John Heald's Blog

My bottom hurts………..thanks to one of the two most uncomfortable seats I have ever sat on. The first was a few years ago at my local cinema. Heidi had dragged me kicking and screaming to see Cold Mountain…………not the Brokeback version but the one with Jude Law.
The seat was so hard and my bottom had [...]

Whenever an actor is asked to slip into a toga he sees it as an excuse to go all swivel-eyed and bonkers. When it comes to the Romans, no speech defect is too preposterous, no gait too far fetched.
We’ve had Derek Jacobi with his clubfoot and his stutter, and Malcolm McDowell helping himself to every [...]