{"id":1793,"date":"2008-08-22T10:13:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T18:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/08\/22\/its-actually-jacobean-rather-than-shakespearean\/"},"modified":"2008-08-22T10:13:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T18:13:25","slug":"its-actually-jacobean-rather-than-shakespearean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/08\/22\/its-actually-jacobean-rather-than-shakespearean\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s actually Jacobean rather than Shakespearean.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian and I are a bit obsessed with Brian Cox, and I was very happy to notice that the AV Club had done a Random Roles bit with him (an excellent interview schema, which takes the annoying bolded reporter-voice almost entirely out of it and just leaves the meat of the subject rambling about cool stuff).  I was not disappointed.  You might say I was <i>reappointed.<\/i>  I mean, read this stunningly clear and concise evaluation of American film versus British theatre, prompted by a little question about his career arc post-Rob Roy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/feature\/random_roles_brian_cox\">If you grow up in these islands<\/a>\u2014especially where I grew up in these islands\u2014the theatre is very powerful, very potent. It&#8217;s a part of our heritage. Our culture is really a theatrical culture, not a cinematic culture. Feudal societies don&#8217;t create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don&#8217;t fall into &#8216;Everybody in their place and who&#8217;s who,&#8217; and all that. But the theatre&#8217;s full of that. Especially in Shakespeare. So in a way, it behooves you as a British actor to try and master the classics and become a classical player. I got caught up in it. It wasn&#8217;t something I wanted to do, but I was too late.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You see, the free cinema, the cinema of Albert Finney, Peter O&#8217;Toole, Alan Bates, Tom Courtenay\u2026 That all ended by the time I came along. So I went to work in the Royal Court, because they weren&#8217;t going to be making any more of those movies.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian and I are a bit obsessed with Brian Cox, and I was very happy to notice that the AV Club had done a Random Roles bit with him (an excellent interview schema, which takes the annoying bolded reporter-voice almost entirely out of it and just leaves the meat of the subject rambling about cool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,86,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discoveries","category-drama","category-obsessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}