Rory Kinnear infos and videos including Q&A, PD production blog, poetry and funny stuffs

Showtime sometimes releases videos for those who yarn for “behind the scenes” or other interesting things related to Penny Dreadful. Since I’m pretty much into poetry, I was more than happy to find one today on their page related to Rory Kinnear, who’s our Creature in the second season. Here he’s reading the poem “I am”  from “the original” poet John Clare. After the video there is a note from show creator John Logan, telling the folowing:

Penny Dreadful began with poetry. William Wordsworth specifically. Ten years ago I was reading a lot of Romantic poetry. Wordsworth lead to Keats, Byron, Blake, Shelley and eventually to re-reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The idea of the series evolved from that poetry and the dreams that ensued… Some of my favorite Romantic poems are featured throughout the season and here we present our cast reading exerpts… Enjoy them and perhaps they will inspire you to dream as well.”

If you click here, you can check out the original video on Showtime’s PD page.

And since I find Mr. Kinnear personally a very entertaining and seriosly lovely guy, here’s a 60 second Q&A video with him for you and I guess it will make you smile. No words for that, seriously, you have to watch it yourself.

As an actor you could have seen him in a lot of plays in the theatre too. In 2008 he took part in the play “The Man of Mode”. Later on he was playing for example in the following pieces: “Burnt by the Sun” (2009 – National Theatre in London) and since 2010 he’s at the Almeida Theatre in London, playing in Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” & Hamlet.

Here’s also another production-blog video for you from PD about the wax museum, with tons of infos. Have you known for example, that some of the wax figures are actual human beings, sitting there very still? Ok, I haven’t either. So you should seriously check out this video for more. : )

And for the end another 30 seconds about how he’s saying thank you to the public at The Olivier Awards 2014. Quote of the day comes there definately: “We’re sooo fuckin’ tired!”