New Smirnoff advert

Perfectly Matte from MMonline found that Matthew is doing the new Smirnoff Diamonds adverts in UK. She managed to record the ad and share it.It is available to download on MMonline or listen to / watch in the galleries. May add the audio here later...

Thanks PM! Laughing

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Daily Record comments on Matthew's performance!

The Daily Record had this to say about Matthew in Secret Life

SPOOKS' Matthew Macfadyen took a career gamble playing a paedophile - and thank God he did. Macfadyen's wretched character was hanging by the neck on a wire at the end. But after the performance of his life, his career's certainly not ...

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Secret Life: more reviews

More reviews of Matthews performance from the weekend papers. Read the full articles via the links.

 The Scotsman

Macfadyen was brave to take on Charlie; some actors would surely be devastated at learning they could pass for a child molester. He allowed his good looks to be subsumed by a potato face of guilt and despair, to the extent some may forget he was ever a spyworld hunk in Spooks or breeches-clad beefcake in Pride And Prejudice. Compensation should come in the form of awards.

The Observer

There is no acceptable face of child sex abuse, but Matthew Macfadyen's sorrowful blue eyes and nice manners invited us to the brink of an unholy empathy in Rowan Joffe's courageous drama Secret Life, the story of Charlie, a convicted paedophile released under licence after six years of rehab....If you half-closed your eyes, Macfadyen could have been handsome Mr Darcy snogging Keira Knightley, but when you opened them again he was in the chemist's gazing at a 12-year-old. Charlie fled the scene, but he couldn't flee his thoughts....

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Secret Life: Reviews from Blogs and TV critics

A thank you to 6point7 again, for this one.  I'll just link to the website which seems to have a a listing of people who have commented on Secret life.

 

The Stage

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Secret Life Ratings

Thanks to a friend of 6point7's, we have this from bit Broadcast

C4 reveals its Secret Life to 1.1m
by Jon Rogers
Channel 4's thought-provoking feature-length drama
Secret Life attracted an average audience of 1.1
million viewers (5.3%) at 9pm last night.

The 90-minute film, starring Matthew Macfadyen as a
paedophile, gained an audience high of 1.3 million
(5.3%) at the start.

Because of its subject matter it was unlikely to have
been a huge ratings hit but it did attract a strong
up-market audience with 49% of its viewers coming from
the ABC1 demographic.

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