And Anglophile Sensors Go Off Across Los Angeles
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Thespian extraordinaire Kenneth Branagh chats at the Paley Center on Wednesday, April 29
Sometimes, when headlines are bad or scary or intense, we retreat to a sort of "Harry Potter"-esque world in our own minds, where we can cast spells and make difficult things go away in a poof of green smoke. And then we return to reality and attempt to do what we can about what is in our control and not sweat the rest. You do this too, right?
And in that "Harry Potter"-y world, Kenneth Branagh usually has a role. Maybe it is because he's starred in the real "Harry Potter" films, and every other lofty, important British series/movie of the last 15 years. Not to mention "Dead Again," which is one of our favorite Los Angeles movies, and we do adore that it is mostly populated by British people. Including the cosmically gifted Emma Thompson, a lady we'd take out for a stiff drink and a laugh any day of the week.
Mr. Branagh is back in his "Dead Again" town, not only being British, and suave, and Kenneth Branagh-y, but representing his new Masterpiece Theatre series. He'll be at the Paley Center, along with "Masterpiece Theatre" honcho Rebecca Eaton, on Wednesday, April 29, to chitchat about "Wallander," his new whodunit. Anglophiles of SoCal, you're pretty damn chuffed, right? Thought so. $25 general. Paley Center for Media, 465 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills.
