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Headline:

The male crisis and how to cry

Synopsis:

Kenneth Branagh is back on TV to play moody cop Kurt Wallander. He talks to Serena Davies about his role, the male midlife crisis and how to cry on stage

Kenneth Branagh’s been doing a lot of weeping recently. He’s been weeping nightly on stage in Ivanov, the Chekhov play where his performance has stunned West End audiences for the past three months. And he s pends large chunks of his new BBC1 detective drama Wallander in tears, or at least with that pink-eyed look that suggests extreme lack of sleep and near physical collapse.

“What happens is you get hit by a situation where really it is impossible to evoke any other kind of reaction,” he says of the crying. “It’s an imaginative response. I don’t suddenly think about terrible things in my own life or losing my parents. I don’t bring another thing in. I just put myself there.”

Publish date:

29 November 2008

Author:

Serena Davies

Source:

Daily Telegraph

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