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Hart's Heart Goes Out To Movie Triplets' Mum

3 July 2009 6:26 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Harry Potter star Ian Hart felt terrible for one young mum on the set of his new film A Boy Called Dad - because her triplets were always cold, soaking and in peril.

The unnamed mum agreed to let her babies alternate as the child star of the movie - but Hart feels sure she had no idea what was expected of the tots.

In one scene, his movie son, Kyle Ward, was standing on the edge of a cliff in wind and driving rain - with one of the babies cradled in his arms.

The Backbeat star says, "We did some of that scene with a doll and then we did the rest of the scene with the baby. The mother of the baby was watching it get further and further away from her arms and closer and closer to the edge of a cliff handled by a child, effectively.

"What was going through her mind I don't know! It was raining and it was wet and slippery... We had rain galore and wind.

"The poor little baby was getting rained on. It was freezing cold and the baby was crying; by take two this little baby was soaked! His little face was covered in water. It was terrible."

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Eiff 09: Review of A Boy Called Dad

28 June 2009 2:52 AM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

Year: 2009

Directors: Brian Percival

Writers: Julie Rutterford

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: projectcyclops

Rating: 4 out of 10

Fourteen-year-old Robbie impregnates classmate Leanne, and becomes a father. His own dad is aloof, irresponsible, immature and gambles away his cash down Ladbrokes. Although he does love Robbie, he's incapable of showing the sustained affection and respect the boy needs so badly, instead he buys him chips and tells jokes, not much of a substitute.

Robbie is denied access to the child, who's living with Leanne and her tough boyfriend, so he steals the kid and drives to Wales, where he meets a young girl called Nia (Charlene McKenna), who's been unable to talk since a serious trauma. The tabloids have a field day over the kidnapping and the police start to close-in on Robbie, who's hiding in a barn with baby Elliot. Hot on his heels as well is his dad, Joe

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Hart Considers Hat Line

24 June 2009 6:36 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Backbeat star Ian Hart is considering bringing out his own line of hats - because he's always looking for the perfect trilby.

The British actor, who played Professor Quirinus Quirrell in Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone, is rarely seen without his trademark hat - and now he's thinking about turning his fashion statement into a sideline.

He's hoping his potential line of headwear will prompt hat fans to buy better hats.

Hart says, "More people are wearing hats but they're bad hats. I still get the best hats from New York. I went to a hat shop by Madison Square Garden and I walked in and the guy went, 'That hat you're wearing is wrong for you.' I'm like, 'It's just a hat.' He's like, 'No, come here. As I get older, I get shorter and every time I get shorter the brim has to come in a little bit.'

"So he took my hat off and, for five dollars, trimmed the brim of my hat until it was the right size for me, and I've had that look ever since."

Hart admits he's hooked on hats: "I have got a bit of a hat problem. I've got loads of hats in the house and I've been asked to try and find somewhere else to put them! It's like being a woman with tons of shoes.

"I wear a hat in the house and I've been known to sleep in a hat. I've got a sleeping hat that's this soft cotton hat, which is flexible - so it forms to your head, and you can sleep in it."

But the balding actor insists his love for good headwear is a practical one.

He explains to WENN, "I get severe head burn, plus it's always raining in London and I've got nothing to soak up the moisture, so my head just gets wet straight away. A hat covers you from the sun and the rain - and it's fetching!"

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Hart Tried Paparazzi Life In Cox And Aniston's Shoes

22 June 2009 1:05 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

British actor Ian Hart researched his role as a paparazzi in Courteney Cox's axed TV drama series Dirt by pretending to be the former Friends star.

The Backbeat actor agreed to take Cox's car for a spin after dining with the actress and her pal Jennifer Aniston - and quickly realised how dangerous life can be for an A-list celebrity.

Hart says, "I drove their car for them to drive the photographers outside off the scent. It is completely round the bend. At Courteney's house they're constantly popping their heads over the fence like little rabbits... they're hiding in the bushes. It seems impossible for them to leave home without the paparazzi following them.

"Courteney is very fortunate to live a nice life on the beach in a lovely house in Malibu, but they've had to put up a big fence so they can't see the ocean, so what's the point? Both Courteney and Jennifer have a very sensible attitude towards it - they accept it, they know it's not gonna go away.

"If it was me, I'd be in prison because someone would get hit or a camera would get smashed. Then I'd have to take an anger management course. It wouldn't end well."

Hart played a shady, schizophrenic paparazzo on the U.S. show, which was a critical success but a rating failure.

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Hart: 'I Hated The Beatles'

21 June 2009 4:05 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Backbeat star Ian Hart kept a secret while shooting the acclaimed early Beatles movie - he hated the Fab Four.

The Liverpudlian actor, who portrayed John Lennon in the 1994 movie, admits he never liked the group growing up - and couldn't understand why they were so beloved.

He tells WENN, "I hated The Beatles, hated them. I hated the whole nostalgia thing about them. You'd turn on the local radio and all you'd hear was music from the 60s in my childhood.

"As a young man, I wanted to be a punk or a mod, never a Beatle."

But the Harry Potter star never told his character's son or Lennon's partner Yoko Ono about his feelings: "You can't do that. I met Julian Lennon when I did Backbeat and Yoko Ono some years ago when she was in Liverpool doing some TV show."

Hart insists he didn't hate all the members of the Beatles: "I would've liked to have met George Harrison. I thought he was an amazing human being."

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'Easter Sixteen' Moves To September Shoot

6 May 2009 4:26 AM, PDT | From IFTN | See recent IFTN news

Having originally been slated for production in March of this year, feature film 'Easter Sixteen' produced by the La based Marathon Pictures will now go into production in Dublin this September. Based on one of Ireland's most significant events 'Easter Sixteen' the film will mark the directorial debut feature by Irish actor Jason Barry (Titanic) and will star Guy Pearce (La Confidential) as Padraig Pearse and Ian Hart (Finding Neverland) as Thomas Clarke. The actor for the role of James Connolly has yet to be confirmed.

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