In an interview with The Independent, The Long Day's Journey into Night stars Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson responded to the idea that celebrities are being used as a marketing tactic in theaters.
The question was posed in response to Jeremy O. Harris' claims in the Guardian last month that casting big-name celebrities meant that “people were treating theaters like Disney World attractions and It takes away the charm of great theater because it is the backdrop to the audience's enjoyment.” My favorite celebrity is right in front of me. ”
Kit Harington, who played Jon Snow on Game of Thrones, will star in Harris' Slave Play, which opens in the West End this summer.
“It depends on what you mean by celebrity. People who have acquired acting talent,” Cox said.
“Sarah Jessica Parker should star in a play,” Patricia Clarkson said in response to journalist Laura Kuenssberg's mention of Parker in the West End's Plaza Suite as an example of these celebrities. Ta.
Cox went on to say: “I've done quite a bit in theater over the years…It's kind of nonsense in a way. Frankly, half the journalists don't know what they usually talk about. I don’t even understand.”
Long Day's Journey into Night, starring Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson, is currently in previews at London's Wyndham Theater and will open on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.
Emmy Award-winning actor Brian Cox will play James Tyrone in his first West End role in almost a decade. Co-starring Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actress Patricia Clarkson as matriarch Mary Tyrone, BAFTA nominee Daryl McCormack as James Jr., Rory Kynaston as Edmund, Louisa Harland will co-star as Kathleen.
Regarded as the greatest American play of the 20th century, O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play depicts a summer's day in the Tyrone family, based on O'Neill's own dysfunctional family. Equal parts moving and inspirational, O'Neill's masterpiece is a compelling story of love, hate, betrayal, addiction, and the incredible fragility of familial bonds.
