{"title":"Denzel Washington","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1954\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"noprint ForceAgeToShow\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDecember 28\u003cbr\u003eMount Vernon, New York\u003cbr\u003eActor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI went to school a thousand feet from here and played Othello at 20, didn't know what I was doing. The long \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ethousand feet.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAt the Lincoln Center library, they had records of the plays. So they had Olivier's Othello. So I put the headphones on. 'Oh my Lord, .....' Ignorance is bliss. I figure: I'll sing it like this. Make it happen.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Kenneth Branagh, directing Much Ado About Nothing] \u003cem\u003eis in a sense trimming away a lot of the .. I don't want to say fat but it is a visual medium. So he's relying on his actors to communicate things that maybe on stage had to be verbally communicated. He's trying to make it a little simpler for the audiences to understand, ya know, so they don't go to sleep or even worse not show up. Trying to whet their appetite, I think, to the language and to the genius of Shakespeare so maybe they want to pick up a book; and I mean: in the States it's difficult enough to get people to read \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e period, but to read Shakespeare ya know unless you almost  have to. Or watch it. We're in a society where all we have is ax murderer movies: all that is kinda trash. For me it's a welcome change of pace to hopefully reach as many people as we possibly can ... You know, what good is it if nobody looks at it? 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