In the latest episode of Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” interview series, “Succession” star Jeremy Strong and “WeCrashed” star Anne Hathaway talk to each other about their acting process.
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EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Strong (Succession) has revealed to Deadline at the Cannes Film Festival that he’s determined to build time into his schedule so that he can perform on the London stage. “I missed an opportunity to do The Shining for Ivo van Hove, and so next time I have to be ready,” he declared.
Deadline broke the story in March that Ben Stiller (Night At The Museum) is in negotiations with Belgian director van Hove and producers Sonia Friedman (‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’) and Colin Callender (Wolf Hall) to star in the adaption of Stephen King’s ‘The Shining’ novel, not Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film version that starred Jack Nicholson.
”The theatre in London has always been the Holy Grail, so I’m coming,” Strong insisted.
He conceded that his screen career has kept him away from performing live. He has filmed three season’s Succession and noted that a fourth will shoot “at some point”, though he stopped short at revealing the start date.
Strong has become celebrated for his acclaimed performance as Kendall Roy in Succession; and his powerhouse portrait of director James Gray’s father in the filmmaker’s autobiographical Armageddon Time, has been well received after it was screened in Cannes.
He was fifteen when, during his first trip to London, he slept outside the National Theatre to ensure he got tickets to see Richard Eyre’s (Notes On A Scandal) 1997 production of King Lear starring Ian Holm (The Hobbit).
“I remember sitting in in the Cottesloe and watching that and it just totally just changed my life and I was thunderstruck by it. I’d never seen anything like it. I don’t come from a very cultured family, and this was the first time I’d been out of the country. It was one of the keystone moments of my life and I
In the latest episode of Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” interview series, “Succession” star Jeremy Strong and “WeCrashed” star Anne Hathaway talk to each other about their acting process.
Zack Sharf If you ever find yourself directing “Succession” Emmy winner Jeremy Strong, then you might want to forgo yelling “action!” before each take. Strong told his “Serenity” and “Armageddon Time” co-star Anne Hathaway during their “Actors on Actors” conversation for Variety, presented by Apple TV+, that he prefers to take a nonverbal cue from a director when it’s time to start a take.
In May, Jeremy Strong and Anne Hathaway dazzled the Croisette as they appeared on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival to promote their roles in James Gray’s critically hailed new film “Armageddon Time.” Two weeks prior, though, they are together in New York discussing their small-screen work. Strong has reached new heights of acting as Kendall Roy, the abandoned and confused scion of a media dynasty, on the third season of HBO’s “Succession.” (He already has an Emmy on the shelf for his work on the series.) Elsewhere in the universe of broken-spirited corporate animals, Hathaway played Rebekah Neumann, first lady of a doomed co-working company, on Apple TV+’s “WeCrashed.” The pair, who first met on the set of the 2019 film “Serenity,” launch right into conversation about shared memories and their mutual passion for the craft. JEREMY STRONG: We’ve never sat down and talked about acting.
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Succession star in 2004 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, recalled how Strong moved into her home after Heath Ledger, Williams’ partner and Matilda’s father, died.“Jeremy was serious enough to hold the weight of a child’s broken heart and sensitive enough to understand how to approach her through play and games and silliness,” Williams told Variety.She added: “[Matilda] didn’t grow up with her father, but she grew up with her Jeremy and we were changed by his ability to play as though his life depended upon it, because hers did.”Williams also commented on the 2021 New Yorker profile of Strong in which he discussed method acting, saying it differs from the person she knows.“We’ve all been in awe of his talent,” Williams said. “We’ve watched him work harder than anyone and wait a long time for other people to recognise it.
Heath Ledger. The 41-year-old actress, who shares 16-year-old daughter Matilda with the late actor, reflected on how friend Jeremy Strong stepped up after Ledger died. “Jeremy was serious enough to hold the weight of a child’s broken heart and sensitive enough to understand how to approach her through play and games and silliness,” Williams told about the star moving into her home with her sister, and another friend, after Ledger died in 2008. Williams shared that Strong would let Matilda ride on his back while he pretended to be a pony.“[Matilda] didn’t grow up with her father,” the actress said.
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When Heath Ledger died of an accidental drug overdose in 2008, he left behind partner Michelle Williams and their 2-year-old daughter, Matilda.
Stepping in and stepping up. Michelle Williams spoke candidly about daughter Matilda Ledger’s sweet relationship with actor Jeremy Strong — and how the Succession star was there for the young girl in the wake of Heath Ledger’s death.
Succession star Jeremy Strong really stepped up for the family.It seems Strong, whose intensity provoked a bit of teasing earlier this year after a profile painted him as uber-serious, is just as committed to his role as a playmate as he is to his film and TV work. In a recent interview with , Williams revealed, “Jeremy was serious enough to hold the weight of a child’s broken heart and sensitive enough to understand how to approach her through play and games and silliness,” adding that after Ledger died in 2008, Strong let Matilda ride on his back as he pretended to be a pony.Four years after meeting at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Strong, Williams' sister, and another friend moved into Williams' home to support her adjustment to single parenthood.