Aidan Turner on RTE Dave Fanning Show

Aidan Turner talks to Dave Fanning on RTE Radio 2 about Poldark, The Secret Scripture and his career and drops a heavy hint about a possible Poldark series four.

Many thanks to @Mburg_lady  on Twitter for alerting me to the interview.

Aidan Turner Nominated for IFTA Award

Here's some fabulous news!

Aidan Turner has been nominated for best actor in a leading role by the Irish Film and Television Academy for Poldark! Not only that but the film The Secret Scripture, in which he has a small part, is nominated in several categories including best feature film and best director (Jim Sheridan).

Aidan will be facing competition from four other actors including his friend from The Hobbit, James Nesbitt and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor who is also in The Secret Scripture. The contenders are:

Dara Devaney   An Klondike 2
Cillian Murphy   Peaky Blinders
James Nesbit  The Secret
Aidan Turner  Poldark
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor   Trial of the Century

The IFTA Awards ceremony will be in Dublin on Saturday 8 April. A full list of nominees is given here.

Here's wishing Aidan all the very best of luck!

News Round -up

• As ever there's been plenty of Poldark news recently. Poldark merchandise continues to come thick and fast in the run up to Christmas. You can now get Poldark jewellery, Poldark jigsaws, Poldark Country colouring books as well as the official calendar, mugs and letter openers, plus The World of Poldark series companion book (see our review here).

Picture from @mammothscreen

• Congratulations to Poldark  screenwriter and producer, Debbie Horsfield, who has won Best Adaptation of a Novel at the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) awards, very well deserved too.

   

Picture by @mammothscreen 

• In other awards news Poldark is up for Best Drama Series or Serial and International Programme Sales at the Broadcast Awards!! Good work team!

• We also got a great insight to being an extra on the set of Poldark from DJ Owen, who let us in on what it's like and what Aidan Turner is like in real life in an interview with Wessex FM. Listen to the interview here.

• If you're missing seeing your favourite actors on screen you can catch Ruby Bentall (Verity) on Saturday evenings in ITV's Jekyll and Hyde, Beatie Edney (Prudie) in The Coroner, on BBC 1 at 2.15 pm weekdays and on iplayer. Alexander Arnold (Jim) will be appearing in Ricky Gervais's David Brent movie, Life on the Road soon. And if it's the main man, Aidan Turner, you're missing you can now buy his BBC shows, Being Human, Desperate Romantics and Poldark at the BBC Store, more here.

• There is also good news on the release of The Secret Scripture, a movie Aidan Turner filming earlier this year, directed by Jim Sheridan. The US distributor had gone into bankruptcy casting the film's future release into doubt. However a financial settlement has now been reached which includes the upcoming release of seven movies, one of which is The Secret Scripture. You can read more here Relativity Media Bankruptcy and we'll bring news of the film's release as we get it.

• Upcoming Agatha Christie drama, And Then There Were None, starring Aidan Turner amongst a stellar cast is in post-production, due to be screened over the Christmas period in the UK. Mammoth Screen released this picture (below) of the visual effects team hard at work this week. You can read more titbits about And Then There Were None  here. 

Photo by @mammothscreen

• Finally, here's a selection of the best pictures of the week

Eleanor Tomlinson as Demelza, photo by @PoldarkTV

Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark, photo by @PoldarkTV

Filming at The Royal Agricultural College, photo by @stroudlife

The Poldark Cast in Other Projects

Filming of  Poldark wrapped last September but, while we're all waiting patiently for it to appear on our TV screens, many of the cast are busy on other projects. Here's what some of them are up to:

Aidan Turner (Ross Poldark), is currently filming The Secret Scripture in Ireland. The film is based on Sebastian Barry's book of the same name about Roseanne, a woman recounting her life after 60 years in asylums in Ireland.  It is directed by Jim Sheridan. The cast also includes Vanessa Redgrave, Rooney Mara, Eric Bana, Theo James, Jack Reynor, Jeremy Irons and Tom Vaughan Lawlor.

This week Aidan has been filming in Kilkenny. It is reported that he is playing a member of the IRA so I wouldn't be at all surprised if it wasn't John Lavelle, who's described in the book as dark haired and pale skinned.

Update 4 Feb 2015.  Ah!  It seems my guess about his role was wrong. Aidan's management say he's playing Jack.

WENN.com photo via idanTurnerForever

WENN.com photo via idanTurnerForever

WENN.com photo via idanTurnerForever

Photo credit Michael O'Keeffe @keeffo74 

Photo credit @keeffo74

Kyle Soller, (Francis Poldark), will appear in the new BBC adaptation of J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls.  He is also cast in Season II of The Hollow Crown as Clifford.

Ruby Bentall, (Verity Poldark), has been cast in the new ITV action-adventure drama Jekyll and Hyde  along with Tom Bateman, Natalie Gumede and Richard E Grant.  The show is written by Charlie Higson.

Jack Farthing (George Warleggan) stars in the indie film Burn, Burn, Burn as the recently deceased Dan, who tasks his friends with scattering his ashes  The film is written by Charlie Covell and has just been backed by Creative England. It stars Laura Carmichael, Joe Dempsie, Alison Steadman and Nigel Planer.







Sabrina Bartlett (Keren Daniel) is a series regular in Season III of Da Vinci's Demons in which she

 plays Sophia D'este

John Hollingworth's play Multitudes opens at the Trycicle Theatre in London on 19 February, 2015. It has already been lauded as one of the most original plays of 2015 by the Telegraph  John plays Captain Henshawe in Poldark.

Jason Thorpe (Matthew Sanson) is playing Jeeves in Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, which is currently touring the UK.

Aidan Turner Says Poldark is out in Early March

Aidan Turner at the Dublin Premiere
Photo via Irish Independent

Aidan Turner, who plays Ross Poldark in the latest BBC adaptation of the Winston Graham Poldark novels, says the drama will be shown 'in early March'.
Speaking to the  Irish Independent Aidan said, 'It's coming out in early March. I was shooting it for six months and I'm excited to see how it goes. Fingers crossed it goes well.'

Aidan made the comments at the Dublin premiere of the final film in The Hobbit trilogy, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,  in which he plays Kili the dwarf.  He also spoke of his next project, The Secret Scripture, which will be directed by Jim Sheridan and filmed in Ireland. The cast includes Jack Reynor, Eric Bana and Vanessa Redgrave and production will begin in January, 2015.