His Dark Media
Twilight Saga
SherlockChronicles.orgThe sell-out theatrical version of Philip Pullman's bestselling trilogy of children's novels, His Dark Materials, begins with Anna Maxwell Martin sitting quietly on a bench, spotlit in the darkness. For the next six hours, the young actress playing Lyra is the audience's focal point amid a bewildering spectacle of supernatural beings and special effects. As the National Theatre's director, Nick Hytner, says, the entire
"Oh, er," says Anna, awkwardly shifting in her seat in an office overlooking the Thames. "I don't read reviews so, although I know they have had issues with the plays, I don't know what was written about me.''
Her body language suggests, however, that for all her modesty, she has an inkling that she has, to put it mildly, gone down well. Any further doubts would surely have been expunged by the roar of enthusiasm from the audience as she takes her bow each night, a noise that far exceeds the applause for ex-James Bond Timothy Dalton or chisel-cheekboned Patricia Hodge. That must make for jealousy backstage. "Oh yes, people keep pulling knives on me and threatening me with guns," she says.
Anna is, in fact, over twice Lyra's age. Close up, she could never be 12 years old. At 5ft 6in, she is too tall, and her figure
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