English - Actor | February 17, 1978 -
When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.
Rory Kinnear
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.
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Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and destruction, that sense of suppressed horror is strong.
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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.
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