Ralph Fiennes plunges into the role of Shakespeare’s king-slayer in a production of “Macbeth” coming to D.C.
ONDON — It was Ralph Fiennes’s mother who introduced him to his destiny. He was 8 or 9, lying atop the bunk bed he shared with his younger brother Magnus, when he asked her to tell him a story.“She started to tell it in her own words, and I was completely hooked,” Fiennes said, recalling his childhood in a big, arty family northeast of London. “Then she said, ‘I’m going to put on the record player a great actor doing speeches from his plays.
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There is nothing particularly lion-in-winterish about Fiennes. Cameras have always loved him: Remember his magnetism as the dapper cheater in ““Ralph is very academic, cerebral,” said Varma, who also worked with Fiennes in Godwin’s staging of George Bernard Shaw’s “Man and Superman” in 2015 at the National Theatre.
“Simon has this great thing where the cast have to write biographies of their characters,” Fiennes said of the rehearsal process. “And as it’s modern-day, I sort of said, ‘Well, he’s an intellectual army officer. He knows his philosophers. He reads his Nietzsche.’ I think there are those thinking military men who are well-read. That helped me go, ‘This is a man who can talk, who can have a moral conundrum.
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