Downton Abbey star, Laura Carmichael admits that not only feeling embarrassed after legendary theatre director, Sir Peter Hall heckled her début West End performance, but also feels “really bad” for him too!
Laura, who plays Lady Edith Crawley in the award-winning ITV period drama, was staring in Uncle Vanya at the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End, when Sir Peter Hall, who was in the audience, reportedly shouted ‘stop’ during the final scene, causing those nearby him to miss the ending.
As mortifying as being heckled by such a theatre giant on your first night performance would be, Laura has forgiven Sir Peter according her friend and Downton co-star, Joanne Froggatt.
Meanwhile Sir Peter, who admits to bellowing “stop, stop, stop” from his seat in the third row of the stalls during Laura’s performance, has revealed that he has written to Laura to apologise for his actions, despite saying at the time: “It doesn’t work and you don’t work. It is not good enough. I could be at home watching television.”
According to the publication, Sir Peter has now apologised for his actions, and tried to excuse himself with age, adding: “I am mortified that I unintentionally disrupted the final scene,” he said. “I enjoyed the evening, and her performance, immensely and I cannot stress too strongly that my remarks were in no way directed at her or the production.
“Being rather aged, I dropped off for a moment and, on being woken by my wife, I was briefly disorientated.
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