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SFX.com have posted a new interview with Caroline Skinner, the producer of The Fades!

If you’re lucky enough to be attending London MCM Expo this weekend and make it to Sunday, you’ll be able to catch some of the faces behind BBC Three’s new show The Fades in the flesh. We’ve interviewed producer Caroline Skinner in SFX 210, but if you simply can’t wait to find out more about BBC Three’s latest dabble in SF, here’s some snippets to keep you going…

SFX: What can we expect tonally from the show?

Caroline Skinner: Jack Thorne (Skins, This Is England ’86) who writes the show is an extraordinary talent. In a lot of the things he’s been writing recently, he manages to blend a huge range of styles and tones, from comedy to fantasy. I think one of the things we’ve been really keen to hang on to – it would be totally and utterly wrong to say this was a comedy drama because genetically it’s rooted in fantasy and horror. I think that the truth of the stories and the truth of the characters is down to the relationships and the comedy between various characters, particularly our two leads, Paul and Mac.
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Digital Spy have a new in depth interview with Natalie in which she talks about Silk! Check it out, thanks to Amy for the heads up!

If you’re a fan of The Tudors, you’ll recognise Natalie Dormer – she played Anne Boleyn in the show. Actually, she likes playing royals – she’s starring in Madonna’s new movie W.E. as a young Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon! But first, Natalie’s appearing in BBC One’s new drama Silk as a lawyer who is sent to learn from high-flying barrister Clive Reader (Rupert Penry-Jones, no less!) When Digital Spy visited the Silk set, Natalie chatted to reporters about her role in the show, so read on to find out what she had to say!

Can you tell us a bit about your character?
“I play Niamh Cranitch, a young pupil who has just graduated bar school, so is trying to find a chambers to belong to. It’s almost like auditioning to be part of this office. Clive becomes my pupil master, sort of my mentor, whereas Tom Hughes’s character Nick – my direct contemporary – ends up with Maxine’s character Martha. It’s about Tom’s and my struggle to try and get a place in this team, in this ensemble, and become friends while also being in competition with each other. It mirrors the competition that Rupert and Maxine’s characters have to get Silk.”
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The Evening Standard have a new article up accompanied by a gorgeous new photoshoot! The article focuses on Natalie’s role in W.E. and talks briefly about her new play! It also mentions Captain America so I guess we can take that as confirmation that Natalie is involved in the film! Check out the new pictures in the gallery!

The real beauty of being an actor is the huge cross-section of projects you can work on,’ says Natalie Dormer. And she should know. This year alone, Natalie has spent six months playing a sensual turn-of-the-century Viennese woman in Sweet Nothings at the Young Vic, portrayed the young Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) in Madonna’s Wallis Simpson film, been a junior barrister in the BBC’s new courtroom drama series Silk and a sassy Second World War American private in the giant-budget Captain America, alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Hayley Atwell and Samuel L Jackson. Now Natalie, 28, is slumming it on a basement stage at the Hampstead Theatre as Pat, a working-class New Yorker in a violent relationship in a new play, .45, by American writer Gary Lennon, and our conversation is occasionally interrupted by the noise of hammering and sawing from on-stage as the company struggles through a technical rehearsal. ‘It’s real grit-and-sawdust stuff,’ Natalie enthuses, coiling up on the sofa in her working outfit of leggings, cosy boots and layers of wool. ‘I’ve played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction. Pat is very “legs apart”.’
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Small Screen Scoop have reviewed the finale episode of The Tudors! If your worried about spoilers then I wouldn’t read the article just in case, but it does have some great things to say about Natalie’s return and the finale as a whole!

What would a finale be without a little Natalie Dormer and Maria Doyle Kennedy in some way? I always loved Dormer cast as Boleyn, and seeing her again really brought the story full circle for me. She appears ghostly to Henry, and I always believed she should have been the true love of Henry’s, even though he was incapable of love. I think history has another wife (Jane) down as the woman he loved most. But, I’d debate that. I remember how passionate the relationship between Anne and Henry was, and seeing Dormer made me nostalgic for those episodes.

The finale is set to air on June 20th but I’m not sure if they showed episode 9 last night so it may turn out to be the 27th! I’ll try and find out for certain and let you know. Either way I am SO excited to finally see Anne back! Oh and for the record, I’d also debate that Jane was Henry’s true love – if he had one at all – but we wont get into that now :]

Despite searching the web I’ve not been able to find any pictures from last nights opening ceremony, apart from one very small one :/ I will keep looking but for now screen captures from the video have been uploaded. I’ve also found this article which says that City of Life stole the show last night! Also did anyone notice the video credited Natalie as Alexandra Maria Lara … silly people!

Natalie Dormer and Sonu Sood may have several decades less experience than more veteran actors, but they drew the biggest crowd at the gala opening of the festival, now in its sixth year. Read More…

‘Good Prattle’ have posted a new interview with Natalie yay! In it she talks about the usual stuff, Tudors, Fencewalker etc, but she also chats about her favorite books, music and movies. Her answers are great. You can read the whole interview in the press archive.

Natalie Dormer is so cool it might just blow your mind. Her portrayal of Anne Boleyn on the Tudors already has much of the television-viewing public loving and or lusting after her, but it was undeniably excellent to be able to interview her if only because her answers have made me love her even more than I already did. She is historically aware, erudite, etcetera, etcetera, and her answers are really great to read, so, well, go forth and do so. Read More

Also according to this website, Miss Marple is set to be released on DVD in the States on August 4th! Thanks to Max for the link, people on IMDB are also reporting that it will be televised in the US on July 26th. Still no word about when it will be released here in the UK. All I get from ITV is “late 2009″.