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Straight from Bond to Broadway: Daniel Craig heading back to the stage
Daniel Craig is taking on another iconic role (Picture: David Fisher/BAFTA/REX/Shutterstock)
Daniel Craig is gearing up to return to the stage after his fifth and last outing as James Bond in No Time To Die, which comes out in cinemas tomorrow.
The actor’s next project will see him head to New York as he takes on the role of Macbeth in a Broadway production of the Shakespeare play.
Ruth Negga is playing Lady Macbeth in this 15-week production, which will premiere at the Lyceum Theatre on March 29, 2022.
Directing the play will be Tony Award winner Sam Gold, who previously worked with the Knives Out star on another Shakespeare adaptation, a 2016 Off-Broadway production of Othello.
‘Daniel is not only a great film actor but a magnificent theatre actor as well,’ said Macbeth producer Barbara Broccoli, who also produces the James Bond movies.
‘I am thrilled that he will be supporting the return of Broadway playing this iconic role with the exquisitely talented Ruth Negga making her Broadway debut and under the expert direction of Sam Gold.’
The play will premiere in 2022 (Picture: Lyceum Theatre)
Gold, who was nominated for a Tony in 2017 for A Doll’s House, Part 2 after winning the award in 2015 for Fun Home, said about the upcoming project: ‘I am beyond thrilled to be participating in this historic season as theatre re-emerges, and to be working with two such masterful actors on one of dramatic literature’s most challenging and epic dramas.’
Additional cast members are still to be revealed.
Daniel made his Broadway debut in 2009 opposite Hugh Jackman in a production of A Steady Rain by playwright Keith Huff.
The last time Broadway audiences saw the British actor on their stages was in 2013 in a Mike Nichols-directed production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, featuring Rafe Spall and Rachel Weisz.
Ruth Negga is starring in Macbeth opposite Daniel Craig (Picture: Rob Latour/REX)
Among his London stage credits are Hurlyburly with the Peter Hall Company at The Old Vic, Angels in America at The National Theatre and A Number at the Royal Court with Michael Gambon.
On screen, Daniel will next be seen in Knives Out 2, currently in post-production and expected to land next year.
Meanwhile, Negga, who received an Oscar nomination for her starring role in the 2016 movie Loving, first debuted on New York stages last year in the title role of an Off-Broadway production of Hamlet at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
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In the UK, she has performed at The Abbey Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre, The Old Vic, and The National Theatre, among others.
She is also known for her television roles such as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Preacher and the upcoming Netflix series Passing with Tessa Thompson.
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