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UPI
a day ago
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Caitriona Balfe, Fiona Shaw, more join 'Sense and Sensibility' remake
1 of 5 | Caitriona Balfe, seen at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif., has joined the cast of "Sense & Sensibility." File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo July 21 (UPI) -- Focus Features announced additional cast for its new Sense and Sensibility film on Monday. Outlander's Caitriona Balfe, Killing Eve's Fiona Shaw, Frank Dillane, George MacKay, Herbert Nordrum and Bodhi Rae Breathnach have joined the cast. Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles star as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood in the Jane Austen adaptation. Focus announced the film in June and it is in production in Britain. Diana Reid wrote the adaptation, with Georgia Oakley as director. The Austen novel that inspired the film follows the Dashwoods, a widow and her three daughters, who are left poor by Mr. Dashwood's elder children. A 1995 film adaptation won an Oscar for Emma Thompson's screenplay adaptation. It was nominated for Best Picture, Thompson and Kate Winslet's performances, cinematography, costume design and musical score. Ang Lee directed that film. Focus re-released its 2005 Pride and Prejudice film earlier this year.
Yahoo
07-07-2025
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- Yahoo
Look: 'Outlander: Blood of My Blood' pics show Claire, Jamie's relatives
July 7 (UPI) -- Starz released new photos from Outlander: Blood of My Blood on Monday. The new series premieres Aug. 8. Blood of My Blood is a prequel to Outlander, starring Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe as couple Jamie and Clare Fraser. The Blood of My Blood photos show Rory Alexander as young Murtagh Fraser and Jamie Roy as Brian Fraser, ancestors of Heughan's Jamie. Harriet Slater also plays Ellen MacKenzie, who becomes Jamie's mother. Other photos show Tony Curran as young Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, Sam Retford as young Dougal MacKenzie, Séamus McLean Ross as Colum MacKenzie and Conor MacNeil as Ned Gowan. Hermione Corfield and Jeremy Irvine star as Julia Moriston and Henry Beauchamp, the parents of Balfe's Claire. The time travel romance spans from 18th-century Scotland to World War I. Photos show Henry and Hemione laughing together, Jamie and Ellen standing and embracing in the Highlands, and the couples standing on opposite sides of the stones that allow them to travel through time. Matthew B. Roberts serves as showrunner for Blood of My Blood and also executive produces with Ronald D. Moore, Maril Davis and Jim Kohlberg. The show will air weekly on Starz and the Starz streaming app. Outlander will end with Season 8. Blood of My Blood has already been renewed for a second season.
Daily Record
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Outlander's Caitriona Balfe in tears as she reflects on favourite episode
Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan fondly reflected on filming season two of Diana Gabaldon's well-loved franchise when the Irish actress became emotional. Caitriona Balfe became tearful as she sat down alongside co-star Sam Heughan to discuss one of their favourite episodes of the beloved Outlander franchise. Fans are already mourning the loss of its eighth and final season before it has even aired. Balfe, who plays leading role of Claire Fraser, alongside Sam, in his role as Highland warrior Jamie Fraser, joined a panel to discuss some behind the scenes snippets from shooting one of their favourite episodes. The Irish actress, 45, became emotional in the clip, which was shared to social media. There was a chorus of admiration from the watching audience, as Sam playfully joked she was "still crying" as the actress wiped away tears. The pair discussed the season 2 finale episode, Dragonfly in Amber, and gave some behind-the-scenes insights from filming. Caitriona referred to Kinloch Rannoch, where the famous time-travelling stones are situated as a "very special place". She recalled turning up for filming that morning like "Disney himself had turned up and sprinkled snow everywhere." She continued, "The sun was shining, it was beautiful. Then we took our 200 crew and they stamped on it," Caitriona joked. "We done about two takes and it looked like a mud bath." "But I think it was one of our favourite scenes that day ever," she divulged, "The crew cried that day, and that's a feat. If you can get hairy Scottish crew to cry you know you've done something right." Sam interjected as he also fondly reminisced on the moment as being "beautiful". In Outlander Season 2, Claire and Jamie travel to France to try and prevent the Jacobite uprising, facing political intrigue and personal challenges, while Claire's 20th-century life with Frank also unfolds, ultimately leading to Claire's return to the past and a reunion with Jamie. The historical romance, based on Diana Gabaldon's best-selling book franchise, has amassed fans across the globe who have fallen in love with lead characters Caitriona Balfe (Claire Fraser) and Sam Heughan (Jamie Fraser). And whilst we all await the dreaded final chapter of their epic love story, some fans can't get enough and have been binge watching the Starz show from the beginning. Take a closer look at more behind-the-scenes snaps from filming series 2 here.
Yahoo
23-06-2025
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- Yahoo
Outlander: Blood of My Blood Renewed for Season 2 Ahead of Series Premiere
Starz is extending its residence in 18th-century Scotland. The network has renewed Outlander's upcoming spinoff Blood of My Blood for Season 2 ahead of the series' premiere this summer, TVLine has learned. More from TVLine MobLand Renewed for Season 2 at Paramount+ The Sandman's Final Season Trailer Features Dream's Return to Hell, Warns 'All Good Stories Come to an End' SkyMed Renewed for Season 4 - Who on the Cast Is Confirmed to Return? As previously announced, Season 1 of the prequel will get underway on Friday, Aug. 8, at 9/8c. Outlander: Blood of My Blood follows Jamie's parents, Scots Ellen MacKenzie (played by Pennyworth's Harriet Slater) and Brian Fraser (Condor's Nest's Jamie Roy), and Claire's parents, Brits Julia Moriston (We Hunt Together's Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Treadstone's Jeremy Irvine). Per the official logline: 'The series will center on these two parallel love stories set in two different time periods, with Jamie's parents in the early 18th-century Scottish Highlands and Claire's parents in WWI England.' 'The passion and talent our cast and crew have poured into Outlander: Blood of my Blood has been extraordinary, and we're thrilled to continue these epic love stories in Season 2,' showruner/executive producer Matthew B. Roberts said via statement. 'Just as audiences fell in love with Jamie and Claire, we hope viewers will be enamored by these new couples when they meet them this summer.' Outlander's Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe Introduce You to Their Fictional Parents: Here's Everything We Know About the Prequel Series Blood of My Blood View List Production on Season 2 begins today in Scotland. Are you excited to hear that there'll be more ? Hit the comments with your thoughts! Best of TVLine 'Missing' Shows, Found! Get the Latest on Ahsoka, Monarch, P-Valley, Sugar, Anansi Boys and 25+ Others Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More
The Sun
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
‘I thought I was going to die' – Hollywood star dropped FOUR STONE to play boxer leaving superstar fiancee horrified
ORLANDO BLOOM lost nearly FOUR STONE to play the role of boxer - leaving his superstar fiancee Katy Perry horrified. Bloom stars as a retired boxer looking to make a comeback in the unreleased movie The Cut - which began filming in 2023. 5 And the plot centres around Bloom's character losing a dangerous amount of weight in order to fight again. The British cinema legend revealed he lost 52lb - three and a half STONE - before filming had even started. He told People: 'I literally thought I was gonna die.' Bloom was living off a diet of tuna and cucumber and had to actually film scenes from the end of the film at the start. Director Sean Ellis said to Variety: 'Your brain is starved of calories, basically. 'It was going to be impossible for him to work while dieting. So, he came to us at his lightest, and then he starts to eat. "So that meant that we had to shoot the film [with] the ending first and the beginning of the movie at the end. "Over the 25 days that we were shooting, he was putting on the calories. And then it's edited in reverse.' Bloom, now 48, added: 'I was more surprised about the mental aspect of [it], like the sleep deprivation, and not the depleted calories. 'There's a lot going on in your brain living in that headspace for a while was very challenging.' Sam Thompson left gobsmacked as he's surprised by huge Hollywood A-lister during his 280-mile endurance challenge Even Bloom's co-star Caitriona Balfe - who plays his on-screen wife in the film - was stunned by his gaunt face and body. Balfe said: 'The transformation was shocking - I was like, 'You look like a raisin.'' Director Ellis and lead Bloom revealed movie goers at the premiere passed out and fainted due to the film's graphic nature. And Bloom's fiancee Perry - with whom he shares a four-year-old daughter Daisy Dove with - also found it tough viewing. Bloom revealed the singer was left in tears after watching the particularly harrowing scenes. He told Page Six: 'She watched it and was like, 'I need a stiff drink.' She was really moved. She knew what it took.' Bloom proposed to 40-year-old Perry in 2019 and welcomed their daughter a year later but have not yet married. The Cut - with a screenplay by Justin Bull and story by Mark Lane - is yet have a distributor or release date. 5 5 5
