00:00I think the fact that there's been a fuss about it shows that people care about it and, you know,
00:04we've all been in audiences, cinema or wherever, where someone's munching through some food next to you. It's annoying, you
00:12know, and people want to pay attention and listen. So I think that's all it is.
00:16Yeah, I can't stand it. People are.
00:18I have to really control myself.
00:19Would you say something?
00:21Probably not, because that would interrupt my, what I'm doing. But, yeah, it's really, it's really hard sometimes.
00:30The list is long.
00:31You don't need us to tell you because, you know, you go and see stuff yourself and you know what's
00:35annoying around you. So it's just to say, you know, we're different from other people.
00:41We find it annoying if people aren't paying attention. Also, these, you know, people pay money to come and see
00:45something, either come and see it or don't.
00:48But, you know, the audiences have been great here so far. We haven't had a problem at all.
00:52But let's not jinx it.
00:53I hope that continues.
00:56Over the past few months, there have been a number of actors who have called out audience members for texting
01:02or filming during their performances, including Kate Blanchett and Rosamund Pike.
01:08Christian Scott Thomas stars opposite Stephen Mangan in Ian Rickson's revival of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard at the Harold
01:18Pinter Theatre in London.
01:20The play follows aristocrat Ranevskaya as she returns to Russia after living in Paris for five years to find that
01:28her home and cherry orchard is under threat as the son of a serf tries to convince her to sell
01:34it off to manage her debts.
01:39The thing about Chekhov, where Chekhov is completely and utterly the best, is how he creates characters.
01:48So every single character in this play, and there are, I keep wanting to say 12, but I'm not sure
01:53whether there are 11.
01:53Something out there, something like that.
01:54And every single person has a proper personality and story that we care about when we're watching or doing the
02:08play and watching it.
02:09You can get attached to the maid and you can get attached to the daughter and you can get attached
02:15to the farmer next door.
02:17Everybody has a story to tell.
02:20And I think that's definitely very modern.
02:24Yeah, totally. I mean, my character is the son of a peasant, you know, who was very poorly educated.
02:30That's my dad's story. He was a very bright man and my mum, both very bright, but left school at
02:3514 and sort of fought their way through the world in a world that often could look on them with
02:41certain amount of snobbery or disdain.
02:45So, yeah, that story feels like my family's story. So, yeah, there's no need to kind of plant yourself 120
02:53years ago. It feels completely modern.
02:56Hmm. Hmm.
