Eve Best
Eve Best
Emily "Eve" Bestis an English stage and screen actress and director, known for her television roles as Dr. O'Hara in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie, First Lady Dolley Madison in the American Experience television special, and Monica Chatwin in the BBC miniseries The Honourable Woman. She also played Wallis Simpson in the 2010 film The King's Speech...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth31 July 1971
contract funny hardly job million offered pilots turned
There's this funny thing with pilots that you have to sign the contract to do the whole job before you're even offered the part. And they make about a million pilots a year, but hardly any of them get turned into series.
classic forces lady played roles women
If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
knew unsure
When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.
home love
I love the Old Vic so deeply, it's like a second home.
I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children.
good
I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad.
gardening hopefully longing sitting
I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.
acting camera connection feels front good lose reality soon
I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.
terrifies
If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it.
best choose hollywood huge maid option roles
There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or somebody's wife or somebody's best friend?
opera singers noise
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.
names
Changing my name was traumatic for me.
mountain jam
I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.
annoyed watches worn
I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.