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Sep 11, 2026
Eric AndersonHOST
That was, that was pretty fantastic.
Eric AndersonHOST
Um, I know I am a bigger fan of Elsinore than, than m- uh, many here, or at least some here, and I wanna speak on that just for a moment, and that is Andrew Scott who is playing actor Ian Charleson, the Scottish actor who was in Gandhi and Chariots of Fire, and throughout his life sort of did not hit the, the high highs, uh, of a UK actor, but was well-known, and finds himself at a convergence in his life where he has HIV AIDS, is literally dying as he gets the role of a lifetime to play Hamlet for the National Theatre, and it is a very short time period of that, the rehearsal performance.
Eric AndersonHOST
And for Andrew Scott, he, he is very familiar with Hamlet, having played him hundreds of times himself.
Eric AndersonHOST
And I'm already a fan of, of Scott's diversity of work.
Eric AndersonHOST
I think what he's doing in this is so complicated because he has to deconstruct his own version of Hamlet to create a very different one and a very new one.
Eric AndersonHOST
And I totally understand and accept the very '90s-ish Oscar bait of it all.
Eric AndersonHOST
It's, it's very that.
Eric AndersonHOST
It's, it does feel like a, like a Miramax film.
Anne ThompsonHOST
It's set in the period of AIDS.
Anne ThompsonHOST
It's a really good actor who gets the chance of a lifetime to play Hamlet.
Anne ThompsonHOST
And this is a real story.
Anne ThompsonHOST
It's a true story.
Ryan LattanzioHOST
We're still in a time where political forces and suppression are working against health infrastructure for AIDS and support for its victims and all of these things.
Ryan LattanzioHOST
Despite Andrew Scott being very good in this movie, I think, unfortunately, it's not very well made.
Ryan LattanzioHOST
The editing tends to overcomplicate the project in the sense that by the time we get to what we were supposed to see as this play Hamlet that he's doing on the West End at the National Theater, it's edited to ribbons like it's a...
Ryan LattanzioHOST
It's a little trailer.
Sasha StoneHOST
Well, here's my, here's my pitch, just really quickly, Jeremy, and then I'll hand it over to you, is just the last thing I want to say is that what I think drives Andrew Scott more than, than anybody is that he, as I wrote, I've written about this, is that he has a story, an Oscar story, and that story is that he's playing...
Sasha StoneHOST
He's a openly gay man playing an openly gay character, and he was also a guy who played Hamlet.
Sasha StoneHOST
And so I think those things factors together, if, if the publicists use that, they can get the making history vote.
Sasha StoneHOST
Um, that's, that's my strongest pitch having not seen it.
James MenendezHOST
This man was just full of love.
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
Actor Andrew Scott's very moving portrayal of Charleson in 1989 as a man determined to prevail playing Hamlet on stage despite suffering from AIDS was the talk of the festival and fueled Oscar speculation.
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
But it's not just well-wrought feature films that are populating festival season this year.
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
The harsh realities of the outside world are also being brought to audiences with a number of powerful documentaries.
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
[crowd cheering] The late Scottish actor Ian Charleson, who starred in Chariots of Fire in 1981, was the subject of the film Elsinore, launched at Telluride.
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
Actor Andrew Scott's very moving portrayal of Charleson in 1989 as a man determined to prevail playing Hamlet on stage despite suffering from AIDS, was the talk of the festival and fueled Oscar speculation.
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
But it's not just well-wrought feature films that are populating festival season this year.
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
The harsh realities of the outside world are also being brought to audiences with a number of powerful documentaries.
AdamHOST
Just throwing them in there.
AdamHOST
Anyone else iconic we've met? You've got to have Laurence Olivier with the complete vibe shift as he performs a monologue from Hamlet halfway through.
DrewHOST
Yeah.
AdamHOST
With brilliant perfection, but just totally not what people paid for.
SarahHOST
Yeah, what would he be? Herbert
DrewHOST
Munden gets run over by the...
SarahHOST
yes he would I love having a ghost section though like Hamlet's dad Rebecca I don't know of any other ghosts that we've had
DrewHOST
yeah they definitely do a la cavalcade a float in the shape of the Titanic
ImranHOST
Where do you know him?
AnthonyHOST
Hamlet.
ImranHOST
Yes.
ImranHOST
He played Hamlet in Hamlet.
ImranHOST
He is also one of the kids in The Quiet Place movies, one of the, the three kids.
ImranHOST
Uh, he most, most recently, this is what's interesting, he was most recently, uh, starred opposite Sadie Sink in the West End's Romeo and Juliet on stage, and he got really good reviews.
Eric McClenahanGUEST
Does that ring true to you?
Dave RobertsHOST
C.S. Lewis talked about Hamlet never knew Shakespeare.
Dave RobertsHOST
You know, that that this situation with God in our story, you know, that he just never only way Hamlet could ever know Shakespeare is if Shakespeare writes himself into the story.
Dave RobertsHOST
Yeah.
Dave RobertsHOST
And so Lewis's point was and so God writes himself into the story.
FrankieHOST
versus just darkness darkness plunge you into darkness oh and here's some pus and here's some blood yeah just utterly miserable yeah i and i i hate to be honest with you i hate just complaining about something i hate knowing my stance in life usually is if i watch something and i don't like it and it's not for me i'll just turn it off and i'll walk away from it and i won't slag it off on the internet or whatever because that's not my you know because everyone there's something out there for everybody to each their own but because we have this podcast we have to be honest we have to talk about it i can't not say we can't not say how we feel about it so here we are we've done it
speaker_12SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
How do you approach a character like Poirot, who is like a Hamlet? He's played by so many, but this is a Poirot we've never seen before.
speaker_12SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He's quite complicated, he's lonely, he's humiliated.
speaker_12SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So how did you tackle the character?
speaker_3NARRATOR
And now, here's Cassidy.
Cassidy CashHOST
Immortalized as Elsinore in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Kronborg Castle is one of the most important Renaissance castles in Northern Europe.
Cassidy CashHOST
It's a real castle and a historical stronghold that sits in the town of Helsingør, Denmark.
Cassidy CashHOST
Kronborg is as fascinating as it is beautiful.
Cassidy CashHOST
And our guest this week, Laura Keel, is the operations coordinator at Kronberg Castle, where she plays a key role in caring for the castle's remarkable collection, from grand paintings and heavy antique cabinets to exquisite historical costumes.
Cassidy CashHOST
During her 12 years at Kronberg, Laura has also become the castle's in-house Hamlet expert, having taken part in coordinating many productions of Hamlet staged within the iconic setting of Kronberg itself.
Cassidy CashHOST
Laura joins us today to take us inside the castle to understand more about the history and why it was used in Shakespeare's play, along with what was going on at Kronborg when Shakespeare staged his famous tragedy within its gates.
Cassidy CashHOST
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