“I decided to concentrate on comedy because I felt I couldn’t do the drama. Mine… didn’t.” Eddie Izzard plays an undercover agent in ‘Six Minutes to Midnight’ (Photo: Amanda Searle/ Sky Cinema Original)Īcting took a backseat when Izzard went to study accountancy at university and tried out comedy. I walked round for two hours, trying to get hired.” She didn’t – she was kicked out. “One of the last things my mum did before she died was make a raven outfit for me.” Drama was always a first love, to the point where Izzard broke into Pinewood Studios aged 15, sneaking in via a side entrance, “like Clint Eastwood in Where Eagles Dare. I used to self-analyse it and how I felt about it, and then I started applying it to my comedy career and a whole bunch of things.” Born in Yemen – her father was an accountant for BP – Izzard’s early years were spent in Wales, attending schools in Swansea and Porthcawl and performing in plays. “I developed all these analytical tools – bizarrely from coming out as transgender. “I’m very happy with that.” Izzard believes it has helped her writing. “Now that pronouns have come out, it feels like a promotion,” she said. “I just think if you’re transgender and came out years ago, you’ve got to be fairly optimistic.” In December, Izzard revealed she had adopted the pronouns “she” and “her”, expanding on earlier interviews in which she identified as gender-fluid. There have been plenty of dramatic roles since The Secret Agent – from Valkyrie with Tom Cruise to Victoria & Abdul with Dame Judi Dench – but this rollicking, old-fashioned thriller is Izzard’s first credit as co-writer, and her mood is as bright as the spring sunshine. “You can do a fine-wine type career instead of a rocket.” We are sitting in the picturesque grounds of a Welsh farmhouse, where Izzard’s new movie, Six Minutes to Midnight, is being shot. Acting began a few years later – a West End debut in David Mamet’s The Cryptogram in 1994, followed by a first major movie, The Secret Agent, two years after that. “I seem to be either blessed – or cursed – with the slow-career thing.” That rather depends on your view of slow – Izzard’s first stand-up appearance was at The Comedy Store, aged 25, in 1987. The ones I like the best will be in my 2023 live Remix Tour.“I spent years getting to this point,” says Eddie Izzard. “In the first 35 years of my standup career I came up with many weird and crazy comedy stories. The REMIX Tour LIVE The REMIX Tour LIVE - Wed 20th September The REMIX Tour LIVE The REMIX Tour LIVE - Sun 17th September The REMIX Tour LIVE The REMIX Tour LIVE - Fri 15th September The REMIX Tour LIVE The REMIX Tour LIVE - Thu 14th September The REMIX Tour LIVE The REMIX Tour LIVE - Tue 12th September The REMIX Tour LIVE The REMIX Tour LIVE - Mon 11th September The REMIX Tour LIVE The REMIX Tour LIVE - Sat 9th September The REMIX Tour LIVE The REMIX Tour LIVE - Fri 8th SeptemberĬobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Location: The ones I like the best will be in my 2023 live Remix Tour.“ This show promises to be a beautiful, hilarious journey spanning a 35-year career of thought provoking, intelligent and surreal ideas. No night will be exactly the same, so as ever with Eddie, expect the unexpected. It’s a glorious chance to ‘maybe’ find out the answers or discover more questions to those Izzard conundrums. Stevens or the monkey in the tree, did the pears ever ripen… and will God ever appear? The REMIX Tour LIVE The REMIX Tour LIVE - Thu 7th SeptemberĮddie Izzard’s The Remix Live is a chance for Eddie, inspired by her ever loyal audiences, to remix and re-imagine her favorite bits from her entire career.Įddie’s 35 years of sellout comedy shows stretch from “The Ambassadors” in 1993 to “Wunderbar” in 2019.Įver wondered what became of Darth Vader and Mr.
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