. >> larry: felton has said hamlet, you can play hamlet any one of 40 ways and be right. >> and be wrong>> larry: you can play him gay, you can play him macho. >> it doesn't matter. there is a million -- a million different ways to go. and every time you think you got a bead on it, you might find some kind of entry. he is a very elusive creature, hamlet. he'll get away from you. >> larry: you wanted to do him for that challenge? >> well, i didn't even know what the challenge was. you could see it on paper. >> larry: not done theater? >> oh, i've done theater, right. i started off there. >> larry: have you done shakespeare? >> i've done shakespeare, but i've never done that. i always figured myself a little not ready for that, the headiness of it. it wasn't until i read an essay, and i forgot who wrote this essay, but it was brilliant what he wrote, that you weren't meant to come to any final conclusion with hamlet, that shakespeare at this time in his life was pondering on the questions of life and the unponderable, and the mystery of what is after life and all this stuff there are so ma