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00:00Rob and I are back.
00:06It looks a bit like you're my guide.
00:09Throwing ourselves into the biggest challenges.
00:12Check, check, check.
00:15With the help of the world's best.
00:17He's the only office.
00:19Together we're going on a journey of discovery.
00:23No, no, no.
00:25To find out what we like.
00:27Oh, wow, Rob, that's amazing.
00:29And what we don't.
00:31It just feels like it's all gonna come out.
00:33This week, we're going Elizabethan and taking on Shakespeare.
00:37There's a lot to take in.
00:38As we prepare to perform Romeo and Juliet.
00:41A plague of both your houses.
00:43With the help of some of our finest actors.
00:45Before putting it all on the line
00:47at the world-famous Globe Theatre in London.
00:50Come sir, your passado.
00:59So Rob.
01:00Yes.
01:01We have been invited.
01:02Yeah.
01:03To perform Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre.
01:04It's highly prestigious.
01:05According to my wife, the drama teacher.
01:06About time and all.
01:07That's what I said.
01:08Yeah.
01:09Does the telegram man be running late, one thinks?
01:21For I have been waiting for this moment upon a time.
01:25It's the kind of thing, isn't it?
01:26Yeah.
01:27The irony of two jesters driving through South London setting up an episode of a Sky presentation.
01:34And the question the public asks themselves, are the two jesters possible to once again scratch the gooch of mirth as they descend into one other episode of the famous Robin Romesh versus Shakespeare?
01:50Piece of piss, Shakespeare, innit?
01:51Oh my God.
01:52I've just done about 12 sonnets, eh?
01:54I don't know any Shakespeare.
01:58I've heard of Macbeth, Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream.
02:03Yeah.
02:04Let's see Hamlet.
02:05I'm going to read out some.
02:07You tell me if you've heard of them, okay?
02:09Romeo and Juliet.
02:10Yeah.
02:11King Lear.
02:12No.
02:13The Tempest.
02:14No.
02:15Julius Caesar.
02:16That's a bloke, innit?
02:17Yeah, but it's based on his life.
02:18No, I haven't seen Gladiator, but that's separate, innit?
02:20That is a different story, yeah.
02:22Taming of the Shrew.
02:23No, what's that?
02:24What's a shrew?
02:25A little mouse thing, innit?
02:26Yeah.
02:27As you like it.
02:28What the fuck's that about?
02:29It's sort of like the original...
02:30Springwatch special.
02:31It's the original version of Ratatouille.
02:33Right.
02:37Are you a fan of Shakespeare?
02:38No.
02:39Okay.
02:40Okay, this is what I think of Shakespeare, and I'm going to get a little bit annihilated for this.
02:44Go on.
02:45I think it's overrated.
02:46Yep.
02:47And we're constantly being told it's brilliant without any real evidence of that.
02:51What is brilliant about it?
02:52Nobody can answer that question.
02:53Yeah, but...
02:54Why do we all have to study Shakespeare?
02:56Like, what is this?
02:57Are you all right?
02:58No, I just think it's a bit...
03:00It's just a bit annoying.
03:01Really?
03:02I've never known you to be so passionate about something.
03:04I just think it just is too much.
03:07My problem with it is, I struggled to learn to read at school, and then once I got an handle on it, they gave me Shakespeare was all written wrong.
03:14Right.
03:15I just think we need someone that knows what's going on and can explain why it's good.
03:20Yeah.
03:21Because you get good actors that do it, and they're normal people, and they must like it.
03:24Yeah.
03:25Okay.
03:26Deal?
03:27Deal.
03:28So, to start our Shakespearean journey, we were heading to the Globe, the legendary open-air theatre in the heart of London, dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare.
03:39It's a modern-day recreation of the very place where Shakespeare staged his plays, and offers a proper old-school Elizabethan experience.
03:49There you go.
03:50Oh, wow.
03:52Nice, isn't it?
03:53Amazing, isn't it?
03:54Treading the boards.
03:55Yeah, very good.
03:56The theatre's first artistic director was the Oscar-winning actor, Sir Mark Rylance.
04:02And now it's in the hands of Olivier Award-winning Michelle Terry, who today would be deciding which scene Rom and I would be performing.
04:09How much is it delivered out here?
04:11Oh, give it some on the edge.
04:13He loves it, John.
04:15How dare you!
04:17What do you think?
04:19That was excellent.
04:20Oh, hello!
04:21It's really good.
04:22You're basically ready.
04:23Michelle, Rob, lovely to meet you.
04:24Nice to meet you.
04:25Hello, Rob.
04:26How's it going?
04:27You all right?
04:28Very good.
04:29How are you?
04:30Yeah.
04:31It's amazing.
04:32I've never been here before.
04:33Welcome.
04:34So, you're going to perform here.
04:35You're going to do a scene from one of the plays.
04:36Yeah.
04:37You're going to be coming on after a full house performance, so 1,600 people will have just
04:41watched a play, and then you're the encore.
04:44But normally the encore is they cheer for the people they've just seen to see more of it.
04:48Oh, they'll do that.
04:49Yeah.
04:50Oh, they'll do that.
04:51And then there'll be an extra.
04:52Yeah, a bonus.
04:53But what you don't do is reward that enthusiasm by bringing on something shit.
04:57So, you're going to go and do some workshops on Shakespeare.
05:01Okay.
05:02One on using your voice in this space without amplification, and one on combat, stage combat,
05:07bit of fighting.
05:08And you're also going to go get into a bit of costume, Elizabethan costume, because on
05:12the night that's what you'll be wearing, so you need to get used to it.
05:14Okay.
05:15Okay.
05:16Brilliant.
05:17Thanks, Michelle.
05:18Have fun.
05:19See you later.
05:20Bye-bye.
05:22Today's workshops are all about helping Michelle decide which scene would be right for us.
05:25They were taking place on the Globe's sister stage, the candle-lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse,
05:30modelled on the intimate indoor theatres of Elizabethan London.
05:35And Rom and I were already looking right at home.
05:39What do you think?
05:44It's a lot to take in.
05:47Um, I feel like I'm in like a Shakespearean basic instinct.
05:50You know, things are riding up so high.
05:52Sorry.
05:53Why?
05:54Sorry.
05:55It's like...
05:56You forget how stuff fit, right?
05:57At least you can see through them.
05:58Yeah, that's like lexicon mode.
06:00Sorry.
06:01Just wanna give me one.
06:03I don't know how to sit.
06:04Yeah.
06:05If you don't mind me saying, you are now at the most attractive I've ever known you.
06:09Yes.
06:10Right?
06:11Because I walked up here expecting to find it funny.
06:13And I did find it funny because you were like Shakespeare and Sharon Stone.
06:16Yeah.
06:17But apart from that, you actually look... you suit sit.
06:20Well, the thing is to me, Rob, even if I do look more attractive, I'll always sit like a bit of a slag.
06:25Hmm.
06:26And that's me.
06:27You're your mother's son.
06:29You're...
06:30You...
06:31Hi, guys.
06:35Oh, hello.
06:36Hello.
06:37Hiya.
06:38Hello.
06:39Rob, nice to meet you.
06:40I'm Liz.
06:41I'm a Globe voice coach.
06:42Nice to meet you too.
06:43So, we're gonna be starting with a vocal workshop.
06:45Oh, brilliant.
06:46To get you on voice for the big Globe stage.
06:47Okay.
06:48Would you like to make your way?
06:49Yes, certainly.
06:50Yeah.
06:51Just like in Shakespeare's time, any actor performing at the Globe has to rely solely on the power of their voice to reach the audience.
06:59If you take a big breath into these ribs, and then rise up towards the ceiling and breathe out on a...
07:04Oh, fucking hell.
07:09So, Liz was putting us through a series of vocal exercises designed to help us project properly across the vast theatre space.
07:16So, we're powering from your belly. If you power from your belly, you can do eight shows a week, which equates to about 24 hours in a week.
07:24hours in a week okay give me a more okay give me a ha
07:34open up your mouth a little bit more for that one how about a whoa James Brown
07:41to be turning in his grave well done good stuff genuinely I'm not just saying
08:00this I feel like I can speak better than I ever have been able to my entire life so
08:04we're gonna say the words no no no no no just do an impression alone yeah I feel
08:15so verbally dexterous honestly I feel like I say anything no no no no no no no to
08:30another series no he does need to learn that word no more judge Romesh get the
08:37gourd out no it felt empowering no I feel like it's something I should say more in
08:44everyday life like Romesh do you think for the rehearsals and the vocal warm-ups
08:48you should be in costume we were now loose lips and warmed up and ready to get
08:55to grips with the language yay all which it inherits shall dissolve and I was
09:01starting to get into it what all spirits and are melted into air into thin air
09:07it's quite yappy there isn't it's like it's quite shouty yeah but it's a nice
09:11volume I thought I nailed it yeah we always do but then Michelle had arranged
09:18for us to crank things up a gear with some Elizabeth in action oh my god really
09:33don't do that sort of fine Jeremy we could take an eye out and we ain't got a lot to
09:37play with this three between us hello both amazing this is Sam we're gonna do
09:42some combat stuff today mainly we're gonna be focusing on rapier because as you are
09:48beautifully dressed it was the main weapon in Shakespearean times so this
09:52this was actually happening in check when Shakespeare was alive he's fucking
09:55well old trains was there trying trains yeah how old did I I just got took a train
10:13to my rapier fight before we were allowed to jewel it out Rom and I had to master the footwork
10:24yeah and it didn't take long to see which one of us had the killer instinct back why are you going so
10:33quickly and far oh do we to fight slowly
10:37did um did um did um I'd kill him immediately and then backwards oh yeah
10:43yeah it's like a ferry that did you mean like oh Romish is quite slow move with the
10:50sword work I think if it was a vehicle there'd be a beep as he returns from the
10:54jewel beep beep beep beep beep beep I'm not being fast on my feet was going to be a
11:02problem with my sparring partner and Rob you go for the chest first oh Jesus and
11:07we're gonna block that's it and then go down for the hips and then okay whoa wait for the
11:12fucking queue
11:15wrong with Sam is Jesus I felt I was actually in a row then Maisie was saying can you follow me
11:23step by step we'd finish the fight before she got into the second step because Rob just
11:27decided it's go time going backwards literally the same thing I'm a forward
11:32fighter you're gonna retreat cut the ring off get him in the cold luckily I had the
11:37wherewithal to actually properly defend myself otherwise you'd be fucking I'll be
11:41talking to you with a rapier out my chest by some miracle I'd made it through
11:47training without a scratch and that was finally time to find out what we'd be
11:51performing Michelle has spoken to our coaches and together they picked a scene
11:56for us we had a really good chat about the scene that you're gonna do okay what
12:00we've got is a scene from the most famous play in the canon Romeo and Juliet
12:04mm-hmm so you're gonna do a friendship scene oh um not the one at the end where we
12:10got kiss I kiss him when he's dead no not that one well you could if you want it
12:14to put it in but then he kiss he kisses her when she's dead but who describes that
12:18as a friendship scene why would that be called a friendship scene I'll give you
12:25a little kiss if you were dead I'll give you a little kiss I'll give you a little
12:27kiss I'll give you a little kiss and then ring the my agent and then the
12:32ambulance do the other friendship scene without the kissing right there's quite a
12:42lot of fights a fight oh okay we're fighting in it yeah the scene Michelle had chosen was a
12:48pivotal fight of the play which Romeo's best friend Mercutio was killed it was
12:54classic Shakespearean tragedy and somehow Michelle expected us to pull off one of
12:58the most dramatic scenes in history with me playing Mercutio and Rob as Romeo I
13:04was her under your arm I thought all for the best and the toughest part was we
13:09only had a week before we had to perform it so basically I think in between now
13:14and when you do it like if you can just learn the lines and say the lines in the
13:17right order that's successful okay great thanks so our best yeah thank you we'll
13:22see you well you might come back and do it bye-bye all the best they made worms
13:28meet of me we're fart in just a week's time Rob and I will be taking on one of the most
13:39dramatic scenes in all of history when we perform Shakespeare in the iconic globe
13:44theatre help me in some house Benvolio I shall faith a player both your houses
13:49they've made worms meet of me and we were completely out of our depth and then go
13:54down for the hips and then whoa wait for the fucking queue so to help us get ready
14:00our mentor Michelle Terry had invited us back to watch Romeo and Juliet performed by
14:05the pros but first I wanted to see if Rob had any experience treading the boards I
14:11dressed up as Emma Bunton once for a school play when we were doing the Spice Girls
14:16well that was a play mmm I don't know it was like an assembly not really a play
14:20stage yeah but it was more like oh now we've got the Spice Girls performing we just
14:24dumped her as well okay well now we get into the nub of the fact that I don't think you
14:28know what a play is I've not been in a play right that's the correct answer I don't think I've
14:36even seen one no I don't think you have either Romeo and Juliet Leonardo DiCaprio that's a film
14:41right but it's Shakespeare yeah pantomime that's a play okay I mean it is the you know what I would
14:51say is if you didn't know the person they said have you been seen he plays yeah and you go oh you
14:56know I went to see Dick Whittington at the hall I would say keep that to yourself each year the
15:05globe puts on hundreds of performances of Shakespeare's plays and none are more famous
15:10than Romeo and Juliet tonight's performance was our chance to get a handle on the play and see the
15:15scene would be performing in this unique venue I've geeked in theaters all over the world as you are I've
15:21never seen one like this no it feels like you're it feels I've been transported back in time but what
15:27Michelle had failed to mention was exactly what time period we'd be transported back to I kind of
15:38feeling a little bit ignorant because I didn't realize that Romeo and Juliet was a Western it turned
15:45out the globe was putting on a Wild West themed interpretation of Shakespeare's classic they're
15:50all coming in through saloon doors and then they're talking like a Shakespeare play but it's a Western
15:54it's about seven different time periods you're experiencing in one performance I'm half expecting
16:02a DeLorean to come out Emmet Brown gets out Marty and just as we got used to the setting next we were hit
16:11with the language with purple fountains history from your veins I don't know what's going on in there
16:22it's not having fondue you ever had fondue I don't know what's going on with that but it's fun but the
16:29fun stopped the moment our scene started and for the very first time Rom and I could see just how much
16:35trouble we were really in tomorrow I'm exposed to what we're doing the less I think is a good idea
16:49I think people are gonna throw their shit at us thankfully we wouldn't be dressing up as cowboys when
17:00we performed and although it had been useful watching the pros in action there was still a
17:04personal hurdle we needed to get past are you a fan of Shakespeare no okay we're constantly being
17:11told it's brilliant what is brilliant about it nobody can answer that question we needed someone
17:17to explain to us why it was so good so the next day we were off to meet a Shakespeare expert Oscar
17:23nominated film star Jessie Buckley Jessie's acting career kicked off by studying the Bard and with
17:30multiple adaptations of his work under her belt including appearances at the globe she was the
17:36perfect person to help us get our heads around Shakespeare we need your help Jessie which struggling
17:42how come it's just that whole thing of like being forced to learn at school and then it's lots of
17:47people telling you it's really good yeah without for me feeling like there's any concrete yeah yeah
17:53I was like I felt like that in school too it was kind of just words that went way past me and then
18:00when I moved over to London I did a three-week Shakespeare course and I fell in love with it I mean I
18:08still don't fully understand but as you work on it you get to know it it's like he's condensed the
18:19most epic feelings of being a human into like his text all the lines in it right obviously it's old
18:28English but even for that time was Shakespeare a little bit flamboyant with it but even back then
18:34there go calm down mate yeah he invented so many words at the time I bet they didn't know what was
18:41going on definitely it's a bit like listening to an e40 record you know he just makes up you know
18:45losing for the rapper you know about e45 most of his stuff you can't understand what you're saying
18:51right makes up slang so I think what does it make it you feel like something from there well you feel
18:56like you need to try and find out what it means there you go he's cracked he's cracked the code
19:03cracked it I'm up that's in light that's the widest that way it's been open for a while keep
19:09it going it might stay that way give me some more epiphanies things seem like they were starting to
19:18click for ROM but I had my own problem I needed Jessie's help with oh we've got to a performance at the
19:24goal and I've got to be sad what are you doing an actual play yes there okay the tones not that
19:32encouraging we do the scene where I am as sad because Mercutio I'm playing Romeo Mercutio dies
19:39right yeah I'm sad yes Rob has to deliver a line with emotion that he doesn't fully understand what
19:45the line what is the line so basically I say look him in the eyes and imagine your best friend yeah
19:52has died I thought I'm at Madame Tussauds I wish they put me at Madame Tussauds okay this day's black
20:09fate on more days doth depend but this begins the woes others must end okay what do you think that
20:17means sorry it's bad day very bad yeah it's gonna get worse yeah that's basically it yeah you have to
20:26work of figuring out what it means to you yeah what you're saying if you don't have to know exactly what
20:31is meant by every one of those words but you know what the sentiment of that line is so you can deliver
20:37it with that intent right that's part exactly what it is yeah if we feel like it's all going
20:42wrong on the night what would your advice be if it's your head starts to go in that negative way
20:46um I would probably think of doing it just like show people you know flash or something but that's
20:52not what you should do sorry your tip if it's going badly and we get a negative in the voice to
20:58get our dicks out that's what my bad part of my brain wants to do right okay but don't say you're
21:04saying don't do that I'm sorry right there's no right or wrong just like go and go and do it and
21:10I bet you'll be brilliant thank you till you make it exactly I think you're going to be great you're
21:15going to take the globe by storm Rob and I are only days away from performing Romeo and Juliet at
21:25the globe whilst I was starting to understand what made Shakespeare great do you feel like something
21:32from that well you feel like you need to try and find out what it means there you go what was still
21:37having trouble accessing his emotions what do you think that it's bad day very bad Rob and I have
21:47separate challenges that we have to master for our performance mine is to die convincingly but I'm
21:56not as worried about myself as I am worried about Rob the problem that Robert's got is Robert has to
22:01connect to his feelings what has not done that for a long time so the fear is that he might have a
22:07breakdown when he sort of finally reconnects it's like you know when they plug the thing in the back of
22:12Neo's head in the matrix and then upload emotion and empathy he might just shit himself and start
22:18crying which is bad for him and Lou and his children but great for the show so today we're at the Regents
22:26Park open-air theatre in London to hopefully turn us two clowns into serious actors with a masterclass
22:33from one of our country's finest Martin Freeman is a national treasure we first shot to fame as a
22:40beloved Tim in the smash it series the office before taking the world by storm is billed by
22:45Baggins in the blockbuster Hobbit trilogy hello Martin hello nice to see you yeah and you you're
22:52looking very cool today but most importantly for us he's no stranger to Shakespeare having played the
22:59title role in a critically acclaimed sellout run of Richard III so if anyone can bring out our
23:04interactors it's Martin we need help can I help you yeah we need help basically we are doing a
23:09performance at the globe Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet I'm playing Romeo you're Mercutio I've got
23:16to be sad I mean that's that's quite a task and um as well as me being sad Ron's got to die which is
23:22obviously difficult to do about looking too eggy yeah and it's difficult to sort of draw on memories of
23:26dying previously it is well you're a comic okay so how comfortable are you at the moment with saying
23:38these words I feel I feel a bit like a football manager that's gone to Holland to manage and then
23:44he starts to impress conferences yes and because he's been so he's just talking slowly to the Dutch
23:49players yes he has a sort of foreign lilt like who had that steeper colors yes you know that you
23:55know now shall pick best 11 yeah to win game yeah and then the other challenge is having to look at
24:02that sure in a rough dying and be like how am I gonna not laugh is it okay so that no but I'd say
24:11like I will so the billet the bit where I'm getting aggie I can do that villain am I not and all that
24:16kind of stuff it's the sad bit yeah I'm struggling with and the truth is that different people have
24:21different ways of doing it some people will do sense memory your breath your breathing can get
24:25you there you know um so I saw a thing where someone would cut a hole in their trousers and pull a
24:30pubic tweezer I've seen that have you yeah man I have seen that yeah just to get tears but the problem is
24:36you've only got so many pubes I mean if you're especially these guys performing every night
24:40and mine also mine have got a lot less resistance than they used to yeah oh so they just you could
24:46blow on one like a dandelion before Martin could start working on our performances first off we needed
24:55to warm up I'm doing the play at the moment and still to this day I still do sort of articulation
25:01exercising to make sure that all you're you know your teeth your lips everything as warmed up and
25:06as malleable as possible okay shake that Wow your arms are too long brother that was too loose okay
25:20so here's another little one get your tongue all the way to look at the clockwise all the way around
25:29your lips after a while you will feel it it does actually got quite a tone because you don't give it
25:34yeah yeah yeah yeah you do feel it do that on Lou's birthday Wow you still in the office
25:42clearly Martin had still got it and now it was our turn to show him exactly where we were at
25:56let's try from there right courage man the hurt can't be much a plague of both your houses why the
26:03devil came in between us I was hurt under your arm I thought for all the best help me to somehow spin volio
26:10a plague of both your houses they've made worms meat of me hmm so you're going to dust it up no
26:19well I'm going to walk off all right you're going to walk off but I mean for this yeah yeah I don't
26:23know what I'm going to do but then I'll be no carry on okay sorry yeah my very friend hath got his
26:29mortal hurt in my behalf oh Romeo Romeo brave Mercutio's dead this day's black fate or more days doth depend
26:38this but begins the woe others must end I think we got it yeah yeah you ready yeah totally and I
26:47think if you just stand there with your script in your hand laughing I think it genuinely the audience
26:53will not have seen anything like it um no I thought I assumed that would be obvious we're believers I
27:06just thought wow brilliant I'm going into this full of confidence and now I'm in pieces I feel
27:10absolutely rock bottom sorry I hope you've got time to reconstruct us yeah okay first things first we
27:17needed to tackle how Ron was going to die and after seeing what he was working with Martin had an
27:23idea so how are you feeling about the death well I don't know what to do to save you from the thing
27:29of dying yeah I think when people die off stage and it's reported that can be just as effective
27:35whoever Benvolio is can take you off yeah and the reporting comes back are reporting are you acting or are
27:41you fucking a journalist why don't I go home in a cab and then someone tells him I'm sad about it but
27:47the only issue with that is I sort of then have a sword fight and go off stage yes he's left on his
27:51own no curtain now what then what he's gonna have to lay there until they all leave that's quite a long
27:59time come on to be acting or not listen let me just say something yeah the relish that you're
28:06putting into this I will be putting into you crying no can I do it yeah you see you want me to just lie
28:13on the stage until they only I think that what a commitment you don't listen okay sorry listen
28:19so you want to just stay on the stage while they leave no breath watch okay oh so you think I'll just
28:27stay on the stage no curtain while there's a 10-minute pause
28:30Ron definitely needed some convincing so the only way to sell this was to give it a go the plague of
28:45both your houses they've made worms meat of me my very friend hath got his mortal heart in my behalf
28:53oh Romeo Romeo brave Mercutio's dead this day's black fate or more days doth depend this but begins the
29:06woe others must end you're off as well mine oh sorry and we can I tell you what what yeah let's have a
29:17little look around yeah brilliant as a mate I'll try and keep that down you'd be cannot apart from
29:25that I think that's good because that's that's like a rictus grin yeah you can't tell whether
29:29he's laughing or dying no and then Christ I mean it hurts yeah quite a lot but it is very good it's
29:41very moving yeah yeah because I've never been near a dead boy you don't move it immediately just walk
29:46away go back I'm all right yeah I'm fine no I'm fine fine don't you get hurt what another series I
29:54think that's a bad idea by the way the dragon I think you might be right yeah no worth a try
29:58definitely worth a try now now so you go definitely worth a try you're the best in the business do you
30:10think you should leave do you want to just leave well I mean based on how that went I think leaving
30:13is for you believe it's probably better okay fine now we decided once and for all I was gonna die
30:19off stage it was Rob's turn in the spotlight don't preempt the sad okay just try and play the sentiment of
30:26it and the feeling right okay and I for one couldn't wait to watch him bear his soul from my very
30:33friend you've just seen him go off yeah and he's in a bad way my very friend hath got his mortal hurt
30:40in my behalf oh Romeo Romeo brave Mercutio is dead this day's black fate whoa
30:52no is that this man it's hard it is hard it's hard that is it's difficult it's difficult and I'm
31:04don't even I don't even I'm not even I'm not even this day it's hard this this day no not that
31:09if when you when you hear the news this doesn't help that it doesn't and that's a common mistake
31:17Rob was having an absolute nightmare my very and he just couldn't get his head around it okay I just
31:29keep smiling it's difficult this because Rob can't do it at all and I think even if this show was like
31:38Rob got six months of intensive training still couldn't do it he cannot do it and so desperate times called
31:45desperate measures um can I make a suggestion yes why don't we shortcut it and you just pull out
31:51some pubes I can't believe that's the best option but yeah well what do you think I think it up I
31:56think it's the best option well I don't know if it's the best but it's an option yeah just try it
32:01don't do something you think you might accidentally start enjoying it's really into death that's my kink
32:07okay oh Romeo Romeo sorry brave Mercutio's dead this day's black fate on more days
32:20oh doth depend doth depend but this begins a woe that others
32:27I actually I think I think that was your best performance I actually I actually I do think
32:33that was your best performance I don't yeah I definitely won't think about the words anymore
32:37no okay I've got about eight ago yeah but did you notice what was happening when you're doing that
32:42your breath was yeah yeah your breath was changing yeah breath is a massive massive part of emotional
32:48connection right so there's a thing that I can sometimes access where you just you don't allow
32:53yourself easy breath so it's a bit sounds a bit stuttered yeah don't worry about the sound yeah
32:57like don't worry about your face none of that I believe we went for pubes before breath why did
33:04not do the breath more the people through the pubes were the gateway to the breath it had been a
33:10painful process to get there but it felt like we were onto something my very friend have got his
33:15mortal hurt in my behalf oh Romeo Romeo brave Mercutio is dead this day's black fate or more days
33:28doth depend doth doth this begins the woes that others must end I think we got it yeah yeah yeah I'd err on
33:39the side of finding it very hard to get this stuff out it's very hot yeah I mean yeah Robert finally
33:49found a method that worked for him and thanks to Martin for the first time this week we had a real
33:54shot of not embarrassing ourselves in front of 1600 Shakespeare fans well I hope I hope I've been of
34:02some use you've been amazing thank you I didn't know I feel like way more confident now yeah really
34:07well yeah good luck I really hope it goes well you'll be fine and the audience will be behind you
34:11they will enjoy it this will be way funnier and luckily it's short funnier huh funnier no no
34:17no can't do it moving I said more go on do it go on do it yeah do it do it you want to do it
34:34yeah
34:34for the last week Rob and I've been rehearsing intensely for our Shakespearean debut courage
34:47man the hurt cannot be much to see if we had what it takes to perform one of the bards most
34:53dramatic plays and after training with some of the best in the business I think it genuinely the
35:01audience will not have seen anything like it the following day we had spent working on our
35:06performance with the team at the globe but now we'd finally run out of time
35:13it was the day of our big performance at the globe with just a few hours to go our mentor globe's
35:22artistic director Michelle Terry had organized a final rehearsal to iron out any last bumps why don't
35:29we slowly walk it from the top she'd also brought in her husband actor Paul ready who'd be joining us
35:34on stage later nice to see you again I'm as you know I'm gonna be in the scene with you playing
35:39Benvolio and this is Paul ready who will be at your table I'm Rob and I'll be your Romeo yeah I'm
35:45Ramesh and I'll be Makusha we'd met our co-stars but there was one big question on Michelle's mind do
35:52you know your lines I do yeah I'm I'm struggling because it obviously it shakes me so all the words are
35:58fundamental Michelle looks well worried but what I'd found out from rehearsals yesterday was
36:03Shakespearean lingo and my brain just don't get on I felt like I needed another week to learn my lines
36:17we had less than three hours and Michelle clearly trying to give me a fighting chance had stuck them
36:22on the wall Romeo thou art a villain villain am I none I do protest I never injured thee but love
36:29thee better than thou can devise but even with the words in front of him a plague of both your houses
36:36Rob was struggling my very friend hath got this mortal hurt in my behalf and it felt like his final
36:45line was going to give him nightmares I think she is dead this day's black fate on more days duff duff
36:52depend this book begins there no others must end it's gonna be perfect I know I just yeah Rob's struggling
37:03I've let's be clear I fucking nailed it I will come dishonorable submission I am for you come sir
37:11your passada I know the lines and I did the sword fight it wouldn't surprise me if they actually
37:18cast me as Mercutio why the devil came you between us I was hurt under your arm I thought I thought all
37:26for the best have I heard a single word of praise no Michelle came over to me after one rehearsal I
37:32thought she's gonna go well done she goes do you think Rob's okay but I'm chill about it it's fine
37:36you know we've got to look after Rob and stuff and who cares I've spent my time learning the lines
37:40and yet I haven't received even a pat on the back is that right really good I struggled through an
37:50hour of rehearsals and now the globe was filling up ready for the main performance I had about 90
37:56minutes to try and get the lines in my head the show had started 1600 people were watching suddenly
38:13I was very motivated not to make a mug of myself I think I've got it to show you yeah go and show me
38:19well he's anxious about it now but when he gets on stage just the fact that there's a crowd there
38:24will just buoy him through what I'm slightly nervous about is it walk out there you'll forget a line
38:30his arse will go start doing some crowd work oh Romeo Romeo brave Mercutio she is dead
38:36this day's black fate on others doth depend on more days back off I need a little kick up the
38:44car from dr. showbiz and when I walk out there and there's loads of people hopefully something
38:48happens it may or may not but all I've got now is the lap of the gods our curtain call was around
38:56the corner so we were off to costume to get stuffed into some Elizabethan gear
39:01but the outfits definitely weren't helping our nerves what I look so fucking fat in that
39:15mental I think the trousers aren't doing you any factors we were meant to be delivering a serious
39:24Shakespearean tragedy and I was starting to worry about how the audience would react my ears are
39:28poking out my ears is that right like Legolas is this is supposed to be like my ears supposed to go
39:37have I pulled Juliet the play had hit its tragic climax for never was a story of more woe and now
39:48it was our turn to follow
39:50I don't like it I could shit myself and vomit when notice on this we were about to step out in front of
40:06a packed globe audience Bill and I am numb am I numb shit when all I could think of was could Rob and I
40:13I truly convinced the crowd that we could pull off a serious Shakespearean tragedy
40:26I stepped on stage to a massive cheer but then they must have put my costume thankfully we had Michelle
40:36and pull to add some much-needed gravitas
40:38a word with one of you and but one word with one of us couple it with something make it a word and a blow
40:48we talk here in the public haunt of men here all eyes gaze on us men's eyes were made to look
40:55and let them gaze
40:57Rob came out to a raucous cheer
41:01and now with both of us on stage looking like a pair of extras from Blackadder all sense of seriousness
41:08had evaporated Romeo that a villain villain am I know I do protest I never injured thee but I love thee
41:19better than thou devise oh calm dishonorable vile submission even Rob was struggling to keep a
41:26straight face never mind a Shakespearean tragedy this is fast becoming a personal one come sir your
41:34Posado we needed something dramatic to turn this round
41:41Ha!
41:41Good, Matusia!
41:50I'm hurt!
41:52A plague of both your houses, I'm spent!
41:55What?
41:56A scratch, a scratch, merit is enough.
41:59Courage, man. The hurt cannot be much.
42:02A plague of both your houses!
42:04Why the devil come here between us?
42:06I was hurt under your arm!
42:08I thought all for the best!
42:09Help me into some house, Benvolio!
42:16A plague of both your houses!
42:20It was time to make my exit.
42:22And as I staggered off in my death throes,
42:24now it was all up to Rob.
42:26Could he get his last line?
42:28My very friend hath got this mortal hurt in my behalf.
42:33Oh, Romeo!
42:35Romeo!
42:37Romeo!
42:40Brave Mercutio's dead.
42:45This day's black fate,
42:47on more days doth depend.
42:50But that begins the woe.
42:53Others must end.
42:55Oh, Romeo!
42:56And that's all!
42:57Yeah!
42:58Yeah!
42:59Yeah!
43:00Yeah!
43:01Yeah!
43:02Yeah!
43:03Come on, Rob!
43:04Yeah! Get out of there!
43:14Rom and I had pulled off one of Shakespeare's most dramatic scenes,
43:17and the crowd loved it.
43:23And what made it even better was I hadn't forgotten a single line.
43:34That was, um, I think the hardest thing we've ever done.
43:44Yeah. Yeah, it was up there.
43:46Did you say? It was up there.
43:47We did it, and that was hard, to be fair.
43:49Look, I don't want to blow smoke up your pipe, but that was difficult.
43:52Yeah, I don't want you to blow smoke up my pipe either.
43:55Couldn't get to it.
43:56Verily, we started this Shakespeare journey.
43:58There were many challenges that lay before us.
44:00For us, the challenge is complete.
44:02Upon many of the problems, one included the impossibility for you
44:05to etch the lines upon your cerebellum.
44:08Verily, though, you were able to remember, nay, recite,
44:12the very lines that you were acquired to by the owners of the Globe Theatre.
44:17The worms.
44:18I mean, German.
44:23The Bard.
44:25It was difficult to do the Shakespeare, but we managed it.
44:29The Bard.
44:32Okay, come on, then, let's go.
44:33Let's go, come on.
44:34Oh, God.
44:36I'm gonna go, I'm open the bedroom drawer and go,
44:38Lisa, verily, I would like to mount you.
44:40I'm gonna go.
44:41I know.
44:42That's okay.
44:44I'm a part of your own man.
44:46But you and me.
44:47I will.
44:48Always.
44:51Speak to the dead.
44:52But you and me.
44:54Always.
44:55And forever.
44:57But forever.
44:59For...
45:00For forever.
45:01It was always you and me.
45:07Always
45:09And forever
45:12You and me
45:14Always
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