
Grand Rapids Public Museum, through Jan. Entire mini-series also runs at 6, 8 and 10 p.m. On Monday, the previous episode reruns at 7 p.m. Sunday through Tuesday, July 19-21, rerunning at 11 p.m. “Tut,” three-part, six-hours on Spike, co-starring Ben Kingsley. assuming that she’ll eventually get back to this century and this continent. “If I have a call to get up at 5 in the morning, and I’m working until 2 a.m., it doesn’t make much difference where I live,” Deen said.īesides, Morocco is lovely and she “managed to buy a beautiful rug.” She plans to put it in her apartment. and now is filming the second season in Budapest. moved abruptly to Turkey amid the danger of violence. After some success in her home country, she moved to New York in 2009 and started over now, at 32, she’s had success. She got her first hints of that at 13, acting with the Australian Youth Theatre and traveling to New Zealand, China and the U.S. “You just expect to be traveling all the time,” she said. “Victorious” followed now he’s been a pharaoh, filming fight scenes on 102-degree days.Īnd Deen? She sort of lives in Los Angeles, but not really. shows being filmed near his home in Vancouver.Īt 16, he left school and his parents gave him six months to find a job in Los Angeles. He landed some commercials and small roles in U.S. His parents, a hairdresser and a real-estate agent, were skeptical, but let him audition. His best roles – starring in “Twisted,” co-starring in “Victorious” - haven’t been particularly ethnic.Īt 23, he’s meeting the goal he set long ago: “I asked what was the job where you can be everything.” Jogia is from Canada, with Indian roots on his dad’s side. Now she’s simultanously playing royalty in Egypt (“Tut”) and in the Middle East (“Tyrant”). She’s from Australia, with Pakistani roots on her dad’s side. “It’s a good time for ethnically ambiguous actors,” she said. “It all comes from a place of trying to preserve” the family dynasty.ĭeen seems to savor the role. “She’s a survivor,” said Sibylla Deen, who plays her. A key part of that is Ankhe, who is his half-sister AND his wife. So now he’s shown in love, war and palace politics. “He must have had an incredible will,” Jogia said. On this weeks episode of DO YOUR POD, Old Balls sits down with The Spike King The Patriots Superfan who has taken over the internet for the pure love he. He moved the capital, restored old gods, fixed relationships with nearby tribes. Breaking from his elders, he took control. He died at 18, of unknown cause he was no warrior.īut he was an active ruler.
In real life, historians feel, Tut may have been tall and slender, possibly with a slightly curved spine.
Īction hero? “That’s our suspension of disbelief,” said Avan Jogia, who plays Tut in a new mini-series.
But now cable shows him in a fresh light, as a ruler, a lover, an action hero and. at least, better than we know most people who died more than 3,330 years ago. By going to Grand Rapids, we can view intricate re-creations of everything in his tomb. We’ve seen his mummy, seen his treasures, heard his history. By now, modern Earthlings figure we know King Tut.