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2 sides of Tim Roth on display in his pair of TV projects

By FRAZIER MOORE “They lived in a very poor town of Little Big Bear for
AP Television Writer area of London, where a presumably quieter life
NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Roth he was everybody’s best where he can serve as its
can’t stay out of trouble. friend and neighbor,” Roth parking-ticket-issuing po-
Since his first screen ap- says. “And he started to lice chief.
pearance in 1982’s “Made kill.” Christie would stash But Little Big Bear is about to
in Britain” as a skinhead the bodies behind the walls go big-time with a disrup-
with a swastika tattoo on his or under the floorboards of tive new oil refinery, which
forehead, or in 1994’s “Pulp his tumble-down flat. “The is fronted by a smooth-talk-
Fiction” as a petty crook problem was, he ran out of ing corporate liaison (Hen-
holding up a coffee shop space. Otherwise he would dricks).
with his girlfriend, Roth has have killed more and more. “And then something hor-
made an art of playing vil- Disposal was the problem, rendous happens,” Roth
lains, whack jobs and wast- not the killing.” Roth erupts teases. “And it turns into a
rels — or, at least, someone with a how-sick-is-that? revenge-driven thriller.”
having a very bad day. guffaw. Meanwhile, the police Above: This image released by AMC Networks shows Saman-
tha Morton, left, and Tim Roth from the three-episode miniseries
Now Roth fans can delight Christie even murdered the chief wrestles with his per- “Rillington Place,” premiering Thursday on AMC Networks’ pre-
in two new roles that add winsome young woman sonal demons. mium streaming service Sundance Now. Below: This image re-
to his canon of discord. and her baby who lived “He comes to the town as leased by Amazon shows Tim Roth as Jim Worth in a scene from
In Amazon Prime’s 10-epi- upstairs, then framed her an alcoholic battling the the 10-episode mystery thriller, “Tin Star.”
sode mystery thriller “Tin husband for the atrocities. bottle,” Roth says. “He’s Associated Press
Star,” Roth stars alongside “It was very hard to play,” a blackout drunk, which
Christina Hendricks (“Mad says Roth, whose voice as means that anything he
Men”) as a small-town po- Christie rarely rises above does when he’s drinking
lice chief with a fearsome a murmur. “You couldn’t he has no recollection of.
alter ego. de-creepy him: ‘Would you So it’s a Jekyll-and-Hyde
And in the three-epi- like a cup of tea?’ Even situation. Through the 10
sode miniseries “Rillington THAT was creepy.” episodes you see one per-
Place,” premiering Thurs- It’s a fine example of less- son taking over from the
day on AMC Networks’ is-more in acting by the other — being INVITED to
premium streaming service 56-year-old Brit who, on- take over. So to play it was
Sundance Now, Roth trans- screen and off-, is typically fun! I had to have a little bit
forms himself into a sotto- bristling with energy. But of a rulebook, a little map
voce sicko whose shy, re- Roth says, “I quite like physi- in my head, as to where I
tiring manner conceals his cality in characters, and I was and WHO I was at any
habit of killing young wom- found him very physical. given moment.”“Tin Star” is
en in his section of down- “It took me a long time to Roth’s first series since “Lie And THEN I got to the end often, the good guy is not
trodden London. get my neck back,” he to Me,” a Fox crime drama of the script and I thought, the interesting character.
“Rillington Place” is a mas- adds, indicating the literal that aired from 2009 to 2011 ‘(Expletive)! THAT’S bold!’” Or, to make him interesting,
terpiece of pent-up ten- pain-in-the-neck from ef- in which he played a “de- (Bold indeed. But no spoil- you have to find the dark in
sion and dread, with Roth fecting Christie’s old-bloke ception expert” who could ers here.)While Roth ac- him. You’re always looking
virtually unrecognizable stoop. suss out when his subjects knowledges he’s played a for balance.
as John Christie, a real-life Roth delivers quite a dif- were lying.He was drawn lot of wicked or unhinged “Conversely, if you’re play-
serial killer notorious for the ferent performance in “Tin to “Tin Star,” he says, by its chaps, he’s mixed things ing somebody like John
carnage he committed in Star.” pilot script, which he found up along the way.“I tell Christie you have to find
the 1940s and ‘50s under Set in the Canadian Rock- “tumultuous and quite dev- you one good guy that I SOME good to fold in, oth-
everyone’s noses — includ- ies, the series focuses on astating. I was hooked. And played, in a film you prob- erwise it becomes one-
ing his abused wife (por- a former British detective it made sense to me that if ably haven’t seen: a lovely note.” A little roll of Roth’s
trayed magnificently by who uproots his family and I was, then hopefully the little (2012) film called ‘Bro- eyes. “That was very hard
Samantha Morton). moves them to the tiny audience would be, too. ken,’” he says. “But quite with HIM!”q

Pamela Adlon found a niche in Hollywood on her own terms

By ALICIA RANCILIO get like a big gift basket or sacrifices to mother those
Associated Press whatever?’ He was like, ‘I around her.
NEW YORK (AP) — Pamela think we used to.’ I was like, Adlon says she’s always
Adlon jokes that she knew ‘OK, I just want to make had a maternal instinct.
she wasn’t going to take sure.’” “It’s never turned off,” she
home an Emmy Award by She brings that realness said in a recent interview.
her seating placement at and perspective to “Bet- “When I was 19, my friends
this year’s show. ter Things,” which airs on used to call me ‘mother
The co-creator, director, Thursday nights (10 p.m. and care unit’ because
writer and star of FX’s “Bet- Eastern). The semi-autobi- people would be crashing
ter Things” was nominated ographical series, now in on my couch. On (the) set,
for lead comedic actress. its second season, is based everybody calls me mom-
She was seated near Jim- on her life as a single mom my or commander. I like
my Kimmel and Stanley raising three girls. commander.”
Tucci, who also didn’t win. Adlon works steadily in Hol- Adlon, also known for her
Adlon found her mind wan- lywood but doesn’t have roles on “Californication”
dering to a possible conso- This image released by FX shows Rebecca Metz, left, and Pa- the level of fame that and “Louie,” directed ev-
lation prize: a gift basket. “I mela Adlon in a scene from “Better Things.” Aldon is not only makes her a paparazzi ery episode of the second
tapped Tucci and was like, the star of the semi-autobiographical series but she’s also its co- magnet and says she of- season of “Better Things.”
creator, writer and director.
‘Do you know if nominees Associated Press ten finds herself making “It’s the ultimate. q