Times Online Feature Interview: Jaime Winstone

Outside the Box favourite Jaime Winstone is a well known face in the UK both on the big and small screen, and now fans of this gorgeous actress can see her in the flesh… Or at least live and on stage in London. And those lucky people at The Times spent some time with this British beauty talking about her debut in the West End.

From The Times:

Jaime Winstone admits that her acting roles to date have required “a lot of screaming”. She has been hedonistic jailbait (Kidulthood), a blood-craving psycho (Daddy’s Girl), caught up in a zombie outbreak (Dead Set), and, in last year’s Donkey Punch, trapped in a murderous spiral after taking part in a fatal orgy during a Spanish beach holiday. She’s also done “some telly” and a couple of music videos. And now, as of last Thursday, she’s in her first play.

In Philip Ridley’s The Fastest Clock in the Universe, there is a character called Sherbet Gravel, “a 17-year-old, pregnant, ex-crystal meth dealer who is completely from a gang”, Winstone explains. It was a part that was just right for her, she says. Before our meeting, I’d always assumed that there was a sort of hardness to the 24-year-old — all fags, drastic make-up and East End savvy, but in reality there is no such thing. At 5ft nothing she’s tiny, made smaller by the black walls and seats in the Hampstead Theatre rehearsal room where she sits in faded silver Dr Martens boots, tight faded jeans and doll-sized black jacket. She is open, funny and, with three days until her stage debut, a little antsy.

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Jaime Winstone: the nice girl beneath the psychos – Times Online.

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Dead Set… Dead Good!!!

Anybody who knows me, knows that I hate Big Brother! I cringe every year when it approaches, and it is my prime example of a show that showcases all that is wrong with our celebrity obsessed society.

So imagine how excited I was when I heard that Charlie Brooker, the Screenwipe guy, Guardian television critic, and creator of the once mighty but now defunct TV Go Home website, had created a series in which zombies attack the Big Brother house… I was so excited, small amounts of wee leaked out!

After my excitement waned a bit, I then got a bit nervous, as good as the premise of the show, as a telly fan, and self-confessed BB hater, what is to become of me if the show turns out to be shit… Always a possibility when dealing with any television show, especially one that is being made for E4, the only network in the world that still shows Friends during prime-time. My nervous disposition though was short-lived because after viewing the trailer, and then seeing the website, I KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO BE INSTANTLY CLASSIC TELEVISION… Not classy, classic!

So after months of marking little x’s off of my calendar, Dead Set finally arrived to my telly box tonight, and as I guessed, it was good… really, really good!

The show began it’s broadcast with a voice-over set of warnings, standard issue in our cotton wool society, “This show contains violence, gore, swearing” etc etc, but then in an original move the voice over contained viewing instructions. “This show is best viewed in wide-screen, with surround sound, and the lights turned off”, original yes! but really is it necessary to alienate the poorer parts of your audience who don’t have a wide-screen telly and surround sound?

Anyhow, getting back to the subject at hand, I spent the next hour (45 minutes minus the annoying adverts) engrossed in glorious blood-splattered, Big Brother bashing television… And as an added bonus it also showcased the lovely and talented actress Jaime Winstone!

 

 

Truly this is “must-see TV”, so good that I actually even got to watch the lovely Davina McCall in a television show that didn’t make me cringe in horror… well actually perhaps that is not an accolade that a horror show wants, but anyone who has ever endured the horrors of Big Brother, and Davina (McCall’s failed talk show understand.

So if zombies eating BB contestants is your thing, then dash over to E4 this every night this week and check out what is sure to be one of the most talked about TV shows this year, or watch it online on the Channel4 Catch-up service.

Faces: JAIME WINSTONE

Here is truly a name to watch out for both on the screens and the streets of London Town. Jaime Winstone, is a real cutie, but before you go making moves on her keep in mind her dad is Ray Winstone, and if you have ever seen Scum, you will know he is not the kinda guy you want to upset.

Don’t get me wrong though, Jamie Winstone is not just a pretty face, she is also a very talented actress, who’s stock is definitely on the rise. Born in Camden, here in good ‘ol London town, the twenty-three year old heir to the Winstone throne has been acting on screen since 2004 when she appeared in Bullet Boy. Since then she has worked pretty steady, but it was her appearance in the film Kidulthood, that put her in my radar (she was the only good thing in that film) and I have been watching for her ever since.

Earlier this year she appeared in the pilot for the strangest show so far this year, Phoo Action.The show was not only a hit with critics, but also impressed viewers and me in particular. The show has now been picked up as a regular series and will be shown later this year or early in 2009. Before then the gorgeous Miss Winstone can be seen in the British thriller Donkey Punch, and Gillian Anderson, Heather Graham and Christopher Lee in Boogie Woogie

*UPDATE 28 OCTOBER 2008*

• Following on from Jaime’s appearance in this summer’s fantastic film Donkey Punch, Miss Winstone can now be seen in the fantastic E4 Big Brother bashing, zombie-horror television gore-fest Dead Set.

*UPDATE 11, MARCH 2009.*

• 2009 will see Jaime Winstone appear in Boogie Woogie with Heather Graham, and Eve, both of which are in post production.

More about Jaime here

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Coming Soon: TV Horror, Dead Set

In less then two weeks E4 is going to unleash what is looking like one of the best TV series in the networks short history, zombie-horror/Big Brother spoof, Dead Set.

Zombies? Big Brother? Sounds crazy, what is this show?

Britain has a big problem. The dead are returning to life and attacking the living. The people they kill get up and kill – and it’s spreading like wildfire. Curiously, there are a few people left in Britain who aren’t worried about any of this – that’s because they’re the remaining contestants in Big Brother. Cocooned in the safety of the Big Brother house, they’re blissfully unaware of the horrific events unfolding outside. Until an eviction night when all hell breaks loose.

Kelly, (Jaime Winstone) the production runner working on Big Brother finds herself caught in the impossible position of trying to fend off the walking dead alongside the remaining housemates, Davina herself, a host of former Big Brother housemates, her producer boss Patrick (Andy Nyman) and boyfriend Riq (Riz Ahmed).

Over the ensuing days, in a cruel reflection of the game show they thought they were entering, the contestants fall victim, one by one, to the hungry masses outside. Staying alive requires teamwork – which is tricky when you’re a group specifically selected by TV producers to wind each other up.

Information from the E4 Dead Set website

Sounds good is there a trailer?

There sure is:

Any more stuff available to get me excited?

Of course there is. The producers of the show have also gone produced one of the slickest TV show sites I have seen for a long time. Found at http://www.e4.com/deadset/flash.html it has everything you would expect from a TV show site, a gallery, video, cast and crew profiles, and the chance to win stuff. In addition there is also the chance to “get infected” by viewing some ‘exclusive footage’ only available through the site.

Autumn Viewing Guide – Part One Drama

Having survived the weak summer television offerings it is time to rejoice and celebrate the new autumn television schedule. In this first part I will be looking forward to some of the planned Dramas that have caught my attention coming soon to your telly boxes.

BBC:

Survivors – people with good memories may recall this cult TV show from the mid-1970s in which a virus decimates most of the human population. This re-vamp features Max Beesley and ex-Doctor Who babe Freema Agyeman.

Merlin -a new 13-part drama series on BBC Onewhich updates the story of the infamous sorceror of Arthurian legend for a new audience.

Apparitions – Starring Martin Shaw (Judge John Deed, George Gently), Apparitions was originally produced as a two-part special for transmission in early 2008. However, the two-part drama will now form part of a longer series.

Shaw plays Father Jacob, a priest working to promote candidates for sainthood who becomes drawn in to exorcism as he discovers a dark battle between good and evil – a battle that threatens the future of the human race itself.

Heroes- the third season of everybody’s favourite sci-fi, superhero soap opera returns to BBC2.

ITV:

The Last Van Helsing – Philip Glenister (aka Gene Hunt) shows no mercy as he rids London of it’s vampire (bastards). Mackenzie Crook who looks like the undead, is suitably cast as a vampire.

Place of Execution – dramatic tale of the mystery surrounding a missing thirteen year old girl is adapted from Val McDermid’s best selling novel.

Caught in a Trap – Sound of Music (the stage musical not the film) star Connie Fisher will make her TV drama debut as a woman obsessed with Elvis Presley.

Wired – Laurence Fox (Lewis), Jodie Whittaker (St Trinian’s), Toby Stephens (Die Another Day) and Charlie Brookes (EastEnders), star in Wired, a fast-paced three-part thriller which delves into the murky high-risk world of bank fraud.

Mr Eleven:  bionic babe, Michelle Ryan, is back on British TV in a touching new romantic comedy.

Did you know that the average British woman will marry their 11th sexual partner? But does Mr Eleven always equal Mr Right?

Channel 4 and E4:

The Devil’s Whore – John Simm (Life on Mars) travels even further back in time to star as a Puritan soldier who plots to kill Cromwell in an epic English cival war mini-series.

Dead Set: In a nightmare world the Big Brother house has become the only sanctuary… a new zombie horror is also a satire on reality TV. Outside the Box favourite Jaime Winstone stars.

BBC – 3.0

First it was BBC Choice, then it was BBC3 now it is BBC3 relaunched, then channel with built in interactivity, and a funny looking flowery homepage. The question though is it any good??? Well I guess that remains to be seen, but at least now you can watch it online everyday, if you live in the UK.

Last night though I could not resist checking it out to see how it has changed. Well for starters those poor little plasticine slugs have had salt poured on them and they have dissolved into pink goo that flows through a pipe spelling “three”… but a fancy new logo will not get people watching, what a television station needs is something on it worth watching.

So last night I checked out Phoo Action which was the first of six one-off shows commissioned for the new look BBC3. I loved it, even though my wife thought it was “dumb”. It was funny, had action, it had mutants created by the guy who made Gorrilaz come to life, and best of all it had Whitey Action, played by Jaime Winstone… daughter to Ray Winstone, who is bound to become the main subject of many a wet-dream for the 18-34 year old target audience of the new beeb channel…. but I shall be quiet on that topic as I don’t want Ray coming around, shutting me up!

I also watched the new Lily Allen and Friends Show, which is supposed to combine the talk show with social networking, but was really just Lilysitting on a bizzare looking seat giggling with her guests. I will forgive her though for the poor content as Lily still looks fabulous, with her ‘Girl-next Door’ looks and great fashion sense. Besides the show wasn’t that terrible and with some tweaking may actually work as a talk show .