Congratulations to Goran for his win for his role as Niko Marinović in Ekvinocijo at the 2024 Dubrovnik Summer Festival! Read about it below (articles are in Croatian). Ekvinocijo won four awards of the seven of which it was nominated. The three other wins went to: Best Play (Ekvinocijo), Best Director (Krešimir Dolenčić), Best Female Role (Zrinka Cvitešić). Čestitamo, Gorane!
Last Monday, 11 November, the official Instagram page of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival announced that Ekvinocijo received seven nominations for the Croatian Theatre Award (Nagradu hrvatskog glumišta) for drama. Among the seven nominations, Goran was nominated for his role as Niko Marinović. Goran shared the news in his Instagram stories, and I grabbed a screen shot of it for you ♥ If (and when) he wins, I'll make sure to announce it here ♥ Sretno Goran!
I'm still working on redoing the HD bluray screen captures for season 1 of Timeless to give you sharper HD quality pictures. And as soon as all episodes are reuploaded, I'll let you guys know. For now, the original set of season 1 screen captures are still on the site.
After Timeless, I will be upgrading 720p screen captures of his episodes of The Boys, Dollface, and Leverage to the site. Until then, the 720p screen captures will remain online. Keep checking back for the better quality versions.
I hope those of you Stateside are hanging in there. It's been a rough past eleven days, that's for sure ♥
05 November 2024
I'm redoing the screen captures for Timeless as I've found a way to make the captures sharper. As a result, I have added an additional 5,848 Timeless season 2 screen caps of Goran as Garcia Flynn to the gallery (a total of 14,279 caps just for season 2!). Next up: I'll be redoing the screen captures for season 1. Check back later this month when the new, sharper screen caps will be available. Until then, enjoy some sharper caps of my (and possibly your) favourite Goran character: Garcia Flynn ♥
For me, November marks the beginning of the chaos of the end of the year. I don't know if I'll have time to do any content updates at GVA until after the New Year, but I am going to continue organising my (over) one million fandom files - most of which are Goran photos and screen captures that I intend to add to this site. Like most of you, I'm on a mission to get my hands on copies of all of Goran's work. I have almost all of it except for SIX: Michele alla guerra, Puška za uspavljivanje, Olujne tišine 1895-1995(3 episodes), Tito(episodes: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 9), The Brides(I doubt the full unaired Pilot episode was completed due to production being shut down due to COVID-19), and (we'll probably never get to see this in full)Ekvinocijo.
If anyone can help me obtain those projects (digital copies preferred), I would really appreciate it. I would love to be able to archive screen captures and images from those on GVA in the future. Email me if you can help me out:battleshipgarcy@gmail.com
Thank you so much ♥
29 October 2024
Screen captures from The Accursed, Never Here have been added to the gallery - both, quite fitting for the Halloween season which is upon us. I also upgraded the screen captures of Goran in Santa Clarita Diet from 720p to blu-ray quality 1080p, also in the Halloween-y-ish spirit.
Happy Timeless Month & Happy Timeless Day! ♥ I made a general Timeless series fanvid to The Void's rendition of Zombie to celebrate the anniversary of the Timeless premiere eight years ago tonight.
09 September 2024
Happy birthday, Goran! I hope you have a fantastic day ♥ (yes, I made two and couldn't decide which I liked better)
Two new (to GVA) old photoshoot images from 2001. These are Goran Višnjić ArchiveExclusive images. As with any GVA Exclusive image, please do not remove the watermark, and please do not archive or post these images to other fansites, blogs, or social media accounts. Thank you for your cooperation.
Goran was a guest on Radio Šibenik on 24 August, you can listen to his interview on SoundCloud. I have also edited the audio so that it is solely the interview without music interruptions. You can view/listen to that edit over on the Goran Višnjić Archive YouTube Channel.
20 August 2024
Blu-ray screen captures of Goran in season 3 of Vikings: Valhalla have been added! HUGE thank you to my sister, Mèimei, for getting me the blu-ray discs of this season so I could get it capped ♥
If you thought Goran would slow down after performing in Ekvinocijo, you were wrong. Goran made an appearance at the Brač Film Festival, gave the opening speech (and did a panel) at the Croatian International Film Festival, and then popped up again (much to our delight) at Glumci u Zagvozdu(Actors In Zagvozd) the following day. The "news" coming in on my daily Goran email notifications has slowed down, and it's nice to have room to take a breath, but like me, I'm sure we're all anticipating whatever Goran is up to next - as well as wish him a relaxing, and well-deserved vacation. Thank you for such an exciting Summer 2024, Goran! ♥
A HUGE thank you to my sister, Mèimei, for editing out the Goran section of the near two-hour audio file of the Dubrovnik Radio show Igrama u pohode after I had listened to it to find the start and finish time codes. I wouldn't have been able to get this interview up without you! ♥ I added this interview to my YouTube channel, and linked it on GVA in the Press section.
So... I decided that I am going to try to get all Goran movies and shorts onto the site before I tackle finishing screen captures for all ER episodes Goran starred in. I do have season 6 and season 7 fully capped of that show, and once I get through all the movie and short videos that I have, I'll 100% focus on completing the ER Gallery (as well as try to keep up with whatever new projects Goran is involved in). That said... I capped a few old videos, and oh, how I wish we could get these in good quality (so, again, please forgive the blotchy quality, the video sources are so far from being HD <--- even if they downloaded in "1080p"). New to the Short Films gallery: New York, I Love You: Apocrypha, UNKLE's Burn My Shadow, and The Making of UNKLE's Burn My Shadow.
And then (finally!) HD screen caps of Goran's scene in the 1997 movie, Peacemaker. And also, HD screen captures from a short piece HRT did about Goran back in June 2019 while he was in Šibenik filming General <--- well... if not there filming it, HRT reported on him filming there in the video.
Awwww! ♥♥♥♥♥ I am so happy for Goran for all the hard work he's put in these last couple of months. From the Verne presentation video, preparation and rehearsals for Ekvinocijo, interviews, photoshoots (love the newest one he did with Zrinka Cvitešić), five live performances of Ekvinocijo, and he's still not done because later this week he will help open the first ever Croatian International Film Festival AND participate in the festival's Actors On Acting panel on 9 August.
It has been hectic keeping up with Goran since his arrival in Dubrovnik at the beginning of June, but it has been wonderful to get so much new content every week. I look forward to whatever he does next. And in the meantime, I will be working on adding some old (but new to GVA) content: screen captures, editorial images, photoshoots, upgrading screen captures to 1080p, etc.
In other news... 1) I found all previous site updates from 2020 to present and have organized the Update Archive by year. I still haven't found my 2019 updates, and I'm hoping I didn't permanently delete them. LOL 2) I replaced the link to Team Garcy in the nagivation bar, and added links to the Goran Višnjić ArchiveFacebook page, YouTube channel, and my BattleshipGarcy Instagram account <--- where I always post updates to GVA, as well as photos of Goran (or his characters), my fanart, and my color edits (99.999999999999% of which the subject is Goran) ♥ I hope to see you there.
And onto the new additions to GVA!
I added the PDF of the Ekvinocijo script to the Ekvinocijo page.
And I added some Goran Višnjić ArchiveExclusive images to the gallery. As with any GVA Exclusive image, please do not remove the watermark, and please do not archive or post these images to other fansites, blogs, or social media accounts. Thank you for your cooperation. And now... on with the... show (?) ♥
GVA Exclusives: 14 HQ editorial stills from Goran's appearance on The Megan Mullally Show in 2006.
GVA Exclusives: 14 UHQ photoshoot of Goran (and one with Eva) in Dubrovnik in 2002. Some of these images look like the photographer Photoshopped Goran in, and that they didn't actually do the shoot at the location shown. They're kind of obvious when you see them.
More Baby Goran screen captures! From 1996, Prepoznavanje. From 1998, Teško je reći zbogom. And from 2006, Goran's uncredited cameo in season 3 of Naša mala klinika, episode 5: Bijeli miševi. But ok... is he still a "baby" in 2006? Is 2006 so long ago that we can call him Baby Goran then? Is being in your early thirties to be considered "baby" years? Please be aware that the quality of the screen caps for Teško je reći zbogom and Prepoznavanje are not great given the source video file available of those movies. And for fun, a translation of the Croatian titles:
Goran and Zrinka visited the Marangun Food & Bar Room restaurant in Dubrovnik while they were there for the Dubrovnik Summer Festival. And... The Moustache is gone! And I think we all kind of miss it ♥ But perhaps this is an opportunity for a 2024 edition of The SCRUFF Era? *fingers crossed* <--- although, I do love that clean-shaved look, too. As with other images, I have used Photoshop to remove text. I didn't need to enhance/clean the images this time around since they looked not-blotchy as is. You can find the restaurant photo permanently archived on the Miscellaneous section of the gallery, and the Goran selfie in the Social Media section of the gallery ♥ Enjoy!
I've noticed an uptick in site visitors (Vikings: Valhalla? Ekvinocijo?), so I thought I'd let you know that you can also receive all Goran Višnjić Archive site updates by following my at Instagram, and Tumblr(where I post under my username: BattleshipGarcy). You can also follow and/or like Goran Višnjić Archive on Facebook to receive site updates as well. Just a little FYI, on my Instagram and Tumblr accounts, I mostly post about Goran and his characters (with a bias towards Garcia Flynn since Garcia is my favourite character of all time). I hope to see you guys on those platforms! Thank you for visiting my little Goran fansite ♥ It means a lot.
Just a heads up that today I saw a trailer for Spellbound (Netflix) while watching the 2024 Paris Olympics on NBC. A month or so ago, Spellbound was showing on Goran's IMDb page for him as "video reference." It has since been removed, and I cannot find any additional information that he's involved. I checked the IMDb page for Spellbound for Goran in the Cast & Crew, and he's not listed.
And you can watch the trailer at the Dubrovnik Festival YouTube Channel ♥ Oh how badly I wish that the entirety of Ekvinocijo would be uploaded to YouTube. I'd love to watch it (as I'm sure you do, too).
ER alum, Shane West met up with Goran in Dubrovnik on the last day of Ekvinocijo's run (and we're all wondering if Shane was able to attend that final performance...).
While adding this, I realised that it has been a (long) while since I updated the Social Media section of the GVA gallery. Once things slow down with Goran (we still have next month's Croatian International Film Festival to look forward to), I'll do my best to get the 2022, 2023, and 2024 sections of the social media gallery updated. I have the images, but life got in the way of me being able to keep up <--- and let me tell you, keeping up with Goran these past two months have been exhausting.
That said... there are photos up on the 2022 Social Media page. I just can't remember if all of Goran's Instagram photos have been added to it. I'll have to go through my Goran photo collection to see if there are more to add.
Photos from the 31 July final bow of Ekvinocijo. I miscounted the total production stills for this play in a previous update, with these three images, the total production still count on GVA is 128 (and I'm still keeping my eye out for anything new - even though it's over).
So... are you craving more Baby Goran? Yes? Well, I've just added 628 screen captures of Goran in the 1992 student film that he starred in, Paranoia. Unless my memory is failing me, this might be the earliest version of The SCRUFF that we can enjoy ♥ Goran is either 19 or 20 years old in this (depending on when it was filmed, which I'm not sure if we know). Please note: the video source for this is not good. Close up shots are better than the medium and long shots <--- which tend to be quite blurry in the caps. Like me, I'm sure that you'll take what we can get. Enjoy!
Happy August! There's a new POTM ♥ I took the original magazine scan into Photoshop and cleaned it up, enlarged it, and did a color edit on it since the original scan was not that great. I hope you enjoy my edit of the image (which I think is from the early 2000s).
Photos of Goran from the HRT Radio Dubrovnik interview that he and Zrinka Cvitešić did yesterday.
I've added 75 production stills from the Ekvinocijo premiere to the Ekvinocijo page in the gallery. And for those of you who are learning the Croatian language, I have uploaded a PDF of the Ekvinocijo script to GVA for you to read and/or use to enhance your Croatian vocabulary.
Screen captures for Posljednja Volja have been added (as well as six GIFs that I made of just two exceptional Goran moments in the movie - dressing/undressing, and that smile with The SCRUFF ♥). The screen captures aren't great quality (they come from a not-so-great quality region 2 DVD). But still... BEPO!
Screen captures for Braća Po Materi have also been added. What can I say? I did caps of Baby Goran in 1994, and I caught the Baby Goran bug, and will work on some other early Goran works in the coming month. As you know, Goran is only in this one short scene in this movie, and the quality of video available to watch isn't great. But as dedicated Tree Huggers, we'll take what we can, right?
And since I wound up with a mild migraine today, I didn't feel up to going through 100 photos saved from the Ekvinocijo premiere and after party, so I instead made some screen captures from a couple videos that I've been meaning to screen cap for a while now. I think you'll enjoy them.
I added screen captures of Goran's 1994 appearance on Briljanteen, when he was 21 (or 22) years old ♥ Yes, I love me some Baby Goran, don't you?
I finally organized the GVA Update Archive so you can look through this site's updates by year. I need to dig through the HTML files of the very first version of GVA to grab the site updates from 20 December 2019 <--- when the site made its debut ♥ Can't believe this December 20th will mark the FIVE YEAR anniversary of this Goran Višnjić fansite. A huge thank you to everyone who has supported GVA over the past five years, and for those of you who have helped contribute to helping keep GVA online, or who have sent in content to be archived on the site. I appreciate you all very much ♥ Puno hvala!
Screen captures (1080p) of Goran performing in the premiere of Ekvinocijo from a video shared by the @dubrovnikfestival on Instagram, as well as caps from an interview Goran gave after the premiere, have been added to the gallery. I have about 100 photographs from the premiere performance to go through to remove duplicates, and find the highest possible quality images available before I can upload those to GVA. I hope to get those up by tomorrow, if not, then sometime the first week of August.
For those of you in Croatia this September (exact date not yet given), Goran has done the voiceover for the character Orion Pax/Optimus Prime in the animated film, Transformers: Početak. Read about it in Croatian at sibenik.i, and I used Google Translate to bring the relevant information to you below:
Šibenik actor Goran Višnjić lent his voice for the first time in the upcoming animated hit - "Transformers: The Beginning"! Known for his outstanding performances on the big screen, television and theater, Goran Višnjić brings his unique charisma to life in the character of Optimus Prime.
Goran said that he had a great desire to lend his voice in the Croatian dubbing for a film like "Transformers: The Beginning". His wish has been going on for 20 years and has been going on ever since he watched the dubbed version of the movie "Finding Nemo". Also, he believes that dubbed films are sometimes much better than the original because the script is adapted specifically for our audience. "As much as English is a better and simpler language for some things, there is always a stronger connection with the mother tongue", said Višnjić. In the end, Goran concluded that he was looking forward to the next new Croatian dubbing. In addition to Goran, well-known Croatian actors Tarik Filipović, Zrinka Cvitešić, Saša Buneta, Ranko Zidarić and Filip Juričić lent their voices to well-known animated characters.
And here's the trailer where you can hear some of Goran's dubbing ♥
29 July 2024
Photos from the 26 July press screening performance of Ekvinocijo at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival. I do have more photos from the premiere, and its after party, but I still need to go through them all to eliminate duplicates, and to find the highest quality images before I add them to GVA.
New Vikings: Valhalla BTS photo, and episodic stills. I have included a watermark on these since they were not easy to find, and are exclusive to this Goran fansite ♥ My sister has informed me that she received the season 3 bluray discs, and the next time I see her, she will give it to me so I can do bluray screen captures of Goran in his Vikings: Valhalla episodes <--- fingers crossed that I'll see her sometime in August.
Photos from the 2022 Ana Radišić podcast interview. I'll be adding screen captures from this interview likely in the next update. I just need to hunt down the caps I made back in 2022 after this interview was first released <--- I apologize for how slowly some of these updates are taking me to get archived on the site. Better later than never, yes? ♥
Added another BTS photo of Goran from Vikings: Valhalla as well ♥ And the season 3 poster which features Goran as Erik The Red.
I added a couple more interviews to the GVA YouTube Channel today. With piss poor slow internet, it is very difficult to get the clips of Goran extracted from the longer original videos (and then render them <--- the laptop I'm using crashed two times trying to do this today, smdh). Anyway, I have another hour long video to comb through to put clips of Goran together. I may or may not do that tonight, or this week. We'll see how my patience is with video editing with super slow internet (I miss Google Fiber, omg, you have no idea).
This video is a short interview with Goran after the Ekvinocijo press conference today.
And the videos below are from a couple weeks ago pre-, and at the opening ceremony of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival.
23 July 2024
I made some new 1080p desktop wallpapers, and thought I'd share them with you here ♥ Please note that with the Goran & Lefty photo, and the colorized Gloria magazine photo, that I used Photoshop's Generative Expand/Fill to "complete" the image. Please do not repost or archive my edits on your own social media blog and/or website. Thank you.
The premiere of Ekvinocijo is this Saturday, 27 July, at 21:30 local time (Dubrovnik, Croatia). Here's hoping that the Dubrovnik Summer Festival Instagram and YouTube accounts share plenty of Ekvinocijo content for those of us Tree Huggers who cannot attend (or who missed out on getting tickets before they sold out). That said, if anyone attends any of the five performances of Ekvinocijo, and if (and only if) photography is allowed, and would like to share their personal photographs of Goran in this production, please send your photos my way (battleshipgarcy@gmail.com), and let me know how you would like to be credited for your photographs, and I can archive them here on GVA for all Tree Huggers to see ♥ In the meantime, I've added photos and screen shots of Goran at the Opening Ceremony of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival.
And as soon as Ekvinocijo wraps, Goran will be heading up to Šibenik to particpate in the first ever Croatian International Film Festival. He is scheduled to give the opening speech on August 8th, and will be on the Actors On Acting panel on 9 August from 4-5 P.M., with actress Debie Mazar. You can get tickets to the CIFF here.
22 July 2024
One more Vikings: Valhalla BTS photo which Goran shared the other day in his Insta Stories ♥
An interview with Goran on the DuList website about his return to Dubrovnik Summer Festival, and his role in Ekvinocijo: hrvatski / english
And this lovely photo of Goran from the article ♥
Highlights translated to English by Google Translate:
I do not consider this to be my return. I look at it totally differently. I was there, played for eight summers, came to Dubrovnik often and worked as an actor the whole time. In my head, all this is one big continuity. It always made sense that this would happen, it was just a matter of time.
The next day, he says: 'Senka wants us to do the Equinox, Niko?!' I say - yes, but give me a couple of months just to see that something doesn't accidentally happen in the schedule. I call my agent and ask for a break all summer?! Solved! I know that people from the outside look at it in a way - Here, Šime is back in Dubrovnik! As for me - I never left!
But now, finally, after we danced, after costume parts, props, scenography, arrivals with some kind of ships started arriving, the sea began to play in that show... The sea is a big part of the show. We started building that story and now you can already feel that Vojnović Equinox, you can feel the City and you can feel that longing, foreboding, arrivals of returnees, departures of people abroad.
And listen, Jupa left, I don't want to sound pathetic, an indelible mark on my life. And from the second year of the Academy, when he trusted me to play Laertes, which was a huge trust for a kid, to when Rene Medvešćak got sick and had to step in and play Hamlet in 30 days, that's the second time he showed me great trust. Afterwards we did Fishermen's Quarrels, we became friends. He was one of the great mentors in my life and every time later, when I was already in America, we would meet in the summer at Stradun. So that one homage to Jupi will inevitably be on that Posat. Both from me and from Kreš, who was also a great friend with Jupa, and Jupa was a mentor to him as well as to me. And that Equinocijo Jupin has remained famous in the City and we hope that we will feel that certain Jupin's spirit and that some of his signs will come to us from heaven. That he will be happy with what we do.
Well, I came to Dubrovnik for the first time in '94. It was a ghost town then. We were the only show that was performed up in Lovrjenac. But the City was somehow ours. We used to be in Talir until dawn, literally until dawn. No one would force us, no one would shout at us from above: 'Stop singing!' And of course, things changed from year to year.
Lately in America, whatever job I got, the recording was in Europe and in English. It was either in Prague, Glasgow, Dublin or London. Our parents are also old now, so we wanted to move to be somewhere closer. England was in the European Union when we made the decision to move, there was no corona.
I like to go into the sea and dive for hours, but I'm not a classic swimmer. The most important thing for me is to see the sea in front of me. Then everything is somehow arranged properly for me.
I enjoy my job. I've been really blessed since I started working both in my daily enjoyment of doing this job and financially, so I really wouldn't say I would change anything.
I have three homes in Croatia: Šibenik, Zagreb and Dubrovnik. It's more of a problem for me when I have to enter the City, I'm in a hurry, I walk fast, I have to go to a rehearsal, and Ploče is packed with tourists, I have to wait. I'd rather jump rope. But as far as the local people are concerned, I feel at home. I don't think they see me as Liz Taylor either. I think they think of me more as: "Our Sime". Šime is sitting there, drinking coffee, just like in Šibenik, they don't pay attention there either.
Have y'all been able to watch Goran's episodes of Vikings: Valhalla season 3 yet? He's in episodes 5 - 8, and honestly, they could have used him so much more. IMO, of course. No HD screen caps yet, but as soon as I am able to cap his scenes, they will be added to the site. In the meantime, here are the Behind The Scenes photos that I've collected (the first two were shared about two years ago by Goran when he was preparing for the role - has it really been that long of a wait? OMGosh) ♥ Some of the most recent BTS photos I took into Photoshop and cleaned up the images (and flipped them in the right direction).
More images added from new and previous photoshoots, and appearances ♥ Gloria, Cover Style, and Goran in Zagreb. I used Photoshop to clean up the JPEG artifacts on the first two images.
07 July 2024
The Dubrovnik Festival Instagram account shared the video of Goran and Zrinka's interview with Nova TV! And I have uploaded it to my YouTube channel ♥
<--- Goran with Zrinka Cvitešić talking to Nova TV in Dubrovnik. Photo shared by the Dubrovnik Festival Instagram account in their stories yesterday. Archived on this site in the Miscellaneous section of the gallery.
Goran attended the Ljetno kino Barone(Summer Cinema Barone) showing of Radnička klasa ide u pakao in Šibenik on 3 July 2024. Two clear photos, and two where you have to look closely to find him <--- not too difficult a task for us Tree Huggers though, huh?
GVA's got 498 HD (1080p) screen captures of Goran from the Verne Robot Taxi Presentation! (thanks to my sister's fast - Google Fiber <--- get it if it's in your area, it's amazing) - internet connection).
Also posted to the Verne YouTube Channel is an animation in which Goran did the narration.
Goran attended the 7th birthday party for the lifestyle magazine Cover Style on 26 June 2024 ♥ Below are two videos from the Cover Style YouTube Channel that feature a few clips of Goran at the event. And some photos found on the Cover Style website ♥
For this month's POTM, I colorized the brand-spanking new B&W photoshoot image of Goran ♥ I don't know about you, but I. am. in. love. with this new photoshoot, like... omg.
New photoshoots of Goran with actress Zrinka Cvitešić (his co-star in the play Ekvinocijo) from the recent issue of Gloria magazine - 27 June 2024. Thank you to my sister, Mèimei, for helping me out and purchasing the digital copy of this magazine. I extracted the pages containing the article about Goran and Zrinka, and added them to the Scans section of the gallery. You can find the photoshoots on the Photoshoots page.
Read the article online: Gloria(Croatian only) //
Buy a digital copy of the magazine here.
Six more BTS photos from rehearsals of Ekvinocijo have been added to the gallery ♥
I made 20 GIFs from Goran's Verne presentation video from last month. Screen captures coming in a future update <--- I only have my laptop working, and my screen cap software is on my desktop computer. But... soon...
You might remember that last year I posted about a poll to vote Goran as The Most Handsome Croatian of All Time, well... in March 2024, the results came in, and Goran won the poll with a total of 16,173 votes!
Way to go, Tree Huggers ♥
You can read the original article about this online poll win on Zadovoljna.
In the beginning of June, Goran won the Antun Award. Translation of this article on 24 Sata from Google Translate:
Goran Višnjić received the Antun award: 'I am proud and happy'
Goran Višnjić is the winner of this year's Antun award for the most famous student of the Sibenik High School, Antun Vrančić, which was awarded on the most beautiful stage of the Adriatic. St. Michael's Fortress was almost filled to capacity with high school students and their guests who gathered for the jubilee, twentieth edition of the iconic school award.
In his speech, Goran Višnjić recalled his high school days, his class, professors and anecdotes, and in his thanks he pointed out: 'I must say that I am proud and honored, but also that I was privileged and happy that I could be a part of that story of ours Gymnasiums. Thank you all!'
Višnjić thus joined a number of famous Croats such as Arsen Dedić, Maksim Mrvica, Miroslav Lilić, Loredana Bahorić and others who have a statuette of Anton, the work of academic sculptor Ala Guberina, as well as winners in this year's eleven categories.
A note about GVA Exclusives: some of the images on this fansite are Goran Višnjić ArchiveExclusives. If the images are watermarked, I ask that you please do not remove the watermark, and please do not archive or post these images to other fansites, blogs, or social media accounts. I paid money to obtain the images so that this fansite could bring them to fans exclusively in HQ quality. Thank you for your understanding, and cooperation.
Practical Magic 2?
Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock have been confirmed to star in a sequel to Practical Magic. There's no word yet if Goran might be back to revive Jimmy Angelov (again - haha!) in the sequel. But I will do my best to keep an eye out for any news. I'm doubtful that we'll see Goran reprise this role considering what happened to Jimmy in the first movie, but... you never know. Regarding future updates about this project - I won't cover Practical Magic 2 updates unless it breaks that Goran will reprise his role.
[ photo included because Goran is effing hot as Jimmy Angelov, like omg *fans self* ]
13 June 2024
Happy Goran Thursday, Tree Huggers!
First off (before all the excited screaming, and flailing), Goran has been invited to give the opening speech at this year's premiere Croatian International Film Festival which will be held in Šibenik, Croatia on 8 August 2024 at Trg Republike Hrvatske (which is the square opposite of the St. James Cathedral). The festival will take place from the 8th until the 11th of that month. You can find more information about the festival at its official website, and read about it in this Croatian article from Jutarnji.
Croatian to English translation of the relevant passage in the Jutarnji article by Google Translate:
The Croatian International Film Festival primarily emphasizes women in the film industry and the media, and the official opening will be held at Trg Republike Hrvatske with an attractive gala dinner, a red carpet and an homage to Špiri Guberina , the legend of the Šibenik theater industry . For this occasion, our drama artist, the 'Dite of Šibenik' Goran Višnjić , will give an opening speech . This will be followed by three days of programs at as many as four locations: Barone Fortress, House of Arsen, Civitas Sacri and the Museum of the City of Šibenik.
And now... what we have all been waiting for (for what seems like years)...
Vikings: Valhalla Season 3
will be on Netflix on Thursday,
11 July 2024
Mark your calendars! Mark your calendars! Mark your calendars! Here's the trailer, small clips of Goran as Erik The Red in this. And hopefully more episodic stills are released because I don't think I need to explain that 2024 has had quite the Goran Drought LOL
And a new episodic still ♥ I honestly cannot wait to see how this new look helped Goran get into the mind of this character (Erik The Red). I have a couple actor friends, and anytime they can drastically change their appearance, they feel like they can more easily become the character they're playing. I suck in front of a camera (I was always in the role of the director or camera operator when I did short films at uni), but... daaaaaaaaaaaayyyyuuuuuuummm! I've know for a couple years about this Erik The Red look, and seeing it in action in the trailer above, and in this epstill... I think - if Goran is used well and given a good amount of screen time (because let's face it, six months into 2024, I think we're all clammoring for any small tidbit of Goran that we can get LOL) - that this is going to be effing awesome!
I mean, seriously... an entire TV series about Erik The Red would be welcome at this point if we got 45 minute to 1 hour episodes featuring Goran in almost every scene. Am I a greedy little Tree Hugger? Yes. Yes, I am.
[ *waves* Hi, Goran - we miss you! <--- if you happen to drop by and read my very early morning ramblings on this fansite, haha! ]
07 June 2024
This interview clip of Goran was shared today by the @dubrovnikfestival Instagram account, and I've uploaded it to the Goran Višnjić Archive YouTube Channel (don't forget to subscribe!) ♥ And I've done another color edit of Goran from the Timeless Season 2 Premiere Party on 11 March 2018.
Rehearsals for Ekvinocijo have begun! And here's a behind the scenes photo shared by the @dubrovnikfestival Instagram in their Stories on 04 June 2024.
Goran was spotted on the streets of Zagreb (I'm assuming not far from the HNK - Hrvatsko narodno kazalište/Croatian National Theatre - where it looks like preparation for Ekvinocijo is taking place ahead of next month's Dubrovnik Summer Festival. These images are permanently archived on GVA in the Miscellaneous section of the site.
Just a little note to let you know that my life has been super crazy and unpredictable this year, and it about to get even more so. I'm trying to keep up-to-date with Goran, and have so many updates in line for the site - which includes finishing the HD screen captures of Goran in his episodes of ER, and of course, many other screen caps, event photos, adding videos to the GVA YouTube Channel, and (what I've been meaning to update for over a year) social media images Goran has shared on his Instagram. I'm doing my best to bring you the best (and most) quality and content that I can. Thank you for continuing to support the Goran Višnjić Archive fansite.
The latest staging of Vojnović's Equinox, directed by Krešimir Dolenčić, follows at the hitherto unexplored festival location, Posat, while our biggest acting stars today, Goran Višnjić and Zrinka Cvitešić, lead the Festival Drama Ensemble alongside national drama champion Olivera Baljak. The premiere is on July 27 at 9:30 p.m.
Goran Replies to Baby Lasagna on Instagram - MEOW! Goran's reply translated from Croatian:
Totally deserved!! The audience is still the most important...
Watch Baby Lasagna's Eurovision 2024 finale performance on YouTube: (not my channel, hopefully it stays up because he was soooooo good)
10 April 2024
19 March 2024 Goran Višnjić Headlines Premieres at 75th Dubrovnik Summer Festival
The 75th Dubrovnik Summer Festival brings eight different dramatic titles, with its rich premiere program highlighting strong and well-known acting names in the city.
At the very beginning of this exciting festival summer, the audience's favorite, "Kafetarija" by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Paolo Tišljarić, will have its premiere. The acting ensemble of the Marin Držić Theater is led by Hrvoje Sebastijan and guest Marijan Nejašmić Banić in the roles of Gospodin Fran and Lukša.
The latest performance of Vojnović's "Ekvinocija" will be directed by Krešimir Dolenčić at a previously unexplored festival location, Posat. Meanwhile, our greatest acting stars today, Goran Višnjić and Zrinka Cvitešić, lead the Festival Drama Ensemble alongside the national drama champion Olivera Baljak.
The rich drama program will be rounded off with Shakespeare's "The Tempest," the third and final premiere title, directed by Slovenian director Vito Taufer. Alongside the popular Luka Peroš in the role of Prospero, some of the leading names in Croatian theater such as Dušan Gojić, Siniša Ružić, Fran Dijak, Filip Šovagović, and others will stand, bringing a vision of a new era, a future that Shakespeare believes awaits the world, in the specific ambience of Lokrum Island.
Tickets for all premieres, as well as for nearly 60 other music, ballet, folklore, and other programs of the 75th Dubrovnik Summer Festival, are already available for purchase online on the festival's website www.dubrovnik-festival.hr and through the service www.ulaznice.hr. Starting from Monday, April 8th, tickets, as well as festival souvenirs, will be available for purchase locally at the box office on the ground floor of the Festival Palace at Od Sigurate 1, which will be open every working day from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
According to this page, it looks like Goran will be portraying Niko Marinović in Ivo Vojnović's Ekvinocijo (English: Equinox) at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival. The play will be directed by Krešimir Dolenčić, and will be performed at Posat (a new location for the festival).
Establishing a balance between the melodramatic and the crude, the sentimental and the cynical, Equinox skilfully combines the past of individuals with the present of the collective, their memories with premonitions of the future.
One can only hope that a YouTube video of this production will be made available to those of us who are unable to, or cannot afford to travel over to Dubrovnik this summer to support Goran in this role.
And then this Saturday, 13 April, is the March for Animals in Zagreb, Croatia. Today, Goran shared a video showing his support for this cause in his Instagram stories. But there's no word on whether or not he will be in attendance.
I love that he is sporting his Dracula (The Brides) look in the video he shared for this event. And it's making one wonder if The Brides is getting another chance (please note: it probably isn't, this is just my own wishful thinking), or if he's got something else up his sleeve <--- or does this Dracula look have to do with his role in Equinox at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival?
"Animals don't have their own voice - we are the ones who have to stand up for them, who have to say something for them. We, as the strongest species on this planet, I think we are here to be guardians of this world, guardians of nature, guardians of animals, not those who just exploit, mistreat and take. I think animals are there more to be companions, to live with us, not for us."
Goran Višnjić, Animal Friends and Pobjede Association invite everyone to the 4th March for Animals
Saturday, April 13 from 11 a.m., Tomislavac: "We are the ones who have to stand up for animals"
The March for Animals, organized by Friends of Animals and the Victory Association, will start on April 13, 2024 at 11 a.m. from Zagreb's King Tomislav Square. The participants of the March for Animals will be the voice of all oppressed and invisible beings who share this world with us. According to the organizers, these are animals that are killed in the food industry, that we carry on us, use in experiments or for vain entertainment, that we abuse and abandon, even though we are aware of their suffering.
And the actor Goran Višnjić in an emotional video invited everyone to join the loud crowd: "Animals don't have their own voice - we are the ones who have to stand up for them, who have to say something for them." We, as the strongest species on this planet, I think we are here to be guardians of this world, guardians of nature, guardians of animals, not those who just exploit, mistreat and take. I think animals are there more to be companions, to live with us, not for us."
As Animal Friends declare, today animals are oppressed by humans to such an extent that the rights of conscious individuals and their clear desires for their own lives are completely lost for the purpose of mass exploitation. They are seen as consumables and not as individuals with their own needs and desires.
They add that abusers, murderers and those who neglect animals are not sanctioned. "We all need to stand up for this", is the message of Friends of Animals: "Croatia needs changes in legislation and the establishment of an inspection for animal protection." Croatia needs improvement of the Animal Protection Act, as well as regulation of the keeping of exotic animals. In addition to the above, the ban on log pulling competitions and the ban on keeping dogs on a chain are just some of the changes that are necessary. There are many reasons to come to the March for Animals and everyone can find their own!”
The Victory Association reminds us how much power is in our hands (and voices) and how important it is to fight on their behalf: "There is so much we can do and every step forward is a significant step for animals." Come to be loud together for those who need our help! Let's not allow excuses, but look for solutions! Thanks to the changes we are proposing, billions of lives could be saved.”
[ source - English translation of article by Google Translate ]
26 March 2024
I'm cleaning up my laptop files, and came across screen captures that were ready to go up on the site, but that I had accidentally dropped into a 'music' folder, only to be discovered now. Ugh. I swear, my computer files are a mess (and they're more organized on my laptop than they are on my 5TB external drive that holds almost all of my Goran (and Timeless) image files (which is just over 2 million images) that I intend on getting archived here, and on my two Timleless fansites (Team Garcy & The Timeless Fansite). Anyway, I uploaded 1,138 HD* screen captures from Goran's 2022 Facebook interview with American Corner Zagreb.
* "HD" because while the original video file is in 1080p, the quality of the Zoom video isn't that great, but still this is Goran's "Bedhead" interview, and he lives up to one of his nicknames: The Human Emoji and/or Emoji Man. I think my bulk image converter/renaming software messed up the chronological order of the caps when it did the renaming though as his waving goodbye is around the middle of the caps instead of near the end. I have no idea why/how that happened, it's been so long since I put them together LOL
"Good evening everyone, a big greeting from rainy England. Just to let you know that Ruza has arrived, they tried to stop her at the customs, but it didn't work. They couldn't stop her from coming. I would like to thank Večernji list for this wonderful prize, a wonderful statue And I would especially like to thank the audience because this award is still an award from the audience and that's why it has a really special place in my heart. It's the audience that applauds in theaters, fills cinemas, concerts. We are artists without an audience, incomplete and so thank you to the audience, thank you Večernje list. And you, my dear colleagues, have a great time tonight, enjoy yourself. Greetings!"
I screen shot, and then did a HUGE cleanup of this Ekran magazine cover. So far, it looks like it's only available to purchase as a digital copy. I haven't had any luck finding it as a physical copy (yet <--- I hope one day it'll show up to buy... *fingers crossed*). You'll be able to find this image in the scans section of the site after it disappears from the updates.
I also got my hands on an actual HQ episodic still of Goran in an episode of Vikings: Valhalla.
Anyway... I've still got loads of screen captures that I need to upload to the site. My 2024 has not been great, but I'm hoping to get some caps up as soon as I can. Including better (larger) quality screen caps of Goran in Spartacus.
Thank you for your patience and understanding ♥ BattleshipGarcy
01 January 2024
Goran Višnjić Archive is a fansite for Croatian-American actor Goran Višnjić. He is best known for his role as Dr. Luka Kovač on ER, and he has also appeared in films such
as Practical Magic, The Girl With The Dragon
Tattoo, and Fátima. Most
recently he has starred as Garcia Flynn on NBC's Timeless, and as famed inventor
Nikola Tesla in the BBC’s Doctor Who.
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