"I was a little annoyed when I went backstage to see Ian McShane in The Homecoming and he said, 'Oh, yes, that's Simon Jones. He's a sort of professional Englishman, isn't he?' " Adds Jones, "I suppose he jumped on my accent. I can speak with an American accent and do so with audio books. I've lived here 25 years." Still, Jones is very much identified with playing upper-crust Brits, most notably on television: He was Bridey in 1981's Brideshead Revisited and the feckless Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But on Broadway he is noted for his work in the plays of Noël Coward. He has appeared in Private Lives (opposite Joan Collins) and Waiting in the Wings and Off-Broadway in a lesser-known Coward work, Long Island Sound. Now he's back on Broadway in Blithe Spirit, starring Angela Lansbury, Rupert Everett, and Christine Ebersole, in which he...
- 3/23/2009
- by Simi Horwitz
- backstage.com
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