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M. April 14, 2013
There are no seconds takes in live theatre. So how do our hottest actors handle the final minutes before the curtain goes up?
Photographer Simon Annand tells the stories behind his remarkable pictures of the stars backstage. (Source)
GEMMA ARTERTON, 2010, The Master Builder, Almeida Theatre. ‘She’s completely in her own world, listening to her iPod. We didn’t speak at all. Part of her preparation for this Ibsen play was to lie on her back on the floor’.
Image taken from a forthcoming book by Simon Annand.
His previous work, ‘The Half: Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage,’ is published by Faber & Faber, price £25
GALLERY LINK:
– Stage > The Master Builder (2010) > Related Clippings > Backstage.