But we were going to have a completely 50/50 cast. “Famously, Shakespeare wrote many, many parts for men and less parts for women. “There were 10 actors, five men, five women,” he says of their cast. They weren’t outside the action watching it, they became a part of it.”īut if you weren’t one of the lucky few to score a ticket, fear not, as Hiddleston drops more than a few passages from the play during the discussion, where he also talks about gender swapping some of the roles. And it was going to give them nowhere to hide. Which I love as an actor, I’m a sucker for punishment. Of the staging, which was done in a thrust configuration in the small space, Hiddleston says, “I knew that was going to give us two things: It was going to give me nowhere to hide. The fundraiser for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts was already hot ticket for obvious reasons, made all the more scorching by the fact it was performed in a 160-seat theater with admission being determined by a lottery system. Last fall, he portrayed one of the Bard’s most iconic characters in a production of “Hamlet” directed by Kenneth Branagh.
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