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...MA: The play is a kind of a mirror, and I think it allows us to look at contemporary anxiety and confusion in a very direct way that's very immediate to the moment. It felt like contemporary times and Shakespeare could speak to each other, and there's a tradition of that. It's not a novel idea, it's not like I thought of it. There's a great tradition of updating Shakespeare and making it contemporary...
...MA: It came naturally. Writing the adaptation was the easiest part, because the play just seemed to yield. It felt like a good fit with contemporary reality. It was simply a matter of having your eyes open, and being sensitive to all the parallels and metaphors. To that inventory of Hamlet-like figures, Ethan added Kurt Cobain, someone who seems to embody the voided promise, someone who was brilliant, and ran off the rails. Someone who was marred and tormented. It's not hard to find Hamlet in contemporary reality. The play is called "Hamlet", but it's actually about...
...MA: He was our first choice. We talked to him through his agent, and he said he was "interested". His agent said he usually turns everything down, and when Bill Murray says "maybe", it usually means "yes". So, we just had to wait for the Cubs to lose the pennant, because if they had won, he would have been too busy, and he has his priorities. But, they didn't win, and we were very fortunate...
...MA: Diane had also played Hamlet in her twenties, and also played Ophelia with Kevin Klein onstage, so she knew the play better than anyone. EH: She was a great resource, in three different capacities. She was Clare Danes' mother in _Romeo + Juliet...
...MA: He didn't wear that hat in _Reality Bites...