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00:00To find out what we like
00:02Oh wow, Rob, that's amazing
00:04And what we don't
00:05It just feels like it's all gonna come out
00:07This week, we're going Elizabethan and taking on Shakespeare
00:11There's a lot to take in
00:13As we prepare to perform Romeo and Juliet
00:16A plague of both your houses
00:17With the help of some of our finest actors
00:20Before putting it all on the line
00:22At the world famous Globe Theatre in London
00:25Come sir, your passado
00:30So Rob
00:39Yes
00:40We have been invited
00:42To perform Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre
00:45It's highly prestigious
00:46According to my wife, the drama teacher
00:48About time and all, that's what I said
00:50Does the telegram man be running late, one thinks
00:55For I have been waiting for this moment
00:58Upon a time
00:59It's the kind of thing, isn't it?
01:01The irony
01:02Of two jesters
01:04Driving through South London
01:06Setting up an episode of a Sky presentation
01:09And the question the public asks themselves
01:12Are the two jesters possible to once again
01:15Scratch the gooch of mirth
01:17As they descend into
01:18One other episode
01:20Of the famous Rob and Romesh
01:22Versus Shakespeare
01:24Piece of piss Shakespeare, innit?
01:26Oh my God
01:27I've only just done about 12 sonnets, eh?
01:32I don't know any Shakespeare
01:33I've heard of Macbeth, Hamlet
01:35Midsummer's Night's Dream
01:37Yeah
01:38Let's see Hamlet
01:40I'm going to read out some
01:42Tell me if you've heard of them, okay?
01:44Romeo and Juliet
01:44Yeah
01:45King Lear
01:46No
01:47The Tempest
01:48No
01:49Julius Caesar
01:50That's a bloke, innit?
01:51Yeah, but it's based on his life
01:52No, I haven't seen Gladiator
01:54But that's separate
01:55That is a different story, yeah
01:56Taming of the Shrew
01:57No, what's that?
01:59What's a shrew?
02:00A little mouse thing, innit?
02:01Yeah
02:01As you like it
02:02What the fuck's that about?
02:03It's like, um
02:04It's sort of like the original
02:05Springwatch special
02:06It's the original version of Ratatouille
02:08Right
02:09Are you a fan of Shakespeare?
02:13No
02:14Okay
02:14Okay, this is what I think of Shakespeare
02:16And I'm going to get a little bit annihilated for this
02:19Go on
02:19I think it's overrated
02:21Yep
02:21And we're constantly being told it's brilliant
02:23Without any real evidence of that
02:25What is brilliant about it?
02:27Nobody can answer that question
02:28Yeah, man
02:29Why do we all have to study Shakespeare?
02:31Like, what is this?
02:33Are you alright?
02:33No, I just think it's a bit
02:35It's just a bit annoying
02:36Really?
02:36I've never known you to be so passionate about something
02:38I just think
02:39It just is too much
02:41My problem with it is
02:43I struggled to learn to read at school
02:45And then once I got an handle on it
02:47They gave me Shakespeare
02:48It was all written wrong
02:49Right
02:49I just think
02:50We need someone
02:51That knows what's going on
02:53And can explain why it's good
02:55Yeah
02:55Because you get good actors that do it
02:57And they're normal people
02:58And they must like it
02:58Yeah
02:59Okay
02:59Deal
03:00Deal
03:01So to start our Shakespearean journey
03:07We were heading to the Globe
03:08The legendary open-air theatre in the heart of London
03:11Dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare
03:14It's a modern-day recreation of the very place
03:16Where Shakespeare staged his plays
03:18And offers a proper old-school Elizabethan experience
03:21There you go
03:24Oh wow
03:25Nice of it
03:28Amazing isn't it
03:29Treading the boards
03:30Yeah
03:30Very good
03:31The theatre's first artistic director
03:34Was the Oscar-winning actor
03:35Sir Mark Rylance
03:37And now it's in the hands of Olivier Award-winning
03:39Michelle Terry
03:40Who today would be deciding which scene
03:43Rom and I would be performing
03:44How much of it's delivered out here
03:46Oh, give it some on the edge
03:47He loves it, God
03:49How dare you
03:51What do you think?
03:54That was excellent
03:54Oh, hello
03:55It's really good
03:56You're basically ready
03:58Michelle, Rob, lovely to meet you
03:59Nice to meet you
04:00Hello, Rob, how's it going?
04:01You all right?
04:01Very good, how are you?
04:02It's amazing
04:03I've never been here before
04:04Welcome
04:04So, you're going to perform here
04:07You're going to do a scene
04:08From one of the plays
04:10Yeah
04:10You're going to be coming on
04:12After a full house performance
04:14So 1,600 people
04:15Will have just watched a play
04:16And then you're the encore
04:18But normally the encore is
04:20They cheer for the people
04:21They've just seen
04:22To see more of it
04:23Oh, they'll do that
04:23Yeah
04:24Oh, they'll do that
04:25And then there'll be an extra
04:26Yeah, a bonus
04:27But what you don't do
04:29Is reward that enthusiasm
04:30By bringing on something shit
04:31So you're going to go and do
04:34Some workshops
04:35Okay
04:35On Shakespeare
04:35Okay
04:36One on using your voice
04:37In this space
04:38Without amplification
04:39And one on combat
04:41Stage combat
04:41Bit of fighting
04:42And you're also going to go
04:44Get into a bit of costume
04:45Elizabethan costume
04:46Because on the night
04:47That's what you'll be wearing
04:48So you need to get used to it
04:49Okay
04:49Okay
04:50Brilliant, thanks Michelle
04:51Have fun
04:51See you later
04:51Cheers
04:51Bye-bye
04:52Thank you
04:52Today's workshops
04:55Are all about helping Michelle decide
04:57Which scene would be right for us
04:59They were taking place
05:01On the Globe's sister stage
05:02The candlelit Sam
05:03Wanna make a playhouse
05:04Modelled on the intimate
05:06Indoor theatres
05:07Of Elizabethan London
05:08And Rom and I
05:10Were already looking
05:11Right at home
05:12What do you think?
05:20It's a lot to take in
05:21Um
05:22I feel like I'm in like
05:23A Shakespearean basic instinct
05:25Your things are riding up so high
05:26Sorry
05:27You forget our stuff
05:31Right at least you can see through them
05:33Yeah, that's like legs of Kimbo
05:34It's like
05:34Sorry
05:36Dost wanna give me one
05:37I don't know how to sit
05:39Yeah
05:39Look, if you don't mind me saying
05:40You are now at the most attractive
05:43I've ever known you
05:44Right?
05:45Because I walked up here
05:47Expecting to find it funny
05:48And I did find it funny
05:49Because you were like
05:50Shakespeare and Sharon Stone
05:51But apart from that
05:53You actually look
05:54You suit it
05:55Well, the thing is to me, Rob
05:56Even if I do look more attractive
05:58I'll always sit like a bit of a slag
05:59And that's me
06:02You're your mother's son
06:03You're
06:04Hi, guys
06:10Oh, hello
06:10Hello
06:11Nice to meet you
06:13I'm Liz
06:14I'm a Globe voice coach
06:15Nice to meet you too
06:16So, we're gonna be starting
06:18With a vocal workshop
06:19To get you on voice
06:21For the big Globe stage
06:22Okay
06:22Would you like to make your way
06:24Yes, exactly
06:24Yeah
06:25Just like in Shakespeare's time
06:29Any actor performing at the Globe
06:31Has to rely solely on the power of their voice
06:33To reach the audience
06:34If you take a big breath into these ribs
06:37And then rise up towards the ceiling
06:39And breathe out on a
06:39Oh, fucking hell
06:43So, Liz was putting us through a series of vocal exercises
06:47Designed to help us project properly
06:49Across the vast theatre space
06:51So, we're powering from your belly
06:54If you power from your belly
06:56You can do eight shows a week
06:57Which equates to about 24 hours in a week
07:00Okay
07:00Give me a
07:01More
07:02Nice move
07:04More
07:05Okay
07:07Give me a
07:08Ha
07:08Ha
07:09Open up your mouth a little bit more for that one
07:11How about a
07:13Ha
07:13James Brown would be turning in his grave
07:17Ha
07:18Gorgeous
07:20Fabulous
07:22Ramos, do you want to give it a go?
07:23What am I doing?
07:24Ha
07:24Ha
07:25And a ho
07:26Ha
07:26And a he
07:27Good girl
07:28God damn
07:30Straight back
07:32Well done, good stuff
07:33Genuinely, I'm not just saying this
07:35I feel like I can speak better than I ever have been able to in my entire life
07:38So, we're going to say the words
07:40No, no, no
07:42No, no, no
07:45Beautiful support
07:46Just doing an impression of Lou
07:47I feel so verbally dexterous
07:51Honestly, I feel like I can say anything
07:54No, no, no
07:57Fantastic vocal production
07:58Lovely
07:59Nice long neck
08:00No
08:00Very good
08:01No
08:01I want a day off
08:02No
08:03No
08:04No to another series
08:05No
08:07He doesn't need to learn that word
08:08No more Judge Ramesh
08:11Get the gourd out
08:12No, it felt empowering
08:15No
08:15I feel like it's something I should say more in everyday life
08:19Like Ramesh
08:20Do you think for the rehearsals and the vocal warm-ups you should be in costume?
08:24No
08:24No
08:25No
08:25We were now loose-lipped and warmed up
08:29And ready to get to grips with the language
08:31Yea, all which it inherits shall dissolve
08:35And I was starting to get into it
08:37We're all spirits and are melted into air
08:41Into thin air
08:42It's quite yappy there, isn't it?
08:44It's quite shouty
08:45Yeah
08:45But it's a nice volume
08:47I enjoyed the volume
08:48Personally, I thought I nailed it
08:49Yeah, we always do
08:50But then Michelle had arranged for us to crank things up a gear
08:55With some Elizabethan action
08:56Oh, I don't like it, I don't like it
09:06Oh my god
09:07Really don't want to do that sword fighting
09:09Do you know what I mean?
09:10We could take an eye out
09:11And we ain't got a lot to play with
09:12There's three between us
09:14Hello both
09:16Amazing, this is Sam
09:17Hello
09:17We're going to do some combat stuff today
09:19Mainly, we're going to be focusing on rapier
09:21Because as you are beautifully dressed
09:24It was the main weapon in Shakespearean times
09:27So this was actually happening when Shakespearean was alive?
09:29He's fucking well old
09:31When was this?
09:32This is mental
09:331600s
09:341600s?
09:35When was that?
09:36Long time ago
09:37When was that?
09:37You're asking when a tiger in this?
09:39I get it
09:40I get it
09:41I can't get me edge
09:42Should we let you two fight each other?
09:43What's their trains?
09:45Was their trains?
09:46Trains?
09:46Yeah
09:47How old are they?
09:47I've just got to book a train to my rapier fight
09:50Bendy the legs
09:54Front foot first
09:55Before we were allowed to duel it out
09:57Rom and I had to master the footwork
09:59Beautiful
10:02And it didn't take long to see which one of us
10:05Had the killer instinct
10:06And back
10:06Why are you going so quickly and far?
10:10Oh, do we have to fight slowly?
10:12Do it, do it, do it, do it
10:14Oh, I'd kill you immediately
10:15Beautiful
10:16And then backwards
10:17Do it, do it, do it, do it
10:18Yeah, lovely
10:19It's like a ferry, that
10:20What do you mean?
10:22Beautiful
10:22Slow
10:22Rom is just quite a slow mover with the sword work
10:25I think if it was a vehicle, there'd be a beep
10:27As he returns from the duel
10:30Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep
10:33And then
10:34And not being fast on my feet
10:36Was going to be a problem with my sparring partner
10:38And Rob, you go for the chest first
10:41Oh, Jesus
10:41And we're going to block
10:43That's it
10:43And then go down for the hips
10:44And then
10:45Okay, whoa
10:46Wait for the fucking cue
10:48Yeah, fast
10:49Why are you further on where Sam is?
10:52Jesus
10:52I felt I was actually in a row then
10:54Maisie was saying, can you follow me step by step
10:59We'd finish the fight before she got into the second step
11:01Because Rob just decided it's go time
11:03Going backwards
11:04Literally the same thing
11:05I don't retreat, mate
11:07I'm a forward fighter
11:08You're going to retreat
11:08I'll cut the ring off
11:09Get him in the cold
11:10I'll keep him back
11:11Luckily, I had the wherewithal to actually properly defend myself
11:14Otherwise you'd be fucking
11:15I'd be talking to you with a rapier out my chest
11:17By some miracle, I'd made it through training without a scratch
11:23And now it was finally time to find out what we'd be performing
11:26Michelle had spoken to our coaches
11:28And together, they've picked a scene for us
11:31We had a really good chat about the scene that you're going to do
11:34Okay
11:35What we've got is a scene from the most famous play in the canon
11:38Romeo and Juliet
11:39So you're going to do a friendship scene
11:42Not the one at the end where we kiss him when he's dead
11:46No, not that one
11:47Well, you could if you wanted to put it in
11:49But
11:50Don't he kiss her when she's dead
11:52Yeah, but who describes that as a friendship scene?
11:57Why would that be called a friendship scene?
11:59I don't know
11:59I'll give you a little kiss
12:01If you were dead, I'd give you a little kiss
12:02Fine, but you wouldn't describe it as a friendship scene
12:04No, I'd give you a little kiss in your forehead
12:05Thank you
12:05And then ring my agent and then the ambulance
12:08Anyway
12:13You're going to do the other friendship scene without the kissing
12:16Right
12:16There's quite a lot of fights
12:18A fight? Oh, okay, we're fighting in it
12:19Yeah
12:19The scene Michelle had chosen was the pivotal fight of the play
12:24Which Romeo's best friend Mercutio was killed
12:28It was classic Shakespearean tragedy
12:30And somehow Michelle expected us
12:33To pull off one of the most dramatic scenes in history
12:35With me playing Mercutio
12:37And Rob as Romeo
12:39I was hurt under your arm
12:40I thought all for the best
12:42And the toughest part was
12:43We only had a week before we had to perform it
12:46So basically, I think between now and when you do it
12:50Like if you can just learn the lines
12:51And say the lines in the right order
12:53That's successful
12:54Okay, great
12:55Thanks so much
12:55Try our best
12:56Yeah, thank you
12:57We'll see you
12:57We might come back and do it
12:59Bye-bye
13:00Bye-bye
13:00All the best
13:01They made worms meat of me
13:03We're fucked
13:04In just a week's time
13:12Rob and I will be taking on one of the most dramatic scenes in all of history
13:16When we perform Shakespeare in the iconic Globe Theatre
13:19Help me in some house, Benvolio
13:22I shall faint
13:22I've played with both your houses
13:24They've made worms meat of me
13:25And we were completely out of our depth
13:28And then go down for the hips
13:29And then
13:30Whoa, wait for the fucking cue
13:33So to help us get ready
13:35Our mentor, Michelle Terry
13:37Had invited us back to watch Romeo and Juliet
13:39Performed by the pros
13:41But first
13:43I wanted to see if Rob had any experience treading the boards
13:46I dressed up as Emma Bunton once
13:49For a school play
13:49When we were doing the Spice Girls
13:51Well, that was a play
13:53I don't know
13:54It was like an assembly
13:54Not really a play
13:55We were on stage
13:56Yeah, but it was more like
13:57Oh, now we've got the Spice Girls performing
13:59We just dumped her as well
14:00Okay, well, now we get into the nub of the fact that
14:02I don't think you know what a play is
14:03I've not been in a play
14:05Right
14:05That's the correct answer to that question
14:10I don't think I've even seen one
14:11No, I don't think you have either
14:13Romeo and Juliet, Leonardo DiCaprio
14:15That's a film
14:16Right, but it's Shakespeare
14:18Yeah
14:18Pantomime
14:19That's a play?
14:21I've seen the play
14:22That's a play, okay
14:22I mean, it is the, you know
14:25What I would say is
14:26If you didn't know the person
14:28They said, have you been to see any plays?
14:29Yeah
14:29And you go
14:30Oh, you know
14:31I went to see Dick Whittington
14:33At the hall
14:34I would say keep that to yourself
14:36Each year the Globe puts on
14:41Hundreds of performances
14:42Of Shakespeare's plays
14:43And none are more famous
14:45Than Romeo and Juliet
14:46Tonight's performance
14:48Was our chance
14:48To get a handle on the play
14:50And see the scene
14:51We'd be performing
14:51In this unique venue
14:53I've geeked in theatres
14:55All over the world
14:55As you have
14:56I've never seen one like this
14:57No
14:58It feels like you're
14:59It feels like you've been transported
15:00Back in time
15:01But what Michelle had failed to mention
15:03Was exactly what time period
15:05We'd be transported back to
15:06I kind of feel a little bit ignorant
15:14Because I didn't realise
15:14That Romeo and Juliet
15:15Was a Western
15:16It turned out
15:20The Globe was putting on
15:20A Wild West themed
15:21Interpretation
15:22Of Shakespeare's classic
15:24They're all coming in
15:25Through saloon doors
15:26And then they're talking
15:27Like a Shakespeare play
15:28But it's a Western
15:29It's about
15:31Seven different time periods
15:32You're experiencing
15:33In one performance
15:35I'm half expecting
15:37A DeLorean to come out
15:38Emmett Brown gets out
15:40Marty
15:41And
15:43Just as we got used
15:44To the setting
15:45Next
15:45We were hit with the language
15:47With purple fountains
15:49History
15:49From your veins
15:51What's the purple fountain?
15:53By the
15:53Oh
15:54I don't know what's going on in there
15:57It's like having fondue
15:59You ever had fondue?
16:00I don't know what's going on with that
16:01But it's fun
16:02But the fun stopped
16:04The moment our scene started
16:06And for the very first time
16:09Rom and I could see
16:10Just how much trouble
16:11We were really in
16:12The more I'm exposed to what we're doing
16:22The less I think it's a good idea
16:24Why the devil came in between us?
16:27I think people are going to throw their shit at us
16:30Thankfully
16:32We wouldn't be dressing up as cowboys
16:34When we performed
16:35And although it had been useful
16:37Watching the pros in action
16:38There was still a personal hurdle
16:40We needed to get past
16:41Are you a fan of Shakespeare?
16:44Err
16:44No
16:45Okay
16:45We're constantly being told it's brilliant
16:47What is brilliant about it?
16:48Nobody can answer that question
16:49We needed someone to explain to us
16:53Why it was so good
16:54So the next day
16:55We were off to meet a Shakespeare expert
16:57Oscar nominated film star
16:59Jessie Buckley
17:00Jessie's acting career
17:03Kicked off by studying the Bard
17:04And with multiple adaptations
17:06Of his work under her belt
17:08Including appearances at the Globe
17:09She was the perfect person
17:12To help us get our heads around Shakespeare
17:13We need your help Jessie
17:16We're struggling
17:17How come?
17:18It's just that whole thing
17:19Of like being forced to learn it at school
17:21And then it's lots of people telling you
17:23It's really good
17:24Yeah
17:25Without for me
17:26Feeling like there's any concrete evidence
17:28Yeah, yeah, yeah
17:28I was like
17:29I felt like that in school too
17:31It was kind of just words
17:32That went way past me
17:35And then when I moved over to London
17:37I did a three week Shakespeare course
17:39And I fell in love with it
17:42I mean I still don't fully understand
17:45That's good
17:47I'm being completely honest
17:50But as you work on it
17:51You get to know it
17:52It's like he's condensed
17:54The most epic feelings
17:55Of being a human
17:57Into like his text
18:00All the lines in it, right
18:02Obviously it's old English
18:03But even for that time
18:05Was Shakespeare a little bit
18:07Flamboyant with it
18:08But even back then
18:09They'd go, calm down mate
18:10Yeah, he invented so many words
18:13At the time
18:14I bet they didn't know
18:15What was going on either
18:16That's what I'm asking, yeah
18:17Definitely
18:17It's a bit like listening to an E40 record
18:19You know, he just makes up
18:20You know
18:20Who's E40?
18:22The rapper
18:22Because you know about E45
18:23Most of his stuff
18:25You can't understand what you're saying
18:26Right
18:26Because he makes up slang
18:27So I think
18:27But what does it make you
18:28Do you feel like something from it?
18:30Well, you feel like
18:31You need to try and find out
18:32What it means
18:33There you go
18:36He's cracked the cord
18:38Cracked it
18:39I'm up that it's in life
18:40That's the widest
18:41That way it's been open for a while
18:42Keep it going
18:45I might stay that way
18:46Give me some other stuff
18:48Give me some more epiphanies
18:49Things seemed like
18:52They were starting to click for Rom
18:53But I had my own problem
18:55I needed Jessie's help with
18:57Well, we've got to do
18:58A performance at the Globe
19:00Are you?
19:00And I've got to be really sad
19:01What are you doing in actual play?
19:03Yes
19:04There
19:04Okay
19:04I'll be honest with you
19:05The tone's not that encouraging
19:07We do the scene where I am sad
19:11Because Mercutio
19:12I'm playing Romeo
19:13Mercutio dies
19:14Right
19:14I'm sad
19:15Yes
19:15The problem is
19:16Rob has to deliver a line with emotion
19:18That he doesn't fully understand
19:19What the line means
19:20What is the line?
19:21So basically
19:22I say
19:24Look him in the eyes
19:25And imagine
19:25Your best friend
19:27Yeah
19:27Has died
19:28I feel like I'm at Madam Tussauds
19:35I wish they'd put me at Madam Tussauds
19:38Anyway, go on
19:40Okay
19:41This day's black fate
19:44On more days
19:45Doth depend
19:46But this begins
19:48The woes
19:49Others must end
19:50Okay
19:51And what do you think that means?
19:53It's a bad day
19:54Very bad
19:56Yeah
19:57It's gonna get worse
19:59Yeah
19:59That's basically it
20:00Yeah
20:00You have to work at figuring out
20:02What it means to you
20:03Yeah
20:04What you're saying is
20:05You don't have to know exactly
20:06What is meant
20:07By every one of those words
20:08But you know what the sentiment
20:10Of that line is
20:11So you can deliver it
20:12With that intent
20:13Right
20:13That's exactly what it is
20:15Yeah
20:16If we feel like it's all going wrong
20:18On the night
20:18What would your advice be?
20:19If your head starts to go
20:21In that negative way
20:21What I would probably think of doing
20:23Is just like show people
20:25You know
20:26Flash or something
20:27But that's not what you should do
20:28Sorry
20:29Your tip
20:30If it's going badly
20:32And we get a negative in the voice
20:33Is to get our dicks out
20:34That's what my
20:36Bad part of my brain wants to do
20:38Right
20:38But don't say
20:39You're saying
20:39Don't do that
20:40Oh sorry
20:41Right
20:41There's no right or wrong
20:43Just like
20:43Go and do it
20:45And I bet you'll be brilliant
20:46Thank you till you make it
20:48Exactly
20:48I think you're gonna be great
20:49You're gonna take the globe by storm
20:51Rob and I are only days away
20:59From performing
20:59Romeo and Juliet at the globe
21:01And whilst I was starting to understand
21:04What made Shakespeare great
21:05Do you feel like something from it?
21:07Well you feel like you need to try
21:09And find out what it means
21:10There you go
21:10Rob was still having trouble
21:13Accessing his emotions
21:14What do you think that means?
21:16It's a bad day
21:17Very bad
21:19Rob and I have separate challenges
21:24That we have to master
21:24For our performance
21:25Mine is
21:27To die convincingly
21:30But
21:31I'm not as worried about myself
21:32As I am worried about Rob
21:33The problem that Rob has got is
21:35Rob has to connect to his feelings
21:37Rob has not done that for a long time
21:39So the fear is
21:41That he might have a breakdown
21:43When he sort of finally reconnects
21:44It's like
21:45You know when they plug the thing
21:46In the back of Neo's head
21:47In the Matrix
21:48And then upload emotion and empathy
21:50He might just shit himself
21:52And start crying
21:53Which is bad for him
21:55And Lou
21:56And his children
21:56But great for the show
21:58So today
22:00We're at the Regents Park
22:02Open Air Theatre
22:02In London
22:03To hopefully turn us two clowns
22:06Into serious actors
22:07With a masterclass
22:08From one of our country's finest
22:10Martin Freeman
22:12Is a national treasure
22:13He first shot to fame
22:15As a beloved Tim
22:16In the smash it series
22:17The Office
22:17Before taking the world
22:19By storm
22:19Is billed by Baggins
22:21In the blockbuster
22:22Hobbit trilogy
22:22Hello Martin
22:25Hello
22:25Nice to see you
22:26Yeah and you
22:27You're looking very cool today
22:28But most importantly for us
22:30He's no stranger to Shakespeare
22:32Having played the title role
22:34In a critically acclaimed
22:36Sellout run of Richard III
22:37So if anyone can bring out
22:39Our inner actors
22:40It's Martin
22:41We need help
22:42How can I help you
22:43Yeah we need help
22:43Basically we are doing
22:44A performance at the Globe
22:45Shakespeare
22:46Romeo and Juliet
22:47I'm playing Romeo
22:48You're Mercutio
22:49I've got to be sad
22:51Jeez
22:52I mean that's
22:53That's quite a task
22:54And as well as me being sad
22:55Rom's got to die
22:56Which is obviously
22:57Difficult to do
22:57Without looking too eggy
22:58Yeah and it's difficult
22:59To sort of draw on
23:00Memories of dying previously
23:01It is
23:02Well you're a comic
23:03Okay nice
23:04There you go
23:04Alright come on
23:05Yeah
23:05Alright I'm glad you two
23:07Are getting on
23:07Great
23:08So
23:09You
23:10How comfortable
23:12Are you at the moment
23:13With saying these words
23:14I feel
23:15I feel a bit like
23:16A football manager
23:17That's gone to Holland
23:18Yes
23:18To manage
23:19And then he starts
23:19To impress conferences
23:20Yes
23:21And because he's
23:22Been so used to talking slowly
23:23To the Dutch players
23:24Yes
23:24He has a sort of
23:25Foreign lilt
23:26Like who had that
23:27Steve McClellan
23:28Yes
23:29You know that
23:29You know because
23:30They'll now
23:30Shall pick best eleven
23:32Yeah
23:32To win game
23:33Yeah
23:34Yeah
23:34And then the other challenge is
23:36Having to look at that
23:37Sure
23:38In a rough
23:39Dying
23:40And be like
23:40How am I going to not laugh
23:43Is it okay to say that
23:44No but I'd say
23:46Like I will
23:47So the bit where I'm getting
23:49Aggie
23:49I can do that
23:50Villain am I
23:51And all that kind of stuff
23:52It's the sad bit
23:53I'm struggling with
23:54And the truth is
23:55That different people
23:55Have different ways of doing it
23:57Some people will do
23:57Sense memory
23:58Your breath
23:59Your breathing
24:00Can get you there
24:01You know
24:01Um
24:02Because I saw a thing
24:03Where someone would cut a hole
24:04In their trousers
24:05And pull a pube
24:05With a tweezer
24:06I've seen that
24:07Have you
24:07Yeah man
24:08I have seen that
24:09Yeah just to get tears
24:10But the problem is
24:11You've only got so many pubes
24:12I mean if you're
24:13Especially these days
24:14If you're performing every night
24:15They do pubes do fall off
24:17Also mine have got
24:18A lot less resistance
24:19Than they used to
24:20Oh so they just fall off
24:21You could blow on mine
24:22Like a dandelion
24:22Before Martin could start
24:27Working on our performances
24:29First off
24:30We needed to warm up
24:31I'm doing the play at the moment
24:33And still to this day
24:34I still do
24:35Sort of articulation exercise
24:37To make sure that
24:38All your teeth
24:39Your lips
24:39Everything
24:40As warmed up
24:40And as malleable as possible
24:41So
24:42You just want to
24:43Shake
24:45Really?
24:49Wow
24:49Why are you laughing?
24:50That was too loose
24:52Your arms are too long
24:53That was too loose
24:54Okay so
24:55Here's another little one
24:57Get your tongue
25:01All the way
25:02Clockwise
25:03All the way
25:04Around your lips
25:05And after a while
25:06You will feel
25:07It does actually
25:08Got quite a tone
25:08Because you don't
25:09You can't
25:09Stretch it out
25:10Yeah you do feel it
25:11Do that on Lou's birthday
25:12Wow
25:15Used to do that
25:17In the office
25:17It worked
25:20It's still good
25:2124 years later
25:22It still works
25:24Clearly Martin
25:27Had still got it
25:28And now it was our turn
25:29To show him
25:30Exactly where we were at
25:31Let's try from there
25:33Right
25:34Courage man
25:35A hurt can't be much
25:36A plague of both your houses
25:38Why the devil came in between us
25:40I was hurt under your arm
25:41I thought for all the best
25:43Help me to somehow spin volio
25:45A plague of both your houses
25:47They've made worms meat of me
25:50So you're going to dice it up
25:53No well I'm going to walk off
25:55Oh right you're going to walk off
25:56But I mean for this
25:56Yeah yeah yeah
25:57I don't know what I'm going to do
25:58Right okay
25:59But then I've got to
26:00Okay but no carry on
26:01Okay sorry
26:02My very friend hath got his mortal hurt
26:05In my behalf
26:06Oh Romeo
26:07Romeo brave Mercutio's dead
26:09This day's black fate
26:11On more days doth depend
26:13This but begins the woe
26:15Others must end
26:17I think we got it
26:18Yeah
26:18Yeah
26:19Are you ready
26:20Yeah man
26:21Yeah
26:21Totally
26:21And I think if you just stand there
26:23With your script in your hand
26:24Laughing
26:25I think it will genuinely
26:27The audience will not have seen
26:29Anything like it
26:29Erm
26:31Can I tell you something
26:32You really had me
26:33You bastard
26:34You're so
26:35You really good at acting bastard
26:36That was such a rollercoaster
26:38Horrible
26:38No I thought
26:39I assumed that would be obvious
26:40No we're believers
26:41I just thought wow
26:42Brilliant I'm going into this
26:43Full of confidence
26:43Now I'm in pieces
26:44I feel absolutely rock bottom
26:46Sorry
26:46I hope you've got time to reconstruct us
26:49Yeah okay
26:50First things first
26:52We needed to tackle how Ron was going to die
26:54And after seeing what he was working with
26:57Martin had an idea
26:58So how are you feeling about the death
27:01Well I don't know what to do
27:02To save you from the thing of
27:04Dying
27:05Yeah
27:05I think when people die off stage
27:06And it's reported
27:07That can be just as effective
27:09Yeah
27:10Whoever Ben Volio is can take you off
27:11Yeah
27:12And the reporting comes back
27:14Ah reporting
27:14Are you acting
27:16Are you fucking a journalist
27:17Why don't I go home in a cab
27:20And then someone tells him
27:21I'm sad about it
27:21But the only issue with that is
27:23I sort of then have a sword fight
27:24And go off stage
27:25Yes
27:25He's left on his own
27:26No curtain
27:27Now
27:28No curtain
27:29What then
27:31Fine
27:32What are you each going to have to lay there
27:33Until they all leave
27:34That's quite a long time
27:35Come on
27:35Are we acting or not
27:37The only thing
27:37Listen
27:38What are we doing here
27:39Let me just tell you something
27:40The relish that you're putting into this
27:42I will be putting into you crying
27:44No
27:44Can I do it
27:46Yeah
27:46So you want me to just lie on the stage
27:49Until they all leave
27:50I think that
27:51What a commitment
27:51Go for glory
27:52There's some breath in it
27:53Okay sorry
27:54So you want me to just stay on the stage while they leave
27:57No breath
27:59No breath
27:59Watch
28:00Okay
28:01Oh so you think
28:02I'll just stay on the stage
28:03No curtain
28:03While there's a ten minute pause
28:05Rom definitely needed some convincing
28:16So the only way to settle this
28:17Was to give it a go
28:19The plague of both your houses
28:21They've made worms meet
28:23My very friend
28:26Have got his mortal heart
28:28In my behalf
28:28Oh Romeo
28:31Romeo brave Mercutio's dead
28:34This day's black fate
28:38On more days doth depend
28:39This but begins the woe
28:41Others must end
28:43You're off as well Martin
28:47Oh sorry
28:48And we can
28:51I tell you what
28:51Yeah
28:51Let's have a little look round
28:52Yeah
28:53Brilliant
28:55As a mate
28:56I'll try and keep that down
28:57You cannot
28:59Apart from that
29:00I think that's good
29:01Because that's like a rictus grin
29:03Yeah
29:03You can't tell whether he's laughing or dying
29:05No
29:06And then
29:06Christ
29:07I mean it hurts
29:14Yeah
29:14Quite a lot
29:15But it is very
29:16It's very moving
29:17Yeah
29:17Because I've never been near a dead ball
29:19You don't move it immediately
29:20Just walk away
29:21Go back
29:21I'm alright
29:22Yeah I'm fine
29:24No I'm fine
29:25I'm fine
29:25Don't worry about it
29:26Don't you get hurt
29:27What another series
29:28I think that's a bad idea
29:30By the way
29:30The dragon
29:30I think you might be right
29:32Yeah
29:32Worth a try
29:33It's worth a look
29:34Definitely worth a try
29:35Now
29:35Was it?
29:36Now
29:36So you go
29:37Definitely worth a try
29:38Oh yeah
29:40Come on
29:41You're the best in the business
29:43Oh wow
29:44Do you think you should leave?
29:45Do you want to just leave?
29:46Well I mean based on how that went
29:48I think leaving is probably better
29:49Leaving is probably better
29:49Okay fine
29:50Now we decided once and for all
29:53I was going to die off stage
29:54It was Rob's turn in the spotlight
29:56Don't preempt the sad
29:58Okay
29:59Just try and play the sentiment of it
30:01And the feeling of it
30:02Right okay
30:02Right okay
30:03And I for one
30:05Couldn't wait to watch him bear his soul
30:07From my very friend
30:09You've just seen him go off
30:10Yeah
30:11And he's in a bad way
30:12My very friend hath got his mortal hurt
30:15In my behalf
30:16Oh
30:17Romeo
30:18Romeo
30:20Brave Mercutio's dead
30:21This day's black fate
30:26Whoa
30:27Is that
30:34Listen man it's hard
30:34It's hard
30:35It is hard
30:35It's hard
30:36That is
30:37It's difficult
30:37It's difficult
30:38And I don't even
30:40I don't even
30:40I'm not even going to tell you how
30:41It's hard
30:42This day
30:43No
30:44Not that
30:44Is when you
30:46When you hear the news
30:47This doesn't help
30:48That
30:50And that's a common mistake
30:52Yeah
30:52I won't do that
30:54Rob was having an absolute nightmare
30:57My very friend
30:59And he just couldn't get his head around it
31:03Okay
31:03I just keep smiling
31:05It's difficult
31:06This
31:07Because
31:08Rob can't do it
31:10At all
31:11And I think
31:12Even if this show was like
31:13Rob got six months of intensive training
31:15He still couldn't do it
31:16He cannot do it
31:17And so desperate times
31:19Called for desperate measures
31:21Can I make a suggestion?
31:23Yes
31:24Why don't we shortcut it
31:25And you just pull out some pubes?
31:27I can't believe that's the best option
31:29But yeah
31:29Well what do you think
31:30I think it is the best option
31:32Well I don't know if it's the best option
31:33It's an option
31:34Yeah
31:34Just try it
31:36Don't do something you think
31:37You might accidentally start enjoying
31:39It's really into death
31:41That's my kink
31:42Okay
31:43Oh Romeo
31:46Romeo
31:47Sorry
31:48Brave Mercutio's dead
31:51This day's black fate
31:53On more days
31:55Doth depend
31:58Doth depend
32:00But this begins a woe
32:01That others
32:02Ascend
32:03I actually
32:04I think
32:04I think that was your best performance
32:06I don't do anything that was
32:06I actually
32:07I do think that was your best performance
32:09I definitely won't think about the words anymore
32:12No
32:12Fuck it
32:13I got about eight a go
32:14But did you notice what was happening
32:16When you were doing that
32:17Your breath was changing
32:18Yeah
32:18Yeah
32:18Your breath was changing
32:19Okay
32:20Breath is a massive massive part
32:22Of emotional connection
32:23Right
32:23So there's a thing that
32:25I can sometimes access
32:26Where you just
32:27You don't allow yourself
32:28Easy breath
32:29So it's a bit
32:30Sounds a bit stuttered
32:31Yeah
32:31No one about the sound
32:32Yeah
32:32Don't worry about your face
32:33None of that
32:35I can't believe we went for pubes before breath
32:37Why did you not do the breath
32:39Well the pubes
32:40Through the pubes
32:41Were the gateway to the breath
32:42Come on
32:43It had been a painful process to get there
32:46But it felt like we were on to something
32:48My very friend
32:49Have got his mortal hurt
32:51In my behalf
32:52Oh Romeo
32:53Romeo
32:55Brave Mercutio's dead
32:57This day's black fate
33:00Or more days doth depend
33:03Doth
33:04Doth
33:04This but begins the woes
33:08That others must end
33:10I think we got it
33:12Yeah
33:12Yeah
33:13Yeah
33:13I'd err on the side of
33:15Finding it very hard
33:17To get this stuff out
33:18Very hard
33:19Yeah
33:19Do you know what I mean?
33:20Yeah
33:20Okay
33:21Robert finally found a method
33:25That worked for him
33:25And thanks to Martin
33:27For the first time this week
33:28We had a real shot
33:29Of not embarrassing ourselves
33:31In front of 1600 Shakespeare fans
33:33Well I hope
33:35I hope
33:36I've been of some use
33:37You've been amazing
33:38Thank you
33:39I didn't
33:39I feel way more confident now
33:41Really?
33:42Well yeah
33:42Good luck
33:43I really hope it goes well
33:44You'll be fine
33:45And the audience will be behind you
33:46They will enjoy it
33:47This will be way funnier
33:49And luckily it's short
33:50Funnier
33:50Huh?
33:51Funnier?
33:52No
33:52No
33:52Can't do it
33:54More moving
33:54I said more
33:55Go on
34:03Do it
34:03Go on
34:04Do it
34:05Yeah
34:06Do it
34:06Do it
34:06Do it
34:07You want to do it
34:09Yeah
34:09For the last week
34:17Rob and I have been rehearsing intensely
34:19For our Shakespearean debut
34:21Courage man
34:22The hurt cannot be much
34:24To see if we had what it takes
34:26To perform one of the Bard's most dramatic plays
34:29What the devil can you between us?
34:31And after training with some of the best in the business
34:34I think genuinely the audience will not have seen anything like it
34:38The following day we had spent working on our performance with the team at the Globe
34:43But now we'd finally run out of time
34:49It was the day of our big performance at the Globe
34:54With just a few hours to go
34:56Our mentor Globe's artistic director Michelle Terry
34:59Had organised a final rehearsal to iron out any last bumps
35:03Why don't we slowly walk it from the top?
35:06She'd also brought in her husband actor Paul Reddy
35:08Who'd be joining us on stage later
35:10Nice to see you again
35:12I'm as you know
35:12I'm going to be in the scene with you
35:14Playing Benvolio
35:14And this is Paul Reddy
35:16Who will be your tibble
35:18I'm Rob and I'll be your Romeo
35:19Yeah
35:20I'm Ramesh and I'll be Mekush
35:21Yeah
35:22We'd met our co-stars
35:24But there was one big question on Michelle's mind
35:26Do you know your lines?
35:28I do yeah
35:29I'm struggling because obviously it's Shakespeare
35:32So all the words are mental
35:33Michelle looked well worried
35:35But what I'd found out from rehearsals yesterday
35:37Was Shakespearean lingo and my brain just don't get on
35:41Villain am I not
35:43I do protest I never injured thee
35:47But love thee better than thou can devise
35:49I felt like I needed another week to learn my lines
35:52We had less than three hours
35:53And Michelle clearly trying to give me a fighting chance
35:56Had stuck them on the wall
35:57Romeo
35:59Thou art a villain
36:00Villain am I none
36:02I do protest I never injured thee
36:04But love thee better than thou can devise
36:06But even with the words in front of him
36:10A plague on both your houses
36:11Rob was struggling
36:13My very friend hath got this mortal hurt in my behalf
36:18And it felt like his final line was going to give him nightmares
36:22Brave Mekusio's dead
36:24This day's black fate on more days doth depend
36:28This but the cadence that my lovers must end
36:32It's horrible isn't it
36:33It's absolutely horrible
36:35It's gonna be perfect
36:36I know I just yeah
36:37Rob's struggling
36:38I've let's be clear
36:40I've fucking nailed it
36:41I'll come dishonorable submission
36:44I am for you
36:46Come sir
36:46You're Posado
36:48I know the lines
36:50I know I did the sword fight
36:51It wouldn't have surprised me if they actually cast me as Mekusio
36:54Why the devil came in between us
36:56I was hurt under your arm
36:58I thought
37:00I thought all for the best
37:02Have I heard a single word of praise?
37:04No
37:04Michelle came over to me after one rehearsal
37:06I thought she was gonna go well done
37:07She goes
37:08Do you think Rob's okay?
37:10But I'm chill about it
37:11It's fine
37:11You know
37:11We've got to look after Rob and stuff
37:13And who cares
37:13I've spent my time learning the lines
37:15And yet I haven't received even a pat on the back
37:18Is that alright?
37:19Really good
37:20I struggled through an hour of rehearsals
37:27And now the globe was filling up
37:28Ready for the main performance
37:29I had about 90 minutes
37:31To try and get the lines in my head
37:33Villain and my mum
37:35I do protest
37:36I never
37:36I never
37:38To move is to star
37:41And to be valiant
37:43The show had started
37:441,600 people were watching
37:47Suddenly
37:48I was very motivated
37:49Not to make a mug of myself
37:50I think I've got it
37:51Want me to show you?
37:53Yeah, go on, show me
37:54Rob
37:54He's anxious about it now
37:56But when he gets on stage
37:58Just the fact that there's a crowd there
37:59Will just buoy him through
38:01What I'm slightly nervous about
38:03Is it walk out there
38:04He'll forget a line
38:05His arse will go
38:05Start doing some crowd work
38:07Oh Romeo, Romeo
38:09Brave my cushier's dead
38:11This day's black fate
38:13On others doth depend
38:15On more days
38:16Back off
38:16I need a little kick up the arse
38:19From Dr. Showbiz
38:20And when I walk out there
38:22And there's loads of people
38:22Hopefully something happens
38:24It may or may not
38:25But all I've got now
38:26Is the lap of the gods
38:28Our curtain call
38:31Was around the corner
38:32So we were off to costume
38:34To get stuffed into
38:35Some Elizabethan gear
38:36Ew
38:36But the outfits
38:44Definitely weren't helping our nerves
38:46What do I look so fucking fat in this?
38:52Mental
38:53I think the trousers
38:55We were meant to be delivering
38:58A serious Shakespearean tragedy
39:00And I was starting to worry
39:01About how the audience would react
39:03My ears are poking out
39:04My ears
39:05Is that right?
39:06Look at Legolas
39:06Is it supposed to be like that?
39:11My ears are supposed to go
39:12How have I pulled Juliet?
39:17The play had hit its tragic climax
39:19For never was a story of more woe
39:22And now
39:23It was our turn to follow
39:25What's that search?
39:32I don't like it
39:33I could shit myself and vomit
39:35Wouldn't notice on this
39:37We were about to step out
39:41In front of a packed globe audience
39:42Bill and I am none
39:43Am I none?
39:45Shit
39:45And all I could think of was
39:48Could Rob and I truly convince the crowd
39:50That we could pull off
39:51A serious Shakespearean tragedy
39:53I stepped on stage
40:04For a massive cheer
40:05But then
40:06They must have clopped my costume
40:08Thankfully
40:10We had Michelle and Paul
40:11To add some much needed gravitas
40:13Good in
40:15A word with one of you
40:17And but one word with one of us
40:20Couple it with something
40:21Make it a word and a blow
40:23We talk here in the public haunt of men
40:26Hear all eyes gaze on us
40:28Men's eyes were made to look
40:30And let them gaze
40:33Rob came out to a raucous cheer
40:36And now with both of us on stage
40:40Looking like a pair of extras from Blackadder
40:42All sense of seriousness had evaporated
40:44Romeo
40:46Thou art a villain
40:48Villain am I no
40:50I do protest
40:51I never injured thee
40:53But I love thee
40:54Better than thou devise
40:56Oh calm
40:57Dishonourable
40:58Vile submission
40:59Even Rob was struggling
41:00To keep a straight face
41:01Never mind a Shakespearean tragedy
41:03This is fast becoming a personal one
41:06Come sir
41:08Your pasado
41:09We needed something dramatic
41:11To turn this round
41:12Hold on
41:13Good
41:17I'm hurt
41:26A plague of both your houses
41:29I'm spent
41:30What?
41:32A scratch
41:32A scratch
41:33Merit is enough
41:34Courage man
41:36The hurt cannot be much
41:37A plague of both your houses
41:39Why the devil come you between us
41:41I was hurt under your arm
41:43I thought all for the best
41:44Help me into some house
41:47Benvolio
41:47A plague of both your houses
41:53It was time to make my exit
41:57And as I staggered off in my death throes
42:00Now it was all up to Rob
42:02Could he get his last line?
42:05My very friend
42:06Hath got this mortal hurt
42:08In my behalf
42:09Oh Romeo
42:10Romeo
42:13Brave Mercutio is dead
42:17This day's black fate
42:22On more days
42:24Doth depend
42:25But that begins the woe
42:28Others must end
42:30Rom and I pulled off one of Shakespeare's most dramatic scenes
42:53And the crowd loved it
42:54And what made it even better was
43:00I hadn't forgotten a single line
43:02That was um
43:17I think the hardest thing we've ever done
43:19Yeah
43:20Yeah it was
43:21What did you say?
43:22It was up there
43:22We did it and that was hard
43:23To be fair
43:24Look I don't want to
43:25I don't want to blow smoke up your pipe
43:26But that was difficult
43:27Yeah
43:28I don't want you to blow smoke up my pipe either
43:30Couldn't get to
43:31Verily we started this Shakespeare journey
43:33Oh my
43:34There were many challenges that lay before us
43:35For us
43:36The challenge is complete
43:38Upon many of the problems
43:39One included the impossibility for you to etch the lines upon your cerebellum
43:43Verily though you were able to remember nay recite the very lines that you were acquired to
43:50By the owners of the globe theater
43:52The worms
43:54I mean German
43:55Zebard
43:59It was difficult to do the Shakespeare but we managed it
44:04Okay
44:08Come on then
44:08Let's go
44:09Oh god
44:10I'm gonna go
44:12I'm open the bedroom door and go
44:13Lisa
44:14Verily I would like to mount you
44:16But you and me
44:23I will always
44:26Speak together
44:28You and me
44:31Always
44:33And forever
44:34But love
44:37But love
44:39Because always
44:40Because always
44:41You and
44:42Always
44:44And forever
44:47You and me
44:49Always
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