The award-winning actor on playing a narcissistic writer opposite Glenn Close in The Wife, his Welsh roots, and looking like the popeJonathan Pryce has played Shakespearean heroes, starred in musicals, is the winner of Tony awards (Comedians and Miss Saigon) and now, at 71, has been cast three times as a self-absorbed novelist.
He played a loathsome author-mentor in the film Listen Up Philip, is currently rehearsing as another novelist in Florian Zeller’s new play The Height of the Storm, and plays curmudgeonly narcissist Joseph Castleman, winner of a Nobel prize for literature, in Björn Runge’s new film The Wife, opposite Glenn Close.What are the challenges of performing an intensely self-absorbed, often childish writer like Joseph Castleman? And how often do you feel like a child yourself?He is very well drawn, although I’ve not read Meg Wolitzer’s novel because reading [the original work] alongside a screenplay can
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