{"id":1433,"date":"2008-11-02T01:07:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T00:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2015-03-12T16:40:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:40:40","slug":"sean-bean-is-up-to-his-old-tricks-in-sharpe%e2%80%99s-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1433","title":{"rendered":"Sean Bean is up to his old tricks in ‘Sharpe\u2019s Peril’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sean<\/a><\/p>\n

By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n

Sean Bean admires Bernard Cornwell’s novels about the swashbuckling soldier he plays in the Sharpe films but he takes great delight in the slight change he made to the\u00a0character. \u00a0\u201cHe\u2019s supposed to be from London,\u201d grins Bean. \u201cBut I made sure he\u2019s a Yorkshireman!\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite his success in international films, Bean prefers to live in the UK, where he is a keen supporter of his hometown football team, Sheffield United: \u201cI go to Los Angeles to make pictures but I always come home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bean has squared off against James Bond and Jack Ryan, starred in blockbusters including \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d trilogy, and made small, smart art house films such as \u201cNorth Country\u201d and the upcoming \u201cFar North\u201d.<\/p>\n

Through it all, he has always returned to play swashbuckling soldier Richard Sharpe, and he\u2019s back this month on ITV and on DVD in the 16th edition, \u201cSharpe\u2019s Peril\u201d. He says, \u201cIt\u2019s my role!\u00a0They\u2019re great stories and I love playing Sharpe as he\u2019s grown older.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bean plays Sharpe in the new film with a greater degree of maturity than in the earlier adventures: \u201cMy intention was that he was portrayed with meaning and thoughtfulness, and a sense of melancholy about the character. A man who wasn\u2019t as rash, bold or ambitious as he was before.”<\/p>\n

\"Sharpe's<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSharpe\u2019s Peril\u201d (pictured) airs in two 90-minute episodes on ITV1 Sunday Nov. 2 and Nov. 9 and the DVD is released on Dec. 10. The same day will see a boxed set of \u201cPeril\u201d with the 15th title in the series, \u201cSharpe\u2019s Challenge\u201d from 2006. ITV also has plans to release a repackaged boxed set of the previous 14 and no doubt in due course will box the entire series.<\/p>\n

The new adventure follows on from \u201cSharpe\u2019s Challenge\u201d with the disillusioned Colonel Sharpe and his longtime partner Sgt. Patrick Harper (Daragh O\u2019Malley) still in India in 1818 trying to make their way back to Calcutta to find a ship home. The two of them agree reluctantly to escort a spoiled French beauty (Beatrice Rosen) to join her fianc\u00e9, Major Joubert (Pascal Langdale) but along the way they get involved with an East India Company caravan threatened by rebels.<\/p>\n

The film is a Celtic Films and Picture Palace Films production with the usual team of producers Malcolm Craddock and Muir Sutherland, director Tom Clegg and writer Russell Lewis.<\/p>\n

Bean, who has been in major films with shoots lasting many months, still finds the efficiency of the \u201cSharpe\u201d productions remarkable: \u201cWe shot two 90-minute films in six weeks. It\u2019s extraordinary. I missed the worst of the heat, which was 145 degrees Fahrenheit, but everyone just gets on with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Irish actor O\u2019Malley, who is now based in London after years in Los Angeles where he was a, like me, a regular at Dan Tana’s, was slightly wounded during filming when a mini tornado blew in out of nowhere. He says, \u201cIt wrecked part of the set and sent a tent pole flying into my face. Luckily, my head is so thick it bounced off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ray Bennett Sean Bean admires Bernard Cornwell’s novels about the swashbuckling soldier he plays in the Sharpe films but he takes great delight in the slight change he made to the\u00a0character. \u00a0\u201cHe\u2019s supposed to be from London,\u201d grins Bean. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14,15],"tags":[2635,2638,2636,2641,2637,2639,2640,2642,2644,1071,2643],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews","category-television","tag-sharpes-peril","tag-beatrice-rosen","tag-bernard-cornwell","tag-celtic-films","tag-daragh-omalley","tag-malcolm-craddock","tag-muir-sutherland","tag-picture-palace-films","tag-russell-lewis","tag-sean-bean","tag-tom-clegg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5013,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}