Eve Myles Interview (Part 2)
Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper
In this 2nd part to our interview with Eve Myles, we talk to her about the furture of Torchwood and auditioning via Skype!
To read part 1 of the Eve Myles Interview, click here!
Eve Myles Interview (Part 2)
Well, the site I write for is called ‘GeekTown’, so it would be somewhat remise of me if I didn’t as some Torchwood Questions…
Of course!
How did you find filming the last season of Torchwood in USA?
It was very exciting! It was brilliant! Whenever we bring Torchwood back, we always want to make it bigger and better. And coming of something like Children of Earth, which was just a phenomenon, you know it was huge, we had to do something even bigger, and keep expanding it! It was a wonderful time, and a huge experience for all of us. None of us had really worked in Hollywood before, and to go there with Captain Jack and Gwen Cooper was a real treat. It was like going away with friends. It was brilliant. And you know what… Russell T Davies, and Julie Gardener deserved to have that.
I know the answer to this is probably ‘no’, but do you know whether you’re going to be making another series of Torchwood? Do you know what’s happening with the future of Torchwood?
No i have no idea at all! I know that everything is kinda on hold for a while. But then, this is the pattern of Torchwood from day 1. From the 1st series we didn’t know if we were going to get the 2nd. Certainly didn’t think we were going to get the 3rd. Certainly didn’t think we’d be packing our bags and living in LA for 8 months to do the 4th! So, who knows whats going to happen! There’s always a good 15-16 month gap between each one, so i’m thinking 2013, hopefully they’ll be something up and running.
And with doing the play now, is it nice working with a writer that doesn’t have a habit of killing half his cast?…
(Laughs) Ermmm. Well… My number 1 writer will always be Mr T Davies cause he’s just insanely wonderful with what he does, he’s just a genius, and I treasure every word he gives me to say. And then the way Zack Braff writes comedy is very playful, and just tells you how your meant to be performing it. I’m a very lucky actor to be able to perform words by Russel T Davies and Zack Braff. I’m very fortunate.
I’m assuming you were a fan of Scrubs before you took the role?
Massive. Yep.
How did the role come to you?
I had to actually do an audition on Skype. Which was possibly the weirdest evening of my life!..
My child minder had let us down, so I had to put Alice In Wonderland (cartoon version) on for my daughter who was sitting next to me. So all through my audition Peter Dubois could hear (adopts Queen of Hearts voice) “Off with her head!” and the rabbit going “I’m late, I’m late! For a very important date!”… And I’m trying to do this audition for Zack and Peter… So my daughter became very much part of my audition! So, yeh, it was a bizarre, bizarre audition, at the same time it was surreal because I had JD in my living room. It was hysterical!
About ‘All New People’
All New People opens tonight - 8th Feb 2012 - at the Manchester Opera House,
then move to King’s Theatre, Glasgow (14th Feb 2012) before starting it’s run at
the Duke of York’s Theatre in London.
For more information about Eve’s play ‘All New People’ visit their website.
Eve Myles Interview (Part 1)
Eve Myles
Recently I had the chance to have a talk with the lovely Eve Myles, star of Torchwood, who has joined the cast of the stage show ‘All New People‘ (written and also starring Scrubs actor Zack Braff).
Part 1 of the interview is below.
Part 2 coming shortly!
Eve Myles Interview – Part 1
So you’re in the middle of rehearsing your play ‘All New People’ at the moment, how is it going?
Rehearsals are going absolutely brilliantly. We’re quite ahead, so if all goes well, they’ll be a show!
And the play starts off in Manchester, are you rehearsing up there, or down in London?
We’re still in London, and i think it’s, erm… next weekend actually we go up to Manchester… Oh my god, it is, I’m just realising! It’s next weekend we go to Manchester! That’s slightly given me a big icky feeling in my stomach! But that’s okay! 
What more can you tell me about ‘All New People’?
Well, it’s a wonderful play by Zach Braff, and directed by Peter DuBois. It’s Zack’s first play, and it’s fantastically funny, but with a kind of dark undertone to it. It’s 90 mins, and you’ve got 4 strangers, who all meet for different circumstances, in a beach house in Long Beach Island. They all come together, and have absolutely nothing in common, but spend an evening together. It’s driven by fantastic language and heightened circumstances. You have these 4 very different people, who you never expect to be in the same country, never mind the same room with each other! It’s brilliantly orchestrated.
All New People Starring Zack Braff, Eve Myles, Susannah Fielding & Paul Hilton
How are you finding working with Zack?
Zack is… a genius! He’s marvellously talented… annoyingly so actually… ;)
Zack of course wrote the play, so was there any apprehension in working with an actor who is also the writer?
Well there’s is a certain apprehension to there, but Zack goes out of his way everybody feel completely comfortable with what they’re doing, and to take control of characters. And he’s there to enhance, and to develop what is already there. It’s actually wonderful having the writer on hand all day long, because if something needs to be re-written, he does it at the blink of an eye. And he’s not precious about it at all, he’s massively generous, both acting and writing.
The other obvious question (having seen his recent appearace on The Graham Norton Show), has he learnt his lines yet?…
(Laughs), yes, he’s very much on top of them now!
Your known best for Torchwood and your TV work these days.
When was the last time you worked on stage?
It was 6 year ago at the National, and I was doing the Henrys with Michael Gambon. I can off stage and it was literally 4 months later and i was filming Torchwood!
So were there any nerves about going back on stage?
Nervous, but excited! Apprehensive, but feeling everything I should be feeling really, but more excited than anything else!
People that know you from Torchwood will obviously know your lovely Welsh accent very well, but your doing an English accent for this role. Is that something you’ve done before, and is it coming along okay?
Great actually! I’ve never done a Welsh accent on stage it’s always been RP or regional London, something like that, so it’s going back to roots that i’ve very familiar with. I’m actually looking forward to it, i’ve been screaming to do a different dialect for a long time, but i’ve been solely into Gwen Cooper for 6 years, so I couldn’t all of a sudden turn up going (adopts upper-class english accent) “Oh hello, how has your day been?”, it’s just not going to work. ;)
End of Part 1… Part 2 coming soon, where Eve talks about the future of Torchwood, and Skype auditions…
All New People opens in Manchester tomorrow (Wednesday 8th February 2012) till 11th Feb.
Then moves Glasgow on the 14th-18th Feb, before moving to The Dukes of York in London’s West End.
Eve Myles & Zach Braff are All New People!
Eve Myles
The lovely and wonderful Eve Myles (Gwen in Torchwood), will star alongside Zach Braff (Scrubs and Garden State) as he makes his UK stage acting debut of the new comedy ‘All New People’ – A play written by Zach himself, and directed by the award-winning Peter DuBois. Eve and Zach are also joined by another ‘Who’ related actress in the form of the lovely Susannah Fielding (Lilian in Doctor Who’s ‘Victory of the Daleks’, along with tv roles in Wallander, Pete Versus Life, and on stage with the RSC and The National.)
All New People will open at the Duke of York’s Theatre on 22 February 2012. Before arriving in London for 10 weeks, audiences in Manchester and Glasgow will get the chance to enjoy the play when it is staged at the Manchester Opera House, between 8 – 11 February and the King’s Theatre, Glasgow, between 14 – 18 February.
A contemporary comedy, All New People debuted at New York’s award-winning Second Stage Theatre packed out nightly in the 2011 season.
Susannah Fielding
In the dead of winter, at his wealthy friends’ luxury Long Beach Island apartment, Charlie (Zach Braff) has hit rock bottom on his 35th birthday. Away from the rest of the world, this perfect escape is interrupted by a motley parade of misfits who show up and change his plans. A hired beauty, a fireman, and an eccentric British real estate agent desperately trying to stay in the country all suddenly find themselves tangled together in a beach house where the mood is anything but sunny, while Charlie just wishes they’d leave and let him get on with it.
Best known for the smash-hit TV comedy Scrubs – nominated for 17 Emmy Awards and watched by over 22 million people worldwide – writer, director and star of the award winning Garden State, Zach Braff is a three time Golden Globe nominee and Grammy Award winner. Peter DuBois is the Artistic Director of Boston’s Huntington Theatre, and was awarded the Callaway Award for Excellence in Directing from the Society of Stage Directors, and recently won the Elliot Norton Award for Best Production from the Boston Theatre Critics Association. DuBois was resident director and former associate producer at New York’s acclaimed Public Theater, and former artistic director of Alaska’s innovative Perseverance Theatre Company. DuBois made his UK directorial debut in 2011 with Becky Shaw at the Almeida Theatre, which was nominated for an Evening Standard Theatre Award.
London Dates for All New People
Wednesday 22 February until Saturday 28 April 2012
Monday – Saturday at 7.30pm, Saturday and Wednesday matinees at 2.30pm
£15-£49.50. Premium seats available
Duke of York’s Theatre, St. Martin’s Lane, London WC2N 4BG
0844 871 7623
For more information, visit www.allnewpeople.co.uk or go to @atgtickets on twitter!
Amy & Rory to Leave Doctor Who!
Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill to leave Doctor Who
Shes know the doctor since she was a little girl.
She’s traveled in space and time with him.
Then her boyfriend (now husband) joined her and The Doctor on their adventures…
But life in the Tardis will come to end for Amy Pond and Rory Williams next series, as Steven Moffat confirmed at a press screening Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill will leave the show in a ”heartbreaking end”, halfway through series 7 (or 33 if your old school!).
Fear not though, Matt Smith‘s 11th Doctor will be there for the whole season, and it’s thought has signed on at least until the show’s 50th anniversary in 2013. With Amy and Rory gone, The Doctor will also be looking for a new (as yet, uncast) companion to get into daring adventures with.
Although i’m sad to see Karen & Arthur go, i’m not sure how much more you could get away with putting Amy & Rory through! Plus, changing companions has always been one of the ways Doctor Who reinvents itself and keeps things fresh. Looking forward to see who The Doctor manages to pick up on his travels next!
Doctor Who, series 7 (33), is not back till Autumn 2012, however you can see The Doctor in “The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe” on Christmas Day, BBC ONE at 7pm.
Torchwood air date ‘later in the summer’ in the UK…
Torchwood NOT airing in July?
UPDATE HERE: Torchwood gets it UK air date!
GeekTown has just read something rather disturbing in a BBC news article…
As we all know Torchwood: Miracle Day is due to be airing soon. We have the US air date - 6th July on the Starz network. We’ve been seeing stories saying Torchwood wouldn’t be airing simultaneously with the US as they did with Doctor Who earlier in the year. So, the assumption was it will air during the week following the US air date. It now seems that is not the case…
In the article it clearly states, ‘The series will air in the US in early July and be shown later in the summer on BBC One.’ So, it looks like Torchwood is not going to be just after the US air date, but rather several weeks behind it! What has prompted this rather odd decision from the Beeb is as yet unknown. I have requested a response from the BBC but so far they are silent on the matter.
Given the heavy amount of promotion and hype Torchwood has been getting online, this seem like a massive misstep by the BBC, and is only likely to eat into the viewing figures as fans find “other ways” of watching the show… Which is a real shame, as lower viewing figures could effect Torchwood’s chance of renewal. *sigh* I am getting rather sick of TV networks shooting themselves in the foot with bizarre scheduling decisions at the moment…
Thoughts? Comments? Leave them below…
‘Torchwood: Miracle Day’ trailer arrives, and it’s awesome!
For those of you wondering what the new ‘Torchwood‘ series will look like, wonder no more!
Captain Jack and Gwen Cooper are back, but this time with a heavy American slant. Made as a co-production between the BBC and US Starz network, ‘Torchwood: Miracle Day’ looks less like ‘Torchwood series 4′, and far more ‘Torchwood Season 1 USA’. They have previously said it’s ‘not a reboot or remake, we’re just moving countries’, but I have to say, the US influence is extremely apparent in that trailer. Not that i think that’s a bad think necessarily. I mean, there’s only so long you can have Cardiff as the centre for alien weirdness! And with most of the team and the Cardiff Hub gone, it seems like a good time to move overseas.
Head writing duties are still in the hands of Russell T Davies, but now strongly supported by the brilliant Buffy/Battlestar writer Jane Espenson. RTD has never been shy of admitting his love for recent US scifi/fantasy shows, and Jane is one of the best veteran genre writers out there, so I’m really looking forward to see what the pair of them have come up with. The central plot of this 10 episode run focuses on the idea that suddenly, on one ‘Miracle Day’, no one on the planet dies. Joining John Barrowman & Eve Myles are Kai Owen – back as Gwen’s other half Rhys; Mekhi Phifer (ER, Lie To Me) stars as CIA agent Rex Matheson; and Star Trek’s ‘Q’, John de Lancie also joins the cast. They also seem to have been raiding the 80′s for actors, with Ghostbuster’s Ernie Hudson and The Outsider’s C. Thomas Howell both taking roles!
Having just seen the trailer below, i’m really really looking forward to this! ‘Torchwood: Miracle Day’ will air on Starz in the US on 8th of July. Still waiting on confirmation from the BBC on the UK airdate, but I guarantee it’ll either be the 1st or the 8th of July at 9pm on BBC1.
