Dave Davies

And I am just amazed that you, I mean, you're in practically every scene of this play on Broadway.

You're doing eight shows a week.

Is it hard to remember, to learn lines, that many lines?

Well, you got plenty left in you.

You better because this HBO production is going to last how many years?

All right.

Let's take another break here.

Let me reintroduce you.

We're speaking with John Lithgope.

He stars as writer Roald Dahl in the new Broadway play Giant.

He'll talk more about his career after this short break.

I'm Dave Davies and this is Fresh Air.

You are no stranger to the stage, right?

I think you were first on a stage at age two.

Your parents were both actors.

Your dad was a director and manager of a lot of regional theater.

Give us a sense of what your childhood was like and how you had embraced acting.

I know you did a lot of different kinds of jobs kind of helping your dad out with the theater companies that he managed.

When did you really get the acting bug when you had that experience and said, gosh, this is what I want to do?

You know, I know that from your memoir that you have a long and deep relationship with the city of London.