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Tom Francis Portraits

Apr 28, 2025

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Tom Francis plays the hard-boiled screenwriter Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard. The performance earned him an Olivier Award.

Tom Francis gets through his performances with the help of a mantra from Top Gun: Maverick: "I just have Tom Cruise in my mind saying, ‘Don’t think, just do.’”

"I've got quite a lot of energy ... People are a bit confused sometimes that they're meeting… a little bit of a personality." –Tom Francis

In Sunset Boulevard, Tom Francis doesn't leave the performance space for the entirety of Act One. "You haven’t got any time to go and reset off stage and go have a chat with the stage managers or your cast. You are just completely immersed in this thing."

"As soon as that music happens, you just transform a little bit.” –Tom Francis

"[Director Jamie Lloyd] came in on day one and said, ‘I’m going to make you do some wild things in this rehearsal process. Just trust me.’ And I went, ‘Let’s go.’" –Tom Francis

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