After 30 years, the standup star is now finally winning acting plaudits, for a ‘tour de force’ take on Dickens with sharper punchlines – and Hamlet is next
to be the Labour candidate for Sheffield Central? – she will also be giving the solo treatment to Hamlet before the year is out. “I’m very serious about being a dramatic actor,” she says. “Which is not great timing as I’m giving it all up next spring to go into politics, but anyway …” So she’s doing the full Glenda Jackson? “Yes. Or Arnold Schwarzenegger.”Photograph: Bruce Glikas/WireImage
Each character in the show is differentiated by voice and posture as well as by those delicate half-turns that Izzard uses in her standup to dramatise, say, the conversation between a nonchalant cat and the owner who suspects it of drilling behind the sofa. “I’ve always had crazy characters talking to one another,” she says. “It’s something I picked up from. In Great Ex, these are people talking about love and fighting and death. I’m in there being all of them, and I lose myself in it.
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