Breaking Baz: British Stage Star Luke Thallon On Joining The List Of Acting Greats Who’ve Played ‘Hamlet’ For The Royal Shakespeare Company
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Luke Thallon is in good company when it comes to playing Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Toby Stephens, Alex Jennings, David Tennant, and Paapa Essiedu are just a few of the actors who have taken on the melancholy royal for the RSC.
Ben Kingsley gave his Hamlet at Stratford-upon-Avon Upon Avon in 1975. When Richard Attenborough couldn’t decide who to cast to portray Mahatma Gandhi in his epic movie Gandhi, he remembered Kingsley’s interpretation of the Dane.
The rest is Academy Award history. Now it’s Thallon’s turn. He’s unknown outside of the theatre world. But within it, he’s celebrated and adored, because he can, seemingly effortlessly, take on any role from a young grabby and grubby Roman Abramovich in Peter Morgan’s play Patriots, disparate roles in Tom Stoppard’s sprawling masterpiece Leopoldstadt, all the way back to his professional debut in Mike Bartlett’s 2017 production of Albion at the Almeida, which he did during his final year at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
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