3/15/2023 0 Comments Passenger 57 castIn 1986, both Payne and Berkoff appeared in Julien Temple's musical Absolute Beginners. and MS London stated that Payne 'is a charismatic presence, with a capable voice, who is perfectly cast as The One'. Michael Brooke stated that Payne gave the "stand-out performance" in the film. In 1985, Payne was cast as a "committed", "butch snooker manager" known as "The One" (also known as "T.O.") in director Alan Clarke's snooker musical Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire. Richard Corliss of TIME stated that Payne bestowed "a frighteningly dynamic performance" in the play. Payne played Les, a member of an East End London gang intent on gaining revenge against the rival Hoxton Mob for the slaying of one of their number. That same year, Steven Berkoff cast him in his production of West at the Donmar Warehouse. In 1983, he appeared in Michael Mann's horror film The Keep as an unnamed border guard. His first major film role came in Privates on Parade in which he played the singing and dancing Flight Sergeant Kevin Cartwright (which role he had already played in the stage version). Payne played an abusive PE teacher who "comes across as more head bully than responsible adult during his classes". Payne's first television role was in the Tales Out of School series. Kenneth Branagh performed a soliloquy from Hamlet at the same event. Payne played Macbeth and wielded a baseball bat on stage instead of a sword. Payne directed the scene in which he and McGann acted. In 1980 the Principal of RADA, Hugh Cruttwell, selected a scene from an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, which Payne co-wrote with Paul McGann, to be performed in front of Queen Elizabeth II, in one of her rare visits to the academy. Others included Jonathan Pryce, Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Anton Lesser, Kenneth Branagh, and Fiona Shaw. Payne was part of a 'new wave' of actors to emerge from the academy. Payne graduated from RADA in 1981 with seven major prizes for acting, comedy and physical presence. Before being accepted at RADA, Payne worked as a joiner, a salesman, and a landscape gardener. However, in 1979, he was admitted to the "prestigious" RADA acting programme. He then auditioned for several fringe acting companies, but was told he was too young and lacked experience. Payne has described this experience as "Four hundred kids thrown together to work on 7 plays." In addition, he was occupied with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for one season. After his graduation, he enrolled in the National Youth Theatre for two seasons. Payne continued school studies, despite a contact with a talent scout during that time. Payne was hospitalised for 6 months following the operation. Īt the age of 14, he was diagnosed with a slight form of spina bifida, which by age 16 required surgery to rectify. In an interview with Impact (magazine) in 2001, Payne claimed that a crocodile from the play Peter Pan shouted that it would eat his brother and then proceeded to run upstage. Payne developed an interest for acting at an early age.
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