11 Questions with the cast of A View from the Bridge – Nicola Walker

Nicola Walker, currently playing Beatrice in A View from the Bridge, takes on our 11 Questions…

Can you describe your character in A View from the Bridge in three words?
Loyal, loving, determined.

What are you usually doing 10 minutes before the show begins?
Covering my bruises with make up (from a slip in the blood).

What is your favourite play (seen, read or worked on)?
Seen: A production of Faith Healer at the Royal Court in the early 90s.

What is your favourite midnight snack?
Red wine.

What is your favourite word?
Precies – when Ivo says it in rehearsals.

What are you most passionate about?
At the moment, this production.

If the days were 28 hours long what would you do with the extra 4 hours?
Sleep.

Favourite city and why?
London – great theatre.

What is your favourite song?
I don’t have one!

If you could have been born in any era, which would it be and why?
I like now.

If you could have any one supernatural power which would you choose and why?
The ability to fly, of course.

A View from the Bridge opens at the Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End on 10 Feb. To find out more, click here.