Hello I'm Alexander Banks and with me today is Laura Landamore. Now, what you
see on stage at the theatre is only half the story. Most of the drama happens
behind the scenes. Today we're going to be talking about some of the outrageous
and ridiculous things that happen to us backstage; including that time Laura and
I got kinky in public, that time Laura's head offended me, and the time Laura had
the runs. Cue opening sequence!
So I met Laura about, what, December 2015? Yes. We did Narnia together. Laura was the
White Witch to my Edmund.
A role I've always wants to play by the way. - Yes
Always. - And you were very good. You were very good at it.
I personally felt incredibly terrified most of the time. - Thank you, that was my aim.
One of the things I mentioned in the voiceover at the beginning was the
moment when you had the runs. (laughter) So I don't actually remember what was happening
Laura did not actually have the runs at this point... - Running rom my eyes by the looks of that
I was laughing so much - Well, yeah, but I don't think that I
had necessarily cottoned on with the joke - Yes. (laughter)
Because I was in scene.
Okay so the photographer, the lady who was
running the market, she said 'Alexander, look miserable'
Because... - Which you do. You look like you're about to get on a train to...
Death. The second shot
not this one you're gonna see it in a second, was
included in a calendar. Imagine opening number seven, day number seven in
December and seeing this. Look at that joy.
So, next photo! I don't know what you
were smelling. - Oh look at that. (laughter)
That is what you call
'smell the fart acting' - Yeah
By Joey Tribbiani
Yes, no I agree. I also had my signature man bun. You did tell me at the time that
I reminded you of Helena Bonham Carter - Did I!? (laughter)
Because in rehearsal, my bun, it wasn't very big
so it would slowly come apart and I'd have just bits of hair, like, flying loose.
That is a good evil sneer. - It is a good evil sneer. I mean you look... It's believable.
And that's without make-up, so can you imagine what it would have looked like...
It believably looks like you have sh*t under your nose.
Yes. (laughter) - Okay, next photo.
Ah, okay, so yes! - Oh I love this picture.
This is the one with you in the fur coat. - It's one of my favourite pictures. It's also
in my hallway as well. - Yes! She hangs me in her hallway.
We had... There was a point when Aslan and The Witch meet and they discuss my fate
because Edmund was... - Oh, of course, we're upstairs...
We ad-libbed horrendously. - Dirty, dirty things about me...
And some people could see what we were mouthing... - Yeah!
Then one evening someone said to me 'did you say the word *** several times?' Because
we just were testing each other to see how gross we could get.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And I think some people could read our lips.
So we both had this lingering cough.
I had to, I had to utterly control my evil laugh as well. Because my cold was
so bad I couldn't do my evil laugh anymore. So we had to change some scenes
because I couldn't do my evil laugh. - So it was more just than an evil 'huh'.
There was a point in the show when you'd kneel down next to me
You were tempting me, and you
kneeled down next to me and I think you were supposed to whisper... and you obviously
had a cough coming so you went 'argh...***'. (laughter)
Aslan; his very last line is 'These children will rule Narnia forevermore in
peace' and he accidentally went 'And these children will ruin Narnia forever more'. (laughter)
We had an enormous fight scene. The stage had a lot of fog on. Two of the
characters in the play, they were these leopards. And they were made out of papier
mache, Plaster of Paris etc. But they were quite heavy and Lucy; because of all the
fighting going on it because it wasn't an enormous cast, Lucy, the actor who
played her, she at once stage was tasked with carrying one of these leopards on.
But I mean she was, I don't know, 5ft. 2 maybe, 5ft. 3? So this thing
came up to here on her anyway. And I just remember, like, peering through the fog
running into the wings at one stage, seeing her coming out with this gigantic lumbering
leopard. I remember when we demolished the set afterwards and we got rid of everything
people were placing bets on who could demolish them, because they just didn't...
They hated them, they hated... Yeah. - They would not die! (laughter)
The sleigh was a pain in the arse, but the sleigh was also beautiful. I mean I
couldn't have asked for a better sleigh, but it was big, it was heavy, it was
cumbersome and it only just fitted in the wings. - Yeah, and there were no tracks on stage
So they had to pull it, so we had to position it sort of immaculately so, so
it would just, you know, go off in a straight line. - We had these huge, I mean they were
taller than people. They were proper size trees, but they were made out of wood and
then they had these... - As trees are!
Well, yes, okay, fine, processed wood. (laughter) And they had newspaper leaves and...
To represent books.
- Yes, yeah because, story, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a very clever set design.
You were driving away, you were supposed to be speeding away and
leaving me, and then as you disappeared Lucy would come and meet me and say 'Oh,
what are you doing here?' etc. But, this night, the sleigh obviously
wasn't exactly aligned where it was supposed to be. And so, the wolf was pulling it
with some force and it ran into a tree, it snapped off a branch, and obviously, you
know, you're the Queen. You're supposed to be this very powerful, regal person. So you
completely ignore this. (laughter) - Yes! With my wand! Go on!
You wait, and then eventually, I think you just stayed like that and
the Wolves slowly moved it and then pulled you off. - Yes!
That's it for this episode, thank you so much for watching, if you enjoyed
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and I'll see you next time
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