Shakespeare Live! - To Be or Not to Be
Clip: Season 44 Episode 9 | 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Some friends stop by to give Hamlet actor Paapa Essiedu notes on his performance.
British actor Paapa Essiedu and star of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Hamlet gets some unsolicited advice about performing the role. Tim Minchin, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant, Rory Kinnear, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Judi Dench, and Prince Charles himself all give it a try.
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Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue...
Shakespeare Live! - To Be or Not to Be
Clip: Season 44 Episode 9 | 59sVideo has Closed Captions
British actor Paapa Essiedu and star of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Hamlet gets some unsolicited advice about performing the role. Tim Minchin, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant, Rory Kinnear, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Judi Dench, and Prince Charles himself all give it a try.
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Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue...