Mark Rylance
Mark Rylance
David Mark Rylance Watersis a British actor, theatre director and playwright. He was the first artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in London, from 1995 to 2005. His film appearances include Prospero's Books, Angels and Insects, Institute Benjamenta, and Intimacy. Rylance won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies. He played the title role in Steven Spielberg's The BFG, a live-action film adaptation...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth18 January 1960
Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.
This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.
Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.
It just came into my soul that the time and place was changing and that I wasn't the right leader for the Globe anymore.
There's a weak place in every plot, ladies and gentleman, (and) in this case, the weak place is the plot,
You would no sooner ask me to play Shakespeare away from the Globe than you'd ask some rock star to make his new record on eight-track tape.
So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.
So whoever you believe wrote the plays, they felt it was important to mask them, to mask the identity, the personality of the author.
I think the most absolute truth is only as good as the time that it's told. It's only as good as where the person, the receiver of that, is.
I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.
If something happened to Erin or Erin's job, they would be in serious trouble.
But to me I find Francis Bacon the most likely candidate to be the author.
In terms of pure acting, it's a gift.
But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.