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Jul 4, 2013 · Anna Chancellor has spoken of the “odd” feeling of kissing former Bond villain Toby Stephens on stage — in front of his wife.
- Louise Jury
Jul 4, 2013 · ANNA CHANCELLOR has spoken of the “odd” feeling of kissing former Bond villain Toby Stephens on stage — in front of his wife. Chancellor, 48, who played “Duckface” in Four Weddings and a Funeral, acts out steamy scenes with Stephens as a divorced couple getting back together in the Noël Coward play Private Lives in the West End.
- How Is The Show Going?
- Does It Feel Different Returning to The Production?
- Was It A Conscious Decision For You and Toby to Work Together?
- How Is It Playing A Married Couple?
- What Do You Think Each Other’S Best Acting Qualities Are?
- Do You Have Any Theatrical Superstitions Or Routines?
- How Has Working Together Been?
Plowman:It’s going really well, which is great. We have to really appreciate this because it’s not often that you’re in a show where the audiences are so thrilled to be there. You can’t take it for granted.
Plowman: What’s amazing about it, and this shows you what an extraordinary play it is, is how you still find things in it. When that’s still happening, you know you’ve got an amazing piece of writing.
Plowman: It was a conscious decision. We’d sort of avoided it. We’d always thought we won’t do theatre together because it can be tricky, but this just seemed to be perfect for us and we wanted to produce stuff together.
Plowman: I think if it had been Toby and I playing Amanda [played by Chancellor] and Elyot, I don’t think either of us would have wanted to do that. I personally think that would be very difficult for us at this point in our lives with three little children. Why would you do that? It would be quite hard, because you’d have to explore a lot of thing...
Stephens:The parts of Sybil and Victor can become caricatures; I think what Annie Lou brings is a real person who changes from someone who’s very naïve at the beginning to somebody who’s beginning, perhaps not in the best way, to become sophisticated. It’s a beautiful transition, a very seamless one. Plowman:Toby has a way of making the language so...
Plowman:Toby always has a shower before every show. Stephens:I really like being relaxed when I’m on stage. I hate feeling tense and anxious, so I try and have a shower before every performance just because it relaxes me and gets me to a stage where I feel ready for it. Plowman:I like to have a perfume for every character. I find a smell. Stephens:...
Stephens:It’s been great. Even though you’re together, with kids you actually rarely talk to one another because everything fits around the children, so it’s actually very nice having time together. I suppose there was the slight anxiety between the two of us that it might be difficult, but it hasn’t been at all. Plowman: I think it’s partly becaus...
Jul 7, 2013 · It’s there in Stephens’ languid air, as his Elyot flicks cigarette ash impatiently and tolerates, rather than encourages, his new wife Sibyl’s embraces. It’s there in Chancellor’s tiny moment...
Jul 4, 2013 · As Elyot’s mousy and girlishly doting second wife Sibyl, Toby Stephens’ real-life partner Anna-Louise Plowman is outstanding and infused with far greater depth than we’ve seen before. She...
What is tragic about Amanda and Elyot is that being together isn’t right either.” — Toby Stephens on Elyot and Amanda (Gielgud Theatre, 2013) “It was shocking then and it is shocking now. Coward wrote characters who were equally likeable and dislikeable. In good writing, people say the unsayable.”
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It’s the ultimate romantic dilemma: Elyot and Amanda, the heroes of Noël Coward’s saucy classic ‘ Private Lives ’, are a divorced couple who discover the spark’s still there after meeting while...
