Harry Comes to Broadway

[+ Lucky]

RE: Jamie Bell

 

Second Former Child Actor To Go Buff In Equus

Jamie BellDate: 30-Apr-2007

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Following Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe dropping out of the current London production of Equus, another former child actor has signed on to take to the stage in the staring role of Alan Strang- a young man who likes to attack horses… and walk around in the buff a lot, apparently.

 

The Daily Mail has reported that 21 year old British actor Jamie Bell will step into the role after Orlando Bloom and American Jesse Metcalfe from Desperate Housewives both turned down the role.

 

Bell first came to public attention through the movie Billy Elliott- about a working class lad who likes to dance- and later appeared in a supporting role in Peter Jackson’s primate epic King Kong.

 

Two years ago Bell had to deny gay rumours in the English tabloid press after he moved into the home of Billy Elliott director Stephen Daldry after shooting that film with him.

 

Daldry is married with a child, and Bell put the rumours to rest with tact and style.

 

However, staring in Equus seems to be becoming a rite of passage for young British actors coming into adulthood who want to prove their “serious” acting credentials.

 

Rather like Nicky Webster posing in FHM we suppose….

[Lankypeters]

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>I saw "Journey's End" and I couldn't stay awake. >

 

 

I nearly left after Act One. The play is arthritic. The acting in Act Two was impressive and justified staying on. The lighting takes realism too far. The hard working actors' faces were barely visible. There's a "been there/done that" feeling to all the plot machinations and sentiments. I kept thinking of Joan LIttlewood's "Oh, What a Lovely War!," a far more creative handling of this subject and theme.

 

I diverted myself by scoping the audience. The perfumed broad that annoyed Rick (see above) must have returned to sit next to me. She smelled as if she'd been blasted at Macy's with some sale priced toilet water. She had a cold and so kept squirting something up her nose, which didn't keep her from snffling nonstop. I had a notion to hand her some toilet paper from the men's room.

 

The audience was strictly TDF -- ugly Sym Syms' pant suits, white jogging shoes and horrid toupes and dye jobs. I spotted one man who, I thought, wore a yamulke. On closer look, it turned out to be a perfectly pancake shaped application on his crown of Just for Men (cappucino) with salt and pepper strands tapering to his neck. Illegally Bad.

[+ Lucky]

"The audience was strictly TDF -- ugly Sym Syms' pant suits, white jogging shoes and horrid toupes and dye jobs."

 

So you felt right at home, or were you the lone person with taste to go see this highly intelligent play?

 

We could do an entire thread on theater audiences and how rude they can be. When I saw Journey's End, even in the house seats the person behind me kept kicking my seat. He was a cute young guy, so I said nothing. But I've noticed that most people will put up with some pretty horrible behavior before they will say anything to the offending party.

[Guest DickHo]

RE: Jamie Bell

 

Orlando Bloom? He is a little old for that role BUT, him naked would make me fly to London instantly.

[Lankypeters]

>"The audience was strictly TDF -- ugly Sym Syms' pant suits,

>white jogging shoes and horrid toupes and dye jobs."

>

>So you felt right at home, or were you the lone person with

>taste to go see this highly intelligent play?

 

I certainly didn't feel at home. I don't shop at Syms. I wouldn't say the play is highly intelligent. Highly realistic, for sure. But familiar after all these years. Hardly Mensa stuff.

>

> But I've noticed that most people will

>put up with some pretty horrible behavior before they will say

>anything to the offending party.

 

ON a recent flight, I endured a magpie and her companion. Even wearing noise cancelling headphones and listening to an iPod, I could still hear her. She kept jumping around in her seat and leaning forward to talk through the seat cracks to her daughters in the row ahead. First I looked at her. Then I fibbed and said I had a headache, asked if she could she lower her voice. A half hour later, when she pulled out her Bible and started reading it to her companion, I told her she'd been talking non stop since we took off and asked her if she had any consideration for other people. She pulled out a magzine and kept quiet for the duration.

 

Lankypeters

[Rick Munroe]

RE: Jamie Bell

 

Lucky, you forgot to give credit to the author of your post (DNA Magazine): http://www.dnamagazine.com.au/articles/news.asp?news_id=1962

We don't want another You-Know-Who situation, do we?

[+ Lucky]

RE: Jamie Bell

 

You're right, of course. I only noticed that they weren't in the heading after I posted it. Then, I thought to myself, well, most of their article comes from the Daily Mail, which is credited, so why bother?

 

SO here is to say that I got the article from DNA magazine, which had been linked to Andy Towle's blog, towleroad.typepad.com. I was quite impressed with DNA magazine and also recommend the blog that sent me there.

 

Soon I will be pulling articles from Rick Munroe's blog, won't I?