1976 July 19
Hammersmith, London
Actor

What made me jump now? Age, life experience most importantly, the opportunity to bring a new audience to a four hundred year old piece of brilliance, and to try and make Shakespeare as relevant now as he has ever been since then. I just became a father, and I used to think that I would have to be childless to be a Hamlet, and I thought ooh maybe that's got to be a difficult ingredient to play with. It's miraculous though, as I'm sure you know being a Dad. You're thinking about how you're a parent shoots up as well. So that sort of fed into it.

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