Not all that long ago there was a pretty clear distinction between a theatre actor and a film actor. Once in a blue moon you’d see an A-lister getting back to their roots with a role at the National Theatre, but on the whole the closest you’d get to a well-known thesp on a West End stage was Jason Donovan in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat.
Recently, though, things have been changing. London theatre-goers can see Luke Treadaway, Brian Cox, John Simm, Roger Allam, Zoe Wanamaker, Rupert Everett and Helen Mirren. And that’s just the ones that immediately sprang to mind.
With this in mind, we’ve decided to do something a little different at HeyUGuys: an occasional column looking at the cross over between the worlds of stage and celluloid. We’re calling it ‘Film Geeks at the Theatre.
Last week the Trafalgar Studios production of Macbeth, which stared James McAvoy and Claire Foy came to a close, in preparation for the opening of a new production of The Hot House. We headed down to a rather informal press conference with the cast of both plays, where amongst other things, we got a chance to find out what McAvoy considers to be the major differences are between performing on stage and performing on screen.
Check out the video highlights below:
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