The Little Drummer Girl: News & Discussion

[davischristinem]

Another of Alex in LA

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl6RIGzjxKA

                                                                             

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Additional Portraits of Alex at the TCA photo call 
for The Little Drummer Girl

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Portraits of Alex at the TCA photo call for The Little Drummer Girl (July 28, 2018, Los Angeles).

Credits: Alex Photos: Hello_ru (x)& SG Gallery for The Library


                                                                      

[davischristinem]

Florence Pugh and Alex

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl9Cjh9nwXQ

                                                                        

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Jul 28, 2018 22:43:44 GMT -5 davischristinem said:

The Beach Still, Only Bigger!   

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First promotional photo of Alex in The Little Drummer Girl! A six-part miniseries, The Little Drummer Girl is set to premiere on AMC in November!


Synopsis: “Blurring the fine lines between love and hate; truth and fiction; and right and wrong; The Little Drummer Girl weaves a suspenseful and explosive story of espionage and high-stakes international intrigue. Set in the late 1970s, the pulsating thriller follows Charlie (Pugh), a fiery actress and idealist whose resolve is tested after she meets the mysterious Becker (Skarsgård,) while on holiday in Greece. It quickly becomes apparent that his intentions are not what they seem, and her encounter with him entangles her in a complex plot devised by the spy mastermind Kurtz (Shannon). Charlie takes on the role of a lifetime as a double agent while remaining uncertain of her own loyalties.”


Source Originals via: Jonathan Olley/AMC/Ink Factory

for Deadline.com (x)

                                                

Bumping to the next, because we really can't look at this photo enough!

[davischristinem]

Alex and Florence, Goofing Around  

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmGK-EtDnmb

                                                                        

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Per this, BBC will air LDG in October:

Simon Cornwell (Executive producer)

“Like The Night Manager, John le Carré’s The Little Drummer Girl is a huge book in every sense — 550 pages long, and full of scale and rich emotion. We first started working on the adaptation about two and a half years ago. [Simon is co-CEO of production company The Ink Factory, which he set up with his brother Stephen — they’re the sons of le Carré.] It’s one of our firm favourites among his books and ideally suited to the six-hour format.

“Although the story takes place nearly 40 years ago, it’s rich with contemporary resonance, and is told from the female protagonist’s point of view, as Charlie [played by Florence Pugh] finds her place in the world.

“Following The Night Manager was hard, as we set very high expectations for ourselves, but The Little Drummer Girl is certainly its equal, if not even ahead in terms of scale, scope and ambition. At the same time it’s very different tonally, and I hope that’s something our audiences will find fresh and intriguing.”

The Little Drummer Girl airs on BBC1 in October
www.radiotimes.com/news/2018-08-18/autumn-2018-best-dramas-writers-and-creators/

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Some New Stills from 'The Little Drummer Girl'


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New promo stills of Alex, Florence Pugh & Michael Shannon in The Little Drummer Girl! The Little Drummer Girl will premiere on BBC One in October & air on AMC from November 19-21!


From Screen Rant:


AMC’s continuing efforts to bring the work of John le Carré to television audiences continues with this fall’s six-part miniseries adapting The Little Drummer Girl. As it turns out, the series will become something of a binge-watch event, as the cable network plans to deliver the spy thriller over the course of three consecutive evenings. The series will premiere November 19 with a two-hour episode, followed by two more nights of two, hour-long episodes, ending on November 21.

The plan to turn The Little Drummer Girl into an event could work in its favor. After all, the miniseries stars recent Emmy and Golden Globe winner Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies), Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon, and up-and-coming star Florence Pugh (King Lear). But perhaps what makes the adaptation so appealing and unusual is that all six episodes are directed by acclaimed filmmaker Park Chan-wook, who has delivered such films as Oldboy, Stoker, and The Handmaiden. As such, the idea that a filmmaker of his caliber is adapting the work of le Carré should be enough to give the miniseries an edge when it finally premieres.


Moreover, the series will be a period drama, eschewing the desire to update the ‘70s-set story to the present day. The choice affords the director and actors a chance to stylishly recreate a fascinating era, while also potentially offering a more authentic le Carré experience.


Synopsis for th series: “Blurring the fine lines between love and hate; truth and fiction; and right and wrong; “The Little Drummer Girl” weaves a suspenseful and explosive story of espionage and high-stakes international intrigue. Set in the late 1970s, the pulsating thriller follows Charlie (Pugh), a fiery actress and idealist whose resolve is tested after she meets the mysterious Becker (Skarsgård), while on holiday in Greece. It quickly becomes apparent that his intentions are not what they seem, and her encounter with him entangles her in a complex plot devised by the spy mastermind Kurtz (Shannon). Charlie takes on the role of a lifetime as a double agent while remaining uncertain of her own loyalties.”


The Little Drummer Girl premieres Monday, November 19 @9pm on AMC.


Sources: Full Article: ScreenRant.com (x), Promo stills: Jonathan Olley/AMC/Ink Factory for ScreenRant.com (x) & Deadline.com (x)


                                                                         

[wanderingstar78]

The Little Drummer Girl will premiere on AMC on November 19, 2018. AMC will air 2 episodes each night, from Nov 19-21!

www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/969825-amcs-the-little-drummer-girl-premiere-set-for-three-night-event

AMC’s The Little Drummer Girl Premiere Set for Three Night Event

BY MAGGIE DELA PAZ ON AUGUST 21, 2018



AMC’s The Little Drummer Girl premiere set for three night event

AMC has officially announced the U.S. premiere date for their upcoming television adaptation of John le Carre’s bestselling spy novel The Little Drummer Girl. The miniseries is a three-night television event with two-hour episodes that are set to run on-air from November 19 to November 21 at 9:00 PM ET/PT on AMC.

The Little Drummer Girl series is based on Le Carre’s action drama novel of the same name. Blurring the fine lines between love and hate; truth and fiction; and right and wrong; the series weaves a suspenseful and explosive story of espionage and high-stakes international intrigue. Set in the late 1970s, the pulsating thriller follows Charlie, a fiery actress and idealist whose resolve is tested after she meets the mysterious Becker while on holiday in Greece. It quickly becomes apparent that his intentions are not what they seem, and her encounter with him entangles her in a complex plot devised by the spy mastermind Kurtz. Charlie takes on the role of a lifetime as a double agent while remaining uncertain of her own loyalties.

The cast includes Golden Globe award winner Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies, Hold the Dark) as Becker, Academy Award-nominee Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water, Nocturnal Animals) as Kurtz and BAFTA nominee Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth) as Charlie.

John Le Carre is no stranger to AMC as the cable giant brought forth an adaptation of his novel The Night Manager as a miniseries in 2016. The Little Drummer Girl will be executive produced by the same team that adapted The Night Manager and will mark the television debut of remarkable filmmaker Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden).

The Little Drummer Girl is co-produced by the BBC, AMC and The Ink Factory, in partnership with 127 Wall. Simon and Stephen Cornwell serve as executive producers, along with John le Carré, Mona Qureshi for the BBC. Also Joe Tsai and Arthur Wang will executive produce for 127 Wall, Wonjo Jeong, and Park Chan-wook. AMC has give international distribution rights to Endeavor Content.

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[davischristinem]

Alex and Florence Pugh Talk About ‘The Little Drummer Girl’

Found at:  alexskarsgardnet.tumblr.com/post/177450822847/new-interview-alex-and-florence-pugh-talk-the#notes








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New Interview! Alex and Florence Pugh Talk ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ Miniseries and Their Characters


The three night The Little Drummer Girl event series airs November 19-21, 2018 on AMC and will premiere in October on BBC One!


Alex on his character, Becker:

“His job is to recruit this talented young actress and then create a fiction within the fiction and recreate a love story,” Skarsgård said. “That was quite exciting to explore because they’re very much in love in the fiction of it from Day 1 and when they started this adventure and they go through Greece. The first date is at the Acropolis in like the most beautiful, romantic setting ever. As they get to know each other, you blur that line or it kind of disappears almost between what’s fiction and what’s reality and how professional is Becker? When do you see cracks in his veneer? When does he show who he really is or how he really feels? And I really enjoyed exploring that.”


Alex on Becker and Charlie’s relationship:

For a guy like Becker, even letting down his guard could be a strategic play.

“There were moments where Charlie might think that she sees a crack and the audience might think that, oh, this is Becker coming out,” Alexander Skarsgård continued. “He’s not playing the character anymore. He can’t hold back. These are real feelings. But that might necessarily not be the case. That could also be him manipulating her ’cause that could potentially be a way of drawing her even closer in because if she feels or senses his humanity, she would follow him even more closely. And that’s what he wants. So that game, that mind game, was quite fun to play.”


Alex on Becker coaching Charlie:

“Becker keeps saying, ‘Be yourself, be yourself,’” Skarsgård said. “As he’s coaching her and telling her like about Michel, this character that he’s pretending to be, she learns a lot and grows more confident. And then at a certain point, you have to kind of set off and then really believe in what you’re doing. And then it gets complicated because then the question is like, do you actually believe in the cause that you’re pretending to fight for? Which side are you on? Which side are you on?”


Florence on Alex’s challenge of playing Becker:

“I think he had a harder job than I did to do that because you were actually also embodying an actual character on the show, which was tricky, right?” she said. “I didn’t have to pretend to be anyone. I was just acting as Charlie.”


Florence on the buzz surrounding The Little Drummer Girl:

“When this was kind of being spoken about roughly this time last year, my film Lady Macbeth had just come out here,” Pugh said. “And it was kind of one of those films where some people had seen it and some people hadn’t. I was still very much under the radar and I still think I kind of am because lots of the things that I’ve done haven’t come out yet. And so when this project came up and it was in conversation, there was this big kind of whisper around town of who was gonna be in it. The Night Manager was so big. And the news of Little Drummer Girl happening was already so big. So automatically I knew that I probably didn’t quite have a chance and that was absolutely fine. And then director Park [Chan-wook] came onboard. Within about a weekend, I got an offer which was totally barmy and completely surreal.”


Florence on watching the previous version of The Little Drummer Girl starring Diane Keaton:

“I did watch it,” Pugh said. “I think I’d heard so much about the film before I even really read the script, and so I read the script and I read the book and I watched the film. I don’t think anyone was trying to recreate that again, I think, when I spoke to director Park. He’s got such a fresh mind. He’s completely original and I didn’t really want to do any copying. I don’t think it’s any actor’s dream to copy anyone’s performance. You can take it in and grow from it, but I didn’t want to copy.”


Florence on filming The Little Drummer Girl in the Acropolis:

“I will say that the first thing I do whenever I read through a script is realize how many of the places you probably won’t film in because when it’s written down, it’s probably just an amazing idea,” Pugh said. “Then actually when you come to filming it, it’s probably not gonna happen. But I remember going over this scene whenever there was a new draft of the Acropolis scene. And then finally like three weeks before we filmed it, I asked someone, ‘Are we actually filming in the Acropolis?’ They were like, ‘Yeah, no, no, we are actually doing it.’ And I couldn’t believe it. And then, of course, come the night when we are probably only 40 people up on the Acropolis filming for a whole evening and no film crew had been up there before at night. Alex and I just had a camera in our face as we just reacted to walking around the Acropolis at night. And that was utterly incredible.”


Sources: Interview: Fred Topel for ShowbizJunkies.com (x)(x), Promo stills: Jonathan Olley/AMC/Ink Factory for ScreenRant.com (x) & Deadline.com (x) 


                                                                       

[wanderingstar78]

This sounds like SUCH a good role for Alex! All the twists and turns into what's real and what's the undercover work.

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TV Guide Magazine chooses The Little Drummer Girl as an Editor’s Pick in their Fall Preview (issue dated September 3-16, 2018).

Includes new quotes by Alexander Skarsgård and Florence Pugh!

The Little Drummer Girl - Editor’s Pick
Premieres Monday, November 19, 9/8c, AMC

Does the spy really love me? Intrigue meets warped romance in AMC’s dark espionage thriller The Little Drummer Girl, a three-part series based on John le Carré’s bestselling novel. Set in the 1970’s, Girl centers on idealistic English actress Charlie (Florence Pugh). While vacationing in Greece, she’s recruited as an agent by veteran Israeli spy Becker (Alexander Skarsgård, above, with Pugh), who’s been sucked back into the game after a stint as an architect. (The pair’s amorous nighttime visit to the Acropolis is just one of the heady scenes shot at landmark Greek locations.) “Charlie is desperate for intrigue, for a life that is just a little more than what she has. She finds Becker both deeply annoying and deeply attractive,” Pugh says. “But nothing compares her for what comes. She’s shocked and manipulated, over and over again.”

The mission: Locate a Palestinian terrorist named Khalil (Charif Ghattas). With coldhearted spymaster Kurtz (Michael Shannon) demanding results, the man’s brother is abducted and killed, and Becker assumes the deceased’s identity. Then he and Charlie jet-set around Europe—“There’s a lot of bling and unbuttoned shirts,” teases Skarsgård—posing as lovers to draw Khalil out.

“We blur the line [in the relationship] between what’s real and what’s not,” Skarsgård says. “Are they falling in love? How much is Becker manipulating her? Is he lettering her believe his real personality is coming through, or is he just pretending to open up so he can draw her even closer?”

After Khalil contacts Charlie, her assignment shifts to a terrorist camp, where, undercover, she trains as a killing machine. “I shot a lot of guns,” recalls Pugh, who understood Charlie’s divided loyalties as the character grows more sympathetic to the cause. “Emotionally, I found it tough,” she adds. “I have no idea what it’s like to live in [that world] around guns, bombs or your village getting hurt. Until the very end, you don’t know which way Charlie’s going to go.” Let the games begin!— Kate Hahn.

Sources: Photo by Jonathan Olley/AMC/Ink Factory; and my edit, scan & transcription from TV Guide Magazine.



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August 29, 2018

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AMC’s ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ Sets World Premiere at London Film Festival; Full Lineup Unveiled


The world premiere of Chan-wook Park’s first television series, “The Little Drummer Girl,” will take place at the BFI London Film Festival, alongside U.K. premieres for the latest films from acclaimed filmmakers Luca Guadagnino, Alfonso Cuaron and the Coen brothers. The festival will also feature an increased representation of female filmmakers, with three of its competition strands achieving gender parity.

Announcing the full program for the festival’s 62nd edition Thursday, artistic director Tricia Tuttle said: “We’re always very keen and conscious to represent the global diversity of cinema. London is a global city, and we think the audiences reflect that.”

The festival will feature a world premiere special presentation of the first two episodes of Korean filmmaker Park’s “The Little Drummer Girl.” The six-part drama (pictured) is the BBC and AMC’s latest John Le Carre adaptation following their Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning “The Night Manager.” It will debut on AMC Nov. 19-21.


Tuttle said “The Little Drummer Girl” would be the only TV title presented at the festival but that the combination of its London setting, a well-known cinema director in Park, and a strong cast including Florence Pugh, Michael Shannon and Alexander Skarsgard made it the right fit. A regular at the festival Park’s most recent film, “The Handmaiden,” which won the BAFTA award for best film not in the English language earlier this year, screened at BFI London Film Festival in 2016. The director took part in a festival Screen Talk the same year.

variety.com/2018/film/news/suspiria-roma-london-film-festival-full-lineup-1202920574/

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SPECIAL PRESENTATION
THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL
THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL EPISODES ONE AND TWO
Park Chan-wook’s stylistic mastery meets John le Carré’s espionage twists in this thrilling new series from the makers of The Night Manager.

Sunday 14 October 2018 17:00
Embankment Garden Cinema
On sale13-09-2018 10:00 am
Monday 15 October 2018 14:30
Embankment Garden Cinema
On sale13-09-2018 10:00 am

ir Park Chan-wook
Exec Prod Stephen Cornwell, Simon Cornwell, Joseph Tsai, Arthur Wang, Park Chan-wook, Wonjo Jeong, Michael Lesslie, John le Carré. Prod Laura Hastings-Smith
Scr Michael Lesslie, Claire Wilson
With Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Shannon, Florence Pugh
UK
2018
116min

Charlie (Florence Pugh) is an actor working London pub theatres. She’s confident, forthright, a political lefty and a very good liar. When a mysterious patron whisks her drama troupe to Greece, she finds herself drawn to a stranger on the beach (Alexander Skarsgård). Meanwhile, Kurtz (Michael Shannon), the leader of an Israeli counter-terrorism unit, is working in West Germany to apprehend a cell of brothers who have murdered a diplomat and his family. As Charlie and Kurtz’s worlds grow closer together, she swiftly discovers that her survival depends on keeping her wits about her. Fans of director Park’s (The Handmaiden, Oldboy) flair for visual sophistication will be delighted by these first two episodes of his debut venture into long-form storytelling. Collaborating with production designer Maria Djurkovic (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), Park creates a world of impeccable 1970s details: each watch, jacket and car is loaded with significance. Alongside daring framing and elegant use of colour, Park’s dark sense of humour is also a perfect match for John le Carré’s sophisticated form of espionage and intrigue, and in Pugh (Lady Macbeth) we have an actor who embodies the series’ qualities: sharp, sexy and wickedly intelligent.

Kate Taylor

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[wanderingstar78]

Interesting that a tv mini-series is premiering at a film festival!