January 2011
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Actor Jim Sturgess finds his way to success
His latest film tells the based-on-fact story of an epic trek across thousands of miles of inhospitable terrain, but Jim Sturgess admitted that, in a similar situation, he might not do as well. “I’d like to think so,” the 29-year-old British actor said, laughing. “I certainly know a lot more about survival than I used to, but I still get lost walking around in London. It...
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There was proof that he did it
What is great about doing a historical film is that there is information - real accounts and real stories. I was so lucky to spend time with real survivors of the camps: real Polish people who are now living in England. I tracked those guys down and one guy not only was a survivor of a camp, but an escapee. To meet a real escapee who was Polish who was out in Siberia working on building the...
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Anglophenia Interview: ‘The Way Back’ Star Jim...
If ever stuck out in the wild, Jim Sturgess can trap, skin and roast a rabbit and improvise a crude compass using sticks and pinecones. The 29-year old British actor said he learned these handy survival skills while preparing for his role in The Way Back, an epic adventure tale – opening Friday, January 21 – that has been earning glowing reviews.
Not that the star of such movies as Across the...
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JoBlo Review: The Way Back
PLOT: Prisoners in a Siberian Gulag circa-1939, escape their captors and attempt to walk to India, in order to evade their communist jailers.
REVIEW: THE WAY BACK is the latest film from director Peter Weir, and if that isn’t cause for excitement, I don’t know what is. Seriously folks. THE LAST WAVE. GALLIPOLI. WITNESS. THE MOSQUITO COAST. DEAD POETS SOCIETY. THE TRUMAN SHOW. MASTER &...
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WatchJim Sturgess Exclusive Video Interview THE WAY BACK; Plus Updates on UPSIDE DOWN and ONE DAY
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Interview with Jim Sturgess on 'The Way Back'
Jim Sturgess admits the cast and crew endured harsh physical conditions while shooting
The Way Back, but the 32 year old British actor wouldn’t have had it any other way. Set in the 1940s and inspired by the true stories of brave men who overcame nearly insurmountable odds to escape from a Soviet gulag, The Way Back finds Sturgess playing a Polish soldier who becomes the de facto...
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Interview with Jim Sturgess on 'The Way Back'
Jim Sturgess admits the cast and crew endured harsh physical conditions while shooting The Way Back, but the 32 year old British actor wouldn’t have had it any other way. Set in the 1940s and inspired by the true stories of brave men who overcame nearly insurmountable odds to escape from a Soviet gulag, The Way Back finds Sturgess playing a Polish soldier who becomes the de facto leader...
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INTERVIEW: ‘The Way Back’ actor Jim Sturgess
When Jim Sturgess’s agents set up a meeting with director Peter Weir, who was casting for his new film “The Way Back,” the actor’s brain was in a different place. He was in the middle of filming Philip Ridley’s “Heartless” and portraying a troubled soul character. He had filmed until six in the morning and hadn’t slept for what he says felt like weeks. Naturally, he was unprepared.
But he...
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INTERVIEW: ‘The Way Back’ actor Jim Sturgess
When Jim Sturgess’s agents set up a meeting with director Peter Weir, who was casting for his new film “The Way Back,” the actor’s brain was in a different place. He was in the middle of filming Philip Ridley’s “Heartless” and portraying a troubled soul character. He had filmed until six in the morning and hadn’t slept for what he says felt like weeks. Naturally, he was unprepared.
But he...
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Actor Sturgess on Making 'The Way Back'
Over the nine months the actor Jim Sturgess was filming Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe” in New York, he’d regularly hang out at Scratchers on Fifth Street in the East Village. He lived right above it.
“This used to be my living room,” Mr. Sturgess said over a recent beverage at the dive bar. “There were so many young people involved in making the...
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Actor Sturgess on Making 'The Way Back'
Over the nine months the actor Jim Sturgess was filming Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe” in New York, he’d regularly hang out at Scratchers on Fifth Street in the East Village. He lived right above it.
“This used to be my living room,” Mr. Sturgess said over a recent beverage at the dive bar. “There were so many young people involved in making the...
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Jim Sturgess Meme Generator →
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One Day Earns a Release Date
On July 8, 2011, Focus Features will release One Day, director Lone Scherfig’s follow-up to her Oscar-nominated breakthrough, An Education. Starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, the romantic comedy is centered on working-class idealist Emma (Hathaway) and wealthy playboy Dexter (Sturgess), who meet on the night of their college graduation in 1988. They pact to reunite on the same day...
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One Day Earns a Release Date
On July 8, 2011, Focus Features will release One Day, director Lone Scherfig’s follow-up to her Oscar-nominated breakthrough, An Education. Starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, the romantic comedy is centered on working-class idealist Emma (Hathaway) and wealthy playboy Dexter (Sturgess), who meet on the night of their college graduation in 1988. They pact to reunite on the same day...
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Upside Down, a Fantasy Romance
After shooting the dramatic epic The Way Back, Jim Sturgess transitioned into a completely different type of film, tackling the lead role in the sci-fi/fantasy romantic film Upside Down. Directed by Juan Diego Solanas and co-starring Kirsten Dunst, Upside Down has an intriguing premise and is definitely not your average love story. And at the LA press day for The Way Back, Sturgess said Upside...