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Simon News, Articles, Info - Part 1

Deedee

Date: Wednesday, 20-Mar-13, 11:35 PM | Message # 706

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Phew what a gorgeous photo of Simon!!

Tina

Date: Thursday, 21-Mar-13, 9:53 AM | Message # 707

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I'm speechless. How wonderful these photos are!

Lena

Date: Thursday, 21-Mar-13, 11:09 AM | Message # 708

Dinkie-Di

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These photos are so beautiful. Especially the first photo, Simon is so charming.

bee

Date: Thursday, 21-Mar-13, 11:22 AM | Message # 709

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Beautiful photos, Simon looks so wistful in the first photo!

Mossibecca

Date: Thursday, 21-Mar-13, 2:25 PM | Message # 710

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These are wonderful, and I have to admit, I love the one near the door, but there is something about Simon with bare feet that I just can't resist.....he looks so....comfy. biggrin

Hayseed

Date: Thursday, 21-Mar-13, 3:58 PM | Message # 711

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I'm with you Mossibecca. I love both pics, but the one of him lounging in the chair...oh my.

Not sure if this qualifies as "Simon news", but Ellen DeGeneres is headed to Australia and I'm pretty sure she has been invited several times to visit the Eels, Simon's NRL team. But I also read that Russell Crowe wants to be her tour guide, and his team is the Rabbitohs. We shall see where her rugby loyalty falls out...

258pce

Date: Friday, 22-Mar-13, 0:07 AM | Message # 712

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Hi--just found this on twitter: Interview with #SimonBaker in dutch magazine. Season 6 and 7? O_O http://justmesonja.tumblr.com/post....agazine …

Interview with Simon Baker in dutch magazine

Mentalist-star is usually the freak

Simon Baker returns this Thursday on television in the sequel of the fifth season of the successful thriller series The Mentalist. The 43-year old actor – who at present gets a quarter of a million per episode – is still surprised over the popularity of his character, Patrick Jane. “I have never really understood what women find so attractive in me”.

Just what explains the success of the hit series The Mentalist? The only answer to that question can be: protagonist Simon Baker. His blond curls, his radiant smile, his sparkling green eyes en his roguish Aussie-accent make millions of women melt every week. Gruesome murders? Sideshow! As long as Simon Baker looks seductive into the camera.

Yet, the 43-year old actor is the last person who can do something with that information. “If I’m often typecast as a heartbreaker?” He bursts out laughing. “I’m usually the freak. In Margin Call, about the bank crisis, I was a creep. In The Devil Wears Prada I was the devil in person. In the romantic comedy I Give It A Year I am a bumbling American.”

Baker is just glad that his own wife finds him attractive. “But otherwise I am someone who prefers not to be noticed. I walk preferably very fast down the street, shrouded in a big raincoat. I always feel a little uncomfortable when fans tell me how much they like me.” He enjoys being an actor and the fact that he makes lots of series and movie for a big audience. “But all the attention is actually just a nasty side issue. In my heart I am a normal ‘bloke from Australia’ who loves to do simple ‘bloky things’.”

The makers of the hit series The Mentalist, however, did see what attracts the millions of fans to Baker, who weekly solves gruesome murders as Patrick Jane. De series has an average of 15 million viewers in the US and has been undiminishing popular in its five seasons. The sixth season will be filmed this summer and the protagonist has recently signed for a seventh season. “You notice that after 5 years it is a huge challenge to keep the show fresh every week.” The writing team is thinking about a big storyline in the upcoming two seasons towards a spectacular finale. “Even if I knew something about that, I would not be allowed to say something about it.” He apologizes immediately.

The protagonist also thinks that The Mentalist particularly strikes because the characters are so normal. “There is nothing psychic of spiritual in the way we solve crimes”, he says. “We don’t have a high tech laboratory where we find the information that leads to the killer in no time. We just look at the involved suspects and then deduce who the perpetrator is. That’s all you need for a successful thriller.”

The preparation and shooting of the series demands about 6 months a year of the attention of the actor. He spends the rest of his time with his family in California or shoots one or two movies. Even though that can be quite difficult, admits Baker. “Studios are, because of the crisis, very careful with initialising new projects”, he explains. “So all actors of my age have to fight very hard for one of the few interesting scripts that are produced.”

He considers himself lucky with his role in the British comedy I Give It A Year. The actor plays a seductive American professor who falls in love with a woman in London. “The movie pokes fun with all the clichés from the romantic genre”, explains Baker. “I actually laughed while reading it. That doesn’t happen very often; I actually really am a critical comedy watcher.”

Despite of her wedding ring his character tries to court the lady in any way he can. The moral of the story therefor is that it’s not a shame for a couple to admit that they made the wrong choice. However, the charming actor quickly adds: he himself does certainly not belong in that group of people. “I am the last one to deny that a relationship can be hard work sometimes. But after 15 years of marriage I can still say from the bottom of my heart that my marriage with Rebecca has been one of the best choices of my life. Baker, in contradiction to his character in the movie, has never been a man for big romantic gestures. “I am someone who believes that romance is more in the small gestures. Like a surprising cup of tea in bed on Sunday morning.”

(translated this myself so there will probably be some errors)

(Source: justmesonja)

Lena

Date: Friday, 22-Mar-13, 10:28 AM | Message # 713

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Love this interview especially at the end when Simon says "I am the last one to deny that a relationship can be hard work sometimes. But after 15 years of marriage I can still say from the bottom of my heart that my marriage with Rebecca has been one of the best choices of my life... I am someone who believes that romance is more in the small gestures. Like a surprising cup of tea in bed on Sunday morning.”
Simon is a man very much in love with his wife and he is so sweet. Thanks very much 258pce for doing the translation.

Message edited by Lena - Friday, 22-Mar-13, 10:28 AM

Mossibecca

Date: Friday, 22-Mar-13, 11:48 AM | Message # 714

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Sorry Fran, I posted this on the 'latest news' section this morning, not realising it was already on here....could you remove my post please, I can't work out how to.

I love this interview, and I agree with him about romantic gestures.....My Hubby doesn't do the big hearts and flowers thing, but I get tea in bed on Sunday, and he always fill the car up with petrol for me (I hate the smell)

Fran

Date: Friday, 22-Mar-13, 11:53 AM | Message # 715

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258pce - thanks very much for posting this. Agree with Lena, love Simon's comment about his marriage. Also love "In my heart I am a normal ‘bloke from Australia’ who loves to do simple ‘bloky things’".

Rather surprised to see the "upcoming 2 seaons" comment, I wonder if the writer of the article has accurately reflected Simon's words.

mossibecca - no problem smile

DS_Pallas

Date: Friday, 22-Mar-13, 12:52 PM | Message # 716

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Thank you for posting this 258pce!

Funny how so said journalists never check informations. It's been a while TM doesn't have 15M viewers anymore in the US. And I think Simon contracted for 7 seasons in 2011, what you can hardly qualify as "recently".

The way it's written, "The writing team is thinking about a big storyline in the upcoming two seasons towards a spectacular finale", they seem to assert that there will be 2 more seasons, but Simon does not actually say it.
For me, it's a bit of a blur here…

Message edited by DS_Pallas - Friday, 22-Mar-13, 12:53 PM

bee

Date: Friday, 22-Mar-13, 1:07 PM | Message # 717

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Thanks 258pce, very interesting article. Also love it when he says "I'm a normal bloke from Australia, who loves to do simple bloky things". Also the comment about his marriage! Shows that fame hasn't changed him one bit and he's still that same guy that values his family and enjoys the normal things in life!

258pce

Date: Friday, 22-Mar-13, 8:36 PM | Message # 718

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Lena, I didn't do the translation--I found it on twitter

Mossibecca, I debated about putting it in latest news, but not knowing the source or date, I felt more comfortable putting it here. I think it might be legitimate to leave it in both places for now as many probably won't find it here. I really appreciate that you keep on top of these kinds of things. My finding it was purely serendipitous.

Wherever it's from, it certainly has some delightful Simon nuggets.