When it comes to Shakespeare and Kenneth Branagh, All Is True – except when it’s not GlobeArts
Kenneth Branagh, right, as William Shakespeare and Judi Dench, left, as Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway in All Is True. In the film, Shakespeare is a man obsessed with the death of his young son Hamnet.“To me, fair friend, you never can be old” is the first line of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 104 – and also a fine summation of Kenneth Branagh’s relationship to the most famous playwright of all time.
It was a labour of love, a very personal film, so it didn't need that kind of [publicity], and also my time was relatively limited. It was such a tight schedule, too, so everything was lean and mean. We shot the movie in about six weeks, though I worked on the screenplay with Ben for six to eight months before.It came out of an experience of playing in his own late romance,.
I think it’s like working on the plays: there’s an introspective vision to take after you’ve done all your detective work on the text. There’s always a departure point when you take an editorial position, that this is what you do when that playwright isn’t in the room. Our filling-in-the-blanks way was always from a position of going back to the plays themselves to see what clues might be legitimately found there, and of how he was preoccupied with those last plays.
It became that way, because when I saw that for the first time, it was just very arresting. For a man like Shakespeare, who wrote much about unrequited love, the idea of bringing into the story this great romantic passion was a strong thing to do, and then establish it somehow through these unsayable feelings. It has a deeply coded quality to it, an Elizabethan chess game.
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