Ahead of her new film, The Roses, Oscar-winner Olivia Colman revealed which type of job she wished she didn’t have to do
Whether you think of The Crown’s Queen Elizabeth II, her Oscar-winning turn as Queen Anne in The Favourite or the dastardly Mrs Scrubitt in Wonka, when someone says “Olivia Colman”, great acting comes to mind. But the film star has recently revealed there is one type of acting job that she thinks she’s “terrible” at and hates doing.
Ahead of her new film The Roses, Olivia joined her co-star Benedict Cumberbatch, and hosts Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett on Dish, Waitrose & Partner’s podcast. On the show, she the topic turned to jobs the episodes guests had hated, as Benedict and Angela both revealed there were times when they worked in kitchens and “wished a fire alarm would go off” so they didn’t have to go back in.
Olivia added: “I’m like that with most theatre.”
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When Benedict then asked which jobs she thought that about specifically, she said: “Oh, most plays. I’m terrible!
“I have a quite a short attention span, so doing months of the same words, I struggle with. I’m scared for a long time, and then once, once the fear finishes, I’m so bored. Which is awful.”
She also recalled a time when a fire alarm really did go off and the joy she felt before they told her should would actually have to return to the stage: “And we did one play when the alarm went off, you know, like, yes! And I was out my costume in seconds. ‘Surely we can’t go back?’ Yeah!
“But they got us all back on stage. Like, argh. Put my costume back on.”
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Olivia hasn’t done many plays. Whilst the actress has countless TV and film credits, she has only been in four plays. In 2000, she played Cathleen in Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and didn’t return to the stage until nine years later when she was Philippa in England People Very Nice by Richard Bean. Shortly after that, she was Myra Arundel in Hay Fever and, lastly, in 2017, she was Jenny in Mosquitoes. She has not been in a play since.
Her most recent project, The Roses, is a satirical black comedy loosely based on the 1981 film, The War of the Roses. It follows the breakdown of the marriage between Ivy (Olivia Colman), a chef who has put her business plans on hold to raise children, and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch), a successful architect, after a freak accident swaps their roles and Ivy becomes the successful one, whilst Theo becomes a stay-at-home dad.
Olivia will also appear in a new TV adaptation of Pride & Prejudice where she will play Mrs Bennet. The show has already made history by casting The Crown co-star Emma Corrin as Lizzie, making them the first non-binary actor to play the iconic character. Adapted by Dolly Alderton for Netflix, the series has also cast Jack Lowden as Mr Darcy.
On Dish, both Olivia and Benedict agreed that television was one of their favourite mediums to work with. As the latter said, TV provides a “water cooler moment” and that people are more likely to watch your work if it’s on TV.
“Good, bad or indifferent, people are gonna watch it.”
Source: Mirror
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