There’s a tiny amount of grace in the fact that in the period that I play him-Geoffrey Rush plays him from age 40 onwards, I’m him from 16 to 40-Einstein really became a celebrity in his late 30s when people started listening to some of his crazy theories which were, up until that point, considered outlandish and ridiculous. People are very aware of how he looks.Įxactly, yeah. I think just doing some of that work helped me feel like I at least deserved to be there a tiny bit. They had these amazing physics professors from local universities on set all the time I would have these tutorial sessions with them and talk about dark matter, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and these things, which I have just the barest grasp of now. I’ve failed at maths and stuff in school, so I felt like I needed to work hard at that stuff. There’s a huge sense of duty to this idea of a person who is very well loved and who deserves a lot of respect. Did you feel that you had to bone up on physics? So you get to be brilliant and have a lot of girlfriends. In the show, he has all these affairs and things. He kind of gave up on monogamy at that point. From that point he actually did become what you would call a bit of a ladies man. And although he was very dedicated to his first wife, that marriage eventually broke down. They sort of celebrate that in the series, the relationships he has with these women that are instrumental. It wasn’t that he was, like, a complete player, but let’s say he enjoyed women and he fell in love hard. You know, Einstein was quite amorous, and he had many lovers. So it kind of ruined the whole second act of the play, me exposing myself.Īnd how did Genius come about? In what I’ve seen there’s no nudity involved yet. It was awkward because often it would be, like, an all-girls school, and they wouldn’t stop squealing. Not the exposing myself to children part, just the thing of being naked. I mean, it’s weird that we’re talking so much about being naked, but I found it quite, um, liberating, to an extent. So there would be a lot of screaming and, like, angry looks from teachers.ĭid you get nervous before the big reveal knowing what the reaction would be from children? He gets out of bed and wraps the sheet around him, and the joke is that he hears somebody come and then he drops the sheet, like, you know, “Ta-da.” That was the big reveal.īut every night of the production there were, um, schoolchildren in the wings, in the balcony level, and they were the only ones that could see this part of me. The director had this idea, that in the scene just after he’s met Olivia-he doesn’t know that Olivia thinks he’s Viola-and they spend the night together, he wakes up and he’s just in a sheet. I played Sebastian, who’s the twin brother of Viola. The first play I was naked in was a production of Twelfth Night, an all-male production that we took to BAM in New York. I’ve been asked to be naked in a bunch of different things, and I’ve been naked on stage twice before. Was it difficult to act while you were naked? On set, at least, and then in the thing you just saw my ass. I had to get naked in it.Ĭompletely naked. So you shouldn’t watch it now, it wouldn’t be enjoyable, because that’s the whole point-trying to figure out who the murderer is. The first thing that I auditioned for was a sort of cable TV murder mystery, afternoon matinee kind of thing. What was the first thing you auditioned for? One turned out very well the other, not so much. Here, in an interview by Lynn Hirschberg in W‘s August issue, Flynn recalls the first thing that he auditioned for, as well as his first kiss. Flynn, who was born in South Africa and raised in England, is equal parts musician (he released his fourth album earlier this year with his band Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit) stirring, gentle presence in independent films like 2013’s Song One, as Anne Hathaway‘s love interest, and 2014’s Clouds of Sils Maria and comedic performer, as the star of Netflix’s rom-com series Lovesick. Before he was a world-famous physicist with an iconic shock of hair, Albert Einstein was, at least by the account of the Emmy-nominated TV show Genius, a vivacious cad about town-”a bit of a ladies’ man,” according to Johnny Flynn, who plays Einstein in his rebellious youth in the National Geographic anthology series (Geoffrey Rush plays the famed Einstein we all recognize in his later years).
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