William Shakespeare is peerless in literature, drama and poetry. His plays are often a difficult read, though, even for native English speakers. This has contributed, I feel, to an oversight and under-appreciation for the wisdom he has offered for centuries. So in ST! I endeavor to engage, entertain and educate a modern day audience.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Much Ado about Amy Acker
Amy Acker, looking elegant and stylish for Vanity Fair. (And stunningly difficult to wrest your eyes away from!) Word is, she's acting in a new film by Josh Whedon: Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing."
“I would be lying to say I didn’t dream of playing Beatrice,” she says now.
“We really had no idea what was happening,” says Acker. “I was kind of thinking I would show up and Joss would have his Flip cam or his iPhone and it would be like a glorified reading and we would film it.” Instead, Whedon and his wife, Kai Cole, turned their Santa Monica home into a set, and the costumes and props (town cars, iPods, walkie-talkies) are decidedly 21st-century.
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