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I feel flattered to say that we’re SOTM at Robert Pattinson Brasil! Thank you girls!

Men Hot-List at Jolie

Vote here for Ben at Jolie, he is on the Men Hot-List! Thanks for sending the link, Giulia.

Tidbit

In another italian magazine “Film tv” there’s something about Ben, but is just a little thing; he is mentioned as one of new best young actor to look at, with Robert Pattinson, Chad Michael Murray and others.

Big Movie magazine

I’ve added the scans from Big Movie magazine. Here are some lines about the article:

They talk very well about the movie, specially about Jessica Biel. Ben is mentioned about his attitude to sing; they say that most of the cast was really good in singing and that Ben had his band, Hyrise. The only one who was scared about singing was Colin Firth, because there are some old ladies that run for him singing Mamma Mia! Thanks Pirate_otty for this excerpt and for the scans!

Vanity Fair Article

Wonderful Pirate_otty translated the article from the Italian Vanity Fair.

Thank goodness I’m different
He has few muscles and has born in Shakespeare’s land: this is why (according to him) he’s going strong in Hollywood, that made him a Prince. However, now Narnia’s divo comes back to England, where lies his new movie. And cut off his hairs. Well, not exactly…

Prince got married. At least in theatres. Actor Ben Barnes, 27, English, who play the part of long-haired Prince Caspian from Narnia, comes back, from 9th January, in a very English movie. Insomuch as the original title, “Easy Virtue”, in Italian became “Un matrimonio all’inglese” (ndt: an English marriage).
Barnes is John, descendant of Whittaker’s family, who comes back home with Larita (Jessica Biel), his new American wife, a very defective one. At least, according with her mother-in-law (Kristin Scott Thomas). Indeed, her father-in-law (played by Colin Firth), is much well-disposed towards her. First of all, she’s American, second she’s smarter than her husband, she smokes, she takes the side of the fox, and, as we will discover, she has “a story behind”. Between the two of them goes off, immediately and ruthlessly, a big war.

What do you think about marriage? Is it something that one day you want to try?
I hope so. Because I have the example of my parents, a wonderful couple, too. They’re together from 30 years.

What kind of family is yours?
The opposite of the movie’s one, so careful to etiquette and rules. I grew up in an ambient few “orthodox”. In my home, everyone was suppose to say what was thinking.

Your father is a psychiatrist, your mother a psychotherapist: with parents like these, introduce a fiancée isn’t it anyway complicated?
In fact, when I was a boy, their professional vice of analyse people was an issue. But it was so rare that I introduced a girlfriend to them that, at this point, their real concern isn’t about who I date, but that sooner or later I give their some grandsons!

I read that you defined the movie as a “a posh Meet the parents” (movie with Ben Stiller). I found it very funny.
To tell the truth, it deserves to Colin Firth.

Both of you are working together again in “Dorian Gray”.
Yes. I knew him for the first time on “Easy Virtue” set, and we became friends. The fact that, in the movie, he play as my father, has created this sort of strange “forced nearness”, that has consolidate from the moment in which we found again in Dorian Gray. And we’re also two English actors that work often abroad. So, we have many experiences in common.

The movie is about “to be English”, or the essence to be English. Are there some particular moments in which this shows in you?
Every time I’m far from home. About on 5 years ago, I went for the first time in America. I joined a screen test for a bodyguard character. Around me, there were all this actors tall, full of muscles, blonde… I thought “I wanna leave out as soon as I can!”

Maybe it wasn’t your role.
Indeed, it was. Even if the movie, then, wasn’t shooted, I caught the part just because I was different. Recently, to use English actors is a trend in Hollywood. Because in US they look for something “exotic”, and because of a sort of nostalgia for English traditions. You know, theatre, Shakespeare, those things.

In Narnia, you were noticed for your long hair too. But you revealed that you had extensions. The hair that you have in Easy Virtue are yours?
No. I had a wig that covered the low part of my head. The fact is that my character had to had short hair, but I had to maintain long hair because of Narnia. In Dorian Gray, finally, you will see my real hair.

You told that Dorian Gray movie is perfect for our time, so obsessed with vanity and appearance. You add that you often find a connection between your movies and what we’re living now. What’s in Easy Virtue?
It’s different, because we’re talking about an “issue” that exist from ever: introduce the wife into your family.