David’s latest film, The Perfect Host, now has a brand spankin’ new official website! Among the many cool things to be found on it, there’s some new stills from the film:
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There’s an extensive interview with David in today’s Independent. Wouldn’t Frasier: the Musical be amazing?!
Stillness is a great quality in an actor, and a rare one. David Hyde Pierce is pretty much still most of the time. We are sitting in his underground dressing room at the Comedy Theatre, where he has just opened, to very favourable reviews, alongside Mark Rylance and Joanna Lumley in La Bête, a rhyming play about 17th-century French actors.
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Mark Rylance and David appeared on BBC Breakfast yesterday morning. Go watch the interview HERE!
Stylish, eh? It reminds me a little of the poster for Brick. In further Perfect Host news, the movie sold in seven territories after its screenings at Cannes in May, according to The Hollywood Reporter:
Nick Tomnay’s The Perfect Host starring David Hyde Pierce, Clayne Crawford and Helen Reddy, sold in seven territories including: French Connection Films for France; Festival Films for Spain; All Interactive Media in Australia/New Zealand; Bejing Asian Culture for China; Front Row Entertainment in the Middle East; Videx for all pay TV rights in Latin America; and Jaguar Films for all international airline rights.
Here’s hoping we get a chance to see it soon!
This critic really dug it. I like her description of it as “grown-up panto.”
We’ve waited for this one, in wondering hope. Joanna Lumley! David Hyde Pierce who was Niles Crane in Frasier! A Broadway transfer in the bag, and our own peerless changeling sprite, Mark Rylance! It even promised a debate: high culture versus populism and the conscience of the artist. Wow!
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The good ol’ BBC have come through again – this time with a report about theatre exports from the West End to Broadway, featuring scenes from La Bête and more interviews with David and Mark Rylance. Watch it at the website.
Here’s The Guardian‘s rather mixed review. Comes with a cool pic though!
I’ll say this much: David Hirson’s piece of Broadway-originating, pastiche Molière seems less smugly self-admiring than it did on its first appearance in 1992. That may be because Hirson now gives the action an uninterrupted flow; it may be because Mark Rylance virtuosically adorns the current cast; but I suspect the real change stems from director Matthew Warchus, who has discovered a hidden tension in what at first seemed a dramatically inert piece.
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Visit the Front Row website to listen to a ten-minute interview about La Bête with David. It’s a great interview (with a great new photo!) but man, I wish journos would stop referring to him as “Hyde Pierce”! It’s like referring to SJP as “Jessica Parker” or NPH as “Patrick Harris” or SMG as … you get the picture. 
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