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Triumph of British actors at Golden Globes is testament to their early London theatre days
FirstpostFrom this year’s Golden Globe winners John Boyega and Daniel Kaluuya and nominees like Olivia Colman and Carey Mulligan, a pipeline of talent runs directly from London theatre to on-screen renown at the highest levels in Hollywood. As evidenced by winners John Boyega and Daniel Kaluuya and nominees like Olivia Colman and Carey Mulligan, a pipeline of talent runs directly from London theatre to on-screen renown at the highest levels in Hollywood. Michaela Coel’s absence may have commandeered attention at this year’s Globes after her HBO show I May Destroy You was snubbed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, but keen-eyed London playgoers will have spotted this graduate of Guildhall School at the National Theater’s now-defunct Shed theatre, first in the all-female ensemble of Blurred Lines and then in her self-penned monologue, Chewing Gum Dreams, a project she began while still a student. Not everyone follows this path: I’ve yet to see still another of Sunday’s Globe recipients, Sacha Baron Cohen, on a London stage, although that prospect is hugely enticing, and such actors as Hugh Grant and Kate Winslet seem to have leapt to on-screen stardom without paying this country’s seemingly obligatory dues onstage.
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