";s:4:"text";s:3124:" She also drove across the United States before becoming an actress in her mid-twenties. You do your absolute best but there’s always a bit of your brain that’s worrying and managing.”And performing means “you live a photo-negative life”, she sighs. “I think the male actors like it, but they say: ‘My God, it’s so different.’ ”Because it’s a new play with rewrites, Gwynne wasn’t able to learn the script ahead of time. “Linguistically, she’s very precise.”‘If Hedda was a 29-year-old woman in 2019, you’d have thought: ‘Get a job, you lazy cow.’ Ibsen is interested in the position of women in society in 1890’The play is dark but also very funny.
It wasn’t one of his plays – he was directing it.To learn or start a concurrent money-earning skill or business. I also do feel the same. She studied Modern Languages at the University of Warwick before taking a five-year lectureship in Italy, where she taught English. When we were doing the table work she checked in with everybody every day to see how we were doing. The day that changed my life, Haydn Gwynne: The actress, 58, on the flash of enlightenment that made her finally follow her dream e-mail Most watched News videos Peacefully on 9th June 2017 at Morriston Hospital, loving husband of Eileen, father of Bob and Alun, grandfather to Amanda, Jessica, Sara and Marc, great-grandfather to Milo. And now she’s helped academic and reformed alcoholic Elijah to write an acclaimed book. They go: ‘Oh God, how do you do that twice a day?’ And I want to say: ‘Try doing fucking Billy Elliot twice a day.’ People think you must be having such fun because it’s a musical but it’s so physically demanding. “Coincidentally that was the first time I had a female director, a lovely woman [Romy Baskerville] who normally worked as an actress.”Ibsen’s play opens with Hedda just back from honeymoon, already bored by her new husband. She took part in amateur dramatics at school and took a revue to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe while studying sociology at the University of Nottingham.But she never went to drama school. I went ‘ooh’ and in the same moment thought: ‘I wonder if I’m old enough to play Lady Wishfort?’ Then I quickly went: ‘Oh yes, I am.’ But obviously it had already been cast. Haydn Gwynne is fluent in French and Italian.