For Sure, You Have To

You Had To Be Into Sport And, Sad To Say, I'm A Traitor To My Country Because I Don't Have A Sporting Bone In My Body.

I Suddenly Became Aware Over The Last Couple Of Years That I'm In My Sixties. I Never Thought About It. I Thought I'd Better Start Acting My Age Or Find Roles That Are Going To Be Interesting To Me In The Sexagenarian Repertoire, Because It's Not What You Do In Your Forties Or Fifties.

I Like Roles That Are On The Extreme Ends Of The Spectrum, And There's Special Appeal In Exploring These Slightly Forgotten Plays That People Might Think Of As Subjects For Academic Term Papers Instead Of Live Theater.

Within Our Culture, Every School Has A Swimming Pool. We Lived On The Coast. People Swam In The Surf. It's A Very Sporty Nation And At That Particular Time Anyone Who Had An Artistic Bent Was Very Much An Outsider. So If You Liked Reading Or Ideas Or Playing The Piano Then Your Dad Viewed You As A Sissy, Basically.

There's Four Biggies. There Was Elizabeth I, George Iii, Victoria, And The Current Queen, Who Really Dominated Four Eras.