Nominees Bradley Cooper, Brian d'Arcy James & More Featured in Tony Actor Roundtable

Earlier this month, The Hollywood Reporter gathered 2015 Tony nominees Steven Boyer, Michael Cerveris, Bradley Cooper, Brian d'Arcy James, Ben Miles, Alex Sharp and Tony Yazbeck together to speak with THR's Scott Feinberg about their lives, careers and roles which could earn them a prize when the Tony Awards ceremony takes place on June 7th.

Sharp, who was cast in his Broadway debut in CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME while still a student at New York's Julliard, tells Feinberg that receiving a Tony nomination was "kind of crazy."

"I'm really lucky and a lot of it was timing - very fortunate timing," says the actor. "Because I didn't have an agent or a manager - I was still at school - I actually ended up getting into the room via a friend who was a reader in the room and via a couple of my teachers recommending me. So they let me come in - this unknown guy - and I got it. And then we [at school] had LA showcase, which you do at the end of Juilliard, so I was in Los Angeles going to meetings with agents and stuff like that. So yeah, it's been a crazy year."

SOMETHING ROTTEN!'s Brian d'Arcy James discussed working with director Casey Nicholaw in the new comedy which garnered 10 Tony nominations. "Casey and I had worked together before on a show called Minsky's, which had a life in Los Angeles and was trying to get its way back to New York," explained the actor. "And in that process I was asked to do kind of a post-development version of that show to see if they could change some things around, and that was my first time working with him. And I'd done a couple of other meetings with him. So we had a bit of a foundation of a working-relationship there. I've always admired him - he's a very joyful and incredibly positive guy who just brings out the best in everyone - so that was kind of the hook for me. And with this thing? I think everyone here has probably been in development with their play or musical, in some fashion. There were readings and workshops and that's how I got my first crack at it.

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Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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