‘Every family has silences’: Kathryn Hunter on despair, desire, dislodgeable limbs – and her acting genius
As she prepares for a new show, she discusses the soaring highs and deep lows of her extraordinary life Kathryn Hunter pulls off her black beanie and sits down.
Key points
- She has an inner restlessness, an energy looking for the right outlet – one that even eight hours of rehearsing hasn’t quieted.
- She hates having to keep still: “It’s torture.” On aeroplanes, she is always in the aisle, bobbing up and down.
- She has played King Lear, all three witches in Macbeth and an ape turned variety performer in Kafka’s Monkey.
She is working on a stage adaptation of Eurotrash, Christian Kracht’s novel about a mother, played by Hunter, who is accompanied on the final trip of her life by her son, played by Ben Whishaw.
With the beanie, a body warmer and a cup of builders’ tea, the acclaimed actor looks as if she is on a break at a construction site.
Additional details
- As the pair come to terms with their dark past – and….
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