Martin McDonagh Isn’t Done Talking

Within five minutes of seeing the playwright Martin McDonagh over Zoom this month, he teased me for getting the latest variant of COVID (“I had it last year—the cool version”), speculated that he may have contracted the virus from an actor (“They’re usually rife with something”) and attempted to outdo other critics of Will Smith’s slap at the Oscars. “I disliked him before this,” he boasted. At 52, McDonagh is no longer an enfant terrible—“maybe just the terrible,” he quips—but he remains the greatest trash-talker in the American theater. Talking to him offstage has the pleasures of what he puts… Read Full Article