I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.
Ben KingsleyAs an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
Ben KingsleyThe leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.
Ben KingsleyI think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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