TV series "The Tenth Kingdom": actors, plot and interesting facts about the shooting

"The 10th Kingdom" by Hallmark is a popular fantasy series about the incredible adventures of a girl from New York and her father in magical realms. A team of cinematographers from the United States, Great Britain and Germany filmed the film in 1999. Spectators loved the first episode of the series "The Tenth Kingdom." Actors got fans and their own pages on the Internet.

Plot: in the modern world

The main heroine of this magical story is the usual modern girl Virginia Lewis from New York. She lives with her father Anthony in a small apartment near Central Park on the outskirts of Manhattan. The girl's mother mysteriously disappeared when Virginia was barely seven years old. Actors of the series "The Tenth Kingdom" were selected with the help of numerous castings.

The daughter and father live poorly. Virginia works as a waitress in a cafe near the house. Anthony tries to perform various jobs in one of the apartment buildings, but does not seek to do it well, so the authorities are constantly displeased with them.

Meanwhile, in a fairy tale

At this time in the magical world of the Nine Kingdoms Prince Wendell is preparing to ascend the throne of the Fourth Kingdom. Before this solemn event, he wants to visit his stepmother in prison. However, this meeting between the prince and the Evil Queen did not take place.

Stepmother managed to escape from prison. Having freed herself, she began to nurture in her head a grand plan to remove the prince from the throne in the Fourth Kingdom.

The Queen manages to change the bodies of the main heir and the usual street dog. But this stepmother is not enough, she sends terrible trolls to kill the prince, turned into an animal. Wendell is accompanied by luck, he manages to escape from them to another world where a modest waitress lives. But the trolls continue to pursue him through the streets of his hometown of Virginia. Not only children, but adults will like the tale "The Tenth Kingdom". The actors gave all the best. Thanks to them, watching a movie is a pleasure.

Escaping from the chase, the prince in a shaggy skin accidentally falls under the wheel of a bicycle cute Virginia. A good girl decides to treat a poor dog and takes it to her.

Terrible trolls failed to do their job, and the discontented Queen sends him his old assistant, the Wolf. But, finding himself in a real city, the Wolf suddenly falls in love with the main character.

From this moment, the unusual and exciting adventures of New York residents begin in a fairytale parallel.

Main actors and performers

A fairy tale should have produced the series "The Tenth Kingdom". Actors and roles were compared carefully. The viewer had to believe in what was really happening. This wonderful movie would not have happened without such characters as:

• Virginia Lewis is the main character. Her parents are Anthony and Christine Lewis. After seven years he lives with his father. Mother, dissatisfied with life, escaped from the family. The girl grew very kind, she is always ready to help others. The role of Virginia is played by Kimberly Williams.
• Anthony Lewis. The unlucky dad of the main character and a ruined entrepreneur. The role is played by John Larrokett.
• Wicked Queen, she's in the real world. Christine Left-Lewis-White. The mother of the main heroine who fled from her family to the parallel world. In this role, the brilliant owner of two "Oscars" Diane Uist.
• Wolf. The role of the half-wolf-half-man, in love with the main character, is played by Scott Cohen.

• Prince Wendell. The role of the heir to the throne in the Fourth Kingdom is played by Daniel Lapain.
• Joker is the King of Trolls. This role is played by the famous Ed O'Neill.
• Hunter. Role played by Rutger Hauer, winner of the Golden Globe Award

Also in the film are Jeremy Birkett, Hugh O'Gorman, Warwick Davis, Moira Lister, Donn Lewis, Camrin Mannheim, Anne Margrethe, Jimmy Neil and others. All of them have made considerable efforts to create a movie for the whole family, whose name is "The Tenth Kingdom". Actors note that the work in this project was the most interesting and magical.

Filming

For the implementation of the screenplay scenario, Simon Moore was allocated a budget of forty-five million. Shooting of this series was held in New York and London, in the vicinity of the most beautiful castles in France and in the Alpine mountains.

To create this fairy tale created six hundred exciting effects, used four thousand kilometers of film and sewn as many outfits, involved 130 actors and 3550 extras. Many people were impressed by the scale of the TV series "The Tenth Kingdom". Actors (photos of each of them were printed in many well-known magazines) became recognizable after these notable roles.

However, neither the large financial component, nor the grandiose embodiment of the scenario, nor the worthy play of the actors helped to gain high ratings at the premieres held in the United Kingdom and the USA in 1999 and 2000 respectively. For this reason, the series did not continue.

Belated fame

However, some time passed, and the audience appreciated the series, its most interesting plot, sparkling humor, music and spectacular special effects. The film "The Tenth Kingdom" has a lot of fans around the world.

In 2000, the film received the EMMY award for the most outstanding design of titles. Under the script of the TV series "Tenth Kingdom" at the same time in the United States of America the same book was published.

This is how the famous tale "The Tenth Kingdom" appeared. The actors of the series after the project received many interesting proposals for filming in other tapes and advertisements.