-----the nEw man in town----

Date of Birth

20 August 1981, London, England, UK

Birth Name

Benjamin Thomas Barnes

Nickname

B-Squared

Height

6' 1" (1.85 m)

Trade Mark

Usually stars in period movies or fantasy films

Trivia

Member of the National Youth Music Theatre 1997-2003.
Graduated with a degree in English and Drama from Kingston University in 2004.
Is one of a number of actors to be photographed by Claire Newman-Williams, including Alison Doody, Thomas James Longley, and Adam Garcia.
Was in the short lived boy band Hyrise; his band performed their song, "Leading Me On" in 2004 for Eurovision Song Contest.
His parents influenced him to go to university first before heading off to become a serious actor.
He can also sing, play drums and piano.
He has a younger brother named Jack.
Appeared in The Kooks' music clip for "The Sofa Song".
Said that he based his Prince Caspian accent on that of Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride (1987) because the night before auditions, he was sorting through his DVD collection trying to find something to help him.
Because England had not qualified for Euro 2008 (football) he supported the Dutch as one of his grandmothers is from Holland.
Favourite movie is This Is Spinal Tap (1984) .
His father is a psychiatrist and his mother is a therapist.
Wore hair extensions for the role of Prince Caspian.
He is widely known as Bin Bons on the Internet.
Supports Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Tried to purchase the picture of himself used in Dorian Gray (to give to his mother), but the painting was not available for sale and is now in a museum.
Was one of the four finalists for the role of Edward Cullen in "Twilight".

Personal Quotes

I got involved [in "Caspian"] very late, very late, literally a couple of weeks before they had to start shooting. I think they were desperate, at this point. 'Whoever walks in the door next, THAT'S the guy.' And it was me. (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, May 13, 2008)
Obviously, you wouldn't be human if you didn't get a disposable camera and try and get a picture of yourself by your own movie billboard. (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, May 13, 2008)
The audition was to play a Los Angeles lifeguard. So I turn up, pasty, skinny, off the plane, black shirt. I walk in, there's like ten guys in there, blonde, tanned, enormous. And I kid you not, one of them had his pant leg rolled up and was going, "Dude, I just don't know how to get the definition in my calves. I can't do it." And I thought, I'm in the wrong place. (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, May 13, 2008)
I played a rock star alien. I even made my own guitar -- out of cardboard. It was spectacular, if I may say so myself. (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, May 13, 2008)
My favorite one to eat pizza with is Anna [Popplewell]. My favorite one to go to the gym with is William [Moseley]. My favorite one to mock and be mocked by is Skandar [Keynes] and my favorite one to hug is Georgie [Henley].
(on being recognized) Not on a regular basis. You'd be surprised how people don't put two and two together. I was on a plane from New York to L.A. and the only movie that was playing was 'Stardust'. And the first 10 minutes of that movie is pretty much just me. I was thinking, "Oh no, this is embarrassing, everyone's going to be looking at me." And ... nothing! Nothing ... so maybe no one will recognize me in 'Caspian' either.
(about the wardrobe in "Prince Caspian") I felt awkward when they first gave me the shirt and it had like flowers on it. And I was like, "Really? Flowers? Flowers on the shirt?" But then when they gave me - when they showed me, "Yeah, but later on you get the big armor with the lion on it." I was like, "Okay. Cool. Trade."
(on his reaction to the "Prince Caspian" posters) I don't know. It's a combination thing. Mostly it's just weird. Mostly it's just surreal. I mean you walk, you know, you drive down Sunset Boulevard and there you are, you know, fifteen stories high. And it is surreal. And it's a little bit ... it's embarrassing. But it's flattering at the same time. You know, a big part of you thinks it's really cool and then another part of me worries that, you know, this is kind of an ensemble film why is there not, why haven't they got a busy poster like they had for the last one? You know, it's starting to feel like pressure to be this kind of action hero, which is not the character at all. But, you know, it's great and it's scary.
(when asked if he has Googled himself) Have I Googled myself? Yeah, well, a little while ago. I don't like it; I don't like the Internet. No. It's not a healthy place to go if you're in the public eye. Because there's too many people who have too many opinions about you, and about your acting. And, you know, everyone wants to be a critic. I just don't really approve of it. I've never been on the Internet saying what I think of somebody else's performance in something. [How do you deal with that?] Well, you have to ignore the really over the top good stuff and you have to ignore the really over the top bad stuff. And kind of be confident in the fact that you know it's probably somewhere in the middle. And that's sort of what I'm trying to do at the moment.
[About whether or not he based his accent for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) on Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride (1987) ] You know what, when I got the audition sides, it said on the bottom, "Please prepare with a Spanish accent," and I went and rummaged in my DVD collection and went, "I gotta have something with Antonio Banderas in it, surely!" I started watching Desperado - he doesn't talk! He just looks moody. And I was like, "Ah, man, this isn't gonna do," so I found, I suddenly thought, "Princess Bride! Inigo Montoya. 'You killed my father, prepare to die.'" And then, I get on set and I've got my first scene with Miraz, my uncle, and I've got my sword at his throat and it's "Why did you kill my father?" and I'm thinking, "This sounds familiar..."

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Guilty pleasure: Driving fast!!
Vacation spot: A tiny island in Greece that I’d rather keep secret!
Current obsession: Finding some used pack of 665 Polaroid film. It’s a black and white film with a positive and negative at the same time!! I’ve been an amateur photographer since my teens. Before digital killed it all, I loved using this great film in my rare Konica Instant Press camera.
Biggest regret: Being compelled to stop my cinema studies to work as an actor. Even though I’m so passionate about acting today, after high school I was so eager to become a filmmaker. Still in my mind today. …
Paris or New York? Both. Being raised in Paris, I dream of New York, but if I had been raised in New York, I would dream of Paris.
Best part of summer: Miniskirts!
Best part of autumn: Snow and ski time approaching. … Half of my family comes from the French Alps. As a child, I almost skied before I walked!

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GASPARD ULLIEL’S QUARTIER

• Ferdi (32, rue du Mont Thabor). A very small restaurant near Place Vendome in the First. Warm welcome with luscious Latin food.
• Joe Allen (30, rue Pierre Lescot). An American restaurant in the First just a block away from my apartment. I grew up in the neighborhood, and this has always been my second home.
• Le Montana (28, rue Saint-Benoît). A small, cozy club in St. Germain. I like the atmosphere, the people there, but, above all, the fact that it’s divided in two floors. One with loud music for dancing, and one with a classy bar with small booths where not only you can talk but you can actually hear and understand what your friends are saying. (That’s rare in most of the Parisian clubs!)
• Los Mexicanos (10, rue Papillon). As odd as it may seem, it’s a shabby Mexican restaurant in the 10th that turns into a Brazilian club every Sunday nights. All the Brazilian community meets up here for the most intense dancing sessions. If you don’t dance, don’t drink caipirinhas and don’t understand Portuguese, just pass your way.
• La Chambre Claire (14, rue St Sulpice) and La Hune (170, Boulevard Saint-Germain). Two book shops with a great selection of art and photography books.
• Potemkine (30, rue Beaurepaire). The best place to find the DVDs you can’t find elsewhere. This great shop opened in 2006 and is a real love testimony to cinema! You’ll only find quality films on the shelves.
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LEARN FRENCH

CHAPTER 1



English and French are using the same alphabet; even better English and French are using several hundred words that have the same spelling and meaning in both languages.
Here are one hundred examples!

rage, bandit, banquet, Bible, bizarre, boulevard, avenue, bracelet, budget, capable, capital, torture, tradition, train, triple, type, union, urgent, vacant, vague, vengeance, zone, information, conversation, menace, minute, municipal, muscle, nation, national, lion, indulgent, installation, inspection, instrument, grain, horizon, imitation, humble, final, fortune, golf, motion, existence, durable, date, destruction, construction, dispute, docile, contact, concentration, cage, canal, canon, cigarette, client, code, colonel, combat, art, article, aspect, pigeon, portrait, biscuit, circuit, piano, rail, rural, air, plateau, change, orange, tribunal, taxes, fruits, assassin, absence, accent, accident, accusation, acquisition, action, adoption, affection, agent, agriculture, album, alliance, allusion, ambition, amusement, anecdote, angle, animal, aptitude, volume, tunnel, style, sublime.

You might assume from this that you have less to learn than you anticipated. In a way it is true for if you did see these words in writing you would guess correctly their meaning. However if you only heard them you probably would not recognize them because their French pronunciation is very different from the English one.
> Now listen to the following words and see (or rather hear) for yourself:

Durable, date, destruction, muscle, change, national, lion, indulgent, installation, amusement, anecdote, angle, combat, art.

Therefore you need to be able to associate a spelling - you might be familiar with - with a new sound. In this book we are going to use terms such as sound, syllable, stress and intonation. It is important you understand exactly what they mean.
What is a sound?
In languages there are two kinds of sounds consonant sounds (p,t,k,b,d,g,f,v,s,z, etc…) and vowel sounds ( a e i o u ).

A word like in has two sounds: (the vowel /i/ + the consonant /n/),
bean has three sounds (/b/ + /ea/ + /n/),
pinned has four sounds (/p/ + /i/+/n/ + /d/),
skilled has five sounds (/s/ + /k/ +/i/ + /l/ + /d/)

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Learn French: Famile

Listen to the vocabulary using the Jukebox, use the arrow on the right to go down or up into the list. Family Online in French.
Pay attention to the letters "m" and "f", a new notion in French, the gender, some words are masculine and other feminine, sometimes it is obvious to guess but not all the times:
1. Père (m) / Father
2. Papa (m) / Dad
3. Mère (f) / Mother
4. Maman (f) / Mum
5. Frère (m) / Brother
6. Soeur (f) / Sister
7. Grand père (m)  we also say papi or pépé/ Grandfather
8. Grand mère (f)  we also say mamie or mémé/ Grandmother
9. Oncle (m) we also say tonton/ Uncle
10. Tante (f) we also say tata/ Aunt
11. Fils (m)/ Son
12. Fille (f) / Daughter
13. Mon / My
14. Ton / your
15. Ma / My
16. Ta / Your
17. Comment s'appelle ton père? / What is your father's name?
18. Mon père s'appelle Jean / Ma father's name is Jean
19. Comment s'appelle ta mère / What is your mother's name?
20. Ma mère s'appelle Paulette / My mother's name is Paulette

So now you understand how to use "mon" and "ton", for example the word "fils" is masculine so we say "mon fils" (my son) but we say "ta grand mère" (your grand mother) because grand mother is a feminine word!
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THE PRINCEES OF MONTPENSIER

A new movie wherein Gaspard Ulliel is one of the main characters. It would be a success and it is our lookout from the past,a very important part of the European history.

the amazing CNU CHORALE

With extraordinary voices, with never fading beauty,and with most amazing gentlemen; that comprises the Cebu Normal University Chorale

Months of the Year (French)

French word	English translation	Pronunciation
	janvier	January	zhah(n)-vyay
	février	February	fay-vree-yay
	mars	March	mahrs
	avril	April	ah-vreel
	mai	May	meh
	juin	June	zhwa(n)
	juillet	July	zhwee-eh
	août	August	oo or oot
	septembre	September	sehp-tah(n)br
	octobre	October	ohk-tohbr
	novembre	November	noh-vah(n)br
	décembre	December	day-sah(n)br

French Prepositions Used with Months

In order to say that something is going to happen "in" a certain month, French speakers use the preposition "en", which is pronounced as [ah(n)]. If you'd like to say that something has been happening "since" a certain month, the preposition "depuis" should be used. The table below gives a few examples:

Audio	French word	English translation	Pronunciation
	en janvier	in January	ah(n) zhah(n)-vyay
	en mai	in May	ah(n) meh
	en octobre	in October	ah(n) ohk-tohbr
	en novembre	in November	ah(n) noh-vah(n)br
	depuis	since	duh-pwee
---	depuis décembre	since December	duh-pwee day-sah(n)br
	un mois	a month	uh(n) mwah
	une année	a year	ewn ah-nay
	un an	one year	uhN nahN

Gaspard Ulliel is my Angel

monsieur Gaspard Ulliel, je t'aime.. je t'aime vous coup.

MOre about Ulliel

Ulliel was born in Knightsbridge, England to a runway show producer mother and a famous clothes designer father. He has a scar on his cheek as a result of a dog's scratch from when he attempted to ride the dog like a horse when he was six years old. He says it increases his emotional acting abilities because it looks like a dimple. Ulliel attended the University of Saint-Denis, where he studied cinema. He began acting while he was still at school, appearing in 'Une Femme En Blanc', a film for French television. He also performed at the Cours Florent, where he was discovered by Les égarés director André Téchiné.
Since then, he has starred in a number of television productions, including La Bascule, Juliette, Julien L'apprenti and Le Refuge. Ulliel's first film was Alias, in 1999. Since then, he has become increasingly popular including his small role in "Brotherhood of the Wolf", and was nominated for a César Award (Best Young Male) in 2003 for Embrassez qui vous voudrez, and in 2004 for his role in Les égarés (Strayed) as the rebellious lover to a refugee during the World War. He later won the award in 2005 for his role in Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement), in which he played Manech, Audrey Tautou's character's love interest. In 2006 he appeared as a character named Gaspard in the "Le Marais" segment of Paris, je t'aime, a multi-episode film featuring an international cast and contributions from more than 18 directors. In "Le Marais", Ulliel appears alongside Elias McConnell and Marianne Faithfull.
Ulliel's most recent role is playing the young Hannibal Lecter, the title character of the prequel Hannibal Rising, which was released on February 9, 2007. Ulliel initially hesitated to audition for the role because he felt the character's popularity put pressure on whoever took the role to deliver a faultless performance. The part is his second English-language film, and the first film where he speaks English in a leading role. It has not yet been decided whether there will be another film featuring Ulliel as Lecter.
Ulliel's next role will be in a Niki Caro directed drama scheduled to film in New Zealand and France.

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facts about Gaspard Ulliel

GAspard Ulliel, a french actor and now, a director. He always dreamed of becoming a director,so after graduating high school in lycee', he attended the University of Saint-Denis and studied cinema. The greatest film he ever roled in as an actor is the movie A Very Long Engagement, where he was nominated as Best Actor for that movie and got award during the Cesar Awards (equivalent to Oscar Awards) last 2007.
He is the most amazing actor ever. :)