English - Actor | August 14, 1979 -
I will take to my grave with me the atmosphere of the first 'Cursed Child' preview, because no one knew anything. Only very rarely have I been able to deploy the phrase 'audible gasps.'
Jamie Parker
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When I got the job on 'Cursed Child,' I was doing another show in the West End, and I was playing a part that Marlon Brando had played.
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It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done.
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You can't go into parenthood as a battle wearing armour. It doesn't work that way.
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Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.
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J. K. Rowling has already got a whole generation reading.
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It's all you want as an actor: to have a story people want to be told.
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Isn't it a rare thing, telling hopeful stories now? I think we need more of that, to be honest.
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I like Monoloco in Petersfield, Hampshire, and Little Dorrit in London's Borough Market. Everything's delicious, healthy, and inexpensive.
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If you are not getting people who have never been to the theatre before to come, then you are not doing your job.
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For my money, all theatre should be free.
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I don't think people should be priced out of going to the theatre... But we have to recognise that it is a show business.
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