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Off the Boards
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Having been asked to write something about Derek Jacobi, I have since spent many weeks agonizing over what to say. It needs something witty and intelligent. Something that can convey his enormous talent, his kindness and his humour. The truth is, I find it impossible to do justice in my actor's purple prose to this particular man. To put it as simply as possible then. Derek is one of the greatest actors I have ever seen. He has moved me to tears of joy and sadness through his work. He is also one of the nicest people I know, a great friend, and a wonderful companion round the dinner table. He has been as kind to me over the years as any one I've met in the acting profession (and by the way, he's also a great jiver). He's all these things and many more, which I feel unable to embarrass him with (he's also a great blusher). I just love him. Kenneth Branagh 1993 |
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I'd rather work
with Derek.
He's a great problem solver.
If there is a difficulty with the text, he works it out quickly and
with dexterity. But it's all
firmly rooted , firmly rooted in the mind. I find him more electric to
work with. His eyes are flashier. He's
an actor who revels in the craft. |
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I would hate the kind of fame where you are in a sense
prevented from leading a normal life in public, which is why I always say
that Olivier had the classiest
kind of fame. There he was, the acknowledged greatest actor in the world
and he could walk down the
street and nobody would know it was him. That's classy fame, I think,
that's the best sort of fame.
That's the sort of fame, if it did happen, that's what I would like. But
really, I just want to keep
working. I have the natural instinct of actors who always think that the next job's going
to be the last. I've been really fortunate, I really have, I've had a lot
of luck. Sir Derek Jacobi 2001 I prefer playing characters that are rooted in
fiction, really, because in a sense
the imagination has a little more freedom. When you're playing real
people, you have to live up to
people's expectations, to fit a certain stereotype, whereas anybody
can play Hamlet. It's even been played by women. It's just a question of imagination
and how far you can take your world of "let's pretend" and, in
that sense, you're freer. Off The Boards |
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