i think because you are in a room -- like what branaugh was saying, you respond to the people you arethe room with. i get in the room with a group of actors and this beautiful language and you see what happens. you focus on that. what do they have to offer this audience, in this moment, in this room we are all in? it kind of takes over. i tried hard to listen to that. i tried to strip away everything else. i did not come in with a concept. i was not trying to think about a fascist dictator or what is elsinore, what's rotten in denmark and try to make some kind of statement about it. i just said, we are in an empty room with an audience and these words. let's see what comes out of our time together. and the essential nature of that helped me from having to be in too much dialogue with concept or with history. charlie: do you have to assume hamlet went mad because of the killing of his father? oscar: no, not necessarily. i think madness, for me, understanding it through the lens of grief became much more relatable because grief feels like a form of madness. it feels like it can easily -