Well, look what happened… they all got their heads chopped off in a few years' time. WSWD: How do you see those ideas playing out in Les Liaisons Dangereuses specifically? McTeer: Well, it's set in a time and place where people have too much money and too much power. It breeds empathy, compassion, and wisdom, three things I think we really need right now. And that, I think, allows you insight into other people-and also yourself, perhaps. You see them in situations that you have never been in yourself. You hear them talk in ways that you wouldn't necessarily hear anyone speak other than on a stage or on the screen. Theater has always been about compassion because it allows you to see characters that aren't necessarily your friends. It's something that reminds you of the bigger picture or takes you away from the daily life or adds to a daily life in that it makes you think of things in a different way. It's something above the mundanity of the day-to-day. WSWD: What do you think the role of art and theater is in times like these? McTeer: I think the role of art and theater is what it has always been. I think we're moving into the next 1970s… all the young disaffected and unheard students will rise up, I hope. We had to live through Brexit and now we have to live through this. What Should We Do: What is it like being a Brit right now in the U.S.? Janet McTeer: It's truly, truly shocking. McTeer took a break from her on-stage scheming to chat about the election, her chemistry secret with Schreiber, and her favorite NYC spots. It's here she won a Tony Award in 1997 for her turn as Nora in A Doll's House and where, last summer, she played Petruchio in the Shakespeare in the Park all-female production of The Taming of the Shrew. Though she lives in Maine now with her husband and dog, New York is McTeer's second home. As the Marquise de Merteuil, the smooth operator who hides her vulnerabilities behind games of seduction, McTeer smolders opposite Liev Schreiber's Vicomte de Valmont. The British 55-year-old is currently vanishing into the decadent yet cruel world of the pre-Revolution French aristocracy in director Josie Rourke's fresh adaptation of the centuries-old novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses for Broadway. The consummate character actor, Janet McTeer disappears into her roles-not an easy feat when you're 6'1".
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