If You've Done A Brilliant Version It

I've Heard From Quite A Few People, You Sense That There Is An Ownership Of The [ Cinderella], It Was So Personal For So Many People, So I Was Interested In Trying To Work Out Why That Was.

I Don't Feel One Could Even Remotely Touch The Idea Of Intimidating Others, But Because I've Understood The Other Side Of The Experience, I Will Occasionally, If I Smell That Could Even Be In The Air For A Few Minutes, Say To The Director, "please, You Must Tell Me Anything You Want. Please Say All The Things You Think Might Be Terribly Hurtful Like, 'that Was Boring.'"

Everything Is Important, But There Is A Weight To These Big Or Expected Things And Then There Is The Logistics Of Them And It's Trying To Find, While You Worry About For Instance The Ballroom Scene, How Do You Get 500 People To Go To The Loo In Corsets And Don't Cost You An Hour And How Do You Remember While You're Organizing All That To Take A Breath And Say, 'well The Scene Is About All Of That And It's About Prince Hand On The Small Of Cinderella Back As Well' And We Need Time To Do That Properly As Well.

Variety Is Very, Very Good. Going From Medium To Medium, If You Get The Chance To Do It, From Theater To Television To Film, Which Are All Distinctly Different, Keeps Me Sharp.

I Feel More Irish Than English. I Feel Freer Than British, More Visceral, With A Love Of Language. Shot Through With Fire In Some Way. That's Why I Resist Being Appropriated As The Current Repository Of Shakespeare On The Planet. That Would Mean I'm Part Of The English Cultural Elite, And I Am Utterly Ill-fitted To Be.