He left a big impression playing a conflicted gay immigrant on a recent episode of "Torchwood: Miracle Day". Now L.A.-based Italian actor Daniele Favilli tells Torchwood4fans that he's already involved in three more projects.
First up is director Keith Parmer's new "modern western feature film coming up called 'Swelter' in which I play one of the bad guys". Parmer helmed the Method Fest Audience Award winning low-budget indie "Mob Rules" (aka. "Tic") which marked Favilli's first American film.
After that he's doing a "science-fiction film with an Italian director who works internationally" and he's also involved in a series about the Renaissance artists in his birth city of Florence.
First up is director Keith Parmer's new "modern western feature film coming up called 'Swelter' in which I play one of the bad guys". Parmer helmed the Method Fest Audience Award winning low-budget indie "Mob Rules" (aka. "Tic") which marked Favilli's first American film.
After that he's doing a "science-fiction film with an Italian director who works internationally" and he's also involved in a series about the Renaissance artists in his birth city of Florence.
- 9/1/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Torchwood: Miracle Day reaches into exciting revelations, as Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) and his Torchwood team begin discovering answers to the Miracle, stemming back almost a hundred years, and connected to his previous relationship with Angelo Colasanto (Daniele Favilli).
But while the new Torchwood join forces with the CIA, Harkness unearths some surprising alien technology when they find out there is one other man who can face mortality as the rest of humanity deals with being immortal.
During TARDISblend 34, we review the events of End of the Road, examining how Jack Harkness himself is at the center behind the cause of Miracle Day. Meanwhile, we examine the new character developments of Jilly Kitzinger (Lauren Ambrose), and deconstruct how Oswald Danes (Bill Pullman) could be more connected to those who caused the Miracle than we previously thought [...]...
But while the new Torchwood join forces with the CIA, Harkness unearths some surprising alien technology when they find out there is one other man who can face mortality as the rest of humanity deals with being immortal.
During TARDISblend 34, we review the events of End of the Road, examining how Jack Harkness himself is at the center behind the cause of Miracle Day. Meanwhile, we examine the new character developments of Jilly Kitzinger (Lauren Ambrose), and deconstruct how Oswald Danes (Bill Pullman) could be more connected to those who caused the Miracle than we previously thought [...]...
- 8/31/2011
- by Greg Davies
- Geeks of Doom
Yes, America ... you're pretty much one week ahead of Britain when it comes to the "Doctor Who" spinoff 'Torchwood." So you can imagine why it took a week for Britons to complain about seeing gay sex in the middle of their "Torchwood" episode. Series star John Barrowman hit the sheets more than once with actor Daniele Favilli during flashbacks to the early 20th Century that involved a key story point for Barrowman's Capt. Jack Harkness. Harkness has always been an "omnisexual" character, even during his days on the more family-friendly "Doctor Who." Yet, despite "Torchwood" being geared more for the adult crowd, BBC fielded a reported 500 phone calls complaining about the love-making between Barrowman's and Favilli's character this past week. "This show is meant to be sci-fi, but ...
- 8/29/2011
- GeekNation.com
Minor Spoilers Ahead.
Certainly the most old school episode of the recent run, the seventh episode of Starz and the BBC's "Torchwood: Miracle Day" hit the UK late last week and resulted in a few complaints about the "soft core porn" sex scene according to generally conservative tabloid The Daily Mail.
"Game of Thrones" and "Battlestar Galactica" scribe Jane Espenson penned the mostly acclaimed episode in question which mixed some brutally honest present day character interaction with long flashbacks set in 1927 New York City.
Said flashbacks dealt with regular Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) engaging in a touching and ultimately tragic love affair with a conflicted young Italian immigrant named Angelo (Daniele Favilli).
Reviews have been somewhat divided though most (eg. Assignment X, Den of Geek, The Independent) have labelled it as easily the strongest episode of the current season, an assessment I entirely agree with. Favilli's emotional performance in...
Certainly the most old school episode of the recent run, the seventh episode of Starz and the BBC's "Torchwood: Miracle Day" hit the UK late last week and resulted in a few complaints about the "soft core porn" sex scene according to generally conservative tabloid The Daily Mail.
"Game of Thrones" and "Battlestar Galactica" scribe Jane Espenson penned the mostly acclaimed episode in question which mixed some brutally honest present day character interaction with long flashbacks set in 1927 New York City.
Said flashbacks dealt with regular Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) engaging in a touching and ultimately tragic love affair with a conflicted young Italian immigrant named Angelo (Daniele Favilli).
Reviews have been somewhat divided though most (eg. Assignment X, Den of Geek, The Independent) have labelled it as easily the strongest episode of the current season, an assessment I entirely agree with. Favilli's emotional performance in...
- 8/28/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
David Chute is wishing that some of the lead characters in Torchwood: Miracle Day would just die already.One measure of the excellence of “Immortal Sins,” the previous, seventh episode of the BBC/Starz mini-series Torchwood: Miracle, is that it ended with a burning question whose answer actually mattered to us. It turned out that Jack’s lover of the 1920s, Angelo Colasanto (Daniele Favilli) was still alive more than eighty decades later, and had grown rich enough to send a car and several employees after him. But what on earth would he look like, now, all those years later? Immortal and still young, or impossibly old – still alive, perhaps, like many others, only because of the Miracle, but not the Angelo that, you could tell, Jack ...
- 8/27/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Special Note: This episode will be almost impossible to review without spoilers, so I won’t try. Consider yourself warned!
I’ll give the Torchwood production team this: they aren’t afraid to try something really different. Too bad it didn’t work really well.
“Immortal Sins” follows two separate stories in two different times and places. In 2011, we have Gwen (Eve Myles), going back to the United States. She’s just found out her husband, daughter and mother have all been kidnapped and the kidnappers are holding them until she can bring Jack (John Barrowman), to them. She reacts to this by going to the Torchwood HQ, luring Jack to her car and tazing him. When he wakes up, he’s very unhappy at how thorough she’s been in tying him up.
As she drives the car, he tries to negotiate with her, and...
Special Note: This episode will be almost impossible to review without spoilers, so I won’t try. Consider yourself warned!
I’ll give the Torchwood production team this: they aren’t afraid to try something really different. Too bad it didn’t work really well.
“Immortal Sins” follows two separate stories in two different times and places. In 2011, we have Gwen (Eve Myles), going back to the United States. She’s just found out her husband, daughter and mother have all been kidnapped and the kidnappers are holding them until she can bring Jack (John Barrowman), to them. She reacts to this by going to the Torchwood HQ, luring Jack to her car and tazing him. When he wakes up, he’s very unhappy at how thorough she’s been in tying him up.
As she drives the car, he tries to negotiate with her, and...
- 8/22/2011
- by Chris Swanson
- Obsessed with Film
Jane's Take Episode 7: "Immortal Sins" by Jane Espenson
Warning: Lots of spoilers ahead.
This week's episode is one of mine – the last of the three I penned as a solo effort. This one may be my favorite of the three. I love a flashback and I love a roadtrip and this is both. This is an episode with a lot of talking and a bit of romance and a hint of the kind of Torchwood activities that were featured in the show in its earlier seasons.
We start in a beautiful recreation of Ellis Island in 1927 – look at the gorgeous costume work here by Shawna Trpcic. I had to do some research for this whole part – this is a little later in the history of Ellis Island than you usually see depicted in drama. The system changed in 1924, so it was no longer a chaotic open door, but it was still there,...
Warning: Lots of spoilers ahead.
This week's episode is one of mine – the last of the three I penned as a solo effort. This one may be my favorite of the three. I love a flashback and I love a roadtrip and this is both. This is an episode with a lot of talking and a bit of romance and a hint of the kind of Torchwood activities that were featured in the show in its earlier seasons.
We start in a beautiful recreation of Ellis Island in 1927 – look at the gorgeous costume work here by Shawna Trpcic. I had to do some research for this whole part – this is a little later in the history of Ellis Island than you usually see depicted in drama. The system changed in 1924, so it was no longer a chaotic open door, but it was still there,...
- 8/21/2011
- by JaneEspenson
- The Backlot
"Miracle Day: Immortal Sins"
Spoilers Within
Jack’s past is catching up with him, and considering how long his past actually is, that could a very bad thing. The good Captain is lamenting his immortality in this week’s episode, which spends quite a bit of time in Jack’s past. New York in 1927, to be exact. So what does his time in pre-Depression New York have to do with the miracle, or who’s behind it?
Ellis Island, gateway to the New World, where so many immigrants passed through in search of a better life than the ones they left behind. And in desperation, one such immigrant steals a Visa in order to gain access to America. Alas, he made the mistake of swiping the Visa of one Jack Harkness, who sweeps in to retrieve it. But he takes a shine to the thief, an Italian by the name of Angelo.
Spoilers Within
Jack’s past is catching up with him, and considering how long his past actually is, that could a very bad thing. The good Captain is lamenting his immortality in this week’s episode, which spends quite a bit of time in Jack’s past. New York in 1927, to be exact. So what does his time in pre-Depression New York have to do with the miracle, or who’s behind it?
Ellis Island, gateway to the New World, where so many immigrants passed through in search of a better life than the ones they left behind. And in desperation, one such immigrant steals a Visa in order to gain access to America. Alas, he made the mistake of swiping the Visa of one Jack Harkness, who sweeps in to retrieve it. But he takes a shine to the thief, an Italian by the name of Angelo.
- 8/20/2011
- Shadowlocked
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