Jennifer Ehle and Stephen Dillane
Photograph by David Bailey
from Talk magazine, May 2000
By Julie Kavanagh
"The performers I admire don't draw attention to themselves because they're so completely at one with the part," says Stephen Dillane. "They're the people who never get noticed."
Like Dillane himself. At least until now. When the hit revival of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing opens in New York at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on April 17, following two sellout runs in London, he'll be "sneaking up on stardom" as one English paper put it. And so will Jennifer Ehle (Elizabeth Bennet in TV's Pride and Prejudice and daughter of actress Rosemary Harris). Both Dillane and Ehle are making their Broadway debuts.
The Real Thing, about the nature of love, is Stoppard's sexiest play, and his most accessible. And with Dillane's charmingly rumpled, relaxed, and interior portrayal of the playwright Henry, and Ehle's warm and intelligent Annie, the erotic voltage is at times dangerously high.
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