of malvolio? >> some people may say he is a pompous self-regards ass, therefore it took little of a stretch. i think as in all acting people often find this so pretentious, any time an actor opens his mouth it seems to be pretentious, our job is necessarily to entertain people and the fact is you have to believe in it and you have to see it from his point of view, that simple and malvolio he genuinely thinks he is keeping the house calm he thinks the influence of the fool and mariah and sir toby who drink a lot are bad and he thinks he would make a wonderful husband for olivia and he even thinks there is an example for that, the lady married the -- of the wardrobe so there are local references so times when, you know, some servant has married their mistress or master, so he just goes off into fantasy land. other people have played him as really quite wicked or highly comic and brilliant comic performance by sir donald simmons and i ran into him just before i started rehearsal he said, oh, i give y

he is currently playing malvolio in "twelfth night."ow is it to be on broadway with this remarkable production? >> it is remarkable not just speakingf the greatest actor in the world, mark rylance plays richard the third -- i am not in "richard ii." what you think that? >> is not a charisma that he has that is, to other actors. it is just quite something. it -- -- the cap he described olivia. he said i have just seen the greatest stage actor. he was a nobody. he wanted to be a film student. they said to him, why? i said, i don't know. it is something he gives off. you can train to have it. aboutre is a famous story olivia having a remarkable performance. it was roddy mcdowell who went backstage and thought that this was a moment of a great performance. he was there and had his hands in his head and was sobbing. why? it was remarkable. he said, yes, but i don't know why. it will not be as remarkable tomorrow. >> is that like sports. there is one day where the racket in your hand -- and the ball floats just inbounds and you can time it an

it makes malvolio look like a fool.e ends up in prison and nearly completely mad. >> tell me about your approach and what was it for you to get inside malvolio? >> some people say that he is a pompous, self-regarding ass. it took very little to stretch that. [laughter] our job is to entertain people. we did not have to explain in the process. you have to believe the character. you have to see it from your point of view. malvolio actually believes that he is keeping the house calm. he believes the influences of the full and mariah are bad and he thinks he would make a wonderful husband for olivia. there is an example for it. the lady of the streets married the lead of the wardrobe. they're looking to times when the service has married their mistress or master. he goes off into a fantasy land. other people play them is highly wicked or quite comic. he said, i give you full permission to use my business. in the garden scene, make sure that your art director has a sundial. i used to come on and i would look at the sundial a