The Picture Journal

Luke Pasqualino

If you had 25 years of human life that you could distribute to any number of deceased artists to give them more time (presumably to add more to their body of work) who would you bring back, and how many years would you allot to each? What a great question to start on. I have so many different answers for this question and I could be here for hours dedicating a year to each of my beloved artists, but the two that stand out are Amy Winehouse and Heath Ledger. I was, and still am a huge fan of their…

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Paapa Essiedu

If you could trade all of your knowledge of Shakespeare’s works for the chance to experience reading/ performing Hamlet again for the first time, would you? I don’t profess to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Shakespeare anyway but there are few feelings that can match the excitement of performing Hamlet for the first time. It’s a strange mix of terror and exhilaration. Wouldn’t swap it for anything. If you could pick any other Shakespeare character to play who would you pick and why? I’d love to play Iago [from Othello] one day. His mind works in a genius way similarly…

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Kyle Soller

What’s the best idea you’ve had that you found out already existed? I’m not sure you could call most of the ideas that have gone through my head “the best” of anything… What’s your trick for remembering people’s names? Alliteration. What book or movie took you the most tries to start and finish? Probably a curriculum book when I was at school. I remember Great Expectations being particularly uninviting. When was the closest you ever came to breaking character onstage? I was in a play and the guy playing the lead was, at a critical moment for his character, supposed…

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Nicholas Galitzine

Have you ever won a contest unrelated to acting? I have won a few competitions most of which were related: I went to a very serious sporting school, Dulwich College, so I ended up competing in national rugby, football and athletics competitions. Although I would have to say my proudest competition winning would have to have been my glorious victory in my first egg and spoon race aged 5. Being a writer & performer of music as well as an actor, would you rather be able to memorize your lines in one read or would you rather never forget a…

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Michael Xavier

If you could watch the first ever performance of any play, which would you pick? Macbeth in 1605. I love the play and would love to have seen the first audience reaction to it. What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen going on in an audience while performing? A lady tonight having the audacity to film me whilst I was half naked on a huge tablet device. Once I covered up, the filming stopped! As a child, what do you remember wanting to be when you ‘grew up’? At first I wanted to be an actor, then a policeman, then…

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