Nicest/Rude Actors

I'm not saying a word...

He is.  I don't know anyone that has worked with him - unless they themselves are a name - who has a good word to say about him. Treats people like sh*t on his shoe. I know of one theatre where the CEO overheard him being so vile to and swearing at a member of staff that he berated him in front of the staff who were there and told him that once the run was over he would never have any production in which he was cast back at his theatre. And he stuck to it, even though he'd been there previously with great ticket sales more than once. Oddly enough was speaking to a friend in TV production yesterday who had recently encountered Havers and said how unpleasant he was. His best work is clearly playing "Nigel Havers, Charming Actor" for the viewing public.

I took my parents, both in their 80's at the time, to see one of Trevor Nunn's Hollywood Musicals at the NT when he was there. He walked across the foyer and my mother thanked him for his musicals. He was so charming, he hoped they would enjoy tonight's performance and thanked them for coming.
Kenneth Cranham came to my Theatre Studies class he was wonderful. He would make a great one man show, he had so many stories and was so interesting. You are the people that pay my wages he said. He did like playing at the NT but said he was on Equity minimum there, along with the rest of the cast, and had to pay to park there.

I’ve never met her but I think Will Mellor’s comments are eye-opening.

Recent-ish. Last year or two. Have a google, the story’s on multiple sites online. I know people drift apart, but it seems at odds with the public persona she’s built up of being everybody’s BFF.

Oh yeah I have no doubt. Its just another performance after all. Like pretty much every actor to some degree. Amazes me fans think they're really getting to know someone in a stage door encounter

that's basically it. Here's a quote from the Daily Mirror:

"Strictly Come Dancing star Will, 46, claims that their friendship didn't last off-screen, alleging that his phone calls to Sheridan, 41, went unanswered for years.

"I don't know what happened, she won't reply to my calls or text messages at all," Will, who played Gaz in the long-running show, told The Morning After With Paul Danan podcast in May 2020.

And despite being keen to get his cast mates back together for a reunion, Will said he was scuppered by Sheridan, insisting he wouldn't do it without her."

I wish I hadn’t said anything now, but FWIW… From that same article:

“ Late last year, Will - who found fame as Jambo in Hollyoaks - claimed their estrangement was ongoing and was further solidified when Sheridan allegedly didn't reach out following the sudden death of his father Bill in April 2020, although sources say Sheridan and Will are now back in contact.

The last time Will saw his dad, they heartbreakingly couldn't hug because of Covid restrictions. Bill died just weeks later from lung cancer that had spread to his brain.

Touching on his friendship with Sheridan, who played Janet in Two Pints, Will claimed that he offered his support when her dad died from cancer in December 2016, and realised where their friendship was at when she apparently didn't do the same.

"I haven't spoken to her in about six years. I tried calling her for about a year but she never got back to me," he told OK! magazine.

"I offered her my support when her father died, but she never reached out when my dad passed away, which was quite significant for me as we were very close and she knew my family. That said a lot to me."

Sheridan Smith and Michael Ball - so sweet.
All the OBC of Come From Away.
Robert Lindsay
Samantha Barks and Andy Karl (OBC Pretty Woman!)
Brian Conley, (gave me a high five whilst I was working!) Marisha Wallace, Bonnie Langford, Katherine McPhee, David Hunter, Lucie Jones
Jason Robert Brown signed my Parade score too!


Alistair McGowan is the rudest person I've ever met, such an attitude problem (16 years ago!)

To add some positivity to the mix, I have met some delightful theatre and arts types

Michael Ball was lovely. As were Miriam
Margolyes and Zoe Wanamaker.

I was warned in advance about Boy George and Danny Boyle. But both were charming and easy to talk to.

I remember meeting Sheridan after Legally Blonde. She was chatting to everyone, we were some of the last there to meet her after a matinee and she stayed chatting for ages and was so lovely. I don’t get any notion why you’d “fake” that - you could simply sign, smile, exchange a word or two and then move on otherwise.