Peter Firth

[A Cousin]

(12-11-2010 11:12 AM)Tea Lady Wrote:  I know he says he doesn't like stage work any longer but I am sure I read another interview with Peter, where he said that he wasn't welcome back to the stage after he jumped ship to go to Broadway. I think I remember the article saying, that these people have long memories.

While it is true that very few can hold a grudge like a producer, PF only jumped ship with The National to take Equus to the West End. At a transitional time as well - in 1973, Lord Olivier retired and Sir Peter Hall took over. Anyone would have made the same decision. It couldn't have been that much of a grudge because Sir Peter Hall directed Amadeus on B'way - PF as Mozart is something I would now give my eyeteeth to have seen. (But, noooooo! I HAD to see Cats! ) I think he's being self deprecating again. As he presents it, his career developed in spite of himself. Stage work opportunities just rarely factored into it.

In the end, it all comes down to dollars & cents, pounds & pence. With the refreshed popularity that Spooks has given him, I think the opportunities *could* be there but he is choosing to stay in TV and film or just not pursuing stage work. I believe him when he says that he doesn't do stage work because TV/film it is just less taxing (time and physically) and the money is better.

If you can get it, and he's got it, it is much more stable. Didn't Simon Canton Jones mention in a early S9 interview that he asked PF why he stayed in Spooks for so long and PF told him that he has kids to put through college!?! Sound to me like his priorities are straight.

PF in Top Gear! JA to PF: "Darling, I can give you several!" LOLOLOL!!!!