Matthew Macfadyen On ... Private Lives’ Warring Lovers
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Matthew Macfadyen On ... Private Lives’ Warring Lovers
Par Terri Paddock (WOS, 8 mars 2010).
Amanda and Elyot were married and got divorced five years prior to the start of the play. When they remarry, they go with their separate partners to this hotel in the south of France, where they discover they’re staying in adjoining rooms with adjoining balconies. They end up reminiscing, realising they’ve loved each other all along, despite the bickering that broke them up, and they elope. And then mayhem ensues pretty much.
I think there’s a perception about Private Lives that it’s just this piece of fluff, but it’s so beautifully written and very perceptive about men and women – and, actually, it’s very dark. When you love someone very deeply, you know how to push the wrong buttons.
I think Amanda and Elyot are such a famous stage couple because the way their rowing sort of flares up out of nothing – going from happy and cosy to being filled with rage – is something everyone can relate to. It’s thrilling to play when it works because it feels so real. I know couples like that who are always arguing, and oddly, they’re very happy to be like that – they need that fighting and screaming, that tension. That’s one of the reasons they stay together.
More than that, Amanda and Elyot are both free spirits and they’re quite unsympathetic in some ways – certainly Elyot who can be a bit of a shit – which makes them attractive. And they’re both a bit lost. But I think they do belong together. And maybe they’ll mellow.
It’s been lovely working with Kim Cattrall, she’s been utterly delightful. She brings her natural toughness and playfulness to her part. Amanda’s very capricious, she flips back and forth, and Kim’s especially good at that. There is an age difference between us (Cattrall is 53, Macfadyen 35), but it’s not a factor at all. I always tend to play above my age, and Kim certainly doesn’t look her age so we sort of meet in the middle and it feels right.
I’m glad to be back on stage. I just love it, I’ve always loved it. It’s where I started – I never imagined I would be doing TV or film. So it’s nice to flex that muscle again because, only doing a play every couple of years, it gets underused now.
- Matthew Macfadyen was speaking to Terri Paddock
Re: Matthew Macfadyen On ... Private Lives’ Warring Lovers
Ah ! ces Anglais qui placent Deauville au sud de la France...
Re: Matthew Macfadyen On ... Private Lives’ Warring Lovers
Ce n'est pas dans le Sud ?
Great interview!
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