Press
Packs
 The Line of Beauty 
|
 |
|
听
Interview with Andrew Davies
听
Award-winning writer Andrew Davies talks about adapting Alan Hollinghurst, casting and the Thatcher decade...
听
"Adapting The Line of Beauty was a joy - it's a beautifully constructed novel that falls naturally into three acts. There are already lots of brilliant set-piece scenes with spot-on dialogue.
听
"Alan's love scenes are graphic and detailed - there was no need to 'sex up' this story!
听
"I was happy to write a very faithful adaptation, seeing all the action through Nick's eyes. Some people don't like him, but I found him a very engaging hero.
听
"The only change I made with him was to make him a bit more assertive at the end. I also built up the part of Catherine - I found her character very engaging."
听
"One of the joys of this production is that the leading characters are all so young, so we have been able to cast fresh faces.
听
"The audience will see them as the character they're playing - not the usual, oh, there's so and so, she was in such and such.
听
"And the casting director found us some dazzlingly talented (and fanciable) young actors, in Dan Stevens, Hayley Atwell, Alex Wyndham and Oliver Coleman."
听
"It was fun to explore trivial details of the Eighties - the short shorts, the body-hugging Speedos, the square shoulders of power-dressing, the brick-like mobile phones, the great music (Stranglers, Van Morrison, etc) but at a deeper level, this was the decade when corporate greed became acceptable: the confident, sleaze-filled years of the Thatcher administration.
听
"And Thatcher-worship, too. Strrange to remember those days when it seemed like she would be there for ever.
听
"The sad thing is that in a lot of ways it feels like we are still living in that greedy, dog eat dog decade."
|
Printable version