RocknRolla update

Dark Castle Entertainment has set Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and Idris Elba to star in “RocknRolla,” the crime tale Guy Ritchie wrote and is directing. Production began June 19 in London. Joel Silver is producing with Ritchie, Steve Clark-Hall and Susan Downey. Warner Bros. will distribute.

Wednesday 4 July F1 Party London

Hamilton among stars confirmed for official F1 Party
With the kind permission of Bernie Ecclestone, the official F1 Party will be hosted by London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity for the third year running. This year the party is supported by the British Grand Prix’s title sponsor, Santander, and will take place at The Worx, Parsons Green, London, SW6 on Wednesday 4 July at 7.30pm.
Confirmed guests include McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton and team principal Ron Dennis, Renault’s Giancarlo Fisichella and Heikki Kovalainen, the charity’s patrons Tess Daly and Vernon Kay as well as Geri Halliwell, Rupert Everett, Thandie Newton, Tamzin Outhwaite, Lemar and Robert Kazinsky.

NYC 19th June 2007

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How I get dressed: Thandie Newton

The actress, 34, on learning to love her body, Bafta frocks and short skirts

Interview by Daisy Garnett
Sunday June 10, 2007
The Observer


I know what I'm going to wear every day before I open my wardrobe. It takes me about a second to think it all out. A normal day for me is spending time with my kids (Ripley, six, and Nico, two), which means sitting down on the floor. A lot. So it's jeans. Tight jeans or boy-cut jeans with a top - maybe a bit of a chemise, maybe by Marni. And I love a cardigan, though my husband Ol groans whenever I wear one. He thinks they are unsexy, but I can't do without them. You can make your neckline plunge with a cardie, or you can prim it up. Either way it's always jeans, even though part of me hates jeans. Everyone wears jeans and I have a thing about that. It's because it took me a long time to get my identity together - it wasn't easy growing up a mixed-race kid in Cornwall- and when I think back, I can chart that process by the way I dressed myself. I have come to love looking a little different.

I look at my daughters - because dressing children is complicated in itself - it shows how you want to see them and how you want them to be seen. Ripley doesn't give a toss what she wears - she'll only say if something is itchy or uncomfortable. So I get to dress her like I'm her stylist. I love it. So because of that I've been thinking more about dressing. Because there is this idea that women get dressed for other women, but I think we actually get dressed to see ourselves.
I pride myself on having good taste now, but it was terrible growing up. I dressed like a 40-year-old woman when I was a teenager. I wore long skirts, tights, big sweaters and lots of make-up. My next phase was shapeless clothes from Ghost. I was desperately insecure about my body. Why? Women are. I was so unhappy during my adolescence that I wanted to hide myself all the time. That hit its pitch at university. I was so covered up then I looked like Obi-Wan Kenobi.

I began changing when I met my husband and fell in love. I was 23 and we met on the set of a BBC film he wrote called In Your Dreams. Ol is such a pure, open, absorbing, unthreatening person, and he allowed me to receive and love myself back through him: he would never need me to be a trophy girlfriend. It wasn't as simple as him saying, 'Oh babe, you look good in a short skirt'. It's been a long burn. In fact it's only in the last year that I've been comfortable wearing a short skirt.

Now I love dressing up. I'd been hearing about Giles Deacon through friends for ages, and so at the end of last year I asked him if I could borrow something to wear for Vogue's 90th birthday party. This strapless black dress arrived 20 minutes before I was due to leave for the party, but I put it on and I was like, oh my God. I returned it the next day, and rang him and said, 'Baftas? Will you dress me?' He dressed Helen Mirren and me. Could you get two more different-looking women?

Last year I wore this stunning, big Eliza Doolittle sort of gown by Lacroix. I was quite firm about not wanting to wear a gown again, and I explained to Giles that I wanted something rocking, but quite back-of-the stage-looking. But as soon as I saw a sketch of a dress from his new collection, I knew it was right, even though it contradicted everything I had said, but dressing is about trusting your gut.

I had the same feeling meeting Giles as I did when I met the Queen. Twittery. It doesn't matter how supercool you are, when you are invited to Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen - I went to a cocktail party given for British achievers - you cannot help getting excited. Thankfully I was in LA when I heard about it, so I was with my stylist who dresses me for things like press junkets, and she said, you have to wear Chanel. I got the outfit so right, you wouldn't believe it. It was a beautiful black Chanel dress with a sensible neckline and layers, like petals, of chiffon. It was perfect. Heaven. I was basking. The Queen was nice. We didn't talk for long, but afterwards, I thought, you're amazing. Imagine giving your life over to these things. She looked immaculate in a peachy pink suit with sequins. Not sequins like Elton; hers were more a speckled shimmer. Talk about getting dressed.

I imagine Queen Elizabeth must have people helping her dress every day, like you do on a movie. I hate that. The dressers are always lovely but I don't let them come near me. For me, costume is huge. When I go for the costume fitting, it's the first time I see myself in the mirror as the character I am playing. Because however much you think and read and do research, you don't do it in front of a mirror. For The Pursuit of Happyness, for example, I was given five dry cleaning outfits to try on and I knew exactly which one my character Linda - who worked in a dry cleaners - would wear. I put it on and I thought, OK, I've got it. In the script Linda was described as the bitch that leaves, but I saw her as a woman basically committing suicide. Every time I walked on the set, that's who I was. It was hard. There wasn't a lot of Thandie around.

I had a screening for the film not long ago - just for friends. I dressed for joy for that screening and I wore a Marni dress, black tights, a cardie and Marni high heels. Dressing up for dinner with friends or a low-key party is much more fun than doing it for the red carpet. No one is judging you when you dress up for friends and you just feel delicious.

next film

"Gerard Bultler is in rehearsals to star in the new Guy Ritchie film, RocknRolla, co-starring Thandie Newton. He will portray the character of One-Two. The action comedy is the story of a Russian mobster who orchestrates a crooked land deal, putting millions of dollars up for grabs and attracting all of London's criminal underworld. A dangerous crime lord, a sexy accountant, a corrupt politician and a band of petty thieves are among those double-crossing one another."
http://www.gerardbutler.net/career/movie_detail.php?id=46

Thandie Newton part 2

hopefully these will stay up this time

Thandie Newton part 1

it does not want to be posted

Thandie at Elle Style awards video

credit to Elle magazine

Thandie's dad Nick in BBC Radio 4 saturday blog 13th jan 2007

Just to say that Sue Perkins has a terrific manner, is sharp, never lost for words, a delight to listen to. this is not a reflection on anyone she may be standing in for. she has a glittering future ahead of her.
Nick Newton (lucky father of Thandie Newton....don't say you've never heard of her

Thandie Newton with Nikolai Ryskov

From 31 January 2007 at the Exhibition ''Modern Works On Paper'' at the Royal Academy Of Arts, 6 Burlington Gardens, London, W1

Vogue party at the Royal Festival Hall

British actress Thandie Newton, who danced at the Festival Hall as a girl, said the place had retained its idealism

C magazine April 2007

sorry wrong month listed now corrected
Quinn

We were joined by Thandie Newton (Crash and ER) in there the metal sculptures room (don't think that's the technical term but it was one of just 4 other amazing displays)and dinner star spotting included Anthony Gormley himself, who came for a chat at our table!! Lily Cole the supermodel, Alan Rickman, Terrance Conran, Antonio Carluccio, George Alagiah amongst others and to be honest the only one's I recognised!!
http://little-flower.blogspot.com/2007/05/or-wierdest-of-weeks-its-been.html

Leo and Lisa

The play is up and on
http://leoandlisa.iwc.com/
It is a 84 meg flash file.

iwc thandie is at the end

Zidane-IWC2-Da Vinci
Video sent by flo_6

thandie for darfur

Thandie for Darfur

http://unzipped.blogspot.com/2007/04/global-day-for-darfur.html

THANDIE SET FOR LIFE ON MARS SEQUEL
11:00 - 18 April 2007
Cornish film star Thandie Newton is the hot favourite for a lead role in the sequel to the television hit Life on Mars.
Speculation is rife over who will play opposite the character of hard-nosed Detective Chief Inspector Gene Hunt in the show Ashes to Ashes.
A shortlist had been drawn up to play Det Insp Alex Drake, and Ms Newton - who shot to fame in Mission Impossible II and ER - is at the top of it.
Ms Newton, 34, grew up in Penzance and during the late 1980s and early 1990s was a pupil at the town's St Mary's Roman Catholic School.
Life On Mars, set in a Manchester police station in 1973, saw more than seven million viewers tuning in for last week's final episode.
Filming on Ashes to Ashes starts in London in July.
The show will feature DI Drake as a single mother who has soared through the ranks of the Metropolitan Police force.
The officer uses psychological profiling to snare criminals.
The character finds reports that Sam Tyler, played by John Simm, made after coming out of his coma in Life on Mars.
DI Drake and daughter Molly are kidnapped before she suffers a terrible accident.
The officer wakes up in 1981 and finds herself working alongside the politically incorrect DCI Gene Hunt, played by Philip Glenister.
DCI Hunt has been transferred to London with sidekicks Detective Constable Chris Skelton and Detective Sergeant Ray Carling.
Jane Featherstone, executive producer for producers Kudos, said: "Ashes To Ashes is the next chapter in the life of Gene Hunt, as seen through the eyes of a modern,
no-nonsense woman.
"It is Moonlighting teamed with a measure of Miami Vice."