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I Come From The Theatre, My Bones Are In The Theatre; It’s As Natural As Breathing To Want To Be In The Theatre

I Feel More Irish Than English. I Feel Freer Than British, More Visceral, With A Love Of Language. Shot Through With Fire In Some Way. That's Why I Resist Being Appropriated As The Current Repository Of Shakespeare On The Planet. That Would Mean I'm Part Of The English Cultural Elite, And I Am Utterly Ill-fitted To Be.

I Looked At The 1950 Animated Film [cinderella], I Read A Couple Of Editions Of The Fairy Tale That I Have In My House And All Of It Seemed To Say That There Was Room For A Version That Delivered, In This Story, Which Seems To Invite A Feeling In People And I Think That Is Some Version Of A Classical World.

I Started Being Interested In Acting When I Heard The Voices Of Sir Laurence Olivier And Sir John Gielgud And Sir Alec Guinness. Ive Had The Great Privilege Of Working With Sir Derek Jacobi And Sir Anthony Hopkins. These Are People Who Inspire The Work That I Do.

Across All Cinderella Versions It Was Clear That The 21st Century Was Not Very Much In Evidence, Particularly In The Character Of Cinderella So It Seemed, It Felt Actually As Though It Hadn't Been Done For Quite Some Time, Not With The Kind Of Lushness That We Could Do It With, With An Absolute Removal Of The Passivity Of Cinderella And Finding An Amusing Way, A Lighthearted But Significant Way Of Making Her Proactive And Not A Girl Who's Life Is About Waiting For A Bloke.