Making of I, Claudius!

[philosophercat]

The mini documentary from the British release of I, Claudius has been posted on Youtube! It's really rather fun. It's so funny how I still cringe at Sian's voice. She did such a good job at the 'smooth, soft' and evil that when she, herself, is just being nice and laughing, I think she has just killed someone. lol

Oh dear, and it sounds like Derek Jacobi had to seduce some executives in order to get the part of Claudius (which, ....did I hear him RIGHT? They wanted to offer to CHARLETON HESTON? YE GODS! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! That man has caused enough brain damage! And, I mean, really... All the Romans in I Claudius are Brits. You can't have Charleton Heston playing Claudius. No. *shudder*). Anyway, it was also cute when Sir Derek says how he was confused that they were offering him Claudius "but I'm supposed to be playing Hamlet- I don't want to play Claudius." "No, no, Claudius in I, Claudius, you fool!" And, then, he plays Claudius for Mr.Brannagh, of course. I also found a youtube clip of Sir Derek playing Claudius AND Hamlet. Actually, I'll post that too!

Watch on YouTube

There are 7 more parts to this on youtube. And, now, Sir Derek Jacobi squared:

Watch on YouTube

-Sophie

Comments

[aurora-nebulosa.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Thanks for the heads-up on this! I will have to play this when I return to university where I actually have a decent (Ethernet) connection, so it won't play in fits and starts. Grr...we only have a 56 K modem with Win98 here at home and I am going through some SERIOUS Ethernet Withdrawal!

Anyway...

[philosophercat.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to wait until I get back to the uni too. I've been waiting for one to download for ages so I can play it all the way through. It takes forever! I've seen two or three parts of it now. It's really interesting to see what went into making the show, and how they interpreted their roles. Apparently, Derek Jacobi used to force the art director's assistant to talk to him because he had a stammer similar to the one he used. Sian found it difficult to be so nasty, so the director would yell things at her like: "No! No, Sian! Beastly! Be beastly to the servants! Beastly!"