Olivia Williams on Battling Matthew Fox in the London Debut of LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep

London-born Olivia Williams made a Hollywood splash in Rushmore, The Sixth Sense and, more recently, as Carey Mulligan’s teacher in An Education, but the Cambridge University graduate has rarely been long absent from the London stage. Now she is making her West End debut, playing the sister to American TV star Matthew Fox (Lost) in the world premiere of In a Forest, Dark and Deep, Neil LaBute’s revelation-laden drama of sibling rivalry (running through June 4 at the Vaudeville Theatre). The winning Williams took time during the two-hander's opening week to talk to Broadway.com about LaBute-ian misogyny, acting American and guiding stage neophyte Fox into the land of London theater.

What’s it been like to open a new play in the West End?
The exciting thing about doing a world premiere is that the writer—and in this case the writer-director [Neil LaBute]—is tinkering with the text [during rehearsal], and that can be very intense. People say to me, “How on earth do you cope with being shouted at for an hour and a half by Matthew Fox?" Actually it’s much harder being shouted at by Matthew Fox from 10AM to 7 PM ...

Source: http://www.broadway.com/shows/forest-dark-and-deep/buzz/155721/olivia-williams-on-battling-matthew-fox-in-the-london-debut-of-labutes-in-a-forest-dark-and-deep/

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