Lillian Gish and John Gielgud in Hamlet, which opened at the Empire Theater on October 8, 1936, and ran until January 30, 1937.
Lillian was superb in that role [Ophelia]. Lillian was, in that instance, very much like a dollop of mercury: you could bend or caress or throw her anything, toward anything, and she would automatically conform to that situation or mood. Her understanding of the mental instability of Ophelia was acute: her body language; her tremulous speech—one was aware of the tightrope on which she was walking.
Judith [Anderson] was far more experienced in classical theatre. Her mind was a repository of scholarly research. She really knew her Shakespeare. However, she realized that there was nothing quite like Lillian. Call it star power; call it an intuitive understanding of a role; call it alchemy. I don't know. I really don't. But it was magical.
Film awards season is that much closer to the end with todays' BAFTA Awards. No real surprises with OPPENHEIMER, Christopher Nolan, ANATOMY OF A FALL, Emma Stone,
Da"Vine Joy Randolph
and Cillian Murphy winning top honours.
Cillian is the first Irish EE BAFTA Best Leading Actor winner.
B-Rad, it should have been you. Just sayin'.
BAFTA Awards and after-party moments.
Host David Tennant with Bark Ruffalo.
Cillian holding court with Oppen-homie Rami Malek and his partner Emma Corrin.
MORE BAFTA TALK
Daisey Edgar Jones
Honourary The Strokes member, Dominic Sessa.
On-screen cuzzos, Archie Madekwe and Alison Oliver.
Rosamund Pike with Sophie Ellis-Bextor who performed "Murder on the Dancefloor", which hit a resurgence after its use in SALTBURN.
The Irish: Andrew Scott, *Ayo Edebiri, Paul Mescal and Alison Oliver of SALTBURN.
Shout out to Barbie Wine, wife of Bobi Wine subject of Oscar nominated documentary BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT. She sat at the same table as Cillian at the Oscar Nominee Luncheon and knew how to play it cool.
Paul Mescal does nothing for me, but I admit I see his charms (especially in his episode of "Chicken Shop Date") and those of his sister Nell. I may have to marry into that family...by way of Nell.
Paul being starstruck by David Beckham, Nell doing her top four Letterboxd and the Mescal family lipsycing poorly.