Just found this TTSS interview clip among a bunch of stuff my brother sent me a couple of months ago; I don’t think I have seen Benedict’s part before, and I always love his view to the movie: it’s far more intimate and it’s about smelling the breath the person you’re killing; it’s not actually by remote control….. 

Alberto Iglesias: Smiley is connecting to everything; he’s the connector. Also, I am spying Smiley at the same time. 

Wanted to post Alberto Iglesias’s interview (click on the Title) with MSN re his oscar nom long time ago; kept forgetting to. Tinker’s score may be the most important element for me to love the movie. 

*MSN also talked to Gary and the screenwriter for their Oscar noms respectively. Their interview videos can be found on the same MSN web page.

Benedict on John le Carre: I write him and talk to him about an hour. It’s an actor’s dream. Anything you ask about the backstory; it’s there. It was almost like interviewing Guillam; it was wonderful.

From BTS Video: [x] on Cineplex

Just notice I saved this little fanart as a draft for quite a long time. :p Hmmm…don’t know the language, but if I’m not wrong, Richard… is actually Peter’s little ginger kitten?! LoL! If I had to get rid of my beloved kitten for the great good, I’d be heartbroken as well!! LOL!!!! 

Vogue Italy, February 2012 (including a short article (in English) re Tinker Tailor and Gary.)

I love that Vogue.it picked two of my favorite BTS photos for the special feature of Tinker Tailor. :-)  Right click to open in new taps for 1280 version of photos

Reblog for the comment below.

This is an actor who can act with his back; people don’t realy need to see his face to know how his character feels at that moment.  

twotwentyonebbakerst:

this was such a fantastic scene. there was just so much tension, so much understanding for the anger guillam feels, conveyed through a completely neutral expression. you know that he’s going to hit tarr through his movements and the few seconds in which he pauses and realizes what’s happening, rather than a bold display of anger or growl of frustration.

he does it subtly and lets it seep into the audience members’ heads just before he carries out his plans; he lets us invest in the scene, lets us consider the events and possibilities before they play out.

it’s brilliant. and everything after it is as well. because he really lets you become one with him in this moment. he lets you share the burden of his character, and for one in an ensemble of ten or so very amazing and layered characters (many with much more screen time), it’s incredible how deeply we fall into him in a matter of seconds.

I recall that Gary mentioned in an interview that he liked how Benedict delivered these lines in this scene. Me too.

Like the light tones of purple.

So, it seems it’s how it looks like when the DVD+BR comes out in the U.S. market.

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I watched the miniseries’s final investigation scene between Smiley and Haydon after seeing the movie because I was not sure how I felt about that crucial confrontation between these two characters in the movie version, and… sigh….so glad I did check it out, what a performance from Sir Ian Richardson!! It’s completely right in terms of Haydon’s characterization. NTS: should definitely check out his version of Sherlock Holmes.

neutrinothoughts:

In praise of Ian Richardson

He was the amazing, Machiavellian, Macbeth-ian and RichardtheIII-ian Francis Urquhart in House of Cards (BBC, 1990), To Play the King (BBC, 1993) and The Final Cut (BBC, 1995). You might very well think that there is a better political tv series, but I couldn’t possibly comment. (left)

He was also a low-profile but extremely classy Sherlock in two 1983 films. (middle)

And he was the savvy, charismatic and inexplicably menacing Bill Haydon in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (BBC, 1979). Always the last one to enter the room, holding his cup of tea with a sly smile on his face and a secret nobody else knows in his eyes. Alec Guinness was of course the undeniable star of the BBC series, but, as always, Ian Richardson was the hidden gem. (right)

“You do trust me don’t you? Yes, of course you do.” -FU