From Screen to Stage, Henderson Impresses

Kiwi actor Martin Henderson is currently walking the boards at London’s Apollo Theatre with a lead role in Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love. Henderson stars alongside American actress Juliet Lewis (Natural Born Killers) in the bleak story of sexual desperation, which shocked American audiences on its original 1983 release. Henderson’s performance is the strongest of the cast, according to Guardian critic Michael Billington. “There’s a telltale moment when Eddie lassoes a bedpost in a demonstration of macho power: Henderson does it with the negligent ease of a man who has spent half his life in the saddle. But he also implies that Eddie, for all his imposing authority, is fundamentally weak: however much he may lust after May or bully her date, he is reduced to a quivering wreck when his current meal ticket comes in pursuit of him in a black Mercedes.”