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I’ve uploaded some photos of Ben taken during a photocall for Birdsong, which is currently showing at the Comedy Theatre in London. Enjoy!

005 x Birdsong Photocall

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BBC News has posted a new interview with Ben talking about Birdsong. The article includes a new rehearsal photo, which has been added to the gallery.

“It’s one of about three books ever that’s made me physically weep.”

Ben Barnes adopts a cross-legged position on the bed in the corner of his dressing room in the depths of London’s Comedy Theatre.

It is the final few days of rehearsals for Birdsong – a play based on Sebastian Faulks’s best-selling novel about one man’s journey through the horror of World War I.

On a clothes rail next to Barnes’s bed hangs the freshly-laundered uniform of a British army officer. In the play, he takes the lead role of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman whose story begins in pre-war France in 1910.

“I read the book about five years ago. It was around the time that I was getting serious about being an actor,” says Barnes.

“When you read something like that and the character is in your age range, English with dark hair and dark eyes, you obviously put yourself in that character’s shoes.”

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I’ve uploaded 2 portraits of Ben taken last month at Movie-Con III. One you’ll recognize from the latest issue of Empire magazine. The other is brand new!

Source: Empire Online

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Several rehearsal photos were added to the official website for Birdsong. Two of those photos (featuring Ben) have also been uploaded to the gallery.

Source: BirdsongThePlay.com

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