Edit: Thanks to the many people who have contacted me to clarify some information! Tom never said Robert’s name, but in fact only said he was at a friend’s house.

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The NY Daily News recently published an article on Tom with regards to Waiting For Forever on their website.

Tom Sturridge has his buddy Rob Pattinson to thank for his most recent movie role.

At Saturday’s New York premiere of his latest flick, “Waiting for Forever,” Sturridge revealed director James Keach originally wanted the “Twilight” star for the part. “I saw the script on the floor of Rob’s apartment when I was staying on his sofa,” Sturridge said.

But the equally hunky Brit knew he could play the part of a hopeless romantic just as well as Pattinson – and even top him.

“I thought to myself, ‘I could do this better than he could!’, so I called up my agent the next morning. They were kind enough to let me audition and apparently they saw something in me.”

Click here to read full article…

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With regards to the previous entry, it has been announced that Tom will be attending the Gen Arts Festival Film Festival for Waiting For Forever this April 8th! For ticketing information and schedules, please click here: Gen Art ticketing information!

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A big congratulations to Tom as he won the Award for Most Promising Newcomer at London’s 2010 Critics’ Circle Theater awards for his Punk Rock performance! I have added the photos of Tom and his award into the gallery, along with photos of him at the Three Sisters Press After Party from the previous day!

Tom won best newcomer at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards!

MEN: Now it is the award for the best newcomer:
LUCY BRIGGS OWEN, in Widowers’ Houses at the Royal Exchange
AMANDA HENDERSON, in Everyone Loves A Winner at the Royal Exchange
VANESSA KIRBY, in All My Sons at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton
TOM STURRIDGE, in Punk Rock at the Royal Exchange

MEN: And the winner is TOM STURRIDGE, in Punk Rock at the Royal Exchange, a popular choice with the crowd

MEN: Tom Sturridge says: “I genuinely had no idea I was doing”

Punk Rock also won for Best New Play and Best Production.

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The unsettling drama about a student who goes on the rampage at a fictional fee-paying school in Stockport was declared best production and best new play, with the star of the play Tom Sturridge crowned best newcomer and Punk Rock’s Jessica Raine declared best actress in a supporting role.

Read the full article here

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“I begged them to cast me,” Tom admits, of his role in Pirate Radio, a film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman about an illegal rock ‘n’ roll station in the 1960s. “Being on set was idyllic; we blasted The Kinks, The Who, and The Stones….” This fall, Tom, who grew up in London with best bud and flatmate Robert Pattinson, heads to the West End as the lead in the new play Punk Rock. “I’m a bit nervous,” he says. “I haven’t been on stage since nursery school, when I played a donkey in the nativity.” —LINDSAY TALBOT

Tom wears a Melet Mercantile shirt, $164. April77 jeans, $135. Miansai pendant necklace, $200.

(Photograph is with Rooney Mara)

Odd that he didnt have chest hair in The Boat that Rocked! And look! Return of the multi-coloured trainers!

I know alot of you wanted to know what it was about so this is what I’ve found so far.

Punk rockers: from left, cast members Katie West, Nicholas Banks, Harry McEntire, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Sophie Wu, Tom Sturridge and Jessica Raine

The writer of a play empathising with the 7/7 bombers is causing more controversy with a work about a bloody classroom shooting.

Simon Stephens’s new play, called Punk Rock, is inspired by his fears that a British school will suffer a Columbine-style attack.

He revealed details of the new production today as his terrorism play, Pornography, finally gets its London premiere at the Tricycle. No other London venue has been willing to present the play in the two years since it opened in Germany.

The Lyric in Hammersmith is being equally bold by scheduling Punk Rock which Mr Stephens, 38, calls “The History Boys with a hand grenade up it“.

Punk Rock is about the lives of a group of sixth-form friends in a fee-paying grammar school. It sees tensions grow between the teenagers until one is tipped over the edge.

Mr Stephens said he deliberately set the story in a middle-class school: “In theatre, violence is often by the economically marginalised. I wanted to create characters who were recognisable and likeable to a middle-class audience. The kids in Punk Rock are affluent, articulate, educated and violent.” The shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and massacres in Finland and Germany were “some of the most haunting news events of the last decade” for Mr Stephens.

“As a father and teacher I am haunted by the future of our young. There’s a part of me that thinks it could happen because the dislocation and alienation under an act like that is something some kids in England feel,” he said. The father-of-three, who lives in Mile End, has worked in Eastbrook comprehensive, Dagenham, and in private schools since becoming a writer.

The cast for Punk Rock includes Tom Sturridge, making his stage debut after appearing in Richard Curtis’s film The Boat That Rocked, and Jessica Raine, who was in David Hare’s Gethsemane.

Sturridge, 23, said: “People want to be protected at the theatre. If you see violence, it’s between working-class and urban males and you can go home and say, ‘Wasn’t that scary, darling?’.”

The play is the first put on by Sean Holmes, the Lyric’s new artistic director. “It’s provocative and challenging and will shock, but in a good way,” he said.

In Pornography, Mr Stephens showed a bomber’s journey from Leeds to the capital. He said: “When you think of terrorists as human beings, it allows you to think of victims as human beings.”

Punk Rock is at the Lyric from 3 to 26 September.

Source.

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Tom is set to be in a play production titled Punk Rock by playwright Simon Stephens. You can find information on the production by clicking here!

I hope everyone has a splendid weekend. Take care!

Edit: Just a quick edit; someone had emailed me about how to open a fansite, and I accidentally deleted the e-mail! Can that person please re-email me, I’ll be more than happy to answer any questions. Cheers!

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I have added several outtakes of Tom into the gallery!

A new layout will be uploaded very soon! Thanks for visiting.

G’day everyone,

A huge thank you to all the visitors who commented in the previous post with a bunch of press material for The Boat That Rocked!

And here are several interviews as well!

• Daily Mail – Floppy hair, too much attitude… is Tom Sturridge another Hugh Grunt?

• California Chronicle – Was It Plain Sailing or Were They All at Sea?

• Empire Online – The Boat That Rocked Interviews

The Boat the Rocked on breakfast!

Enjoy!