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Matthieu a écrit: le personnage se nomme "Toutchevitch" dans ma version française. Il est l'amant (écarté) de la Princesse Betsy.

- Vous ne trouvez pas que Toutchevitch a quelque chose de Louis XV ? dit l'ambassadeur en désignant des yeux un beau jeune homme blond près de la fenêtre.
- Oh oui, il est du même style que le salon ! C'est pourquoi il vient si souvent ici.
De ce côté, la conversation se poursuivit par des allusions à ce dont, précisément, on n'aurait jamais dû parler dans ce salon : les relations de Toutchevitch avec la maîtresse du logis.

Luce a écrit:D'après son agent Hamilton Hodell, Michelle Dockery joue Princess Myagkaya dans AK.

Bill Skarsgard to Star in Anna Karenina with Jude Law and Keira Knightley

“My character is named Captain Machouten, and is the rival of Aaron Johnson’s character, Vronsky, who in turn is the love interest of Keira Knightley. This is a small but very fun role, for he is a real asshole. Although there are very few lines, it’s a role that is “up in your face” in the title role, and not just some guy in the background. It’s a fun character to play,” says Bill Skarsgård for MovieZine.se.

Tannishtha was all praise for the film’s director as well, “I am the only coloured person in the entire cast. And it was Joe who wanted me to be a part of this project. He is one of the very best directors that I have worked with. It’s his vision and everything is so sorted in his mind. And he wanted me to do a special part in the movie.” Apart from grabbing a dream role opposite Jude, Tannishtha also sang a song in the film. “I did sing a song in the film, which was composed by Anoushka Shankar who is married to the director Joe,” she reveals.

What are you up to next?
... And I’m doing a few days on Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina. I’m playing Countess Lydia — a nasty piece of work.

Ohhhh. Are you looking forward to it?
I am. I’ve already done one day. Oh, yeah.

You sound like a fan of the book.
I am. I’ve read it a few times in my life. It’s a very interesting book, because you see it very differently when you’re young. As your age changes, you read it very differently. I was shocked when I read it the last time.

What was different?
Well, when I was young, I think I really identified with Anna and wanting to be that in love and the terrible tragedy of it all. I don’t know if I wanted to kill myself at the end of it. Then you read it now, and you realize the decisions she makes about her children– to leave her children — for the sake of this affair is… [Winces] I have children of my own, so… Anyway, it changes.

"It was great shooting the first schedule of "Anna Karenina", directed by Joe Wright, in England. I really admire Joe's work and was looking forward to working with him. In the movie, I play a Romanian gypsy. I did get an opportunity to interact with Jude during the shooting, but I don't have any scene with him in the film.

"Our second schedule will be in Russia for which I'm here in Delhi to get my visa done."

Sofia tient la chronique des événements familiaux, comme l’amour impossible de sa sœur Tania pour le frère de Tolstoï, qui a déjà des enfants de son amie Macha la Tsigane.

Now it's won him a meatier role in Joe Wright's forthcoming version of Anna Karenina, adapted by Tom Stoppard.

When I meet Gleeson in Covent Garden, he's in the final stages of playing Levin, a central character in Tolstoy's novel, and he has a three-month-old beard to prove it. "It's kind of an antidote to the Anna story," he says. "Levin is trying to find the way to be happy in the world. It's a really beautiful part."

Marina a écrit:Yes, I saw that IMDB still says that she plays Princess Betsy.

In 2012, Allegra will also appear on soundtrack and screen, in the new film adaptation of Anna Karenina, directed by, Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride & Prejudice, Hanna), and composed by Oscar/Academy Award winner, Dario Marianelli.

Learning music for a film... be nice to finally do a soundtrack where I am also on screen!!

AMAZING day on the set of Joe Wright's 'Anna Karenina'... I am playing Anna, in her opera form, affectionately dubbed 'Keira-at-her-breast'!

She also has a small role in Joe Wright’s dynamite new take on Anna Karenina.

She is close to the end of shooting her new film Anna Karenina, in which she stars opposite Aaron Johnson's Vronsky and Jude Law's Karenin. No, she confides, she hasn't shot the suicide sequence in the train station yet. That is a treat waiting in store for the final day of filming, just before Christmas.

It's clear that she'd much rather discuss Tolstoy than Milly Dowler. She's a big fan of War and Peace and used to love Anna Karenina, too, but is beginning to suspect that the Russian novelist had a hidden agenda when it came to his adulterous heroine. "I read the book when I was about 16 and absolutely loved it and thought it was so romantic," Knightley reflects on Anna Karenina. "But I then re-read it to do this [film]... it's interesting coming back to a book when you've read it as a younger person and then seeing it through very different eyes, because I never thought that Tolstoy hated her [Anna Karenina]. And you really think, 'My God, he hates her!'."

Whatever challenges playing Anna Karenina presents, the role is a breeze by comparison with Knightley's other recent part in David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method.

Back to what we are allowed to discuss: in playing Anna Karenina, she is following in the steps of two of cinema's greats – Greta Garbo and Vivien Leigh. Will she match up? Knightley parries the question, suggesting that the "beauty shots" are as much the responsibility of cinematographer Seamus McGarvey as they are dependent on her own looks. "He knows how to shoot me."

As for the rest, that (Knightley claims) is simply a matter of "a lot of lighting and a hell of a lot of make-up!".