Jonathan Cake

“I have a sort of history in my career of being drawn to the very things that are guaranteed to terrify me,” said Emily Mortimer, the cute-as-a-Briton gal in Lovely & Amazing and Lars and the Real Girl, who is making her Off Broadway debut as a caged wife in Jez Butterworth’s Parlour Song, directed by Neil Pepe. “Especially during rehearsal, I felt that there is some secret code to being a good stage actor that if only I could unlock it everything would be all right. I think it held me back a little bit.”  read more »