Zitat des Tages von Rory Kinnear:
I sort of understand why there is a brotherhood of Hamlets. It's a nice part of acting; you do get to be part of gangs.
I'd not really ever expected to play anything like 'Hamlet.' I hadn't seen myself as a natural Hamlet, whatever a natural Hamlet is, and I quickly realised there is no such thing.
Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.
When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.
I used to go to Sheen High Street with my dad on a Saturday, and there was a butcher next door to the fishmonger. I hated the smell of the fishmonger, but I found the smell of the butcher's much more appealing. And I liked the big knives. I thought it looked like a decent job.
Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestimable benefits of it from our society. No amount of studying oxbow lakes was ever going to help me emotionally through the death of my father.
I love music, and I once thought about doing a choral scholarship, but the people put me off.
Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.
I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.
However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.
Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together.
I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.
I get antsy if a year goes by without doing a play. I don't go to the gym, so this is my way of trying to live longer.