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"my father had a daughter loved a man, "as it might be, "were i a woman, i should your lordship." if you once kind of hear the rhythm of it, and if you obey it, it makes sense. if you go against it... ..it doesn't necessarily make sense. mmm. shakespeare hasn't ever really been a problem to me to learn. the last time you were onstage performing in a shakespeare play was the winter's tale in 2015, directed by kenneth branagh, which i guess was almost 60 years after your shakespearean debut when you played 0phelia in hamlet. and i said, "what was that like?" you said, "fear, fear." think back a ...

About learning parts. cleopatra itself is a lot of lines to learn. was there a particular way of committing it to memory? did you have a particular method? no, it's just that it is the beating of your heart. it's... you know if you've missed something out because you hear that you missed it out. so that's very helpful. that rhythm? yes. the peter hall... that's right. "my father had a daughter loved a man, "as it might be, were i a woman, "i should your lordship." if you once kind of hear the rhythm of it, and if you obey it, it makes sense. if you go against it... ..it doesn't necessarily mak...

We were up at the monument and he would lie and he would die. and he would say to me, "and now you do act v and i'm "going to have a nice cup of tea." what, he would whisper that? and that's true. yes. really? "now i'll go and have a nice cup of tea while you do "act v, right?" was that the laughter that you were referring —— antony and cleopatra, in 1987, directed by peter hall, who was running the national theatre at the time, of course, wasn't he? so how would you characterise him as a director? oh, gosh, he used to stand at a lectern with the script, so that he would... and he would sl...

Should be adapted. it's what it does to the person watching, isn't it? it's a reference, perhaps. but, i mean, you know, he knew... he knew absolutely everything, as far as i'm concerned, shakespeare, about every condition. and, therefore, that's why the plays have gone on for so long, because so many things mean different things to different people. and as well as that, all the emotions mean different things to people. mm. and he was able to somehow say it in a way that we use today, colloquially. mm. we don't know that we do it so often, i think. the next role that i'd like to talk about is ...

Rehearsing, and it went on for a very long time. we got on to the last bit, that "royal lady's dead." there was a pause and peter said, "thank christ!" he said... laughs but it was just, you know, he was... a sticklerfor the meter, then? it's the rhythm of it. they're not written that way... ..for a wilful reason. they're written that way because you must... ..you must obey the rhythm of the line. it's like the beating of your heart. that's why i love it so much. tell me something about learning parts. cleopatra itself is a lot of lines to learn. was there a particular way of committing it to ...