The funny thing in Hollywood is that you meet people at events all the time, so I’d met Matthew before we acted together [in the 2003 London production of David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago]. But when we were first rehearsing, I wanted to chat to him properly. I was going for lunch with my family, and I remember calling him, saying, do you mind coming to meet us, and he was so easy about it. The restaurant put us in the back away from people, but when he walked in… the whole place lit up. The whole place smiled.
Matthew was so lovely with my family, but also told me immediately how terrified he was to do this play, as was I. We felt that vulnerability, being people who weren’t theatre actors putting ourselves up on stage when everybody knew us and was ready to judge us. It’s funny when you forge a connection over fear, but we did that summer.
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