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Vogue
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Patsy Ferran Is Riding High
She's also been the Blanche DuBois to Paul Mescal's Stanley Kowalski in Rebecca Frecknall's revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, and turned up in the latest installment of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, playing an AI assistant in one of the anthology series' more emotional, meditative episodes. The Spanish-British actor says she felt apprehensive going into Streetcar's recent stint at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (before that, it had been a hit in the West End). 'We were taking one of the most-loved American plays of all time to New York as a bunch of Brits with quite an unconventional take on it,' she recalls. 'I was truly anticipating potential rejection from an American audience. I knew about going to New York for a year and a half, so I had a year and a half to mentally prepare for a panning.' Eventually, however, Ferran let herself see the experience 'as an experiment.' She explains: 'I thought, Let's just offer something with an open mind and an open heart and see what happens—and if they don't like it, that's totally okay! Cut to preview one, and the New York audience was so vocally generous.' The six-week run quickly sold out as reviewers raved about Ferran's revelatory take on the Southern belle. 'I remember after that first show, we were all staring at each other, wide-eyed on stage, thinking, Oh my God, I think they're loving this!' Ferran goes on. 'Being an actor is a strange thing, because you are presenting yourself as part of the art—you're collectively telling a story, but you're so personally involved. When something doesn't work, I can't help but take it a little personally. It's your face, your body, brain, and soul that's part of the story.' Streetcar is an intense play on its own, but to exit the stage door every night and be confronted with high-octane New York City, too, made the period perhaps the most feverish six weeks of her life. 'Thankfully, my body is very obedient when I have a job to do—and when the writing is so good, and your company of actors are so talented and generous, the job is easier... and dare I say it, fun,' Ferran says. 'But I couldn't have done another show [afterward]! I needed to lie down and not move.'
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Official: Barcelona forward undergoes emergency surgery; out for the season
Official: Barcelona forward undergoes emergency surgery; out for the season In a major blow for FC Barcelona, it appears their star striker Ferran Torres has been ruled out for the season due to an emergency surgery. This was confirmed by Barcelona, which revealed through an official statement that Torres had to undergo surgery for appendicitis. Advertisement The operation was successfully completed and was conducted by the Hospital de Barcelona, under the supervision of the club's medical team. Ferran Torres ruled out for the season Ferran Torres' emergency surgery means that the forward has now been ruled out for the remainder of the campaign, reports Javi Miguel. 'Even sharks get sick,' quipped Miguel before confirming that the Spaniard won't play again this season. Ferran Torres won't play again for Barcelona this season. (Photo by) This amounts to a total of just three games missed for Ferran Torres, although it will be interesting to see whether the surgery will have any bearing on his availability for the pre-season campaign in the summer. Advertisement In the absence of Ferran, Robert Lewandowski is likely to take over the reins as the leader of the Barcelona frontline, having returned to full fitness. With three matches remaining, Lewandowski has the task of overtaking Kylian Mbappe in the race for the Pichichi trophy. He will also be looking for his 100th goal for Barcelona. As for Ferran, his absence will be felt as the Spaniard has been of great service to Hansi Flick, having netted as many as 19 goals despite a limited role in the first team. Flick will hope Ferran can come back strongly next season, when the importance of having a Lewandowski alternative will be far greater.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Barcelona star to miss Espanyol clash after undergoing emergency surgery
A leading member of the attacking ranks at La Liga giants Barcelona will play no part in the club's upcoming showdown with Espanyol. That's according to RAC1, amongst others, who point towards Ferran Torres as the player in question. Frontman Ferran had been widely tipped to maintain his place as Barcelona's attacking spearhead tomorrow night, when the Blaugrana lock horns with the aforementioned Espanyol in the latest edition of the Derbi Barceloní. This, however, will not be the case. As confirmed by RAC1, the Spanish international was on Wednesday called in for emergency surgery, owing to a case of appendicitis. Ferran will play no part on Thursday as a result. Robert Lewandowski, continuing to ramp up his fitness levels following a spell on the sidelines with a muscular injury, is the leading candidate to replace the former Manchester City man in Hansi Flick's frontline for the derby. ‼️ Explicat a @EsportsRAC1 🎙️ Marta Ramon👉🏻 Ferran Torres, operat d'urgència per una apendicitis👉🏻 Baixa d'última hora per al derbi👉🏻 Ho ha avançat @culemanias i ho hem confirmat a @rac1 #frac1 — El Barça juga a RAC1 (@FCBRAC1) May 14, 2025 Conor Laird – GSFN
New York Times
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
In ‘Streetcar,' Patsy Ferran Gives Blanche a Nervy New Read
Patsy Ferran will not judge a book by its cover. But covers are important to her. 'See?' she said, palming a copy of a Barbara Kingsolver novel at a Brooklyn branch of McNally Jackson bookstore. 'Such a good cover. Aesthetics do matter.' Ferran, a London-based actress, is currently starring in Tennessee Williams's 'A Streetcar Named Desire' at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, just up the road from the store. A latecomer to reading for pleasure, Ferran picked up fiction, particularly American fiction, during the pandemic lockdowns and has yet to put it down. Currently working her way through Percival Everett's 'James,' with Samantha Harvey's 'Orbital' cued up next, she had promised herself that she wouldn't buy any more books. But the shelves were calling. 'I kind of explore cities via book shops,' she said. 'That and good coffee.' In the store, Ferran, lively, shrewd and lightly self-deprecating, ('I do my own glam,' she said wryly as she shook out her hair from a woolly hat) picked up and put down several recent paperbacks, enthusing about their feel. 'British paperbacks are so stiff, you have to crowbar them open, which I hate,' she said. Ferran decided that she might buy just one. Or two. Certainly not more than three. Ferran, 35, made her professional debut just after her graduation from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, in a production of Noël Coward's 'Blithe Spirit.' More stage roles followed, including her first lead, as Alma in 'Summer and Smoke,' also by Williams, directed by Rebecca Frecknall. 'This young actor is a genuine marvel, as hilarious as she is heartbreaking,' one critic wrote of the performance. Soon she was recognized as one of the most talented stage actresses of her generation. Small and quick, with dark, curling hair, Ferran was an unusual choice for Blanche. A great American heroine, 'an aging Southern belle who lives in a state of perpetual panic about her fading beauty' in Williams's words, Blanche is typically played by willowy, languorous blondes. (Recent New York Blanches include Cate Blanchett and Gillian Anderson). Ferran knows this. She worried that audiences would dismiss her as the wrong cover for this particular book. 'My gremlin in my brain was going, They're going to hate you,' she said. 'Because you are a very unconventional Blanche.' Ferran leaped onto the London 'Streetcar' at the last minute. Another actor, Lydia Wilson, had been cast opposite Paul Mescal's Stanley. But when Wilson had to withdraw days before previews began, Frecknall, the revival's director, thought of her former colleague and friend. Ferran was at the bank when she received Frecknall's text asking her to join the production. Briefly, she resisted. She wondered how it would look to replace another actress and the run would mean postponing her honeymoon. Besides, she didn't see herself as Blanche. 'No way, José,' Ferran, who is fond of old-timey epithets, said. 'Blanche has this flighty, coquettish, airy energy.' Ferran, who was cast in boys' parts all through school and typically favors an androgynous look, felt far away from all that. 'I'm not a naturally feminine woman,' she said. But her husband convinced her that if she turned down the role, she would regret it. Besides, she is a people pleaser. 'I was like, 'She needs me,'' Ferran said. So she called Frecknall back and said she had one more day of shooting on 'Mickey 17,' the latest Bong Joon Ho film, but then yes, she would do it. That night, studying the script and realizing the number of lines she would have to memorize, Ferran panicked. She called her agent and attempted to back out. It was too late; a news release had already been sent. The next day at rehearsal she saw Frecknall, and the two women burst out laughing. 'I was like, Oh, we're going to be OK, because we all know how mad this is,' Ferran said. She slept very little those first weeks and acquired many more gray hairs. But everyone welcomed her, and in Mescal, her co-star, she found a real theater animal. (She hadn't realized how famous he was until the show was up and running. 'Like, oh my God, people really love him,' she said.) In the past, Ferran had always had the luxury of time to prepare. Now she had to go on instinct alone. She couldn't worry that she wasn't a typical Blanche or change herself to become more Blanche-like. Instead she brought Blanche to her, creating a Blanche who was nervous, nervy, achingly vulnerable, smarter than the other characters assume. 'Because I had no time, I only had myself as a filter,' Ferran said. It is, she believes, the best acting of her career. The Times critic Matt Wolf agreed, writing that he had rarely seen 'the anger that coexists with Blanche's fragility conveyed as clearly as it is here.' She has tried to apply some of these lessons to her film and television acting — in addition to 'Mickey 17,' she also has a major role in an episode of the new season of 'Black Mirror' and plays Jane Austen in 'Miss Austen,' the PBS Masterpiece series that premieres on May 4. 'Onscreen, you have to be as unprecious and free and relaxed as possible,' she said. 'So you learn to just go with the flow.' But flow doesn't always come easily to Ferran. After the London run ended, in February 2023, Ferran had something approaching a Blanche-adjacent nervous collapse. 'My body reached breaking point and I wasn't very well for a couple of months,' she said. The prospect of returning to the role, first for a West End reprise in February and then for the Brooklyn performance frightened her. Certain lines in the play, like Blanche's declaration that her nerves had broken, felt too close. She worried she wasn't mentally strong enough to play the part in New York City. But she describes this more recent rehearsal period as being akin to exposure therapy. 'The more you do it, the more your body just gets used to it,' she said. 'It actually has helped me massively deal with my own [expletive],' she said. And she's been moved by the enthusiasm of Brooklyn audiences. 'Holy moly,' she said. 'The joy and generous open vocal responses that we're getting, we never got in London. I love this city so much.' The demands of the show and her preparations for an upcoming Charlie Kaufman movie mean that Ferran only has between two and three waking hours to herself each day. She likes to spend them reading. Blanche, a former English teacher, would approve. At the bookstore she decided on a copy of Charles Portis's 'True Grit' and two recent novels by American women. She hefted the shopping bag proudly. It's not likely to be her last purchase. 'I'm thinking, do I buy a third suitcase to take them all back to London?' she mused.
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Barcelona star ruled out of Spain clash through injury
A member of the attacking ranks at La Liga giants Barcelona has been ruled out of his country's next outing on the international front. The player in question? Ferran Torres. Frontman Ferran is for his part fresh off another stellar outing this past weekend. Introduced off the bench with Barcelona in desperate search of goals in a La Liga meeting with Atlético Madrid, the former Manchester City man provided precisely that. En route to a comeback 4-2 triumph for the Blaugrana, Ferran notched a fine brace. The 25-year-old was therefore expected to feature in at least some capacity, when Spain lock horns with The Netherlands in the Nations League later this evening. As much, however, will not be the case. Speaking to the media in his pre-match press conference, La Roja boss Luis de la Fuente confirmed that Ferran has been ruled out on Thursday, owing to a fitness issue. The hope is that the versatile attacker will be back fit and firing in time to feature in the return leg on Sunday. De la Fuente descarta a Ferran Torres para mañana por un golpe y dice que estaría disponible el domingo en Valencia en la vuelta. — Alfredo Martínez (@Alfremartinezz) March 19, 2025 Conor Laird – GSFN
