On the eve of her London stage debut, Saoirse Ronan and her co-star, James McArdle, tell Hayley Maitland about the method behind the madness
It’s a mid-August afternoon on London’s Hackney Marshes, and four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan is darting through the grass, with fellow actor James McArdle close behind her. In the middle of their Britishshoot, the clear weather has suddenly given way to a downpour—with peals of thunder rumbling in the distance—and the crew has been forced to take refuge.
Refreshingly, Farber’s take will also place the relationship between the Macbeths at the heart of the story, with a number of their lines reassigned. It’s a marriage that Ronan and Glasgow-native McArdle, who are good friends , have dissected at length during the year and a half that the play has been in the works. “In every production we’ve seen, it’s the dynamic between the Macbeths that fascinates us,” says 32-year-old James.
In spite of their clear close friendship, Ronan is “absolutely terrified” at the prospect of the production. While she did more than 150 performances on Broadway as Abigail Williams inwith Sophie Okonedo and Ben Whishaw, this marks her first performance on the London stage, not to mention her first foray into Shakespeare. “Doing theatre sharpens you so much as an actor. It requires a different stamina to film.
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