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Post by d'James on Jun 16, 2017 23:35:58 GMT
I was just thinking I'd be interested to know which actors who don't do stage work, or used to but don't anymore. (I don't mean actors who are retired.)
I think Daniel Day-Lewis doesn't anymore?!
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Post by Jon on Jun 16, 2017 23:41:37 GMT
Michael Gambon doesn't because he can't remember lines anymore due to his age.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2017 9:04:46 GMT
Has Kate Winslett ever done any stage work?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2017 9:48:10 GMT
Many years ago I saw Anthony Hopkins in "M Butterfly". I remember afterwards reading that he doesn't like stage acting - a pity, as he was captivating. Not sure if he has been in anything since.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Jun 17, 2017 9:49:23 GMT
Has Kate Winslett ever done any stage work? I seem to recall talk of her maybe doing the Mendes Vanya/Twelfth Night but it came to nothing. |
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Post by Tibidabo on Jun 17, 2017 10:47:23 GMT
Many years ago I saw Anthony Hopkins in "M Butterfly". I remember afterwards reading that he doesn't like stage acting - a pity, as he was captivating. Not sure if he has been in anything since. @jellybean you have just caused a major shufty through my programmes as I also saw this. Sadly I had no memory of it being Anthony Hopkins - which is even more of a shame if, as you say, he hasn't done anything since. |
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Post by Rory on Jun 17, 2017 13:19:29 GMT
Many years ago I saw Anthony Hopkins in "M Butterfly". I remember afterwards reading that he doesn't like stage acting - a pity, as he was captivating. Not sure if he has been in anything since. I was lucky enough to see him in Cardiff in the 90s in a play called August, which was a version of Uncle Vanya. |
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Post by d'James on Jun 17, 2017 13:38:51 GMT
Has Kate Winslett ever done any stage work? Yes she's one I've wondered about. |
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 17, 2017 13:48:31 GMT
Has Kate Winslett ever done any stage work? Wikipedia (so must be taken with a pinch of salt) has her doing no stage work since 1995 and, in truth, hardly any professional work before then. |
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Post by crowblack on Jun 17, 2017 14:07:08 GMT
I don't think Toby Jones does much anymore - too much in demand for film and TV. I saw him give a one-off reading with music at the Printroom last year (a double bill with Deathwatch). It was a new piece by David Rudkin - his mother was in Rudkin's 1970s TV film Penda's Fen. I think Mosquitoes is Olivia Colman's first play in a while, isn't it? TV and film-wise she seems to be the female Toby Jones (as in, National Treasure and in everything!)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2017 14:26:30 GMT
Sadly I had no memory of it being Anthony Hopkins - which is even more of a shame if, as you say, he hasn't done anything since. I've just looked this up and it was (gulp) 1989. The reviewer didn't agree with me though, as they didn't think much of AH's performance. Perhaps I was just captivated by those piercing eyes so close to me (I was right near the front). |
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Post by Tibidabo on Jun 17, 2017 16:57:43 GMT
I've just looked this up and it was (gulp) 1989. SHHHHHHHHHH!  |
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Post by tmesis on Jun 17, 2017 17:31:27 GMT
Maggie Smith
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Post by kathryn on Jun 17, 2017 17:55:52 GMT
She did a bit of Lettice and Lovage at the Peter Shaffer memorial recently - does that count?
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Post by Marwood on Jun 17, 2017 19:17:20 GMT
I went to the BAFTA 'A Life In Pictures' a few years ago
- Hopkins said he has no interest in doing stage productions these days as he gets bored with having to perform the same lines day in day out.
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Post by d'James on Jun 17, 2017 19:39:15 GMT
Yes. That was sad after she had cancer that she never came back to the stage properly. |
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Post by crowblack on Jun 17, 2017 20:00:08 GMT
Hopkins said he has no interest in doing stage productions these days Judging by the two plays my schoolmates and I had to sit through, he didn't have much interest in doing stage productions in those days, either! |
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 17, 2017 21:21:49 GMT
- Hopkins said he has no interest in doing stage productions these days as he gets bored with having to perform the same lines day in day out. Some older people don't feel like that. Perhaps a stage career might suit Theresa May after she's dumped by the Tories. |
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Post by tmesis on Jun 17, 2017 21:36:42 GMT
Martin Clunes was in Tartuffe at NT a number of years ago (he was excellent) but nothing (?) since.
Also I don't think David Jason has done any stage work.
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Post by joem on Jun 17, 2017 21:58:39 GMT
I saw Hopkins in King Lear. I sat in the front row at the National and his spittle fell all over me during his rants. Apart from that, he was quite good. My programme notes tell me Michael Bryant was in that production and also Bill Nighy who I wouldn't have known from Adam then.
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Post by Jon on Jun 18, 2017 0:02:52 GMT
I think Kate Winslet was wanted for the recent revival of Skylight before they cast Carey Mulligan.
Matt Damon hasn't done stage work since This is Our Youth over 15 years ago, I'm surprised he's not made his Broadway debut. Likewise Casey Affleck who starred in the same production.
Michael Fassbender's never done stage work at least not in London.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jun 18, 2017 0:08:39 GMT
- Hopkins said he has no interest in doing stage productions these days as he gets bored with having to perform the same lines day in day out. Some older people don't feel like that. Perhaps a stage career might suit Theresa May after she's dumped by the Tories. Onstage it is completely forbidden to read from a autocue. |
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Post by firefingers on Jun 18, 2017 0:16:48 GMT
I don't think Toby Jones does much anymore - too much in demand for film and TV. I saw him give a one-off reading with music at the Printroom last year (a double bill with Deathwatch). It was a new piece by David Rudkin - his mother was in Rudkin's 1970s TV film Penda's Fen. I think Mosquitoes is Olivia Colman's first play in a while, isn't it? TV and film-wise she seems to be the female Toby Jones (as in, National Treasure and in everything!) Yes, Toby Jone's face has cropped up on posters I have seen backstage at venues (At The Arcola for a play about the artist Turner, and West Yorkshire Playhouse for The Government Inspector are the 2 that come to mind). Would love to him return but Hollywood is easier going. Film for fame, telly for money, theatre for love. |
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Post by d'James on Jun 18, 2017 1:41:13 GMT
Would love to him return but Hollywood is easier going. Film for fame, telly for money, theatre for love. I hoped this sort of thing wouldn't appear so quickly. This thread wasn't meant to be a judgement. The money/fame thing sounds very flimsy and inaccurate, and the 'love' thing sounds like it came from a theatre actor who didn't get the film/tv role they wanted. There are a lot of Theatre actors who really don't 'translate' well on screen and vice versa. Also, that's not to say that those who succeed on screen or stage are better than the other. |
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Post by d'James on Jun 18, 2017 1:43:31 GMT
Apologies for the messed up quote and reply above. Not sure what I did wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2017 1:58:22 GMT
Emily Blunt hasn't done any stage work since 2002. David Jason mentioned above was probably back in the mid 1980s. Directors have wanted to get Martin Clunes on stage but he prefers to work on stuff which is filmed close to where he lives in Cornwall apparently.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Jun 18, 2017 2:18:49 GMT
Martin Clunes was in Tartuffe at NT a number of years ago (he was excellent) but nothing (?) since. Also I don't think David Jason has done any stage work. David Jason did a pantomime at least once. Christian Bale hasn't been on stage since he was a child actor, I think. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2017 2:44:41 GMT
David Jason certainly did stage work from 1960's to 1980's but then his TV work took over. Never heard any rumours that producers have tried to lure him back on stage with choice of roles. Plus he is late 70's now so is probably unlikely to return.
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Post by crowblack on Jun 18, 2017 8:35:08 GMT
Film for fame, telly for money, theatre for love. That seems very unfair - apart from anything else, there are lifestyles / families to consider. I lived with theatre actors for several years - they were all single / divorced though at an age when their contemporaries had kids, certainly didn't have the income to buy their own flats, let alone start a family, and the nature of their work meant they were often away for several week stretches - it reminded me of a sailor lifestyle (I'm from a port city). |
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Post by crowblack on Jun 18, 2017 8:43:06 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.
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