Young Vic Theatre
September 15, 2014
11 Questions with the cast of A Streetcar Named Desire - Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson can be seen on stage at the Young Vic as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, here are her answers to our 11 Questions...
Can you describe your character in A Streetcar Named Desire?
Vain, passionate, fantasist.
What are you usually doing 10 minutes before the show begins?
Going over lines in monologues, specifically.
What is your favourite play (seen, read or worked on)?
A Streetcar Named Desire.
What is your favourite midnight snack?
Chocolate covered rice cakes.
hat is your favourite word?
Fuck.
What are you most passionate about?
My kids and art in all its forms.
If you could be in a room full of any one thing, what would it be?
Love.
If you could have been born in any era, which would it be and why?
1910 - to witness all the revolutions and still be young enough to be a cool cat in the 1960s.
Favourite city?
London.
What's your favourite song?
Creep by Radiohead / The Rolling Stones You Can't Always Get What You Want.
If you could have a supernatural power which would you choose?
Teleportation - to go backwards anywhere in time.
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