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Like Any Classic You Hope To Get Rid Of All The Varnish That's Built Up Over The Centuries Where People Expect It To Be In A Certain Way. It's A Mighty Play. It's About A Very Old King Who Also Happens To Be A Very Old Father, So You've Got The State And The Domestic Levels In There Together. It's A Story In Extremis. Everyone Knows The End, There's Only Two People Left Alive.

If In The Sex Scene You Happen To Be Naked In Front Of A Lot Of Other People You've Just Got To Put That Aside, In The Same Way That You Have To Put That Aside In A Fully-clothed Intense Dialogue Scene Because You're Entering Into That Particular Imaginative State Of Play.

I Was Never A Leading Man. I've Always Been In The Outer Concentric Circles In The Company, Being A Character Actor, Which Is A Good Place To Be. It Gives You That Diversity.

I Didn't Know The Green Lantern Comics At All. I Was A Superman Reader.

When You Are Playing An Egomaniac Running A Fantastical Ship, You Don't Want Him To Be Too Suburban. Naturalism Doesn't Work On The High Seas.