Lessons in ambition from Lady Macbeth
The actress Bojana Novokovic admits to admiring the chutzpah of Shakespeare’s most scheming wife ahead of playing her in a new theatrical production.
“Actors open themselves up to playing someone so convinced,” says Bojana Novakovic about her role as Lady Macbeth. Boogie
Just picture it. That brilliant stormily talented woman from the streamer Love Me is about to play Lady Macbeth in a re-jigged version of what they still superstitiously call the Scottish tragedy. Bojana Novakovic is a woman of great beauty, but it pales besides the dramatic concentration she brings to a part.
Ask her about Lady Macbeth talking about breastfeeding a baby in a world where the Macbeths don’t have children, and she’s utterly straightforward: “Well, she’s obviously had children who have died.”
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