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Andre Sills

Andre Sills

Actor

Jul 8, 2026

6:03
All in the quest for Othello?
6:05
All in the quest, well, in the quest of Othello, and a little bit of Oberon.
6:08
But, um, you know, there's certain speeches, or, like, Othello has a big speech at the beginning of the play where he's talking about his journeys and different places that he Has been to of being a possible slave, or being a slave and then his redemption thence.
6:25
And, and, and so there is something about the Mediterranean that I felt like I had to hit both sides of it.
6:33
So to be in Venice, to see its architecture, to be in the Doge Palace where that first, that scene where he's talking about his travels happened, would have happened in that building.
6:49
And to go to Cyprus to see in m- what is now the Turkish side of Cyprus, Famagusta, there is a walled city, and inside of that walled city there is a bust of Shakespeare, and right beside it is a castle that is called Othello's Castle, and Desdemona's garden's right outside.
7:17
So it was interesting to kinda like really feel the energy of what each place has to offer.

24 MINS LATER

30:55
I b- I bet being an athlete, I bet being a rugby player is helping you with this.
13:07
school.
13:09
And they worked us to the bone.
13:12
Was it necessarily to get to your best work? Maybe not.
13:18
But it definitely showed me that I could do it.
13:27
Now, was there...
13:29
Was there rough treatment of people? Yes.
13:34
Was there hard things for people to overcome? Yes.

20 MINS LATER

33:55
And then it seems so obvious when you've had time to look and think and not feel the pressure of, of the clock.

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