It could be talked about, and it wasn't for two decades that it really got talked about. It's just starting to have a feeling of possibility - something that didn't have to be done behind closed doors. Peter is sort of inventing the code on the spot. Nobody really had any rules of how to do it. There's this great scene where he comes out to her in a time when coming out was not even a thing. Their relationship does transcend the gay-best-friend motif. At the time it was written, it was really more about the fact that two people who are meant for each other can't be together, and so what do they do with that and how do they demand time and consideration from each other? And this was in a time before there was the gay-best-friend motif. Peter was always sort of the perfect backup plan. Of course, Peter finds out ten years into the play that he's gay, and that sort of shakes Heidi's foundation of what she thought was possible. And yet romantically, they just cannot be together. ![]() They finish each other's sentences, they speak the same heightened poetic language, they make fun of the same things, they find the same things funny. Their relationship is so beautiful because they're perfect for each other, I mean they're essentially soul mates. The relationship between Heidi and Peter really sort of brings that to the forefront. It's really work, and I think Wendy was interested in investigating that in her play. And friendship is work - especially when people start having babies and getting married and moving away. That's a topic that I'm continually engaged in, how to keep those friendships strong - those people who knew me before anybody else did. The play for me, as much as it is about this woman finding her identity over the course of several decades…I think it's a play about two friends trying to sustain a friendship that started in high school through their professional and personal lives. Bryce Pinkham in a scene from A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. Peter is such a fun, such a sort of mischievous character to play. But I always knew there were other things I wanted to do as well - to do a play on Broadway these days, you kind of jump at that opportunity when it comes around. I did musicals growing up as a kid, and it was always a dream to be in a Broadway musical, to play the lead in a Tony-winning musical. I went to the Yale School of Drama to be in plays, and I started doing musicals in New York because that's a place I could get my foot in the door. What about this role made you want to take it? Bryce Pinkham, Elisabeth Moss, and Jason Biggs star in The Heidi Chronicles. But he's "comfortable with just taking one next step and not trying to predict three next steps." There's ambiguity in leaving all doors open, but, so far, the fates have treated him pretty well. Though eventually returning to Gentleman's Guide remains a possibility, Pinkham knows he's "sort of handed over to the fates" by choosing to leave. ![]() "And thankfully, the dates ended up falling into place that be around the New Year and I knew my body would probably need a rest by then anyway." "I said, 'If I'm gonna do it, I don't want to leave Gentleman's Guide before I've enjoyed the fruits of our labor," explained Pinkham. And, eventually, everything "timed out perfectly." However, as actors Elisabeth Moss and Jason Biggs and director Pam MacKinnon attached themselves to the Wasserstein revival, the opportunity became too good to pass up. Accepting the iconic role (which won Boyd Gaines his first Tony) would be a given for almost any actor, but Pinkham was currently enjoying a long run in the leading role he originated for the Tony-winning musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. Here, Bradford opens her personal camera roll to T&C to share a behind-the-scenes look at Julia, and the moments that didn’t make it on screen.When Bryce Pinkham was offered a starring role in the first Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles, he faced a tough decision. I was also doing something for the first time, so I related to her in a lot of ways." She’s already fully formed, but the fact that she’s going through a process made me feel connected to her. ![]() "I felt like this is a type of situation you don’t get to see all the time: a young Black woman entering this white-collar space. "I fell in love with my character when I read the script," Bradford-who's also starring on stage in a current revival of Wedding Band- says. (That said, Bradford did learn how to ace an omelet.)īradford plays Alice Naman, a young producer at Child's TV network who champions the cook-despite the misgivings of her colleagues. "It went OK." But there was more to learn on the set of Julia, the hit HBO Max show about Julia Child and the creation of her television series, than just recipes. "I tried to do boeuf bourguignon," says Brittany Bradford.
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