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00:00Do you just go from movies to TV to theater?

00:03You're one of those actors that does it all, basically.

00:05Yeah, yeah.

00:06Well, I always I always did a play a year right from the from the get go.

00:10So I'm kind of reluctant to give that up because I love the theater

00:13and it's the actor's medium and stuff.

00:15So, yeah, I'll take what I can get.

00:18It's amazing.

00:19All the things and Hamlet, every actor has.

00:22My favorite line is what did Olivier say?

00:25Like, forget about competition between actors at award shows and things.

00:29Let them all play Hamlet and then pick the best one.

00:31Oh, wow.

00:33I've never heard that.

00:34Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:36Well, what's extraordinary about Hamlet is that it that's why it's

00:38so brilliantly written and why talk about enduring characters.

00:41You can sort of take Hamlet as a

00:45as a vessel and you can pour in the personality

00:48or the instincts of any actor, male, female, whatever.

00:53And in some ways it will still take take flight.

00:55You know, and that's why it's so, so beautiful.

00:58It's incredibly humane and it's

01:01fantastically funny.

01:02Yeah. And people forget that it's really, really, really, really funny.

01:06That was important in Ripley, too. Absolutely.

01:09Yeah, yeah.

01:09You know, it's one of the things Steve and I talked about how witty it is.

01:12Yeah, I do believe that.

01:13And also why Fleabag was so effective was because it was a comedy with soul.

01:18So I do feel like when you get something that particularly something

01:21that's preconceived as that's a great tragedy, that's a sociopath

01:24that you have to, in some ways, find the the opposite.

01:28And yeah, that's something that that's a theme that

01:35arises time and time again.