I Always Felt Thrilled And Amazed That

Someone Told Me That There's A Connection To Superman, That In An Early Edition Of The Green Lantern Comics, Tomar Re Was The Envoy To Krypton. That Was Fascinating To Me.

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.

There's Often Rarely Any Dialogue In A Sex Scene. With Your Fellow Actor, It's Good To Talk About What The Unspoken Dialogue Is, That's Happening In The Scene. You've Got To Play Something Rather Than Feel Self-conscious Or Exposed.

Nobody Ever Said That Growing Old Would Be Easy. Just Having To Hold The Newspaper Out In Your Forties And Then Hair Growing Out Of Unusual Parts Of Your Body In Your Fifties. It's Tough On The Ego.

I Like Roles That Are On The Extreme Ends Of The Spectrum, And There's Special Appeal In Exploring These Slightly Forgotten Plays That People Might Think Of As Subjects For Academic Term Papers Instead Of Live Theater.