Hulu is poised to explore the Syrian Civil War.

The Disney-backed streamer has handed out an eight-episode, straight-to-series order for drama Fertile Crescent, starring James Purefoy (Altered Carbon, The Following, Rome).

Fertile Crescent explores the Syrian civil war through the eyes of Antoine, a young French man, in search for his estranged, presumed-dead sister. While unraveling the mystery, Antoine joins forces with a unit of Kurdish female fighters, fierce women and ISIS’ biggest nightmare, and travels with them in ISIS-occupied territory. Antoine’s journey crosses paths with adventurers and anarchists, spies and innocent victims, and provides a unique look on the tragic events in Syria, and the way they affect the entire world. Félix Moati (The French Dispatch), Mélanie Thierry (La Douleur), Souheila Yacoub, Joe Ben Ayed, James Krishna Floyd, Dean Ridge, Julia Faure, François Caron and Céline Samie round out the cast. Read the rest of this entry »

“I DO think you go through various phases in your career,” James Purefoy is telling me. “British actors oftentimes go through the same phases. There’s the frilly shirt phase, there’s the big sword phase, there’s the bad guy phase and then there’s the character actor phase, isn’t there?”

Purefoy, now in his fifties, has done all of them. He’s been a frilly-shirted guy (in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Mansfield Park back in the 1990s and Vanity Fair back in 2004), the guy with the big sword (in Solomon Kane and Ironclad and, perhaps most memorably playing Mark Anthony, sometimes naked, in the TV series Rome) and, yes, he’s been the bad guy , a very bad guy, a serial killer in fact, in the TV series The Following.

So, what does that leave? Well, oilskins, apparently. Purefoy can be found in your local cinema today playing a Cornish fisherman in new movie Fisherman’s Friends, a wannabe crowd-pleaser that tells the story of the eponymous male singing group from Port Isaac who signed a record deal in 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

James Purefoy is signing up for some Sex Education: The Rome and The Following star has joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix dramedy starring Gillian Anderson, TVLine has confirmed.

Purefoy will play Remi, the ex-husband of Anderson’s sex therapist Jean and the father of her son Otis, played by Asa Butterfield (Ender’s Game, Hugo). Purefoy will appear in several episodes, but not as a series regular; filming is currently underway in the UK.

Anderson broke the news herself with a tweet captioned “Happy-ish ex-families” that included a photo of her with Purefoy and Butterfield:

A native of England, Purefoy broke out with U.S. audiences with his role as Mark Antony on HBO’s Rome. He went on to play murderous cult leader Joe Carroll on the Fox thriller The Following and starred alongside Michael K. Williams in Sundance’s Hap & Leonard. He has a history with Netflix, too: He played wealthy murder victim Laurens Bancroft in the sci-fi drama Altered Carbon, which debuted earlier this year.

Source: TV Line

James attended the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 5, 2018 in London. I’ve uploaded 6 HQ photos from this event to the gallery.

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A new season of Hap and Leonard starts on SundanceTV March 7. The third season is inspired by the third novel in the series by Joe R. Lansdale, The Two-Bear Mambo. There are six episodes in the season.

The show is about the friendship between a couple peculiar guys in East Texas. Hap Collins, played by James Purefoy, is a straight white lothario, and Leonard Pine, played by Michael Kenneth Williams, is a gay black man.

Williams, who played Omar Little on The Wire, calls the characters “walking contradictions.” Read the rest of this entry »

Come Wednesday, March 7 on SundanceTV, Hap and Leonard season 3 will officially arrive! This season is subtitled “The Two-Bear Mambo,” and it is going to serve both as further exploration into the Hap and Leonard friendship as well as a reflection on modern-day issues. Over the course of this season you will see the title characters head to Grovetown, a place riddled with racism and the Ku Klux Klan. What they run into there will be so much more than either one of them ever bargained for.

In leading up to the start of the new season we were fortunate enough, for the second straight season, to do an interview with James Purefoy discussing some of what appeals to him about this season, the topical nature of the story, and also how he would prefer to film the next season of the series if given an opportunity.

CarterMatt – What made you excited about the story of The Two-Bear Mambo in the first place? Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve uploaded 7 HQ stills from “Altered Carbon” Season 1.

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