with dow want me. >> rose: i thought you were going to say something like if if david hare called mei thought, you know, you have got to be kidding, in those days. >> rose: why would you do it again? if you have already done it. >> i did it again because this is a question to which i don't absolutely know the answer. but i will speculate. one is that i wanted to do a play and there aren't many plays that i want to do. it's a great role. i wanted to do it originally in new york. i figured that justified it because i had only ever done it in london. then it turned out people couldn't do that. so i did it in london which was wonderful. i loved the play with all my heart. i think it's a brilliant thing in the world it hadn't been produced majorly for a long time. david had kind of protected it. and you know, i love it. so i figured. >> rose: what do you love about it? >> i love the fact that it's-- it's funny in a way that i find heartbreaking. it's-- i love the way that the broader issues are perfectly and invisibly integrated into the story of two people trying to come to terms with on

charlie: the next person is david hare, what is it about the two of you?onship started when i was 30. i did a television film with him. when i read the first thing he wrote, it rang in me in a way that i think with great writing or great art it often does. it was almost as if it were familiar to me. if you had given me time i would have gotten around to saying things like that. it chimed in terms of its attitude to the world with things i was already thinking. the elegance, the beauty and the with -- he writes the best jokes in town -- was something that was very familiar. it was the first time i had read a contemporary script that blew me away. david counted recently, 10 things we have done together now. i treasure that. charlie: stage, theater, film and television. >> yeah. charlie: some actors tell me that they rarely accept a part if it scares them. >> yeah. , when i was younger, i used to turn them down. i would invent some fancy reason then i got real. , i started to take jobs which had invented as apparently out of my range. charlie: what is an exam

charlie: the next person is david hare, what is it about the two of you?relationship started when i was 30. when i read the first thing he in a way rang in me that great writing or arts does. it was almost as if it were familiar. if you had given me time i would have gotten around to saying this. -- things like that. of -- and the beauty, and the wit was something that was very familiar. it was the first time i had read a contemporary script that blew me away. counted recently, 10 things we have done together now. i treasure that. filmie: stage, theater, and television. some actors tell me that they rarely accept apart if it scares them -- a part if it scares them. bill: i used to turn them down. i would invent a reason, then i got real. i started to take jobs which apparently i had invented -- it was apparently out of my range. charlie: an example? bill: "skylight. " it was one of the greatest things i had seen. traditionally i would turn it down with my agent and then would david would call me personally and i would hear his way sensei, ok i am coming --