For Sure, You Have To Be Lost

Within Our Culture, Every School Has A Swimming Pool. We Lived On The Coast. People Swam In The Surf. It's A Very Sporty Nation And At That Particular Time Anyone Who Had An Artistic Bent Was Very Much An Outsider. So If You Liked Reading Or Ideas Or Playing The Piano Then Your Dad Viewed You As A Sissy, Basically.

People Are Intrigued And Fascinated, Almost Obsessed With The Private Lives Of Great Public Personalities.

Like Any Classic You Hope To Get Rid Of All The Varnish That's Built Up Over The Centuries Where People Expect It To Be In A Certain Way. It's A Mighty Play. It's About A Very Old King Who Also Happens To Be A Very Old Father, So You've Got The State And The Domestic Levels In There Together. It's A Story In Extremis. Everyone Knows The End, There's Only Two People Left Alive.

I Was Never A Leading Man. I've Always Been In The Outer Concentric Circles In The Company, Being A Character Actor, Which Is A Good Place To Be. It Gives You That Diversity.

I Wouldn't Mind Meeting Some Of The People I've Attempted To Portray From The Olden, Olden Days. They Probably Would All Have Really Terrible Skin And Horrible Bad Breath, And I'd Have To Give Them An Altoid.