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I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

There has to be something that I like about a character for me to be able to play him.

I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose.

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.

I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.

Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare's canon, and he's the most evil, most extraordinarily manipulative person in history. He says the worst, most politically incorrect things, even for the time the play is set in - and yet audiences adore that character.