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Mads Mikkelsen: ‘The Snobbery in The Acting Business is Enormous’

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snobbery in acting industry, snobbery, acting, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen has told Rolling Stones Magazine that a lot of actors are snobby towards actors who do blockbusters. The actor has done a mix of indie and big budget films.

“The snobbery in my business is enormous. I did not grow up on deep Czechoslovakian dramas or French art films, I grew up with pop culture. So I would be a hypocrite saying I don’t love James Bond, and that I don’t love flying kung fu – ’cause I f**king love it.”

“I don’t think I would want to fly around on wires eight films in a row, but I love doing it, and I’ll do it again, at a certain point, though, you want to go the other way: ‘Please give me The Hunt again.’ Something small…, but if I do eight of those films, then I’ll go, ‘Please let me fly around with a sword again!'”

Their is a downside though, Mikkelsen said his audition for the Fantastic Four was embarrassing. He was asked in the casting office to pretend to extend his arms like a rubber man, he was so embarrassed that he thought, “I can’t do this anymore.”

Luckily he now says he does not have to audition anymore and generally books his job through simple phone calls.

 

 

The 2016 Sunday Times Rich List

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sunday times rich list 2016ROLLING STONES WEALTHIEST BAND – WITH £630 MILLION,

AHEAD OF U2 – JOINTLY WORTH £500 MILLION

 

ADELE’S FORTUNE GROWS BY £35 MILLION T0 £85 MILLION

 

DJ CALVIN HARRIS HAS £95 MILLION FORTUNE

 

Adele, who has added £35m to her personal fortune in a year, tops the Young Music Rich List of performers aged 30 and under. The 27-year-old singer is now worth £85m, and rises to 30th place in the overall 2016 Sunday Times list of the wealthiest of performers and composers in Britain and Ireland.

 

The Music Millionaires top 50 is released today, ahead of the 28th annual Sunday Times Rich List to be published this weekend. Adele, Britain’s richest ever female musician, has benefited from the worldwide success of her long-awaited third album, 25, released last November. The London-born singer/songwriter is now hard on the heels of Ireland’s wealthiest female performer, Enya, who is worth £91m, up just £1m on 2015.

 

The Rolling Stones – Sir Mick Jagger, worth £235m; Keith Richards, £220m; Charlie Watts, £120m; and Ronnie Wood, £55m – with combined fortunes of £630m, up £40m on 2015, are the wealthiest band in Britain and Ireland, ahead of U2 with a joint fortune of £500m, an increase of £69m on the 2015 Sunday Times Music Rich List. U2 was the highest-grossing rock act last year selling 1.29m tickets worth £66m for 76 concerts.

 

The 2016 Sunday Times Music Rich List is headed by Sir Paul McCartney, who with his wife Nancy Shevell, shares a joint fortune of £760m, up £30m on last year. American-born Shevell has a £150m stake in her father’s New England Motor Freight trucking operation.

 

Calvin Harris, the Dumfries-born international DJ, who writes, sings, records, remixes and produces his own music, has seen his personal wealth leap by £25m in a year to rank him at 27 in the 2016 Top 50, worth £95m.

 

David Bowie’s widow and his filmmaker son by his first marriage to Angie, Iman Abdulmajid and Duncan Jones, join this year’s list with a joint family fortune of £90m, based on the £70m from Bowie’s will, their own wealth and royalties from the chart success of Bowie’s music after his death.

 

 

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2016

THE TOP 50 MUSIC MILLIONAIRES IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND

 

2016

rank

 2015

rank

 Name 2016

wealth

 Wealth increase,

unless indicated

 
1 1 Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell £760m £30m
2 2 Lord Lloyd-Webber £715m £65m
3 3 U2 £500m £69m
4 4 Sir Elton John £280m £10m
5 5 Sir Mick Jagger £235m £10m
6= New Olivia and Dhani Harrison £220m £20m
6= 6 Keith Richards £220m £10m
8 8= Ringo Starr £200m £20m
9 7 Michael Flatley £198m £3m
10 8= Sting £185m £5m
11= 11 Eric Clapton £160m £5m
11= 12= Rod Stewart £160m £10m
11= 10 Roger Waters £160m No change
14 12= Sir Tom Jones £155m £5m
15 12= Sir Tim Rice £150m No change
16 15= Robbie Williams £145m £10m
17 17 Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne £135m £5m
18= 18= Brian May £120m £10m
18= 18= Charlie Watts £120m £10m
20 21= Roger Taylor £115m £10m
21 18= Phil Collins £110m No change
22= 21= George Michael £105m No change
22= 23= Jimmy Page £105m £5m
24 23= Robert Plant £103m £3m
25= 27 John Deacon £100m £15m
25= 25= David Gilmour £100m £10m
27 30= Calvin Harris £95m £25m
28 25= Enya £91m £1m
29 New Iman Abdulmajid and Duncan Jones and family £90m –
30 43= Adele £85m £35m
31= 33= Gary Barlow £75m £10m
31= 30= Mark Knopfler £75m £5m
31= 29 Nick Mason £75m No change
31= 30= Pete Townshend £75m £5m
35 33= Engelbert Humperdinck £70m £5m
36= 28 Noel and Liam Gallagher £65m  Down £12m
36= 43= Brian Johnson £65m £15m
36= 39= Chris Martin £65m £13m
39= 35= Barry Gibb £60m No change
39= 35= John Paul Jones £60m No change
41 37= Sir Cliff Richard £58m £3m
42= 39= Guy Berryman £55m £3m
42= 39= Jonny Buckland £55m £3m
42= 39= Will Champion £55m £3m
42= 37= Kylie Minogue £55m No change
42= 46= Ronnie Wood £55m £10m
47= 46= Jay Kay £50m £5m
47= 43= Sir Van Morrison £50m No change
49= 46= Peter Gabriel £45m No change
49= 50 Mick Hucknall £45m £5m
49= New Ed Sheeran £45m New
49= 46= Bernie Taupin £45m No change

 

Britain and Ireland’s wealthiest young band, with all the members aged under 30, is One Direction, with a combined wealth of £132m. The four musicians in the One Direction line up, Niall Horan, aged 22, Liam Payne, 22, Harry Styles, 22, and Louis Tomlinson, 24, have each added £8m to their personal fortunes in a year and are individually each worth £33m, up from £25m last year.

 

Former One Direction member Zayn Malik, 23, has added £5m to his personal wealth, now worth £30m, helped by the success of his debut solo album, Mind of Mine, which topped the sales charts in the UK and the US this month.

 

Sam Smith and Florence Welch, who were new entries in the Young Rich List  in 2015, worth £12m, have both added £8m to their personal wealth to join the Young Musicians Top 10 – each with fortunes of £20m.

 

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2016

THE 10 RICHEST YOUNG MUSICIANS

IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND (Aged 30 or under)

 

2016

rank

 2015

rank

 Name 2016  wealth Wealth increase

 
1 1 Adele £85m £35m
2 7 Ed Sheeran £45m £25m
3= 2= Niall Horan £33m £8m
3= 2= Liam Payne £33m £8m
3= 2= Harry Styles £33m £8m
3= 2= Louis Tomlinson £33m £8m
7 2= Zayn Malik £30m £5m
8= New Sam Smith £20m £8m
8= New Florence Welch £20m £8m
10 8= Ellie Goulding £17m £4m

 

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST – 148 PAGES ON APRIL 24

 

The 2016 Sunday Times Rich List – the definitive guide to wealth in Britain and Ireland – is published on Sunday, April 24. The 148-page special edition of The Sunday Times Magazine is the biggest issue of the Rich List ever published since it first appeared in 1989. It charts the wealth of the 1,000 richest people in the UK and the 250 richest in Ireland. The list is based on identifiable wealth, including land, property, other assets such as art and racehorses, or significant shares in publicly quoted companies. It excludes bank accounts, to which the paper has no access.

 

The Sunday Times Rich List is compiled by Philip Beresford and Robert Watts, and edited by Ian Coxon. The complete list will be available to all the paper’s digital members and will be fully-searchable online at thesundaytimes.co.uk/richlist

 

With thanks to The Sunday Times Rich List

 

 

Rolling Stones Only Contemporary Portrait Series Released in London

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Michael Donald has been selected by Ronnie Wood to do new portraits of The Rolling Stones, the only series of contemporary portraits of the whole band to ever be released, to be displayed at Castle Fine Art from 7th Feb – 2nd March.

Half of the series was shot in Stagroves, the house Mick owned in 1971 where the band started to record Exile on Main Street. Ronnie was shot in London and Keith in New York. There are some fascinating stories to be told from the shoot.

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Mike Jagger: “I spend too much time on Facebook”.

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Mike Jagger has revealed that he is addicted to social networking.

In an interview with USA Today, the legendary singer admitted that he spends too much time on Facebook and not enough time making music.

“I spend way too much time on the computer and not enough time playing the guitar. There’s an underlying problem of this screen life taking over all of your life,” he said.

“It’s easy to keep in touch with people, some of whom I wish I’d never kept in touch with. But there they are on Facebook! You can spend a lot of time on that when you should be doing something else.”

The Rolling Stone star is also on Twitter, but admitted that he doesn’t update the account himself, adding: “But, really, who does?”

Jagger said that a rumoured 2012 tour by the Rolling Stones is “not on the table”. He is focusing on Superheavy, the group he started with Dave Stewart, Damien Marley and Joss Stone.