“Hello, Cousin,” exclaimed Daniel Craig, extending the right hand of fellowship to his “Americanized” cousin, the equally British-born actor, Simon Jones, when the latter bopped by after A Steady Rain Nov. 25 with his wife, Nancy, and son, Tim.
This hands-across-the-Green Room, backstage at the Schoenfeld, marked the first time the two Englishmen ever connected, and it was achieved easily with only one degree of separation: Geoffrey Polischuk, who had been Rupert Everett’s dresser in Jones’ last Broadway outing, Blithe Spirit, is currently Hugh Jackman’s dresser for A Steady Rain, so, said Jones, “I asked him to find out if Daniel would be interested in meeting. Turns out, Daniel had, in fact, heard of me and did know who I was and said he would be happy to see me, so we got tickets on Wednesday and, as soon as they’d sold their sweaty T-shirts [for a BC/EFA fundraiser], we went around to see them, and we had a little family chat. It was nice to linger. I sent him a family photo of his great-grandparents, who are my grandparents.”
