"I've
considered many ways of doing Shakespeare," Kenneth
Branagh acknowledged in response to one bizarre question
during yesterday's Love's Labour's Lost
press conference. "The glam rock side of his work
I haven't currently explored."
Branagh
asked the cast members of the movie to help him out.
"David Bowie as Coriolanus?" hazarded Nathan Lane.
"James Brown would be a very good Othello," was the
suggestion of Timothy Spall (who once himself played
the Moor during his RADA days.)
Alicia
Silverstone sounded like a starstruck teenager as
she recalled her excitement when she learned that
Branagh wanted her (yes, her!) to play a French princess
in the movie. "I was so excited... and I'm still so
excited. I want to work with him again and again and
again," she enthused.
