Little Britain Star Matt Lucas to Film Therese Raquin in Serbia
Leading British character actor and award-winning comedian Matt Lucas will travel to Serbia in coming months to film a movie version of Emile Zola’s Therese Raquin. The much-loved actor and star of international TV hits Little Britain and Come Fly With Me will shoot in Serbia alongside Oscar winning American actress Jessica Lange.
Matt is best known to TV audiences for Little Britain and the world of unforgettable characters and catchphrases he introduced through the smash sketch show. Many of these characters have already gone down as comedy classics, such as health spa nightmare Bubbles Devere, abusive slimming coach Marjorie Doors, teenage delinquent Vicky ‘yeah but no but’ Pollard ‘, wheelchair cheat Andy Pipkin and ‘the only gay in the village’ Daffyd Thomas.
Serbia’s Željko Joksimović Has Unfinished Business With Eurovision
Serbia’s Željko Joksimović has some unfinished business with the Eurovision Song Contestand he is coming back to sort it out once and for all. That bold message was clear when Željko spoke with W!LD RooSTeR this week. Despite penning some of the Balkan region’s more memorable entries of recent years and coming in a close second place to the wild woman of the Ukraine, Željko has not yet managed to get his hands on the elusive winner’s trophy. He intends to put this right on stage in Baku.
“There is definitely something magical about Eurovision,’ Željko said, when he took time out of rehearsals in his studio. “It is a big and very important international TV show. Maybe I am coming back again as I feel deeply inside that I did not finish what I truly want. The Eurovision Song Contest gave me a lot and I believe that I will give something back to it as well.”
Can Serbia Ask The Right Questions Before Facing A Future Within Europe?
As Serbia is granted candidacy to become the newest kid of the EU bloc, the country will face difficult questions and need to resolve many issues. Not only will the work begin to improve and develop Serbia’s political, business and social structures if Serbia is to take up this opportunity to join EU nations, but also the government must fight at the ballot boxes before an increasingly alienated electorate.
By joining Montenegro, Macedonia and Turkey as candidate countries on the long road towards full membership of the EU, Serbia has set itself many challenges. Croatia has already seen this for itself in almost a decade of measures to make the EU grade. What will be required, but has previously proven hard to achieve, is a clear and open debate on the issues facing everyone in Serbia.
A Variety Of Conditions Are Needed To Create Champions, Says Milorad Cavic
Social conditions and financial opportunities contribute to a nation’s success in sports, according to Olympic medalist Milorad Čavić, who has been considering Serbia’s knack for producing top sporting talent. “No one really knows why there is so much talent here but I think a great deal of it has to do with the economic situation,’ the American Serb swimming champion told W!LDRooSTeR.
“Physiologically we are strong, we are tall, but the other side is the mental thing. It is the average man’s desire to break out of their current situation. It is their gateway to a better life. For that reason, if you see some of the places that our best athletes have trained, I think it has given them something that someone from the West would not have had need to bring out.
