Ruas Do Mundo - Bellagio Lake Como, Italy. 

The Half: Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage

For twenty-five years, actors have given Simon Annand unprecedented access to photograph them in the intimacy of their dressing-rooms during the 30 minutes before curtain-up - ‘the half’. This magnificent book offers not only a dazzling gallery of actors - including Anthony Hopkins, Cate Blanchett, Daniel Day Lewis, Judi Dench, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Jeremy Irons, Glenda Jackson, Jude Law, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Martin Sheen, Felicity Kendal, Kevin Spacey and Ralph Fiennes - but also a meditation on the mystery of the final stage of an actor’s journey.

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“I remind myself I was lucky to have had any time with him at all. What I’m not sure about is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.”

Hallstatt - Germany (by Tom Davidson)

That’s what I love about music. One of the most banal scenes is suddenly invested with so much meaning! All these banalities - they’re suddenly turned into these… these beautiful, effervescent pearls. From music.

Begin Again (2013) dir. John Carney

Cate Blanchett in Knight of Cups (2015) dir. Terrence Malick

Sometimes I think I have felt everything I’m ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I’m not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I’ve already felt.

Her (2013) Dir. Spike Jonze

The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles, 2018)