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No forgetting my encounter with two giants of the stage | Tim Lewis

andOr today Observer new review I had an uncomfortable task of spending an hour with actor Iwan McGregor and director Michael Grantag, while they were preparing to put a new play, I build my masterIn London West End. The two men went back, and mostly they broke each other with old Knockabout stories – which there was no room in my article. McGregor summoned one of his first roles on the stage, such as Orlando in As you like itAnd how when Simon Kalu – the winner of the Olivier and BAFTA – played his role in 1979, he went on stage on the national stage only to forget the first line of the play immediately.

“If you are a woman and you are about to have a child, everyone tells you about a nightmare of birth,” said McGregor. “And when you are a representative about to play, everyone tells you about terrible things that happened on the stage.”

Meanwhile, Grandage remembers how during one of his first functions as a young theater director who tried to make notes to an experienced actor. The actor quietly answered: “Can I be clear? Do you ask me to do something different from what I have been doing with great success over the past sixties?” What did Grandage said, McGregor wanted to know. “I took a very deep breath,” Grandage replied, “He said:” I think I am, yes! “

Positive and bad reactions

Pierce Prosnan in Miblland. Photo: Luke Varley/Paramount+

Last week was great feelings in the nineties of the last century for me. First, there was a meeting of McGregor, which I saw for the first time on the screen in that contract in Shallow grave And do not forget as Renton in Trainspotting. In short, I watched the documentary BBC Loaded: boys, AGS and Mayhem,, Which covered the period from 1994 to 1997, when you run a group of madmen (please do not sue me for this) the most successful magazine in the country. Then there was a new Paramount+ drama series Miblland – The second episode is broadcast tonight – it has nothing to do with the topic with the nineties, but because of Guy Ritchie (an executive product that directs the first two episodes), it looks like this.

There was more than nostalgia for enjoying the nineties of the last century MibllandPierce Prosnan – but I cannot escape the presence of conflicting feelings around the times. Polish’s time was somewhat, often NAFF, an uncomfortable sexual biases that can be said to lack the magic of enough recovery. There is a strange moment in download The documentary, when the comedian Mark Lamar is unabated on the character of TV, Jill Porter, in an episode of Do not care about BuzzCocks. You can feel that it flows with embarrassment through the screen. However, it is better to deal with the contract while heading to the summer of the oasis – there will be no escape.

Unstable viewing

Jacob Ingbergsteen in the court case in Norway against his father and former coach, Googirt. Photo: Lise åserud/EPA

I also left unstable by the legal procedures for igbrigtsen, which continued in Norway last week. It was described as the sporting experience in the contract, as she incited the GJEBRIGTSEN athletics coach, the most famous of them is Jakob ingebrigtsen, the 5000 -meter Olympic champion.

The trial, which GJERT is accused of physical and emotional abuse and facing a possible prison sentence for six years, has concluded its second week: Jacob witnessed in the first week, claiming that Gogert has repeatedly threatened to “overcome it without meaning”; Last week, Gogurt, who denies all the charges, was defeated by Jacob’s accusations and his sister Ingred.

Any idea that the trial will include sitting and enjoying popcorn, was short -term. Throughout the procedures, Jacob referred to his father only in the name of “the accused” or “the defendant”. Meanwhile, GJERT admitted that he exchanged a father with being a coach and “the coach was not necessarily a nice man.” Surprising things, and a story often seen in young sports stars. Experience – which lasts with other GJERT children’s certificate – is scheduled to continue until May 16.

Tim Louis, an observer writer

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