![]() ![]() I thought, “Well, I’ll just employ myself and write myself a job… the ideal character would be Oscar Wilde. It really sparked between me and audience. I understood the humor, the irony, the casual elegance of the dialogue. Working in Wildean text and in those characters, it was a very good fit. Thereafter, he went to the Magdalen College, Oxford, England and studied there for four years. ‘ Wilde did his higher education at Trinity College, Dublin. Read about other popular works by Oscar Wilde. An actor has a good fit with a writer and that good fit jumps across the footlights, and you enjoy a great relationship with an audience and that writer. Flamboyant, witty, and well known, Irish writer Oscar Wilde clashes in court with the powerful Marquis of Queensbury, the father of his young lover. Read about other popular works by Oscar Wilde. Later I did a production of The Picture of Dorian Gray with a wonderful director, and it was a great, great success. The first play from the Classic Spring Theatre Companys Oscar Wilde Season, A Woman of No Importance was filmed live at the Vaudeville Theatre in Londons West. ![]() We wanted to be doing other more modern, urban things. ![]() In drama school you have a term in your second year where you study Wilde, and none of us were very excited to be doing Wilde. From working on his plays and films based on them to playing the man himself, how has your relationship to Wilde evolved over the years?Īfter that second story I told you about being young and coming out in London, I went off him slightly. Wilde is a 1997 British biographical film directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Stephen Fry in the title role. ![]()
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