"In 2018 I had recently lost my mother, so I was looking for connections with the spirit. The Inheritance allowed me to talk about matters of the heart. It was the world premiere at the Young Vic in London, so we were making something brand new, which is always thrilling. They'd already done a week's rehearsal with another actor who had pulled out of what became my role."
"I stayed up all night reading Matthew Lopez's script before my audition. It was so gripping. I was nervous of Stephen Daldry going into the audition, as he has an enormous status and he's very front-footed in the rehearsal room. I like to be in the background and find my way, so his working methods frightened me a little bit. But I put all of that aside to serve this story."
"The play was in two parts, played over two nights. So you're with these characters for a long, long time and we had a lot of time to build the detail. The story follows a group of young gay Americans in a writers' room, some way after the peak of the Aids crisis. For inspiration, one of the writers calls on his hero, EM Forster, who appears and guides him through the process of telling his story. Howards End becomes the template for the whole play."
An actor lost his mother in 2018 and sought spiritual connection, finding emotional expression through The Inheritance. The production premiered at the Young Vic, then moved to the West End and Broadway after an extended run and changes in casting. The actor prepared intensely, reading Matthew Lopez’s script overnight and confronting nerves about director Stephen Daldry’s forceful methods. The play runs in two parts over two nights and follows young gay American writers after the peak of the AIDS crisis. EM Forster appears as a guiding figure. The actor performed dual roles: a repressed Forster and a fearless contemporary dying of AIDS, prompting deep personal reflection about growing up during the crisis.
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