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This is why Eddie Izzard hates it when the Welsh get a hard time from casual racist banterHes playing Bertie, the Prince of Wales in his latest movie Victoria and Abdul and the ironys not lost on Eddie Izzard. Im an honorary Welsh person and Im very proud of that, says the multi talented actor, stand up comedian, author, political activist and record breaking marathon runner, who plays the son of Judi Denchs Queen Victoria in the sumptuous new British costume drama. Ive run with the Welsh flag a fantastic flag. And there should be a big old dragon in the middle of the Union Jack, to make it all work. I hate the fact that Welsh people get a hard time of it from casual racist banter. And the singing You guys sing because you have the ability to sing. As the Prince of Wales in Victoria and Abdul Izzard, now 5. Yemen, but spent his very early childhood in Bangor, Northern Ireland, before the family moved to Skewen, in the borough of Neath Port Talbot, when he was just five years old. He went to schools in Swansea and Porthcawl, but it was a hard time for the family as his mother died of cancer in 1. Watch Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story Online Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story Full Movie Online' title='Watch Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story Online Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story Full Movie Online' />Eddie was six and his brother Mark eight. Wales was tough for us, he concedes. But I do have good memories and I go back when I can. I always make sure I play Cardiff and Swansea on tour and I do campaigning all around Wales. Read More. Hannibal is an American psychological thrillerhorror television series developed by Bryan Fuller for NBC. The series is based on characters and elements appearing. With Noel Clarke, Johnny Harris, Ralph Brown, Thandie Newton. A feuding double act try to make it in the cutthroat world of standup comedy. He also returned, very specifically, to Skewen as part of his hugely ambitious back to back marathon runs all around the UK within seven weeks in 2. Sport Relief. Most of his often gruelling runs, which he accomplished with no significant prior experience and only five weeks training, were filmed and shown on BBC TV. When I ran through Skewen, I went to find the place where my dad went to work, because I never knew where that was, recalls Izzard. The director would say to me, What are you looking for and Id say. I dont know. Eddie in 2. Sport ReliefI had this hankering to go back, because theres the normality of what Im doing now its all phone calls and meetings and if I go back somewhere like Skewen, I feel like my past life there is like a film and Im looking at it from the outside. Did I really live here Was I child here And I find that fascinating. Izzard clearly holds memories of his late mother Dorothy very close to his heart. P3280194_Edit1-600x450.jpg?resize=550%2C413&quality=85' alt='Watch Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story Online Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story Full Movie Online' title='Watch Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story Online Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story Full Movie Online' />He recalls fondly how he made his first stage performance as a raven, at Oakleigh House School in Swansea. Mum made my raven costume if you look at my autobiography Believe Me, youll see a photograph of the raven and it was the last thing she made, he says. Read More. He still wears a classic self winding watch, a present from his mother from around 5. Go on, touch it, he tells me. There, youve touched the only thing I have from my mum and she bought it in the Omega shop in Swansea in the 1. There was one for me and one for my brother. Theres almost nothing on earth that remains of her, so this is special. In Victoria And Abdul, Izzard very nearly steals scenes as Bertie, the Prince of Wales. The lavish historical drama tells the little known story of the unlikely friendship between Queen Victoria Judi Dench and a young Indian clerk Abdul Karim Ali Fazal, who became her teacher, spiritual adviser and devoted friend. With Judi Dench good luck banana just out of shot. Victorias son and future king, the pompous and curmudgeonly Bertie, unsurprisingly disapproved of the relationship from the word go and in the film he virtually becomes the villain of the piece. I put on 1. Bertie, reveals Izzard hes since back to his more recognisably slimmer self. He had such a girth, he moved in quite a leaden way and thats what I had to capture. Watch Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story Online Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story Full Movie Online' title='Watch Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story Online Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story Full Movie Online' />That and accessing the lower tones of his voice. Id just run around South Africa and had gone down to 6. I guess thats about ten and a half stone so I had to get the weight back on fast. Doing that was alarmingly easy, just eating all the wrong stuff. Otherwise, Berties cane was quite useful too Id hobble around Osborne House, more or less being the Prince of Wales. Read More. Performing for the camera with his on screen royal mother Judi Dench was a joy, even though their scenes together as Victoria and Bertie were inevitably cantankerous and volatile. Judi and I knew each other a bit before, he reveals. She came to one of my opening nights years ago and she sent me a banana for good luck. Thats Judi all over people send flowers, but Judi sent a banana with good luck written on it. Rawhide Season 8 Episode Guide there. Acting opposite Judi is amazing, because she is very alive. Shes in touch with her teenage girl. I was listening to a Ray Charles song on my phone in the make up trailer and Judi came in and next thing you know, she started dancing to Ray Charles. I thought, this is a teenage girl dancing. Shes just a young spirit. The comedian joins the Welsh Labour on the campaign trail in 2. Izzards next film project may well bring him back to Wales again. He has co written his very first screenplay, Six Minutes To Midnight, with Welsh actor writer Celyn Jones, whom he met on the 2. BBC TV film Castles In The Sky and if production and sales deals are suitably clinched, filming should begin next spring. I got to know Celyn really well on Castles In The Sky and the director of that film told Celyn that he should write a script about the Goons, playing Harry Secombe. Celyn wrote it but the project got stuck, so then he made Set Fire To The Stars, playing Dylan Thomas. But now were all set to make Six Minutes To Midnight. All I can say right now is that its set in the 1. Bexhill on Sea, in Sussex which is where I lived after we left Wales and Ill be playing the schools English teacher. Its an extraordinary, almost unbelievable true story which I came across a while ago. Im a patron of the Bexhill on Sea Museum and the manager there showed me the old blazer badge of a local girls school, which had a swastika on it. So its about the Nazis and how they were infiltrating British society without anyone really noticing. Himmlers god daughter attended the school and Von Ribbentrop, the Nazi foreign minister, would visit there too. Well film in Bexhill, but as some of the buildings there are too modern we need to find another seaside town to film in so we might well come to Wales for that. Victoria And Abdul is in cinemas now. Home Daily Mail Online. The 8. 0 portraits featured, taken between 1. William Bullard, a native of Worcester who left behind a trove of over 5,4. Bullard identified about 8. Rediscovering an American Community of Color The Photographs of William Bullard is currently being displaced at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. 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