:18:01
We'll have different people read
different roles. Hopefully somehow...
:18:05
...the role and the actor will merge.
:18:08
The actor will find the role.
An actor will read one part...
:18:12
... another actor reads another.
Hopefully, the casting will get done.
:18:18
PACINO:
Who 's got Dorset?
:18:20
Who's got Dorset?
How about Lord Grey?
:18:23
Richard will read Dorset.
:18:25
- He's gonna do Buckingham.
- I thought Jim would do it.
:18:29
PACINO: He's doing Catesby.
- What do I read?
:18:31
KIMBALL:
Dorset and Grey are the same people.
:18:33
PACINO: Dorset and Grey are the same...?
KIMBALL: Yes.
:18:36
You two guys better sit on each other.
:18:40
We used two actors in the same part.
:18:44
It'll take us four weeks of rehearsal
to figure out what parts we're playing.
:18:50
In more modern plays, we feel that
we understand it. It's there for us.
:18:55
But in Shakespeare, you have
an entire company on the stage...
:18:59
...good actors not knowing where
they're going. Where they are!
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PACINO: As Americans, what is that...?
That thing...
:19:13
...that gets between us
and Shakespeare?
:19:16
That makes some of our best actors
just stop when it comes to Shakespeare?
:19:21
The problem with being
an American in Shakespeare...
:19:24
...is you approach it reverentially.
We have a feeling, I think...
:19:29
...of inferiority to the way
it has been done by the British.
:19:33
I think Americans
have been made to feel inhibited...
:19:38
... because they've been told so long
by their critics...
:19:41
... by their scholars and commentators...
:19:44
... that they cannot do Shakespeare.
:19:46
Therefore they think they can't,
and you become totally self-conscious.
:19:51
American actors are not self-conscious.
:19:54
But they are when it comes
to Shakespeare.
:19:57
Because they've been told they can't
do it, and they foolishly believed that.