Corbis
5 March 2014
What a shock it must be for men to step into women’s shoes — metaphorically speaking. Yesterday at the Charlotte Street Hotel, where the BBC was screening its new First World War medical drama The Crimson Field, actor Alex Wyndham was asked what it was like being part of a female-heavy production where the focus is on the nurses and he’s just a soldier passing through.
“It was really interesting being the love interest,” said Wyndham. “It wasn’t a man’s story. I was thinking, oh gosh this is what it must be like for all those girls when they go to screenings. They’re like, here I come and I just hit on the guy a little bit and then I am ushered off screen.” Well, quite. Viva the Bechdel revoluçión.
