The Picture Journal

Ophelia Lovibond

Would you rather give up your music or your film library? Oh God, what a horrendous dilemma! I reckon I’d give up my film library because I can remember more vividly and conjure more easily the stories I’ve seen than the music I’ve heard. Plus you can’t dance to The Deer Hunter the way you can to Funkadelic. What do you find incredibly boring despite knowing that it’s worthwhile? Flossing. What is a trait or surface-level characteristic that you take as an indicator of some part of a person’s character? Whether or not they like dogs. (A wide berth if…

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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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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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