Gemma Arterton webchat
Gemma Arterton, who’s currently playing the title role in Nell Gwynn in the West End, took part in a live chat with The Guardian today.
Here’s what Gemma had to say about performing in our 2014 Sam Wanamaker Playhouse production of The Duchess of Malfi, which she explains was the hardest role in her career:
Duchess of Malfi was gruelling because she has to die every night on stage, and the whole play is about her being torn apart and tortured, while witnessing her kids dying… it was just awful. I don’t know how people do it - Eve Best did it for three months, but I couldn’t do more than six weeks. I was shattered. Every day, you’re really happy when you die, because then it’s ended, and you can go have some chill-out time. And I think that’s how the character feels - just let me die, so it’s over. I loved playing her though; I loved that play.
Read the full Q&A on The Guardian.
You can see Nell Gwynn at the Apollo Theatre in the West End until 30 April. Book tickets.
Image from our 2014 The Duchess of Malfi - © Mark Douet.