GIFrama: Hannah New (Brief Breasts) in Black Sails [S1E3]

Hannah New in Black Sails [S1E3]

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‘New’ girl slings booze for the scurvy dogs of ‘Black Sails’

By Robert Rorke

Hannah New has the kingpin look down in a scene from Starz' new pirate drama, "Black Sails."

How many actresses can say that they’ve acted with David Hasselhoff — in a foreign-language film?

Meet Hannah New.

The London-born actress, who stars in the new pirate series “Black Sails,” had the pleasure of working with the Hoff in Spain, on a film called “Fuga de cerebros 2”(Brain Drain).

“I played an American college student in a wheelchair who fell in love with a rough kid. It was like an ‘American Pie,’” she says. “He played the father of the groom. There was a wedding at the end. It was that lofty. He did have a couple of lines in Spanish. I was the maid of honor in the wheelchair.
“He’s very tall, and he’s very tall when you’re in the wheelchair,” New says.

New was studying acting in Spain when she made the movie. Her fluency with the language, learned while she was a student at Leeds University, enabled her to continue working in Spain even after she returned to England for post-graduate studies at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

“My mom was like, ‘Do you want to just go to drama school? If you’re really committed, why don’t you learn a cool language so you can work in two markets?’ I’d fallen in love with the language and the culture as a little kid,” New says. “My sister lives in Berlin and speaks German fluently. My mother speaks Italian. I wanted to do my own thing. If you speak Spanish and English you can communicate with half the world. It’s kind of amazing.”

Living and working in a foreign country well prepared New for the “Black Sails” production schedule. She and the rest of the cast lived in Capetown, South Africa for half the year while filming.

As Eleanor Guthrie, the owner of a rowdy saloon who also runs her father’s black-market business, she is one of the few women in the cast, which boasts more than its fair share of swashbuckling dudes with the kind of  rippling musculature and whitened teeth that say Chippendale’s more than Jolly Roger. The female staff in the makeup room have taken notice.

“A lot of the guys are in extremely good shape,” New says. “Lots of topless men. Makes the makeup girls very happy. All the scars [they have to put on].”

One of those very fit men is Toby Stephens, who plays Captain Flint, the most feared pirate. He is the son of “Downton Abbey” star Maggie Smith, but New says he doesn’t talk about Mum much on-set. “He has talked about the way he used to get ribbed as a teenager by her,” she says.

“Black Sails” takes place on the island of New Providence, which is now part of the Bahamas. Production has tried to re-create the bustling, raw feeling of the port of Nassau on a pristine beach, complete with hundreds of extras and a turquoise-colored ocean, outside of Capetown.

“It’s an amazing amalgamation of computer wizardry and Hollywood magic,” New says. “We don’t have miles and miles of coastland. The seascape is taken from stuff that was filmed in the Bahamas and footage created by computer whiz kids.”

New immersed herself in research before leaving home to play Guthrie and discovered that there were savvy, strong-willed women from the 18th century who ran taverns like her character. “Women had to keep the town running. You had a breakdown of the traditional gender boundaries that you wouldn’t have had in the 18th century,” she says. Besides Moll Flanders, the heroine of the Daniel Defoe novel, New found a real-life pirate, an Irish woman named Grace O’Malley who “saw an opportunity to intercept a trading route to the British Isles,” New says. “She received a pardon from Queen Anne.”

Willowy and petite in person with delicate bone structure, New comes across as rowdy as most of the men on the show, cursing like a sailor and sharing her bed with members of both sexes.

“My poor mother watched me and she was horrified at my potty mouth,” she says. “She said, ‘You’re very good in it, but I don’t like how much you swear.’ ”

Guthrie’s bisexuality, expressed with a native girl named Max (Jessica Parker Kennedy), was not a problem for New, who is single, to deal with.

Hannah New and Hakeem Kae-Kazim, who plays Eleanor’s right hand.

“Lesbianism was a word only invented in the 19th century. Eleanor is not tied down by rules of matrimony or society; she’s sexually fluid,” New says. “She wields enough power not to have to ally herself with anyone. When you look at 18th-century literature, there’s a lot of romantic letter writing between women. And Jessica makes it so easy.”

If Guthrie sees plenty of action on “Black Sails,” New contents herself with the friends she’s made among the cast and crew, many of whom are far from home, and with the locals. She does not miss London.

“It felt like home [here] so quickly. I have really great mates here and I find the most amazing things to do on the weekends. We wind up dancing at a little dive bar, Aces ’n’ Spades. It’s actually a funky kind of club that plays rock ’n’ roll. The owners will be so chuffed if I get that in. It’s our old haunt.”

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Jessica Parker Kennedy & Hannah New: Black Sails [S1E2]

29-years old Canadian actress Jessica Parker Kennedy unveils her canuck beaver to the world and 24-26(?)-years old English actress-model Hannah New flaunts her fanny in Black Sails [S1E2]

The initial casting notice requires nudity for all four female principals (Louise Barnes, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Hannah New and Clara Paget) but I thought only the South African actress will do a proper full-frontal. I was - as usual and thankfully - wrong : )
Just a reminder...more like a trivia: JPK's mom was on-set during some of the shooting. I'm pretty sure mama bear was there to make sure her daughter wasn't taken advantage of in more racier aspect of the scenes.
Nice ass on Hannah (wearing a merkin which means possible full-frontal in the future) enhanced by shapely legs. Cute, pert tits. Those reddish nips needs oral loving pronto. It should be her nude debut but the chick could have gone T-and-A route in handful of shorts she starred in when she was in Spain. Hannah's life motto: 
"I'm a very determined person , pretty hardheaded at times, but with the belief that if you have the right attitude and high motivation can achieve what you want."
JPK is the nudity winner in Superbowl weekend. Fantastic pair of puppies (only one is shown at a time. Probably stipulated in the nudity clause) with a surprise non-merkin FF. She was BS'ing about wearing a bush patch in an interview. Maybe for the clit but the surrounding area is her real pubic hair.

VisitorQ
Wow. This Jessica Parker Kennedy and Hannah New lesbian scene looks just wow

Chad
Nice to see that Jessica Parker went full frontal, and maybe Hannah will as well. I disagree with the notion that's a merkin. As your mystery EP said, merkins don't thin out like a natural bush. Here you can see her skin underneath and it thins out.  I wonder why we all jump to the merkin conclusion nowadays?

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Interview with Black Sails’ Hannah New

By John 'Spartan' Nguyen

If you don’t know who Hannah New is, prepare to see a lot of her in 2014. Not only can you see her as one of the leads in Starz’s Black Sails (January 25 at 9pm ET/PT), but you’ll also be seeing her opposite of Angelina Jolie in the upcoming live-action Disney movie, Maleficent. I had the chance to chat with the beautiful English actress about her upcoming roles, pirates, and being bilingual.

John “Spartan” Nguyen (Nerd Reactor): 2014 is a pretty impressive year so far for you.

Hannah New: Yeah, I know. It’s been a long time in the coming.

Nerd Reactor: You’ve got Black Sails coming out, then you’ve got the upcoming Maleficent movie too.

Hannah New: Yeah. It’s funny because I’ve been filming stuff the past two years, and nothing has come out. So I’m like “Wow, it’s all come at once. It’s really exciting.”

Nerd Reactor: It’s cool that you’re bilingual. You can speak English and Spanish.

Hannah New: Yeah. I lived in Spain for four years, and I took Spanish as my first degree. I love speaking Spanish and working in Spain.

Nerd Reactor: How fluent are you?

Hannah New: Yeah, I’m fluent in Spanish. I did it at degree-level, and then when I lived there for four years, I really learned how to speak it like the kids on the street, and be able to converse fluently. Then obviously working in TV, it was like a real baptism by fire because I was given scripts with really sophisticated language, so it was a lot of fun.

Nerd Reactor: Will we be hearing any of your Spanish in Black Sails?

Hannah New: I don’t get to speak Spanish yet, but there are a few lines in Spanish that Luke (John Silver) gets to say. So with Luke, I’ve been helping him out a bit when he has a few lines in Spanish.

Nerd Reactor: Can you tell us a little bit about Eleanor Guthrie in Black Sails?

Hannah New: Yeah, she is a fictional character. She’s not based on any kind of historical person that we can find specifically. That said, she is someone who would have had to existed. The figure of the fence is something that definitely would have existed in order to keep the pirates moving, keep their loot moving, and keep their business afloat.

Nerd Reactor: Before the show, did you do any research on pirates in general, or  just a crash course afterwards?

Hannah New: Yeah, I did a lot of research just kind of trying to find who this character was. I mainly focused on the context of what it must have been like to be living in the Caribbean in that time period. So lots of building her background story, looking at Nassau, and looking at how it was invaded twice by the Spanish. She kind of grew up with a history of conflict, and significant things that would have really marked her childhood. Then obviously I looked into women in piracy, and the way in which there are key women who became kind of entrepreneurs as a business opportunity. For example, Grace O’Malley, who was an Irish pirate – it was slightly earlier than the time period we’re looking at. But then obviously even earlier than that, there were some pretty significant Chinese female pirates. So just the idea that there were woman in business. I’m pretty much of the opinion that not very many women made it into the history books; it’s not something that’s particularly comfortable for a lot of people who are writing history.

Nerd Reactor: Yeah. Speaking of male/female pirates, what was it like for you to be on the set of a large male cast?

Hannah New: Yeah, it is a large male cast but we have three very strong female characters. So we have Max, who is played by Jessica Parker Kennedy, and she’s really such an amazing actress, and her character has such an amazing way of manipulating people by using this sexual power. She’s a very clever and conniving young woman who is able to use that power in order to siphon intelligence. And then obviously we’ve got Clara Paget, who plays the real pirate, Anne Bonny. She kind of re-appropriates some masculine attributes, making her character more vicious and violent. She had this physical strength that was unmatched, and sort of psychological resolve and determination that no one is ever going to overpower her. She wields power in a completely different way to Max, and in a completely different way to Eleanor. And Eleanor obviously has this political and economic power.
So even though we’re only three, we’re three very strong, distinct women who really tell the pirates where to stick it a lot of the time.

Nerd Reactor: Since Black Sails is on Starz, I’m going to guess there’s a lot of R-rated action, sex and all that.

Hannah New: Yeah!

Nerd Reactor: Have you worked on these types of projects before?

Hannah New: No, this is definitely something new for me. When I first read the script, I was really impressed by the fact that these characters are so daring. As an actress, you have to explore these characters 360 degrees. We’re presenting a world where sexual politics is much more fluid than the world we know today. Sexuality wasn’t legislated in the way that it’s legislated today. So you’re looking at people who kind of used sex and politics in the same way. I never feel like, on the show, that it’s ever gratuitous. I never feel that the violence is gratuitous. It always says something about those particular characters. It always has a very significant push towards a certain plot narrative.
So it’s a show that doesn’t put boundaries on what they’re showing of this gritty, real world. I think it’s important to show that, in order to to see that there’s a very full picture of what piracy was about in the 18^th century.

Nerd Reactor: Yeah, that’s a good thing, because for sure we’re not getting that from Pirates of the Caribbean.

Hannah New: No, exactly. We’re not pandering to the fantasy or mythology of it.

Nerd Reactor: You play Aurora’s mom in the upcoming Disney live-action film, Maleficent.

Hannah New: Yes, I play the mother of Sleeping Beauty, that’s right, yes. It was a fairly small role, but it was amazing to be able to work with the caliber of actors in that project. Angelina Jolie, lots of powerhouses of British acting tradition. For me, it was an amazing combination of a lot of things – working at Pinewood, which is incredible, and obviously being a Disney Princess which is so exciting.

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Hannah New: Sexually Fluid Black Marketeer on “Black Sails”

Hannah New talks about her new role as a sexually fluid black marketeer on “Black Sails”

by J. Halterman

Unfortunately with mainstream television programming, we’re used to being more disappointed than not when it comes to depiction of lesbian characters and how their sexuality is defined. (Case in point, the recent news on Fox’s Backstrom.)

And while Starz’s new pirate drama Black Sails doesn’t define the sexual orientation of characters of Eleanor (Hannah New) and Max (Jessica Parker Kennedy) even though they have a steamy sex scene in the first episode, that’s part of the point given the period of the series.

Hannah New

Here’s how Eleanor is described in the promotional materials for the show:

Beautiful and determined, Eleanor is the daughter of Richard Guthrie, the wealthiest black marketer in the Bahamas and the chief fence/supplier for the many pirate crews of New Providence Island. Left by her father to oversee all his dealings with the pirates in Nassau, she owns and operates the tavern on Nassau’s main street. Eleanor wields considerable influence, leading her to form a pact with Captain Flint that will either bring her dream of complete independence to fruition, or doom it entirely.

Max is described as “seductive, cunning, and coolheaded” and works as a prostitute in the brothel. We get a hint of the possible trouble between Eleanor and Max in the promo materials for the show, which warn, “when her aspirations and Eleanor’s begin to conflict, their relationship, and Max’s well-being, take a dark turn for the worse…”

During the recent Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, the cast and creative team were present and AfterEllen asked co-creator Jon Steinberg about the sexuality of New’s Eleanor, to which he replied, “It was really important to us that, if we were going to explore this world, that gender had to be a part of that, well beyond just stock wenches and the occasional cross dressing pirate; that there were women in this world, and they had very specific challenges, and they had very specific expectation,” he explained. “I think both through Eleanor and through Max, Jessica Parker Kennedy’s character, and through Anne Bonny, that Clara Paget plays, we wanted to explore three very different women…[and] how they dealt with the expectations that either they were living under or that they were in the process of shedding and figuring out a way to exist in a world that men ran but in which they had something to contribute.”

After the panel we sat down with New to ask in more detail about the role, the intimate scenes with Kennedy and what she thinks about society’s need to label sexuality.

AfterEllen: Tell me about this time where the show is finally about to air in a couple of weeks and the show–and you–are getting all this buzz now.
Hannah New: It oscillates between pure excitement and just so happy that finally everyone’s going to see it and start to engage with these characters in this world and these story lines. And then terror seeps in as well but I think more than anything the excitement is taking over at this point and it’s going to be interesting because we’re going to be back filming and we’ll be in a little bubble again when it all releases. It’s going to be really interesting and I’m sure I’m going to be on the phone being like, “What’s it like? What’s everyone doing? Are they enjoying it?”

AE: Well, talk to me about your approach to Eleanor and, of course, everybody always wants definitions like, “Is she gay? Bi? What is she?”
HN: I think that’s what’s really interesting about this world is that when you break down those barriers, you break down the barriers between gender and sexuality, people can be much more fluid and she doesn’t have to conform to any kind of societal norm. She’s not married and I think outside of marriage, there was very little legislation about sexuality outside of marriage. It didn’t really exist, of course.
I think it’s really interesting when you look into the history of sexuality and you look at how lesbianism became defined and how it became legislated. I suddenly realized that, “Wow, I’ve got this opportunity to play this woman who is growing and developing without those constraints, without that obligation to be part of anything, to be part of a group.” She is completely on the margins of all of that.
I think it’s really interesting because I remember I read an article by Tony Kushner [playwright, Angels In America] about labeling and I think that’s something that he’s explored so much in his work. When I suddenly realized that someone like that is going to be put on television, I thought, “That’s a huge breakthrough” and I think it’s really important, especially at a time now where we’re starting to talk about equality in real terms. We’re starting to talk about legislation and making it fair and I think that’s really progressive.
Some people might feel that by not defining her, it kind of draws away from her identifying with a particular group but I actually think that it’s a stronger move to be a fluid woman whose sexuality is completely her own and she’s in control of it and she doesn’t have to answer to anyone. It’s incredibly empowering. I can’t express how excited I am about it. 

AE: What is the journey with Max since we do see them together in the first episode?
HN: I think what’s really interesting if you look at any kind of eighteenth century literature, one of a very strong line of female writing was to deal with the romantic letter writing and it was very often between two women. I think that idea that two women could really, really identify it and support each other and that it’s a friendship that does involve love and it does involve affection and it does involve a sexual attraction. I think that’s a really important thing to be known and if you read any of those things, it’s pretty explicit. It’s explicit in a non-titillating…they’re writing to each other. This isn’t for a male audience. Do you know what I mean?
I think that was really an important thing that Jessica and I wanted to get across is that these two women support each other and they have a mutual responsibility towards each other. Their relationship goes really deep and I think that Jessica plays it so beautifully. She’s one of the most generous actresses I’ve ever worked with. I actually have got goose bumps talking about her. I think bringing to light that story is really important and the fact that it doesn’t always work out, I think, is also a very realistic way of portraying this relationship because they are women in men’s world, in a very masculine society. I think they don’t give a shit whether anyone judges them for it. I mean, that’s not the society they live in.

AE: It’s also really freeing, I would guess.
HN: It’s just such a liberating experience and I think it was very important with the scenes that it very much depicted those aspects of their relationship and Max is one of the only people that she can be vulnerable with. She has this hard exterior. I think, Max and also with Scott (Hakeem Kae Kasim), who is her father figure, who is her counsel…and very quickly they are no longer a part of her support network and I think it’s interesting to see how she survives on her own.
The decision she’s made to cast off those people that she so intimately knows and needs is a very interesting…I’ve never really imagined a character that would have such a quick down fall. She goes from being all power and everyone backing her to suddenly having to grapple together a team and this team is nothing compared to the kind of support she had before. It’s a beautiful story and I think as the seasons go on, it has to develop and that history has to be there.

AE: Having talked to actors for a long time, I’ve never heard anybody say a love scene was fun or it was a good time. Is it any easier doing it with a women as opposed to a man? I’m just curious if that’s any different.HN: Do you know what? I find it really interesting. It’s always awkward, obviously, that there’s a crew in the room. But I actually think the way we choreograph scenes and it is choreography basically, is almost like crafting a scripted scene. Every single move has to be like a line. It has to mean something. Nothing is in there for gratuitous reasons. It has to be meaningful and I think that first scene with Max was actually really incredible as we talked about it. Talking about it, you learn so much about a character. Why is it that she at this time of real pain seeks a moment of pleasure? I think that’s very interesting and it ties into so many psychological arguments about why people use their sexuality to act out or to become, to release themselves from a situation. I just hope that, that scene reads that way.

Hannah New and Clara Paget

AE: I like that all the characters, there are layers early on that really hooks you in.HN: It’s funny because all of my gay friends are like, “Please, just portray it in a realistic way. Make it look real. Don’t make it look like this kind of Hollywood version of what a gay relationship is and two women.” I was like, “There’s no way I cannot make it real,” because Jessica is that kind of actress who just is so open and both of us…when I looked at the scene where we have the breakdown of our relationship, all of that is in there. That sex scene is completely alive in that scene and I think for me, it was such a powerful experience to film that. It just does go deep. I think that’s the thing is sexuality is one of the most…it’s the deepest core part of who we are. When a relationship like that breaks down, it can only inform me as an actor and inform me about that character physically.

AE: Speaking of physicality, it’s a demanding role because there’s a lot of action, a lot of fight scenes. You can throw a punch!
HN: Yeah. I got a mean right hook now-a-days.

AE: Does Eleanor have other love interests throughout the season?
HN: Yes. There’s definitely a lot of history with Eleanor and that will become clear as her relationships start to develop. She kind of gets involved in relationships that aren’t necessarily the most advantageous to her but she cannot help it. I think that it’s a very interesting look at someone who, that kind of self-destructive behavior as well, is very interesting to look at as a character and as an actor. It’s tough. There’s things that she does that you think why are you doing this? But obviously as an actor that’s the best challenge.
She does, she uses her sexuality in a way that’s not necessarily manipulative in a way that Max has to use her sexuality. She uses it to kind of inform her own head and her own heart in response to her own feelings of abandonment and I think it’s not always entirely healthy but it’s incredibly real. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to it and likewise the people that she becomes involved with, those scenes, have to be imbued with that history.

AE: With men and women?
HN: Yeah.

AE: Any female acting icons that you look up to and channel? Especially in some of these scenes?
HN: So many. I’m a big film buff so I love people like [director John] Cassavetes and I love Gena Rowlands. She’s so brilliant, isn’t she? I just love those kinds of actresses that you just can’t tell what they’re going to do from one minute to the next. And then for television actresses, I love Edie Falco. I think she’s brilliant.

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Hannah New: Pulled The Clapper Off The Bell

‘Black Sails’ star Hannah New does some damage at show party

By Ian Mohr

Actress Hannah New breaks a historic ship’s bell while ringing it, as oceanographic explorer Fabien Cousteau (left) and Starz managing director Carmi Zlotnik look on.

Michael Bay’s new Starz show “Black Sails” was feted Tuesday at the Explorers Club with the ringing — and unfortunate breaking — of a historic ship’s bell.

The pirate show’s Hannah New accidentally pulled the clapper off the bell on the second floor, which is from the USS Bear, a famed Coast Guard vessel that sank 89 years after it was launched.

We’re told the club’s former president, Richard Wiese, said he’d seen the bell rung more than 100 times and never seen it break.

Filmmaker Fabien Cousteau attended and explorer Barry Clifford displayed several million dollars in pirate treasure from the sunken Caribbean ship he discovered.

Bay, who’s still living down his walk-off performance at the Consumer Electronics Show, wasn’t there.

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Black Sails: "Eleanor & Max"

Black Sails [Recap]: "Eleanor (Hannah New) and Max (Jessica Parker Kennedy)"

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