Kevin Spacey launches IWC's Da Vinci watches

10 May '07

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The real high point of the evening was the stage play, "Leo and Lisa", produced especially for IWC and exclusively for this event by Oscar winner Kevin Spacey. In spite of his current guest appearance on Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten", Spacey also took it upon himself to play the leading role in this unique performance.

As a dominant, boorish and autocratic inquisitor, he addressed the question of Mona Lisa's smile. Thandie Newton, known from "Crash", was outstanding in the leading female role of Lisa. Elliot Cowan, who played the role of Leo, appeared in Oliver Stone's historical epic, "Alexander". The play ran for around 15-minutes, and the guests were invited into an amphitheatre built especially for this event, where "Leo and Lisa" had its celebrated premiere.

Spacey's theatre performance on this evening was recorded by a top-class film crew. To make this world premiere accessible to a wide public, the lavish production will go online as a short film on the IWC Web site on 16 May 2007.

An additional making-of shows not only clips from the rehearsals and a lookbehind the scenes, but also a good-humoured Kevin Spacey, who is truly in his element on the stage. Spacey, who caused a stir as a consummate character actor in cinema classics such as "Seven", "The Usual Suspects", "L.A. Confidential" and "American Beauty", took over in 2003 as Artistic Director of the Old Vic, one of the oldest theatres in London.

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