December 2010
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Jim Sturgess reveals desert diet
Jim Sturgess has revealed he went on a diet to play an escaped prisoner in The Way Back. {Click through source for video}.
The 29-year-old actor stars alongside Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan and Ed Harris in Peter Weir’s new film about soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag in 1940, which saw them shooting their long trek to freedom on location in snow and the desert.
Jim said: “I...
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Filming 'The Way Back' was enriching
Dubai: British actor Jim Sturgess and director Peter Weir held the fort at a press conference on Thursday for their latest film The Way Back.
Scheduled to be joined by co-actors Colin Farrell and Ed Harris, who did not attend, Sturgess had no problem taking the reins and kept an audience at Dubai International Film Festival HQ entertained.
“There was always a hot bath or a cold shower at...
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The Way Back - Jim Sturgess interview
Jim Sturgess talks about some of the pleasure and pain of filming The Way Back for acclaimed director Peter Weir, including getting to grips with food poisoning in the desert, the extreme cold and possessing leadership qualities.
I can imagine that you jumped at the chance of working with Peter Weir - possibly without even needing to see a script?
Jim Sturgess: Yeah, that’s exactly...
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The Way Back - Jim Sturgess interview
Jim Sturgess talks about some of the pleasure and pain of filming The Way Back for acclaimed director Peter Weir, including getting to grips with food poisoning in the desert, the extreme cold and possessing leadership qualities.
I can imagine that you jumped at the chance of working with Peter Weir - possibly without even needing to see a script?
Jim Sturgess: Yeah, that’s exactly...
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Lovefilm Review: The Way Back
We don’t do well in the snow in England. Arterial transport clogs, deliveries pile up, and many of us worry about frostbite and hypothermia and begin composing Captain Oates speeches after only half an hour building a snowman.
When the mercury slides below zero for more than a day, conditions are ‘Arctic’. When we need a level of frigidity beyond even that of the polar ice cap, it’s called...
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Lovefilm Review: The Way Back
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We don’t do well in the snow in England. Arterial transport clogs, deliveries pile up, and many of us worry about frostbite and hypothermia and begin composing Captain Oates speeches after only half an hour building a snowman.
When the mercury slides below zero for more than a day, conditions are ‘Arctic’. When we need a level of frigidity beyond even that of the polar ice cap, it’s...
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Jim Sturgess: a thoroughly polished survivor
You need only look at what An Education did for an unknown Carey Mulligan to see where Jim Sturgess might be headed. In 2011 he stars in the new film from Lone Scherfig, director of An Education. One Day is already being talked-up as a dead cert repeat of the award-magnet formula: adaptation of a smart, funny, much-loved Brit lit (in this case, David Nicholls’s novel), with a star-making...
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Jim Sturgess: a thoroughly polished survivor
You need only look at what An Education did for an unknown Carey Mulligan to see where Jim Sturgess might be headed. In 2011 he stars in the new film from Lone Scherfig, director of An Education. One Day is already being talked-up as a dead cert repeat of the award-magnet formula: adaptation of a smart, funny, much-loved Brit lit (in this case, David Nicholls’s novel), with a star-making...
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Little White Lies Interview: Jim Sturgess
The up-and-coming British actor discusses how he approached the biggest challenge of his career, in Peter Weir’s The Way Back.
Adam Woodward
Wednesday, December 22 2010 9:17 GMT
Since his breakthrough in 2007′s Beatles-inspired romantic drama Across The Universe Jim Sturgess has become one of Britain’s most sought after young acting talents. A sharp eye for versatility has...
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Little White Lies Interview: Jim Sturgess
The up-and-coming British actor discusses how he approached the biggest challenge of his career, in Peter Weir’s The Way Back.
Adam Woodward
Wednesday, December 22 2010 9:17 GMT
Since his breakthrough in 2007′s Beatles-inspired romantic drama Across The Universe Jim Sturgess has become one of Britain’s most sought after young acting talents. A sharp eye for versatility has...
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Review: The Way Back
Digital Spy Review
Monday, December 20 2010
By Stella Papamichael
Seven years have passed since Master & Commander (2003), the last big screen outing for director Peter Weir. That’s despite a glowing CV that includes Witness (1985), Mosquito Coast (1986), The Truman Show (1998) and Fearless (1993). His latest has echoes of his 1975 study in survival Picnic At Hanging Rock, but...
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Review: The Way Back
Digital Spy Review
Monday, December 20 2010
By Stella Papamichael
Seven years have passed since Master & Commander (2003), the last big screen outing for director Peter Weir. That’s despite a glowing CV that includes Witness (1985), Mosquito Coast (1986), The Truman Show (1998) and Fearless (1993). His latest has echoes of his 1975 study in survival Picnic At Hanging Rock, but...
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Filming 'The Way Back' was enriching
Dubai: British actor Jim Sturgess and director Peter Weir held the fort at a press conference on Thursday for their latest film The Way Back.
Scheduled to be joined by co-actors Colin Farrell and Ed Harris, who did not attend, Sturgess had no problem taking the reins and kept an audience at Dubai International Film Festival HQ entertained.
“There was always a hot bath or a cold shower at...
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Shooting in Darjeeling was memorable, says British...
‘The Way Back’ was partly shot in India and British actor-musician Jim Sturgess who plays the lead role in the true-life soldier story says shooting in Darjeeling was the most memorable experience for him. ‘It was amazing shooting in Darjeeling. It was one of the most memorable things that happened in the journey,’ Sturgess told IANS while walking the red carpet at the...
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Hottest Hustler Of The Day: Jim Sturgess' 'The Way...
Jim Sturgess at the ‘The Way Back’ UK premiere on Dec. 8, a photocall in Madrid on Dec. 10, and premiere in Madrid on Dec. 9.
Across The Universe and 21 star Jim Sturgess has been touring around the world to promote his new film The Way Back with costar Colin Farrell, and we’ve become obsessed with his laid-back look! The British hottie kicked things off in London on Dec. 8...
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Jim Sturgess Talks The Way Back, Heartless,...
Jim Sturgess was deep in the throes of working on a thriller when he auditioned for Peter Weir’s The Way Back. The young Brit felt “a combination of intimidation and awe and desperation” going up for a part in a Weir film. “I had quite a strange entrance into the movie because when I found out that Peter was casting for the film and wanted to see me,” he recalls, “I was in the middle of shooting...