THR: COLLEEN ATWOOD POTENTIAL OSCAR HOPEFUL

The Hollywood Reporter listed 20 of the top costume designers this past year that are potential Oscar hopefuls.  

Listed at #6 is SWATH's very own Colleen Atwood.  Not to sound like we're playing favorites... OK we are. We believe she should have a nomination.  The gowns she made for Charlize Theron's 'Ravenna' alone deserve their own nomination. 

Colleen tells THR about her humble beginnings as she began her career as a costume designer. 

 "I got pregnant in high school and had a baby," said Colleen Atwood, Snow White and the Huntsman's costume designer, of her modest beginnings. "And so I raised my daughter by working at all kinds of jobs, from factory work to waitressing. When she was out of high school, I went to NYU and took a summer course there in film school, and ended up on the little projects, doing the clothes for some reason, and then starting to kind of be a runner and assistant in the costume world."

Click here to read about the other potential nominees.

JOHNNY HARRIS: NATURALLY GIFTED MODERN ACTOR

Source: Huffington Post UK

Trying to find out his direction in life, acting is the path SWATH's Johnny Harris took and has never looked back.

The Huffington Post UK took time out to find out what is behind the man who is behind some of film's most unique characters which "most actors are afraid to tackle such as Mick, the serial sex abuser from Shane Meadows' This Is England '86, a role which won him a best supporting actor BAFTA nomination, according to HPUK."


Harris reveals the auspicious beginnings to his career and how acting had an affect on him:

"I had anger which needed outlet, and I also felt like I had something to say. I think acting evolves. It isn't now what it was when I first started out." Johnny, 39, was 21 when he began his [acting] classes. 

"I was working at the same time on building sites and in car parks to earn my living. I was discontented with the world. There was an answer, it seemed to me, that was eluding me. I couldn't find the eloquence to express it, but I felt it and I knew it was real. "With actors, I saw people who could go to another place to work this feeling out. It was no more than that for me, just a desire to get it out. Whatever it was. Because it was hurting."

From England to Paris back to England, Harris finally found what he was destined to do. 

"An actor has to burn inside, with an outer ease," said Russian-American theatre practitioner Michael Chekhov, and this appears to be true of Johnny, whose eyes are lit from within, a gaze seeking answers in the middle distance where hang his memories. 

Read the rest of the article here at HPUK and look out for Harris in future film projects in 2013. Check back with us for more information as they come.


Source: Johnny Harris via Twitter

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CHARLIZE SPORTS A NEW DO FOR NEXT FILM

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Charlize Theron has been in Africa filming her latest film Mad Max: Fury Road sporting a new hair do for her character Imperator Furiosa. 

Check it out in the Extra TV report above.