Penny Dreadful star Josh Hartnett says gothic drama is still relevant to modern times

30/10/2014
The gothic drama Penny Dreadful, soaked in shadows and populated with iconic figures from horror literature, including Dracula's Mina Harker and Van Helsing, and Dr Victor Frankenstein, may seem the very definition of a period piece.
But actor Josh Hartnett, who plays the show's heroic proto-Indiana Jones figure, American-born action man Ethan Chandler, believes the show's storytelling sits very much in the present day.
"I think what [creator John Logan] is trying to say is that people in the Victorian era are not dissimilar from us in a lot of ways," he says. "Yes, they dress differently and yes, they went about their days in a little bit of a different manner, they had different transportation, different ways of lighting, all those sorts of things.
"But they were people very much like us on the cusp of a new era and the Industrial Revolution was just swinging into full gear. There was this idea that everything was about to change and we feel that I think now. There's a similarity there."
The series, created by Logan and executive produced by Logan and Sam Mendes, is a mash-up of characters and story threads from the greats of gothic literature, notably The Picture of Dorian Gray, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Hartnett may feel the storytelling is contemporary but the show's production design is very much Victorian in style.
"It's always fun to get a set where they're creating a different world and you get to see it physically in front of you," Hartnett says. "It's an exciting moment when you first walk on to a beautiful either period set or science fiction set or something that's just unlike your daily life and you see how much production value there is in what you're doing.
"It kind of puts a little pressure on us as performers to hold up our end of the bargain because it's been so well thought out and there's so much money being spent on the production. The clothes also help in a way because they can sit a certain way on your body and make you move in a way that might be different from the way that you move."
The series launched in the US earlier this year to largely positive notices. It very quickly establishes its place in the gothic genre, with Frankenstein, a vampire and the Book of the Dead from Egyptian mythology making appearances in the narrative of the opening episode.
Harnett's Chandler is a fictional construction, though his place in the story is clearly evocative of the outsider hero, a figure with touchstones in popular culture from Allan Quatermain, the hero of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines, to the modern cinema icon Indiana Jones.
"I try not to look at or kind of confuse myself with looking at other performances that I like in order to create a character because I don't want to do anything that's overly reminiscent of someone else's work unless it's from a completely different world, like an entirely different type of world," Hartnett says.
"As far as this character goes, my influences were pretty simple in a way because I didn't have a lot of backstory. I didn't have a lot of idea of where the character was going to go. So, there are a lot of tricks that actors use in order to make a character fill out in a way that isn't exactly like them in order to make it move differently, in order to make its cadence different, things like that."
The series is filmed in Ireland, with a cast of actors from the UK and the US, including former James Bond Timothy Dalton, as explorer Sir Malcolm Murray, Doctor Who star Billie Piper, and the legendary David Warner, who plays Abraham Van Helsing.
Like many of the actors in the series, Hartnett has worked mostly in film. In that sense, he is symbolic of the larger migration of film actors, writers and directors into television.
"Everything's changed in television," he says. "With John Logan, he's so well respected within the industry as a screenwriter and he wrote all eight episodes as a single arc and had a series of other ideas for the possible few subsequent seasons of the show."
Logan was also "clear about what he wanted", Hartnett says. "John's an incredibly smart guy and a very strong writer to begin with. It doesn't matter what his medium is. So I felt like I was in good hands and even though I didn't know where the character is going to go, I knew that it would be some place clever and worthy and it would be fun to possibly collaborate with these guys over the course of many years."
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Замечательно! (почему то сразу подумала о девушке Бонда...) (потом о ножичке, которым Ванесса полосовала Дориана) вспомнила те, самые красивые, в комнате с зеркалом, кадры Итана в Броной, и растерялась!
Что нам покажут и каким перчиком приправят историю из взаимоотношений? Итан с самого начала был не равнодушен к Ванессе, а вот она? А вдруг историю их взаимоотношений сведут к показу теологических бесед о вреде/пользе наличия парочки внутренних демонов???

Ура-ура! Премьера весной уже не кажется несбыточной. Но все равно, как долго ждать!!!

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Художник по специальному гриму Сарита Аллисон полностью удовлетворена своей работой, о чем и написала: «Сегодня мой небольшой личный триумф. Гротескно прекрасный грим для создания». Как нам хочется увидеть этот прекрасный и гротескный грим! Словами не передать!

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Dublin gets ready into transformed into London as filming gets underway on smash hit Penny Dreadful
It's been a case of lights, camera, action in Dublin's city centre this week as filming continues on two major television productions.
Pedestrians in Francis Street in the south inner city were transported back to 19th Century London yesterday when the Iveagh Market was re-imagined as the period setting for Sky Atlantic drama Penny Dreadful.

Filming for the second season of the show, which has starred Timothy Dalton, Josh Hartnett and Billie Piper, has been under way in the city over the past few months.

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Only a few minutes down the road in St Teresa's Gardens, filming is continuing on new TV3 soap Red Rock.

Some key cast members were on set including Andrea Irvine who plays Gda Angela Tyrell and Jane McGrath in character as Sharon Cleere.

A TV3 spokesperson said the scene involved "some special effects", though she was keeping the details under wraps. She said there has been some "really fantastic excitement" surrounding the filming of the show from locals who "could not have been more helpful" while the crews were on location.

"Having had a look at some of the rushes for Red Rock I think people are going to be hooked from the start," she added.

"There's a real sense that we are creating history in TV3.

"This is not only our biggest commission ever but it's Ireland's first new soap in over 20 years. It's going to be amazing."

Red Rock is a fictional harbour town, so the majority of shooting happens around Howth and Dun Laoghaire. However, a number of other Dublin locations have been used in the production.

TV3 recently lost the rights to Coronation Street and Emmerdale to UTV Ireland, but the show's producers won't be using their rivals' ratings as a yardstick for success.

"It's like comparing apples with oranges," said the spokesperson.

"Red Rock is a modern soap that will connect with Irish viewers. It has more of a dramatic feel to it, catering for what is an insatiable appetite for good Irish drama."

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