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Breaking Baz: British Stage Star Luke Thallon On Joining The List Of Acting Greats Who’ve Played ‘Hamlet’ For The Royal Shakespeare Company
Luke Thallon talks about his decision to play Hamlet for The Royal Shakespeare Company and his struggles with mental health.
The principal cast consists of: Jared Harris as Claudius, Nancy Carroll as Gertrude, Anton Lesser, as the Ghost/First Player, Elliot Levey playing Polonius, Kel Matsena as Horatio, Lewis Shepherd as Laertes, and Nia Towle as Ophelia. Thallon was drawn to the theatre, he says, through watching the likes Paul Rhys in Uncle Vanya, observing the “crushing despair” of beloved and much missed Helen McCrory in The Deep Blue Sea, and Eidinger again, as Richard III. At the time he was doing a two-week summer course at the National Youth Theatre in Holloway, North London, when he received a call from his mother who proceeded to read out his exam results “and she finished with biology which was a ‘U’ and I thought, ‘Well, that’s pretty damming isn’t it?’ Unless you absolutely love science and maths you can’t learn it,” he cries as we both fall about laughing.
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