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Momentum Pictures has released another new Dorian Gray clip, which can be viewed on Youtube! Screencaps can be found here.

‘Dorian Gray‘ will be in UK theaters on September 9th, 2009!

Source: Momentum Pictures

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Thank you to steelsheen for the heads up about this new interview with Ben, courtesy of MarieClaire.co.uk! For those who have trouble watching it at the original site, the video can also be viewed on Youtube.

Source: MarieClaire.co.uk

Also, thanks to abydosww of the BBF LiveJournal Community, for uploading this new behind-the-scenes video which gives us a look at the shooting of ‘Dorian Gray‘.

– 35mm Behind the Scenes of ‘Dorian Gray’ (video)

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Hi everyone! Here we have a brand new interview with Ben. The article also includes a new publicity from Dorian Gray, which I’ve uploaded to the gallery. Hopefully a bigger version will surface soon.

The character of Dorian Gray is supposed to be a vision of beauty. Is being asked to play someone so fiendishly handsome flattering or embarrassing?

That is a bit of a cringe. It wasn’t cringey to be asked to play it, but it is cringey to try and answer this question, because part of me still feels really young, and just the skinniest boy in the class, as I always was. Obviously, Oscar Wilde uses these outrageous superlatives in describing the way Dorian looks in the book but, for me, it was always about the power of youth, the power of celebrity and youth within London society, which is such a powerful thing. The fact that his looks didn’t fade, that was the important thing, not the fact that he was so overtly beautiful. I think the real nub of it, though, was the fact that he didn’t change at all, which I think is terrifying. Imagine not seeing someone for 30 years and then seeing them and they look exactly the same as they did when you last saw them! That was absolutely terrifying, so it was always more about that than thinking, ‘Oh, I am playing a really handsome bloke’.

Unlike the novel, you find some sympathy for Dorian in the movie…

I hope we do, because in the book you don’t particularly. The book is called The Picture of Dorian Gray and it really is about the picture and the world that swirls around it and the society and the things that happen to Dorian more than the decisions he makes. Oliver [Parker, the director] wanted to get inside his head a little bit more. I really hope people like the film; nearly everybody I meet says that it’s their favourite book and that I had better not made a complete hash of it!

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Source: Bent Magazine & The London Notebook

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To celebrate the release of Dorian Gray, we’re giving 2 lucky readers the chance to win a money can’t buy goody bag that contains an exclusive Dorian Gray T-Shirt, a copy of the book and a poster signed by Ben Barnes!

Young Dorian arrives fresh on the London social scene and is taken under the wing of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth of MAMMA MIA) who introduces him to the seedy pleasures of London life. When Dorian sees how incredible he looks in a newly painted picture of himself, he swears to do whatever it takes to look as young and handsome in real life as he does in the picture – forever.

His stunning good looks and charm soon attract the celebrity lifestyle and everything that it brings. Dorian finds himself slipping deeper and deeper into a world of sin, sex and celebrity, seemingly without any consequences. But as his actions become increasingly evil, for how long can he hide the secret behind his eternal youth?

For more information visit www.orange.co.uk/doriangray.

To be in with your chance of winning simply answer the following question:

Where does Dorian keep the portrait so the world can’t see it?

E-mail your name and answer to contact@benbarnesfan.com. Good luck everyone! =D

(This contest is open to everyone and winners will be chosen at random on September 14th, 2009.)

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