![]() ![]() She has since attracted several hundred thousand pounds once more in 2021 after running 32 marathons and completing 31 stand-up gigs in 31 days.Ī member of the Labour Party since 1995, in 2022 she launched a campaign to stand for the Labour MP seat in Sheffield Central, however she came second in the members’ vote. Izzard has achieved plenty in her career, including two Emmys, a Tony nomination and personally raising more than £1.6million for Comic Relief in 2017 by completing 27 marathons in 27 days. It makes it real life, I think people want to see in real life where the desperation and the fragility of human characters can be portrayed, and it’s good if you’ve lived a real life to do that – if you’ve been through real life, you can bring that to a production and any roles you act.’Ĭomedy is something that I can do but drama is something that I have pulled out of me – I wanted to pull it out of me – and it is a separate thing. ‘Having been through those moments, I can channel that into the production. She references being ‘crushed’ by rejections, just like Estella’s dismissal of Pip. However, she most identifies with Pip ‘and the unrequited love of Pip, that is most of us’. ![]() Which is her favourite character of the 19 to portray? Herbert Pocket, protagonist Pip’s eventual best friend. West End's The Crown Jewels like Blackadder without any jokes She remembers that they were moving very fast, so ‘you had to learn very quick’, calling it a ‘wonderful way to learn, but tough.’ And that was like shooting that in 14 days, which is kind of unheard of – but that’s what kind of what we were doing.’ Because if you put it together, 45 minutes doubled is 90 minutes and that’s like a feature-length film. We did 45 minutes of cut drama in seven days of filming, which is unbelievable. ‘That was my drama school and my film school all in one. Having said she was ‘learning in real time’ with her movie roles and acting, Eddie then praises John Landgraf, head of FX Networks, for giving her a chance with a co-lead role on The Riches from 2007 with Minnie Driver. ![]() Her earlier movie roles include films like 1996’s The Secret Agent, with Bob Hoskins and Patricia Arquette, Velvet Goldmine and 1998’s satirical spy action comedy The Avengers, opposite Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman. People might look back at my early work and go, “That wasn’t very good” – and it wasn’t very good, apologies.’ She admits: ‘When I started my film career, and my dramatic career, I switched all my comedy muscles off, and so my early work was not very good, because I really had not developed dramatic muscles, but you have to go through this bit. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web And they are different bottom lines, and you can get them wrong. I’ve trained myself in two separate creative performance mediums: the bottom line in comedy is to be funny and the bottom line in drama is to be truthful. ‘Comedy is something that I can do but drama is something that I have pulled out of me – I wanted to pull it out of me – and it is a separate thing. She in fact confirms that drama and films are her ‘first love’ over stand-up – and an avenue that she hopes to continue travelling down. This leads in well to our discussion over what Izzard – who introduced new moniker Suzy earlier this year but remains Eddie professionally – feels is the biggest misconception about her, after a career that spans over 30 years – ‘That all I do is comedy!’ ‘But as it’s Dickens, there are elements of comedy that do come in – but it’s also quite serious and it’s emotional and I have to track through my life to make it work, and it is the summation of all my skills that I’ve learned my entire life coming into one production.’ Eddie Izzard is an actor, comic, activist and aspiring politician, as well as a marathon runner (Picture: Broadway World/Shutterstock) ![]()
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