Jim Sturgess Fan

Hi guys I just added a bunch of pictures from Toronto International Film Festival where Fifty Dead Men Walking premiered at September 10th. Jim attended the press conference, the screening, and was there to on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Party with co-stars Sir Ben Kingsley, Rose McGowan, and Kevin Zegers, also director Kari Skogland

Fifty Dead Men Walking Premiere (TIFF) September 10th, 2008

Fifty Dead Men Walking Press Conference (TIFF)

Attending TIFF Hollywood Foreign Press Association Party September 9th, 2008

I also found some videos from the event:
Kevin Zegers and Jim Sturges stop by the eTalk Lounge to talk about their controversial film “50 Dead Men Walking

InStyle party brought out some of Hollywood’s hottest guys and we caught them all on the red carpet!

Here are some articles about Fifty Dead Men Walking:

From the National Post

To prepare himself for the role of mole, and to get a sense of how the conflict affected the city, Sturgess went to Belfast early to immerse himself in the city’s culture, which a lot of the time involved a pint or two.
“The pub was the best place to find all the stories we were looking for. So there was a lot of drinking,” he said. “We just got drunk basically and spoke to a lot of Irishmen. What was great is that Irish people are such storytellers, especially when you’re sitting in such a relaxed environment.”
The character is a change of pace for Sturgess, who is best known to North American audiences for such films as Beatles-musical Across the Universe and Las Vegas gambling pic 21.
“You never want to just go and repeat yourself,” said Jim. “It was nice to go from the sheen and the bright lights of Las Vegas straight dumped into the council estates and streets of Belfast.”
Growing up, the 27-year-old British actor said he saw the IRA portrayed as thugs who just blew things up.
“Then I went to Belfast and I actually met some of these people and I found them to be intelligent and these great characters, a lot of fun,” he said. “It made me really understand the conflict.”

Another one from CTV.ca

“Unlike World War II there are people alive today who lived through Belfast in the ’80s and we were able to talk to them. That first-hand experience was such a benefit,” Sturgess told reporters at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Sturgess spent 11 weeks in Belfast soaking up the local flavour before shooting began on the Canadian-British production inspired by McGartland’s bestselling 1997 memoir. He grew a moustache to be true to the film’s era and had his brown hair cut into a mullet. Sturgess also perfected his Irish accent, so much so that the locals did not realize the 27-year-old actor from “21″ and “Across the Universe” was British.
“From the minute Jim and Kevin met in Belfast they never dropped the Irish accent. They never knew what their real voices were like until the film wrapped,” says Skogland.
“It was a little tricky for me,” says Sturgess, who spent time with members of the IRA getting a feel for the times. “I really tried to let everyone around me know that I wasn’t taking sides.”
As Sturgess says, “There were many complex issues that had to be dealt with in this film. The movie isn’t pro-IRA and it doesn’t show its members as crazy, evil people. The times weren’t black and white. At the end of the day I love that Kari didn’t treat them as such.”

From Sympatico

Skogland says a lot of research on all sides went into the filming and into the locations. For the sake of safety, northern England was considered as a stand-in, but she finally found a way to shoot in Belfast.
Sturgess, the lead, and Canadian Kevin Zegers, featured as a member of the IRA, say they were out and about in Belfast and that their movements were being watched, while Sir Ben Kingsley – as Fergus, the British security agent who recruits Marty – says he “wanted to remain isolated and remain inscrutable” throughout the shoot.