Breaking Baz: Sigourney Weaver Conjures Spells For West End Debut As Prospero, Joining Tom Hiddleston & Hayley Atwell In A Season Of Shakespeare Directed By ‘Sunset Boulevard’s’ Jamie Lloyd At Theatre Royal Drury Lane This Winter
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Sigourney Weaver will make her West End stage debut as storm-creating sorcerer Prospero in The Tempest and Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell will play sparring lovers Benedick and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing when director Jamie Lloyd returns Shakespeare early this winter to the historic Theatre Royal Drury Lane, a landmark venue in Covent Garden owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Weaver, star of Ridley Scott’s Alien movies and James Cameron’s Avatar epics, last starred in one of Will’s plays when she played Portia in a 1986 off-Broadway revival of The Merchant of Venice.
As a sophomore at Stanford in 1979, she played Goneril in a traveling production of King Lear. The star once revealed that she pretended “I was doing Henry V the entire time” she was playing Ripley in Alien. “I thought, ‘Well, as a woman, I’ll never be cast as Henry V, so this is my Henry V,” Weaver told New York magazine in a 2012 interview. “Sigourney knows her Shakespeare, she knows theater, and I could not be more excited that she has agreed to play this role,“ Lloyd told Deadline.
He also said that he’s “thrilled” that “my dear friends Tom and Hayley” are headlining the romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing in his Jamie Lloyd Company Drury Lane Shakespeare season.
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