Actors Enjoy Being Treated As Ordinary People.

I Feel Connected To The Second World War Because My Father Lost His Father In That War. So, Through My Dad And The Effect It Had On Him Of Losing His Father Young, I Always Felt Connected To The War. It Goes Back Years, But It Still Feels To Me As If We're Completely Living In It.

Films About The English Monarchy, They Tend To Have A Lavishness, Sumptuous Imagery, It's All Very Posh And Rich.

In "the King's Speech," Patriotism Is Utterly Contained Within A Historical Moment, The Third Of September, 1939, Where The Aggressor Is Clear, The Fight Is Clear, It Hasn't Become Complicated Over Time.

I Mean, We've All Had Those Dreams Where, You Know, We Try To Cry Out And Our Voice Won't Come.

If You Look At Shakespeare's History Plays, What The Setting Of Monarchy Allows Is This Extraordinary Intensification Of Emotions And Predicament.