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‘Uncle Vanya’s William Jackson Harper Reflects On Tonys, Pulitzers, The Marvel Universe And A Very, Very Good Year – Deadline Q&A
William Jackson Harper has had plenty of good years in his acting career. He was Emmy-nominated in 2020 for his acclaimed performance as Chidi Anagonye in NBC’s comedy series The Good Place. In 2009 he became a main cast member on The Electric Company, and that same year was cast in an Off Broadway production […]
Then came Uncle Vanya, a star-packed Lincoln Center Theater revival featuring, among others, Steve Carrel, Alfred Molina, Alison Pill, Jayne Houdyshell and, of course, Harper, who plays Astrov, the cynical village doctor who falls hopelessly in love with Elena (Anika Noni Rose), a married visitor to Vanya’s country estate. You starred in one play, Primary Trust Off Broadway, that just won a Pulitzer Prize and you are Tony nominated for another production, Uncle Vanya. So, I’m just like I’m excited to…I mean I would love to go back and revisit it and see if there’s anything we missed and see if we can sort of catch the energy that we had when we were going after it the first time and now being familiar with it already, see what else we can mine out of it and what other nuances we can find that will serve the story.
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