By Kristy Puchko | Celebrity | March 23, 2020 |
By Kristy Puchko | Celebrity | March 23, 2020 |
Twitter is a place for games and occasionally grace and beauty. Thanks to a caring collection of character actors, a Twitter game began of sharing sonnets. The results were wonderful and include readings from John Caroll Lynch, Rufus Sewell, and Sir Patrick Stewart.
Michael Gaston, who you might remember from Prison Break, The Leftovers, Power or The Man From High Castle, kicked off this enchanting Twitter game.
#readasonnet
— â„ï¸Michael “CASH TIPS” Gastonâ„ï¸ (@_MichaelGaston) March 18, 2020
#138 pic.twitter.com/vpGhzZQY00
Chelah Horsdal (The Man in the High Castle, Hell on Wheels) took on the challenge.
At Michael's urging, live from the backyard…#readasonnet @_MichaelGaston pic.twitter.com/7OA0Y4c5tG
— Chelah Horsdal (@chelahhorsdal) March 19, 2020
As did Kevin Rahm (Mad Men, Bates Motel, Lethal Weapon).
@curriegraham @_MichaelGaston @ItsMichelleHurd @MRaymondJames #readasonnet 29 https://t.co/r82vLNRyeI pic.twitter.com/B4v3VF3Vyc
— Kevin Rahm (@KevinRahm) March 18, 2020
The Man in the High Castle and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’s Joel de la Fuente.
By request: Kido does Yeats. #ReadASonnet #HighCastle #HighCastleClub pic.twitter.com/Ep7GjHnONb
— Joel de la Fuente (@joeldelafuente) March 19, 2020
And Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Jenna Stern:
(Hats off to Nora Dunfee 😘)
— Jenna Stern (@JennaStern) March 20, 2020
- no. 29 #readasonnet pic.twitter.com/A2AwxvowgO
John Caroll Lynch (The Founder, Zodiac, American Horror Story) offered several sonnets and called for other actors to join in.
Sonnet 60 #readasonnet pic.twitter.com/JHmVY0FSPr
— John Carroll Lynch (@MrJCLynch) March 20, 2020
This is when I’m “64.” #readasonnet pic.twitter.com/b3ZjqxPIVw
— John Carroll Lynch (@MrJCLynch) March 19, 2020
Number 27 #readasonnet @MarkRuffalo @vincentdonofrio @DonCheadle @MsSarahPaulson @SarahKSilverman @ashlieatkinson @DanaDelany @DanaiGurira @bader_diedrich pic.twitter.com/BtHrUJ6ngl
— John Carroll Lynch (@MrJCLynch) March 18, 2020
The Wire’s Wendell Pierce played along.
For Cis Berry. Sonnet 129. One of her favorites. â¦@MrJCLynchâ© â¦#readasonnet pic.twitter.com/3xhTguj1Yg
— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) March 20, 2020
William Sadler, who might be best-known by 90s kids as Death in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, called on his co-star for the upcoming Bill & Ted Face the Music, Alex Winter.
Thank you @_MichaelGaston here you go. #readasonnet Sonnet II. And 🙠Alex @Winter pic.twitter.com/cvaH1lcmrL
— William Sadler (@Wm_Sadler) March 19, 2020
Accepted @_MichaelGaston Here's my fave, sonnet 23. Who's next? https://t.co/eFOCJH9UCY pic.twitter.com/vZF3h1KE7u
— Alex Winter @ 🡠(@Winter) March 19, 2020
Here’s Brooke Smith of Ray Donovan, Bosch, Bates Motel and The Silence of the Lambs:
â¦â¦@MichaelGastonâ© #readasonnet Leonard Cohen “Everybody Knows” #notreallyasonnet #AlsoBastardized pic.twitter.com/JgfDebMX0R
— Brooke Smith (@Iam_BrookeSmith) March 19, 2020
The Librarians’s Lindy Booth offered one:
hands down the best this to do with this time! sonnet 144. my personal fave. i challenge @NswNigel @johnlarroquette @MrKristianBruun @KrisPolaha #readasonnet pic.twitter.com/UdvKJ26Wdj
— Lindy Booth (@LindyBooth) March 19, 2020
This is not a sonnet, but it is Rufus Sewell (Dark City, A Knight’s Tale, The Man in the High Castle) being broody and sexy so say thank you then shut up.
Shel Silverstein #readasonnet pic.twitter.com/RaUbQ1C9IJ
— Rufus Sewell (@FredrikSewell) March 19, 2020
Then, Sir Patrick Stewart joined the game (though dropped the hashtag). Here’s his performance of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116:
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) March 21, 2020
Plus a bonus:
2. When I was a child in the 1940s, my mother would cut up slices of fruit for me (there wasn't much) and as she put it in front of me she would say, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." How about, “A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away”? So…here we go: Sonnet 1. pic.twitter.com/kDoMNhdqcI
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) March 22, 2020
Did we miss a sonnet reading you enjoyed? Share it in comments.