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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.
07:25Give me a more
07:32Okay, give me a ha
07:35Open up your mouth a little bit more for that one
07:37How about a whoa?
07:41James Brown to be turning in his grave
07:45Gorgeous fabulous promise you wanna give it again. What am I doing? Ha ha ha and a ho and a he good girl
07:53Don't fail
07:56Straight back. Well done. Good stuff genuinely. 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
08:04So we're gonna say the words no no no no no no just do an impression of Lou
08:14Yeah, I feel so verbally dexterous
08:18Honestly, I feel I could say anything
08:20No, no, no
08:22Fantastic vocal production lovely nice long. No very good. Yeah, I want a day off. No, no
08:29No to another series
08:31No, he doesn't need to learn that word
08:34No more judge Romesh
08:36Get the gout out
08:38No, it felt empowering. No
08:42I feel like it's something I should say more in everyday life like Romesh
08:45Do you think for the rehearsals and the vocal warm-ups you should be in costume? No, no, no
08:50We were now loose-lipped and warmed up and ready to get to grips with the language
08:57Yeah, 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 into thin air
09:08It's quite yappy there, isn't it? It's like it's quite shouty
09:10Yeah, but it's a nice volume
09:12I thought volume
09:13Personally, I thought I nailed it
09:14Yeah, you were you always doing
09:15But then michelle had arranged for us to crank things up a gear with some elizabethan action
09:29Oh, I don't like it, I don't like it
09:31Oh my god
09:33Really don't want to do that sword fighting
09:35Jeremy, we could take an eye out and we ain't got a lot to play with there's three between us
09:38Hello both amazing this is Sam we're going to do some combat stuff today mainly we're going to be focusing on rapier
09:47Because as you are beautifully dressed it was the main weapon in shakespearean times
09:52So this this was actually happening in shake when shakespeare was alive. Yeah, he's fucking well old
09:56Oh, where was this? This is mental
09:581600s
09:591600s, when was that?
10:01Long time ago
10:0216, when was that? You're asking when are time doing this?
10:04I get it, I get it, I can't get me edge
10:07Should we let you two fight each other?
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, front foot first
10:20Before we were allowed to duel it out, Rom and I had to master the footwork
10:25De-dum, de-dum, de-dum, beautiful
10:27Yeah
10:28And 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?
10:34Oh, do we have to fight slowly?
10:37De-dum, de-dum, de-dum
10:39Oh, I'd kill him immediately
10:40Beautiful
10:41And then backwards
10:42De-dum, de-dum, de-dum
10:43Yeah, lovely
10:44It's like a ferry that
10:46What do you mean?
10:47Beautiful and light
10:47Slow
10:48Romish is quite a slow mover with the sword work
10:51I think if it was a vehicle there'd be a beep
10:53As he returns from the duel
10:55Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep
10:59And not being fast on my feet was going to be a problem with my sparring partner
11:03And Rob, you go for the chest first
11:06Oh, Jesus
11:06And we're going to block
11:08That's it
11:08And then go down for the hips
11:09And then
11:10Okay, whoa
11:11Wait for the fucking cue
11:13Yeah, thanks
11:14Why are you further on where Sam is?
11:17Jesus
11:17I felt I was actually in a row then
11:19Maisie, uh, 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
11:28Going backwards, literally the same thing
11:30I don't, I don't retreat mate, I'm a forward fighter
11:33You're gonna retreat
11:33I'll cut the ring off, get him in the cold
11:35Luckily I had the wherewithal to actually properly defend myself
11:39Otherwise he'd be fucking, I'd be talking to you with a rapier out my chest
11:42By some miracle, I'd made it through training without a scratch
11:48And now it was finally time to find out what we'd be performing
11:51Michelle had spoken to our coaches
11:53And together, they'd picked a scene for us
11:56We had a really good chat about the scene that you're gonna 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 gonna do a friendship scene
12:07Oh
12:07Um
12:08Not the one at the end where we kiss, I kiss him when he's dead
12:11No, not that one
12:12Well you could, if you wanted to put it in
12:14But
12:15Don't he kiss, he kisses her when she's dead
12:17Yeah, but who describes that as a friendship scene?
12:22Why would that be called a friendship scene?
12:24I don't know
12:24I'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 in your forehead
12:30Thank you
12:30And then ring the, my agent, and then the ambulance
12:33Anyway
12:38You're gonna do the other friendship scene without the kissing
12:41Right
12:41There's quite a lot of fights
12:43A fight, oh okay, we're fighting in it
12:44Yeah
12:44The scene Michelle had chosen was the pivotal fight of the play
12:49In which Romeo's best friend Mercutio was killed
12:53It was classic Shakespearean tragedy
12:55And 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
13:08We only had a week before we had to perform it
13:11So 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
13:18That's successful
13:19Okay, great
13:20Thanks so much
13:20Try 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
13:25All the best
13:26They made worms meat of me
13:28We're fucked
13:29In just a week's time
13:37Rob and I will be taking on one of the most dramatic scenes in all of history
13:41When we perform Shakespeare in the iconic Globe Theatre
13:44Help me in some house, Benvolio
13:47I shall faint
13:47I'll play with both your houses
13:49They've made worms meat of me
13:50And we were completely out of our depth
13:53And then go down for the hips
13:55And then
13:55Whoa, wait for the fucking cue
13:58So to help us get ready
14:00Our mentor, Michelle Terry
14:02Had invited us back to watch Romeo and Juliet
14:05Performed by the pros
14:06But first
14:08I wanted to see if Rob had any experience treading the boards
14:11I dressed up as Emma Bunton once
14:14For a school play
14:14When we were doing the Spice Girls
14:16Well, that was a play
14:18I don't know
14:19It was like an assembly
14:19Not really a play
14:20We were on stage
14:21Yeah, but it was more like
14:22Oh, now we've got the Spice Girls performing
14:24We just dumped her as well
14:25Okay, well now we get into the nub of the fact that
14:27I don't think you know what a play is
14:28I've not been in a play
14:30Right
14:30That'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
14:40Yeah
14:40That's a film
14:41Right, but it's Shakespeare
14:43Yeah
14:43Pantomime
14:44That's a play
14:45That's a play?
14:46I've seen the play
14:47That's a play
14:47Okay
14:47I mean, it is the
14:49You know
14:50What I would say is
14:51If you didn't know the person
14:53Yeah
14:53Have you been to see any plays
14:54Yeah
14:54And you go
14:55Oh, you know
14:56I went to see Dick Whittington
14:58Yeah
14:58At the hall
14:59I would say
15:00Keep that to yourself
15:01Each year the Globe puts on hundreds of performances of Shakespeare's plays
15:08And 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
15:18I've geeked 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
15:31I 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
15:51And then they're talking like a Shakespeare play
15:53But it's a Western
15:54It's about seven different time periods
15:57You're experiencing in one performance
16:00I'm half expecting a DeLorean to come out
16:03Emmett Brown gets out
16:05Marty
16:06And just as we got used to the setting
16:10Next, we were hit with a language
16:12With purple fountains history from your veins
16:16It's a purple fountain
16:18I don't know what's going on in there
16:22It's like having fondue
16:24You ever had fondue?
16:25I don't know what's going on with that
16:26But it's fun
16:27But the fun stopped
16:29The 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
16:37The more I'm exposed to what we're doing
16:47The less I think it's a good idea
16:49What 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
17:00And although it had been useful watching the pros in action
17:03There was still a personal hurdle we needed to get past
17:06Are you a fan of Shakespeare?
17:09Er, no
17:10Okay
17:10We're constantly being told it's brilliant
17:12What is brilliant about it?
17:13Nobody can answer that question
17:14We needed someone to explain to us why it was so good
17:19So the next day we were off to meet a Shakespeare expert
17:22Oscar-nominated film star Jessie Buckley
17:25Jessie's acting career kicked off by studying the Bard
17:29And with multiple adaptations of his work under her belt
17:33Including appearances at the Globe
17:34She was the perfect person to help us get our heads around Shakespeare
17:38We need your help, Jessie
17:41We're struggling
17:42How come?
17:43It's just that whole thing of 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
17:53Yeah, 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
18:07I mean, I still don't fully understand
18:10That's good
18:12I'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
18:22Into, like, his text
18:25All the lines in it, right
18:27Obviously, it's old English
18:28But even for that time
18:30Was Shakespeare a little bit flamboyant with it?
18:33But even back then, they'd go, calm down, mate
18:35Yeah, he invented so many words
18:38At the time
18:39I 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 E40 record
18:44You know, he just makes up, you know
18:45Who's E40?
18:47The rapper
18:47Because you know about E45
18:48Most of his stuff, you can't understand what he's saying
18:51Right
18:51Because he makes up slang
18:52So I think
18:52But what does it make you
18:53Do you feel like something from it?
18:55Well, you feel like you need to try and find out what it means
18:58There you go
19:01Oh, wow
19:02He's cracked the code
19:03He cracked it
19:04I hope that's enlightenment
19:05That's the widest eye that's been open for a while
19:07Keep it going
19:10I might stay that way
19:11Give me some other stuff
19:13Give me some more epiphanies
19:14Things seemed like they were starting to click for Rom
19:18But 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
19:26What are you doing in actual play?
19:28Yes
19:29Okay
19:29I'll be honest with you
19:30The tone's not that encouraging
19:32We do the scene where I am as sad because Mercutio
19:37I'm playing Romeo, Mercutio dies, right?
19:39I'm sad
19:40Yes
19:40The problem is
19:41Rob 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
19:52Yeah
19:52Has died
19:59I feel like I'm at Madame Tussauds
20:00I wish they'd put me at Madame Tussauds
20:03Anyway, go on
20:05Okay
20:06This day's black fate
20:09On more days doth depend
20:11But this begins the woes
20:14Others must end
20:15Okay
20:16And what do you think that means?
20:18It's a bad day
20:19Very bad
20:21Yeah
20:22It's going to get worse
20:24Yeah, that'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
20:30You 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
20:36So you can deliver it with that intent, right?
20:39That's exactly what it is
20:40Yeah
20:41If we feel like it's all going wrong on the night
20:43What would your advice be?
20:44If your head starts to go in that negative way?
20:47What I would probably think of doing is just like show people, you know, flash or something
20:52But that's not what you should do
20:53Sorry, your tip
20:55If it's going badly and we get a negative in the voice
20:58Is it to get our dicks out?
21:00That's what my bad part of my brain wants to do
21:03Okay, right, okay
21:03But don't say it
21:04You're saying don't do that
21:05Don't do that
21:05Oh, sorry, right
21:06Okay
21:06They're like, there's no right or wrong
21:08Just like go and do it
21:10And I bet you'll be brilliant
21:11Thank you till you make it
21:12Exactly
21:13I think you're going to be great
21:14You're going to take the globe by storm
21:16Rob and I are only days away from performing Romeo and Juliet at the Globe
21:26And whilst I was starting to understand what made Shakespeare great
21:30Do you feel like something from that?
21:33Well, you feel like you need to try and find out what it means
21:35There you go
21:35Rob was still having trouble accessing his emotions
21:39What do you think that means?
21:41It's a bad day
21:42Very bad
21:44Rob and I have separate challenges that we have to master for our performance
21:50Mine is to die convincingly
21:55But I'm not as worried about myself as I am worried about Rob
21:58The problem that Rob has got is Rob has to connect to his feelings
22:02Rob has not done that for a long time
22:04So the fear is that he might have a breakdown
22:08When 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
22:15He might just shit himself and start crying
22:19Which is bad for him and Lou and his children
22:21But great for the show
22:23So 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
22:35Martin Freeman is a national treasure
22:38He first shot to fame as the beloved Tim in the smash hit series The Office
22:42Before taking the world by storm
22:44Is billed by Baggins in the blockbuster Hobbit trilogy
22:47Hello Martin
22:50Hello
22:50Nice to see you
22:51Yeah, and you
22:52You're looking very cool today
22:53Thank you
22:54But most importantly for us
22:55He's no stranger to Shakespeare
22:57Having played the title role
22:59In the critically acclaimed sellout run of Richard III
23:02So, if anyone can bring out our inner actors
23:05It's Martin
23:06We need help
23:07How can I help you?
23:08Yeah, we need help
23:08Basically, we are doing a performance at the Globe
23:10Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
23:12I'm playing Romeo
23:13You're Mercutio
23:14I've got to be sad
23:16Jeez
23:17I mean, that's quite a task
23:19And as well as me being sad
23:20Rom's got to die
23:21Which is obviously difficult to do
23:22Without looking too eggy
23:23Yeah, and it's difficult to sort of
23:25Draw on memories of dying previously
23:26It is
23:27Well, you're a comic
23:28Okay, nice
23:29There you go
23:29All right, come on
23:30Yeah
23:30Some have to do
23:31All right, I'm glad you two are getting on
23:32Okay
23:33So
23:34You
23:35How comfortable are you at the moment
23:38With saying these words
23:39I feel a bit like a football manager
23:42That's gone to Holland
23:43Yes
23:43To manage
23:44And then he starts to in press conferences
23:45Yes
23:46And because he's been so used to talking slowly
23:48To the Dutch players
23:49Yes
23:49He has a sort of foreign lilt
23:51Like who had that?
23:52Steve McCurron
23:53Yes
23:54You know, that
23:54You know, thou shalt pick best eleven
23:57Yeah
23:57At two-wing game
23:58Yeah
23:59Yeah, yeah, yeah
23:59And then the other challenge is
24:01Having to look at that
24:02Sure
24:03In a rough
24:04Dying
24:05And be like
24:05How am I going to not laugh?
24:08Is it okay to say that?
24:10No, but I'd say
24:11Like, I will
24:12So the bit where I'm getting aggy
24:14I can do that
24:15Villain am I
24:16And all that kind of stuff
24:17It's the sad bit
24:18Yes
24:18I'm struggling with
24:19And the truth is
24:20That different people
24:20Have different ways of doing it
24:22Some people will do sense memory
24:23Your breath
24:24Your breathing
24:25Can get you there
24:26You know
24:26Okay
24:26Um
24:27Because I saw a thing
24:28Where 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
24:36You've only got so many pubes
24:37I mean, if you're
24:38Especially these days
24:39If you're performing every night
24:40And mine
24:41And mine
24:41And mine have got a lot less resistance
24:44Than they used to
24:44Yeah
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
24:55We needed to warm up
24:56I'm doing the play at the moment
24:58And still to this day
24:59I still do sort of articulation exercises
25:02To make sure that all your teeth
25:04Your lips
25:04Everything
25:05As warmed up
25:05And as malleable as possible
25:06So
25:07You just want to
25:08Shake that out
25:10Really?
25:11Wow
25:14Why are you laughing?
25:15That was too loose
25:17Your arms are too long, brother
25:18That was too loose
25:19Okay, so
25:20Here's another little one
25:22Get your tongue
25:26All the way
25:27Clockwise
25:28All the way around your lips
25:30And after a while
25:31You will feel
25:32It does actually
25:33Got quite a tone
25:33Because you don't
25:34You can't
25:34Yeah, yeah
25:35Yeah, you do feel it
25:36Do that on Lou's birthday
25:37Wow
25:40Used to do that in the office
25:42It worked
25:45It's still good
25:4624 years later
25:47It still works
25:49Clearly Martin had still got it
25:53And now it was our turn
25:54To show him exactly
25:55Where we were at
25:56Let's reply from there
25:58Right
25:59Courage, man
26:00The hurt can't be much
26:01A plague of both your houses
26:03Why the devil came in between us
26:05I was hurt under your arm
26:06I thought for all the best
26:08Help me
26:09To somehow spin volio
26:10A plague of both your houses
26:12They've made worms meat of me
26:15Hmm
26:15So you're gonna dust it up
26:18No, well, I'm gonna walk off
26:20Oh, right
26:20You're gonna walk off
26:21But, I mean, for this
26:21Yeah, yeah, yeah
26:22I don't know what I'm gonna do
26:23Right, okay
26:24But then I've got
26:25Okay, but no, carry on
26:26Okay, sorry, yeah
26:27My very friend
26:28Hath got his mortal hurt
26:30In my behalf
26:31Oh, Romeo
26:32Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead
26:34This day's black fate
26:36On more days
26:37Doth depend
26:38This but begins the woe
26:40Others must end
26:42I think we got it
26:43Yeah?
26:44Yeah
26:44Are you ready?
26:45Yeah, man
26:46Yeah
26:46Totally
26:46And I think if you just stand there
26:48With your script in your hand
26:49Laughing
26:50I think it would genuinely
26:52The audience will not have seen
26:54Anything like it
26:54Erm
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 rollercoaster
27:03Horrible
27:03No, I thought
27:04I assumed that would be obvious
27:05No, we're believers
27:06I just thought
27:07Wow, brilliant
27:07I'm going into this
27:08Full of confidence
27:08Now I'm in pieces
27:09I feel absolutely rock bottom
27:11Sorry
27:11I hope you've got time
27:13To reconstruct us
27:14Yeah, okay
27:15First things first
27:17We needed to tackle
27:18How Ron was going to die
27:19And after seeing
27:21What he was working with
27:22Martin had an idea
27:23So how were you thinking
27:25About the death
27:26Well, I don't know what to do
27:27To save you from the thing
27:29Dying
27:30Yeah
27:30I think when people die offstage
27:31And it's reported
27:32That can be just as effective
27:34Yeah
27:35Whoever Ben Volio is
27:36Can take you off
27:36Yeah
27:37And the reporting comes back
27:39Ah, reporting
27:39Are you acting
27:41Or are you fucking a journalist
27:42Why don't I go home
27:44In a cab
27:45And then someone tells him
27:46I'm sad about it
27:46But the only issue with that
27:48Is I sort of then
27:49Have a sword fight
27:49And go offstage
27:50Yes
27:50He's left on his own
27:51No curtain
27:52Now
27:53No curtain
27:54What then
27:56Fine
27:57What are you each
27:57Going to have to lay there
27:58Until they all leave
27:59That's quite a long time
28:00Come on
28:00Are we acting or not
28:02The only thing
28:02Listen
28:03What are we doing here
28:04Let me just tell you something
28:05The relish that you're putting
28:06Into this
28:07I will be putting into you crying
28:09No
28:10Can I do it
28:11Yeah
28:11So you want me to just
28:13Lie on the stage
28:14Until they all leave
28:15I think that
28:16What a commitment
28:16Go for glory
28:17There's some breath in it
28:18Okay, sorry
28:19So you want me to just
28:20Stay on the stage
28:21While they leave
28:22No breath
28:24No breath
28:24Watch
28:25Okay
28:26Oh, so you think
28:27I'll just stay on the stage
28:28No curtain
28:28While there's a ten minute pause
28:30I 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
28:37Thanks
28:38Rom definitely needed some convincing
28:41So the only way to settle this
28:42Was to give it a go
28:44The plague of both your houses
28:46They've made worms meet
28:48My very friend
28:51Hath got his mortal heart
28:53In my behalf
28:53Oh, Romeo
28:56Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead
28:59This day's black fate
29:03On more days doth depend
29:04This but begins the woe
29:06Others must end
29:08You're off as well, Martin
29:12Oh, sorry
29:13And we can
29:16I'll tell you what
29:16Yeah
29:16Let's have a little look
29:17Round
29:17Yeah
29:18Brilliant
29:20As a mate
29:21I'll try and keep that down
29:22You cannot
29:24Apart from that
29:25I think that's good
29:26Because that's like
29:27A rictus grin
29:28Yeah
29:28You can't tell
29:29Whether he's laughing
29:30Or dying
29:30No
29:31And then
29:31Christ
29:32I mean it hurts
29:39Quite a lot
29:40But it is very
29:41It's very moving
29:42Yeah
29:42Yeah
29:43Because I've never been
29:44Near a dead ball
29:44You don't move it
29:45Immediately
29:45Just walk away
29:46Go back
29:46I'm alright
29:47Yeah, I'm fine
29:49I'm fine
29:50Don't worry about it
29:51Don't you get hurt
29:52What another series
29:53I think that's a bad idea
29:55By the way
29:55The dragon
29:55I think you might be right
29:57Yeah
29:57Worth a try
29:58It's worth a look
29:59Definitely worth a try
30:00Now
30:00Was it
30:00Now
30:01There
30:01So you go
30:02Definitely worth a try
30:03Oh yeah
30:05Come on
30:06You're the best
30:07In the business
30:08Oh wow
30:09Do you think you should leave
30:10Do you want to just leave
30:11Well I mean based on how that went
30:13I think leaving
30:13Is probably better
30:14Leaving is probably better
30:14Okay fine
30:15Now we decided once and for all
30:18I was going to die off stage
30:19It was Rob's turn in the spotlight
30:21Don't preempt the sad
30:23Okay
30:24Just try and play the sentiment of it
30:26And the feeling of it
30:27Right okay
30:27Right okay
30:28And I for one
30:30Couldn't wait to watch him bear his soul
30:32From my very friend
30:34You've just seen him go off
30:35Yeah
30:36And he's in a bad way
30:37My very friend hath got his mortal hurt
30:40In my behalf
30:41Oh
30:42Romeo
30:43Romeo
30:45Brave Mercutio's dead
30:46This day's black fate
30:51Whoa
30:52Is that
30:59Listen man it's hard
30:59It's hard
31:00It is hard
31:00It's hard
31:01That is
31:01It's difficult
31:02It's difficult
31:03And I don't even
31:05I don't even
31:05I'm not even going to tell you
31:06It's hard
31:07This day's
31:08No
31:09Not that
31:09When you hear the news
31:12This doesn't help
31:13That
31:15And that's a common mistake
31:17Yeah
31:17I won't do that
31:19Rob
31:21Was having an absolute nightmare
31:22My very friend
31:24And he just couldn't get his head around it
31:28Okay
31:28I just keep smiling
31:30It's difficult
31:31This
31:32Because
31:33Rob can't do it
31:35At all
31:36And I think
31:37Even if this show was like
31:38Rob got six months of intensive training
31:40He still couldn't do it
31:41He cannot do it
31:42And so desperate times
31:44Called for desperate measures
31:46Can I make a suggestion
31:48Yes
31:49Why don't we shortcut it
31:50And you just pull out some pubes
31:52I can't believe that's the best option
31:54But yeah
31:54Well what do you think
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
32:02You might accidentally start enjoying
32:04It's really into death
32:06That's my kink
32:07Okay
32:08Oh Romeo
32:11Romeo
32:12Sorry
32:13Brave Mercutio's dead
32:16This day's black fate
32:18On more days
32:20Doth depend
32:23Doth depend
32:25But this begins a woe
32:26That others
32:27Ascend
32:28I actually
32:29I think that was
32:30Your best performance
32:31I genuinely think that was
32:31I actually
32:32I do think that was
32:34Your best performance
32:34I definitely
32:35Yeah I definitely
32:35Won't think about the words anymore
32:37No
32:37Fuck it
32:38I got about eight a go
32:39But did you notice
32:41What was happening
32:41When you were doing that
32:42Your breath was changing
32:43Yeah
32:43Your breath was changing
32:44Breath is a massive
32:46Massive part
32:47Of emotional connection
32:48Right
32:48So
32:49There's a thing that
32:50I can sometimes access
32:51Where you just
32:52You don't allow yourself
32:53Easy breath
32:54So it's a bit
32:55Sounds a bit stuttered
32:56Yeah
32:56Don't worry about the sound
32:57Yeah
32:57Don't worry about your face
32:58None of that
33:00I can't believe we went for pubes
33:01Before breath
33:02Why did you not do the breath
33:04Well the pubes
33:05Through the pubes
33:06Were the gateway to the breath
33:07Come on
33:08It had been a painful process
33:10To get there
33:11But it felt like
33:12We were onto something
33:13My very friend
33:14Had got his mortal hurt
33:16In my behalf
33:17Oh Romeo
33:18Romeo
33:20Romeo
33:20Brave Mercutio
33:22Is dead
33:22This day's black fate
33:25Or more days
33:28Doth depend
33:28Doth
33:29Doth
33:29This but begins the woes
33:33That others must end
33:35I think we got it
33:37Yeah
33:37Yeah
33:38Yeah
33:38I'd err on the side of
33:40Finding it very hard
33:42To get this stuff out
33:43Very hard
33:44Yeah
33:44Do you know what I mean?
33:45Yeah
33:45Okay
33:46Robert finally found a method
33:50That worked for him
33:50And thanks to Martin
33:52For the first time this week
33:53We had a real shot
33:54Of not embarrassing ourselves
33:56In front of 1600 Shakespeare fans
33:58Well I hope
34:00I hope
34:01I've been of some use
34:02You've been amazing
34:03Thank you
34:04I didn't
34:04I feel way more confident now
34:06Really?
34:07Well yeah
34:07Good 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
34:12This will be way funnier
34:14Luckily it's short
34:15Funnier
34:15Huh?
34:16Funnier
34:16No
34:17No
34:17No
34:18Can't do it
34:19More moving
34:19I said more
34:20Go on do it
34:28Go on do it
34:30Go on do it
34:30Yeah
34:31Do it
34:31Do it this way
34:31You want to do it
34:33You want to do it
34:34Yeah
34:34For the last week
34:42Rob and I have been rehearsing intensely
34:44For our Shakespearean debut
34:46Courage man
34:47The hurt cannot be much
34:49To see if we had what it takes
34:51To perform one of the Bards
34:53Most dramatic plays
34:54What the devil can you between us?
34:57And after training with some of the best in the business
34:59I think it was genuinely
35:01The audience will not have seen anything like it
35:03The following day we had spent working on our performance
35:06With the team at the Globe
35:08But now
35:12We'd finally run out of time
35:14It was the day of our big performance at the Globe
35:19With just a few hours to go
35:21Our mentor Globe's artistic director Michelle Terry
35:24Had organised a final rehearsal
35:26To iron out any last bumps
35:28Why don't we slowly walk it from the top?
35:31She'd also brought in her husband
35:32Actor Paul Reddy
35:33Who'd be joining us on stage later
35:35Nice to see you again
35:37I'm, as you know
35:37I'm going to be in the scene with you
35:39Playing Benvolio
35:39And this is Paul Reddy
35:41Who 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
35:49But there was one big question on Michelle's mind
35:51Do you know your lines?
35:53I do, yeah
35:54I'm struggling because
35:56It obviously shakes me
35:57So all the words are mental
35:58Michelle looked well worried
36:00But what I'd found out from rehearsals yesterday
36:02Was Shakespearean lingo
36:04And my brain just don't get on
36:06Villain am I not
36:08I do protest I never injured thee
36:12But 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
36:18And Michelle clearly trying to give me a fighting chance
36:21Had stuck them on the wall
36:22Romeo, thou art a villain
36:25Villain am I none
36:27I do protest I never injured thee
36:29But love thee better than thou can devise
36:31But even with the words in front of him
36:35A plague on both your houses
36:36Rob was struggling
36:38My very friend hath got this mortal hurt in my behalf
36:43And it felt like his final line
36:45Was going to give him nightmares
36:47Brave Mercutio's dead
36:49This day's black fate on more days doth depend
36:53This but the cadence
36:55My 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
37:03I've
37:04Let's be clear
37:05I've fucking nailed it
37:06I'll come
37:07Dishonorable submission
37:08I am for you
37:11Come sir
37:11Your passada
37:13I know the lines
37:15I know I did the sword fight
37:16It wouldn't have surprised me
37:18If they actually cast me as Mercutio
37:19Why the devil came you between us?
37:21I was hurt under your arm
37:23I thought
37:25I thought all for the best
37:27Have I heard a single word of praise?
37:29No
37:29Michelle came over to me after one rehearsal
37:31I thought she was going to go
37:32Well done
37:32She goes
37:33Do you think Rob's okay?
37:35But I'm chill about it
37:36It's fine
37:36You know
37:36We've got to look after Rob and stuff
37:38And who cares
37:38I've spent my time learning the lines
37:40And yet I haven't received even a pat on the back
37:43Is that alright?
37:44Really good
37:45I struggled through an hour of rehearsals
37:52And now the globe was filling up
37:53Ready for the main performance
37:54I had about 90 minutes
37:56To try and get the lines in my head
37:58Villain and my mum
38:00I do protest
38:01I never
38:01I never
38:03To move is to star
38:06And to be valiant
38:08The show had started
38:091,600 people were watching
38:12Suddenly
38:13I was very motivated
38:14Not to make a mug of myself
38:15I think I've got it
38:16I need to show you
38:18Yeah, go on, show me
38:19Rob
38:19He's anxious about it now
38:21But when he gets on stage
38:23Just the fact that there's a crowd there
38:24Will just buoy him through
38:26What I'm slightly nervous about
38:28Is it walk out there
38:29He'll forget a line
38:30His arse will go
38:30Start doing some crowd work
38:32Oh Romeo, Romeo
38:34Brave my cushy is dead
38:36This day's black fate
38:38On others doth depend
38:40On more days
38:41Back off
38:41I need
38:43A little kick up the arse
38:44From Dr. Showbiz
38:45And when I walk out there
38:47And there's loads of people
38:47Hopefully something happens
38:49It may or may not
38:50But all I've got now
38:51Is the lap of the gods
38:53Our curtain call
38:56Was around the corner
38:57So we were off to costume
38:59To get stuffed into
39:00Some Elizabethan gear
39:01Ew
39:01But the outfits
39:09Definitely weren't helping
39:10Our nerves
39:11What do I look so fucking fat in that
39:15Mental
39:18I think Mr. Trousers
39:20Aren't doing you any
39:21We were meant to be delivering
39:23A serious Shakespearean tragedy
39:25And I was starting to worry
39:26About how the audience
39:27Would react
39:28My ears are poking out
39:29My ears
39:30Is that right?
39:31Like Legolas
39:31Is this
39:35Is it supposed to be like that?
39:36No, it is supposed to be like that
39:37How have I pulled Juliet?
39:42The play had hit its tragic climax
39:44For never was a story
39:46Of more woe
39:47And now
39:48It was our turn to follow
39:50What's our search?
39:57I don't like it
39:58I could shit myself and vomit
40:00Wouldn't notice on this
40:02We were about to step out
40:06In front of a packed globe audience
40:07Bill and I am none
40:08Am I none?
40:10Shit
40:10And all I could think of was
40:13Could Rob and I truly convince the crowd
40:15That we could pull off
40:16A serious Shakespearean tragedy
40:18I stepped on stage
40:29For a massive cheer
40:30But then
40:31They must have caught my costume
40:33Thankfully
40:35We had Michelle and Paul
40:36To add some much needed gravitas
40:38Good in
40:40A word with one of you
40:42And but one word
40:44With one of us
40:45Couple it with something
40:46Make it a word
40:47And a blow
40:48We talk here
40:49In the public haunt of men
40:51Hear all eyes gaze on us
40:53Men's eyes were made to look
40:55And let them gaze
40:58Rob came out to a raucous cheer
41:01And now with both of us on stage
41:05Looking like a pair of extras
41:06From Blackadder
41:07All sense of seriousness
41:08All sense of seriousness
41:08That evaporated
41:09Romeo
41:11Thou art a villain
41:13Villain am I no
41:15I do protest
41:16I never injured thee
41:18But I love thee
41:19Better than thou devise
41:21Oh calm
41:22Dishonorable
41:23Vile submission
41:24Even Rob was struggling
41:25To keep a straight face
41:26Never mind a Shakespearean tragedy
41:28This was fast becoming
41:30A personal one
41:31Come sir
41:33Your passato
41:35We needed something dramatic
41:36To turn this round
41:37Hold on
41:38Good Matricio
41:42I'm hurt
41:51A plague on both your houses
41:54I'm spared
41:55What?
41:57A scratch
41:57A scratch
41:58Merit is enough
41:59Courage man
42:01The 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
42:12Benvolio
42:12A plague of both your houses
42:18It was time to make my exit
42:22And 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
42:31Have got this mortal hurt
42:33In my behalf
42:34Oh Romeo
42:35Romeo
42:38Brave Mercutio is dead
42:42This day's black fate
42:47On more days
42:49Doth depend
42:50But that begins
42:52The woe
42:53Others must end
42:55Rom and I pulled off one of Shakespeare's most dramatic scenes
43:18And the crowd loved it
43:19And what made it even better was
43:25I hadn't forgotten a single line
43:27That was um
43:42I think the hardest thing we've ever done
43:44Yeah
43:45Yeah, it was up there
43:47What did you say?
43:47It was up there
43:47We did it
43:48And that was hard
43:48To be fair
43:49Look, I don't want to
43:50I don't want to blow smoke up your pipe
43:51But that was difficult
43:52Yeah, I don't want you to blow smoke up my pipe either
43:55Couldn't get to
43:56Verily we started this Shakespeare journey
43:58There were many challenges that lay before us
44:00For us
44:01The challenge is complete
44:03Upon many of the problems
44:04One included the impossibility for you to etch the lines upon your cerebellum
44:08Verily though
44:09You were able
44:10To remember
44:11Nay recite
44:13The very lines that you were acquired to
44:15By the owners of the Globe Theater
44:17The worms
44:19I mean, German
44:20The worms
44:24It was difficult to do the Shakespeare
44:28But we managed it
44:29Okay
44:33Come on then
44:33Let's go
44:34Come on
44:34Oh God
44:35I'm going to go
44:37I'm open the bedroom door
44:38I'm going
44:38Lisa
44:39Verily I would like to mount you
44:41But you and me
44:48I will always
44:51Speak together
44:53But you and me
44:56Always
44:57And forever
44:59But forever
45:02You and me
45:15Always
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