James McAvoy Archives

Vanity Fair marks the 14th year of its gigantic annual Hollywood Issue.

On top of all the starlets on the cover, everybody who’s anybody is featured in the inside photo spreads: Renee Zellweger, Seth Rogen, Charlize Theron, Naomi Watts, Emile Hirsch, James McAvoy, Marion Cotillard, Jodie Foster, Tang Wei, Josh Brolin, Casey Affleck, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Foster, Omar Metwally, Julie Christie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr., Keira Knightley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem.

Check out the scans below!

FYI: Vanity Fair canceled its most lavish bash for the Oscars because of the writers strike. “After much consideration, and in support of the writers and everyone else affected by this strike, we have decided that this is not the appropriate year to hold our annual Oscar party,” said a Vanity Fair spokesperson. “We want to congratulate all of this year’s nominees and we look forward to hosting our 15th Oscar party next year.”

Newsweek has put together its 2008 Oscar roundtable including Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard and James McAvoy.

Angie on A Mighty Heart:
“I was comfortable when Mariane [Pearl] was comfortable. But I wasn’t so comfortable the first day of shooting, when I realized his style was so unbelievably raw. There is often no rehearsal, no one saying “cut.” For example, you have three different rooms, and we would go into one room and we’d be talking, say our five lines, and he’d film us. Then I’d go pee, and I’d come out, and the camera was still on. So I’d think, “OK …” Then I’d say my five lines again, and that would turn into 10 more minutes of talking, and then someone would go get something from the kitchen and I’d go to my bedroom, and he’d follow me and he just wouldn’t leave. It was really odd. But it became just the most perfect way to shoot that film. It was chaos in that moment. It was very intimate, and my big fear was that something horrible might happen and the camera would be like this. [She gestures as though there's a camera right in her face] But everybody was absolutely connected in every single moment. Even when we’d have lunch, we’d have it together at the table, or we’d all go for a walk together. We were just always present in the film. And so as an actor it brought me back to loving acting, and that was just great. But he does cross a line. One day one of the girls got sick and threw up, and he said, “Next time, tell us.” So he can be a little crazy. But I absolutely adore him.”

Visit Newsweek.com for the videos and the rest of the roundtable!

WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS on the 2008 Oscar Roundtable?

James McAvoy and British actress wife Anne-Marie Duff attend the BAFTA/LA 2008 Awards Season Tea Party held on Saturday at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

McAvoy, 28, and Duff first met while filming Shameless, an offbeat British comedy drama television series. The couple celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary last October.

Spoken in true Chandler Bing-fashion, “Could they BE any hotter?”

Keira Knightley and James McAvoy are not only featured on this week’s cover of Entertainment Weekly, the Atonement costars are heating up the pages of W Magazine in their February 2008 issue. Interview snippets below!

Keira on the things written about her in years past including anorexia and breaking the heart of her ex-boyfriend, model Jamie Dornan: “It’s like having piles of s— put on your head. As a teenager you put enough on yourself. You’re a spotty emotional wreck whose body is changing, and you’re just not equipped to deal with that sort of thing.”

James (half kidding) on feeling a bit more pressure acting. “I won’t lie and say that I’m completely unfazed by it all. I am fazed by it all. I want the movie to do really well, and I want it to win lots of Oscars and BAFTAs, and I want it to win the adulation of every single member of the human race. But at the same time I would hate to think that any of us should feel any less proud simply because it didn’t garner lots of awards. So it’s a strange conflict. There’s a part of me that wants to forget all of these things, and there’s a part of me that can’t.”

Keira on growing up fast for her acting career, but not in real-life: “From a very young age I realized that you didn’t get parts if you acted like a child. So even at seven I remember picking a way to behave, a way that worked. Though in my personal life I don’t think I’m particularly mature. I don’t particularly want to be mature! [My London apartment] always looked very transient. We were sitting on folding chairs.”

James on working with Keira: “She has smelly feet! I’m just kidding. Please don’t put that in.”

Read the full article at WMagazine.com.

Atonement costars Keira Knightley and James McAvoy look downright sexy on the cover of the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly (Jan. 18, 2008, Issue #974).

Watch a behind-the-scenes interview of the pair at EW.com. The video begins with James playfully socking it to Keira. Stick around ’till the end when Keira slaps James back in the face as revenge. Ouch!

“I wouldn’t have done this job if I didn’t know we’d win Oscars,” James jokingly said during the interview.

Atonement is in theaters now. Go see it!

The Hollywood Reporter: “It ranks with the best novel adaptations of recent times.”

Variety: “Rarely has a book sprung so vividly to life, but also worked so enthrallingly in pure movie terms.”

James McAvoy, 28, keeps close to costar Saoirse Ronan, 13, at the premiere of their new film Atonement held at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif.

While doing a press junket for this film, McAvoy sang praises of his other costar Keira Knightley, who was constantly being followed by paparazzi.

“It’s not easy for her,” McAvoy said. “Keira has a lot of class. She doesn’t turn up to an opening of an envelope, to the latest Samsung phone launch. She doesn’t use the press on purpose. She doesn’t ask for it.”

Bigger pictures inside of James McAvoy @ the Atonement premiere… More Here! »

Keira Knightley (in Chanel) attends the screening of her upcoming film Atonement hosted by The Cinema Society & Chanel Beaute at NYC’s IFC Center on Monday. Earlier in the day, the 22-year-old British actress was seen walking hand-in-hand with actor boyfriend Rupert Friend.

Also pictured: Director Joe Wright and costar James McAvoy. “Miss Fred” ankle boots by Christian Louboutin.

Atonement opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, Dec. 7. Here’s what Entertainment Weekly had to say about the film: “Knightley and McAvoy don’t have much chemistry between them, but they do share handsome, planed features, they speak a richly clipped, 1930s-movie-style English-from-England, and they look positively Abercrombie & Fitchalicious together.”

On Live with Regis & Kelly! earlier this morning, Keira expressed her distaste for technology.

“I hate [computers],” she said. “Mobile phones - don’t like those. BlackBerrys - hate BlackBerrys. My Blackberry ended up in the ocean [while I was filming Pirates of the Caribbean]. I don’t like the fact people can always be in touch with you, you can never be on your own, you’re constantly having to email people. I just got really angry with it and then felt really bad because I thought a fish was going to eat it and die or something. It’s somewhere in the Bahamas.”

20+ pictures inside of Keira Knightley @ the Atonement screening… More Here! »

Peep these new The Duchess movie stills!

Pictured to the left is Atonement director Joe Wright and the movie’s stars Keira Knightley and James McAvoy at the Master Shipwright’s House in London. This photo is featured in the December 2007 issue of Vanity Fair.

If you missed it, check out the Atonement teaser posters here. Atonement opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, Dec. 7.

The other pictures below are a few stills from The Duchess, out in 2008.