Thanks to Willian for the following info. A new still from Moth has been added to the gallery.

The DVD of The Slap has been out in England. You can now order it here.

BellaSugar Australia / NOVEMBER 17, 2011 9:32 AM

After rising to fame in Beautiful Kate, the gorgeous Sophie Lowe has always been on our radar — both for her acting roles and her effortless, sometimes eclectic style. She’s earned critical acclaim for her role as Connie in The Slap, the must-see mini-series which is in its penultimate episode — don’t miss it: ABC1, 8.30pm tonight. We caught up with her on the green carpet at the Jameson IF Awards last night and asked her to talk us through her stunning complexion so she opened up her clutch and revealed what’s inside . . .

Clé de Peau Concealer: “You can’t get it in Australia but whenever I’m in LA I get it.”
MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Powder ($47)
BECCA: “I really like anything BECCA.” Try the brand’s Beach Tint ($33.60) or Bird of Paradise Gloss ($46)

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Summer kicks off tomorrow! We decided to check in with some of our favourite Aussie stars to see what they had planned for the warmer months. Some are escaping the heat for chillier climates, while others are looking forward to the break because it means spending lots of time with loved ones! Who hopes to stay indoors with air-con and play video games? And who’s heading to Fiji for a holiday? Click through to find out!

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Sophie Lowe
“Beach. Working out, because I have to wear a bikini [laughs]. I’m going to LA in January to check it out and do the rounds, but over Christmas and New Years I’ll be with my family.”
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Watching Sophie Lowe on screen is mesmerising. Whether as a calculating teen (Beautiful Kate), a manipulative schoolgirl (Blame), or a delinquent daughter (Blessed), she effortlessly balances the youthful innocence of her often complex characters with a contrasting maturity. And lurking beneath is always a gravelly tension.

Lowe in person is something different entirely, all sweetness and light. Charmingly honest, she giggles often, mostly from nerves. She’s quick to clarify her comments, on the off chance she may have said the wrong thing or unwittingly upset someone, which would be entirely against her nature.

So, how then to explain the skilful insight and gripping frisson that underpins the 21-year-old’s performances? Call it raw talent. Lowe may blush at the suggestion (“I love challenging myself,” she offers, instead), but those who have worked with her happily confirm it. “She is magnetic,” says Miranda Otto, her co-star in 2009′s Blessed. “She has a fresh, young quality that is both fearless and unselfconscious.”

This month, we get another slice of Lowe’s beguiling repertoire, in the TV adaptation of The Slap (premiering on ABC1 in September). Based on the award-winning Christos Tsiolkas novel, the story is a snapshot of modern Australian life, centering around the fallout among a group of friends after one man reprimands someone else’s badly behaved toddler with a slap. Lowe plays Connie, a 16-year-old having an ambiguous affair with one of the adults in the group, a man more than twice her age.

For Lowe, the attraction was Connie—”she is a great character”—but also the “amazing” ensemble cast, which includes Jonathan LaPaglia, Melissa George, Alex Dimitriades, Essie Davis and British actress Sophie Okonedo. Lowe admits she was hungry for a part in the high-profile project.

“I really wanted it. I’ve never been that nervous for an audition! It seems since I’ve been doing more work, the more nervous I get; maybe it’s because of the expectations I feel now.”

Those expectations likely began in 2009, when, straight off the mark, Lowe was nominated for a Best Actress AFI Award; it was for her first role in a feature film, Beautiful Kate. She’s sustained that hype because, it’s said, she’s worth it. Matthew Saville, one of the directors of The Slap, says, “Sophie lights up the screen, but does so with such ease and such a lack of vanity that it is sometimes hard to discern which of the extraordinarily expressive moments she conjures are hers, and which belong to her character.” Her co-stars from the series are equally blown away: Davis calls her “unadulterated by ego and intriguing to watch.” Adds George, “Sophie is such a talented actress. When I glance at her I see a young girl and, at the same time, a leading lady—she can play both. She has a massive career ahead of her.”

Pick up the latest issue of InStyle, starring Katie Holmes on the cover, to read more of our interview with Sophie Lowe and check out our photo shoot with the home-grown hero. 

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PS. Sorry for not updating the gallery, but I´ve been experiencing some problems with uploading new pics..

Found this really interesting article about Sophie! Learned a few things about her that I didn´t know.

No class, but that’s a good thing
August 7 2011
Mesmerising actor Sophie Lowe has revealed she struggled at school and was ”borderline dyslexic”.

The talented actress, who is about to appear in the ABC TV adaptation of The Slap – as a 16-year-old having an affair with a much older man – tells tomorrow’s edition of InStyle magazine it was a no-brainer to drop out of high school and embrace her ground-breaking role in Beautiful Kate.

”I found school tough,” she says. ”It was good at defining what I wanted, but I’m borderline dyslexic; at times, it was soul-destroying.

”Beautiful Kate was the right excuse to leave. I knew what I wanted to do.”

Evidently she made the right choice. Miranda Otto (her co-star on Blessed) calls her ”magnetic” and ”fearless” while The Slap director Matthew Saville says ”she lights up the screen”. Essie Davis describes her talent as ”intriguing to watch” and Melissa George says she has ”a massive career ahead of her”.

But Lowe, shooting her first American film, The Philosophers, in Indonesia, insists she is incredibly shy. That is, until the flashlight comes on.

”Once a camera is there, I’m like, ‘Bang!’ but meeting people, yes, I’m awkward and I get really nervous.”

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Julie Szego
July 23, 2011

HAVE you heard about the ”A-list”, ”red carpet” event at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival? It has been described as a slick marketing coup to create a buzz around a new ABC mini-series, The Slap. The first two episodes of the series, an adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas’s novel, will feature on the big screen one night during the festival. For a TV drama, The Slap has heavy-hitters in its credits; several accomplished directors and a stellar cast, including Melissa George, Alex Dimitriades and Jonathan LaPaglia. This is unsurprising, given the heady success of the novel, which won a slew of gongs and had large sections of the literati gushing.

But The Slap also polarised readers like few other books in recent memory. And if you belong, as I do, in the negative column, if you experienced the novel as little more than a tedious and unrelenting assault – as misanthropic nonsense – then the impending mini-series will have you gnashing teeth and boycotting the national broadcaster until the publicity storm blows over.

To be clear, I was favourably disposed to The Slap, having found Tsiolkas’s first novel, Loaded, about a young gay Greek-Australian, exhilarating, authentic and in-your-face (I have not read his two other novels). In one memorable passage the book’s narrator, Ari, skewers the pieties of political multiculturalism by describing Melbourne as a microcosm of ethnic tensions around the world, where ”everyone hates everyone else”. The book suggested a writer comfortably on home turf.

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A few articles concering The Slap being screened at MIFF.

THE SLAP
Australia, 2011 (Prime Time)

The slap seemed to echo. It cracked the twilight. The little boy looked up at the man in shock. There was a long silence.

This year’s MIFF will host a special world premiere screening of the first two episodes of the long-awaited ABC TV adaptation of The Slap, the controversial, highly praised and Premier’s Award winning novel by Melbourne-based Christos Tsiolkas.

When a backyard cricket match turns into an out-of-control tantrum for an irritable boy, one man’s attempt to punish a child that is not his own explodes into a world of litigation and resentment. A biting portrait of the seething underbelly of middle-class Australian life seen through the eyes of eight affected characters, The Slap is a bleakly comic demolition of our cosy assumptions about community, family and the way we raise our children.

Stars Jonathan LaPaglia, Essie Davis, Sophie Okonedo, Sophie Lowe and Melissa George.

Cast and crew will be present for the screening.

D Jessica Hobbs P Tony Ayres, Helen Bowden, Michael McMahon S Kris Mrksa, Emily Ballou Dist ABC TD HD Cam/2011

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Code: 2104
Film: THE SLAP (110 min)
Date Time: Thu 4 aug 6:30 PM
Venue: Greater Union Cinema 6

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Slap hits the big screen at MIFF
Megan Miller From: Herald Sun July 06, 2011 12:00AM

IN A slap to the small screen, ABC-TV’s most hotly anticipated mini-series for 2011 will make its world debut at this month’s Melbourne International Film Festival.

The first two episodes of Aunty’s eight-part TV adaptation of the award-winning novel The Slap will screen as part of MIFF’s new Prime Time category, which focuses on works made for television by filmmakers better known in cinema.

Tony Ayres, the AFI-winning writer and director of The Home Song Stories, is co-producing the mini-series, which will air on ABC1 later this year.

In other MIFF programming news announced last night at Toff in Town, Belgium romance The Fairy will open the event.

It is one of the 25 flicks – also alongside Lars von Triers’ Melancholia, starring Kirsten Dunst – picked up from May’s Cannes Film Festival in France.

Super Size Me star Morgan Spurlock will be a guest of the fest, presenting his latest project, POM Wonderful: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, a doco about, and made via, product placement.

US director Mike Mills will also hit town, accompanying his film Beginners, inspired by his own father’s decision to come out before his death and starring Ewan McGregor.

A pick of the local fare is the world premiere of Fred Schepisi’s The Eye of the Storm, with Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis.

This year is the 60th anniversary of MIFF. Tickets go on sale on Friday.

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Various venues July 21-August 7
Visit miff.com.au

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She was first noticed for her title role in Rachel Ward’s Beautiful Kate and now stars in the thriller Blame, but even at 21 she’s already looking to sit in the director’s chair someday, she tells Andrew L. Urban.

Sophie Lowe believes in fate. “Oh, totally!” she exclaims. “Everything happens for a reason … say if I don’t get a role, it may be that it would have stopped me getting another role.”

Relaxed in sneakers and casual slacks, without make up and hair pulled back in a pony tail, Lowe is as natural and unaffected as her supporters claim as we chat in her agent’s office in Surry Hills.

She looks as if she has just come from a rehearsal of her boyfriend’s band, The Go Roll Your Bones – a name they adopted after seeing it scrawled on a toilet seat. Lowe is directing, shooting and starring in a video clip about the band.

“We’re keeping the production as small as possible,” she says referring to her triple roles, “but want to make it as great as possible.” It’s a bit of low-level practice for really directing, something she is keen to do. She also loves dancing, music (is trying to form a band) and is “really into cooking … I just got a ‘whole food’ cookbook.”

On the set of the upcoming 8-part ABC TV series, The Slap in which she plays 17 year old Connie, Lowe and cinematographer Andrew Commis would jokingly exchange movie making jargon and gestures. “I’d hold up two fingers for eyes and I’d say shall we do a two shot now, or let’s do the reverse …” It’s part and parcel of her curiosity about filmmaking.

“I’m always asking people what’s this, what’s that…

But for now, Lowe is focused on promoting her latest film, Blame, a thriller written and directed by debuting feature filmmaker from Perth, Michael Henry. Lowe plays Natalie, one of five friends who hold schoolteacher Brendan (Damian de Montamas) responsible for the suicide of their friend, Alice – and after Alice’s funeral, attack him at his remote bush house, intent on faking his suicide. Natalie hides a secret that has a devastating effect on the group.

“I loved the script,” she says, “it looked like fun to do and challenging. And it turned out to be even better than I expected in terms of learning from the experience and the cast. The biggest challenge for us all was the heat: we were shooting during an extended heatwave and so we were keen not to do too many takes for the exteriors!”

She says that after making Beautiful Kate in 2009 making Blame she felt “more comfortable and confident about what I wanted to say in script meetings. I learnt how to express myself. It could be scary being around all those actors,” says Lowe, who has had no formal acting training. “But now I finally feel OK about saying I’m an actor.”

Blame screened in the Cinema des Antipodes section of Cannes Cinephiles at last month’s Cannes film festival, and attracted a flurry of buyers from various countries including US, UK, France, Central Europe, Turkey and even China.

Lowe turned 21 on June 5, 2011 and while she’s had a few roles in short films, it was Beautiful Kate that launched her career. “It was all new and I didn’t know how to control it,” she says referring to her craft. It was director Rachel Ward “who taught me to trust my instincts.”

Ward says it was Lowe’s “gamin quality” that appealed. “She’s just got this incredibly charming face …very watchable… it’s hard to articulate; she’s young and delightful and that’s innate. You can’t manufacture that. She is totally unpretentious, and her youth belies her intuition.” adds Ward.

It was Lowe’s work in Beautiful Kate which impressed another filmmaker, James Hunter, and prompted him to contact Lowe via Facebook to offer her the lead role of Nurse Rose in his upcoming World War I drama, One of Us. “I was amazed by her raw, natural talent,” he says.

On a personal level, Ward says Lowe is “really girlie…she loves fashion and boys and you just hope this girl-woman transition phase she is going through will last. She is unusual, an individual.”

Arriving with her family from Halifax, England, when she was 10, Lowe quickly adapted and made friends – although she rapidly lost interest in school. The one benefit she does value is a role in a school musical when she was 16. “Afterwards people kept telling me how good I was and so on and it felt really good on the stage … so I thought, hmmm, maybe I could try this…”

Lowe has been solidly supported by her parents: from the beginning, her mother Anne “was like my manager in a way”. Of her father, Ian, she says “he’s outgoing and enthusiastic, which is perhaps where I get my acting genes.”

Secure in her career choice, Lowe says “people ask what if it doesn’t work out? But it will. I’ll never give up.”

(Blame: in cinemas from June 16, 2011)

First published in the Sun Herald

Published Sunday, June 19, 2011

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By Sam Dallas

June has been a big month for young Australian actress Sophie Lowe.

After celebrating her 21st birthday 10 days ago, she is now anxiously waiting for her latest movie – psychological thriller Blame – to open in Australia.

It’s a movie – written and directed by newcomer Michael ‘Hank’ Henry – that she instantly fell in love with.

The filmmakers knew immediately that Lowe would be perfect to play the role of Natalie – who is one of five young friends who aim to commit the perfect murder, in attempting to seek revenge for their friend’s death.

“I really loved the role of Natalie – she really stood out to me because she’s not what she seems,” Sydney-based Lowe tells IF.

“She’s got more going on throughout the whole film, which is really exciting to play – she’s not just a regular character, it was something else I had to bring to it which I thought I’d love to do.”

With few lines to speak, Lowe’s performance in the Perth-based film is characterised by nuances such as black-painted fingernails or a little twitch in her face. It’s the type of acting she enjoys.

“I love doing stuff like that, I love making the audience a bit skeptical and trying to leave them hanging on stuff and do stuff more internally than just saying words,” she says.

She’s an actress that doesn’t mind playing the unconventional character – she admits it’s fun and more entertaining to play.

Is there a character/situation she would refuse?

“No. It depends all in the character and the story but…I think if the character is good and I think I can do a good job then I’d definitely go for it,” the Sophia Coppola fan says.

The young actress, who moved from England in 2000 when she was 10, gained attention after her film debut performance in Beautiful Kate – in which she received an AFI Nomination for Best Actress.

Since then Lowe has appeared in films Road Train, Blessed and The Clinic while entertaining TV audiences in such shows as All Saints and Satisfaction. She recently acted alongside pros Melissa George and Sophie Okonedo in ABC series The Slap, which finished shooting last month.

Blame opens across Australia tomorrow.

Check out the June/July issue of IF Magazine for a cover story on Blame.

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It’s a bright, breezy day when we visit actor Sophie Lowe, 20, at her family home in Paddington, Sydney. A little too breezy, actually: Lowe is suffering from terrible hay fever. Not that you can tell. For someone in a plain tank top, jeans and bare feet, she looks remarkably beautiful. Big blue eyes, creamy white skin and a smattering of freckles: she’s hardly the girl next door.

Lowe lives on a leafy street a stone’s throw away from some of the city’s best fashion boutiques. Bassike, Acne, Josh Goot … to name but a few. “I have had my eye on a pair of Acne shorts that would be perfect for my summer wardrobe,” she says, smiling. Lowe clearly loves to shop.

The young actor’s long mane belies her boyish look. “I’m a bit of a tomboy,” she admits (while filming her breakout role, in Rachel Ward’s outback drama Beautiful Kate, she indulged in her more masculine side, learning to drive a ute and fire a rifle). “It took me ages to wear skirts. I never used to bare my legs.” Of course, this might have been down to the fact that the actor spent half her life in England.

We head upstairs to her sunny bedroom, which is filled with an eclectic mix of bits and bobs that reflect Lowe’s unique style. There’s a vintage record-player (she collects records), a keyboard (she’s self-taught and writes her own songs), rows of boots and brogues, candid pictures of Lowe with her friends, and her latest addition, a black Mulberry bag (it goes everywhere with her). Oh, and lots of hats. Of late, Lowe has developed a penchant for cool hats. She has several, but new to her collection is a black felt American Apparel hat, which she customised by shortening the rim. There’s also a BCBG Max Azria example, bought on sale in Los Angeles. Two of the looks she wears on the BAZAAR shoot are topped with hats.

As we begin photographing this story, it soon becomes clear that Lowe is a natural in front of the camera, although, we discover that she also likes being on the other side of the lens. “I used to photograph bands before I was an actor,” she says.

The former gymnast has always approached fashion with flair. “At school, I’d always try to stand out and be different. If everyone was wearing tight jeans, I’d wear baggy ones. If they had long hair, I’d cut all of mine off. I’ve always experimented with fashion.”

Lowe and her family moved to Australia in 2000, and the young actor made her mark in 2009’s Beautiful Kate, starring alongside Bryan Brown, Rachel Griffiths and Ben Mendelsohn and receiving an AFI Best Actress nomination for her performance.

Several roles followed. She played a schoolgirl in the drama Blessed; starred in the horror film The Clinic and thrillers Road Train and Blame; and has recently been cast in the TV-adaptation of award-winning Christos Tsiolkas book The Slap, alongside Melissa George, Alex Dimitriades and Sophie Okonedo. The Slap follows the story of a backyard neighbourhood barbecue, which turns nasty after a man hits a child who is not his son. Lowe plays Connie, a teenager who has an affair with a 40-year-old married man.

As her career blooms, Lowe — and her personal style — is spending more time in the spotlight. Style-icon status might not have been something to which Lowe ever aspired, but actors are often the ones we look to for fashion inspiration. Her approach to dressing is typical of a girl her age, mixing something high-fashion with something from a chainstore brand. Take her recent run on the party circuit: a dress by Perth-based designer Timothy Godbold with Wittner shoes. Likewise, at another soiree, she wore a camilla and marc dress, again with Wittner shoes. Does she like to dress up? “I love it,” she says. “It’s when I get my girlie side out.” Judging by the number of dresses she picks to wear for the BAZAAR shoot, it looks like we might be seeing a whole lot more of Lowe’s feminine side.

By Georgie McCourt

 

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