A ceremony of passage! Filming a film or TV present is one factor, however taking the Broadway stage is kind of one other — no reshoots, no edits and a stay viewers.
Michelle Williams, who performed Sally Bowles in a 2014 revival of Cabaret, caught the musical bug after taking part in Marilyn Monroe in the film My Week With Marilyn.
“It wasn’t that I felt like I had a natural gift,” she advised The New York Times in March 2014. “What I liked is that you can’t be in your head. You can’t sing and dance and think at the same time, and so there’s a joy to it. I don’t have enough joy in my life. Who does? And whenever I can get more of it, that’s where I want to go. I want more of that feeling.”
After making a reputation for himself in the Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean franchises, Orlando Bloom made his Broadway debut in a 2013 manufacturing of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Despite his many achievements, the U.Ok. native stated he nonetheless discovered quite a bit whereas doing the play.
“That community of Broadway is a wonderful thing, and I hadn’t been prepared for it until I became a part of it,” he advised CNN in 2013. “They really support one another, they feel like they are there for one another. The different houses, the different productions and actors see each other for drinks afterwards and it’s a hangout, and it’s not pretentious or uptight in any way. It’s a very accessible world and real and people know what they are doing.”
By the time Tom Hanks made his Broadway debut he had already received two Oscars, however he was nonetheless barely anxious about the viewers’s response to his stage efficiency in the Nora Ephron play Lucky Guy.
“I’m not afraid of the end result because I think we’ll have a very good production,” he advised The New York Times in 2013. “But I am afraid of blowing it myself. I’m afraid of having something being my responsibility, yet not having the wherewithal or lack of self-consciousness or stamina to pull it off. Look, I have just as impressive a track record of movies and projects that didn’t work out.”
Unsurprisingly, he didn’t blow it, and actually obtained a Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Play. He misplaced to Tracy Letts, however he did win a Theatre World Award, which acknowledges actors for debut performances on Broadway.
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