Branagh and Thor...

[fajrdrako]

With "Thor", for example, director Kenneth Branagh and co-star Anthony Hopkins would speak in a Shakespearean shorthand about how we wanted the characters to relate, or what exactly the scene was going to be like. Branagh would say something like, "You remember Act 3, Scene 2 Hamlet - ghost, wine, mum poisoned - done". And suddenly you know exactly what's required. It gave us an enormously sound reference library with which to communicate."

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[baronjanus]

Yup, that reminded me of S&A.

But also how we fen communicate with one another. With the coded and the shared library of reference.

[fajrdrako]

This was from an interview with Colm Feore I read in a magazine in the doctor's waiting room. Feore mentioned "Slings and Arrows", saying people often recognize him from that. Unfortunately they also recognize him from a role in "Law and Order", where he played a billionnaire pedophile.

I always think of him in regards to the role he had when I first saw him - as a stunningly sexy Cassius in "Julius Caesar" in Stratford. Which I am now temoted to call 'New Burbage'.

[baronjanus]

Not sure where "first" was, but "oh, Due South" popped up when I went over his imdb list.

[fajrdrako]

Inevitably! Now I'm trying to remember what his 'due South' role was.

[fajrdrako]

Damn. Wish I could figur out how to go back to messages to correct typos with a Blackberry connection.