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Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater on How ‘Ghosts’ Revival Leaves Them ‘Emptied Out and Ripped Open’ and Its Trump Era Resonance: ‘You Can Make Your World a Better Place Again’
Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater discuss Lincoln Center's acclaimed revival of 'Ghosts' and how Ibsen's tragedy plays in the Trump era.
Rabe and Hamish Linklater, her husband and part of the play’s ensemble, are sitting in an unadorned rehearsal room in the basement of Lincoln Center Theatre just hours before they take the stage for a Friday night show. Rabe felt that Mrs. Alving — a voracious reader who is dominated or second-guessed by the men in her life, including an oafish minister (Billy Crudup) and a morally compromised carpenter (Linklater) — resonated at a time when women’s rights are under attack in the U.S. Both have successful careers in film and TV — she as a key part of Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story” universe, he as a character actor who recently played the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Jeb Magruder — but being in-demand has kept them away from theater.
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