Meet the 2022 Tony Nominees: HANGMEN's Alfie Allen

I'm Alfie Allen and I am nominated for Hangman

It's Tony day! I know. How do you feel, my friend? It feels amazing. I'm still pinching myself a little bit

It's all sort of sinking in, but I'm ecstatic. I'm just happy that Hangman itself has got recognised

and to be a part of a production that I saw six years ago and to actually be a part of that and to be nominated for a Tony

is still pinching myself a bit from being honest. It's amazing. It's always been a dream of yours to come to Broadway and do something, right

Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, I did two runs in the West End and then

yeah, you know, we've spoken about it before I, um, yeah, the next step from the West End is Broadway

and, you know, I remember sort of signing contracts to do Hangman

and then there was other things if you get nominated for a Tony

and this and that and I didn't expect that! You know what I mean? I genuinely didn't

So it's, um, you know, it's just fantastic to be a part of a Martin McDonagh play

and then for it to be recognised is just amazing. It's wild living in the world he's created, Martin, right

Yeah, yeah. It's, um, yeah, when I saw the play it just kind of stayed with me

for about two or three days afterwards and so it's, um, the people who've come to see the play have had the same reaction

and I've had friends that have come back to see it two or three times and then other things sort of pop up for them

because it's so layered and there's so much detail in Martin's writing and there's infinite possibilities in the play

so it's, um, it's fantastic, yeah. I mean, doing this eight times a week, what are the challenges

It's such a big role, it's such a physical role. Yeah, it's, um, it doesn't feel like that

It's like, it just feels so, um, it just feels fun, you know

It feels like a lot of fun and I just get to enjoy the work every night, every night

Um, which is, it's great, you know? I just, I can't really put it into words of what it means to me

to be able to, um, to just feel, feel that feeling of, well, every night's great

You have the audience in the palm of your hand. I hope so

You must feel it when it happens, right? Like that beautiful give and take you have between an actor and an audience

Yeah, absolutely, yeah. I mean, that is the best way, in my opinion, to get a message across to an audience's theatre

Um, and that's what's beautiful about it. That's what's beautiful about that is it can just change every night, you know

Um, and that's also due to Martin's writing and, um, and also the kind of nature of this play being set in the north of England

and things, things happen which you wouldn't expect to a, to a New York audience

so it's, um, it's great, it's brilliant. Um, and we, uh, Yeah, it's, it's, I've forgotten the question. I'm so sorry, Richard

One other thing for you is that, you know, we talked about this before, because of your success on Game of Thrones and everything else

people may be coming to the theatre for the very first time as they know you from another medium

Oh my God, I'm seeing a live show now! You're going to introduce it to this whole new world, what that means to you

Yeah, weirdly actually, I've got a friend who's come over from, uh

from England, who's from Oldham, where the, um, where the play is set and, uh, and it's his first time going to a theatre, coming to see this

and so he doesn't know what to expect and so I've just said to him, just, just go in there and just, um

I love doing that, I love going to a theatre sometimes when I know nothing about it and just being completely surprised

I think that's kind of the best way to do it sometimes, but it's, um, but he's, um

yeah, for me, that is, uh, that is paramount, is getting younger people to come into the audience

and, um, and enjoy it and getting that feeling of theatre because it really, you can't really compare it, I think, to anything else

And you're wearing a Tony pin! I know! It's pretty cool stuff, isn't it

It's very cool, yeah, it's, um, it's magnetic so I've got to be careful with it sometimes

but it's there and I'm very happy it's there