British actor EWAN McGREGOR is terrified about his return to the London stage later this year (08), because his theater career is littered with catastrophes.
The star has appeared in a number of shows on London’s West End, including the musical Guys and Dolls, but he is scarred by forgotten lines and onstage mistakes.
He says, “It can so easily go wrong and then there’s nothing you can do about it when it does.
“I think anyone that’s worked on stage will have horrible stories… When you’re getting ready to rehearse a play, all your actor friends will tell you stories, horrible stories, nightmare stories, about peoples pants falling off, forgetting lines.”
McGregor recalls, “I forgot a song in Guys and Dolls and had to make stuff up… because the band keeps playing. They can’t stop. I was making s**t up. It was awful.”
The star is preparing to take to the stage again this autumn (08) in a production of Shakespeare’s Othello at London’s Donmar Warehouse – and things have already started to go wrong.
He explains, “Someone had lost (forgot) their lines and… (there was a) horrible long pause. And then, of course, three minutes later during the next scene… I realised it had happened to me.”
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