Jim Parsons, star of the new Broadway revival of Our Town, visited The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday to discuss the highly-anticipated production.
Parsons plays the role of the Stage Manager in the show, a character that serves as a commentator, existing largely on the outskirts of the drama. Parsons believes that the Stage Manager represents playwright Thornton Wilder, likening it to the character of Tom in The Glass Menagerie, who he says is based on Tennessee Williams.
"I think it is incumbent on me to be the most honest broker I can be between the audience and the scenes we're watching," Parsons says.
Colbert went on to point out that Our Town addresses the fleeting nature of life and asked Parsons about the role the show has played in his appreciation of being alive.
"For me, the play is most resonant in my own personal existence every morning. I genuinely wake up with a good part of me being so happy to get up and the possibility. I'm grateful that I'm alive...And then there's always the other part going 'You've got to hurry, you'll never get all of this done!' And that's the dichotomy to me...But I think that's the other message in the play that, in a weird way, is hopeful or at least very forgiving...is that you're not going to appreciate every moment [in life]." Watch the full interview with Jim Parsons now!
