No problem, grondfic. :-) The Sheriff's expression is priceless. It helped me come up with the speech bubbles for this card. *g*
It's great that you were able to get a hold of that Spanish TV series with Nick Grace as Federico Garcia Lorca. I can easily imagine him playing such a character. :-)
Hi again, grondfic. When you mentioned Nickolas Grace's role as Lorca yesterday, I tried looking for a picture. I wasn't able to find one, but I did come across a pretty cool interview with Nickolas Grace that you may or may not have seen before:
Nickolas Grace mentions playing Lorca in Part Three of the interview:
“In 1986 I was asked to play Lorca in the Spanish film TV series about Federico García Lorca, a famous Spanish poet. He was assassinated under Franco. Hear was the irony, to play this guy in a Spanish movie not knowing any Spanish, and having failed Spanish A level.
“At first they said ‘Don’t worry you can do it in English, and we will dub you’. So I did as much homework as I could. Day 1 we are on the film set and the wonderful director, Juan Antonio Bardem, and Javier Bardem’s uncle, asked if I could say my lines in Spanish as it was better for the dubbing, and I was like ‘Well, I can’t’. And he said ‘You try, you try’. So from then on I tried to learn as much as I could in Spanish. Playing Lorca was amazing.”
Ooh, thank you for the article, which indeed, I hadn't seen before. I came across this Spanish-language page about the series. The photos from it are about halfway down. The first pics are of the real Lorca ... and you can see how amazing the resemblance was between Nick and the original guy.
I hope you enjoy the article. If you have trouble with any of the links. Go back to the first page and click on the links with the pictures at the bottom of the screen. I know that's the only way that I was able to get to Part Four. In any case, I think it's a really good interview. I certainly learned some things about Nickolas Grace that I didn't know. :-)
You're right about the strong resemblance between the real Lorca and Nick! Nick must have been wonderful in that role. I think it would have been right up his street. :-)
Thanks; and thanks for the tip about accessing Part 4 of the interview.
I think this was possibly Nick's biggest role - almost required watching in Spain. They did option that last episode as a separate film, which won an award at Cannes; and I remember seeing that on UK tv many years ago.
Now I'm very happy to get the full series - especially as I realised that the co-author was Ian Gibson, who wrote the first very speculative book on how the poet died (doing a lot of dangerous undercover research in Franco's Spain). I knew him quite well at the London college where I was doing postgrad studies - we both drank at the student bar even though he was on the staff.
You could be right about it being Nick's biggest role. It's great that the film won an award at Cannes. And it's so cool that you have a personal connection to the series/film through Ian Gibson. He sounds like the kind of person you would want to share a drink with. :-)
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Date: 2021-07-21 07:31 pm (UTC)I recently got hold of the Spanish tv series that stars Nick Grace as Federico Garcia Lorca - he looks so YOUNG (and so like the poet!).
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Date: 2021-07-21 08:51 pm (UTC)It's great that you were able to get a hold of that Spanish TV series with Nick Grace as Federico Garcia Lorca. I can easily imagine him playing such a character. :-)
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Date: 2021-07-23 03:30 pm (UTC)https://publicdescription.com/2014/08/20/nickolas-grace-tell-me-candidly-part-one/
Nickolas Grace mentions playing Lorca in Part Three of the interview:
“In 1986 I was asked to play Lorca in the Spanish film TV series about Federico García Lorca, a famous Spanish poet. He was assassinated under Franco. Hear was the irony, to play this guy in a Spanish movie not knowing any Spanish, and having failed Spanish A level.
“At first they said ‘Don’t worry you can do it in English, and we will dub you’. So I did as much homework as I could. Day 1 we are on the film set and the wonderful director, Juan Antonio Bardem, and Javier Bardem’s uncle, asked if I could say my lines in Spanish as it was better for the dubbing, and I was like ‘Well, I can’t’. And he said ‘You try, you try’. So from then on I tried to learn as much as I could in Spanish. Playing Lorca was amazing.”
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Date: 2021-07-24 08:20 am (UTC)Ooh, thank you for the article, which indeed, I hadn't seen before. I came across this Spanish-language page about the series. The photos from it are about halfway down. The first pics are of the real Lorca ... and you can see how amazing the resemblance was between Nick and the original guy.
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Date: 2021-07-24 01:13 pm (UTC)You're right about the strong resemblance between the real Lorca and Nick! Nick must have been wonderful in that role. I think it would have been right up his street. :-)
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Date: 2021-07-24 05:59 pm (UTC)I think this was possibly Nick's biggest role - almost required watching in Spain. They did option that last episode as a separate film, which won an award at Cannes; and I remember seeing that on UK tv many years ago.
Now I'm very happy to get the full series - especially as I realised that the co-author was Ian Gibson, who wrote the first very speculative book on how the poet died (doing a lot of dangerous undercover research in Franco's Spain). I knew him quite well at the London college where I was doing postgrad studies - we both drank at the student bar even though he was on the staff.
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Date: 2021-07-24 06:42 pm (UTC)