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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.
00:14With the help of the world's best.
00:17It's Louie in the office.
00:20Together we're going on a journey of discovery.
00:22No, no, no.
00:25To find out what we like.
00:27Oh wow, Rob, that's amazing.
00:29And what we don't.
00:30Because your film's like it's all going to 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 at the world famous Globe Theatre in London.
00:50Come sir, your passado.
00:59So, Rob.
01:04Yes.
01:05We have been invited to perform Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre.
01:11It's highly prestigious, according to my wife, the drama teacher.
01:13About time and all.
01:14That's what I said.
01:15Yeah.
01:16Does 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?
01:26The irony of two jesters driving through South London, setting up an episode of a Sky presentation.
01:34And the question the public asks themselves.
01:37Are the two jesters possible to once again scratch the gooch of mirth as they descend into
01:43one other episode of the famous Rob and Romesh versus Shakespeare?
01:49Piece of piss, Shakespeare, isn't it?
01:51Oh my God.
01:52I've only just done about 12 sonnets, eh?
01:57I don't know any Shakespeare.
01:58I've heard of Macbeth, Hamlet, Midsummer's Night's Dream.
02:03Yeah.
02:03Othello.
02:04Let's see Hamlet.
02:06I'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.
02:12The Tempest.
02:13No.
02:14Julius Caesar.
02:15That's a bloke, isn't it?
02:16Yeah, but it's based on his life.
02:17No, I haven't seen Gladiator, but that's separate.
02:20That is a different story, yeah.
02:21Taming of the Shrew.
02:23No, what's that?
02:24What's a shrew?
02:25A little mouse thing, isn't it?
02:26Yeah.
02:26As you like it.
02:27What the fuck's that about?
02:28It's like, um, it's sort of like the original...
02:30Springwatch special.
02:31It's the original version of Ratatouille.
02:33Right.
02:36Are 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.
02:46And 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?
02:58Are you all right?
02:58No, I just think it's a bit...
03:00It's just a bit annoying.
03:01Really?
03:01I've never known you to be so passionate about something.
03:03I 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
03:12on 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.
03:20Because you get good actors that do it, and they're normal people, and they must like it.
03:23Yeah.
03:24Okay.
03:25Deal?
03:25Deal.
03:26So, to start our Shakespearean journey, we were heading to the Globe, the legendary
03:34open-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
03:44a proper old-school Elizabethan experience.
03:48There you go.
03:49Oh, wow.
03:52No, isn't it?
03:53It's amazing, isn't it?
03:54Treading the boards.
03:55Yeah, very good.
03:57The 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
04:07which 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, can't he?
04:15How dare you!
04:18What do you think?
04:19That was excellent.
04:20Oh, hello.
04:20It's really good.
04:22You're basically ready.
04:23Michelle, Rom, lovely to meet you.
04:24Nice to meet you.
04:25Hello, Rom.
04:25How's it going?
04:26You all right?
04:26Very good.
04:27How are you?
04:27Yeah.
04:27It's amazing.
04:28I've never been here before.
04:29Welcome.
04:30So, you're going to perform here.
04:32You're going to do a scene from one of the plays.
04:35Yeah.
04:35You're going to be coming on after a full house performance.
04:39So, 1,600 people will have just watched the 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.
04:48Well, they'll do that.
04:49Yeah.
04:49Oh, they'll do that, and then there'll be an extra.
04:51Yeah.
04:51A bonus.
04:52No, but, so, 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.
05:01One on using your voice in this space without amplification, and one on combat, stage combat,
05:07a bit of fighting.
05:08And you're also going to go get into a bit of costume, Elizabethan costume, because on
05:11the night, that's what you'll be wearing, so you need to get used to it.
05:14Okay.
05:15Okay.
05:15Brilliant.
05:15Thanks, Michelle.
05:16Have fun.
05:16See you later.
05:16Cheers.
05:17Bye-bye.
05:20Today's workshops are all about helping Michelle decide which scene would be right for us.
05:24They were taking place on the Globe's sister stage, the Candle Lit Sam Wanna Make a Playhouse.
05:29Modelled on the intimate indoor theatres of Elizabethan London.
05:34And Rom and I were already looking right at home.
05:42What do you think?
05:45It's a lot to take in.
05:46Um, I feel like I'm in, like, a Shakespearean basic instinct.
05:50You know, things are riding up so high.
05:52Sorry.
05:53What?
05:53Sorry.
05:54It's like...
05:55You don't...
05:56You forget our stuff, right?
05:57At least you can see through them.
05:58Yeah, yeah, that's a little bit of lexicon, mate.
05:59It's like...
06:00Sorry.
06:01Dost wanna give me one.
06:03I don't know how to sit.
06:04Yeah.
06:04Look, if you don't mind me saying, you are now at the most attractive I've ever known you.
06:09Right?
06:10Because I walked up here expecting to find it funny.
06:13And I did find it funny because you were like Shakespeare and Sharon Stone.
06:17But apart from that, you actually look...
06:19You suits it.
06:20Well, the thing is to be wrong.
06:21Yeah.
06:22Even if I do look more attractive, I'll always sit like a bit of a slag.
06:25Mm.
06:26And that's me.
06:27You're your mother's son.
06:29You're...
06:29You're...
06:29You...
06:30Hi, guys.
06:35Oh, hello.
06:36Hiya.
06:36Hello.
06:37Oh, Rob, nice to meet you.
06:38I'm Liz.
06:39I'm a Globe voice coach.
06:40Nice to meet you, too.
06:41So, we're gonna be starting with a vocal workshop.
06:45Oh, right.
06:45To get you on voice for the Big Globe stage.
06:47Okay.
06:48Would you like to make your way?
06:49Yes, certainly.
06:50Yeah.
06:52Just 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.
07:00If you take a big breath into these ribs, and then rise up towards the ceiling and breathe out on a...
07:05Oh, fucking hell.
07:08So, Liz was putting us through a series of vocal exercises, designed to help us project properly across the vast theatre space.
07:17So, we're powering from your belly.
07:20If you power from your belly, you can do eight shows a week, which equates to about 24 hours in a week.
07:25Okay.
07:26Give me a...
07:26More...
07:29Nice.
07:29More...
07:30Okay.
07:33Give me a...
07:33Ha!
07:35Open up your mouth a little bit more for that one.
07:36Ha!
07:37How about a ho?
07:40Oh, God, James Brown would be turning in his grave.
07:43Ho!
07:43Ha, got that, got that, got that, ho!
07:45Gorgeous. Fabulous.
07:47Ramos, do you want to give it a go?
07:48What am I doing?
07:49Ha! Ha!
07:50And a ho!
07:51Ha!
07:51And a he!
07:52Good girl!
07:54God damn!
07:56Straight back!
07:57Well done. Good stuff.
07:59Genuine, I'm not just saying this.
08:00I feel like I can speak better than I ever have been able to in my entire life.
08:03So we're going to say the words, no, no, no.
08:08No, no, no.
08:10Beautiful support.
08:11Just doing impression of Lou.
08:14I feel so verbally dexterous.
08:18Honestly, I feel like I can say anything.
08:20No, no, no.
08:22Fantastic vocal production.
08:24Lovely. Nice long neck.
08:25No.
08:25Very good.
08:26No.
08:26I want a day off.
08:27No.
08:28No.
08:29No to another series.
08:31No.
08:32He doesn't need to learn that word.
08:33No more, Judge Romesh.
08:36Get the gout out.
08:38No.
08:39It felt empowering.
08:40No.
08:42I feel like it's something I should say more in everyday life.
08:45Like, Romesh, do you think for the rehearsals and the vocal warm-ups you should be in costume?
08:49No.
08:49No.
08:50No.
08:50No.
08:52We were now loose-lipped and warmed up, and ready to get to grips with the language.
08:57Yea, all which it inherits shall dissolve.
09:00And I was starting to get into it.
09:02We're all spirits and are melted into air.
09:06Into thin air.
09:08It's quite yappy there, isn't it?
09:09It's quite shouty.
09:10Yeah.
09:11But it's a nice volume.
09:12I enjoyed the volume.
09:13I thought, personally, I thought I nailed it.
09:14Yeah.
09:15We always do.
09:17But then, Michelle had arranged for us to crank things up a gear with some Elizabethan action.
09:21Oh, I don't like it, I don't like it.
09:31Oh, my God.
09:33Really don't want to do that sword fighting.
09:35Do you know what I mean?
09:35We could take an eye out, and we ain't got a lot to play with.
09:37There's three between us.
09:39Hello, both.
09:41Amazing.
09:41This is Sam.
09:42Hello.
09:42We're going to do some combat stuff today.
09:44Mainly, we're going to be focusing on rapier, because as you are beautifully dressed, it was the main weapon in Shakespearean times.
09:52So, this was actually happening when Shakespeare was alive?
09:54Yeah.
09:54He's fucking well old.
09:56When was this?
09:57This is mental.
09:591600s.
09:591600s?
10:00When was that?
10:01Long time ago.
10:02When was that?
10:02You're asking when a tiger in this?
10:04I get it.
10:05It was a 1600s.
10:06I can't get me edge.
10:08Was there trains?
10:10Was there trains?
10:11Trains?
10:11Yeah.
10:12How old are they?
10:12I've just got to book a train to my rapier fight.
10:18Bendy the legs.
10:19Front foot first.
10:20Before we were allowed to duel it out, Rum and I had to master the footwork.
10:24And it didn't take long to see which one of us had the killer instinct.
10:31I'm back.
10:32Why are you going so quickly and far?
10:35Oh, do we have to fight slowly?
10:37Oh, I'd kill him immediately.
10:40Beautiful.
10:41And then backwards.
10:42It's like a ferry, that.
10:46What do you mean?
10:47Slow.
10:48Rum is just quite a slow mover with the sword work.
10:50I think if it was a vehicle, there'd be a beep as he returns from the duel.
10:55Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
10:59And not being fast on my feet was going to be a problem with my sparring partner.
11:04And Rob, you go for the chest first.
11:06Oh, Jesus.
11:07And we're going to block.
11:08That's it.
11:08And then go down for the hips.
11:10And then...
11:10Okay, whoa.
11:11Wait for the fucking cue.
11:13Yeah, thanks.
11:14Why are you further on the thermos?
11:17Jesus.
11:18I thought I was actually in a row then.
11:21Maisie was saying, can you follow me step by step?
11:24We'd finish the fight before she got into the second step.
11:26Because Rob just decided it's go time.
11:29Going backwards.
11:30Literally the same thing.
11:31I don't retreat, mate.
11:32I'm a forward fighter.
11:33You're going to retreat.
11:33I'll cut the ring off, get him in the cold.
11:35I'll fucking walk off.
11:37Luckily, I had the wherewithal to actually properly defend myself.
11:40Otherwise, you'd be fucking...
11:41I'd be talking to you with a rapier out my chest.
11:42By some miracle, I'd made it through training without a scratch.
11:49And now it was finally time to find out what we'd be performing.
11:52Michelle had spoken to our coaches, and together, they'd picked a scene for us.
11:56We had a really good chat about the scene that you're going to do.
11:59Okay.
12:00What we've got is a scene from the most famous play in the canon, Romeo and Juliet.
12:04Mmm.
12:05So you're going to do a friendship scene.
12:07Ooh.
12:07Not the one at the end where I kiss him when he's dead.
12:12No, not that one.
12:13Well, you could, if you wanted to put it in.
12:15But...
12:15Don't he kiss...
12:16He kisses her when she's dead.
12:18Yeah, but who describes that as a friendship scene?
12:22Why would that be called a friendship scene?
12:24I don't know.
12:25I'll give you a little kiss.
12:26If you were dead, I'd give you a little kiss.
12:27Fine, but you wouldn't describe it as a friendship scene.
12:29If you were dead now, I'd give you a little kiss on your forehead.
12:30And then ring my agent, and then the ambulance.
12:33Anyway, is this Kumar busy?
12:39You're going to do the other friendship scene without the kissing.
12:41Right.
12:42There's quite a lot of fights in it.
12:43A fight?
12:43Oh, okay, we're fighting in it.
12:44Yeah.
12:46The scene Michelle had chosen was a pivotal fight of the play,
12:50which Romeo's best friend, Mercutio, was killed.
12:53It was classic Shakespearean tragedy,
12:56and somehow Michelle expected us
12:58to pull off one of the most dramatic scenes in history,
13:00with me playing Mercutio and Rob as Romeo.
13:04I was hurt under your arm.
13:05I thought all for the best.
13:07And the toughest part was,
13:09we only had a week before we had to perform it.
13:12So basically, I think between now and when you do it,
13:15like, if you can just learn the lines
13:16and say the lines in the right order, that's successful.
13:19Okay, great.
13:20Thanks so much.
13:20We'll try our best.
13:21Yeah, thank you.
13:22We'll see you.
13:22We might come back and do it.
13:24Bye-bye.
13:25Bye-bye.
13:26All the best.
13:27They made worms meat of me.
13:29We're fucked.
13:29In just a week's time,
13:38Rob and I will be taking on one of the most dramatic scenes
13:40in all of history,
13:41when we perform Shakespeare in the iconic Globe Theatre.
13:45Help me in some house, Benvolio.
13:47I shall faint.
13:48I'll play with both your houses.
13:49They've made worms meat of me.
13:51And we were completely out of our depth.
13:53And then go down for the hips.
13:55And then...
13:55Okay, whoa, wait for the fucking cue.
13:58So, to help us get ready,
14:01our mentor, Michelle Terry,
14:02had invited us back to watch Romeo and Juliet
14:04performed by the pros.
14:06But first, I wanted to see if Rob had any experience treading the boards.
14:12I dressed up as Emma Bunton once for a school play when we were doing the Spice Girls.
14:17Well, that was a play?
14:18I don't know.
14:19It was like an assembly, not really a play.
14:20We were on stage, weren't you?
14:21Yeah, but it was more like,
14:22oh, now we've got the Spice Girls performing.
14:24We just dumped her as well.
14:24That's not...
14:25Okay, well, now we're getting to the nub of the fact that I don't think you know what a play is.
14:29I've not been in a play.
14:30Right.
14:32That's the correct answer to that question.
14:35That's the correct answer to that question.
14:35I don't think I've even seen one.
14:36No, I don't think you have either.
14:38Romeo and Juliet, Leonardo DiCaprio.
14:40That's a film.
14:41Right, but it's Shakespeare.
14:43Yeah.
14:44Pantomime?
14:45That's a play?
14:46I've seen the play.
14:47That's a play?
14:47Okay.
14:49I mean, it is the...
14:50You know, what I would say is if you didn't know the person,
14:53they said, have you been to see any plays?
14:54Yeah.
14:54And you go, oh, you know, I went to see Dick Whittington at the hall.
14:59I would say keep that to yourself.
15:05Each year, the Globe puts on hundreds of performances of Shakespeare's plays,
15:09and none are more famous than Romeo and Juliet.
15:11Tonight's performance was our chance to get a handle on the play
15:15and see the scene we'd be performing in this unique venue.
15:19I've gigged in theatres all over the world, as you have.
15:21I've never seen one like this.
15:22No.
15:23It feels like you're...
15:24It feels like you've been transported back in time.
15:26But what Michelle had failed to mention
15:28was exactly what time period we'd be transported back to.
15:35Bang!
15:37I kind of feel a little bit ignorant,
15:39because I didn't realise that Romeo and Juliet was a Western.
15:41It turned out the Globe was putting on a Wild West-themed interpretation
15:47of Shakespeare's classic.
15:49They're all coming in through saloon doors,
15:52and then they're talking like a Shakespeare play,
15:54but it's a Western.
15:55It's about seven different time periods
15:57you're experiencing in one performance.
16:01I'm half expecting a DeLorean to come out.
16:04Emmett Brown gets out.
16:05Marty!
16:06And, just as we got used to the setting,
16:10next, we were hit with a language.
16:13With purple fountains history from your veins.
16:16What's the purple fountain?
16:18By me.
16:19Oh, jeez.
16:19I don't know what's going on in there.
16:23It's like having fondue.
16:24You ever had fondue?
16:25I don't know what's going on with that,
16:27but it's fun.
16:28But the fun stopped the moment our scene started.
16:31And, for the very first time,
16:34Rom and I could see just how much trouble we were really in.
16:45The more I'm exposed to what we're doing,
16:47the less I think it's a good idea.
16:50What the devil came in between us?
16:52I think people are going to throw their shit at us.
16:55Thankfully, we wouldn't be dressing up as cowboys when we performed.
17:01And, although it had been useful watching the pros in action,
17:04there was still a personal hurdle we needed to get past.
17:07Are you a fan of Shakespeare?
17:09Er, no.
17:10OK.
17:10We're constantly being told it's brilliant.
17:12What is brilliant about it?
17:13Nobody can answer that question.
17:16We needed someone to explain to us why it was so good.
17:20So, the next day, we were off to meet a Shakespeare expert.
17:22And, Oscar-nominated film star, Jessie Buckley.
17:27Jessie's acting career kicked off by studying the Bard.
17:30And, with multiple adaptations of his work under her belt,
17:33including appearances at the Globe,
17:35she was the perfect person to help us get our heads around Shakespeare.
17:40We need your help, Jessie.
17:41We're struggling.
17:42How come?
17:43It's just that whole thing of, like, being forced to learn it at school.
17:46And then, it's lots of people telling you it's really good.
17:50Yeah.
17:50Without, for me, feeling like there's any concrete evidence.
17:53Knowing what the hell's going on.
17:53Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:53I was like, I felt like that in school, too.
17:56It was kind of just words that went way past me.
18:00And then, when I moved over to London,
18:02I did a three-week Shakespeare course.
18:04And, I fell in love with it.
18:08I mean, I still don't fully understand it.
18:11That's good.
18:11I'm being completely honest.
18:15But, as you work on it, you get to know it.
18:17It's like, he's condensed the most epic feelings of being a human into, like, his text.
18:25All the lines in it, right, obviously, it's old English.
18:29But, even for that time, was Shakespeare a little bit flamboyant with it?
18:33But, even back then, they'd go, calm down, mate.
18:36Yeah.
18:36He invented so many words.
18:38At the time, I'm asking...
18:40I bet they didn't know what was going on, either.
18:41That's what I'm asking, yeah.
18:42Definitely.
18:42It's a bit like listening to an E-40 record.
18:44You know, he just makes up, you know...
18:45Who's E-40?
18:47The rapper.
18:47Because, you know about E-45.
18:49Most of his stuff, you can't understand what you're saying.
18:51Right.
18:51Because he makes up slang, so I think...
18:52But, what does it make you feel like something from it?
18:55Well, you feel like you need to try and find out what it means.
19:00There you go.
19:01Oh, wow.
19:01He's cracked the cord.
19:03He cracked it.
19:04I hope that's in light.
19:05That's the widest eye that's been open for a while.
19:09Keep it going.
19:10I might stay that way.
19:12Give me some other stuff.
19:13Give me some more epiphanies.
19:16Things seemed like they were starting to click for Rom,
19:19but I had my own problem I needed Jessie's help with.
19:22Well, we've got to do a performance at the Globe.
19:25Are you?
19:25And I've got to be really sad.
19:27What are you doing in actual play?
19:28Yes.
19:29There.
19:29Okay.
19:29I'll be honest with you, the tone's not that encouraging.
19:33We do the scene where I am sad because Mercutio...
19:37I'm playing Romeo, Mercutio dies, right?
19:39Yeah.
19:39I'm sad.
19:40Yes.
19:40The problem is, Rob has to deliver a line with emotion
19:43that he doesn't fully understand what the line means.
19:45What is the line?
19:46So, basically, I say...
19:49Look him in the eyes and imagine your best friend has died.
19:53What do you think it means?
19:58I feel like I'm at Madam Tussauds.
20:01I wish they'd put me at Madam Tussauds.
20:04Anyway, go on.
20:06Okay.
20:06This day's black fate, and more days doth depend.
20:12But this begins the woes others must end.
20:15Okay.
20:16And what do you think that means?
20:18It's a bad day.
20:21Very bad.
20:22Yeah.
20:23It's going to get worse.
20:24Yeah.
20:24That's basically it.
20:25Yeah.
20:25You have to work at figuring out what it means to you.
20:28Yeah.
20:29What you're saying is you don't have to know exactly what is meant by every one of those words,
20:33but you know what the sentiment of that line is, so you can deliver it with that intent, right?
20:39That's exactly what it is.
20:41Yeah.
20:41If we feel like it's all going wrong on the night, what would your advice be if your head starts to go in that negative way?
20:46Um, what I would probably think of doing is just, like, show people, you know, flash or something, but that's not what you should do.
20:54Sorry, your tip, if it's going badly and we get a negative in the voice, is to get our dicks out.
21:00That's what my bad part of my brain wants to do.
21:03Okay, right, okay, but don't say, you're saying, don't do that.
21:05Don't do that.
21:05Oh, sorry, right, okay.
21:06They're like, there's no right or wrong.
21:08Just, like, go and do it, and I bet you'll be brilliant.
21:12Thank you till you make it.
21:13Exactly.
21:13I think you're going to be great.
21:15You're going to take the globe by storm.
21:16Rob and I are only days away from performing Romeo and Juliet at the globe.
21:27Whilst I was starting to understand what made Shakespeare great.
21:30Do you feel like something from it?
21:32Well, you feel like you need to try and find out what it means.
21:35There you go.
21:37Rob was still having trouble accessing his emotions.
21:39What do you think that means?
21:41It's a bad day.
21:44Very bad.
21:44Rob and I have separate challenges that we have to master for our performance.
21:51Mine is to die convincingly.
21:55But I'm not as worried about myself as I am worried about Rob.
21:59The problem that Rob has got is Rob has to connect to his feelings.
22:02Rob has not done that for a long time.
22:05So the fear is that he might have a breakdown when he sort of finally reconnects.
22:09It's like, you know, when they plug the thing in the back of Neo's head in the Matrix
22:13and then upload emotion and empathy, he might just shit himself and start crying.
22:19Which is bad for him and Lou and his children, but great for the show.
22:22So today, we're at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in London
22:28to hopefully turn us two clowns into serious actors
22:32with a masterclass from one of our country's finest.
22:36Martin Freeman is a national treasure.
22:39He first shot to fame as the beloved Tim in the smash hit series The Office
22:42before taking the world by storm is billed by Baggins in the blockbuster Hobbit trilogy.
22:47But most importantly for us, he's no stranger to Shakespeare.
22:58Having played the title role in the critically acclaimed sellout run of Richard III.
23:03So, if anyone can bring out our inner actors, it's Martin.
23:07We need help.
23:07How can I help you?
23:08Yeah, we need help.
23:08Basically, we are doing a performance at the Globe, Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.
23:12I'm playing Romeo, you're Mercutio.
23:15I've got to be sad.
23:16Jeez, I mean, that's quite a task.
23:19And as well as me being sad, Rom's got to die,
23:21which is obviously difficult to do without looking too eggy.
23:23Yeah, and it's difficult to sort of draw on memories of dying previously.
23:27It is.
23:27Well, you're a comic.
23:28Okay, nice.
23:29All right, come on.
23:30Yeah.
23:30Some out to do it.
23:31All right, great.
23:32I'm glad you two are getting on.
23:34So, how comfortable are you at the moment with saying these words?
23:39I feel a bit like a football manager that's gone to Holland to manage
23:44and then he starts to impress conferences.
23:45Yes.
23:46And because he's been so used to talking slowly to the Dutch players,
23:49he has a sort of foreign lilt.
23:51Like, who had that?
23:52Steve McClellan.
23:53Yes.
23:54You know, because thou shalt pick best 11.
23:57Yeah.
23:57A two-win game.
23:58Yeah.
23:59Yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:59And then the other challenge is having to look at that.
24:02Sure.
24:03In a rough, dying, and be like, how am I going to not laugh?
24:08Is it okay to say that?
24:09No, but I'd say, like, I will.
24:12So, the bit where I'm getting aggy, I can do that.
24:15Yes.
24:15Villain, am I not, and all that kind of stuff, it's the sad bit I'm struggling with.
24:19And the truth is that different people have different ways of doing it.
24:22Some people will do sense memory.
24:23Your breath, your breathing can get you there, you know.
24:27Because I saw a thing where someone would cut a hole in their trousers
24:30and pull a pube with a tweezer.
24:31I've seen that.
24:32Have you?
24:32Yeah, man.
24:33I have seen that.
24:34Yeah, just to get tears.
24:35But the problem is, you've only got so many pubes.
24:37I mean, if you're performing every night, and mine...
24:40They do pubes, do fall off of them.
24:42Also, mine have got a lot less resistance than they used to.
24:45Oh, so they just fall off.
24:46You could blow on mine like a dandelion.
24:47Before Martin could start working on our performances,
24:54first off, we needed to warm up.
24:57I'm doing the play at the moment, and still to this day,
24:59I still do sort of articulation exercises
25:02to make sure that all your teeth, your lips, everything,
25:05as warmed up and as malleable as possible.
25:06So, you just want to...
25:08Shake that out.
25:10Really?
25:14Wow.
25:14Why are you laughing?
25:15That was tingling.
25:16That was tingling.
25:17Your arms are too long for that.
25:18That was too loose.
25:20Okay, so here's another little one.
25:25Get your tongue all the way, like, you're clockwise,
25:28all the way around your lips.
25:31After a while, you will feel it.
25:32It does actually got quite a tone,
25:33because you don't give it...
25:34God, it does, isn't it?
25:34Stretch it out.
25:35Yeah, you do feel it.
25:36Do that on Lou's birthday.
25:40Wow.
25:41I used to do that in the office.
25:44It worked very...
25:45It's still good.
25:4624 years later, it still works.
25:51Clearly, Martin had still got it.
25:53And now it was our turn to show him exactly where we were at.
25:57Let's reply from there, right?
25:59Courage, man.
26:00The hurt can't be much.
26:02A plague of both your houses.
26:03Why the devil came in between us?
26:05I was hurt under your arm.
26:07I thought for all the best.
26:08Help me into some house, Benvolio.
26:11A plague of both your houses.
26:13They've made worms meat of me.
26:15Hmm.
26:17So you're going to dust it up?
26:18No, well, I'm going to walk off.
26:20Oh, right, you're going to walk off.
26:21But, I mean, for this...
26:22Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:22I don't know what I'm going to do.
26:23Right, okay.
26:25But then I've got...
26:25Okay, but no, carry on.
26:26Okay, sorry, yeah.
26:27My very friend hath got his mortal hurt in my behalf.
26:32Oh, Romeo.
26:33Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead.
26:35This day's black fate on more days doth depend.
26:38This but begins the woe others must end.
26:42I think we got it.
26:43Yeah?
26:44Yeah.
26:44Are you ready?
26:45Yeah, man.
26:46Yeah.
26:46Totally.
26:47And I think if you just stand there with your script in your hand, laughing, I think genuinely the audience will not have seen anything like it.
26:55Erm...
26:56Can I tell you something?
26:57You really had me.
26:58You bastard.
26:59You're so...
27:00You really good at acting bastard.
27:01That was such a roller coaster.
27:03Horrible.
27:03No, I thought, I assumed that would be obvious.
27:05No, we're believers.
27:06I just thought, wow, brilliant.
27:07I'm going into this full of confidence.
27:09Now I'm in pieces.
27:10I feel absolutely rock bottom now.
27:11Sorry.
27:12I hope you've got time to reconstruct us.
27:14Yeah, okay.
27:16First things first, we needed to tackle how Ron was going to die.
27:20And after seeing what he was working with, Martin had an idea.
27:24So how are you feeling about the death?
27:26Well, I don't know what to do.
27:27To save you from the thing of dying.
27:30Yeah.
27:30I think when people die off stage and it's reported, that can be just as effective.
27:35Whoever Benvolio is can take you off.
27:36Yeah.
27:37And the reporting comes back.
27:39Ah, reporting, are you acting or are you fucking...
27:41I'm fucking a journalist.
27:43Why don't I go home in a cab and then someone tells him I'm sad about it?
27:47But the only issue with that is I sort of then have a sword fight and go off stage.
27:50Yes.
27:50He's left on his own.
27:52No curtain.
27:53Now.
27:53No curtain.
27:54What then?
27:56Fine.
27:57What, you each going to have to lay there until they all leave?
27:59That's quite a long time.
28:00Come on, are we acting or not?
28:02The only thing...
28:03Listen.
28:03What are we doing here?
28:04Let me just tell you something.
28:05Yeah.
28:05The relish that you're putting into this, I will be putting into you crying.
28:09No.
28:09No.
28:10Can I do it?
28:11Yeah.
28:12So you want me to just lie on the stage?
28:14Until they all leave?
28:15I think that.
28:16What a commitment.
28:17Go for glory.
28:18There's some breath in it.
28:18Okay, sorry.
28:19So you want me to just stay on the stage while they leave?
28:23No breath.
28:24No breath.
28:25Watch.
28:25Okay.
28:26Oh, so you think, I'll just stay on the stage, no curtain, while there's a ten minute pause?
28:31I think the mouth has to be...
28:33I think the mouth has to be...
28:34Oh, that was...
28:34So good!
28:35That was the best one I've ever seen.
28:36You are so good.
28:38Thanks.
28:39Rom definitely needed some convincing, so the only way to settle this was to give it a go.
28:44The plague of both your houses, they've made worms meet of me.
28:49My very friend hath got his mortal heart in my behalf.
28:55Oh, Romeo.
28:57Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead.
29:02This day's black fate on more days doth depend.
29:05This but begins the woe.
29:07Others must end.
29:11You're off as well, Martin.
29:13Oh, sorry.
29:14And we can...
29:16I tell you what.
29:16Yeah.
29:17Let's have a little look round.
29:18Yeah.
29:19Brilliant.
29:20As a mate, I'll try and keep that down.
29:23You cannot accruci...
29:24Apart from that, I'm sorry.
29:25I think that's good, because that's like a rictus grin.
29:28Yeah.
29:29You can't tell whether he's laughing or dying.
29:30No.
29:31And then...
29:32Christ.
29:32I mean, it hurts quite a lot.
29:42But it is very moving.
29:42Yeah.
29:43Yeah.
29:43Because I've never been near a dead ball.
29:44You don't move it immediately, do you?
29:46Just walk away, go back.
29:46I'm all right.
29:47Yeah, I'm fine.
29:49No, I'm fine, I'm fine.
29:50Don't worry about it.
29:51Yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:51Don't you get hurt?
29:52What another series?
29:54I think that's a bad idea, by the way, the dragon.
29:56I think you might be right.
29:57Yeah.
29:57No, worth a try.
29:58It's worth a look, wouldn't it?
29:59No, definitely worth a try now.
30:00Was it?
30:00Now, there.
30:02So you go, definitely worth a try.
30:04Oh, yeah.
30:05Come on.
30:06You're the best in the business.
30:08Oh, wow.
30:09So, do you think you should leave?
30:10Do you want to just leave?
30:11Well, I mean, based on how that went, I think leaving is probably better.
30:14Leaving is probably better.
30:14Okay, fine.
30:17Now we decided once and for all I was going to die off stage, it was Rob's turn in the spotlight.
30:22Don't pre-empt the sad, okay?
30:24Just try and play the sentiment of it and the feeling of it.
30:27Right, okay.
30:27Right, okay.
30:28And I, for one, couldn't wait to watch him bear his soul.
30:33From my very friend.
30:34You've just seen him go off.
30:36Yeah.
30:36And he's in a bad way.
30:38My very friend hath got his mortal hurt in my behalf.
30:42Oh, Romeo.
30:44Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead.
30:49This day's black fate.
30:51Whoa.
30:52Whoa.
30:52No, listen, man, it's hard.
31:00It's hard.
31:00It is hard.
31:01It's hard.
31:01That is...
31:02It's difficult.
31:03It's difficult.
31:03And I don't even...
31:05I don't even...
31:06I'm not even going to tell you how to do it.
31:07It's hard.
31:07This day's...
31:08This day's...
31:08No, not that.
31:09Is when you hear the news, this doesn't help.
31:15That.
31:15It doesn't...
31:16And that's a common mistake.
31:17It's a common mistake, right?
31:18Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
31:18I won't do that.
31:20Rob was having an absolute nightmare.
31:23My very friend.
31:24And he just couldn't get his head around it.
31:28Okay.
31:29I just keep smiling.
31:31It's difficult, this, because Rob can't do it at all.
31:36And I think even if this show was like, Rob got six months of intensive training, he still
31:41couldn't do it.
31:41He cannot do it.
31:43And so desperate times called for desperate measures.
31:47Can I make a suggestion?
31:48Yes.
31:49Why don't we shortcut it and you just pull out some pubes?
31:52I can't believe that's the best option, but, yeah.
31:55Well, what do you think, Martin?
31:55I think it is the best option.
31:57Well, I don't know if it's the best option.
31:58It's an option.
31:59Yeah.
31:59It's an option.
32:00Just try it.
32:01Don't do something you think you might accidentally start enjoying.
32:05It's really into death.
32:07That's my kink.
32:08Okay.
32:09Oh, Romeo.
32:11Oh, yeah.
32:12Romeo.
32:12Look at that again.
32:13Yeah.
32:13Brave.
32:14Sorry.
32:14Brave Mercutio's dead.
32:17This day's black fate on more days.
32:21Oh.
32:22Doth depend.
32:23Doth depend.
32:25But this begins a woe that others are saying.
32:28I actually, I think that was your best performance.
32:31I genuinely think that was.
32:31I actually, I actually, I do think that was your best performance.
32:34I definitely, yeah, I definitely won't think about the words anymore.
32:37No.
32:38Fuck you.
32:38I got about eight a go, yeah?
32:40But did you notice what was happening when you were doing that?
32:42Your breath was changing.
32:43Yeah.
32:43Yeah, your breath was changing.
32:44Yeah.
32:45Breath is a massive, massive part of emotional connection, right?
32:48So there's a thing that I can sometimes access where you just, you don't allow yourself easy
32:54breath in and out.
32:54So it's a bit, sounds a bit stuttered.
32:56Yeah, don't worry about the sound.
32:57Yeah.
32:57Like, don't worry about your face.
32:59Right, okay.
32:59Let me try, we'll do it.
33:00None of that.
33:00I can't believe we went for pubes before breath.
33:03Why did you not do the breath?
33:04Well, the pubes, through the, the pubes were the gateway to the breath.
33:07It had been a painful process to get there, but it felt like we were onto something.
33:14My very friend hath got his mortal hurt in my behalf.
33:18Oh, Romeo.
33:20Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead.
33:24This day's black fate, or more days doth depend.
33:28Doth.
33:29Doth.
33:29This, but begins the woes that others must end.
33:36I think we got it.
33:37Yeah.
33:37Yeah?
33:38Yeah.
33:39I'd err on the side of finding it very hard to get this stuff out.
33:44Very hard, yeah.
33:44Do you know what I mean?
33:45Yeah.
33:46Okay.
33:48Robert finally found a method that worked for him, and thanks to Martin, for the first time
33:53this week, we had a real shot of not embarrassing ourselves in front of 1,600 Shakespeare fans.
33:59Well, I hope, I hope I've been of some use.
34:02You've been amazing.
34:04I didn't, well, I feel way more confident now.
34:06Really?
34:07Well, yeah, good luck.
34:08I really hope it goes well.
34:09You'll be fine.
34:10And the audience will be behind you.
34:11They will enjoy it.
34:13This will be way funnier.
34:14And luckily it's short.
34:15Funnier?
34:15Huh?
34:16Funnier?
34:16No.
34:17No.
34:18No.
34:18Can't do it.
34:19More moving, I said more.
34:20I said more.
34:27Go on, do it.
34:28Go on, do it.
34:30Go on, do it.
34:30Yeah, do it.
34:31Do it this way.
34:31Go on, Martin.
34:32You want to do it.
34:33You want to do it.
34:34Yeah, yeah.
34:34Yeah.
34:41For the last week, Rob and I have been rehearsing intensely for our Shakespearean debut.
34:47Courage, man.
34:48The hurt cannot be much.
34:49To see if we had what it takes to perform one of the Bards' most dramatic plays.
34:54What the devil can you between us?
34:56And after training with some of the best in the business...
34:59I think it was genuinely, the audience will not have seen anything like it.
35:04The following day, we had spent working on our performance with the team at the Globe.
35:08But now, we'd finally run out of time.
35:16It was the day of our big performance at the Globe.
35:20With just a few hours to go, our mentor, Globe's artistic director, Michelle Terry,
35:24had organised a final rehearsal to iron out any last bumps.
35:28Why don't we slowly walk it from the top?
35:31She'd also brought in her husband, actor Paul Reddy, who'd be joining us on stage later.
35:36Nice to see you again.
35:37I'm, as you know, I'm going to be in the scene with you playing Benvolio.
35:40And this is Paul Reddy, who will be your tibble.
35:43I'm Rob and I'll be your Romeo.
35:44Yeah.
35:45I'm Ramesh and I'll be Mercutio.
35:47We'd met our co-stars, but there was one big question on Michelle's mind.
35:52Do you know your lines?
35:53I do, yeah.
35:54I'm struggling because, obviously, it's Shakespeare, so all the words are mental.
35:59Michelle looked well worried.
36:00But what I'd found out from rehearsals yesterday was Shakespearean lingo and my brain just don't get on.
36:06Villain am I not.
36:09I do protest I never injured thee, but love thee better than thou can devise.
36:14I felt like I needed another week to learn my lines.
36:17We had less than three hours.
36:19And Michelle, clearly trying to give me a fighting chance, had stuck them on the wall.
36:22Romeo, thou art a villain.
36:25Villain am I none.
36:27I do protest I never injured thee, but love thee better than thou can devise.
36:33But even with the words in front of him,
36:35A plague on both your houses.
36:37Rob was struggling.
36:38My very friend hath got this mortal hurt in my behalf.
36:44And it felt like his final line was going to give him nightmares.
36:47Brave Mercutio's dead.
36:49This day's black fate on more days dot.
36:52Duff depend.
36:54This but the cadence that my lovers must end.
36:57It's horrible, isn't it?
36:58It's absolutely horrible.
37:00It's going to be perfect.
37:01I know.
37:01I just, yeah.
37:02Rob's struggling.
37:04I've, let's be clear, I've fucking nailed it.
37:07I will come, dishonorable submission.
37:10I am for you.
37:11Come, sir.
37:12Your posado.
37:13I know the lines.
37:15I know I did the sword fight.
37:16It wouldn't have surprised me if they actually cast me as Mercutio.
37:19Why the devil came in between us?
37:21I was hurt under your arm.
37:23I thought, I thought all for the best.
37:27Have I heard a single word of praise?
37:29No.
37:30Michelle came over to me after one rehearsal.
37:32I thought she was going to go, well done.
37:32She goes, do you think Rob's okay?
37:35But I'm chill about it.
37:36It's fine.
37:36You know, we've got to look after Rob and stuff.
37:38And who cares?
37:39I've spent my time learning the lines.
37:40And yet I haven't received even a pat on the back.
37:43Is that all right?
37:44Really good.
37:49I struggled through an hour of rehearsals.
37:52And now the globe was filling up ready for the main performance.
37:55I had about 90 minutes to try and get the lines in my head.
37:58Villain and my mum.
38:00I do protest.
38:01I never, I never injure.
38:04To move is to star.
38:07And to be valiant.
38:08The show had started.
38:101,600 people were watching.
38:12Suddenly, I was very motivated not to make a mug of myself.
38:16I think I've got it.
38:17I need to show you.
38:18Yeah, go on, show me.
38:19Rob, he's anxious about it now.
38:21But when he gets on stage, just the fact that there's a crowd there
38:24will just buoy him through.
38:26What I'm slightly nervous about is it'll walk out there,
38:29he'll forget a line, his arse will go and start doing some crowd work.
38:33Oh, Romeo, Romeo.
38:34Brave my cushy is dead.
38:37This day's black fate on others doth depend.
38:40On more days.
38:41Back off.
38:42I need a little kick up the arse from Dr. Showbiz.
38:46And when I walk out there and there's loads of people,
38:48hopefully something happens.
38:49It may or may not, but all I've got now is the lap of the gods.
38:55Our curtain call was around the corner,
38:57so we were off to costume to get stuffed into some Elizabethan gear.
39:01Ew!
39:01But the outfits definitely weren't helping our nerves.
39:13What do I look so fucking fat in that?
39:15Mental.
39:18I think the trousers aren't doing you any factors.
39:22We were meant to be delivering a serious Shakespearean tragedy,
39:25and I was starting to worry about how the audience would react.
39:28My ears are poking out.
39:29My ears.
39:30Is that right, like Legolas?
39:31Is this supposed to be like that?
39:36No, it is supposed to be like that.
39:37How have I pulled Juliet?
39:39The play had hit its tragic climax.
39:45There never was a story of more woe.
39:48And now, it was our turn to follow.
39:50We were about to step out in front of a packed Globe audience.
40:08Bill and I am none.
40:09Am I none?
40:10Shit.
40:11And all I could think of was,
40:13could Rob and I truly convince the crowd
40:15that we could pull off a serious Shakespearean tragedy?
40:20I stepped on stage for a massive cheer,
40:30but then they must have cropped my costume.
40:34Thankfully, we had Michelle and Paul
40:36to add some much-needed gravitas.
40:39Gurine, a word with one of you.
40:43And but one word with one of us.
40:45Couple it with something.
40:46Make it a word and a blow.
40:48We talk here in the public haunt of men,
40:51hear all eyes gaze on us.
40:54Men's eyes were made to look.
40:56And let them gaze!
40:59Rob came out to a raucous cheer.
41:03And now, with both of us on stage,
41:05looking like a pair of extras from Blackadder,
41:07all sense of seriousness had evaporated.
41:09Romeo!
41:12Thou art a villain!
41:14Villain am I no!
41:15I do protest I never injured thee,
41:18but I love thee better than thou devise.
41:21Oh, calm, dishonourable, vile submission!
41:24Even Rob was struggling to keep a straight face.
41:27Never mind a Shakespearean tragedy.
41:29This was fast becoming a personal one.
41:32Come, sir.
41:34Your passato.
41:34We needed something dramatic to turn this round.
41:37Hold on!
41:38Oh!
41:39Oh!
41:39Oh!
41:40Oh, my God!
41:41Good, Patricia!
41:51I'm hurt!
41:52A plague on both your houses, I'm sped!
41:55What?
41:56A scratch, a scratch.
41:58Merit is enough.
42:00Courage, man.
42:01The hurt cannot be much.
42:02A plague of both your houses!
42:05Why the devil come here between us?
42:06I was hurt under your arm!
42:08I thought all for the best!
42:11Help me into some house, Benvolio.
42:14Oh!
42:15Oh!
42:16A plague of both your houses!
42:19Oh!
42:21It was time to make my exit,
42:23and as I staggered off in my death throes,
42:25now it was all up to Rob.
42:27Could he get his last line?
42:29My very friend hath got this mortal hurt in my behalf.
42:35Oh, Romeo!
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.
42:54Others must end.
42:55Yes!
43:06Get out of here!
43:15Rom and I pulled off
43:16one of Shakespeare's most dramatic scenes,
43:18and the crowd loved it.
43:19Oh!
43:20And what made it even better was I hadn't forgotten a single line
43:41That was um, I think the hardest thing we've ever done. Yeah
43:45Yeah, it was I say it was out there. We did it and that was all three fair
43:49I don't know. I don't approach smoke up your pipe, but that was difficult
43:52Yeah, I don't want you to blow smoke up my pipe either can get to verily. We started this Shakespeare journey
43:58Oh, there are many challenges that lay before us for us
44:01The challenge is complete upon many of the problems one included the impossibility for you to etch the lines upon your cerebellum
44:09Verily though you were able to remember nay
44:12Recite the very lines that you were acquired to by the owners of the globe theater the worms
44:19German
44:23The bar
44:25It was difficult to do the Shakespeare, but we managed it
44:32Okay, come on
44:34Oh God
44:36I'm gonna go I'm open the bedroom door and go Lisa verily I would like to mount you
44:41But you and me
44:48I will always
44:50Be together
44:51You and me
44:52Always
44:54And forever
44:56Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba
45:00Because always you and me
45:00Always
45:02And forever
45:02But forever
45:03But forever
45:04It was always you
45:05And me
45:06Always
45:08Always
45:10And forever
45:12You and me
45:15Always
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