Ben Affleck on Ned Alleyn
"Ned Alleyn is sort of th Tom Cruise of the Elizabethan theatre. He's the big star who has his own company of actors and just like in Hollywood today you needed to have a Ned in your project to make it a success. At the time of the movie it was Christopher Marlowe, not Shakespeare who was regarded as the great playwright and basically Ned Alleyn was a much bigger star in his day than Shakespeare who at this time was really just a second tier playwright. In the movie Ned Alleyn is a very bombastic, loud, proud, over the top kind of guy who is really impressed by himself. I had a lot of fun doing it."
John Madden on Ned Alleyn
"The word ebullient must have been coined to describe Ben Affleck. He is just a natural comedian, he has this larger than life quality which is admirably suited to the role of the big star Ned Alleyn." |
