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4 days agoChristine Baranski says West End debut is a 'dream come true'
Christine Baranski will make her West End debut in Noel Coward's Hay Fever, fulfilling a long-held dream and returning to her theatre roots.
Matthew Macfadyen started his career in a 1998 TV film adaptation of Wuthering Heights as Hareton Earnshaw, Heathcliff's whipped dog, and has been giving us brilliant incarnations of beta cucks ever since.
Phil Dunster explains the game of splitting the G, where the first drink of a pint of Guinness should leave the top of the brew splitting the G on the glass. He notes that it became a viral thing, but most Irish people probably roll their eyes at it, thinking, 'Fuck's sake, just drink it.'
I think the luxury of having played (Tommy Shelby) for so long is that all the research is kind of done, you know? You've got like 13 years there. You've lived it alongside him, and also you've kind of aged alongside him. It's kind of unique. I'll never experience that again, and it's really unusual and gratifying to have that opportunity to play a character like that.
Taking a helicopter to Royal Ascot. That is one of the poshest things I have done. I became aware of how posh it was when I started calming down and realised I wasn't going to fall out of it. There's a scene in which you spit an hors d'oeuvre squarely at Katherine Waterston. How many takes did you need to get it right? Thirty-three. But that's because I asked for 20 more just because I was enjoying it.