The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.
I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time.
I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.
I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.
I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.
'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.
It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.
I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.
My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the while, I was making short films; monster movies, slapstick comedies, claymation.