The fire was contained although its not yet known how much smoke and water damage the JLC offices sustained.
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Nicole Scherzinger ‘Sunset Blvd.’
A production ofRomeo & JulietstarringSpider-MansTom HollandandFrancesca Amewudah-Riversended a sold-out ten-week run at the Duke of Yorks on August 3.
Jamie Lloyd, Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond in ‘Sunset Boulevard’Baz Bamigboye/Marc Brenner
And it was just the latest in a series high octane, stripped down shows Lloyd has directed.
Gavin Kalin Productions are also producers but its significant that Lloyds eponymous production company is the lead producer.
And theres a few things that Ive considered.
Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers inRomeo & Juliet. (Marc Brenner)Marc Brenner
Its a new way to dream, he adds, taking a line fromSunsetBoulevards New Ways To Dream number.
We have been meeting various people from the film world.
He cautions, however, that its all early stages.
Lloyd gives no clues as to what kind of genres he would seek to tackle.
His cinema tastes are varied, and he observes that hes also interested in making documentaries.
Asked if he has any desire to, perhaps, direct a big screen version of the musicalSunset Boulevard.
However, he does not dismiss the idea of taking a fresh look at a newSunset Boulevardfilm.
But, it may not be the first film out of a JLC film division.
Clapping his hands, he adds with brio, But well find it!
Lloyd will join a long-ish list of theatre directors who have made the jump into filmmaking.
Daldry also collected Emmy Awards for his work onThe Crown.
Branagh later won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 2022 forBelfast.
Lloyd nods and says that hes excited about the prospect of joining such a prestigious list.
Thats the aspiration, he declares.
Staying open to new ideas, new possibilities, he continues.
Thats what I always ask actors to do and everyone involved.
Lloyd has plotted the route Francis will take into the St.James.
Thatll be interesting in a blizzard in New York, wouldnt it?
As we get into winter, he laughs.
But he promises that therell be contingencies in place to handle rotten weather.
We did it when it rained in London.
Every single shot was completely live in the rain, he attests.
Its literally doing a shoot in a movie.
So of course you are really dependent on everyone backstage to make it happen.
Youre offering it up to the audience and theyre experiencing something unique together, he says.
They recreated the production in Buenos Aires in 2009.
It was the kind of homecoming of the greatest Elena Roger, he tells us.
Would he ever want to run a theatre building of his own?
Shaking his head emphatically, he responds, No, no.
That is the main thing.
I love working in different places, different cities.
Hell be mega busy in NYC.Sunset Boulevard, of course.
They first started discussing it two years ago.
It was Keanus idea, he says still marvelling that its happening.
Its about the characters interdependence, their need for each other.
They take solace in their companionship in the face of extreme pressure.
That gives them courage, he says.
It will be interesting to see how their own long companionship will inform the play anew, adds Lloyd.
