Charles Edwards - Theatre

Some niceness about Charles from an interview with Sam Robards, who recently took over as Richard Hannay in the Broadway production of The 39 Steps:

"...was the idea of filling Charles Edwards' shoes scary?
Totally. He's one of the great actors I've seen and a sweet guy. I would rehearse and then see him perform that night, feeling very comfortable with how rehearsal went, and leave [the performance] feeling completely terrified. Then luckily I got to see his understudy go on. He was great, but totally different. And all of a sudden I thought, "Oh, okay. I can do this. The play actually works!" That , for me, was key. I said from the beginning that I couldn't do what Charles does, not the way he does it. Because he's British, his innate sensibility is truer [to the story] than mine. But I do wear larger undershorts!"

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