Do you still consider a particular place ‘home’? To be honest no, I travel so much so it’s rare for me to be in one place for more than a couple of weeks. I split my time between London and Paris and I love both cities for different reasons, but I find it hard to stay in one place for too long. I think the place I feel most at home is with my family, that’s where you can truly relax and feel safe and I guess that’s the definition of ‘home’. If you could send a 2 x 2…
We spoke to actor George Blagden about his role as Presley in the Shoreditch Town Hall production of The Pitchfork Disney. What was the most challenging aspect of the play as you read it, that surprised you in how well it unfolded live? The language. When you read Philip’s work for the first time, your imagination takes you to a million different places of where this sort of story-telling could work effectively. If you didn’t have the luxury of having Phil there (which we did!), you could interpret his writing in lots of different ways, and different productions of this…
If aliens exist and they abducted you, would you rather be in an alien zoo or an alien circus? Alien circus! I did a bit of acrobatics once upon a time for fun. It taught me something valuable about performance, which is that you just have to go for it. If you prepare to do a flip and you’re about to jump but you don’t fully commit to the move, you’ll break your neck. Also, I love clowning. I believe learning how to be made fun of and appearing ridiculous is really important for actors… It’s a good life skill in…
Do you think it would be easier to play someone you met/know or someone historically well-known but where there is very little information available about their personal life? Playing someone historical definitely gives you a bit more freedom to play and invent the details of their personal life, though I think you have a responsibility to not go too overboard. I would love to play someone I know too as I love emulating voices and accents, but I would need that person’s permission to fail! What was the most interesting aspect of filming in Versailles in Versailles? Seeing George Blagden…