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Eddie izzard stand up streaming12/10/2023 ![]() The reason? These pupils are all the daughters of high-ranking Nazis, who sent their children to be educated abroad. She plays Thomas Miller, a British intelligence agent working undercover as a teacher at a finishing school for girls on the south coast. I’m an average, boring person trying to get better.” Izzard can now add screenwriter to her CV, having co-written Six Minutes to Midnight, a thriller set on the cusp of the Second World War. “Somebody said, ‘Why is he trying to be a so-so actor when he’s a brilliant comedian?’ I said, ‘Well, I used to be a so-so comedian.’ I always start pretty crap. She mentions a quote from Believe, a 2009 documentary about her life and career. “If you look at my early film work, it’s not good,” says Izzard. ![]() But there was an equal determination to succeed in the dramatic arena. And it took so long for the comedy to take off.” When it did, her surreal stream-of-consciousness style put her to the fore of the 90s comedy scene. “I decided to concentrate on comedy because I felt I couldn’t do the drama. Mine… didn’t.” Eddie Izzard plays an undercover agent in ‘Six Minutes to Midnight’ (Photo: Amanda Searle/ Sky Cinema Original)Īcting took a backseat when Izzard went to study accountancy at university and tried out comedy. I walked round for two hours, trying to get hired.” She didn’t – she was kicked out. “One of the last things my mum did before she died was make a raven outfit for me.” Drama was always a first love, to the point where Izzard broke into Pinewood Studios aged 15, sneaking in via a side entrance, “like Clint Eastwood in Where Eagles Dare. I used to self-analyse it and how I felt about it, and then I started applying it to my comedy career and a whole bunch of things.” Born in Yemen – her father was an accountant for BP – Izzard’s early years were spent in Wales, attending schools in Swansea and Porthcawl and performing in plays. “I developed all these analytical tools – bizarrely from coming out as transgender. “I’m very happy with that.” Izzard believes it has helped her writing. “Now that pronouns have come out, it feels like a promotion,” she said. “I just think if you’re transgender and came out years ago, you’ve got to be fairly optimistic.” In December, Izzard revealed she had adopted the pronouns “she” and “her”, expanding on earlier interviews in which she identified as gender-fluid. ![]() There have been plenty of dramatic roles since The Secret Agent – from Valkyrie with Tom Cruise to Victoria & Abdul with Dame Judi Dench – but this rollicking, old-fashioned thriller is Izzard’s first credit as co-writer, and her mood is as bright as the spring sunshine. “You can do a fine-wine type career instead of a rocket.” We are sitting in the picturesque grounds of a Welsh farmhouse, where Izzard’s new movie, Six Minutes to Midnight, is being shot. Acting began a few years later – a West End debut in David Mamet’s The Cryptogram in 1994, followed by a first major movie, The Secret Agent, two years after that. “I seem to be either blessed – or cursed – with the slow-career thing.” That rather depends on your view of slow – Izzard’s first stand-up appearance was at The Comedy Store, aged 25, in 1987. “I spent years getting to this point,” says Eddie Izzard.
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