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Freedom Is The Kind Of Essence Of Being A Pirate: You're Away From Land-locked Europe. You're Not Part Of The Society. You're Part Of The Brotherhood Of The Sea, Your Ship Is Your Sense Of Identity. So When You Approach The Wheel, That's What You Own.

I've Discovered I Prefer To Prepare A Few Notes Or Actually Write The Speech So I Can Really Hone It Down To Hopefully Be Entertaining, Try And Get A Laugh At Least By The Second Line, And Then Say What You Need To Say.

Within Our Culture, Every School Has A Swimming Pool. We Lived On The Coast. People Swam In The Surf. It's A Very Sporty Nation And At That Particular Time Anyone Who Had An Artistic Bent Was Very Much An Outsider. So If You Liked Reading Or Ideas Or Playing The Piano Then Your Dad Viewed You As A Sissy, Basically.

That's One Of Those Questions Where Somebody Says "would You Like To See More Women Behind The Camera?" And Then It Becomes I Must Have Interrupted The Interview To Make A Platform Stance. But, No, I Do Believe It. In Australia, Per Capita, We've Got A Slightly More Balanced And Healthier Statistic Than Here. I've Only Just Started Working More Regularly With Female Ads And Its Just A Beautiful, Different Energy On Set.

Like Any Classic You Hope To Get Rid Of All The Varnish That's Built Up Over The Centuries Where People Expect It To Be In A Certain Way. It's A Mighty Play. It's About A Very Old King Who Also Happens To Be A Very Old Father, So You've Got The State And The Domestic Levels In There Together. It's A Story In Extremis. Everyone Knows The End, There's Only Two People Left Alive.