Ed Gamble

Kind of.

If you make me better, sure.

If you make me worse, I'm furious.

Do you know what I mean?

It's like, people ask what the difference between stage and screen is a lot of the time, and I'm sure that you actually probably have opinions on that.

But the biggest difference to me is like, on screen, it feels a little bit more like being a sous chef.

Like, you chop the vegetables very nicely, then you hand them over to the chef in the editing room.

And they make whatever dish it is they're going to make out of those takes.

And so there's a release of control.

Like your job is to provide really high quality ingredients and then trust your director and editor to cut your performance willy-nilly however they feel like it.

And then on stage, the difference is you spend months with your director rehearsing, which you don't necessarily do on screen.

And you kind of work out every detail and think everything through and talk through all the meanings.

And then once you hear opening night, I'm driving.

You know what I mean?

And so I'm actually putting the dish together and you're in very real time adjusting to what the room is like that night, like what the audience is like, what you're getting back from them.

And so it does change, but you're at the controls, you're flicking the switches, you're kind of going, okay, this will work here, this won't work there.

you absolutely carry the through line from thought and motivation through to the conclusion and what that journey looks like each night, which is the polar opposite of screen where your hands are off the wheel.

You know what I mean?

Do you have a preference?

No, my preference is to mix that up, because I think one feeds the other.