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Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton supporting SAG-AFTRA strike
Jim Carter: I’m here today as an Equity member of 50-odd years to stand behind SAG-AFTRA. I fully support it. Most Equity members do, because their fight is our fight. What they’re doing is absolutely right and I applaud them.
Jim Carter: We’re not being paid properly for our work. Streaming services take our work and we have no control over where it’s shown or how many people see it. They’re not open about how many people see things so we don’t get properly recompensed for it. That’s ridiculous. Our performance isn’t just for the premiere and opening night; it’s for as long as it lasts, and we should be fairly recompensed for that.
Imelda Staunton: SAG-AFTRA strike isn’t an American problem, or an English problem but rather a global problem. [The] streaming services seem to be paying themselves and not the creatives. The issue of AI is here. We need to talk about how it’s going to affect people’s financial circumstances. Most actors and most writers and performers seem to be at the bottom of the pile when the pay packet is issued, so I think that needs sorting out as soon as possible.
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Not quite Carson, not quite King Zog ... but the hat looks very nice, Jim!
Happy Jim Day!
*Jim Carter & Imelda Staunton at the Hampton Court Flower Show 2022
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Happy Birthday to the queen...
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton
January 9, 1956
#imelda staunton#the little wonder#happy birthday#the crown#dolores umbridge#gypsy#vera drake#jimelda
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Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton at Lords Cricket Ground 25 May 2018 Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5769601/Theresa-jumps-queue-latest-member-Marylebone-Cricket-Club-Lords.html
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juliet/sawyer fic recs
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two weeks, give or take by unsubstitute (2K)
When it only takes one week and six days in the Dharma Initiative before she’s hooking up with Sawyer, she knows she’s in trouble.
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fun with feathers by jimelda (2K)
pillow fight. naww.
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the picnic by jimelda (4K)
pure fluff.
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like a thief in the night by jaqs (33K)
detective ford gets called to a break-in by dr. burke. favourite.
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are birds free fom the chains of the skyway? by jaqs (61K)
What if, in the aftermath of the Incident the Losties were sent back to flight 815, but Juliet back to an equally pivotal point in her life? (i think… that’s the one in which the incident sends juliet back in time, and to stop james from murder!?)
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another time in another place by lovin suliet (65K)
James and Juliet fic set in the alt. Circumstances bring James and Juliet to the same place. When each of them need someone the most will they find each other? (or is it that one… it’s been quite a while since i read them…)
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yesteryear by carolynneruth (72K)
What if Jack never came back in 1977 to drop the H-bomb? Would life continue as normal for Sawyer, Juliet, Jin and Miles? (everyone stays in dharmaville 1977, and: juliet’s pregnant.)
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collision course by lovin suliet (85K)
juliet wakes up in her old life with rachael au.
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echoes of you by carolynneruth (92K)
a juliet calling the cops, aka jim and miles, to investigate edmund au!
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no one belongs here more than you by tia8206 (226K)
Post-S5. Juliet's finally escaped the island, but facing her past, present and future all at the same time is enough to give any seasoned time traveler one hell of a headache. And whatever happened to "whatever happened, happened"?
(this was the essential suliet fic for me. simply amazing.)
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Aw, Jim ...
The theatre where he first saw Lonnie Donegan is now a Costa.
And he and Imelda are beyond adorable.
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‘The service at home is appalling. If only he could be Carson-like around the house.’
- Actress Imelda Staunton, who is married to Jim Carter, better known as Carson the butler in Downton Abbey.
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Let’s appreciate the loving and dynamic duo of Jimelda on Jim Day!
#jim carter#jim day#imelda staunton#such a cute couple#i love them so much#hope they're both doing well
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Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter and the Virtual Spirit of Christmas, NeuroMuscular Centre 2020
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It is my life's dream to see Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter impersonate each other.
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Carson: “I thought maybe ... this one?”
Maud: “It makes you look like King Zog of Albania!”
*Carson rapidly removes hat and rethinks his choices!”
King Zog, for your reference/inspection/comparison lol
#jim carter#charles carson#imelda staunton#maud bagshaw#downton abbey a new era#squeeee#jimelda#look at these cuties!#real life otp
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Don’t let Mrs. Lovett cut your hair on Jim Day!
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Jim Carter & Imelda Staunton supporting the Big Celebrity Quiz
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEHLtcSH97Z/
#jim carter#imelda staunton#big celebrity quiz#fun times#they look so happy and relaxed#sweet sigh#jimelda
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Life at Lock Downton Abbey! DIY hairdos, Delia's cottage pie and a beard that would make Carson weep – Jim Carter and his wife Imelda Staunton on how they've been coping
Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton are pondering their remarkably different approaches to grooming while they've been under lockdown.
Jim, best known as Downton Abbey butler Carson, has spent his time staying well away from the razor and is now sporting a luxurious beard and a thick mane of wavy grey locks.
'My hair's getting longer and longer,' he chortles. 'I'm reverting to my hippie roots!'
His wife meanwhile, Harry Potter and Vera Drake star Imelda, who joined her husband in the Downton cast in last year's movie, admits to taking DIY action to maintain her appearance.
'I cut my own hair the other night and it was rather successful,' she says proudly.
'You did a good job, love. I'll do the back for you one day...' Jim jokes.
It's not hard to see why these two have one of the most successful marriages in show business. Their quick and easy banter reveals a charming affection that's tangible even over the telephone.
Incidentally, telephones are where the pair have been drawing the line recently with communication.
'We both hate technology and we're not very good at it,' says Jim, 71.
He and Imelda, 64, who met during a stage production of Guys And Dolls in 1982 and married a year later, are staunchly opposed to the video-calling apps like Zoom that have been helping people stay socially active during lockdown.
'We don't feel the need for it,' he says. 'I'm enjoying making phone calls rather than sending emails, having the luxury of a long conversation, not shovelling out information.'
Jim's also been writing letters and postcards to old acquaintances, including one to a 'school friend from 60 years ago', as well as being ultra-neighbourly.
He and Imelda have been looking out for a lady who lives alone on their street in Hampstead, north London, delivering her freshly cut flowers from their garden.
'A couple of times now she's trotted around here and left us croissants on the step for our breakfast in return. Isn't that fabulous?' says Jim.
'We all need to look out for each other, that's the message.'
It's this ethos that underscores a charity project the couple have been backing – a recording of Mariah Carey's ballad Anytime You Need A Friend by the Breathe Harmony NHS choir.
The single features staff from London's Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals, including frontline nurses, doctors and porters, plus more than 100 volunteer singers and musicians from 12 countries.
Each singer joined in virtual rehearsals before submitting their performances on their
'It's an international message of positivity and hope,' says Jim. '
At the end of their shifts they're playing it in hospitals to staff and patients, and people are finding it moving and uplifting.'
'What's moving is someone singing in a choir when they're absolutely on their knees,' adds Imelda.
'These people have been saving lives then going off to sing, and it's been therapeutic for them because they're not having to make decisions, they're not on a knife edge.
'They're just connecting with their emotions and having a release through song.' The track was produced by Mike King, who has worked with musicians such as Mark Ronson and Boy George.
Proceeds from the single, which Mariah herself has tweeted her support for, saying it 'brought her to tears', will be shared between Mike's MyCool Music Foundation and Breathe Arts Health Research, which tries to bring a bit of joy to patients and staff alike through music, magic and dance.
Jim and Imelda became patrons of the latter five years ago after throwing their weight behind Breathe Magic, a series of summer camps for children with cerebral palsy and brain injuries that help them develop motor skills and independence.
The couple usually end up on stage as stooges for the mini magicians. 'It's the best show in town,' says Imelda.
For Jim, himself a keen magician, the rewards are abundant. 'If you want to cry, go to a Breathe Magic show to see these children overcoming quite complex difficulties,' he says. 'The joy is heartbreaking.'
The couple have no complaints about how their lives have been under lockdown, and acknowledge that their garden means they are more privileged than most.
Plus, quite by chance, a week before the restrictions were imposed their actress daughter Bessie and her flatmate moved in because their flat was being redecorated. They've been there ever since.
'It's been lovely,' beams Jim, who says that Bessie, 26, seen recently in the ITV drama Beecham House, and her pal do the lion's share of the shopping.
'It's playing to my strengths because I'm not the world's greatest shopper. We've all been slotting into our little domestic routine.'
Imelda, meanwhile, has been doing most of the cooking.
'I'll be doing a Delia cottage pie tomorrow,' she says, which sparks an enthusiastic 'Ooh!' from Jim. 'The secret is cinnamon, that's all I'm saying.'
Imelda has also been occupying herself with rehearsals for a BBC revival of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologues series. It first aired in 1988, and is now being rebooted at Elstree studios in accordance with government social distancing guidelines.
But like the majority of actors, Imelda and Jim have been mostly left high and dry by coronavirus. Her next project, a new production of Hello, Dolly!, was due to open at London's Adelphi Theatre in August but is now on hold indefinitely.
She refuses to complain though. 'There are people dying,' she says.
'People risking their lives to go to work. So at the moment the arts will have to wait in line.'
There has been much talk about a Downton Abbey movie sequel.
The 2019 film, which came four years after the last episode aired on TV and starred Imelda as the Queen's lady-in-waiting, scooped £136m at the box office last autumn.
'I think everybody would be up for another,' says Imelda. 'It did well all over the world and you want to do things that give people pleasure, so why not?'
Although Imelda feels positive that the arts business will recover, it's a waiting game for now. 'We're keeping ourselves happy and relaxed,' she declares.
Jim has 'rediscovered cycling' and is delighting in the freedom of the new normal. 'I haven't been putting pressure on myself to achieve this or that.
'If I want to read a book in the afternoon, I do it with an easy conscience,' he says.
'Take some of that compulsion out of your life and, if you can, relish every day.'
Anytime You Need A Friend is out now. For more information visit breatheahr.org.
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#jim carter#imelda staunton#downton abbey#cuties#charity work#quarantine#they're so adorable together#real life otp#jimelda
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Jim Carter & Imelda Staunton make an appeal for the React Charity
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Look at this adorable heartbreaker and his Mrs.
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