I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.
Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'
You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.
I played comedies and dramas.
When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.
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.
'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
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