The Half Features Gorgeous Actors

ONTD posted photos from the book called Half, which shows actors preparing to go on stage as someone else. A few more Oscar-related photos after the cut.

For 25 years, Simon Annand has been touring Britain‚Äôs leading theatres, taking photographs of actors during “the half”: the sacrosanct half-hour just before a performance when the actor is in the dressing room, preparing to go on stage. As Kevin Spacey explains, “It can be 30 minutes of quiet contemplation or utter fear, depending on how the performance has been going.” Now, Annand has collected these images into a book that reveals players from Vanessa Redgrave to Daniel Radcliffe in their most private and sometimes vulnerable moments, before they put on their public faces and go out to confront the audience