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Thursday, May 20th, 2010 Matthew Goode to star in ‘Burning Man’
CANNES — Matthew Goode is playing rough with a bevy of beauties including Bojana Novakovic, Rachel Griffiths, Essie Davis, Kerry Fox, Kate Beahan and Gia Carides in writer-director Jonathan Teplitzky’s “Burning Man.”
Goode plays Tom, an English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.
Produced by U.K. producer Andy Paterson and Teplitzky, the film shoots on location in Sydney, with backing from Screen Australia, Screen NSW, Standard Chartered Bank and the Australian Producer Offset. (more…)
Friday, March 5th, 2010 Matthew Goode ‘blown away’ by Cemetery Junction offer
Actor Matthew Goode has said he was “blown away” to get offered a part in Ricky Gervais’s new film Cemetery Junction.
The comedy-drama is co-directed and written by Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and is a coming-of-age tale of three friends working in the insurance industry in the 70s.
“Him and Stephen called me up and asked me if I wanted to do it,” says Goode. “It’s to play the second in charge, underneath Ralph Fiennes who heads the company. (more…)
Saturday, February 27th, 2010 Goode Auditioned For Hobbit Role
Watchmen star Matthew Goode is the latest actor to try out for the lead role in the upcoming Lord Of The Rings prequel.
The British actor, who shot to fame in the 2009 superhero movie, admits he recently auditioned for the coveted role of young Bilbo Baggins in Guillermo del Toro’s two-part epic The Hobbit.
Other stars rumoured to be in the running include Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy and Spider-Man Tobey Maguire, who recently denied he has been approached to take the part. (more…)
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 Colin Firth: ‘I enjoyed my gay kiss in A Single Man’
Heartthrob Colin Firth has opened up about his gay kiss in Oscar favourite A Single Man rating co-star Matthew Goode as a “good kisser”.
Although the 50-year-old actor claimed Julianne Moore, who also stars in the film, was a “much better kisser”.
Firth plays a gay professor in the film struggling to cope with the death of his male lover (Goode) while Moore stars as his best friend. (more…)