Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage. Lydia Leonard More Quotes by Lydia Leonard More Quotes From Lydia Leonard There's a certain amount of pressure that comes from playing real people. It's a pressure to deliver something fair and right to the real person and any living relatives. But generally, it's a joy, as you get to target your interest on a particular era. Lydia Leonard you pressure joy people People ask me if I think Anne Boleyn was a feminist... but she wasn't striking out on behalf of women, and she wasn't particularly keen on them. Lydia Leonard think me women people I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish. Lydia Leonard speak mother teacher school You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared. Lydia Leonard control your know you As actors, you always have that moment thinking you've been absolutely terrible or a fraud. Lydia Leonard moment you fraud thinking When I was a child, I wanted to be a jockey. I love horses, but it's not practical to have one in London. I also wanted to be an accountant, which isn't glamorous at all, but my dad was one, and I quite liked maths. Lydia Leonard child london dad love I've never done a musical, and I don't think I could do one, but I would love to play Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.' Lydia Leonard never think done love Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She's ambitious and manipulative, but she's honest. I'm biased, but I don't think a woman who has said 'no' to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind. Lydia Leonard king woman best character Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones. Lydia Leonard raw every emotion tragedy I used to love 'Jeeves And Wooster.' That theme tune was great. I remember writing to them when I was little to get the music so I could learn it on the piano, and they sent me the sheet music. Lydia Leonard great me music love I'd always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was very little. I don't know why. Lydia Leonard actor why know always Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing. Lydia Leonard you learning work time I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was. Lydia Leonard she horse clothes wife Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters. Lydia Leonard good you time television I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon. Lydia Leonard she person never fashion What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa. Lydia Leonard think you opportunity sometimes Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different. Lydia Leonard woman time history son Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks. Lydia Leonard actor more broadway everest 'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words. Lydia Leonard american words big chance I don't think I'm intense. Lydia Leonard think intense
