Tom Hiddleston (1000)

796 Name: Anonon : 2017-08-04 11:40 ID:lq9MJtu7

Oh hi Couch and other oldies and newbies.

I was jarred from my long TH induced slumber earlier this week by news of his Hamlet. Unfortunately the article I read was the Times, and to quote Branagh:
“The play also asks, ‘What is reality? What are facts? And whose facts are they?’ In the age of fake news, our audience can’t avoid that connection. And underpinning that rage, it also talks of the effects of ‘the poison of deep grief’.”
Fake news... what is reality... the poison of deep grief...
This could be catastrophically worse than leftover bolognese at dawn.

I think regardless of the possibility of years of preliminary discussions, Sir Ken and not yet Sir TH intend to draw deeply on the summer of (no) regrets. To date it's the source of his greatest anguish and an untapped goldmine of torment.

803 Name: Heynon : 2017-08-04 17:44 ID:lvQmNxzw

>>790 My "tainted" was too strong a word - "colored by" is better.

>>796 Hi Anonon! I couldn't find the Times article, but the full interview with KB in the Stage is worth a read. Taken together, his quotes make it sound like a more political/power/communication take than "fake news": https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/interviews/2017/kenneth-branagh-directing-hamlet-tom-hiddleston-natural-shakespeare-genuine-rapport -- somehow I don't remember any references to journalism in Shakespeare's text....

>>797 Would the shirt read "I <heart> Ophelia" or "I <heart> Getrude"?

>>796, >>799, >>801, >>802 While I think that there will be a lot of emotion to mine between TH's reaction to Brexit and whatever the heck it is he currently feels about the disaster that was Tayto, I would hope for both his and KB's sake that they'll avoid anything that could be interpreted as being even remotely about Tom. If the underlying reason for doing this production now is to rehabilitate Tom's reputation, the last thing needed is any association with Tom the person rather than Tom the classical actor.

I also heard echoes of US politics in KB's description. Though I think Claudius did a much better job of running his court!

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