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  • Eva Green Reveals What Makes Her Look Like Morticia Addams

    Eva Green has a busy schedule, and several of her projects see her dressed in period costumes, complete with old-fashioned hairstyles and makeup. Recently, she revealed what her look will be for Tim Burton’s highly-anticipated (at least by this writer) film adaptation Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, calling her hairstyle “bonkers”.

    “The role I’m playing now is quite cool. My hair is kind of bonkers. It’s a 40s style with a twist. I also loved my look in another movie I starred in, called Cracks. It’s set in the 30s – all high-waisted pants and bobbed hair,” Green said.

    The Penny Dreadful star says she has to have a good beauty routine due to the heavy makeup she’s required to wear during filming, but also because of harsh weather conditions. And sometimes, the makeup itself can be a challenge.

    “Filming in Ireland last winter really took its toll on my skin. I rely on a good, fragrance-free make-up remover from Cetaphil or Avène and apply a cold cream to replenish my skin. I always wear SPF, but find factor 50 is too pale and thick, so I use SkinCeuticals Brightening UV Defense SPF 30. I love Sisley’s treatments, too. Make-up can be dangerous when you have pale skin – sometimes I can look like Morticia Addams!”

    Eva Green also spoke about how sensitive her skin is, which is common in fair people.

    “I’m like a vampire. I have to wear sunscreen or I look like a prawn! Even in winter I wear SPF30 – Skinceuticals Brightening UV Defence SPF30 and La Roche-Posay Anthelios Face Anti-Shine Dry Touch Gel SPF50+ are my favourites. It’s easier to apply make-up over the top of SPF30 than 50, which can be thick. I have thin, fragile skin so I’m not a big fan of exfoliating and I don’t tend to get facials either.”

    The hit Showtime series made headlines this week when it was announced that Patti Lupone has been promoted to a regular on the show; she’ll reportedly play American Dr. Seward in the upcoming season. Lupone had formerly guest starred as the Cut-Wife on the horror series, which stars Green, Josh Hartnett, and Timothy Dalton.

  • Eva Green Has “Proper Villain” To Contend With In Season 2 Of “Penny Dreadful”

    Eva Green helped make Penny Dreadful a rousing success for Showtime last year, and the second season will see more dark matter, more bloodshed, and more drama as a “proper villain” makes trouble for her character.

    Warning: this article may contain spoilers.

    Green, Josh Hartnett, and Timothy Dalton all star in the season two trailer, which has been making its way around the web this week as fans anticipate the series return on April 26. Helen McCrory, who plays dark witch Evelyn Poole, also makes a comeback, and according to show creator John Logan, she’ll wreak some havoc.

    “This season she becomes the antagonist for not only Vanessa, but for all the characters Now we have a proper villain, and we enjoy her immensely,” Logan told reporters at the Television Critics Association press event this week. “We sort of unleash hell in this season. It’s our make or break season.”

    While Eva Green and her co-stars made their fair share of mayhem during the first season, Logan says this time around things will be a bit different as they’ll be on the run.

    “Last season, our heroes were hunters. This season, they’re hunted,” Logan says.

    Fans of the show will know that Eva’s character, Vanessa, questioned what she wanted last season even after Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton) sacrificed his own daughter to save her, and according to TV Guide, there will be some friction between the two characters this season. There will also be a strong witchcraft influence, as can be seen in the haunting trailer, and the show will delve more deeply into werewolves to explore Josh Hartnett’s character.

    “You’ll definitely see more this season. He learns what he is. How we treat lycanthropy is a big part of the season,” Logan promised.

    Green and the rest of her Penny Dreadful co-stars will return on April 26 at 10 p.m. on Showtime.

  • Eva Green Wows in Teaser for New Penny Dreadful; New Year’s Eve Marathon Ahead

    Ever since Eva Green launched into America’s popular culture consciousness as Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, she has had a certain appeal.

    Now Eva Green plays Vanessa Ives in Penny Dreadful on Showtime. Similar to her Bond character, Green plays Ives as a feminine force to be reckoned with, a woman who holds her own in 19th-century London’s man’s world.

    After a first season on Showtime, Penny Dreadful is set for a second season. The show gets its name from a British colloquialism that is roughly the equivalent of the American term “pulp fiction.” A “penny dreadful” was a horror story printed on cheap pulp paper and available to buy for just a penny.

    The late 19th century saw an explosion of horror-type stories, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, Frankenstein, and many others. The Showtimes series has its roots in these kinds of stories, blending together characters from these and other stories from the horror genre.

    Show creators have spoken about the explosion of these kinds of tales in the late 19th century, pointing out that England was on the cusp of the industrial revolution. The possibility of harnessing lightning (electricity), conquering the skies (flight), and covering great distances in short time (motorized travel) were in the not-distant future. Writers of that period imagined these worlds and wrote about them, much the same way that writers in our own time might conjure up visions of high-tech police work (Minority Report), science bringing dinosaurs back to life (Jurassic Park), or alien encounters (pick a movie). We see these things as more possible than ever, knowing what we do about our own current abilities and technology.

    Eva Green is prominently featured in the teaser trailer for the upcoming Penny Dreadful season. Her character speaks of a “curse” that she carries, but that she also has learned that the same curse is in some way a blessing.

    Josh Hartnett is Ethan Chandler and Timothy Dalton is Sir Malcolm Murray in the series. They are also seen in the teaser trailer.

    The upcoming second season of Penny Dreadful in 2015 has ten episodes. If you did not catch the first season, you can see a marathon of the episodes on New Year’s Eve on Showtime, starting at 8:00 p.m. EST.

  • Eva Green “Sin City” Poster Too Sexy Says MPAA

    Everyone knows that sex sells, but Eva Green’s most recent poster for the Sin City sequel may just be too sexy. The poster shows Eva wearing a sheer gown and holding a gun in her hand.

    Her nails and lips are bright, bold red and her eyes have a certain fierceness to them.

    While fans of Eva Green and Sin City believe the poster is the perfect way to promote the Sin City sequel, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, the Motion Picture Association Of America or MPAA does not and they have banned it.

    The poster was disapproved by the MPAA “for nudity — curve of under breast and dark nipple/areola circle visible through sheer gown.”

    Fans were quick to defend the poster on social networks.

    The MPAA is strict with their ratings and has no tolerance for nudity. While some people felt that the MPAA was being too harsh and controlling with the poster, the execs are working on a compromise with the MPAA before the sequel opens on Aug. 22.

    The Sin City Facebook page released the poster and although the gown Eva is wearing is sheer and allows the outline of her body to easily be seen, it is hard to notice the nipples or the curve of under breast without really looking for them.

    Even though the poster has been banned from theaters, it is currently being shared and seen on the Internet where it will get more views than the MPAA wants or Sin City execs may have planned for.

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    Do you think the poster shows too much or is the MPAA just being too strict?

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  • Eva Green: Sin City Poster Has Too Much Boob, Says MPAA

    Eva Green is no stranger to on-screen nudity. The actress has bared skin in a handful of movies and TV shows throughout the past decade, most recently in this year’s 300: Rise of an Empire. It’s no surprise then, that Green’s shapely figure was chosen for a new teaser poster for Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming movie Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. The only problem is that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) believes the poster is just too sexy to be released.

    According to a New York Post Page Six report, the poster has been rejected by the MPAA for sporting “nudity.” More specifically, the MPAA stated that the “curve of under breast and dark nipple/areola circle visible through sheer gown” were what made the poster too risque. The MPAA serves as the movie ratings board for the U.S. and is well-known for its harsh stance toward sex and nudity in cinema.

    The poster was released in its original form on the Sin City Facebook page. Though it’s not entirely clear that Green’s nipples can truly be seen, her silhouette is clearly defined by the image’s stylistic lighting.

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    Of course, the controversy over the poster is likely to get it seen by many more people on the internet than it would have been in a few thousand movie theaters across the U.S. Though the Post report states that the MPAA and movie executives are ironing out a compromise to allow the poster’s release, this type of controversy is exactly the kind of free advertising that marketing executives dream of. The poster in its original form is now destined to become a collector’s item and people across the internet have now been reminded in a very provocative way that Sin City: A Dame to Kill For will hit theaters this August.

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  • Penny Dreadful Series Premiere Shows Promise

    Penny Dreadful, Showtime’s entry into the supernatural category, had a relatively strong formal debut Sunday night.

    Going up against genre heavy weights such as AMC’s The Walking Dead and FX’s American Horror Story, Penny Dreadful attempts to set itself apart “with a combination of literary allusion, fine acting, patience and fearlessness” according to a review in The New York Times.

    The series was created by John Logan, who is known for his Oscar-nominated work on films such as The Aviator, Gladiator, and Hugo. Sam Mendes (American Beauty, The Kite Runner, Revolutionary Road) is executive producer. Logan and Mendes previously collaborated on Skyfall.

    Set in Victorian London, 1891 to be precise, Penny Dreadful stars Timothy Dalton, Eva Green and Josh Hartnett as a mishmash trio of explorers searching for Dalton’s character’s daughter. Classic horror characters such as Frankenstein, Dracula and Dorian Gray are woven into the story line.

    “Penny dreadful” was a term used to refer to dime novels and horror books in Victorian-era England.

    According to The Toronto Star, the series premiere “did a fantastic job at setting the series’ dark, gothic tone while making it accessible to both new and seasoned horror fans alike.”

    Penny Dreadful debuted in Showtime’s 10:00 pm time slot immediately after network strongman Californication and drew in 872,000 viewers. After accounting for multiple plays Sunday night, the total number of viewers came in at 1.443 million.

    Breaking down the stats even further, 895,000 – or 62% – of the 1.443 million were in the highly-sought-after 18-49 age demographic. This made Penny Dreadful’s premiere the best in that younger age group since Dexter’s in 2006, which set a network record of 65%.

    Impressively, Penny Dreadful topped the series premieres of Homeland and Masters of Sex by about 5%.

    Further evidence of the premiere’s success is the fact that the numbers above don’t include the 900,000 Showtime subscribers who watched online when the network made the premiere available two weeks prior to Sunday night’s formal debut.

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  • Eva Green Is Featured In A Set Of New Images From “Sin City: A Dame To Kill For”

    The first film was known for featuring its actresses in sexy attire, and gained plenty of attention for it. Jessica Alba and others are back from Sin City, and will be joined by Eva Green, who is already impressing fans.

    It was just weeks ago that the Sin City: A Dame To Kill For released its long-awaited trailer, and clearly got some fans excited for the new film. The sequel is long overdue, and will be released nine years after the original film.

    Eva Green was most recently seen in 300: Rise Of An Empire, which rose to the top of the box office in its debut, which was clearly expected. It is the sequel to the hit 2007 film 300, and the sequel features just as much action, and even a topless scene with Green.

    Sin City: A Dame To Kill For just released three new images to promote the upcoming film, and the first features an intriguing pose from Eva Green. She is nude in the picture, but with artfully placed smoke, nothing is revealed.

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    In order to follow suit with the original film’s outstanding ensemble cast, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For has added a number of stars, and Eva Green will be playing the dame that is featured in the title. Other additions to the sequel include Joseph Gordon Levitt, Josh Brolin, Jeremy Piven and Ray Liotta.

    In each of the images, just one character is shown, and the other two feature Josh Brolin and Jessica Alba. Alba is featured with long black hair, and holding a gun up, while Brolin has his face bandaged up, and looks like he is pointing his at someone.

    Sin City was clearly nothing like other films that were being released at the time, and was based on a series of graphic novels by Frank Miller. Miller is also the screenwriter for the film, and co-director, along with Robert Rodriguez.

    Speaking about the film’s experimentation, director Robert Rodriguez said in a recent interview at SXSW that “The first ‘Sin City’ was such an experiment. We weren’t sure what audiences would accept, because it was just completely different. They liked it, so [I] could push it forward and do more what I wanted of the first time.”

    Sin City: A Dame To Kill For will be told in four different segments, much like a comic book would, and display the creative film-making technique that Rodriguez has utilized before. The new film will finally be released on August 22, 2014.

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