Working with the best: “If Clint Eastwood has hired you, he trusts you. He’s also a lovely man who queues behind his extras for food,” says Adjoa Andoh of her time making Invictus
When I first became aware of Adjoa Andoh 20 years ago she was working with black or women's theatre groups. These days the austerely beautiful, commanding actress has become a familiar face at the National Theatre, on Casualty and Doctor Who (she was Martha's mum) and is about to head the cast of Joe Turner's Come and Gone at the Young Vic.
“There's been progress, definitely,” says the 47-year-old amiably. “It's good that a play that might have been done by Gay Sweatshop is now done at the National or the Almeida. But we need more black playwrights and television commissioning editors from different backgrounds. I'd love to do Ibsen or Chekhov. But these are never areas that are going to be available to me.”
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