6/24/2023 0 Comments 12 01 russell molinaThere is a staircase, and they will tread, they trudge, over any toil and mud and filth and sludge and escape somehow with a gleaming jewel clutched in a clammy paw.”Īs he says this, he snatches an unseen morsel out of the air. They see obstacles, and they see opportunity. “The only people who survive in life are the people who refuse to fail. “That’s one thing I learned from me dad: The world is a malevolent force, and it will destroy you,” Brand says during the five-minute monologue. Brand takes off, fully in character, long legs folding and unfolding under him as he unpacks a Shakespearean origins myth, riffing through a magpie’s love of shiny things, the glow of a king’s approbations, the jester’s high-low perch and, of course, God and nature’s destructive habits. It’s as if she had lighted a bottle rocket. Sitting at a rehearsal across a plastic table from Alfred Molina, who plays his comic partner, Stefano, Brand is asked by an off-camera Julie Taymor, the film’s director, simply to introduce himself as Trinculo. In a bit of magic sure to be included on the DVD of the new film version of “The Tempest,” Russell Brand, the British comedian and actor, offers his take on the jester Trinculo.
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