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BBC Radio 1xtra - November 27 2013

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A Princess for Christmas Behind the Scenes from Spot On Creative on Vimeo.

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Daniel Nadel photoshoot

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Katie's wardrobe - Topshop sleeveless crop lace dress

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Katie McGrath on Beeb's SaturdayKitchen

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InStyle - November 2013

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Merlin 1x02 - Valiant - promo

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Katie McGrath Talks to IFTN As 'Dracula' Starts on Sky Living

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29 Oct 2013 : By Kevin Cronin

Irish actress Katie McGrath goes blonde as Lucy in 'Dracula', beginning on Sky Living this 31st Oct.

Katie McGrath - Wicklow actress best known for BBC’s ‘Merlin’ - makes up the final part of a triumvirate of Irish actors, along with Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Victoria Smurfit, in ‘Dracula’ starting on Sky Living this Halloween night.
The Trinity College graduate has also appeared in ‘The Tudors’ and ‘W.E.’, directed by Madonna, but Morgana the sorceress in ‘Merlin’ has been her highest profileacting role - until now.

As Lucy Westerna in ‘Dracula’, Ms McGrath creates a new interpretation of the literary character - whose friendship with Mena, played by Australian actress Jessica De Gouw, stands as a beacon of light amid the story’s darkness.

Within the Gothic surroundings of the crypt in Christ Church Cathedral, Ms McGrath contemplated the differences between the Bram Stoker original in contrast to its big-budget NBC counterpart, filmed on location in Budapest.

‘The show has a very different feel because while it is still Gothic, it’s a more opulent version. It’s not the dark vampire tale that we’re all used to. It’s about a man, Alexander Grayson, coming to take London society by storm. So it’s got that kind of drama and decadence and opulence that you would expect from an American NBC show. It’s got a period gloss that we’re not used to seeing in TV productions.’

Ms McGrath reflected on the seven-month shoot, which consisted of long work days and six day weeks, but also gave the actors plenty of time to bond.

‘Me and Jess, we had our chemistry read first and we had such a giggle! We got into so much trouble over it. I went upstairs to meet Jess and we just got on really well and we were chatting away. ‘Dracula’ was the second chemistry read I’ve ever done. I did one for ‘Merlin’ too, so they’ve all worked out quite well!’

In terms of the series’ appeal in a marketplace flooded with vampire tales and remakes, Ms McGrath was optimistic that their ‘Dracula’ has enough new twists up its sleeve to keep audiences engaged.

‘Even if you know the Dracula story, which most people do, this is going to surprise you. It’s going to give you all the things that you expect - but not in the way you expect it. So even if you love the book and everything in it, there’s still something in there for you to find.’

The big themes of revenge and love were also major factors that convinced Ms McGrath of the show’s universal appeal.

‘What’s different about this show is that the fact that Dracula being a vampire is such a small part of it. The real driving heart of this story is about revenge and love. The fact that he is a vampire and his thirst for blood is not what’s driving him - it’s his revenge and his need to get back at all the people who have destroyed him and his love for Mena. Although it’s a series about vampires, that isn’t all it is. It’s a big costume fantasy drama about love and revenge.’

Getting the opportunity to reinvent a well-known character like Lucy was another major draw of the role - along with expanding her character’s onscreen relationships.

‘I think for me, one of the most interesting parts of this take on Lucy was her relationship with Mena. Obviously we know Lucy from the book, in which she’s this very sweet paragon of innocence and the counterfoil to Dracula. She’s a light-hearted presence to his darkness, and the epitomy of good. But in this version, she is not that. She’s sex and sass and attitude and all of these things! But you see her real humanity and what’s really going on in her relationship with Mena. That’s the only real thing about Lucy. For me that was really interesting. What attracted me to her was that relationship and what it does to her throughout the ten episodes. That and I also got to work with Jess!’

‘Dracula’ starts on Sky Living on Halloween night, Thurs 31st Oct at 9pm, and the trailer is available to view below.

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DRACULA: Jessica De Gouw, Katie McGrath + Oliver Jackson-Cohen on power, passion + sparkly vampires
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Sky Living and NBC's Dracula is so much more than just a story about a vampire: That's what Irish actress and former Merlin star Katie McGrath tells us as we gather in the crypt beneath Christ Church in Dublin.

She's just one of no less than three Irish actors among the cast of the latest adaptation of the Bram Stoker classic. The show makes its debut on Sky Living at 9pm this Halloween, with our own Jonathan Rhys Meyers playing the titular vampiric prince.

The new series sees puts a different twist on the tale as the rather calculating Vlad Tepes arriving in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who just wants to teach the English a thing or two about modern science. Little do they know, he's actually hoping to wreak revenge on a secret society of powerful people who ruined his life a few centuries earlier.

However, when he meets McGrath's sexy, sassy Lucy Westenra (check her out below - we did tell you it was a twist on the original), her best friend Mina Murray (Arrow's Huntress, Jessica de Gouw) and Mina's beloved Jonathan Harker (Mr Selfridge star Oliver Jackson-Cohen) things get rather complicated. Carrying out a brilliant master plan isn't too easy when you're face to face with a young woman (Mina) who's the spitting image of your dead wife.

Now, I know some of you will be thinking "Another series about vampires? Really?" but, according to the cast, that's most definitely not the case.

"It's actually something quite raw", says Jackson-Cohen, who admits that the recent vampire/werewolf resurgence isn't something he's into. "Sparkly vampires" definitely aren't up this lad's alley, so he's eager to assure us that Dracula isn't in the same vein as Twilight which by the way, shock horror, he has yet to see. Harker isn't the "fluffy" good guy counterpart to Vlad Tepes' all-consuming evil. Both men are flawed and fragile, and far closer to their original incarnations than modern day love rivals like Jacob Black and Edward Cullen.

"When you bring something back to the origins that's definitely something that I'm a fan of" Jackson-Cohen muses, admitting that it was the pull of our own Mr Rhys Meyers and a completely glitter free vampire tale that convinced him to sign on for the project in the first place. "The fact that Dracula is a vampire is actually such a small a part of it" McGrath adds. "The real driving force of this story is revenge and love. The fact that he's a vampire is just this little bit at the end of it."

And by the time we reach the end of Episode 1 (we'll try not to spoil it for you) we know she's most certainly not lying. Love is right at the heart of this story, and it's all being directed at Jessica De Gouw's Mina Murray.

"I get all the fun" the bubbly Australian giggles when I ask what it was like to play the intelligent and beautiful Mina, who has her beloved Harker, her best friend Lucy and the enigmatic Alexander Grayson fighting over her on screen. For Jackson-Cohen, who had to compete with two red blooded Irish stars for her attention, things weren't quite so easy though. "It was challenging," he admits between chuckles, turning to face his amused co-star. "Well, you'll see... It's quite a struggle to keep her." McGrath raises an eyebrow before assuring us her Lucy was always going to win the war.

So, what can we expect when the show lands on our screens tomorrow evening? "Even if you know the Dracula story like y'know, most people do, this is going to surprise you," Mc Grath says. "It's going to give you all the things you expect but not in the way you expect them so even if you love the book and love everything, there's still something in there for you to find."

And are the young stars of the show worried about how the show will be received? "I find it quite terrifying" Jackson-Cohen admits, "because you do something that's so kind of personal ("Our bubble", De Gouw excitedly interjects) and then people either destroy the bubble or embrace it... or both." De Gouw says she's just curious to see what the audience will make of their version of the story, while her co-stars say they hope people stick with the show until the end.

"It's a 10 part show so the first episode is setting up so many different characters" Jackson-Cohen explains. "It's one of those where it builds and builds and builds and builds. I originally thought it was going to be a miniseries but when you see what happens at the end of 10 you sort of go, 'Oh my God, this has been upped to another level'."

"Everyone watch it" he laughs, "otherwise I will find you".

And you know, we're actually half tempted to tune out for a split second just to see if he'll really come knocking at our door...

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Preview - InStyle, December 2013

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B Sharp Entertainment Interview - Katie McGrath in ‘Leading Lady’

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Katie McGrath in ‘Leading Lady’

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Bronwen Hirshowitz

Some may call it the luck of the Irish, but it wasn’t just luck that launched this Irish beauty into the world of acting.

Katie McGrath started off following a career in fashion journalism. While assisting in wardrobe on the well known series ‘The Tudors’, she was convinced to try acting out, and so she did.

With an impressive resume to date, she has landed roles in big productions such as the T.V. series, ‘Dracula’ and ‘Merlin’, and has now graced our shores to star in a movie, produced by Dark Matter Studios, opposite some of our most talented assets, people like Brumilda Van Rensburg, Johan Stoltz, Bok Van Blerk, to name a few.

Playing the leading lady as Jodi Rutherford in the movie ‘Leading Lady’, directed by Henk Pretorius and produced by Henk Pretorius and Llewelynn Greeff, also South African commodities, Katie is a down to earth, beauty and to top it off, she is incredibly talented.

I sat down with Katie to talk about her career, the movie and her trip to South Africa. There are no airs about this lady and her sense of humour topped with her delightful Irish accent made this interview an absolute delight.

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You started off as a fashion journalist, and then someone saw potential in you and suggested you try acting. Was this just being in the right place at the right time for you? Tell us about this experience?

K.M.:

“I always say ‘Right place, right face, right time’. A lot of this industry is about luck, and talent and all of that, but it is about being in the right place, with the right face, at the right time. Especially for certain roles, as there usually is no reason for one person to get a role over another.”

“I was working wardrobe for the Tudors and I had been told that I should give acting a try and I had been dealing with all of the press pictures for the billboards. So I realised that it was quite a big show. I had done 6 months of getting up at 4am to lace women up in corsets and I had been looking at the actresses, under their umbrellas and everyone was being so nice to them and I thought, well that could be nice and more fun than this’. So when everybody started saying that to me I thought, ‘yeah sure I will give it a go’, but never thinking that I would get anywhere. If I was to be very honest I think I was just putting off growing up and getting a proper job and settling down. I got an agent and I was getting tiny jobs. Tudors came back and I got a part and I thought that I would give England a go as they know what Tudors is over there. I got my first 2 auditions in England and my 3rd or 4th audition was Merlin and I got that part and then all of a sudden this little dream that was a diversion to growing up was all of a sudden my life. That was important and now it was pressured as it was a very different feeling to just going along and having a laugh.”

Was there ever a point, before you decided to get an agent, where you thought you would want to be an actress?

K.M.:

“When I was little. It was all I wanted to do. I wanted to be an actress and then I grew up and thought, well that’s not a real job. And it also didn’t seem possible, as I didn’t know anyone in the business. It seemed like a dream that was too big and I was too scared to try, in case the dream didn’t come true and it could no longer be my dream. If I could hold onto it as a dream and it is never touched, then it will always be there. Then I realized that not trying is the same as not getting, so I may as well try.”

“I met people working on the Tudors, actors and it was their job and I realized that it is possible, that it could be a job. It is like being an accountant, just with better clothes. Although there are some very well dressed accountants, so I shouldn’t knock them.”

This may have been destined for you then, without you realizing it. Perhaps when we are young children we know subconsciously what we are destined to become?

K.M.:

“I think it’s because we are more honest and less scared, because we don’t know just how hard things are. You don’t see the problems with the future. You just see what you want.”

“And I was also a little drama queen…so…”

Reading up on you, you made an analogy, which I absolutely love. You are quoted as saying,

“A couple of the producers said I should give acting a try. I just thought, ‘Why not?’ It’s like running away to join the circus, everyone wants to do it when they’re young but then you grow up and get a proper job. But somebody’s got to do it or you wouldn’t have the circus.”

K.M.:

“I probably stole it from somewhere, so it may not be original.”

“There is another one, by Jessica De Gouw, who is in Dracula with me. She says, and it’s the truest thing that I have heard, “you’ve got to chase the happy” and at the end of the day, that makes sense to me.”

How did it feel coming back to The Tudors, but in this completely different role, from Wardrobe assistant to being in front of the camera?

K.M.:

“I was petrified. You rock up and these are all people that you know. I had known them for a year and had worked with them as crew and then you rock up and they are like ‘ok, Katie we are going to take you to make up’ and I was like, ‘I know where make up is’ and ‘we are going to take you to costume’ and I am like, ‘yeah I know where costume is’…. And you are on set and my scenes were with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and I was very good friends with him. I have known him for 7 years. I had known him since my first day on set.”

“I was doing these intimate scenes with him and it just felt weird. The lucky thing was that he is so professional and he was so kind to me. I was so scared. He really helped me. He was so sweet and I think that I was very lucky to have him and that my first big job was in this environment, even though it was such a small role, I felt very safe because I knew everybody.”

That was quite a brave role to do, especially as your first role.

K.M.:

“The funny thing was that it was actually supposed to be more graphic. I have a tattoo on my back and they had covered the tattoo with makeup. They were doing another scene before that, that ran very late, and they came to my scene and we had 40 minutes to shoot it and when it came to undressing, they had put a corset on me which was supposed to be taken off in the scene and I had been wearing it all day, and when they took off the corset it had rubbed all the make-up off my tattoo. It took about 2 and a half hours to cover it initially and they said that there was no way they could cover it again in such a short space of time, and that I just had to keep my clothes on. I was so grateful and thought how grateful I was that I got that tattoo. I had never regretted it before but now I knew it was right.”

Looking at your resume, you have done so much in such a short space of time. Has this been luck?

K.M.:

“I think a lot of has to do with me. Every time I reach the last 2 weeks of a job I phone my agent and I am like ‘ok, when’s the next one’. They always ask me whether I want a break and I always say no. I am petrified of being out of work. I am petrified that at some point people will realise that I don’t really know what I am doing. Until then I have to do as much as I can, because I love this so much. I love what I do. I don’t ever want to do anything else, so I am going to fit it all in until people figure me out. As a result I haven’t really had a holiday in about 6 years. I’ve worked back to back for nearly 2 and half years.”

The industry is fickle like that. Hot one day, not the next.

K.M.:

“Exactly, make hay while the sun shines. That actually is how this job came about.”

“We did a 7 month shoot with ‘Dracula’, and literally they said you will only have a week off. I have been away from home since January and there was this choice that this was an opportunity that I could never have again. I loved the sсript, I loved the guys. The shoot was literally 6 week. I told myself to just put off the tiredness and pull on through and that I can have a holiday on the other side. I have never been so glad to have said yes to a job. I pulled up here and was so scared. I didn’t know what I was doing, didn’t know anyone here and within the end of the first week every one made me feel so safe. And now I am going on a plane soon and I don’t want to leave.”

What attracted you to the part of Jodi Rutherford?

K.N.:

“It was a really sweet original sсript. From reading it I wasn’t really sure how it was going to translate. My manager in Los Angeles sent it to me and she loved it and had seen Henk’s last film, which is so good. I am actually glad I didn’t watch it before I took the job because I think I would’ve been too star struck, if I had.”

“I was really curious to see how he was going to translate this and I was really curious because there is so much about Afrikaans culture that I didn’t know. There is so much that people from the outside world also don’t know. It’s a culture that we don’t see a lot of. So I was very curious to see it and learn.”

“The character in the movie finds out about the Afrikaans culture in the same way that I did. They took me to a lot of very Afrikaans type things here. And I would never have gotten to do that without this job, ever. There is a whole culture that I would have known nothing about. Other than Springboks and since I am Irish, and love rugby, I would never have been a fan of the Springboks. I am but never when we are playing against them.”

“I am a Springbok fan as long as they are not playing against my country. You are second in my love.”

Tell us about the character of Jodi?

K.M.:

“Jodi is a girl in her late 20s early 30s, who is living a slightly unfulfilled life. She has always wanted to be an actress, but hasn’t quite made it. She is working as a teacher and although she is very good at what she does she is unfulfilled by it.”

“To make matters worse, she is also kind of living on the peripheral of her dream. You discover that the boyfriend that she lives with is actually a very famous film director and his next project is about a woman called ‘Johanna Willemse’. She has set her heart on playing this woman, who she feels a kind of kinship with. She feels that this is a brave woman, a woman who will give up everything for her dreams and her love and that resonates with her. She feels that in order to play this part properly, she needs to go to South Africa and to understand what it means to be a proper ‘Boer’ and she has no clue, I mean she is a fish out of water. It’s about her discovering what it is to be Afrikaans and in doing that she really discovers what it is to be herself, as she has been lying to herself her whole life. She does all of that by meeting this array of wonderfully colourful characters played by an amazingly brilliant South African cast, who I swear everyday would have me in stitches.”

“Brumilda Van Rensberg, is the funniest woman you will ever meet and Bok. I actually went to one of his concerts and I was in a room full of people just singing along with him. I was like there’s something about a man on stage, I get it now. There you go Bok and now I have to work with you for the next 5 weeks. Eduan Van Jaarsveldt, who was in ‘Fanie Fourie se Lobola’; I didn’t watch the film until I got here, and I really am glad I didn’t, because I had a really big crush on him; you could give me 30 cows, I love you, Eduan.”

“All these people, who I would never have met and are all so talented and so good at this, have changed the way I look at myself and the way I look at the industry. This is an experience that I could only have through Dark Matter Studios, and it was unbelievable. And at the end of it we have made this film that I think is going to surprise everybody. You go in with one idea, 5 minutes later it has changed, 10 minutes later it has changed again. At the end of it, you are like, ‘I did not expect that’. It’s very sweet and good and will just make you smile.”

“Coming here for 5 weeks was also worth it just for one Johannesburg’s thunderstorms. It was unbelievable.”

You have done one theatre production, ‘La Marea’ at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2007. Would you do more into theatre?

K.M.:

“Theatre is actually something that petrifies me, which means that I probably should do it. For me, it doesn’t matter what medium a job is, whether theatre, film, TV, it just matters whether it is something I want to do and am interested in doing and I think that if I can’t play it and don’t know how to, then maybe I should do it. If you know how to do something, then why should you do it again?”

“If I get a sсript and go I have no idea how to play that, which is what happened with Dracula, then I do it, as it is a challenge. The same was for Jodi and how to make her real as she is so far from me. So that’s the challenge and if it’s theatre, and I feel the same way then I would definitely do it.”

You have a love for history and I do notice that you have played a lot of historical roles. Is this on purpose?

K.M.:

“I think that is just how people look at me. I think they think I have period face. They just believe me in a dress and when you see me in real life, that is so not me. It does make my job easier, all these costume dramas as you do feel unlike yourself, when you have to put on something so different and so far from what you wear in normal life. I need all the help I can get. So I have been lucky in that respect. Maybe that’s just how people see me, maybe I just don’t have a contemporary face.”

Besides the Thunderstorms, what else have you loved about South Africa?

K.M.:

“Biltong! I love that stuff. It’s pure meat. Yummy goodness! And it breaks my heart that you cant really get it in London, as easily as here. My teeth are completely sore from chewing on it.”

“‘Ek is life vir biltong’ that is what I have learned to say. And ‘lekker’”

(all said in an Irish accent)

Each role you get might represent a moment in your life, might help you move forward in something, help you learn something, personally and professionally. What have you taken from this role and from this experience?

K.M.:

“I think, I had just come off of Dracula, which is a very large production. It is a very big American network, with a very big English production house. It is easier to be in something like that, and to forget what you are doing because it’s so big and you are such a small part and it’s such a machine.”

“One of the reasons I took this job was because it was smaller. There are no superfluous people on the crew for ‘Leading Lady’. Everybody worked their asses off. I wanted to feel part of something that was very much connected to everybody else and it was a different challenge from Dracula. Dracula felt like being a part of a very large, wonderful machine that we all worked very hard on, but it was a very big production. This was very much more intimate and I felt that there was a lot more pressure on me, as I know how important this was to Henk and Llewelynn and I know how hard they worked on it and I saw them every day and I saw how much they put into it and I am in every scene, so if I drop the ball, there is no one else to pick it up. I needed to remember that, as you can forget that on a very big production.”

“ So coming to do this made me remember how hard it is and how important it is that you should work to the best of your ability at all times. I think that is what this experience has told me and that is what I am going to take with me forward. To remember it is not about you, it is about the whole thing.”

Are you hoping to return to South Africa ?

K.M.:

“I definitely want to work with Dark Matter Studios again. I have told them that must employ me in every job that they are doing or else I will kill them. I will hunt them down and kill them. I will work with this crew again in a heartbeat. They were without exception, astonishingly brilliant. They gave everything and we didn’t have a lot of time. I have never seen the like of it and I adore them all. I am very lucky to have been a part of it.”

‘Leading Lady’ will be released next year Internationally – watch this space for details.

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