So to actually see it recently was wonderful. I missed it first time round at the Royal Court as we had transferred Piaf into the Vaudeville. I read the play years ago and it knocked me for six. I loved The Pride at the Trafalgar Studios. We, as a family, would always go to the pantomime too and I adored going on stage afterwards! So highbrow stuff, really. I remember that being incredibly exciting. My mum took me to see Annie Get Your Gun with Suzi Quatro when I was little. What was the first thing you saw on stage that had a big impact on you? Regrets are pointless and get you nowhere! Better to learn from mistakes and keep moving forward in life.ħ. So lovely to play a female character who gets the funny lines for herself rather than serving them up for a man to say. Also, Lina Lamont in Singin' In The Rain was a bit of a gift. She was such a funny, vulnerable and verbose character. Most recently, I played Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream - that was a bit of a highlight seeing as it's a part I always wanted to play. I'm not sure I've had a BIG break yet, though. I got my first Olivier nomination with that and got noticed. When I played Marlene Dietrich, in Jamie Lloyd's production of Piaf, at the Donmar Warehouse. I love design and would have enjoyed doing something that gives you freedom to travel, whilst being creative. I probably would have been an architect, like my dad. If you hadn't become an actor, what might you have done professionally? I never thought of doing anything else, so I naturally drifted into it professionally.ģ. I adored the camaraderie and sense of being part of a pack.
I joined a Saturday morning drama group when I was about 10 years old and fell in love with it then. Second, I felt like I was kicked in the stomach, in my abdomen, by some psychic blow.I was born in Cambridge on Christmas Eve.Ģ. “My friend, Stephen Lenehan, gave me a telephone call and he told me, he said, ‘I have some bad news.’ And I was bracing for a hurricane or something, and he was like, ‘ is out of prison.’…First of all, (I felt) so angry. “This morning when I got up and rolled out of bed,” she said. Model Janice Dickinson is among those who made allegations about sexual misconduct at the hands of Bill Cosby – claiming that the comedian raped her, which he has denied – and told “Entertainment Tonight” that she was left reeling after hearing about his conviction overturning. Personally, I know from friends and family that such abuse has lifelong residual effects. “My post was in no way intended to be insensitive to their truth. “I fully support survivors of sexual assault coming forward,” Phylicia Rashad wrote. Her comment quickly attracted backlash from critics of Bill Cosby, and led to Phylicia returning to the social media site to stress she hadn’t meant any offense with her original post.
The screen star courted controversy when she took to Twitter to mark Cosby’s release from prison, after judges agreed that his trial – for drugging and sexually assaulting Temple University staff member Andrea Constand at his Pennsylvania home in 2004 – had been unfair and threw out his conviction.Īlongside a photo of a smiling Cosby, Phylicia – who had played the actor’s on-screen wife in “The Cosby Show” – wrote, “FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected!”įINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected! /NrGUdwr23c Actress Phylicia Rashad had no intention of being “insensitive” to sexual assault survivors when she celebrated the overturning of Bill Cosby’s conviction.