EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Emma Stone is passionate about intimacy coordinators, saying working with one ‘changed the entire energy of the set’
How ever did Hollywood actors cope with love scenes in the dark days before ‘intimacy coordinators’?
La La Land star Emma Stone, 34, says Elle McAlpine, who carried out the role on her forthcoming film Poor Things, was ‘amazing’.
The actress adds: ‘I felt really comfortable. I was like, “I think I’ll be fine. I won’t need to talk to the intimacy coordinator that much”.
‘I couldn’t have been more wrong. She was so gentle and passionate.
‘She was so helpful. It changed the entire energy of the set, and the feeling of safety.’
La La Land star Emma Stone, 34, says Elle McAlpine, who carried out the role of intimacy coordinator on her forthcoming film Poor Things, was ‘amazing’
Emma Stone said: ‘She was so helpful. It changed the entire energy of the set, and the feeling of safety’
She’s the 1980s television star known for presenting children’s programmes such as Blue Peter and Saturday Superstore, but Sarah Greene, 65, has a filthy sense of humour, reveals Roman Kemp, who’s hosting the new BBC daytime quiz show The Finish Line with her.
‘Sarah loves an innuendo,’ says Roman, 30, the son of Spandau Ballet star Martin Kemp. ‘And there’s no limit as to how dirty that innuendo is.
‘I don’t know if it’s intentional or unintentional, but, my word.
‘People thought that I would be the one for that.’
Standing-room only for Proms pianist
Sir Andras Schiff (pictured) could stay to listen to the orchestra perform Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony was to hide behind the double basses at the BBC Proms
The only downside to playing to a sell-out crowd at the BBC Proms is that there is no seat for you if you want to stay for the second half.
Such was the fate for the great virtuoso pianist Sir Andras Schiff after he performed Bartok’s piano concerto with the Budapest Festival Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall. The only way Sir Andras could stay to listen to the orchestra perform Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony was to hide behind the double basses.
A steward tells me: ‘He was delighted to sit among the players — and was small enough not to be noticed.’ Except at the end when he took another bow…
Author Thomas Pakenham, the 8th Earl of Longford, celebrated his 90th birthday this week with a party at Cambridge Cottage, a former royal residence at Kew Gardens in London. Lord (Michael) Heseltine made a speech, recalling how he had told guests at his own 90th birthday party in March to make a note in their diaries of his 100th bash.
The same would hold true of Thomas, he predicted. Longevity runs in the Longford family: Thomas’s mother, Elizabeth, died at 96 and his father, the delightfully dotty Frank, at 95.
He helped to bring Les Miserables, Cats and The Phantom Of The Opera to the West End, but theatre producer Nick Allott, right-hand man of Sir Cameron Mackintosh, had dreamed of being an actor. That was until he was steered away by a straight-talking teacher at Charterhouse School in Surrey.
‘I acted a lot at school,’ says Allott, 69, who was kept behind after class one day by a ‘very inspirational teacher’ called David Summerscale who ‘loved the theatre and directed plays’.
Allott tells Ruthie’s Table 4 podcast: ‘He said to me, “You want to act, don’t you?” I said, “Yes.” He said, “Forgive me, you’re not good enough. You’re quite bright, you get on with people — there are lots of jobs in theatre you could do quite well.” It was the best advice probably I ever had.’
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