even slightly, you’ll know she’s someone who likes to jump in with both feet, whatever she tasks herself with. Why simply do stand-up comedy around the world, when she couldAnd, indeed, why take up just one part in a Shakespeare play, when you could play all of them?
“People might have expected that I would come back and do another Dickens after the first show,” Eddie notes. Apparently, though, the idea for Hamlet was already being discussed before Great Expectations even came along.thought we’d just do Great Expectations first, to prove that we can make this work”, before tackling the hefty Hamlet.
“I don’t know if planned it that way, but it turned into this accidental epic story of a family coming apart, and one hero for maybe all time,” she suggests. “Because he questions, and he’s honest, and he doesn’t know quite what to do. The “biggest thing” for Eddie when putting together her characterisation for all 23 of the different figures she portrays in Hamlet, was ““It was more separating them out, and making sure that the audience could tell them part – which is not a normal thing that the cast has to worry about, because obviously it’s separate people,” she says.
Throughout her time in the spotlight, Eddie has always been vocal about her gender-fluidity and her own gender identity, and has “If people were transphobic before, they’re still transphobic,” she says. “But the vast majority of the country, and the world, who interact with me, I think, just seem, ‘oh yeah, you’re being your authentic self, OK! I’m going to get it wrong occasionally but we’ll go for it, we’ll try it’.”
“It seems to have shifted, where the noise is coming from,” she observes, stating that online abuse is something she does “guard” herself from. “I think I could go a little bit mad trying to analyse that. And I’m not really that bothered.