Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil.
Kenneth BranaghI come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; itโs as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre
Kenneth BranaghSomehow I know there was something so right about my doing Frankenstein and taking so long over it that I've probably been laying some ghost inside myself. It was a very necessary job for me to do, but it'll take some time to recover from it.
Kenneth BranaghIn the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
Kenneth BranaghI only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
Kenneth Branagh