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Irish Daily Star
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Star
Yellowstone fans are just realising Beth Dutton star is in much-loved Guy Ritchie film
Yellowstone fans are keen to see more of Kelly Reilly after the Western melodrama came to an end with season five. The Beth Dutton actress, who is from the UK, started her career in the series Prime Suspect. She had contacted the show's producers to as for work and at the time, the series starred 1923 actress Helen Mirren. Her first lead role came in 2008 in the horror film Eden Lake and the following year, she would star in another major film - Sherlock Holmes. The mystery action film features Robert Downey Jr as the title character, with Jude Law as Dr. John Watson, Holmes' companion. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and it saw Robert Downey Jr win Best Actor at the Golden Globe Awards. The Yellowstone actress played Mary Morstan, a governess whom Watson wanted to marry, which caused a conflict with Holmes. Speaking to The Independent about her time filming Sherlock, she said: "There was such great banter and respect." "I was literally on it a week, spread out over a month, so it's not like I got my feet under and realised what the set was really like. Most of the time I was just like..." [she freezes in fear] "telling myself, 'Don't mess up!'." Kelly Reilly is known for her Yellowstone role (Image: Dimitrios Kambouris, Getty Images) Reilly did not have to audition for the role and did not know what to expect when it came to Ritchie's work. "The two women's roles are not exactly ones you would break your heart over trying to get," she admitted. "Unless you want to work with Robert Downey Jr and just do a cracking good scene with him, which is enough for me, thanks very much! And it was worth it. "But as far as a female role that I want to attack and play and go very deeply into, I don't think that's the film I'm gonna find it on." Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan and Jude Law as Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes claimed the film "wouldn't have worked without Kelly Reilly" as they describe her as "the anchor". "She's the only character who receives development horizontally, and she's the only person viewers can relate to," the publication said. "Reilly's Mary is the only realistic character in the entire two films. There's nothing flashy or overly dramatic about her." Mary transpires to be a solid female addition to Holmes' operation and they would not have been able to nail Professor James Moriarty (Jared Harris) without her. Yellowstone is available on Paramount Plus. Sherlock Holmes is streaming on Amazon Prime Video
The Guardian
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Post your questions for Jack O'Connell
Jack O'Connell, still only 34, has already been on our screens for a couple of decades. Born in Derby in 1990, he had a troubled youth, in and out of court on minor charges, leaving school with scant qualifications and hopes of either becoming a footballer or joining the army. Instead, he rapidly found fame and acclaim playing mostly delinquent roles on the small and big screen, breaking through in Shane Meadows' 2006 film This Is England, and consolidating that with a leading role on Skins. He rapidly made his mark in movies – Michael Caine yelling: 'Star of the future!' at him on the set of Harry Brown. He was memorable in the 2008 horror Eden Lake, played Bobby Charlton in the BBC's drama about the Munich air crash, and then won the attention of international critics for his work on Starred Up, as a young offender sent to the same prison as his father, and '71, Yann Demange's Troubles set thriller about a soldier on the run. O'Connell's most high-profile mentor was an unlikely one: Angelina Jolie, who cast him as the lead in Unbroken, her drama about the runner Louis Zamperini, who survived a plane crash in the second world war before being held captive by the Japanese for two years. The actor once recalled that Jolie chartered a helicopter to fly him back for a pub dinner with his family in Derby. 'My nan was the coolest of us all though,' he said. 'She was like: 'All right, Angie?' At dinner, she took it upon herself to stand up and say a few words. 'It's a testament to that wartime generation. She was so articulate. She really made a mark on Angelina. For all I know they're still in touch.' O'Connell also featured in Zack Snyder's 300: Rise of An Empire, played Amy Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil in the biopic Back to Black and most recently starred as Paddy Mayne in acclaimed TV show SAS Rogue Heroes. Later this year he'll be seen in Danny Boyle's zombie-sequel 28 Years Later, but before that he's opposite Michael B Jordan in supernatural horror Sinners, out on 18 April. Please send us your questions for O'Connell by 6pm BST on 31 March; we'll print his answers in Film & Music on 11 April.
