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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
Alan Cumming
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Alan Cumming
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 27
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I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.
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Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.
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I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.
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When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
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