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I Only Really Cast People Who Are Desperate To Be In It - Who Were Dying To Be In It, Whose Talent I Believed In And Were Dead Ready To Do The Work That Was Necessary.

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.

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.