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Hayley Atwell reveals how she faced classism and misogyny to make it as an actor and dismissed promises of stardom at a RADA audition


Hayley Atwell has opened up on the obstacles she faced to make it to the top of her game as she reveals all she wanted was to make it out of her housing association.

Hayley, who went on to study her craft at Guildhall School of Drama, revealed she dismissed promises of the bright lights of fame at the audition and admitted she would have been pleased to simply 'make a living. Each play is directed by Jamie, who previously staged Romeo And Juliet, which starred Marvel actor Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers in the title roles, in the capital. 'It's an honour to have been invited by Andrew Lloyd Webber to bring Shakespeare back to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, in a season alongside Sigourney Weaver in The Tempest, and to be working with the great Hayley Atwell for the first time.'

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