Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.
It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.
'Richard III' is a really difficult play to film - it's involved, often obscure. I felt it absolutely necessary to do more simplification than I've ever done before.
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.
I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.
Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.
'Macbeth' is an amazing story.
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