Stars On Stage
There was once a time when TV actors didn’t do movies. There was a time when stage actors wouldn’t go near a movie set, even if someone had offered them a role. And there was a time when movie stars wouldn’t deign to tread the boards. That time is passed, and now everyone from Kevin Spacey to Harry Potter (well, Daniel Radcliffe) is trying to up their acting cred by starring in a serious theatrical production (as if Kevin Spacey ever needed to up his acting cred!). Whether it’s Mackenzie Crook (as in ‘I could catch a monkey’, you know, the long-nosed one-eyed pirate Johnny Depp’s been in love with since he first glimpsed him playing bigot loser Gareth in The Office) and Kristin Scott Thomas in Chekhov’s The Seagull or the maitre’d from Batman Begins doing the Time Warp in Rocky Horror (I only put that in so everyone will go and see it; it’s ace), everyone wants a piece of the act-ion.