I Think The Terrifying Thing

With A Role Like Hedda Gabler, Which Is Incredibly Complicated, You Often Feel That You Haven't Even Scratched The Surface The First Time Around, So You Relish The Opportunity To Do It Again, Particularly With An Ensemble Of Actors And The Company We Assembled. But When You Do That In Films You Somehow Have To Make Some Attempt To Uncross People's Arms And You Have To Justify Why You're Doing It.

It Was Only When I Realized How Actors Have The Power To Move People That I Decided To Pursue Acting As A Career.

That's Why So Many People Want To Play Hamlet: Because It's A Completely Demarked Role, And The Actor Playing It Has To Be Prepared, Through The Language, To Allow The Audience To See Into Who He Is.

People Talk About The Golden Age Of Hollywood Because Of How Women Were Lit Then. You Could Be Joan Crawford And Bette Davis And Work Well Into Your 50s, Because You Were Lit And Made Into A Goddess. Now, With Everything Being Sort Of Gritty, Women Have This Sense Of Their Use-by Date.

We Talked About Trying To Create An Image That Would Somehow, To An Audience, Create The Sense Of Awe, Wonder And Shock That The Troops Must Have Felt That Their Monarch - And A Female Monarch - Went To The Frontline Of Battle And Was Prepared To Lay Down Her Life. This Speech Is So Well Known And Has Been Done In Virtually Every Version Of The Events Of Elizabeth's Life.