So Many Plays With Magic In Them

Somehow I Know There Was Something So Right About My Doing Frankenstein And Taking So Long Over It That I've Probably Been Laying Some Ghost Inside Myself. It Was A Very Necessary Job For Me To Do, But It'll Take Some Time To Recover From It.

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.

I Started Being Interested In Acting When I Heard The Voices Of Sir Laurence Olivier And Sir John Gielgud And Sir Alec Guinness. Ive Had The Great Privilege Of Working With Sir Derek Jacobi And Sir Anthony Hopkins. These Are People Who Inspire The Work That I Do.

Hamlet And Victor Frankenstein Are Each Obsessed With Death. Hamlet's Whole Story Is A Philosophical Preparation For Death; Victor's Is An Intellectual Refusal To Accept It.

It's No Accident That Cinderella Has Been In The Culture For Thousands Of Years, And In Cross Cultures. I've Traveled A Bit Recently, And In Russia, They Completely Believe They Own This Tale. And In Italy, They Feel It Absolutely Is Part Of Who They Are. There Is A Timeless Web To It.