The first image of Jeremy Irvine in ‘Great Expectations’ has surfaced. DailyMail has pictures of Jeremy as Pip, co-starring Helena Bonham Carter in the Mike Newell adaptation of the classic written by Charles Dickens (and also happens to be my favorite book.)
Jeremy Irvine was jumping on top of Helena Bonham Carter and the director Mike Newell was urging him to be more vigorous. I was watching Irvine — playing Pip — smother Miss Havisham, who has just gone up in flames on the set of the big-screen version of Great Expectations. Helena plays the vengeful Miss Havisham, but for part of this scene a stuntwoman had been called in to take the heat. Things are heating up for Irvine (pictured), too, but in a very good way.
He stars in Steven Spielberg’s great movie War Horse, about a boy and a horse who have to endure the horrors of war.
It’s such a moving and epic portrayal of courage that it would have been appropriate for it to have opened today — the 11th of the 11th — to honour those who lost their lives in the Great War. Of course, we all know the significance of why we stand silent at 11am today, but I somehow feel that War Horse — on stage and film — will help bring it home to new generations.
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The film is about to wrap shooting soon, and will be released sometime in 2012. Next, Jeremy will go on to star in the upcoming film ‘The Railway Man.’
Before Irvine, 21, was cast as the equestrian World War I soldier in Spielberg’s War Horse, he was just a kid from tiny Gamlingay, England (pop. 3,535) who trained at the National Youth Theatre and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He won limited fame for an MTV commercial, a British Disney Channel show and a role in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Dunsinane, “literally playing a tree,” as he puts it. Good thing he fell into the hands of Steven Spielberg, who has launched little-known actors to fame before — Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun and Liam Neeson in Schindler’s List. “I virtually went from having no lines in a theater show to playing the lead in a Spielberg film,” says Irvine. Never a horse lover, he had to act alongside 130 of them, including one that stepped on his foot during a shot. He has just finished Now Is Good with Dakota Fanning and is filming Mike Newell’s Great Expectations with Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter, due in theaters next year.
Jeremy Irvine, star of Steven Spielberg’s upcoming drama War Horse, has been cast in The Railway Man, a drama to be directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. The project is based on a memoir by Eric Lomax that chronicles his experience working on Japan’s Death Railway during World War II and the woman he loved. Japan forced prisoners of war to work on the railway, which connects Bangkok to what is now Yangon, Myanmar. Lomax was a British officer during the war, and was tortured by the Japanese for being a spy. Later in life, Lomax sought to track down one of his torturers. He will also be portrayed by Colin Firth in the film.
Where you’ve seen him: Jeremy Irvine’s first job was an MTV commercial when he was 18, which he says he got by “fluke.” British audiences have seen him on the Disney Channel series “Life Bites,” playing the best friend of the two leads. He’s also been seen “literally playing a tree” in the chorus of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s “Dunsinane.”
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