+escape+artist" target="_blank">Pre order the DVD online here.</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Character Profiles:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimIthZtsyQ3r9fH-ATKo4kvY5dl_sSjQ1obqCs6e0NTAAOt-6sLfXwxsLCm6pLgCp5rThcZRRmFQuGteERtiJIp3YK6-FGAakgdsjisClP9iYnmkPuV7hiH6WatdWbk2qH3bZjZuNtRBU/s1600/thees1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimIthZtsyQ3r9fH-ATKo4kvY5dl_sSjQ1obqCs6e0NTAAOt-6sLfXwxsLCm6pLgCp5rThcZRRmFQuGteERtiJIp3YK6-FGAakgdsjisClP9iYnmkPuV7hiH6WatdWbk2qH3bZjZuNtRBU/s640/thees1.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WILL BURTON (David Tennant) is a talented junior barrister of peerless intellect and winning charm who specialises in getting people out of tight legal corners. Will is in high demand as he has never lost a case. Despite his innumerable victories he has been putting off applying for ‘silk’; he’s never been able to stand the politics involved in becoming a QC. He works by the simple mantra that everyone deserves a defence, allowing his genius to blossom without being impeded by conscience. Will’s brilliance does, however, sometimes fall short in his private life. He has never quite figured out how to use the dishwasher – despite Kate’s countless teachings – and often finds himself working overtime instead of spending quality time with his family. Even so, he loves Kate and Jamie more than anything in the world.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVgU-J1CLcHxcjsjlSH_WjssFw13bxRuNAv3xQn85d93UNWHo1pcMOLh9P-ZQNz6TDHkTXe7OX7EOFiP7ObhAqLtggIgDJ8DJMDJGAdwClTPZsfAWNxXest-UHtawGvkGyoKJvEAuTXUY/s1600/thees2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVgU-J1CLcHxcjsjlSH_WjssFw13bxRuNAv3xQn85d93UNWHo1pcMOLh9P-ZQNz6TDHkTXe7OX7EOFiP7ObhAqLtggIgDJ8DJMDJGAdwClTPZsfAWNxXest-UHtawGvkGyoKJvEAuTXUY/s640/thees2.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">KATE BURTON (Ashley Jensen) is Will’s wife, and mother to their son Jamie. Witty and beautiful, Kate is the rock in Will and Jamie’s world. She helps Will stay grounded when work is tough, and takes care of him when he forgets to take care of himself. Jamie is her pride and joy. They have a truly special bond.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1Wh7J_wdP4fiXmH92LKj9bi0Z6foOnswNLesEtxKLobAd3LI9YR2mlhobKqc7XCPRWKGJpfIGOWJqUDMDzoib0kNb8Kd43WMJ5SVSbLoStjAbbL0bQvIYFMK-PX75cSjxB8UuKZ9WlE/s1600/thees3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1Wh7J_wdP4fiXmH92LKj9bi0Z6foOnswNLesEtxKLobAd3LI9YR2mlhobKqc7XCPRWKGJpfIGOWJqUDMDzoib0kNb8Kd43WMJ5SVSbLoStjAbbL0bQvIYFMK-PX75cSjxB8UuKZ9WlE/s640/thees3.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">MAGGIE GARDNER (Sophie Okonedo) is a top prosecution barrister who finds herself constantly up against Will’s brilliance in court. She doesn’t have the natural lawyering instincts that Will does, but she is acknowledged as the next best barrister around, which of course never fails to torment her. Her brain has taken her everywhere she’s ever wanted to go – almost – but she can’t stand the idea of being second-best to anyone. She’s stony-eyed and has the ability to intimidate the life out of most opponents. Some might say she’s overcompensating, that she’s trying too hard to impose herself amongst her colleagues, but she’s driven and she works harder than most.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ttW_zy9F9MbGfjD_p2Yt8Jo48lIrhzwIdKxP5wjwYgmx_teJqCR7fDQZPzCIo4vhPj_yHeJJEgs_LRMhfTAYJD8CeCBnN8mj9cLgWQKdo528cntzSB2JeyaE3awM5LyqZjGnEH9FozE/s1600/thees4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ttW_zy9F9MbGfjD_p2Yt8Jo48lIrhzwIdKxP5wjwYgmx_teJqCR7fDQZPzCIo4vhPj_yHeJJEgs_LRMhfTAYJD8CeCBnN8mj9cLgWQKdo528cntzSB2JeyaE3awM5LyqZjGnEH9FozE/s640/thees4.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">LIAM FOYLE (Toby Kebbell) is a man who has that look in his eyes. The look that would make you cross the street if you were unlucky enough to come under his gaze. His psychological invasiveness is matched by his imposing physicality, but there is more to him than a blunt expression of danger. His calm, unhurried disposition hides an undisclosed, sinister air. A type of darkness that chills your soul because you can’t quite work out where it’s coming from<br />.</span></div>

Ashley Jensen BBC One David Tennant Sophie Okonedo The Escape Artist Toby Kebbell TV Drama The Escape Artist Introduction And Character Profiles

The Escape Artist is a new three-part legal thriller for BBC ONE. Created and written by David Wolstencroft (Spooks, Shooting Dogs) The Esca...

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INTERVIEW: David Tennant Talks About The Escape Artist

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhrOE0LXkM-AsmhNdk1dAh2HbBHP9dreewYBHlbRFsFoI2R11OoSJOYpvJxLWR39tL_y5bFJbjvXspTo00Uwc_Y9DpdajcBR_9spdzsa8l-L8M1JCSmxVNgRc336Ht5h8fc6xB5-WxPIY/s1600/thees1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhrOE0LXkM-AsmhNdk1dAh2HbBHP9dreewYBHlbRFsFoI2R11OoSJOYpvJxLWR39tL_y5bFJbjvXspTo00Uwc_Y9DpdajcBR_9spdzsa8l-L8M1JCSmxVNgRc336Ht5h8fc6xB5-WxPIY/s640/thees1.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tell us what The Escape Artist actually means for Will?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will is a defence Barrister, he’s not quite QC, he’s not taken silk yet as they say, but he’s well on his way and he has the extraordinary record of never having defended anyone and lost. He’s a fairly exceptional defence Barrister – he’s very good at what he does, he’s driven, extremely able and seems to have something of a charmed life.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is Will a likeable character?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s easy to be likeable when everything is going your way and it is for Will, life doesn’t trouble him particularly. He’s incredibly gifted and has a wonderful wife and little boy that he dotes on. Life is great for Will and he’s clearly on his way to being one of the country’s most respected QCs. Very early on in our story he is elected number one in a law magazine’s top 40 under 40 something his colleague Maggie finds hard to swallow.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tell us about Will’s relationship with his wife Kate</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will and Kate have been together a good while and have an eight-year-old boy. Everything is working out for them. Will is driven and professionally successful but he manages to have a decent work / life balance at the same time.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their relationship has to be established quite quickly in the series – does it help that you’ve worked with Ashley Jensen before?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think the fact that I know Ashley of old certainly does help. Every job you do brings different circumstances and people so it’s lovely to have a shorthand with Ashley with whom I did my very first professional job out of drama school.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What made you think this would be a great project to take on?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you’re privileged enough to be reading a number of scripts, the ones that you don’t want anyone else to have are quite easy to recognise and this was one of those. I read it straight through and was completely hooked and convinced, teased and satisfied by it, dramatically and emotionally. When you have a reaction to a script that strongly, you’ve got to recognise it and make the most of it.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you think there is an element of theatre in the courtroom?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There’s a huge performance element and when playing those scenes you feel that. Three barristers could all say the same stuff but the way they deliver it is part of how you receive it, and part of who you believe, and in the end it’s all about who you believe is delivering the truth.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You had a legal advisor on the project, how much help was he in researching your role?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andrew Jefferies QC worked with us on every aspect of the production and has been invaluable as a resource for fact checking. He came up with a couple of solutions to cases which found their way into the script. Also personally just chatting to someone who does this for a living and finding out what goes on in his head, and watching him do his stuff, was very helpful.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did you have discussions about your characters with Toby Kebbell who plays Foyle prior to filming?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don’t think you do discuss how you’re going to play it, obviously it comes from the script, these characters have been beautifully created by our writer. I didn’t know Toby before this, in fact he wasn’t around during pre-production because he was in America so we didn’t have any time to talk through scenes and discuss objectively what either of our characters thought about things, which actually I think was the right way to go about it.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What did Brian bring to the drama’s direction?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brian is Scottish so obviously he’s brilliant, there are a lot of Scottish people on this job actually, which obviously is why it’s going to be fantastic! When his name came up I was working with Jodie Whittaker who had worked with him on Black Mirror so I approached Jodie and she couldn’t have been more positive or given Brian a heartier recommendation. I thought if Jodie thinks he’s alright then he is probably pretty good! And he was.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did you see the big scenes coming when reading the script?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No! I didn’t see any of it coming! When Will doesn’t shake Foyle’s hand and walks off, I thought that was a story beat telling us something about Will. I didn’t for a second think that we’d see Foyle again. I thought we’d be onto the next case and we’d see Will being an Escape Artist in some other extraordinary way. I thought it was a courtroom drama, I had no idea.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do you think David creates moments of high drama in such a relatable setting?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He’s actually writing some wildly dramatic stuff that, in the hands of any other writer would maybe seem ludicrous. But what is great about David’s writing is that the stakes are higher than you can imagine, it’s all quite melodramatic yet he roots it all in a world of complete credibility. I think that’s the great triumph of how David writes, you never doubt it.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lastly, what would you say to entice a viewer to tune in?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the show comes closer to transmission and we inevitably have to talk about it, it’s going to be quite hard because you so want people to come and enjoy the surprises, but you don’t want to give any of them away so it’s quite a tricky one to navigate. It’s one of those shows where you just have to say ‘trust me, just watch it!’ You’ll think it’s one thing, and that will be fun in itself, and then it just gets so much better.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

BBC One David Tennant interview The Escape Artist TV Drama INTERVIEW: David Tennant Talks About The Escape Artist

Tell us what The Escape Artist actually means for Will? Will is a defence Barrister, he’s not quite QC, he’s not taken silk yet as they say,...

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Richard II - First Preview: Twitter Reaction

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXuXRvLbTcuC_4q_0EIbTpCCW5Rolr1XMGIuRHrqwzs0nFRCmPCvSH0p6dRXtZjkFrShzsYh5xb9tHUNUqcYcWOfJ0Efdg3uuROsMz-zWCdQV2PLOLVMCjZX2IGyjB-a2QRl9ToGKIs74/s1600/dick2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXuXRvLbTcuC_4q_0EIbTpCCW5Rolr1XMGIuRHrqwzs0nFRCmPCvSH0p6dRXtZjkFrShzsYh5xb9tHUNUqcYcWOfJ0Efdg3uuROsMz-zWCdQV2PLOLVMCjZX2IGyjB-a2QRl9ToGKIs74/s640/dick2.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was the first night of previews for David Tennant's Richard II at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon last night. Reviews won't come in until Press Night on 17th October - which is the play's official opening night - so until then we're taking a quick look at the Twitter reaction to the first preview.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the audience:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/brizmofent" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@brizmofent</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Greg Doran's Richard II </span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/TheRSC" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@TheRSC</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is, as expected, exceptional. Lucid and thrilling with Tennant an absolute joy.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/mullaneclaire" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@mullaneclaire</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: The first performance of Richard II was exhilarating. David Tennant was electrifying. Greg Doran works his magic again.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/antontroy" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@antontroy</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: The set is amazing </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RII&src=hash" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">#RII</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the stage is lower. Why couldn't it have been that height for the summer season. </span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/PatrickJoseph86" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@PatrickJoseph86</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Richard II was amazing! David Tennant was phenomenal! </span><a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-pre-embedded="true" dir="ltr" href="http://t.co/XYvomUL7K4" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">pic.twitter.com/XYvomUL7K4</a></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/vickster51" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@vickster51</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: RII good so far. Great set. Nigel Lindsay superb as is OFD. David Tennant conveying Richard's weak character well.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hamsterfur" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@hamsterfur</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: I've seen a few productions of RII but this is by far the clearest and most compelling so far.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/xxDTcrazyxx" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@xxDTcrazyxx</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23richardII&src=hash" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">#richardII</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> epic fantastic and believable. David portrayed the character of Richard with passion logic and pure talent xx</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of the cast also took to twitter:</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><div class="stream-item-header" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="username js-action-profile-name" style="direction: ltr; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: embed;"><a class="account-group js-account-group js-action-profile js-user-profile-link js-nav" data-user-id="138575975" href="https://twitter.com/YoussefKerkour" style="text-decoration: none;">@YoussefKerkour</a> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1st preview done! What a reception. David Tennant was absolutely stunning tonight as was the rest of the gang. Humbled. </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RichardII&src=hash" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">#RichardII</a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/TheRSC" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@TheRSC</a></span></div><div class="stream-item-header" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="stream-item-header" style="line-height: 18px;"><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="account-group js-account-group js-action-profile js-user-profile-link js-nav" data-user-id="211500324" href="https://twitter.com/NigelLindsay1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> ‏</span><span class="username js-action-profile-name" style="direction: ltr; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: embed;">@NigelLindsay1</span></a> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Great first preview on Richard II. D Tennant flying. Thanks for all your lovely tweets. Hard to move this am. Do I have to do it again?</span></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">And fans were thrilled that David kindly appeared at the stage door to sign for them last night:</span></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/kitwhelan" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #66c1c1;">@</span>kitwhelan</a><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;">: "Such a gentleman to come say hi to the fans :)" </span><span style="color: #009999;"><span class="tco-ellipsis" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://instagram.com/p/fTbGIBne26/" dir="ltr" href="http://t.co/LbhDDwsCwv" rel="nofollow" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank" title="http://instagram.com/p/fTbGIBne26/"><span class="invisible" style="color: #009999; line-height: 0; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://</span><span class="js-display-url" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">instagram.com/p/fTbGIBne26/</span><span style="color: #009999;"><span class="invisible" style="line-height: 0; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><span class="tco-ellipsis" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="invisible" style="line-height: 0;"> </span></span></a></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/vickster51" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #66c1c1;">@</span>vickster51</a><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - David Tennant's hair, now plaited </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RSCRichardII&src=hash" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #66c1c1;">#</span>RSCRichardII</a><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-pre-embedded="true" dir="ltr" href="http://t.co/JvHK0mPEWA" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">pic.twitter.com/JvHK0mPEWA</a></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/vickster51" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #66c1c1;">@</span>vickster51</a><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - David Tennant at the RSC </span><a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-pre-embedded="true" dir="ltr" href="http://t.co/zqAz8k6xt8" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">pic.twitter.com/zqAz8k6xt8</a></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find out more about Richard II on our website here.</span></a></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard II runs at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon until 16th November it will then transfer to the Barbican in London on 9th December.</span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="stream-item-header" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="stream-item-header" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>

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I'm prepping for Christmas and beginning to start making wreaths and a few more baubles.  Here's what I'm reading for inspiration....<div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSnoeEVh5QJf5IBggep_V0Q4qRsbbGVI6hyiYOePw3c058jfpTCCHv3f0elaSTfG94VEjua089sO8oG_TK_PfedV5R7xyViuVZ8VmirWnrnky6U5DB97TUoj_JlXbaNQIazLY2wZU74Aa6/s640/blogger-image-1847691444.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSnoeEVh5QJf5IBggep_V0Q4qRsbbGVI6hyiYOePw3c058jfpTCCHv3f0elaSTfG94VEjua089sO8oG_TK_PfedV5R7xyViuVZ8VmirWnrnky6U5DB97TUoj_JlXbaNQIazLY2wZU74Aa6/s640/blogger-image-1847691444.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It's a great book with lots of craft projects and also style & decorating tips.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Szuvp1F4ZiL5SHzXJS4t82dLIhzRy1OfdeSJYyTebqIrt8p8Bxt_2GTR-CQdP5KeOrWZlj4R_FPxgTDOd3E_7b9i6AYKcskyx6J8uuNC_EGyF3Ha4Rrc_qryBMamisdsfRYhg0NhqsTy/s640/blogger-image--772203779.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Szuvp1F4ZiL5SHzXJS4t82dLIhzRy1OfdeSJYyTebqIrt8p8Bxt_2GTR-CQdP5KeOrWZlj4R_FPxgTDOd3E_7b9i6AYKcskyx6J8uuNC_EGyF3Ha4Rrc_qryBMamisdsfRYhg0NhqsTy/s640/blogger-image--772203779.jpg"></a></div><br></div>I wonder what way I will dress my table?</div><div><br></div><div>This will be my first Christmas at home in Ireland for about 8 years!!!</div><div><br></div><div>We will hopefully order food from Marks and Spencer's </div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIuz6U1No0HAy7mkM7IGRc1QFR__F6YSyUx5Lh7YJznT9zGxq8Lpm7C6cE42Kk18wbXipRI37IPd8Sc-yeZHCb99nCaevb7256x8jOWy6STiVe4apNimzmTYVO_GVi2ndf7MAA3hoQuwq/s640/blogger-image--1258177574.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIuz6U1No0HAy7mkM7IGRc1QFR__F6YSyUx5Lh7YJznT9zGxq8Lpm7C6cE42Kk18wbXipRI37IPd8Sc-yeZHCb99nCaevb7256x8jOWy6STiVe4apNimzmTYVO_GVi2ndf7MAA3hoQuwq/s640/blogger-image--1258177574.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>There catalogue is out now - with a free bottle of wine if you put in your order (of over €80) before Mid November</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2MafKuH9JhvczXtIEUvhXl_kvInmz94I-oXSLyiYc8WBMyajfiIjHv-0ehYa9nBYJDpIBwqKGBcUCqnNnOFaTZ0PyvbdFdJfhQCgB5HpZ7oG-34j7xjRd5OdfsfXeOk8eGTUIk22Ng-aL/s640/blogger-image--1672233014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2MafKuH9JhvczXtIEUvhXl_kvInmz94I-oXSLyiYc8WBMyajfiIjHv-0ehYa9nBYJDpIBwqKGBcUCqnNnOFaTZ0PyvbdFdJfhQCgB5HpZ7oG-34j7xjRd5OdfsfXeOk8eGTUIk22Ng-aL/s640/blogger-image--1672233014.jpg"></a></div><br></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTzJqR213TSEjQYNOpfn-aS-3MuKskdWu78duLNWCzHJnCwJlO8io0nwXQALeFSWUrD2mBEhE8fOueSh_FdyvlvDPFcLtUAk8799ItxnsaY37fgmad7moCMiCz0DKoyG48XphqPdxuICQ/s1600-h/image%25255B11%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="59" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirmg4SaOW1zpWH7-g7OOancdFHCG31bHhuQOhEPk11OixpsBNkknLtwddPWuwxQ0sVas_y2La-57UCM_aXnPs8JAbF0YRwiPY96EgTpQMfUtHJ0p6zcP5ncUgA_GEB20_npLsqowjeWsU/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="165" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the recent Google in Education Summit in Cape Town there were a number of presentations outlining the usefulness of Google Chrome as a browser option. Not only is it fast and reliable as a browser but it has a unique way of enabling almost everything that you want to do in your browsing session work right from the browser bar - by means of extensions.  This is what my browser bar looks like currently and the list is growing.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxaWLLQBLjqq52nep9EA4OPuXktxVJVcIykeQraWfBF9izz7HNMN9MjipUmB3ONRc7eu3J8QeNXEiwfo3zdcw_0_GV_hU8oaXO5jfuxSVKGlarTTUYR5rOIlmR8nPOxcz0NBAyoDYZxBY/s1600-h/image%25255B6%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVOfOlD7P4L0K_vGeEmwt1Ys-by4uGI9ndUwek01wvPNN6qpt5kr5EXZdfcGKRHa5_RPQ_zRy5uvTMsQFhvRf_BBVrbYNNCsBV7mIu6tPvZwIOU-qyC8e9tWFFV_X7_KDWbkW6jHZYXY8/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another unique feature in Chrome is that the Omnibox can be used for so many different purposes in addition to being the place where the page URL is shown.  This is a great time-saving feature for students. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I thought that it would be a good idea to introduce Chrome to students showing in particular these two features to start off with. This presentation introduces six useful extensions for students as well as seven useful ways of searching from the Omnibox. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="389" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/100vUxI7mCX89L9iLdQyM2YPCSGRlnwhHGK-PGHjy4MM/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=60000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="480"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Note:</u> One point to remember is that Google is always improving matters, so nothing remains static. Even extensions are improved and changed. This presentation might already be out of date!</span></div>

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Nexus 5 Comes with Android 4.4, Will Announce on October 15: Report

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Google is going to organize an event on October 15. According to rumors Google will unveil the next version of Nexus 4 and Android. It is very possible that Google will announce the launch of <a href="http://pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in/2013/09/android-44-kitkat-latest-versions-name.html" target="_blank">Android 4.4</a> KitKat comes with <a href="http://pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in/2013/09/images-and-features-leaked-nexus-5.html" target="_blank">Nexus 5</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-blSQsp6jNXM/UlecTx3q1dI/AAAAAAAAAa0/9-yMyZPlleA/s1600/599x400xAndroid-KitKat-599x400_jpg_pagespeed_ic_4x9ZC_bWCx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-blSQsp6jNXM/UlecTx3q1dI/AAAAAAAAAa0/9-yMyZPlleA/s1600/599x400xAndroid-KitKat-599x400_jpg_pagespeed_ic_4x9ZC_bWCx.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PC-Gadgets</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">The availability of Nexus 5 might deferred from earlier rumors which said that device will be available from October 31st.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Excitement is double and no need to wait for longer time, only four days to go.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m2JxrWZKvk0/UlecmkfBtSI/AAAAAAAAAa8/SszckTIATCM/s1600/605x406xandroid-kitkat_png_pagespeed_ic_hQdE9W_hE8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m2JxrWZKvk0/UlecmkfBtSI/AAAAAAAAAa8/SszckTIATCM/s1600/605x406xandroid-kitkat_png_pagespeed_ic_hQdE9W_hE8.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PC-Gadgets</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">Nexus 5 comes with 4.95–inch IPS full HD screen powered with Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor. The device comes with 2GB RAM and 16/32 GB internal memory. In connectivity option NFC and Bluetooth, wireless charging is also supported by the device.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://plus.google.com/100638775997274345522" rel="author">Anil Swami</a></div></div>

android 4.4 KitKat nexus 5 Nexus 5 Comes with Android 4.4, Will Announce on October 15: Report

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National Coming Out Day

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Cheeeeeers and Happy Friday Chuckleheads!!  You know what today is?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiALyxaPKIJBOK31OCMRRZfl1J0ui67nkEhuGkJTySUJJu-gGzF1uXo4VCfaxyr9kh4JTCF3fcDD5erMKxxQ5TEkiuhPg2pR12C2rPEwXgl-1nXOeSEFTPLXBEY5UoLZFLSIvekELYCUhvS/s1600/NCOD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiALyxaPKIJBOK31OCMRRZfl1J0ui67nkEhuGkJTySUJJu-gGzF1uXo4VCfaxyr9kh4JTCF3fcDD5erMKxxQ5TEkiuhPg2pR12C2rPEwXgl-1nXOeSEFTPLXBEY5UoLZFLSIvekELYCUhvS/s400/NCOD.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>That’s right…<br /><br /><i>National Coming Out Day!!</i><br /><br />And let me tell ya…<br /><br />If I, as a fine heterosexual father whose kid hates me because I live in sin with a whore can acknowledge that I live a deviant and less than Godly lifestyle; other people who live, shall we say, a less than “righteous” lifestyle, should be able to man up as well.<br /><br />Er…maybe “man up” is not the phrase…perhaps, <i>“Sally forth, and admit that you are gay, or just a complete asshole.”</i>, would be better.<br /><br />Anyhoo…<br /><br />Since today is <i>National Coming Out Day</i>, I would like to give a shout out to some folks who, with a nudge from me, will come out and admit that they are gay, or a complete asshole.<br /><br />Corey Booker…Mayor of Newark, NJ., and candidate for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey?  You are one gay, mutha-shut-your mouth brutha.  Holy Cow Cor-Boy.<br /><br />You are well-kempt.  Well-shaven.  Well-everything, and you are a media darling.  You want to hide your true sexuality behind your recent tweet toward a female stripper, but we all know…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-xQIhe7p8UQd4AOe3urfdwOmLiUCbhfhq5IgxvxuzVytUN4ZPZI-voYOpHfmHPMOVxHSXTGPdpAwKWvItWHpzkVAHhpwF7kmZsPJ4mmBd3KhwtagqHtz9ykrJNAO0-6y8cqZ_WQ0G46P/s1600/Sean+Hannity+Asshole.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-xQIhe7p8UQd4AOe3urfdwOmLiUCbhfhq5IgxvxuzVytUN4ZPZI-voYOpHfmHPMOVxHSXTGPdpAwKWvItWHpzkVAHhpwF7kmZsPJ4mmBd3KhwtagqHtz9ykrJNAO0-6y8cqZ_WQ0G46P/s400/Sean+Hannity+Asshole.jpg" width="400" /></a>You are the black, yet not too black Jim McGreevey, and we appreciate you keeping your gayness at home in Newark, and not taking up space at a rest stop along the New Jersey Turnpike where gay redneck truckers and gay redneck bikers coincidentally meet in order to show their manliness, curse Obama, and all the while, take it up the ass.<br /><br />Seriously Corey...You are the Bruce Vlanch of New Jersey politics.  It's okay.  Take your Senatorial seat and/or Emmy and shut the hell up.<br /><br />Sean Hannity…You know dude?  You need to come out and admit that you are biggest douche bag in the history of TV and Radio.  I call you a douche bag because, well…you have a vagina, and sometimes you need one.  You are a girly-man.  You keep saying…<br /><br /><i>“The Republican Party should do this, and the Republican Party can’t back down.  The Republican Party should elect this guy in District Whatevah.”</i>  But…<br /><br />As you proudly and incessantly say on your radio show…<br /><br /><i>“I am not a Republican.  I am a registered Conservative in the State of New York.”</i><br /><br />You are, but…You only say that to give yourself cover.  You are a Republican through and through, and if they go down, you can conveniently say that you are not a Republican.<br /><br />Grow some balls Sean, and conversely, could Sarah Palin please lose the balls that she thinks she has, and go back into the closet of pseudo-manliness?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh01MbA1zEDWDWxEIfUsXpRygmIoHjO0uYaFl_4GU-WIHXjS-9QgO5TnjksDU3GJxRn4En4LHWysoapsXDcuwE4UsWXJDWBg1slCekk3YheUd1N9BRqmm7Tvw3fQFQTnGrOpJlnElW45qNu/s1600/boehner+crying+shutdown.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh01MbA1zEDWDWxEIfUsXpRygmIoHjO0uYaFl_4GU-WIHXjS-9QgO5TnjksDU3GJxRn4En4LHWysoapsXDcuwE4UsWXJDWBg1slCekk3YheUd1N9BRqmm7Tvw3fQFQTnGrOpJlnElW45qNu/s320/boehner+crying+shutdown.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>She is going to be in New Jersey this weekend in order to campaign for Corey Booker’s Senate opponent, Steve Lonegan.<br /><br />Call me crazy, but as self-aggrandizing as Corey Booker is, I don’t think an egotistical, vapid as the Sahara is dry, right wing numbskull, such as Sarah Palin is going to move the NJ Senate poll numbers much.<br /><br />And lastly…You know who else should come out of the closet?<br /><br />John Boehner.<br /><br />I mean, c’mon…He grew up in the hardworking, blue-collar town of Cincinnati, and worked from dawn to dusk at his family’s bar.  And yet…<br /><br />He cries often.<br /><br />I’m thinking his family’s bar was a gay bar; because at real, true, American, straight bars…there is no crying.<br /><br />It’s time to come out, Speaker Boehner...It's time to come out.<br /><br /><i>Cheers!!</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Matt-Man</i><br /><br /><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">@mattman_iws</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mattmaniws" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">My Facebook Page</span></a></div>

National Coming Out Day

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Matt Said, Jay Said 1234567890

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal">Matt: This is a bit forward don’t you think? <br />Jay: What? <br />Matt: Calling without permission. <br />Jay: I don’t need no stinkin’ permission. <br />Matt: Says who? <br />Jay: You! <br />Matt: Oh. <br />Jay: With your memory, you wouldn’t know if I was lying or not. <br />Matt: Very true. <br />Jay: Hey! Tomorrow is National Coming Out Day? <br />Matt: I know, <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/national-coming-out-day.html" target="_blank">I’m writing about it for Friday</a>. <br />Jay: You’re coming out? <br />Matt: Eh, no, but there are some people who need to. <br />Jay: Oh, so you’re gonna shove them out of the closet. <br />Matt: Drag. I’m not  in the clo .. OH NEVER MIND! <br />Jay: I really never thought that would work on you. <br />Matt: I’m drinking Rose! No fair! <br />Jay: I’m cheap and dirty that way. <br />Matt: That’s hot! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj9MOl-O3BQeyvQWkE4LxCSm7qk5Fro3w8wlYTwsJO8i0UhN8-VJrq0tnxjETmSU3cFvgdZN1fp9ho0pxkJh-cknv1Tvn2lOQkQ7MzuIM-ZnqgzoHvDC_agZmv2PigshpP14H3OV0ehdQF/s1600/Yvonne+Strahovski+Legs+Hot+Sexy+Feet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj9MOl-O3BQeyvQWkE4LxCSm7qk5Fro3w8wlYTwsJO8i0UhN8-VJrq0tnxjETmSU3cFvgdZN1fp9ho0pxkJh-cknv1Tvn2lOQkQ7MzuIM-ZnqgzoHvDC_agZmv2PigshpP14H3OV0ehdQF/s1600/Yvonne+Strahovski+Legs+Hot+Sexy+Feet.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />Matt: Schmoop taking Friday off. <br />Jay: Need a day to prepare for having Matt home the whole day?<br />Matt: Exactly! And Sunday to recover. <br />Jay: Totally understandable. <br />Matt: What was for supper? <br />Jay: We call it dinner here. <br />Matt: What the fuck was for dinner? <br />Jay: That’s better. Chicken, bowtie pasta in a red sauce and garlic bread. <br />Matt: Delcious! <br />Jay: I love Italian food. <br />Matt: Are you wearing a track suit and plenty of bling? <br />Jay: It won’t taste right if I don’t. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGCwt5zwJ-k0evCi4ctdP8FyVRjECD6-zqAYiPaLZ2oeyp_r6qSo3mHbZLIgugdeAl2tl3zclOojTISZX7XA0n7-W3hyAY_2b8rK6XkXVOLB-FEzQefVjfruBE9wFVKjGYXNO4EzAZi6A7/s1600/Alexa+Vega+Boobs+Cleavage+Hot+Sexy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGCwt5zwJ-k0evCi4ctdP8FyVRjECD6-zqAYiPaLZ2oeyp_r6qSo3mHbZLIgugdeAl2tl3zclOojTISZX7XA0n7-W3hyAY_2b8rK6XkXVOLB-FEzQefVjfruBE9wFVKjGYXNO4EzAZi6A7/s1600/Alexa+Vega+Boobs+Cleavage+Hot+Sexy.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Jay: A no-prep show this week? <br />Matt: That’s the plan. <br />Jay: I desperately want to prep now. <br />Matt: Not me. <br />Jay: Why should this week be any different? <br />Matt: Hey now! <br />Jay: Another cheap shot. I know. <br />Matt: So hurtful! <br />Jay: What ARE we gonna talk about though? <br />Matt: Just whatever. <br />Jay: Any audios? <br />Matt: Maybe, but probably not. <br />Jay: Calling anyone? <br />Matt: Party Marty. <br />Jay: Who won’t answer. <br />Matt: John Boehner. <br />Jay: Who won’t answer. <br />Matt: My ex? <br />Jay: God I hope she doesn’t answer. <br />Matt: Gold Jay! It would be GOLD! <br />Jay: I guess. Ha<br />Matt: Maybe we’ll call Drive-By Mikey out on his combine farming. <br />Jay: That could be fun. <br />Matt: There’s really no telling what might happen. <br />Jay: People better tune in then!! <br />Matt: Damn right they should! <br />Jay: And call us up! <br />Matt: Definitely! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal">So, don’t forget it’s a very special edition of <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/10/12/breakfast-at-stupids" target="_blank">IWS Radio onSATURDAY morning at 11 AM ET</a> this week!! Be there or else! Please. <o:p></o:p></div></div>

Matt Said, Jay Said 1234567890

Matt: This is a bit forward don’t you think? Jay: What? Matt: Calling without permission. Jay: I don’t need no stinkin’ permission. Matt: Sa...

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