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Actor slams noisy crowd
22/09/2004 13:47 - (SA)
London - Kevin Spacey, the US screen star who is spending a season working for one of London's top West End theatres, lashed out at members of the audience who rustle sweet wrappers and forget to turn off their cellphones during performances.
"My feeling is if people don't know how to behave they shouldn't come," Spacey told a BBC radio theatre programme on Monday.
Spacey, who is not only artistic director at the Old Vic but is also currently directing the play Cloaca there, said the theatre would henceforth play a recorded message at the start of each performance, asking members of the audience to both switch off their phones and refrain from making other noises.
"I don't think people take those things seriously," he said.
"That's why cellphones go off in the theatre, and that's why people open candy bars thinking if they open it slowly it will be less annoying than if they open it fast."
"My answer is that I say to each audience 'Don't!'. You have to respect the fact there is some degree of behaviour that we expect in the theatre and we're going to demand it at the Old Vic."
Spacey, 45, has won Academy Awards for his roles in The Usual Suspects and American Beauty.
- AFP
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