Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
Andrew Scott Doesn’t Want to Play Purely Antagonistic Roles After Bond Villain Performance in ‘Spectre’: I ‘Wasn’t That Good in It’
variety.comCaroline Brew editor Andrew Scott is not particularly interested in playing an antagonist similar to his James Bond villain C from 2015’s “Spectre,” starring Daniel Craig.
In a recent interview with British GQ, the actor expressed his desire to continue playing more nuanced roles. “If I’m honest, it’s not a territory that I feel like I would want to go over again.
Now I know who I am a little bit more, I feel like the work that I’m just interested in doing is more in the grey areas,” Scott said. “I suppose it’s just that I didn’t think… I just maybe wasn’t that good in it.” Scott portrayed new MI5 boss Max Denbigh, condenamed C, in the Sam Mendes-directed “Spectre.” While Variety‘s “Spectre” review called the film a “particular treat for 007 nerds,” others were more critical of the 24th installment in the British spy franchise.
Pierce Brosnan, who played the super-spy in four films from 1995 to 2002, said that “Spectre” didn’t quite feel like a Bond film in a 2015 interview. “I was looking forward to it enormously,” said Brosnan. “I thought it was too long.
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