Ophelia's descent part 1 – Ophelia is the one part I wanted to get right – I've watched countless versions of Hamlet and I've thought that all those Ophelia's missed the point, making her weepy and weak, when I think that Gertrude is the weak one, and the tragedy of Ophelia is that she's a strong girl in a world where she's forced to act weak... And Emma really captured this for us, and it's in the 'madness' that the real work shows – she really committed to making Ophelia's descent a real and truthful fall from sanity... |