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Time of India
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Alfie Allen, Jill Halfpenny board Hollie Overton's novel 'Baby Doll' series adaptation
Alfie Allen and Jill Halfpenny have boarded the series adaptation of Hollie Overton's novel 'Baby Doll', reported Variety. Based on the novel by Hollie Overton, the 6-part series is being produced by Brit production banner Clapperboard Studios. Currently in production, 'Baby Doll' -- currently a working title -- will follow the story of twin sisters Lily and Abby, whose lives are shattered when Lily is abducted from their quiet rural English town by beloved local teacher Rick Hansen, as reported by Variety. After years of abuse in captivity, Lily escapes, only to discover that freedom brings its own challenges. The world she longed to return to has moved on without her. As Abby, Lily, and their mother, Eve, struggle to rebuild their family, they must confront the lasting damage and the terrifying reality that Rick is still out there, determined to control the narrative and evade justice, as reported by Variety. According to the outlet, Alfie Allen and Jill Halfpenny will play the roles of Rick and Eve, while sisters Tallulah and Delphi Evans will take on the roles of Lily and Abby, reported Variety. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Invertir con Cervecería Nacional CFD, si tienes 30 o más, puede alegrar tu cuenta bancaria Empieza a invertir Inscríbete ahora Undo Along with the lead cast, the series will also star Kash Bhai, Niamh Walsh, Levi Brown , Victoria Ekanoye, Holly Atkins and Kiran Krishnakumar. "Baby Doll" was commissioned by Sebastian Cardwell, deputy chief content officer, U.K., and Paul Testar, commissioning editor, for Paramount+ U.K. & Ireland. Alfie Allen is known for his role in Game of Thrones. It streamed exclusively on HBO, now known as Max.
Mint
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Mint
Alfie Allen, Jill Halfpenny board Hollie Overtons novel Baby Doll series adaptation
Washington DC [US], June 26 (ANI): Alfie Allen and Jill Halfpenny have boarded the series adaptation of Hollie Overton's novel 'Baby Doll', reported Variety. Based on the novel by Hollie Overton, the 6-part series is being produced by Brit production banner Clapperboard Studios. Currently in production, 'Baby Doll' -- currently a working title -- will follow the story of twin sisters Lily and Abby, whose lives are shattered when Lily is abducted from their quiet rural English town by beloved local teacher Rick Hansen, as reported by Variety. After years of abuse in captivity, Lily escapes, only to discover that freedom brings its own challenges. The world she longed to return to has moved on without her. As Abby, Lily, and their mother, Eve, struggle to rebuild their family, they must confront the lasting damage and the terrifying reality that Rick is still out there, determined to control the narrative and evade justice, as reported by Variety. According to the outlet, Alfie Allen and Jill Halfpenny will play the roles of Rick and Eve, while sisters Tallulah and Delphi Evans will take on the roles of Lily and Abby, reported Variety. Along with the lead cast, the series will also star Kash Bhai, Niamh Walsh, Levi Brown , Victoria Ekanoye, Holly Atkins and Kiran Krishnakumar. "Baby Doll" was commissioned by Sebastian Cardwell, deputy chief content officer, U.K., and Paul Testar, commissioning editor, for Paramount U.K. & Ireland. Alfie Allen is known for his role in Game of Thrones. It streamed exclusively on HBO, now known as Max. (ANI)
The Sun
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Mobland star is a nepo-baby with a famous dad and A-list siblings – can you guess who?
ONE of the rising stars of the latest TV blockbuster Mobland is a secret nepo-baby. The actress in question has begun playing the role of Tom Hardy 's on-screen daughter, Gina Da Souza, in the popular new series. 9 9 9 But she is unlikely to have been fazed working with such a huge star having grown-up with plenty of famous faces in her own home. The 19-year-old's dad is a famous actor whilst she counts a Game of Thrones star as a brother and a UK pop legend with plenty of number ones as her sister - but do you know who she is? Britain's newest nepo-baby is in fact Teddie Allen. She is the daughter of Keith Allen and the sister to Alfie and Lily. Smile singer Lily is arguably the most famous of the Allen clan thanks to her glittering global music career. She rose to fame in 2006 with her chart-topping album, Alright, Still, and quickly rose up the ranks to become one of music's biggest stars. Lily, 38, has since released a total of four albums, has toured the globe alongside artists such as Miley Cyrus, played at Glastonbury and even carved out a stage career as an actress. More recently, she has become a podcaster too thanks to her BBC show with TV presenter pal and fellow nepo-baby, Miquita Oliver, the daughter of TV chef, Andi Oliver. Whereas brother Alfie had his big break in the hit TV show, Game of Thrones. He played Theon Greyjoy in each of the programme's series from start to finish. Lily Allen seen on 'date' with actor James Norton at festival after joining dating app 37-year-old Alfie has also enjoyed roles in John Wick and JoJo Rabbit. Rising star Teddie has already opened up on her nepo-baby status by admitting that as a child she was regularly the one to take snaps of her famous relatives with their fans when they were stopped out on the street. Discussing growing up as part of the Allen clan, Teddie previously told The Sunday Times: "When I was at junior school, older girls started asking me if my mum and dad were on telly or if Lily Allen was my sister. That feels a bit weird when you're little. "When we were out shopping people would run up to my dad and call him 'a legend' or 'a hellraiser'. If they wanted a selfie it was usually me that ended up taking it. 9 9 9 "I wanted to say, 'You might think he's a legend and a hellraiser, but did you know that he calls me into the living room to get the TV remote from the coffee table because he's too lazy to get off the armchair?" "As I got older it all started to make sense. I'd see pictures of him with Alex James from Blur or Jennifer Saunders, Neneh Cherry. There's a picture of me in the kitchen with Shaun Ryder from the Happy Mondays." Teddie continued to the publication: "Then there's Alfie and Lily. I used to love going to Lily's house because she had a swimming pool — Nick Grimshaw was there one day and taught me how to dive. "Foolishly, when I was about 11, I started googling my family and wish I hadn't. There was even some horrible stuff about me, saying how awful my name was. "I didn't know these people, so what's it got to do with them?" MobLand streams on Paramount+. 9 9 9
The Independent
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Alfie Allen on Dealer's Choice: ‘Maybe when it was written, men would just bury things and move on'
Play the man, not the cards.' It's a credo that goes to the heart of the game of poker – and it's central to Patrick Marber 's 1995 play Dealer's Choice, which is being revived at London's Donmar Theatre this month. Poker is a simple game of statistical probability, but also a complex mesh of psychology and personality, and no one wins by relying on maths alone. In poker, the harder someone tries to make themselves unreadable, the more likely they are to show everything. It's this sense of enigma that is at the heart of so many of Alfie Allen 's performances, which, in recent years, have encompassed a Tony-nominated turn on Broadway, primetime BBC dramas and acclaimed film roles. There's a sense of self-containment but also of still waters running deep. It's no surprise that the play's producers have cast Allen as Frankie, considered the best poker player among the friends who play a weekly game together in what was Marber's debut. Having caught the laddish zeitgeist in its year of release, Dealer's Choice has proved endlessly revivable; it's knotty and complex enough to plausibly return and make sense in any number of different eras and contexts. It centres around a group of men – all working in the same restaurant, all struggling with thwarted dreams and all hoping, slightly desperately for something better. They're united by their poker games; a realm in which they can take responsibility and simultaneously surrender it. In common with many of the cast members, Allen had never played poker before rehearsals for the play began. But their first revelation was the most important. 'We learnt that there's got to be something on the line for it to matter,' he says. 'We were all just betting with fake chips, but we realised that it doesn't really mean anything unless you're playing with your own money. And as an actor, that's definitely at the core of what I try and figure out about every part I play: what's at stake? There are the obvious things that are at stake in terms of money but you try and dig a little deeper.' In its Donmar incarnation, the play sits comfortably within the current discourse around masculinity. Allen's Frankie is a cocky but slightly brittle young alpha-male. He's not only the best poker player in the group but a prolific ladies' man to boot. Is there, though, slightly less to him than meets the eye? As the group bickers over the cards, all of them end up unconsciously revealing slightly more about themselves than they'd like. This is probably not a trait that can ever be applied to Alfie Allen in person. There's never any danger of him overplaying his hand. When we meet in the Donmar's Covent Garden offices, he's unfailingly affable despite a long day of rehearsals – a process he seems to be enjoying every bit as much as the actual prospect of performance. He's sympathetic and amused rather than irritable when my recording device malfunctions and generous with his time. And yet there's a slight sense of guardedness about him. And really, that's not too surprising. As the son of famously garrulous and unguarded actor, presenter, comic and general overlord of Eighties and Nineties excess, Keith Allen, Alfie learnt about the pleasures and perils of the limelight at a young age. The success – and tabloid-related travails – of his singer-sister Lily presumably drove the point home. Questions about his family elicit lengthy pauses and not much more. You suspect he's not so much unwilling to talk about them as slightly sick of the questions. 'My family is my family, you know?' he says. What, you suspect, does animate him is his work, which is increasingly both varied and impressive. Dealer's Choice captures the robust, often combative nuances of male friendship brilliantly. 'That's sometimes how a strong friendship is built,' as Allen puts it. 'You can go to the extremes and then kind of go back to 'actually, we're alright aren't we?' He's also modest enough to give Marber most of the credit for this. 'Patrick's writing really does the work for you in that respect,' he says. 'There are no big, performative monologues in this. It's always about what the other person is doing. That's how it becomes a proper dance.' But it takes two to tango. And more and more, it seems Allen is building a portfolio of vulnerable men in extremis. Alongside Frankie, there's his wracked, tormented Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones ('an amazing, crazy 10 years of my life… that took me to places I didn't think I could go'). The torture of Theon in the show pivoted around castration, emasculation and humiliation. Last year, Allen played the title role in McVeigh, a timely exploration of America's deadliest domestic terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, who perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, killing 167 people, including 19 children. And in 2022, there was Steven Knight's SAS: Rogue Heroes in which he played another real-life character, Jock Lewes, the founding principal training officer of the regiment and a man who combined extreme personal discipline with a maverick streak of wildness. In realising his screen version of Lewes, Allen did something very characteristic. He offered up a performance that was expressive while being entirely without ego. 'I didn't want to veer too far from the version of him I'd read about – I just looked at the love letters that he wrote to his wife-to-be,' he says. 'There's a whole book of them and that was my source material. I didn't really want to jazz it up or put my spin on it – I wanted to stay true to what the real life version was'. It's tempting here to make a comparison to Alfie's father Keith, who, for all of his charisma (in fact, probably, because of it), seems to essentially play Keith Allen in every role. Alfie Allen was famously raised in the public eye – Lily has spoken of evenings where the siblings were left upstairs at the Groucho Club while their dad enjoyed himself in the bar downstairs – and has explored the party animal lifestyle himself. But there's something else in a character like Jock Lewes; a sense of ingrained self-denial that feels like a revealingly antithetical response to this. 'Jock was an aloof disciplinarian,' Allen says. 'He was raised in a Protestant household, so maybe [the SAS] was his outlet. It gave him a way of channelling his need for structure.' Could something similar be said of Allen himself – and in particular, his ability to disappear into character? Like the culture itself, it feels like Allen has come a long way. He and Theo Barklem-Biggs (fellow SAS Rogue Hero and one of his co-stars in Dealer's Choice) set up a therapeutic forum for the cast and crew while on set in Morocco. 'There was a bunch of people who didn't know each other, all plonked in the middle of the desert,' Allen explains. 'Which is a bit like what it would be like in the army I guess! It was really good to have that kind of outlet, where everyone felt they could sit around and speak to each other.' For the duration of the run at the Donmar, he and Barklem-Biggs are sharing a flat in central London – there's a sense of intimacy and honesty, both in and out of character. So when Allen talks about what's at stake in the context of Dealer's Choice, it's clear that he's talking about more than money. Dealer's Choice, like most of the actor's recent parts, is about how men talk to each other – and in some cases, what happens when they don't. But have things moved on since the play was first staged? 'I guess they have in terms of talking about love and intimacy and mental health,' he says. 'Obviously, I was only eight or nine in 1995 so it wasn't all that evident to me then but in terms of things being better now, maybe then there was just a kind of unspoken understanding… that sometimes men would just bury things and move on. Whereas now, I think we feel more free to build on that and talk.' In terms of playing the man and not the cards, it feels like Dealer's Choice – and Alfie Allen himself – has found itself in tune with another cultural moment. He might not be a born gambler. But he certainly isn't playing it safe either. He'd almost certainly be an excellent poker player, I suggest. 'I'd like to think I could be a good bluffer,' he replies. 'But it's all about knowing when to bet.'
