Now actor Kevin Spacey is In The Wings: Are you scared? VIDEO - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Andelman

Today's Guest: Documentary filmmaker Jeremy Whelehan, director of Now: In the Wings on the World Stage starring Kevin Spacey as Richard III.

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Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of Equity Card-carrying Shakespearean actors who don’t approve of anyone’s version of the Bard that they’re not in … in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

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Kevin Spacey is so deliciously creepy in the Netflix series that I simply can’t imagine being around him for more than a few minutes. (Of course, I felt that way after The Usual Suspects and then American Beauty, too.)
JEREMY WHELEHAN podcast excerpt: "It was quite interesting to set about working with Kevin Spacey and making a documentary which would follow him for the best part of a year while he's at work, in the theatre, in the dressing room, and touring to all these countries. But, you know, he's a brilliantly talented actor, Kevin, very successful, a very powerful figure, in the entertainment industry, and seems to find himself more often than not on the front of the wave of innovation."
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But that’s just me; Jeremy Whelehan obviously doesn’t share my unease, having worked with Spacey for 20 years. So the idea of shooting a documentary film about a live, modern, year-long touring production of Shakespeare’s Richard III—that was the first reunion of Spacey and Mendes since American Beauty—was clearly irresistible to him.
JEREMY WHELEHAN podcast excerpt: "In some ways, 'Now' is an adventure story. Marrying that aspect of it with the theatr