Rupert friend actor in young victoria
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- Princess Victoria: Do you ever feel like a chess piece yourself? In a game being played against your will.
- Prince Albert: Do you?
- Princess Victoria: Constantly. I see them leaning in and moving me around the board.
- Prince Albert: The Duchess and Sir John?
- Princess Victoria: Not just them. Uncle Leopold. The king. I'm sure half the politicians are ready to seize hold of my skirts and drag me from square to square.
- Prince Albert: Then you had better master the rules of the game until you play it better than they can.
- Princess Victoria: You don't recommend I find a husband to play it for me?
- Prince Albert: I should find one to play it with you, not for you.
- Queen Victoria: [sobbing] I'm so sorry! I thought I was going to lose you!
- Prince Albert: I don't think he was a very good shot.
- Queen Victoria: Why did you do it? So stupid, why did you do it?
- Prince Albert: I had two very good reasons. First, I am replaceable and you are not.
- Queen Victo
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Posted by indielondon. Interview by Rob Carnevale.
RUPERT Friend talks about working with French director Jean Marc Vallée on The Young Victoria, wearing a corset and slipping on a cowpat and falling into another during one of the more memorable – and hilarious – days of the shoot.
Q. What did French director jean Marc Vallée bring to the material having not been someone who grew up with the same knowledge and appreciation of Queen Victoria that we may have?
Rupert Friend: I think having someone who isn’t ingrained with any kind of preconceptions about royalty and the monarchy is a very useful tool because it means he looked at Victoria and Albert as two young people; not as a potential kings and queens or stuffy period characters which would have become two dimensional.
I think he kept that very much to the fore… the idea that this was contemporary and real. The ramverk still has to be in place, and the restrictions on them still have to apply, but his degree of mod•
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Posted by Interview by Kyle Buchanan. Dec. 10th,
Rupert Friend knows a thing or two about being treated like royalty. Since he first began dating Keira Knightley when they met on the set of the film Pride & Prejudice, the British press has covered the two as though they were a glamorous king and queen &#; with all the scrutiny that entails.
He&#;s one half of a different British supercouple in Jean-Marc Vallee&#;s The Young Victoria, where he plays the young Prince Albert of Belgium, who married Queen Victoria (Emily Blunt) in the mid&#;s. In a chat with Movieline, the year-old actor talked about the time travel aspects of moviemaking, the tyranny of British regionalism, and the Rolling Stones.
I enjoyed you in The Young Victoria and in Cheri earlier this year, but I wonder: Do you ever get frustrated with the fact that directors always want to put you in a waistcoat and stick you in a period piece?
[Laughs] I think there probably have been some modern-day