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| The multi-talented Carice van Houten |
Los Angeles, CA—Carice van Houten is not well known yet in
the USA. She’s well represented at CAA
by Tracy Brennan and managed by Janey van Ierland at Nummer19 in the
Netherlands. This very beautiful actress
has both a pretty agent and gorgeous manager too! I hope to meet this delightful trio someday!
Van Houten won the role of a lifetime in Paul Verhoeven’s film
Black Book based on a true story. That
happens to be my all time favorite film about a young and sexy Jewish nightclub
singer who was hiding from the Nazis in the Netherlands during the war. Van Houten’s character by circumstances was recruited
to join the Dutch Underground in this great thriller. By all means get the film from Netflix or
Amazon.com and see it.
Van Houten also landed a somewhat small but important role
as Nina Von Stauffenberg, the wife of Tome Cruise’s character in the Brian
Singer, Chris McQuarrie film Valkyrie.
Van Houten can be see in a meatier role as Melisandre on the HBO Series,
Game of Thrones. Van Houten can also be
seen right now in theaters as Brigitta Jonsdottir in, The Fifth Estate
I leaned one thing early on about van Houten. She absolutely rocks as an actress. She is totally fearless as does complex and
difficult scenes making them look so easy.
She never lets her ego get in the way of bringing the words of a script
to life. Additionally van Houten's language and dialect skills are amazing!
Van Houten also has a great record album out on iTunes
called See You on The Ice. I listen to
that as I drive around L.A. All the
songs are in English, my favorite being Particle of Light. I also have the soundtrack from Black Book,
which has a wonderful rendition of 100 Years From Today.
Van Houten just landed a lead role in a Jason Blume
production of Incarnate. Blume is a
visionary filmmaker in that he makes so-called micro budget horror films. His films have been incredible moneymakers
because they are cheap to produce and they attract a large audience.
The best example of a micro-budget film ever was George
Romero’s Night of The Living Dead. The
cash register is still ringing for that old classic.
Blumehouse Productions has luckily landed van Houten to play
opposite of Aaron Eckhart as the parents of a possessed nine year-old
child. This project was penned by script
scribe, Ronnie Christensen and is being directed by Brad Peyton. They are filming the project right now for a
yet to be announced release date. I wish
the cast, crew and investors great success.
I hope to somehow land a video interview of van Houten
someday soon if her manager or agent will allow her to do that with a smalltime
blogger like me. The only bigger thrill
for me would be to dust of my Screen Actor’s Guild membership card to do a few
scenes with her in some film. I could
play her father or perhaps boss.
I actually wrote a script that is perfect for van Houten
that’s been suddenly getting some needed attention lately. All the stars would have to align before that
happens and frankly the odds are somewhat against it.
I’m hoping that American audiences will discover van
Houten. I was shocked to see media
reporters and photographers asking van Houten what part she was playing at a
Hollywood premier of the third season of Game of Thrones. In fairness perhaps it was the missing vast
mane of red hair Melisandre has that threw these guys off.
Soon van Houten may be a Hollywood acting legend. By the way van Houten has a project in
development to play Gretta Garbo in a biopic film. They do have an amazing resemblance.
I will leave you with a couple of videos of van Houten in
action:
Particle of Light from See You On The ICE
This was the German Premier of Black Book with director Paul
Verhoeven, Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch and others. I speak German and know I missed a terrific
event.
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