The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.
Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.
But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.
It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
Well-written plays deserve to be learned from and understood properly, both by actors and audiences alike, and Rattigan's very human characters help us do that.
I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.