Clive Owen (pictured) will return to the London stage for the first time in 18 years in The Night Of The Iguana
Clive Owen will return to the London stage for the first time in 18 years to play a defrocked priest, excommunicated for fornication and blasphemy, in a rare revival of Tennessee Williams’s last great play, The Night Of The Iguana. He will be joined onstage by two powerful forces: Lia Williams and Anna Gunn.
Williams, who won acclaim for her Jean Brodie at the Donmar and her portrait of the Duchess of Windsor in The Crown, will play the spinster Hannah Jelkes. She’s a poker player and hustler who wheels her ancient grandfather around, and comes into contact with the debauched Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon (Owen’s character) in a dilapidated Mexican hotel run by the brutish Maxine Faulk (played by Gunn, who was Skyler White in Breaking Bad).
Owen, who was in Los Angeles when we talked, told me he was excited to play the former minister with a weakness for booze and under-age virgins, reduced to working as a church-group tour guide.
‘It’s such a fantastic play, and a fantastic part,’ the actor said, with relish.
He pointed out that though many of Williams’s plays, such as A Streetcar Named Desire (which Lia Williams did in Dublin recently), are performed regularly, ‘this one feels really ripe to introduce, and remind everybody what a beautiful piece of writing it is’.
Owen, who resides in London with his wife and two daughters, said Shannon’s ‘on the edge — and I’m always attracted to characters who are struggling and full of conflict’.
The actor appeared in Harold Pinter’s Old Times in New York a few years ago, his first time on any stage in 13 years. He followed that with M Butterfly, directed by Julie Taymor.
‘It had been a long time,’ he said. ‘I was reawakened by doing Old Times. I was petrified...because I had been away from the stage for so long. It was to remind myself that I studied for this at RADA, and it was like: “Oh, my gosh. I’m back on stage!”
Lia Williams, pictured left in London last September, and Anna Gunn, pictured right in New York in 2016, join Clive Owen in The Night Of The Iguana
‘And now I’m back on stage in London,’ he said, adding that he agreed to do the play while having coffee with director James Macdonald. ‘I just said: I’m in!’
Owen will join Williams, Gunn and Julian Glover at the Noel Coward Theatre from July 6, for a 12-week season.
David Richenthal, one of the producers, told me in New York yesterday that he hopes the production will ‘help put the play in the pantheon of great dramatic classics’.
Lia Williams echoed that sentiment. The actress said she’d never read The Night Of The Iguana before, but once she did, she realised that Hannah Jelkes ‘had possibly been played before as some form of do-gooder’.
Jelkes has been on the road with her doddery grandad for 25 years and ‘they’re clearly running away from something’. ‘She’s been to hell and back,’ Williams said of her character.
Life lessons in Luton from The Boss
Before the world premiere of her latest film, director Gurinder Chadha whipped the thousand-plus audience into a frenzy by leading them in a Bruce Springsteen chorus.
It was a smart way to set the mood for what turned out to be one of the best crowd-pleasing movies I have seen since, well . . . Bend It Like Beckham, which Chadha made 17 years ago.
The Sundance Film Festival audience adored Blinded By The Light, which is set in Luton in 1987, during Mrs Thatcher’s term of office. Based on a memoir by writer and broadcaster Sarfraz Manzoor, it stars Viveik Kalra, a brilliant 20-year-old newcomer from Windsor, as a sixth-form college student version of Manzoor, who lives with his parents and two sisters in the much-maligned town.
Viveik Kalra, Nell Williams, and Aaron Phagura appear in Blinded by the Light by Gurinder Chadha
Blinded By The Light stars Viveik Kalra (pictured)
His dream is to study creative writing at university. But his life is ruled by his father (played by Kulvinder Ghir) who tells his son: ‘Stay away from the girls. Follow the Jews.’
The lad’s English Lit teacher, played by Hayley Atwell, is aware that Javed (as he’s called in the film) has talent and tries to encourage him. But his courage isn’t unlocked until he listens to The Boss.
He becomes obsessed, and Bruce Springsteen’s philosophy of life opens his eyes. ‘Work hard, respect your parents...this man must be Pakistani,’ his father tells Javed, adding movingly: ‘Write your stories, but don’t forget ours.’
After a second screening, Kalra was surrounded and mobbed by a group of middle-aged women. ‘They were grabbing me and trying to kiss me,’ he said, understandably startled.
The film already has UK distribution and a company born in the USA has snapped it up for $15 million.
Keira Knightley’s on A+ form in Official Secrets, director Gavin Hood’s white-hot gem of a film about GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun, who leaked how Tony Blair’s No 10 was complicit in American efforts to lie its way into a war with Iraq.
The film’s in three acts: showing Gun’s motivation for the leak; her legal strategy (Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma play her lawyers Ben Emmerson and Shami Chakrabarti); and how the Observer newspaper, thanks to the determination of Martin Bright (Matt Smith), Ed Vulliamy (Rhys Ifans) and Roger Alton (Conleth Hill), pursue the story. However, the paper’s then political editor Kamal Ahmed (played by Ray Panthaki), now at the BBC, comes across as a Tony Blair stooge, which isn’t a good look.
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Clive Owen (pictured) will return to the London stage for the first time in 18 years in The Night Of The Iguana
Clive Owen will return to the London stage for the first time in 18 years to play a defrocked priest, excommunicated for fornication and blasphemy, in a rare revival of ...
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