As the actors sit down for their interviews in the studio’s brightly lit café, the energy on the set is palpable. Oliver-award winning powerhouse, Verma, originally from Somerset, is synonymous with gold-standard theatre. He’s done it all: from Shakespeare to Shaw; Coward from Pinter. With the straight-backed posture of a dancer, the 51-year-old is wearing a loose blue knit sweater that falls off the shoulders to reveal a strip of white tank top, untamed curls constantly moving with her hand on her head. Have been. Malek-Oscar Winner for Best Actor Bohemian RhapsodyAnd the presiding Bond villain – the embodiment of Hollywood in a close-fitting white T-shirt and black jeans, reclining in his chair (later, he finds himself quoting Marlon Brando – “Forgive me Two,” says the 43-year-old, “I don’t He Boy”). Both drink green tea in takeaway cups.
Right now, even before the rehearsals start, both of them are getting to know each other over the phone. “We established a camaraderie almost immediately,” says Malek, their conversation turning from drama to where he studied: the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for him; For him the University of Evansville, Indiana. Indira is best known for playing the character of Ellaria Sand on screen game of Thronesis warm and comfortable; Rami is serious, thoughtful, with a playfulness softened by his face (big pleading eyes, impossibly smooth complexion) that always bears a childlike innocence. In Varchus’s mind, Oedipus sits somewhere between “a rock star and a lost boy”. At Malek, he explains, you get both.
The intensity of it can be quite thrilling. Malek says at one point, “I’m not a math person, but I say, if you ask 80% of the world what? oedipus It’s about, I don’t think they would know the exact details.” And so, despite Western society’s foundational story of destiny, religion, and humanity being nearly 2,500 years old, he asks if we can keep our discussion of its plot “off the record.”
