Ben Whishaw
- Actor
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Anarchic comedy to be staged about Murdoch and The Sun
James Graham's Fleet Street play part of season which includes the return of Ben Whishaw and a series of films in which actors perform famous speeches, available on the Guardian website.
Hannah Ellis-Petersen, The Guardian, 20th January 2017Filming starts on Paddington 2
Filming has started on Paddington 2, the sequel to the highly successful 2014 film. Hugh Grant and Brendan Gleeson join the cast.
British Comedy Guide, 18th October 2016'The Lobster' review
Colin Farrell comedy brims with originality, wickedly weird details.
Rafer Guzmán, Newsday, 25th May 2016Edgy and surreal, peppered with rich deadpan absurdist moments, The Lobster, Jury Prize winner at Cannes offers a hilariously bizarre glance at contemporary mating habits.
In the near future singles check into The Hotel run by the tyrannical Olivia Colman - it's dance and interact but no masturbation with 45 days to find a genuine partner or they're transformed into an animal of their choice.
If lonely architect David (Colin Farrell) can't find a partner he wants to be a lobster. He tries the hotel dances and forays into The Woods to kill Loners but picking the heartless woman (Angelika Papoulia) was a disaster and the man with the limp (Ben Whishaw) and the man with the lisp (John C. Reilly) are only so so pals. David seeks happiness and that's his problem so it's escape into The Woods, obey the Loner's rebel Leader (Lea Seydoux) and fall in love with the previously unseen narrator Rachel Reisz which breaks the rules.
The cast are terrific, The Hotel's spot on but as it moves into The Woods it stretches itself and fumbles somewhat for ideas. Bizarre, absurdly funny, off-the-wall. This is the age of Tinder dating.
Clive Botting, The Huffington Post, 16th October 2015The Lobster - video review
Xan Brooks, Henry Barnes and Peter Bradshaw review Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos's new satire, set in a world in which single people must couple-up or risk being turned into an animal. The Lobster, which features an ensemble cast including Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, John C Reilly and Léa Seydoux, is released in the UK on Friday 16 October.
Xan Brooks, Henry Barnes and Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 15th October 2015Ben Whishaw replaces Colin Firth as voice of Paddington
Bond star Ben Whishaw is the new voice of Paddington Bear after Colin Firth "consciously uncoupled" from the role last month.
The English actor, 33, stepped in after Paddington director Paul King decided that a "slightly more open and younger voice" was needed.
Jess Denham, The Independent, 18th July 2014