Yesterday, Daniel attended the Olivier Awards (honoring the best of the West End Stage productions) held at the Royal Opera House in London were he presented the Award for Best Actress to Hellen Mirren for her portrayal of Elizabeth II. More videos will be added below if they are coming online. For those of you in the UK can wath the highlights show on ITV player. Backstage photos via officiallondontheatre.com (photos by David Levene) and officiallondontheatre.co.uk (photos by Sarah Jeynes)


Instagram: Olivier Awards + one shared via this site's Facebook

Update 1st May 2013. BBC Radio 2 interview below.
2nd May :highlights video released via the Olivier Awards
Update A photo from a photoshoot by Charlie Gray.












Red carpet Arrivals


 press room



picture source: AP & Ben A. Pruchnie

I posted some time before about the book from Thomas Sailer called Chronik eines Harry Potter Fans Thomas has now letting me know that he released an english version which is now available at Amazon, so more of you will now be able to read it.

There is only an e-book version available for now which is called Chronicles of a Harry Potter Fan Thomas: thanks for letting me know. I am sure that many people can relate to your story, people like me who are active online with a website or people who are member of a HP community for quite some years now and basically "grew up" with Harry Potter.

For many years, beginning in spring 2005, I was active in the virtual Harry Potter fan community: I started helping out on the renowned fansite 'Emma Watson Empire' and advanced, from a normal site visitor, to the site's representative just within a few months.

Two years later, I founded the Knight Bus, world's most likely biggest Harry Potter link archive. And finally, I started the organisation 'The international network of Harry Potter Websites': My attempt to get the worldwide fandom to collaborate and to keep it in one piece after the release of the final Harry Potter movie.

In this book, I talk about my activities and inducements, as well as the influence which the Harry Potter story had on my life.

- Thomas reading from his book.
- Interview with Thomas by BooksandWands.com

Daniel talked with Chris Evans this morning on BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans Breakfast Show. Mainly about The Cripple of Inishmaan, but he also provided the soundtrack for the show, talked about books, revealed exclusively that he has written a screenplay, and more. If you missed it you can listen to the whole interview online. Download the 'Best bits'




The Music Play list chosen by Daniel:

Iggy Pop - The Passenger
T. Rex - Ride A White Swan
Blue - Hurt Lovers
The Killers - Somebody Told Me
The Libertines - Don't look back into the Sun
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
Johnny Hates Jazz - Magnetized

Photos of Daniel signing for fans



source: bbc.co.uk
picture source: W.E.N.N.

The new June issue of Empire magazine is out today and features a new interview and photoshoot with Daniel from the Empire Awards 2013. I already posted the two photos you see below on the website's Facebook page a few days ago, now you can read the whole interview where he talks about Horns, Kill Your Darlings, music and more below (iPad version)

 "The goal is to make myself an actor rather than just one character. I think that’s starting to happen,” he told Empire magazine. “I think it’s important to be your own toughest critic because that way you’ll always be driven to get better. But it’s important to temper that with being able to give yourself credit for something you’re pleased with. I was very bad at that before. I was unable to see anything good, now I’m starting to.”

source: owlgalleon45 (Tumblr)
picture source: Sarah Dunn

Fans from Portugal can see Daniel exclusively in A Young Doctor's Notebook on "TV Séries". The start will be 3rd May 2013. Below the video they have released with Daniel's message.



source: tvcine

Full casting has been announced for Michael Grandage's new West End production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, which will begin performances June 8 prior to an official opening June 18, for a run through Aug. 31. The following message was posted at Daniel's Google+ page:

Hi everyone. Very excited to start rehearsals on Martin McDonagh's brutally funny, THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, where I'll be working with June Watson, Pat Shortt, Conor MacNeill, Gary Lilburn, Gillian Hanna, Sarah Greene, Padraic Delaney and Ingrid Craigie. Can't wait! - Dan

To book tickets, contact the box office on 0844 482 5141, or michaelgrandagecompany.com for more details.

Daniel has started a video diary. His Google+ page was updated yesterday with the first video.

Title: "Greetings from Deptford"

"This is the first one so It's basically me just saying hello in a house that is not my own"

The Google+ link at this page is Dan's post shared via this site's Google+ page

The New York Times visited the cast on the set of Kill Your Darlings back in 2012 (on 2nd April). They only released one picture back then, more have surfaced online now.









picture source: Willie Davis/The New York Times/Redux Pictures