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Videos: Watch director Rupert Friend promotes his short film 'Steve' starring Colin Firth and Keira Knightley

Posted by Le on Friday, August 12, 2011

Rupert Friend just promoted the short film he directed titled starring , Keira Knightley, and on Rhode Island's local news ABC6 last night as it was screened in Rhode Island International Film Festival (one of the many festivals it screened/premiered to since last year).


UPDATED 8/18/11: Rupert Friend honored a Crystal Image Award for his work on 'Steve' Congrats RF!
Also, check out 2 new Steve stills feat. Keira Knightley here!

Rupert
chatted about the short film, Oscar Winner , and his desire to do a feature film as a director. The interview also featured a few clips from the short film.

Check it out and watch RF's new interview with some screen captures below...





(source: ABC6)
 
Steve clips screen captures
featuring Keira Knightley, Tom Mison, and Colin Firth
 
Also, check out and watch


Rupert Friend on ABC6 screen captures
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Photos: Rupert Friend at 'Steve' Screening Premiere at London Film Festival

Posted by Le on Thursday, October 21, 2010

Rupert Friend (photo source: Belfast Telegraph) along with good friend actor (Lost In Austen's Mr. Bingley and one of the stars of Steve) attend the 'Steve' short screening during the 54th BFI London Film Festival at the BFI Southbank today, October 21, 2010 in London, England.

Updated 11/8/2010
Watch an interview with Rupert Friend (at the BFI London Film Festival) discussing the film STEVE and Colin Firth's involvement in the short film.  

Check out new RF (including TM) photos below...

(Photos by Ian Gavan/Getty Images Europe | zimbio.com) 

Unfortunately, Keira Knightley was unable to attend the screening premiere because she was sick according to Rupert's interview in this Belfast Telegraph article:

Keira too ill for Rupert's premiere
Actress Keira Knightley failed to attend Thursday's premiere of a film written and directed by her boyfriend Rupert Friend because she was unwell.

Asked what was wrong with Keira - who stars in the short film - Rupert said she was feeling "under the weather".

Speaking ahead of the screening of Steve at Southbank's National Film Theatre in London, he described working with Keira as "amazing".
He said she was a "brilliant person and a brilliant actor" and he "couldn't have had anyone better" to work with on his directorial debut.

Rupert, who acted alongside Keira in the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice, said he had not planned on working with her on the project but he would jump at the chance again. Read full article here...
Speaking of Steve, the official website has just been updated with the teaser trailer we've previously seen and posted here before. Also, there's now a twitter page for the film as well. Check it out and follow it for further news and updates on Steve.
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New 'Steve' stills, posters, and teaser trailer featuring Colin Firth

Posted by Le on Sunday, October 10, 2010

Empire Online has new stills (including one I've already posted here) and a teaser trailer (featuring in Rupert FriendColin Firth is also featured in one of the two posters (from Sweet-Keira) of Steve as well.

Check out the following...


Steve - Posters featuring  Colin Firth
(source: Sweet-Keira)

Steve - Stills featuring Colin Firth,
Keira Knightley, and Tom Misson 
(source: Empire Online)



The teaser trailer doesn't give away much about Steve though, it only features Colin Firth (just sitting quietly in a bed... lol) in the title role, who is an increasingly regular visitor to his upstairs neighbours, Keira Knightley and Tom Mison.

(source: Empire Online)

Steve screens in the short film category (Close Friends and Family Only) at the London Film Festival on October 21st. Expect Rupert Friend to be there at the screening as he directed it, Keira Knightley, of course. Colin Firth and Tom Mison might be there as well.
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Happy (late) Birthday Rupert Friend!

Posted by Le on Friday, October 8, 2010

A (belated) Happy Birthday to Rupert Friend (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images North America) best known as Mr. Wickham of Pride & Prejudice (as well as Keira Knightley's boyfriend of 5 years!) and Prince Albert of The Young Victoria. Rupert just turned 29 years old this month (seven days ago), October 1st!

Here's RF's upcoming film projects for 2010/2011 (via IMDB):
Also, a new short film, in which Keira Knightley joins Colin Firth in 'Steve' directed by Rupert Friend. Steve has its world premiere in the short cuts and animation section of the London Film Festival on October 21st.

Related Rupert Friend sites:
 Also, check out and read a few recent Rupert Friend related interviews/articles below...


The Rise Of Rupert Friend (FemaleFirst.co.uk)
Rupert Friend may currently be best know as being the boyfriend of actress Keira Knightely but over the last couple of years he has been establishing himself as one of the country's best young actors.

He broke through in 2004 in The Libertine and since then has mixed an matched his roles as he has slowly built a career for himself. The Libertine saw him star alongside Johnny Depp as Billy Downs, a friend and lover of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.

But it was his role as Mr Wickham in Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice that shot the young actor to fame, as well as introducing him to a certain Miss Knightley.

The film was a critical and commercial success boosting the careers of all the young cast including Rosamund Pike, Friend and Knightley herself who was trying to shake off her Pirates of the Caribbean tag.

Friend stayed in the British film industry moving on to Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont alongside Joan Plowright.

Based on the novel by Elizabeth Taylor the film followed Mrs Palfrey who, after being all but abandoned by her family, strikes up a friendship with writer Ludovic Meyer.

He next appeared in sword and sandal drama The Last Legion before going on to star alongside Sean Bean and Danny Dyer in Outlaw, both receiving mixed reviews.

After this varying degrees of success 2009 brought the most success for the twenty eight year old and he mixed and matched his role, kicking off with The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas when he took on the role of Lt Kotler.

He followed this up with The Young Victoria, in which he starred alongside Emily Blunt, taking on the role of Prince Albert to Blunt's Queen Victoria. The movie was well received by the critics, and Blunt went on to earn a Golden Globe nomination for her performance. Read full article...
Rupert Friend on his new film The Kid (Telegraph.co.uk)
In recent years – roughly the five years since he met Knightley on the set of Pride and Prejudice and they started to date – he’s been reminded of that feeling of pursuit and entrapment. ‘You see it in paparazzi chases,’ he says. ‘As soon as there’s a group, suddenly it becomes a competition: who can push the limit of what you can do?’

In the past he’s talked about fantasising about hitting the photographers who doorstep him, but his general bent is towards pacifism. He tries to avoid trouble by steering clear of ‘London, fashion-y’ events.

Emily Blunt, his co-star in The Young Victoria, describes Friend as the ‘definition of a real man’. His interests are indeed both gentle and manly. ‘Wood is weirdly a big passion of mine,’ he says. ‘I really love it, all the way from trees to a finished table. The fact that it was alive and that each piece is different.’ He loves to cook, but in a dashing, devil-may-care way: ‘I’ve never got on with recipes. Free yourself, throw them out!’
Read full article here...
Film festival's giving Keira the long and the short of it (Daily Mail - Baz Bamigboye)
Keira Knightley does double duty at the London Film Festival. On Wednesday, she shares the screen with Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield in Never Let Me Go, which festival chief Sandra Hebron has chosen to launch the two-week celebration of cinema.

The following week, Keira and Tom Mison play a couple who live in the flat upstairs from Colin Firth  -  who is Steve, the title character in Rupert Friend's 16-minute short film about the unpredictable shenanigans involving the lonely singleton.

Rachel Kennedy, who produced the short with Jess Cole and Rupert, told me the production, shot on location in Hackney, East London, went smoothly.
'Everyone chipped in and helped. No one behaved like a star,' she added. Steve has its world premiere in the short cuts and animation section of the festival on October 21.

It's being shown as part of a series of films with the collective title Close Friends And Family Only, at the National Film Theatre on the South Bank, with a second screening the next day.

Keira, Rupert and Tom Mison feature in a second short called The Continuing And Lamentable Saga Of The Suicide Brothers, directed by Arran and Corran Brownlee, based on a screenplay by Rupert and Tom. That picture's on sale on iTunes.
Read more Rupert Friend/Keira Knightley related articles below...
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Short Film News: Keira Knightley joins Colin Firth in 'Steve' directed by Rupert Friend

Posted by Le on Tuesday, September 28, 2010

As previously posted here, Rupert Friend Keira Knightley (P&P '05's Elizabeth Bennet) and Tom Mison (Lost In Austen's Mr. Bingley) is also in Steve. Very interesting! Check out the official site for Steve with P&P Actors in three different P&P versions (1995, 2005, and Lost in Austen 2008) are all in the same short film. Looks like we have Darcy 1995, Lizzie 2005, and Bingley (LA 2008), being directed by Wickham 2005...brilliant casting (though where's Jane or Lydia Bennet? lol) and director and keeping it in the P&P family, eh?

Here, I made a few screen caps of the images from the official site for Steve of Colin, Keira, and Tom below including 2 promo banners I made, lol...(updated 10/2 with new Keira Knightley and Tom Mison still...after the cut...)



They all look serious in their individual photos, don't they? To quote the Joker from The Dark Knight movie, "WHY SO SERIOUS?" lol...

Colin Firth
Keira Knightley
 Tom Mison
 

Plus, I made or rather manipped 2 lil' Steve promo banners below...
what do you all think?



Updated 10/2

Sweet-Keira has this new Steve still of Keira and Tom actually next to each other and in colored version...looks like they are playing the couple part and Colin is Steve from the short summary description below...

Anyway, pirate_and_prejudice @imdb boards has more Steve info.
Some facts:
Run Time: 16 minutes
Director: Rupert Friend
Starring: Keira Knightley, Colin Firth, and Tom Mison (not 100% sure on Tom Mison though)
Short Summary: “A couple’s visits from Steve, their neighbor from the flat downstairs, become increasingly frequent and unpredictable.”
Also, Steve will be going to London Film Festival according to this site. Keira is scheduled to attend the London Film Festival.
More additional info via Keira Web: The film will screen at the London Film Festival on October 21st and 22nd. The official site suggests a further release in 2011. It was filmed over four days in April or May this year, according to this interview with Colin.
Speaking of Rupert, Keira, and Tom Mison in Steve short film, they all previously co-starred in another short film, The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of The Suicide Brothers, which Rupert and Tom co-wrote, and Rupert co-produced, is now available to down on iTunes. Watch the teaser trailer for it below...
(source: MoneyTrainDX)
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