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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 19, 2017 12:29:25 GMT
And All My Sons and Fool for Love, both also NT. And the Everyman company in Liverpool. And Educating Rita (RSC).
Yes, much!
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Post by crowblack on Jun 19, 2017 12:32:50 GMT
a fan favorite is Richard Aiode He'd be great! I'm not really a Tilda Swinton fan - too posh, cold and brittle, and reminds me a bit of Margaret Thatcher. Good in that rather overlooked John Constantine / Hellblazer film, though.
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Post by profquatermass on Jun 19, 2017 12:32:54 GMT
Has Julie Walters done much? I don't know about *much*, but she did do Last Of The Haussmans at the NT a few years back. I saw her in Jumpers at the Royal Exchange in the 1980s. And there was Acorn Antiques. I think she#s done quite a lot I don't think Hugh Grant has done any stage work except for the absolute minimum to get his Equity card (which IIRC was in a comedy troupe). That must be quite unusual for a British film star.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 12:33:47 GMT
The Good Wife just for him I gave it a go, but it's not really my thing - same with the superhero films/TV a lot of actors I like seem to be in at the moment. I do try! I liked the Joss Whedon-scripted one, though. Oh I hear you! I sat through FAR too many episodes of Arrow for John Barrowman in the hope I'd enjoy it but alas no.
I have a long list of 'sh*te I've sat through for actors I love' with Hugh Jackman being my top offender.
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Post by kathryn on Jun 19, 2017 12:53:30 GMT
I feel you, on sitting through crap for actors you love. Mainly films rather than theatre, though.
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Post by crowblack on Jun 19, 2017 13:14:16 GMT
I feel you, on sitting through crap for actors you love I have the 'willI I sit through something by Julian Fellowes or Stephen Poliakoff for them?' test! I haven't managed The Crown yet, either - cast looks great but the subject matter...
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Post by mistressjojo on Jun 21, 2017 2:53:14 GMT
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Post by ncbears on Jun 21, 2017 5:16:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2017 7:18:23 GMT
Emma Watson has yet to do theatre. So many other Harry Potter kids have done theatre (who knew, back in the days of Philosopher's Stone, that Harry Melling would be such a one to watch out for?), but she's still resolutely holding out. Fair play to her, if that's what she wants, but some of us do have checklists that we've been working through...
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 21, 2017 7:24:15 GMT
Sam Claflin - I don't think he's ever played live. And, after seeing My Cousin Rachel in the cinema this week, I hope he never does. The film fails on every level, especially with Sam Claflin's performance.
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Post by d'James on Jul 8, 2017 18:46:50 GMT
Has Julia Sawalha done any/much?
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Post by poster J on Jul 8, 2017 22:20:38 GMT
Btw, to what degree do American-style TV contracts affect this? You hear of actors having to sign up for, potentially, years (when it's for a pay-tv channel they disappear so much I forget they even existed after a while). Next thing you hear is that they have to stay in LA because their kids are at school and happy. One recent example I can think of is that Orange is the New Black producers worked their filming around Danielle Brooks' schedule so she could do The Color Purple Broadway revival last year - she filmed during the day and was then onstage in the evenings. I think OITNB films somewhere near New York anyway though, which presumably helped.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2017 2:11:15 GMT
Has Julia Sawalha done any/much? She did a tour of In Memory of Water with Alison Steadman back in late 1998. I think she may have done West End since but it was early 2000's if she did.
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Post by d'James on Jul 9, 2017 2:14:32 GMT
Has Julia Sawalha done any/much? She did a tour of In Memory of Water with Alison Steadman back in late 1998. I think she may have done West End since but it was early 2000's if she did. Interesting. Thanks!! How about June Whitfield people?
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Jul 9, 2017 10:26:00 GMT
She did a tour of In Memory of Water with Alison Steadman back in late 1998. I think she may have done West End since but it was early 2000's if she did. Interesting. Thanks!! How about June Whitfield people? As with most actors of her era, a lot of stage work, Wilde, Anouilh, Ayckbourn, Cooney etc. In the early fifties she did a fair amount of musical theatre including the original productions of South Pacific, the Noel Coward show Ace of Clubs and Love From Judy (the Daddy Long Legs story musicalised with a great Hugh Martin score). The last one also featured a very young Barbara Windsor. I didn't see it but she was in the ENO On the Town revival about a decade ago as Madame Dilly.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 9, 2017 10:36:04 GMT
When did this thread mutate from "Actors Who Don't Do Stage Work" to "Actors Who Do Do Stage Work"?
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Post by crowblack on Jul 9, 2017 10:44:12 GMT
Does Michael Smiley ever do theatre? He does a lot of film and TV - he's a Ben Wheatley regular, and I saw him at a film Q&A recently and he was very sharp. He has a stand-up comedy background, but I'm not aware of any theatre stuff - maybe, like Paddy Considine, he'll be tempted in?
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Post by martin1965 on Jul 9, 2017 15:09:54 GMT
Does Michael Smiley ever do theatre? He does a lot of film and TV - he's a Ben Wheatley regular, and I saw him at a film Q&A recently and he was very sharp. He has a stand-up comedy background, but I'm not aware of any theatre stuff - maybe, like Paddy Considine, he'll be tempted in? Who he?
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Post by crowblack on Jul 9, 2017 15:22:58 GMT
He's in a lot of stuff, so you may know his face from 'character actor' roles (it's quite distinctive) - probably best known for A Field in England and other Ben Wheatley films and TV's Luther, though I haven't seen the latter.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 9, 2017 15:41:21 GMT
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Post by martin1965 on Jul 9, 2017 18:35:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2017 20:46:37 GMT
Interesting. Thanks!! How about June Whitfield people? June did Bedroom Farce at Aldwych in summer 2002, that would probably be the last play our newest theatrical Dame did, she has compared concerts since then did one in B'ham only a couple of years ago. The lack of stage work in recent years is probably down to her age more than anything given she was 76 going on 77 when she did Bedroom Farce.
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