Golden Globe and Tony-winning actor will star as Willy Loman in a Melbourne production directed by Neil Armfield
in Melbourne. In taking on the tragic, delusional Willy Loman, LaPaglia is ticking off a bucket list role shared by many a celebrated character actor, including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dustin Hoffman, Brian Dennehy and Lee J Cobb.
In 2019 Wendell Pierce became the first black actor to play America’s fatally flawed everyman, collecting both a Laurence Olivier and a Tony award for the role. Australians of note who have tackled the role include Colin Friels and Warren Mitchell, the latter also collecting an Olivier.Willy Loman is the kind of role that tends to attract plaudits to its interpreters, and LaPaglia has watched recordings of most.
Loman’s obsession with being “well-liked” – and his belief that the key to professional success for his two sons, Biff and Happy, is that they too be “well-liked” – takes on a whole new meaning in the era of social media, according to LaPaglia.to be well-liked,” he said. “Just the act of being well-liked or the potential of being well-liked is enough.
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