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00:00Rob and I are back. It looks a bit like you're my guide. Throwing ourselves into the biggest
00:11challenges. Check, check, check. With the help of the world's best. I used to do it in the office.
00:18Together we're going on a journey of discovery. No, no, no. To find out what we like. Oh wow Rob,
00:28that's amazing. And what we don't. It feels like it's all gonna come out. This week we're going
00:34Elizabethan and taking on Shakespeare. There's a lot to take in. As we prepare to perform Romeo
00:40and Juliet. A plague of both your houses. With the help of some of our finest actors. Before
00:46putting it all on the line at the world-famous Globe Theatre in London. Come sir, your passado.
00:58So Rob. Yes. We have been invited to perform Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre. It's highly
01:11prestigious according to my wife, the drama teacher. About time and all. That's what I
01:15said. Yeah. Does the telegram man be running late one thinks? For I have been waiting for this moment
01:23upon a time. It's the kind of thing, isn't it? Yeah. The irony of two jesters driving through
01:30South London setting up an episode of a sky presentation. And the question the public
01:36asks themselves. Are the two jesters possible to once again scratch the gooch of mirth as
01:42they descend into one other episode of the famous Rob and Romesh versus Shakespeare?
01:48Piece of piss, Shakespeare, isn't it? Oh my God. I've just done about 12 sonnets, eh?
01:55I don't know any Shakespeare. I've heard of Macbeth, Hamlet, Midsummer's Night's Dream, Othello.
02:03Let's see, Hamlet. I'm going to read out some. You tell me if you've heard of them, okay?
02:08Romeo and Juliet. Yeah. King Lear. No. The Tempest. No. Julius Caesar. That's a bloke, innit?
02:16Yeah, but it's based on his life. No, I haven't seen Gladiator, but that's separate, innit?
02:20That is a different story, yeah. Taming of the Shrew. No, what's that? What's a shrew?
02:24Little mouse thing, innit? Yeah. As you like it. What the fuck's that about? It's like, um, it's sort of like the original...
02:30Springwatch special. It's the original version of Ratatouille. Right.
02:37Are you a fan of Shakespeare? No. Okay. Okay, this is what I think of Shakespeare and I'm going to get a little bit annihilated for this.
02:44Go on. I think it's overrated. Yep. And we're constantly being told it's brilliant without any real evidence of that.
02:51What is brilliant about it? Nobody can answer that question. Why do we all have to study Shakespeare?
02:56Like, what is this? Are you all right? No, I just think it's a bit...
03:00It's just a bit annoying. Really? I've never known you to be so passionate about something.
03:03I just think it just is too much. My problem with it is I struggled to learn to read at school,
03:10and then once I got an handle on it, they gave me Shakespeare was all written wrong.
03:14Right. I just think we need someone that knows what's going on and can explain why it's good.
03:19Yeah. Because you get good actors that do it and they're normal people and they must like it.
03:23Yeah. Okay. Deal? Deal.
03:30So to start our Shakespearean journey, we were heading to the Globe, the legendary open-air theatre in the heart of London,
03:36dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare. It's a modern-day recreation of the very place where Shakespeare staged his plays
03:43and offers a proper old-school Elizabethan experience.
03:48There you go. Oh, wow.
03:50Nice, isn't it? It's amazing, isn't it? Treading the boards. Yeah, very good.
03:56The theatre's first artistic director was the Oscar-winning actor, Sir Mark Rylance.
04:02And now it's in the hands of Olivier Award-winning Michelle Terry,
04:05who today would be deciding which scene Rom and I would be performing.
04:09How much is it delivered out here?
04:11Oh, give it some on the edge.
04:13He loves it. Go on.
04:15How dare you!
04:18What do you think?
04:19That was excellent.
04:20Oh, hello!
04:21It's really good.
04:22You're basically ready.
04:23Michelle, Rob, lovely to meet you.
04:24Hello. Nice to meet you.
04:25Hello, Rob. How's it going? You all right?
04:26Very good. How are you?
04:27Yeah. It's amazing. I'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.
04:36You're going to be coming on after a full house performance.
04:39So 1,600 people will have just watched a play and then you're the encore.
04:44But normally the encore is they cheer for the people they've just seen to see more of it.
04:48Oh, they'll do that.
04:49Yeah. Oh, they'll do that.
04:50And then it'll be an extra.
04:51Yeah. Bonus.
04:52But what you don't do is reward that enthusiasm by bringing on something shit.
04:57So you're going to go and do some workshops on Shakespeare.
05:01Okay.
05:02One on using your voice in this space without amplification and one on combat, stage combat,
05:07a bit of fighting.
05:08And you're also going to go get into a bit of costume, Elizabethan costume,
05:11because on the night that's what you'll be wearing so you need to get used to it.
05:14Okay.
05:15Okay.
05:16Brilliant. Thanks Michelle.
05:17Have fun. See you later.
05:18Cheers. Bye bye.
05:20Today's workshops are all about helping Michelle decide which scene would be right for us.
05:25They were taking place on the Globe's sister stage, the candle lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse,
05:30modelled on the intimate indoor theatres of Elizabethan London.
05:35And Rom and I were already looking right at home.
05:38What do you think?
05:44It's a lot to take in.
05:47Um, I feel like I'm in like a Shakespearean basic instinct.
05:50You know, things are riding up so high.
05:52Sorry.
05:53Sorry.
05:54It's like...
05:55You don't, you forget how I stuff it right.
05:57At least you can see through them.
05:58Yeah.
05:59Legs of Kimbo.
06:00Sorry.
06:01Dost wanna give me one.
06:03I don't know how to sit.
06:04Yeah.
06:05But if you don't mind me saying, you are now at the most attractive I've ever known you.
06:09Yes.
06:10Right?
06:11Because I walked up here expecting to find it funny.
06:13And I did find it funny because you were like Shakespeare and Sharon Stone.
06:17But apart from that, you actually look, you suit it.
06:20Well, the thing is to me, Rob, even if I do look more attractive, I'll always sit like a bit of a slag.
06:25Mm.
06:26And that's me.
06:27You're your mother's son.
06:29You're...
06:30You...
06:31Hi, guys.
06:35Oh, hello.
06:36Hello.
06:37Hiya.
06:38Hello.
06:39Rob, nice to meet you.
06:40I'm Liz.
06:41I'm a Globe voice coach.
06:42Nice to meet you too.
06:43So, we're gonna be starting with a vocal workshop.
06:45Oh, great.
06:46To get you on voice for the big Globe stage.
06:47Okay.
06:48Would you like to make your way?
06:49Yes, I'd love to.
06:50Yeah.
06:51Just like in Shakespeare's time, any actor performing at the Globe has to rely solely on the power of their voice to reach the audience.
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.
07:09So, Liz was putting us through a series of vocal exercises, designed to help us project properly across the vast theatre space.
07:18So, we're powering from your belly.
07:20If you power from your belly, you can do eight shows a week, which equates to about 24 hours in a week.
07:25Okay.
07:26Give me a...
07:28Nice one.
07:30Okay.
07:33Give me a...
07:34Open up your mouth a little bit more for that one.
07:37How about a...
07:39James Brown would be turning in his grave.
07:43Gorgeous.
07:46Fabulous.
07:47Ramos, do you want to give it a go?
07:48What am I doing?
07:49Ha.
07:50Ha.
07:51And a...
07:52And a he.
07:53Good girl.
07:55Goddamn.
07:56Straight back.
07:57Well done.
07:58Good stuff.
07:59Genuinely, 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 going to say the words, no, no, no.
08:08No, no, no.
08:10Beautiful support.
08:11Just doing an impression of Lou.
08:12Excellent.
08:13I feel so verbally dextrous.
08:17Honestly, I feel like I could say anything.
08:20No, no, no.
08:22Fantastic vocal production.
08:23Lovely.
08:24Lovely.
08:25Nice long neck.
08:26No.
08:27No.
08:28No.
08:29No.
08:30No to another series.
08:31No.
08:32He does need to learn that word.
08:34No more Judge Romesh.
08:36Get the gout out.
08:38No.
08:39It felt empowering.
08:40No.
08:41I feel like it's something I should say more in everyday life.
08:45Like, Romesh, do you think for the rehearsals and the vocal warm ups you should be in costume?
08:49No.
08:50No.
08:51No.
08:52No.
08:53We were now loose-lipped and warmed up and ready to get to grips with the language.
08:57Yea, all which it inherits shall dissolve.
09:00And I was starting to get into it.
09:02We're all spirits and are melted into air.
09:06Into thin air.
09:08It's quite yappy there, isn't it?
09:09It's quite shouty.
09:10Yea.
09:11But it's a nice volume.
09:12I enjoyed the volume.
09:13Personally, I thought I nailed it.
09:14Yea.
09:15Well, you always do.
09:16But then, Michelle had arranged for us to crank things up a gear with some Elizabethan action.
09:21Oh, I don't like it.
09:22I don't like it.
09:23Oh, my God.
09:24Really don't want to do that sword fighting.
09:25Do you know what I mean?
09:26We could take an eye out.
09:27And we ain't got a lot to play with.
09:28There's three between us.
09:29Hello, both.
09:30Amazing.
09:31This is Sam.
09:32Hello.
09:33We're going to do some combat stuff today.
09:34Mainly, we're going to be focusing on rapier, because as you are beautifully dressed,
09:49it was the main weapon in Shakespearean times.
09:52So, this was actually happening when Shakespeare was alive?
09:54Yeah.
09:55He's fucking well old.
09:56Oh, when was this?
09:57This is mental.
09:581600s.
09:591600s?
10:00When was that?
10:01Long time ago.
10:021600s, that?
10:03You're asking when a tiger was.
10:04I get it.
10:05It was a 1600s.
10:06I can't get me head.
10:07Should we let you two right?
10:08Was there trains?
10:09Was there trains?
10:10Trains?
10:11Yeah.
10:12How old are they?
10:13I've just got to book a train to my rapier fight.
10:15Bendy the legs, front foot first.
10:20Before we were allowed to duel it out, Rom and I had to master the footwork.
10:25Do-dum, do-dum, do-dum.
10:27Beautiful.
10:28Yeah.
10:29And 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 you want me to fight slowly?
10:37Do-dum, do-dum, do-dum.
10:39Oh, I'd kill him immediately.
10:40Yeah, beautiful.
10:41And then backwards, do-dum, do-dum, do-dum.
10:44Yeah, lovely.
10:45It's like a ferry, that.
10:46What do you mean?
10:47Slow.
10:48Rom is quite a slow mover with the sword work.
10:51I think if it was a vehicle, there'd be a beep as he returns from the duel.
10:55Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
10:59And not being fast on my feet was going to be a problem with my sparring partner.
11:04And Rob, you go for the chest first.
11:06Oh, Jesus.
11:07And we're going to flop.
11:08That's it.
11:09And then go down for the hips.
11:10And then...
11:11Okay, whoa.
11:12Wait for the fucking cue.
11:13Yeah, thanks.
11:14Why are you further on the summons?
11:17Jesus.
11:18I thought I was actually in a row then.
11:21Maisie was saying, can you follow me step by step?
11:24We'd finish the fight before she got onto the second step,
11:27because Rob just decided it's go time.
11:29Going backwards, literally the same thing.
11:31I don't retreat, mate.
11:32I'm a forward fighter.
11:33You're going to retreat.
11:34I'll cut the ring off, get him in the cold.
11:35I'll fuck you.
11:36I'll cut off.
11:37Luckily, I had the wherewithal to actually properly defend myself.
11:40Otherwise, you'd be fucking...
11:41I'd be talking to you with a rapier out my chest.
11:46By some miracle, I'd made it through training without a scratch.
11:49And now it was finally time to find out what we'd be performing.
11:52Michelle had spoken to our coaches, and together, they'd picked a scene for us.
11:57We had a really good chat about the scene that you're going to do.
12:00Okay.
12:01What we've got is a scene from the most famous play in the canon, Romeo and Juliet.
12:05Mmm.
12:06So you're going to do a friendship scene.
12:08Ooh.
12:09Not the one at the end where I kiss him when he's dead.
12:12No, not that one.
12:13Well, you could if you wanted to put it in.
12:15But...
12:16Don't he kiss...
12:17He kisses her when she's dead.
12:18Yeah, but who describes that as a friendship scene?
12:22Why would that be called a friendship scene?
12:24I don't know.
12:25I'll give you a little kiss.
12:26If you were dead, I'd give you a little kiss.
12:27Fine, but you wouldn't describe it as a friendship scene.
12:28If you were dead now, I'd give you a little kiss on your forehead.
12:31And then ring my agent, and then the ambulance.
12:38Anyway...
12:39You're going to do the other friendship scene without the kissing.
12:41Right.
12:42There's quite a lot of fights in it.
12:43A fight? Oh, okay, we're fighting in it.
12:45Nice.
12:47The scene Michelle had chosen was the pivotal fight of the play,
12:50which Romeo's best friend, Mercutio, was killed.
12:54It was classic Shakespearean tragedy,
12:56and somehow Michelle expected us
12:58to pull off one of the most dramatic scenes in history,
13:01with me playing Mercutio and Rob as Romeo.
13:04I was hurt under your arm.
13:06I thought all for the best.
13:07And the toughest part was
13:09we only had a week before we had to perform it.
13:12So, basically, I think between now and when you do it,
13:15like, if you can just learn the lines
13:17and say the lines in the right order,
13:18that's successful.
13:19Okay, great.
13:20Thanks so much.
13:21Try our best.
13:22Yeah, thank you. We'll see you.
13:23We might come back and do it.
13:24Bye-bye.
13:25Bye-bye.
13:26All the best.
13:27They made worms' meat of me.
13:29We're fucked.
13:30Yeah.
13:37In just a week's time,
13:38Rob and I will be taking on
13:39one of the most dramatic scenes in all of history,
13:41when we perform Shakespeare
13:43in the iconic Globe Theatre.
13:45Help me in some house, Benvolio.
13:47I shall faint.
13:48I've played with both your houses.
13:49They've made worms' meat of me.
13:51And we were completely out of our depth.
13:54And then go down for the hip,
13:55and then...
13:56Whoa!
13:57Wait for the fucking cue.
13:58So, to help us get ready,
14:00our mentor, Michelle Terry,
14:02had invited us back
14:03to watch Romeo and Juliet
14:05performed by the pros.
14:07But first,
14:08I wanted to see if Rob
14:09had any experience treading the boards.
14:11I dressed up as Emma Bunton once
14:13for a school play
14:14when we were doing the Spice Girls.
14:16Well, that was a play?
14:17Mmm, I don't know.
14:18It was like an assembly,
14:19not really a play.
14:20We were on stage, weren't you?
14:21Yeah, but it was more like,
14:22oh, now we've got the Spice Girls performing,
14:24we just danced through it as well.
14:25Okay, that's not...
14:26Well, now we get into the nub of the fact
14:27that I don't think you know what a play is.
14:29I've not been in a play.
14:30Right.
14:31That's the correct...
14:33That's the correct answer to that question.
14:35That's the correct answer to that question.
14:36I don't think I've even seen one.
14:37No, I don't think you have either.
14:38Romeo and Juliet, Leonardo DiCaprio.
14:40Yeah.
14:41That's a film.
14:42Right, but it's Shakespeare.
14:43Yeah.
14:44Pantomime?
14:45That's a play?
14:46I've seen the play.
14:47That's a play?
14:48Okay.
14:49I mean, it is the...
14:50You know...
14:51What I would say is,
14:52if you didn't know the person,
14:53they say, have you been to see any plays?
14:54Yeah.
14:55And you go,
14:56oh, you know,
14:57I went to see Dick Whittington at the hall.
14:59Yeah.
15:00I would say, keep that to yourself.
15:01Each year, the Globe puts on hundreds of performances of Shakespeare's plays.
15:09And none are more famous than Romeo and Juliet.
15:12Tonight's performance was our chance to get a handle on the play
15:15and see the scene we'd be performing in this unique venue.
15:19I've gigged in theatres all over the world, as you have.
15:21I've never seen one like this.
15:22No.
15:23It feels like you're...
15:24It feels like you've been transported back in time.
15:26But what Michelle had failed to mention
15:28was exactly what time period we'd be transported back to.
15:37I kind of feel a little bit ignorant
15:39because I didn't realise that Romeo and Juliet was a Western.
15:44It 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.
15:55It's about seven different time periods
15:58you're experiencing in one performance.
16:01I'm half expecting a DeLorean to come out.
16:04Emmett Brown gets out.
16:06Marty!
16:08And, just as we got used to the setting,
16:10next, we were hit with a language.
16:13With purple fountains issuing from your veins.
16:16It's the purple fountains.
16:17It's the purple fountains.
16:18Oh, jeez.
16:19I don't know what's going on in there.
16:22It's like having fondue.
16:23Have you ever had fondue?
16:24I don't know what's going on with that.
16:26But it's fun.
16:28But the fun stopped the moment our scene started.
16:32And 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.
16:49Why the devil came in between us?
16:52I think people are going to throw their shit at us.
16:56Thankfully, we wouldn't be dressing up as cowboys when we performed.
17:00And although it had been useful watching the prose in action,
17:03there was still a personal hurdle we needed to get past.
17:07Are you a fan of Shakespeare?
17:09Um, no.
17:10Okay.
17:11We're constantly being told it's brilliant.
17:12What is brilliant about it?
17:13Nobody can answer that question.
17:16We needed someone to explain to us why it was so good.
17:19So the next day, we were off to meet a Shakespeare expert.
17:22Oscar-nominated film star, Jessie Buckley.
17:27Jessie's acting career kicked off by studying the Bard,
17:29and with multiple adaptations of his work under her belt,
17:32including appearances at the Globe,
17:34she was the perfect person to help us get our heads around Shakespeare.
17:40We need your help, Jessie. We're struggling.
17:42How come?
17:43It's just that whole thing of, like, being forced to learn it at school.
17:46Yeah.
17:47And then it's lots of people telling you it's really good.
17:50Yeah.
17:51Without, for me, feeling like there's any concrete evidence.
17:53Knowing what the hell's going on.
17:54Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:55I was like, I felt like that in school too.
17:56Yeah.
17:57Just words that went way past me.
18:00Yeah.
18:01And then when I moved over to London, I did a three-week Shakespeare course.
18:04And I fell in love with it.
18:08I mean, I still don't fully understand it.
18:11That's good.
18:12I'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 into, like, his text.
18:25All the lines in it, right, obviously it's old English, but even for that time was Shakespeare a little bit flamboyant with it.
18:33But even back then they'd go, calm down, mate.
18:35Yeah.
18:36He invented so many words.
18:37At the time, I'm asking.
18:38I bet they didn't know what was going on either.
18:39That's what I'm asking, yeah.
18:40Definitely.
18:41It's a bit like listening to an E40 record, you know, he just makes up, you know.
18:45Who's E40?
18:46The rapper.
18:47Does he know about E45?
18:48Most of his stuff you can't understand what he's saying.
18:51Right.
18:52Because he makes up slang.
18:53So I think...
18:54But what does it make?
18:55Do you feel like something from it?
18:56Well, you feel like you need to try and find out what it means.
19:00There 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.
19:09Keep it going.
19:10I might stay that way.
19:12Give me some other stuff.
19:13Give me some more epiphanies.
19:17Things seemed like they were starting to click for Rom, but 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?
19:26And I've got to be really sad.
19:27What, are you doing an actual play?
19:28Yes.
19:29There.
19:30Okay.
19:31I'll be honest with you, the tone's not that encouraging.
19:34We did a scene where I am sad because Mercutio, I'm playing Romeo, Mercutio dies, right?
19:39Yeah.
19:40I'm sad.
19:41Yes.
19:42The problem is, Rob has to deliver a line with emotion that he doesn't fully understand what the line means.
19:45What is the line?
19:46So, basically, I say...
19:49Look him in the eyes and imagine your best friend has died.
19:53Yeah.
19:54I 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 on more days doth depend.
20:12But this begins the woes others must end.
20:15Okay, so...
20:16And what do you think that means?
20:18It's like, it's bad day.
20:20Um...
20:21Very bad.
20:22Yeah.
20:23It's gonna get worse.
20:24Yeah, that's basically it.
20:25Yeah.
20:26You have to work at figuring out what it means to you.
20:28Yeah.
20:29What you're saying is you don't have to know exactly what is meant by every one of those words, but you know what the sentiment of that line is, so you can deliver it with that intent, right?
20:39That's exactly what it is.
20:41Yeah.
20:42If we feel like it's all going wrong on the night, what would your advice be if your head starts to go in that negative way?
20:47Um, what I would probably think of doing is just, like, show people, you know, flash or something, but that's not what you should do.
20:54Sorry, your tip, if it's going badly and we get a negative in the voice is to get our dicks out.
21:00That's what my bad part of my brain wants to do.
21:03Okay, right, okay.
21:04But don't say you're saying don't do that.
21:05Don't do that.
21:06Oh, sorry.
21:07There's no right or wrong, just, like, go and do it and I bet you'll be brilliant.
21:12Take it till you make it.
21:13Exactly.
21:14I think you're going to be great.
21:15You're going to take the globe by storm.
21:22Rob and I are only days away from performing Romeo and Juliet at the Globe.
21:27And whilst I was starting to understand what made Shakespeare great.
21:31Do you feel like something from it?
21:33Well, you feel like you need to try and find out what it means.
21:35There you go.
21:37Rob was still having trouble accessing his emotions.
21:40What 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.
21:51Mine is to die convincingly.
21:55But I'm not as worried about myself as I am worried about Rob.
21:59The problem that Rob has got is Rob has to connect to his feelings.
22:02Rob has not done that for a long time.
22:04So the fear is that he might have a breakdown when he sort of finally reconnects.
22:09It's like when they plug the thing in the back of Neo's head in the Matrix and then upload emotion and empathy.
22:16He might just shit himself and start crying.
22:19Which is bad for him and Lou and his children but great for the show.
22:23So today we're at the Regents Park open air theatre in London to hopefully turn us two clowns into serious actors with a master class from one of our country's finest.
22:37Martin Freeman is a national treasure.
22:39He first shot to fame as the beloved Tim in the smash it series The Office.
22:43Before taking the world by storm is billed by Baggins in the blockbuster Hobbit trilogy.
22:49Hello Martin.
22:50Hello.
22:51Nice to see you.
22:52Yeah and you.
22:53You're looking very cool today.
22:55But most importantly for us he's no stranger to Shakespeare.
22:58Having played the title role in his critically acclaimed sellout run of Richard III.
23:03So if anyone can bring out our inner actors it's Martin.
23:07We need help.
23:08How can I help you?
23:09Yeah we need help.
23:10Basically we are doing a performance at the Globe Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet.
23:13I'm playing Romeo.
23:14You're Mercutio.
23:15I've got to be sad.
23:17Jeez.
23:18I mean that's quite a task.
23:19And as well as me being sad Rom's got to die which is obviously difficult to do without looking too eggy.
23:24Yeah and it's difficult to sort of draw on memories of dying previously.
23:27It is.
23:28Well you're a comic.
23:29Okay.
23:30Nice.
23:31Alright Craig.
23:32I'm glad you two are getting on.
23:33Okay.
23:34Um.
23:35So.
23:36You.
23:37How comfortable are you at the moment with saying these words?
23:40I feel a bit like a football manager that's gone to Holland.
23:43Yes.
23:44To manage and then he starts in press conferences.
23:46Yes.
23:47And because he's been so used to talking slowly to the Dutch players.
23:49Yes.
23:50He has a sort of foreign lilt.
23:52Like who had that?
23:53Steve McCarren.
23:54Yes.
23:55You know that.
23:56I love that.
23:57Thou shall pick best eleven.
23:58Yeah.
23:59Yeah.
24:00Yeah.
24:01And then the other challenge is having to look at that.
24:03Sure.
24:04In a rough.
24:05Dying.
24:06And be like how am I gonna not laugh?
24:08Is it okay to say that?
24:10No but I'd say like I will.
24:12So the bit where I'm getting aggy I can do that.
24:15Yes.
24:16Yes.
24:17And all that kind of stuff.
24:18It's the sad bit I'm struggling with.
24:19Yes.
24:20And the truth is that different people have different ways of doing it.
24:22Some people will do sense memory.
24:24Your breath, your breathing can get you there.
24:26You know.
24:27Okay.
24:28Because I saw a thing where someone would cut a hole in their trousers and pull a pube of a tweezer.
24:31I've seen that.
24:32Have you?
24:33Yeah man.
24:34I have seen that.
24:35Yeah just to get tears.
24:36But the problem is you've only got so many pubes.
24:38Especially these days.
24:39If you're performing every night.
24:41They do pubes do fall off of it.
24:42Also mine have got a lot less resistance than they used to.
24:45Oh so they just fall off.
24:46You could blow them on like a dandelion.
24:51Before Martin could start working on our performances.
24:54First off we needed to warm up.
24:57I'm doing the play at the moment.
24:59And still to this day.
25:00I still do sort of articulation exercises.
25:02To make sure that all your teeth, your lips, everything.
25:05As warmed up and as malleable as possible.
25:07Okay.
25:08So you just want to shake that out.
25:11Really?
25:12Wow.
25:15Why are you laughing?
25:16That was too loose.
25:17That was too loose.
25:18Your arms are too long for that.
25:19That was too loose.
25:20Okay.
25:21So here's another little one.
25:22Oh my.
25:25Get your tongue all the way clockwise.
25:28All the way around your lips.
25:30After a while you will feel it.
25:32It does actually get quite the time.
25:33Because you don't give it.
25:34It does, innit?
25:35Stretch it out.
25:36Yeah you do feel it.
25:37Do it on Lou's birthday.
25:40Wow.
25:41Used to do that in the office.
25:43It worked then.
25:45It's still good.
25:4624 years later.
25:47It still works.
25:48Clearly Martin had still got it.
25:53And now it was our turn to show him exactly where we were at.
25:56Let's just try it from there.
25:58Right.
25:59Courage man.
26:00The hurt can't be much.
26:01A plague of both your houses.
26:02Why the devil came in between us.
26:04I was hurt under your arm.
26:06I thought for all the best.
26:07Help me into some house Benvolio.
26:10A plague of both your houses.
26:12They've made worms meat of me.
26:14Hmm.
26:15So you're going to dice it up?
26:16No.
26:17Well I'm going to walk off.
26:18Oh right.
26:19Are you going to walk off?
26:20But I mean for this.
26:21Yeah yeah yeah.
26:22I don't know what I'm going to do.
26:23Right okay.
26:24Right okay.
26:25But then I've got to.
26:26Okay but no carry on.
26:27Okay sorry yeah.
26:28My very friend hath got his mortal hurt in my behalf.
26:31Oh Romeo.
26:33Romeo brave Mercutio's dead.
26:35This day's black fate or more days doth depend.
26:39This but begins the woe others must end.
26:42I think we got it.
26:43Yeah?
26:44Yeah.
26:45Are we ready?
26:46Yeah man.
26:47Totally.
26:48And I think if you just stand there with your script in your hand.
26:50Laughing.
26:51I think genuinely the audience will not have seen anything like it.
26:55Erm.
26:56Can I tell you something.
26:57You really had me.
26:58You bastard.
26:59You're so.
27:00You really good acting bastard.
27:01That was such a roller coaster.
27:03Horrible.
27:04No I thought.
27:05I assumed that would be obvious.
27:06No we're believers.
27:07I just thought wow brilliant.
27:08I'm going into this full of confidence.
27:09Now I'm in pieces.
27:10I feel absolutely rock bottom now.
27:12Sorry.
27:13I hope you've got time to reconstruct us.
27:14Use it.
27:15Yeah okay.
27:16First things first.
27:17We needed to tackle how Ron was going to die.
27:20And after seeing what he was working with.
27:22Martin had an idea.
27:24So how are you feeling about the death.
27:26Well I don't know what to do.
27:27To save you from the thing.
27:29Dying.
27:30Yeah.
27:31I think when people die off stage.
27:32And it's reported.
27:33That can be just as effective.
27:35Yeah.
27:36Whoever Benvolio is can take you off.
27:37Yeah.
27:38And the reporting comes back.
27:39Ah reporting.
27:40Are you acting.
27:41Are you fucking a journalist.
27:42Why don't I go home in a cab.
27:45And then someone tells him I'm sad about it.
27:47But the only issue with that is.
27:48I sort of then have a sword fight and go off stage.
27:50Yes.
27:51He's left on his own.
27:52No curtain.
27:53Now.
27:54No curtain.
27:55What then.
27:56Fine.
27:57He's going to have to lay there until they all leave.
27:59That's quite a long time.
28:00Come on.
28:01Are we acting or not.
28:02The only thing.
28:03Listen.
28:04What are we doing here.
28:05Let me just tell you something.
28:06Yeah.
28:07The relish that you're putting into this.
28:08I will be putting into you crying.
28:10No.
28:11Can I do it.
28:12Yeah.
28:13So you want me to just lie on the stage.
28:14Until they all leave.
28:15I think that.
28:16What a commitment.
28:17Go for glory.
28:18There's some breath in it.
28:19Okay.
28:20Sorry.
28:21So you want me to just stay on the stage while they leave.
28:23No breath.
28:24No breath.
28:25Watch.
28:26Okay.
28:27So you think I'll just stay on the stage.
28:28No curtain.
28:29While there's a ten minute pause.
28:31I think the mouth has to be.
28:34Oh that was so good.
28:35That was the best one I've ever seen.
28:37You are so good.
28:38Thanks.
28:39Rom definitely needed some convincing.
28:41So the only way to settle this was to give it a go.
28:44The plague of both your houses.
28:47They've made worms meet of me.
28:49My very friend hath got his mortal hurt in my behalf.
28:56Oh Romeo.
28:57Romeo brave Mercutio's dead.
29:02This day's black fate and more days doth depend.
29:05This but begins the woe.
29:07Others must end.
29:12You're off as well Martin.
29:13Oh sorry.
29:15And we can.
29:16I tell you what.
29:17Yeah.
29:18Just have a little look round.
29:19Yeah.
29:20Brilliant.
29:21As a mate I try and keep that down.
29:24You cannot.
29:25Apart from that.
29:26I think that's good because that's like a rictus grin.
29:28Yeah.
29:29You can't tell whether he's laughing or dying.
29:30No.
29:31And then.
29:32Christ.
29:38I mean it hurts.
29:39Quite a lot.
29:40But it is very moving.
29:41Does it look good?
29:42It's very moving.
29:43Yeah.
29:44Because I've never been near a dead ball.
29:45You don't move it immediately do you?
29:46Just walk away.
29:47Go back.
29:48I'm all right.
29:49Yeah I'm fine.
29:50No I'm fine.
29:51I'm fine.
29:52Don't worry about it.
29:53You getting hurt.
29:54What another series.
29:55Is there by the way.
29:56The dragon.
29:57I think you might be right.
29:58Yeah.
29:59Worth a try.
30:00Definitely worth a try now.
30:01Was it?
30:02Now.
30:03There.
30:04So you go.
30:05Definitely worth a try.
30:06Oh yeah.
30:07Come on.
30:08You're the best in the business.
30:09Oh wow.
30:10Do you think you should leave?
30:11Do you want to just leave?
30:12Well I mean based on how that went.
30:13I think leaving is probably better.
30:14Leaving is probably better.
30:15Okay fine.
30:17Now we decided once and for all I was going to die off stage.
30:20It was Rob's turn in the spotlight.
30:22Don't pre-empt the sad.
30:24Okay.
30:25Okay.
30:26Just try and play the sentiment of it and the feeling of it.
30:27Right okay.
30:28Right okay.
30:29And I for one couldn't wait to watch him bear his soul.
30:33From my very friend.
30:34You've just seen him go off.
30:36Yeah.
30:37And he's in a bad way.
30:38My very friend hath got his mortal hurt in my behalf.
30:42Oh.
30:43Romeo.
30:44Romeo.
30:45Brave Mercutio's dead.
30:47This day's black fake.
30:48Whoa.
30:49Is that?
30:50Listen man it's hard.
30:51It's hard.
30:52It is hard.
30:53It's hard.
30:54That is.
30:55It's difficult.
30:56It's difficult.
30:57And I don't even.
30:58I don't even.
30:59I'm not even going to tell you how to do it.
31:00It's hard.
31:01It's hard.
31:02It's hard.
31:03It's hard.
31:04That is.
31:05It's difficult.
31:06It's difficult.
31:07And I don't even.
31:08I don't even.
31:09I'm not even going to tell you how to do it.
31:10It's hard.
31:11This days.
31:12This days.
31:13No.
31:14Not that.
31:15When you hear the news.
31:16This doesn't help.
31:17That.
31:18It doesn't.
31:19And that's a common mistake.
31:20It's a common mistake.
31:21I won't do that.
31:22Rob was having an absolute nightmare.
31:24And he just couldn't get his head around it.
31:28Okay.
31:29I just keep smiling.
31:31It's difficult.
31:32This.
31:33Because.
31:34Rob can't do it.
31:36At all.
31:37And I think even if this show was like.
31:39Rob got six months of intensive training.
31:41He still couldn't do it.
31:42He cannot do it.
31:43And so desperate times.
31:45Called for desperate measures.
31:47Can I make a suggestion?
31:49Yes.
31:50Why don't we shortcut it.
31:51And you just pull out some pubes.
31:53I can't believe that's the best option.
31:54But yeah.
31:55Well what do you think Mark?
31:56I 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.
32:00It's an option.
32:01Just try it.
32:02Don't do something you think you might accidentally start enjoying.
32:06Trillion to death.
32:07That's my kink.
32:08Okay.
32:09Oh.
32:10Oh Romeo.
32:11Oh yeah.
32:12Romeo.
32:13That again.
32:14Sorry.
32:15Brave Mercutio's dead.
32:17This day's black fate.
32:19On more days.
32:21Doth depend.
32:22Doth depend.
32:23Doth depend.
32:24Doth depend.
32:25But this begins a woe that others ascend.
32:28I actually.
32:29I think that was your best performance.
32:31I don't do anything that was.
32:32I actually.
32:33I do think that was your best performance.
32:35Yeah.
32:36I definitely won't think about the words anymore.
32:37No.
32:38Fuck it all.
32:39I got about eight to go there.
32:40But did you notice what was happening when you were doing that?
32:42Your breath was changing.
32:43Yeah.
32:44Okay.
32:45Breath is a massive massive part of emotional connection.
32:48Yeah.
32:49Right.
32:50So there's a thing that I can sometimes access where you just you don't allow yourself easy breath in and out.
32:54So it's a bit.
32:55Sounds a bit stuttered.
32:56Yeah.
32:57Don't worry about the sound.
32:58Yeah.
32:59Don't worry about your face.
33:00None of that.
33:01Can't believe we went for pubes before breath.
33:03Why did you not do the breath?
33:05Well the pubes through the pubes were the gateway to the breath.
33:07Come on.
33:08It had been a painful process to get there but it felt like we were onto something.
33:14My very friend hath got his mortal hurt in my behalf.
33:18Oh Romeo.
33:20Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead.
33:24This day's black fate or more days doth depend.
33:29Doth.
33:30Doth.
33:32This but begins the woes that others must end.
33:36I think we got it.
33:37Yeah.
33:38Yeah?
33:39Yeah.
33:40I'd err on the side of finding it very hard to get this stuff out.
33:44Very hard, yeah.
33:45Do you know what I mean?
33:46Yeah.
33:47Okay.
33:48Rob had finally found a method that worked for him and thanks to Martin for the first
33:53time this week we had a real shot of not embarrassing ourselves in front of 1600 Shakespeare
33:58fans.
33:59Well I hope, I hope I've been of some use.
34:03You've been amazing.
34:05No.
34:06I feel way more confident now.
34:07Really?
34:08Yeah, good luck.
34:09I hope it goes well.
34:10You'll be fine.
34:11And the audience will be behind you.
34:12They will enjoy it.
34:13This will be way funnier.
34:14Luckily it's short.
34:15Funnier?
34:16Huh?
34:17Funnier?
34:18No.
34:19No.
34:20Can't do it.
34:21More moving.
34:22Go on.
34:23Go on.
34:24Do it.
34:25Go on.
34:26Do it.
34:27Go on.
34:28Do it.
34:29Go on.
34:30Do it.
34:31Yeah.
34:32Do it.
34:33Do it, Martin.
34:34You want to do it.
34:35Go on.
34:36Go on.
34:37Go on.
34:38Go on.
34:39Go on.
34:40Go on.
34:41Go on.
34:42Go on.
34:43Go on.
34:44Go on.
34:45Go on.
34:46Go on.
34:47Go on.
34:48Go on.
34:49Go on.
34:50Go on.
34:51Go on.
34:52Go on.
34:53Go on.
34:54Go on.
34:55Go on.
34:56Go on.
34:57Go on.
34:58Go on.
34:59Go on.
35:00Go on.
35:01Go on.
35:02Go on.
35:03Go on.
35:04Go on.
35:05Go on.
35:06Go on.
35:07Go on.
35:08Go on.
35:09Go on.
35:10Go on.
35:11Go on.
35:12Now, we'd finally run out of time.
35:16It was the day of our big performance at the Globe.
35:20With just a few hours to go,
35:21our mentor, Globe's artistic director, Michelle Terry,
35:24had organised a final rehearsal to iron out any last bumps.
35:28Why don't we slowly walk it from the top?
35:31She'd also brought in her husband, actor Paul Reddy,
35:33who'd be joining us on stage later.
35:36Nice to see you again.
35:37As you know, I'm going to be in the scene with you playing Benvolio,
35:39and this is Paul Reddy, who will be your tibble.
35:43I'm Rob and I'll be your Romeo.
35:44Yeah, I'm Ramesh and I'll be Mekusha.
35:47We'd met our co-stars,
35:49but there was one big question on Michelle's mind.
35:52Do you know your lines?
35:53I do, yeah.
35:54I'm struggling because it obviously shakes me,
35:57so all the words are mental.
35:59Michelle looked well worried,
36:00but what I'd found out from rehearsals yesterday
36:03was Shakespearean lingo and my brain just don't get on.
36:06Villain am I not?
36:09I 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,
36:19and Michelle, clearly trying to give me a fighting chance,
36:21had stuck them on the wall.
36:23Romeo, 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.
36:37Rob was struggling.
36:38My very friend hath got this mortal hurt in my behalf.
36:43And it felt like his final line was going to give him nightmares.
36:48Brave Mekusha's dead.
36:49This day's black fate on more days doth depend.
36:53This for the games that my lovers must end.
36:57It's horrible, isn't it?
36:58It's absolutely horrible.
37:00It's going to be perfect.
37:01I know.
37:01I just, yeah.
37:03Rob's struggling.
37:04I've, let's be clear,
37:05I've fucking nailed it.
37:07I'll come, dishonorable submission.
37:10I am for you.
37:11Come, sir.
37:12You're Posado.
37:14I 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 Mekusha.
37:19Why the devil came you between us?
37:21I was hurt under your arm.
37:24I thought, I thought all for the best.
37:27Have I heard a single word of praise?
37:29No.
37:30Michelle came over to me after one rehearsal.
37:32I thought she was going to go, well done.
37:33She goes, do you think Rob's okay?
37:35But I'm chill about it.
37:36It's fine.
37:36You know, we've got to look after Rob and stuff.
37:38And who cares?
37:39I've spent my time learning the lines.
37:40And yet I haven't received even a pat on the back.
37:43Is that all right?
37:44Really good.
37:46I struggled through an hour of rehearsals
37:52and now the globe was filling up
37:53ready for the main performance.
37:55I had about 90 minutes
37:56to try and get the lines in my head.
37:58Villain am I none.
38:00I do protest.
38:01I never, I never injured.
38:04To move is to star.
38:07And to be valiant.
38:08The show had started.
38:101,600 people were watching.
38:12Suddenly, I was very motivated
38:14not to make a mug of myself.
38:15I think I've got it.
38:17Do you want me to show you?
38:18Yeah, go on, show me.
38:19Rob is 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 that walk out there,
38:29he'll forget a line,
38:30his arse will go and start doing some crowd work.
38:32Oh, Romeo, Romeo.
38:34Brave, Mercutia's dead.
38:37This day's black fate on others doth depend.
38:40On more days.
38:41Back off.
38:42I need a little kick up the arse from Dr. Showbiz.
38:46And when I walk out there
38:47and there's loads of people,
38:48hopefully something happens.
38:49It may or may not,
38:50but all I've got now
38:52is the lap of the gods.
38:53Our curtain call was around the corner,
38:57so we were off to costume
38:59to get stuffed into some Elizabethan gear.
39:01Ew!
39:08But the outfits
39:09definitely weren't helping our nerves.
39:13Why do I look so fucking fat in this?
39:16It's...
39:16Mental.
39:18We were meant to be delivering
39:23a serious Shakespearean tragedy,
39:25and I was starting to worry
39:26about how the audience would react.
39:28My ears are poking out.
39:29My ears.
39:30Is that right?
39:31Look like Legolas.
39:34Is this...
39:35Is this supposed to be like that?
39:36My ears are supposed to go.
39:38How have I pulled Juliet?
39:42The play had hit its tragic climax.
39:45For never was a story of more woe.
39:48And now,
39:49it was our turn to follow.
39:56That's all set.
39:57I don't like it.
39:59I could shit myself and vomit.
40:01Wouldn't notice on this.
40:04We were about to step out
40:06in front of a packed Globe audience.
40:08Villain, I am numb.
40:09Am I numb?
40:10Shit.
40:11And all I could think of was,
40:13could Rob and I truly convince the crowd
40:15that we could pull off
40:16a serious Shakespearean tragedy?
40:18I stepped on stage
40:29for a massive cheer,
40:30but then
40:31they must have clopped my costume.
40:33Thankfully, we had Michelle and Paul
40:36to add some much-needed gravitas.
40:39Good in.
40:41A word with one of you.
40:43And but one word with one of us.
40:45Couple it with something.
40:46Make it a word and a blow.
40:48We talk here in the public haunt of men.
40:51Hear all eyes gaze on us.
40:54Men's eyes were made to look.
40:56And let them gaze.
40:59Rob came out to a raucous cheer.
41:03And now with both of us on stage,
41:05looking like a pair of extras from Blackadder,
41:07all sense of seriousness had evaporated.
41:10Romeo!
41:12Thou art a villain.
41:14Villain am I no.
41:15I do protest I never injured thee,
41:18but I love thee better than thou devise.
41:21Oh, calm, dishonorable, vile submission.
41:24Even Rob was struggling to keep a straight face.
41:27Never mind a Shakespearean tragedy.
41:29This was fast becoming a personal one.
41:31Come, sir.
41:34Your passado.
41:35We needed something dramatic to turn this round.
41:37Oh, hell!
41:41Good, Mercutio!
41:51I'm hurt.
41:53I've played on both your houses.
41:54I'm spared.
41:55What?
41:57A scratch, a scratch.
41:58Merit is enough.
42:00Courage, man.
42:01The hurt cannot be much.
42:03A plague of both your houses.
42:05Why the devil come here between us?
42:06I was hurt under your arm.
42:08I thought all for the best.
42:11Help me into some house, Benvolio.
42:16A plague of both your houses.
42:21It was time to make my exit.
42:23And as I staggered off in my death throes,
42:25now it was all up to Rob.
42:27Could he get his last line?
42:29My very friend hath got this mortal hurt in my behalf.
42:34Oh, Romeo.
42:35Oh, Romeo.
42:37Romeo.
42:41Brave Mercutio's dead.
42:46This day's black fate on more days doth depend.
42:51But that begins the woe.
42:54Others must end.
42:55Ron and I had pulled off one of Shakespeare's most dramatic scenes,
43:18and the crowd loved it.
43:19And what made it even better was I hadn't forgotten a single line
43:41That was um, I think the hardest thing we've ever done. Yeah
43:46Yeah, it was I say it was out there we did and that was our tree fair
43:49I don't know. I don't approach smoke up your pipe, but that was difficult
43:52Yeah, I don't want you to blow smoke up my pipe either couldn't get to verily we started this Shakespeare journey
43:58Oh, there are many challenges that lay before us for us
44:01The challenge is complete upon many of the problems one included the impossibility for you to etch the lines upon your cerebellum
44:08Verily though you were able to remember nay recite the very lines that you were acquired to by the owners of the globe theater
44:17the worms
44:19German
44:21The bar it was difficult to do the Shakespeare, but we managed it
44:32Okay, come on. Let's go come on. Oh God
44:36I'm gonna go I'm open the bedroom door and go Lisa verily. I would like to mount you
44:41No
44:41Oh
44:43Oh
44:45Oh
44:49Oh
44:51Oh
44:53Oh
44:55Oh
44:57Oh
44:59Oh
45:01Oh
45:03It was always you and me away
45:10And forever you and me away
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