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Feb. 12th, 2020 08:02 amEver have one of those days when your brain is just sure you saw/heard/read about an actor in a particular role, only when you go to look up their career history, it's not only not there but you can't find anything that resembles that role?
I have no clue why my brain decided that Lawrence Fishburne had played the title role in Macbeth, but damn, I'd love to see him in it.
(I'd also love to see Keith Hamilton Cobb in Hamlet, but he's a little old for the title role and I'm not sure about him as Claudius- maybe Fortinbras instead. Or possibly as Creon in Antigone, I'd pay to see that.)
I have no clue why my brain decided that Lawrence Fishburne had played the title role in Macbeth, but damn, I'd love to see him in it.
(I'd also love to see Keith Hamilton Cobb in Hamlet, but he's a little old for the title role and I'm not sure about him as Claudius- maybe Fortinbras instead. Or possibly as Creon in Antigone, I'd pay to see that.)
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Date: 2020-02-12 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-02-13 10:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-02-13 01:47 pm (UTC)It may also have been influenced by an odd Macbeth production I have on DVD which takes place in a semi-post-apocalyptic setting (Scotland's pretty post-apocalyptic, Macduff spends some time elsewhere in a thoroughly green and pleasant setting). Lennox in that version was played by Steve Toussaint, and stands out in my memory as the first time I have ever seen any Shakespeare play other than Othello go 'hey, how about we cast a black dude in one of the named parts?'. Lennox isn't a big part, but he's still a named character rather than a porter or a spear carrier or a gravedigger or something, and it may have been wishful thinking on my part to have Mr. Fishburne take that kind of casting up to the top level.
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Date: 2020-02-14 10:32 am (UTC)Though speaking of interesting casting choices, have you seen that Dev Patel is playing both David Copperfield and Sir Gawain this year?
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Date: 2020-02-14 02:17 pm (UTC)