This is the sort of gold you get when you talk to Fry. “As I got older, I discovered more about Oscar and more about myself and just felt this immediate connection to this remarkable man,” he continues. After playing Wilde in the eponymous 1997 film, “I had in my head that it would be wonderful to play Lady Bracknell, although I didn’t like to push myself forward, because, you know, one’s British, after all, and you don’t do that. So when the offer came … well it meant so much but it terrified me. I was absolutely appalled at the possibility of it not working.” As the reviews attested, it worked very well indeed: his Lady Bracknell was magnificent.
Stephen Fry on his Standard Theatre Award: ‘Being in a play is extraordinary’
