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Spotlight Actor: Sonya Cassidy (ItaliaPost)
Hello there :) This is the translation of an article of mine that I wrote for an Italian Newspaper. Enjoy it! Here the link to the original article
Today we inaugurate the “Spotlight Actor” section with one of Britain’s most promising actresses of recent years. We are talking about Sonya Cassidy starred in the TV series Olympus and before in beautiful The Paradise aired here in italy on Sunday evening on LaEffe.
Graduated in 2008 from RADA, the leading acting school in London, in 2009 she’s got her first leading role at the Old Vic in London with Inherit The Wind opposite Kevin Spacey, continuing then with The Prince of Homburg, next to Charlie “Daredevil” Cox, and in 2011, she was in The Lion In Winter. Sonya has always alternated theater with film and television worked on the Tudors, Vera, Fifth Estate with Benedict Cumberbatch, Lewis etc ..
Now you may wonder why I chose her to start this column… For those of you who have not yet had the pleasure of admiring her work, you should know that Sonya is an actress as well as a person, extraordinary. Only with her eyes is able to talk with the viewers, conveing all the emotions of her characters. She looks at you from the screen and you find yourself trapped, stuck to what you’re seeing, prey of her spell, which is virtually impossible to escape (in a good way, of course).
It’s enough to see the third episode of The Paradise (series settingat the end of ‘800 in the first big English Mall) to understand with whom we deal. Clara, the character she played, had to abandon her daughter and now she finds her at the store where she works. The scenes are incredibly intense, the suffering of the character comes to the viewer like a punch in the stomach and, I challenge each of you at the end of this interpretation, not to cry like a baby.
Even looking at Olympus, with the hope that it will be air in Italy soon, you have the feeling that Sonya can, as Michael Caine in Youth, to ripe off the screen and dialogue directly with the viewer. The fourth wall, like a veil of Maya, is exceeded by her gaze. Two eyes that everything can and everything says. When an actor is able to communicate with their audiences without talking or through the acting, it is the moment when the magic happens, it is time when the art (cinema, theater and television) draws us into a new reality where we can be able to be moved without fear, where we can see ourselves in other characters. And this is one thing that she can do very well.
Sonya Cassidy has proven over the years to be like a Audrey Hepburnìs black dress, always perfect. Seeing is believing.
Graduated in 2008 from RADA, the leading acting school in London, in 2009 she’s got her first leading role at the Old Vic in London with Inherit The Wind opposite Kevin Spacey, continuing then with The Prince of Homburg, next to Charlie “Daredevil” Cox, and in 2011, she was in The Lion In Winter. Sonya has always alternated theater with film and television worked on the Tudors, Vera, Fifth Estate with Benedict Cumberbatch, Lewis etc ..
Now you may wonder why I chose her to start this column… For those of you who have not yet had the pleasure of admiring her work, you should know that Sonya is an actress as well as a person, extraordinary. Only with her eyes is able to talk with the viewers, conveing all the emotions of her characters. She looks at you from the screen and you find yourself trapped, stuck to what you’re seeing, prey of her spell, which is virtually impossible to escape (in a good way, of course).
It’s enough to see the third episode of The Paradise (series settingat the end of ‘800 in the first big English Mall) to understand with whom we deal. Clara, the character she played, had to abandon her daughter and now she finds her at the store where she works. The scenes are incredibly intense, the suffering of the character comes to the viewer like a punch in the stomach and, I challenge each of you at the end of this interpretation, not to cry like a baby.
Even looking at Olympus, with the hope that it will be air in Italy soon, you have the feeling that Sonya can, as Michael Caine in Youth, to ripe off the screen and dialogue directly with the viewer. The fourth wall, like a veil of Maya, is exceeded by her gaze. Two eyes that everything can and everything says. When an actor is able to communicate with their audiences without talking or through the acting, it is the moment when the magic happens, it is time when the art (cinema, theater and television) draws us into a new reality where we can be able to be moved without fear, where we can see ourselves in other characters. And this is one thing that she can do very well.
Sonya Cassidy has proven over the years to be like a Audrey Hepburnìs black dress, always perfect. Seeing is believing.
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