American - Actor | July 25, 1973 -
I just spent three years on 'The Office.' I made enough money that I can take five weeks out and do a play.
David Denman
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Everyone remembers the last thing you did.
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Most people know me from 'The Office,' where I played a guy who grunted out three or four words an episode and was kind of a knucklehead, and so I think it's surprising for people to see me do something like this. But Shakespeare is what I grew up wanting to do.
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There's a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don't expect of you.
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Usually, you see this play as a guy who can't make up his mind, but our version is more of a revenge thriller than a man who is pontificating what he should do next. I've never seen a 'Hamlet' this big, this exciting, with this many cast members; it's quite a spectacle.
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It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.
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'Hamlet' is the most famous play in the world for a reason. The journey you go on is incredible.
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There's a lot of people in the community who are seeing a play for a first time, and that, to me, is really exciting.
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There are all kinds of historians and scholars who say that Brutus could have been a son of Caesar. That's definitely a possibility. He's a generation younger than Caesar.
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I do things on TV that are kitchen-sink realism, which is great, but I like the challenge of a completely new language and dramatic environment.
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For me, if I'm going to do a play, I prefer to do something with language that I don't get to speak on TV.
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I do theater as much as possible, but it's very difficult to manage for me.
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