10th birthday list: Favourite Ben Whishaw stage performances... and encounters
18/07/2020
Anyone who has followed my blog for a while will know my favourite actor is Ben Whishaw. It's an admiration of talent pure and simple, I may not always like the play (or film) he chooses but he never disappoints in what he brings to his roles.
I'm always excited about his next project and ever hopeful that he treads the boards again.
It wouldn't be a theatre blog birthday celebration without reminiscing about some of my favourite Ben Whishaw performances...and encounters.
I don't stage door, apart from that one time in New York but our paths have crossed a few times. I've only spoken to him once (New York), the whole speaking to celebs thing makes me cringe, besides I'd only make a tit of myself and say something stupid which would haunt me.
(PS there is a bit of cheating in this list because some of these pre-date Rev Stan's Theatre Blog but if I make the rules, I can break them 😉)
The watch incident (Leaves of Glass, Soho Theatre, review from my old blog)
Mr Whishaw first came to my attention on the big screen in the film Perfume but it was around the same time I had started going to the theatre again.
I saw that he was in a play at the Soho Theatre and was curious to see him on stage.
A week or two earlier I'd been at the Soho Theatre seeing some comedy with an ex and passed him on the stairs but it was when watching the play that 'it' happened.
I was sat on the front row and during the play, there was a fight - a sort of scuffle/grappling sort of fight - during which Ben's watch flew off and hit me on the foot.
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